The center piece of the Kassel Dokfest is the film program, divided into three sections.
Kassel Dokfest – A Unique Film and Media Festival
The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six day event and takes place in Mid-November. The Filmladen Kassel – an organization which is nationally acclaimed for its engaged work in cinema every year – is the organizer of the festival.
The film program, which includes short and feature documentary films and artistic- experimental productions, is the center piece of the festival. During the six festival days about 300 films are shown. The festival’s profile also encompasses the trans-media section Monitoring, an exhibition of current video and media installations, the expert symposium interfiction, the DokfestLounge, the film educational side program junges dokfest, the DokfestGeneration for elder film fans as well as the DokfestForum.
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.
The Kassel Dokfest ist known and loved for its intimate atmosphere, where the local audience as well as filmmakers and media professionals from Germany, Europe and the whole world meet every year. As a film and media festival with an international approach and a strong focus on new media the Dokfest Kassel is unique in Hesse.
For the 32nd edition the festival had 14.500 guests in 2015, among them 596 accredited professionals. In 2016, the Kassel Dokfest will take place for the 33rd time from November 15-20.
*Kassel Dokfest – A Unique Film and Media Festival * The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six day event...
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.
The educational side program for young audiences, “junges dokfest – Watch and understand documentary film”, has been presented in cooperation with the Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting in Hesse (LPR Hessen) since 2009.
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.
*A brochure with important information can be downloaded here.* DokfestGeneration introduces a small but fine selection of documentary feature length films, which pick...
Impressionen
Here you can find some photographical impresions of the festival.
For up-to-date pictures of THIS YEARS festival please check the PRESS-section of our website.
Photos © Dokfest / Anja Köhne
Impressionen 2015
Photos © Dokfest / Anja Köhne
