doxs! documentaries for children and youth
doxs! is the oldest German film festival exclusively presenting documentaries for children and adolescents. The international film programme is part of the well known documentary festival "Duisburger Filmwoche". Each screening is accompanied by a moderated Q&A. The entry to all screenings is free for accredited festival guests and pupils.
doxs! works in various fields of media education and constantly develops new pilot-projects which set pace and break new ground:
- doxs! kino wants to reach the lifeblood of its young audience. With topics that are close to their lives and the society they live in and with innovative types of storytelling that are different to what we know from television. Documentaries are a valuable guidepost through the world and its media substantiveness.
- doxs! schule is doing intensive year round film education and media competence work in schools with documentaries from the festival programme.
- doxs! on tour is on the move with a tour programme visiting festivals in Germany and its bordering countries.
- doxs! produced together with the Goethe-Institut a unique European Documentary film package "Young Heroes" in 2006.
- doxs! and the documentary initiative of the Filmbüro NW initiated dok you - a competition for documentaries for children.
Call for entries – Documentaries for young people at the "Duisburger Filmwoche"
As part of the 36th "Duisburger Filmwoche" (November 5-11, 2012), the section for documentary films for children and youth, "doxs! kino", will present a selection of European documentaries for children and adolescents of the age between 6-18 years. Continuing last year’s premiere the European filmprize GROSSE KLAPPE will be awarded. At “doxs!” and the “Duisburger Filmwoche” filmmakers meet the audience for extensive discussions - “doxs!” accompanies young people’s visit to the cinema with a moderation in the movie theater and educational material for school teachers.
Preview copies of short and long films that were not shown in public before June 1, 2011, can be sent in until June 15, 2012.
Regulations doxs! kino
Entry form doxs! kino
Contact:
Duisburger Filmwoche / doxs!
Larissa Braunöhler
c/o VHS Stadt
Duisburg. Steinsche Gasse 31
D-47051 Duisburg
T: +49 (0) 203.283 4164
F: +49 (0) 203.283 4130
Filmprize – GROSSE KLAPPE
The award acknowledges documentary works for children and adolescents: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of doxs! in 2011 the Federal Agency for Civic Education endowed for the first time the Prize for Political Documentary for Children and Youth.
"GROSSE KLAPPE" awards European films promoting an aesthetical approach to documentary culture and the political consciousness of children and adolescents. A youth jury selects the winner of the competition.
The next award to the amount of 3.500 Euro will be handed over at doxs! during the 36th edition of the Duisburger Filmwoche in 2012 (November 5-11, 2012).
Further information regarding submission regulations for the doxs! festival programme and the competition GROSSE KLAPPE can be downloaded here:
Regulations doxs! kino
Entry form doxs! kino
Fabio Caramaschi wins filmprize GROSSE KLAPPE 2011
The Italian film director Fabio Caramaschi wins the GROSSE KLAPPE film prize for socio-political documentaries for children and adolescents in Duisburg. The doxs! youth jury decided to hand out the film prize GROSSE KLAPPE to Fabio Caramaschi’s festival contribution "Solo andata, il viaggo di un Tuareg / One Way, a Tuareg Journey" (I 2010).
The director tells the story of a Tuareg-family who migrated to Italy leaving their traditional roots of Niger to start a new life in North-Italy. The Federal Agency for Civic Education endows the prize and awards the winner with 3.500 Euro at the ceremony on 10 November 2011.
Please find further information on the youth jury, the jury’s reasoning and printable pictures of the award ceremony and the awardee available for download here.
doxs! 2011 – tenth anniversary!
10 years of documentaries for children and adolescents –
doxs! celebrated its anniversary with a remarkable programme
The landscape of documentaries for children and adolescents is constantly changing.
In 2011 the doxs! kino programme underlined these changes and presented a programme focusing on films which deal with highly significant political and social issues: family conflicts, youth crime, problems of migration and disability. Looking at the film selection one can moreover make out a tendency towards fictionalisation and staging elements within the documentary narration. The boundaries between the two genres are blurring even in children’s films. Documentaries and fiction merge to form an imposing collaboration of picture and narrative. The Usage of animated comics to underline the film’s narrative and it’s stories is – on the same level – an experimental development which not only works in big cinema productions but also has its significance for documentaries for children.
The festival doxs! kino 2011 presented 20 contemporary European documentaries, among them were 3 world premieres and 3 German premieres.
press informations
press release awardee GROSSE KLAPPE (November 2011) Download
jury reasoning (November 2011) Download