PROGRAM OVERVIEW of 41 Kassel Dokfest as PDF ready for download. The festival catalog will follow at the end of October and will be available in Filmladen, the BALi Cinemas, and the Gloria Cinema, as well as online as a PDF. Stay tuned!
The 41st Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will take place, from November 12-17 on site and virtually as DokfestOnline until November 24, 2024. 59 feature-length films and 153 short films from 57 countries will be presented to a wide audience in Kassel's arthouse cinemas. Professional visitors, students and press representatives have the opportunity to apply for accreditation until November 4, 2024. Accreditation for the 41 Kassel Dokfest is possible in the service area of the festivals homepage.
LineUp German productions with German participation a.o.
- AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty by Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanic, 85min, P: s u n³b°u°r°s t FILM, WS: sixpackfilm, [Dokfest+Online]
- ARE YOU COMING HOME? | DIE STADT IST DIE GILDE UND DIE GILDE IST DIE STADT by Jonas Leichsenring, 40min, P: Kunsthochschule Kassel, [Dokfest]
- CITY MUSEUM / MY PEOPLE | STADTMUSEUM by Boris Dewjatkin, 26min, P: Boris Dewjatkin, [DokfestOnline]
- DIRECT ACTION by Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell, 216min, WS: Shellac, P: CASKFILMS, VOLTE FILM, [Dokfest]
- ECHOES FROM BORDERLAND by Lara Milena Brose, 70min, P: HFF Munich, [Dokfest]
- EXILE NEVER ENDS by Bahar Bektas, 100min, P: Pink Shadow Films, D: JIP Film und Verleih, [Competition]
- FASIA, ON DEFIANT WOMEN AND A TROUBADOURA | FASIA, VON TRUTZIGEN FRAUEN UND EINER TROUBADORA by Rea Karen, P: Gernot Steinweg, [Dokfest]
- HAUSNUMMER NULL by Lilith Kugler, 90min, P: now films, Torero Film, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [Dokfest]
- HENRIETTE AND GUIDO – AN UNUSUAL LOVESTORY | HENRIETTE UND GUIDO – EINE UNGEWÖHNLICHE LIEBESGESCHICHTE by Stella Tinbergen, 102min. [Dokfest+Online]
- AN ISLAND by Pei-Chin Lee, 90min, P: Pei-Chin Lee, [Dokfest]
- JOHATSU – INTO THIN AIR by Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori, 85min, P: Ossa Film | Andreas Hartmann, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, [Dokfest]
- THE KING OF SPAIN | DER KÖNIG VON SPANIEN by Leonard Volkmer, 23min, P: Leonard Volkmer, [DokfestOnline]
- KAMAY by Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran, 106min, WS: CAT&Docs, P: Clin d'oeil films, ROW Pictures GmBH – Karsten Stöter, [Dokfest]
- MALQUERIDAS by Tana Gilbert, 74min, WS: Square Eyes Film, P: Dirk Manthey Film, [Dokfest+Online]
- MY STOLEN PLANET | SAYYAREYE DOZDIDE SHODEYE MAN by Farahnaz Sharifi, 82min, P: JYOTI Film, Pak Film, WS: CAT&Docs, [Dokfest] – Awarded with the A38 Production Grant Kassel-Halle.
- NATHAN FARB AND THE COLD WAR | NATHAN FARB UND DER KALTE KRIEG by Nathaniel Knop, 112min, P: KINOBRIGADA, [DokfestGeneration]
- PETRA KELLY – ACT NOW! by Doris Metz, 104min, WS: NEW DOCS, P: BILDERSTURM Filmproduktion, [DokfestGeneration]
- THE RETURN OF THE PROJECTIONIST | LE RETOUR DU PROJECTIONNISTE by Orkhan Aghazadeh, 87min, P: LICHTBLICK FILM, KIDAM, [Dokfest+Online]
- REAS by Lola Arias, 90min, WS: LUXBOX, P: GEMA FILMS, SUTOR KOLONKO, Mira Film, [Dokfest]
- RIEFENSTAHL by Andres Veiel, 115min, P: Vincent Productions, WS: Beta Cinema, D: Majestic Filmverleih, Rai Cinema [Opening Film]
- SHAHID by Narges Kalhor, 82min, P: Michael Kalb Filmproduction, Q&A, [DokfestOnline]
- SILENT NIGHT by Philipp Schaeffer, Jonathan Schaller, 14min, [DokfestOnline]
- SUBJECT: FILMMAKING | FILMSTUNDE_23 by Edgar Reitz, Jörg Adolph, 89min, WS: RISE AND SHINE, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, P: if…Productions Film GmbH, [DokfestGeneration]
- TELL THEM ABOUT US by Rand Beiruty, 92min, P: Tondowski Films, Shaghab Films, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, WS: Syndicado Film Sales, [Dokfest]
- TONGO SAA – RISING UP AT NIGHT by Nelson Makengo, 95min, WS: Square Eyes Film, P: Twenty Nine Studio & Production, Film Five GmbH, [Dokfest]
- VIKA! by Agnieszka Zwiefka, 74min, P: MY WAY STUDIO, ma.ja.de. WS: FILM HARBOUR, [Dokfest]
- WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? | WAS HAST DU GESTERN GETRÄUMT, PARAJANOV?
- WITH MY OPEN LUNGS by Yana Sad, 87min, P: Yana Sad, WS: outplay films, [Dokfest]
The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six-day event taking place in Mid-November, organizer is the Filmladen Kassel e.V.
The film program, which includes short and feature documentary films and artistic-experimental productions, is the main part of the festival. During the six festival days about 235 films are presented. The festival’s profile also includes the trans-media section Monitoring, an exhibition of current video and media installations, the workshop symposium interfiction, the DokfestConnection, the film educational side program junges dokfest, the DokfestGeneration, as well as the DokfestForum.
With the Hessian University Film Day, the presentation of a European Film School and hands-on workshops and lectures, the Kassel Dokfest offers possibilities for further education, information on education opportunities and access to professional networks for (Hessian) up-and-coming filmmakers.
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