DOK Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, is the largest German and second largest European festival of the artistic documentary film. The festival is taking place from 31 October to 6 November 2016. Czech films will be screened in following sections:

International Competition Long Documentary and Animated Film

Normal Autistic Film (Normální autistický film)
International Premiere
CZ 2016, 90 min
DIRECTOR Miroslav Janek

A foremost Czech documentarist with a unique authorial vision challenges us once and for all to stop perceiving autism as a medical diagnosis. Let’s take hold of the surrounding chaos and overload our senses! In such a state one may understand autism as a fascinating way of thinking that’s often maddeningly difficult to decipher.

Next Masters Competition

H*Art On
World Premiere
CZ 2016, 73 min
DIRECTOR Andrea Culková

How do you find meaning in everyday fear, love, sex and loneliness? H*Art On dives off the deep end of modern art. A film about the yearning to create, to mould everyday emotions into a meaningful life and, most of all, to live beyond one's death. A struggle that gets to the existential core of each of us.

International Programm Long Documentary and Animated Film

A Hole in the Head (Diera v hlave)
International Premiere
SK, CZ,  2016, 90 min
DIRECTOR Robert Kirchohoff

The stories of the European Roma who have survived the Holocaust. Today, they fight not only for themselves but also for us. We would like to reignite their lost memory, which actsas a living witness to our past.

Kids DOK

Deep in Moss (Až po uši v mechu)
German Premiere
CZ 2015, 26 min.
DIRECTORS Filip Pošivač, Barbora Valecká

Aided by the two elves Josephine and Bertie a water nymph who can’t sing discovers her true strength: storytelling.