About Us

The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival annually takes place on six days in mid November to show the diversity and current tendencies of documentary work. It is organized by the Filmladen Kassel e.V., an arthouse cinema that has been an important part of the culture and media scene of the city of Kassel since 1980 due to its manifold and committed activities.

The festival presents about 230 short and feature length international documentary films as well as experimental and artistic works. Together with its further three intermedia sections, the profile of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is unique: The exhibition Monitoring transfers the medium film from the cinema to the context of an exhibition in presenting contemporary media installations in addition to the film screenings. It is complemented with an audiovisual live program in the DokfestLounge as well as the interdisciplinary conference interfiction.

As a film and media festival with an international orientation and a strong focus on new media it is unique to Hesse. Its involvement with European networks and its funding by the MEDIA Programme underlines the European dimension of the event.

Having this profile the Kassel Dokfest annually attracts both a regional audience as well as professionals of the film and media industry from Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. This year, 11,800 guests visited the individual events of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, among them 550 accredited professionals.

Next year, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival takes place from November 13 to 18, 2012.