The anniversary year included the best and most-discussed films from 50 years of the festival! An extensive retrospective covered the most significant German and international films from the past years, discussions about the festival history, an exhibition, an anniversary book and dvd and much more ...

When was Dean Reed in Leipzig? When were the first "Golden" and "Silver Doves" awarded? Has the festival always been known as "DOK Leipzig"? And what is "DT64"?

From now on you can turn to our chronicle for answers. Here you can find the most significant details, as well as droll anecdotes.

DOK Leipzig, the Leipziger Volkzeitung and MDR FIGARO appeal to their viewers, readers and listeners: think back on 50 years of the Leipzig DOK festival! Perhaps you discovered your love of films here, had an unforgettable encounter, were witness to a historic situation, met the love of your life?

We need your stories, photos, audio and visual documents as content for the Flashback campaign. The best, most interesting and exciting reminiscences have been published in autumn in the Leipziger Volkszeitung, broadcast on MDR FIGARO or shown in an anniversary exhibition staged at the DOK Leipzig.

The first festival retrospective, in 1960, was dedicated to "The man with the camera", Dziga Vertov. Since then, each year has seen a presentation of the most significant films on specific subjects. From 1962 until 1989 the compilation of the programme was the responsibility of the GDR State Film Archive, since 1990 the task has been performed by the Federal Archive-Film Archive Berlin.

Here you can find generarl information on DOK Leipzig - quickly and easily:

Who was the Festival Director in 1987?

What was the festival motto in 1999?

What was the name of the festival in 1955?

The answers to these and many other general questions can be found here.

If you find a specific theme or year so enthralling that you want to obtain more information about the DOK Leipzig, we have compiled a selection of publications for you. These also served as a source of information for the chronicle.

The history of the festival was also on view at the Museum der bildenden Künste (Museum of Visual Arts): an exhibition marking 50 years of DOK Leipzig used historic film extracts, image material, contemporary interviews, original posters and other documents to portray the image of a festival whose significance was always closely linked to the subtext of official history. Visitors to the exhibition, which was on show during the festival week, were requested to contribute to writing the history of the festival: an interactive wall awaited reminiscences old and new, experiences and tales that round off the image of what the festival was and is.

The exhibition was opened during the festival week from 10am to 5pm.
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