Festival Description

The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – in short: DOK Leipzig – is an annual festival for documentary and animated films. The festival is sponsored and organised by the city of Leipzig. It commissions the non-profit Leipzig-based DOK-Filmwochen GmbH with the preparation, implementation and management of the festival.

DOK Leipzig Call for Entries

Eligibility criteria:

• 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 2025 or 2026 that have not been publicly screened before October 2026.
• Films up to 40 minutes qualify for the short film awards, films over 40 minutes are considered feature-length films

Categories:

The festival programme is organised into four competitions and other out-of-competition sections, whose films can be nominated for awards across all sections.

• International Competition Documentary Film 
  (documentary films of all lengths)
  World or International premieres preferred, European premiere is required. For films up to 40 minutes, at least a German premiere is required.
• International Competition Animated Film 
  (animated films of all lengths)
  At least a German premiere is required.
• German Competition Documentary Film 
  (documentary films of all lengths, (co-) produced in Germany)
  World premieres required, co-productions International premiere eligible.
• Audience Competition 
  (documentary and animated films over 40 min)
  At least a German premiere is required

• Entry Form
• Regulations
• Deadline: 1 July 2026