From 25 July to 14 August we’ll present film highlights and audience favourites from the last festival editions on four evenings in three of Leipzig’s open-air cinemas.

Summer cinema at the Plagwitzer Markthalle (in cooperation with Schaubühne Lindenfels)

On 25 July, we’ll open with the thrilling true crime story of “The Gullspång Miracle”: While buying an apartment, a pair of siblings meet a woman who looks exactly like their dead sister. But is she really their relative?

On 1 August, travel to the Italian Adriatic with “Vista Mare” and sneak an unvarnished look behind the façade of the “carefree” beach holiday, where seasonal workers toil for the holidaymakers.

Open-Air cinema at the Spinnerei (in cooperation with Luru Kino)

The Golden Dove of DOK Leipzig 2022 returns to this city on 11 August! Theo Montoya’s “Anhell69” tells a real-life ghost story of a young, queer generation in a Colombia marked by violence and repression – in atmospheric and morbid images.

2cl Sommerkino at Conne Island (in cooperation with the Cinèmatheque)

The finale of our summer cinema brings “Vika!” on 14 August. She’s a DJ, 84 years old and a star of Warsaw’s nightclubs. Agnieszka Zwiefka’s portrait deconstructs the borders between the “acceptable” and “unacceptable” roles of a woman who refuses to acknowledge her age.

You can get tickets via the respective cinema partner and at the box office. We’re looking forward to your visit and to summer cinema nights together!

We’re excited to launch two calls for producers today! 

DOK Co-Pro Market

Producers, we can't wait to discover your new projects for DOK Co-Pro Market 2024! This two-day co-financing and networking event, connects producers with potential co-production partners, broadcasters, funders and distributors to co-finance and collaborate on new creative documentary projects. In 850+ individual meetings, 35 carefully selected projects are matched with international producers, decision makers and financiers.

Gain valuable insights into the international and German non-fiction markets through an accompanying programme of discussions, case-studies and talks.

Apply by 15 July

Animation Lab DOK Leipzig 

We’ll team up again with CEE Animation for Animation Lab DOK Leipzig! This is a four-day residential workshop dedicated to professional producers who are developing their first animated documentary of any format (short, series, feature) and are interested in exploring the landscape of the animation industry. The programme tackles topics such as project development, production and distribution.

The workshop event will take place from 28 October to 1 November 2024 in Leipzig, alongside the DOK Industry Programme. The participation includes a festival accreditation as well.

If you want to learn more about the animation industry, here’s your chance:

Apply by 30 June

Starting in March, Dana Melaver has joined our festival team as curator for the XR exhibition DOK Neuland.

Dana is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, New York City, and the 2023 Larnaca Biennale. Her film “Sleepless Birds” (2023), co-directed with Tom Claudon, premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and won the Christian Berger Cinematography Award at Innsbruck Nature Film Festival.

In her projects Dana uses artistic methods as research tools, working creatively through ideas of the human experience. She often engages with scientific and technological theories and the ways in which they change our idea of individuality. Whether in video or installation, borrowing from aquaculture or oenology, the projects toy with the boundaries that delineate our being. Prioritising engagement as practice, Dana frequently works with collaborators in the making process and includes participatory elements in exhibition.

Dana will be organising and curating the public XR exhibition that takes place during the festival week. The call for XR contributions is now open – Dana is looking forward to receiving your submissions by 1 July. Read more how to submit

We are happy to welcome you to our DOK team, Dana!

Since 2015, we dedicate an exhibition platform to the art of immersive documentary storytelling: DOK Neuland. Each year during the DOK Leipzig festival week we invite our audiences to discover selected international XR pieces in the public exhibition.

The call for submissions to the 2024 DOK Neuland edition, taking place from 28 October to 3 November, is now open. We look forward to receiving your artistic XR contributions until 1 July.

What are we looking for?

XR works that question conventional narrative forms and open up new audio-visual experiences – be it through virtual reality, mixed reality or augmented reality experiences, 360° films, performances, media or web-based art, sound installations, projection mapping or looped films, participatory films or games. Or you surprise us with new XR formats we can’t even imagine right now! 

Do you have an idea for a special project such as a site-specific XR installation or hybrid performance for a stage? Send it over. We are very happy to work together with artists to facilitate their vision and showcase new ways of working outside the traditional frame.

You can submit your XR works until 1 July directly on our website. There is no premiere required and no submission fee applying for DOK Neuland.

Head to our DOK Neuland page to find out more about the exhibition, read the regulations, and access the entry form:

Go to DOK Neuland