Documentary is here! How do we get up to such a presumptuous slogan?
..Most of all it is certainly the desire of enabling an encounter between films and spectators who want documentary to be an autonomous art form with numerous ways of expression. A kind of film that remains independant from formats, topical trends and stylistic restrictions

Documentary means more than being successful in cinema or corresponding to television standards.

Our aim is to give a platform to the fascinating periphery of exceptional, unconventional, sometimes irritating films - films of authors who love the genre and want to enlarge it.

We also want to create space for discussions about what makes a certain documentary so special, about the possibilities of documentary. In doing so we hope to increase the dialogue about form instead of narrowing films down to their topics. The joy in telling stories, in experiments, in observing, in open forms and most of all in watching and reflecting on our own is what counts.

This kind of documentary has to be brought to an interested international audience and to be accessible beyond a few public tv stations and beyond the specialised festival business. This is why the filmmakers Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel and the producer Ingo Fliess have come together in spring 2008. Starting with our own works, DocCollection will grow: more authors, more spectators, more good films.

On DocCollection you can order entertaining, award-winning feature length documentaries on DVD. Every year we publish up to four films in a consecutively numbered edition. These are films with a distinct point of view and strong originality.

Of course you can order single DVDs, but the best way to become a customer of the DocCollection is certainly becoming a subscriber. You receive every new film right away, you save money and last not least help cultivate ambitious documentaries.