01.SCREENINGS

The center piece of the Kassel Dokfest is the film program, divided into three sections:

02.MONITORING

Up to 16 contemporary media installations and sculptures by up-and-coming as well as well-known artists will be presented at the exhibition Monitoring.

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03.DOKFEST LOUNGE

The DokfestLounge is not only the location for audiovisual performances by international artists, VJs and DJs but also the nocturnal meeting point for our guests after 10.30 pm.

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04.INTERFICTION

The Workshop symposium interfiction offers lectures, presentations and workshop-sessions concerning a yearly changing topic, which takes a closer look at the political, social and artistic aspects of the medium internet.

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05.JUNGES DOKFEST

This educational side program is aimed at school students from the 7th till the 13th grade as well as teachers. The project consists of special film programs as well as workshops about film analysis and criticism under the guidance of media educators.

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06.DOKFEST FORUM

The DokfestForum offers panels, lectures and screenings that raise questions about the interfaces between film and art. During the daytime the DokfestForum as a festival meeting point will provide a café with a video library for accredited guests.

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07.EDUCATION

With the Hessian University Film Day, the presentation of a European Film College 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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SCREENINGS
MONITORING
LOUNGE
INTERFICTION
JUNGES DOKFEST
FORUM
EDUCATION

Golden Hercules

The competition for the „Golden Hercules“ is open to all formats and genres presentable on a big screen. Space-oriented works and internet projects cannot be taken into consideration. The prize is sponsored by the Machbar GmbH, an agency for corporate communication with its head office in Kassel, and endowed with...

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Jury 2014

Ben Brix

Clemens Camphausen

Marion Dilg

Bettina Fraschke

Harald Kieffer

Nominees 2014

Leonard Bahro, Jasper Meiners (Minecraftolia), Ulrike Baumann (La fille aux cheveux de Lin), Julia Bernhardt (Those Nights), Alma W. Bär (Woe is me), Hendrik Dorgathen (TALKING IN A BOX), Michael Gärtner, Jan Grebenstein (Deathrave), Julia Geiß (Vier danach – Highland’s Kinder), Olga Gelwer (Perfect Shot), Annika Glas, Miguel Wysocki (Traum A ), Jan Glöckner (Das Bürgerpräsidium), Holger Jenss (Kampf), Behrooz Karamizade (Bahar im Wunderland), Monika Kostrzewa (Letters Unsent), Annemarie Kroworsch, Romina Reinhold (Synapsendünnpfiff), Meike Martin (Habillages Possibles), Anna Marx (Pachamama), Florian Maubach (Nachschlag), Kristin Meyer (Sonntagskind), Eeva Ojanperä (Lupi), Fabian Pueschel (Johannes der Tonmann ), York-Fabian Raabe (Children of Sodom), Ines Reinisch (Wenn ein Garten wächst), Julia Charlotte Richter (Promised Land), Franka Sachse (Schifffahren), Nicolai-Tobias Sauer (Handbook), Martin Schmidt (Emil), Hendrik Maximilian Schmitt (Tschüss Papa), Jannick Seeber (Meinungsverschiedenheiten), Catrine Val (TRANCENDENCE, The Lotus Chronicles), Stefan Vogt (Warum mag jeder Fotos!), Hannah Winkler (Genesis), Clara Winter (Just Kids Left Alive on the Road), Pablo Zinser (Gezeitentümpel) 

Award winners

2014 Martin Schmidt: Emil

2013 Benjamin Brix, Steffen Martin, Felix M. Ott.:EMPTYLANDS
2012 Jan Riesenbeck: Sixth Sense, Third Eye, Second Sight
2011 Dennis Stein-Schomburg: Andersartig
2010 Olaf Saumer: Suicide Club
2009 Thomas Majewski: Verborgen in Schnuttenbach
2008 Nico Sommer: Stiller Frühling
2007 Marta Malowanczyk: Marla
2006 Hyekung Jung: Drawing the Line
2005 Matthias Stockloew (Ütz): Grosse Kinder
2004 Héctor Jesús Gutiérrez Rodriguez: Ese es mi chama? Das ist mein Junge
2003 Salah Ahmed El Oulidi: Die Andalusische Nacht
2002 Christoph Steinau: Kommt alles Anders
2001 Holger Ernst: Kleine Fische