Festival Data:

• Established: 2006
• Genre: Documentary (click to see)
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 81
• Total Screenings: 36

• Retrospective
• Catalog
• Online Festival
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars
• Workshops

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

DOKU.ARTS is a unique documentary festival that screens films about art and artists with a program that goes far beyond a typical biopic.The festival is dedicated to the  presentation of films with great breadth and variety that truly represent the imaginativeness and pleasure of experimentation in this genre. From long term observations to filmic essays, from compilations to homage films – at DOKU.ARTS, both traditional and contemporary forms of documentary filmmaking are present. DOKU. ARTS likes the controversial, the confrontational, the overtly political films  and the truly inventive. Audience members will also be able to see documentaries which reflect on the history of cinema or use it as a narrative tool

DOKU.ARTS Specials presents films which complete our international program in a retrospective or thematic way. This year’s program concentrates on photography, performing arts, cinema and literature. We present the directors’ cuts. Many of the films can only be seen in Germany at DOKU.ARTS. All directors will be present to introduce their films to the public personally.

DOKU.ARTS was established by the Academy of Arts, as principle funder and host organisation. The Academy is an international community of artists which appoints its members in recognition of their work in the fields of visual arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts as well as in film and media arts. It currently has some 390 members, more than a third of whom live outside Germany. The President, the Vice-President and the directors of the sections exercise their functions in an honorary capacity.

With 800 individual collections, a special library of 540,000 volumes and an art collection of 60,000 objects, the Academy Archives represent the most important interdisciplinary archives for 20th-century art in the German-speaking world.

The Academy is the custodian of the private archives of Walter Benjamin, Elisabeth Bergner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Busch, Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Günter Grass, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Walter Jens, Alfred Kerr, Käthe Kollwitz, Fritz Kortner, Heinrich Mann, Heiner Müller, Gret Palucca, Erwin Piscator, Hans Werner Richter, Hans Scharoun, Anna Seghers, George Tabori, Peter Weiss, Mary Wigman, Christa Wolf, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Arnold Zweig, and many others.

The Academy’s work is addressed to the general public. It is devoted to disseminating new artistic tendencies and preserving cultural traditions. It organizes art and documentation exhibitions, workshops, concerts, lectures, literary readings and film screenings as well as theatre and dance performances.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.doku-arts.de/ form/ forms/ index.php?formid=dokuarts10&language=EN