doxs! english

doxs! kino

In 2002, for the first time an international documentary film project for children and adolescents was presented by the "Duisburger Filmwoche": doxs! was born.

doxs! kino is the oldest German film festival exclusively presenting documentaries for children and adolescents. The international film programme is embedded in the "Duisburger Filmwoche" and focuses on a different region every year. (2004 Netherlands, 2005 Eastern Europe, 2006 Denmark, 2007 children-DEFA-documentaries of the GDR, 2008 France, 2009 Sweden, 2010 Great Britain).

Since 2011 doxs! and the Federal Agency for Civic Education want to show the sociopolitical significance of documentary film culture with a new and unique European film prize: “GROSSE KLAPPE”. Awarded will be European films that promote an aesthetic approach to documentary culture and the political consciousness of children and adolescents.

All the films are presented in school viewings, where classes come to the cinema and discuss the films they have just watched with film experts. The international films are dubbed and subtitled if necessary.

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doxs! on tour

doxs! on tour is an international tour programme, including some specifically chosen festival films, to establish the culture of documentaries for children and adolescents beyond our own festival’s borders.

doxs! on tour films have already been presented in Athens, Berlin, Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Essen, Frankfurt/Main, Hamburg, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Graz (within the "steirischer herbst"-festival), Feldkirch, Lille, Lissabon, London, Perm, Reykjavik and Vienna.

doxs! schule

doxs! schule is a project in cooperation with schools in Duisburg and North-Rhine-Westphalia. For doxs! schule it is important to participate in the media education actively, with the aim to introduce even 6-year-old children to documentary films and other media as well as the basic work behind it.

doxs! do it

In 2006 doxs! started a project in cooperation with secondary schools. Adolescents have the opportunity to do their own documentary. In the first film "5 in 8 noch 2" five students show their way of finding a job. The teenagers wrote their own scripts and realised their ideas supervised by a professional filmmaker.

Since 2009 doxs! do it connects all practical projects of filmmaking, starting at the primary school up to the secondary school. The pupils are realising the conception and production of a (documentary-)film by themselves, under professional guidance. doxs! do it also combines the passive reflections of watching films with active parts of media education.

doxs! hörbilder

In 2007 doxs! launched a project to strengthen teenagers’ awareness for acoustic issues (sound, atmosphere, voice) when visualizing a film. The participants create a realistic and autobiographical radio play due to their wishes and in the context of their social environment.

doxs! sprechen+

Since 2007 doxs! participates in the training of children language skills, especially for youngsters with migratory background, to improve their verbal skills and the ability to read fluently. Documentary and film material also gives the opportunity to get a deeper understanding for linguistic matters in film and TV.

doxs! kritik

In 2007 young film critics got the opportunity to review the festival programme from their own point of view for the first time. In cooperation with the online film magazine spinxx.de, doxs! offered workshops where students could learn the essentials of film reviewing. In 2009 doxs! kritik established its first constant school critics-group at a secondary school in Dortmund, where the students write especially about documentaries for young people.

doxs! bilderbildung

The concept connects all film educational workshops for teachers. It can be organised in multi-part presentations, open for all interested teachers or in direct arrangements with individual schools. The workshops offer and define professional, theoretical and practical basic knowledge about (documentary)films and their benefit for education in school. Some documentaries, for example, also could be used for foreign language classes.

doxs! young heroes

To celebrate the fifth anniversary in 2006, doxs! and the Goethe Institute Munich edited a DVD package including 26 current, international documentaries for children and adolescents. All the films are subtitled, so they can be offered to all international Goethe Institutes for educational purpose.

dok you

In cooperation with the "dokumentarfilminitiative dfi", doxs! has created a new project to establish the production of children documentaries in Germany. Directors can apply for this project to get a better qualification for producing children documentaries. Together with these filmmakers, students get the opportunity to realize their own documentary film for kids. The first four productions were presented to the public during the 33rd Duisburger Filmwoche in 2009, the following productions premiered at the editions of 2010 - 2012.