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What are we looking for?

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Films

Call: 15 February – 15 June 2023

  • Creative documentaries and animated films, short (up to 40 min) and feature length
  • World, international and European premieres preferred, German premieres required
  • Films from 2023 and 2022 (if they have not been shown before 1 October 2022)
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XR Works

Call: 15 March – 29 June 2023

  • Virtual or augmented reality (experiences, installations, performances), 360°-film, narrative driven sound installations or media art in new forms
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Co-Pro Market

Call: 26 April – 29 June 2023

  • Ambitious, creative documentary projects in development or early stages of production
  • Feature-length documentaries suitable for theatrical release as well as one-offs and series
  • Documentaries with an international audience in mind
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DOK Exchange XR Showcase

Call: 22 June – 10 August 2023

  • XR projects, cross-media projects, documentaries on interactive, engaging platforms and multimedia in development or early stages of production
  • presenting an innovative and unique approach to storytelling
  • exploring artistic possibilities of immersive media and interactive technologies
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Short n’ Sweet

Call: 22 June – 10 August 2023

  • Short film projects (up to 30 min) in all stages from development to post-production 
  • All forms of documentary, animated documentary and animated film as well as series

     

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How to submit

You can submit your works to DOK Leipzig via a form in our myDOK area. If you haven’t registered for myDOK yet, you'll need to create a new account to access the submission forms.

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Submit a film

The festival is open to documentary and animated films as well as animated documentaries and hybrid forms of documentary storytelling. Eligible are films of all lengths with a production year of 2022 or 2023 that have not been publicly screened before 1 October 2022.

Feature length films (over 40 Minutes): In the International and German Competitions, world premieres are preferred. An International or European Premiere is required. The Audience Competition, the International Competition Animated Film as well as the sections out of competition (Camera Lucida and Panorama) require a German premiere; world and international premieres are preferred.

For short films (under 40 Minutes), a German premiere is required in all sections, world and international premieres are preferred.

Find all details about the requirements for film submissions here:

Read the Rules and Regulations

We also put together a submissions FAQ to answer the most frequently asked questions:

Read the Film Submission FAQ

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Submit an XR work

Every year during the festival week, our extended reality exhibition DOK Neuland invites visitors to experience unexpected stories in virtual spaces. For this year’s edition we are looking for immersive XR works that break down habitual modes of storytelling and create new experiential spaces: virtual reality, augmented reality, sound installations, 360° films, media or web-based art, participatory films, or entirely new formats.

There is no requirement for premiere status.

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In case you didn’t know

The winning films of the Golden Doves in the International Competition Documentary Film qualify for nomination at the ACADEMY AWARDS®, provided they meet the Academy’s requirements. 

The winning film of the Golden Dove Short Animated Film also qualifies for nomination at the ACADEMY AWARDS®, provided it meets the Academy’s requirements.

All documentaries by European filmmakers that are shown in our competitions are eligible for the European Film Award in the category of “European Documentary”. DOK Leipzig recommends three documentary films which have premiered with us to the Academy. The films in the selection must have a length of 70 minutes or more.

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Calls and Deadlines
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Call for Films
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Call for XR Works
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Call for Projects: DOK Co-Pro Market
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Early Dove Accreditation
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Call for Submissions: Short n’ Sweet & Exchange XR Showcase
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66th DOK Leipzig Festival
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Programme Team

Marie-Thérèse Antony, Lina Dinkla

programm [at] dok-leipzig [dot] de 
+49 (0)341 30864-1020

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