Mona Klöckner

DOK.education

Mona Klöckner (formerly Hafez) is an ethnologist and freelance media educator. She studied Anthropology and Intercultural Communication with a focus on Visual Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the Sorbonne Paris. During her studies, she completed an internship at Doc en Stock Paris, participated in the realization of several documentary films and realized two of her own in India and France, which received recognition at international festivals:  THE DALAI LAMA IN MIND, TIBET IN MY HEART – PRESERVING CULTURE IN EXILE (2008) and INVISIBLE NEIGHBORS (2009). In 2012, she organized a Summer School in Visual Anthropology at the University of Islamabad for the LMU Munich and has since been leading film workshops for children, teenagers and young adults, especially for young refugees. Many of the films can be seen on her YouTube channel.

Mona Klöckner has been working at DOK.fest München since 2022 as a member of the DOK.education team. She heads the project Nextus – Learning by documentaries, the European film platform for educational institutions. She is also involved in all areas of the year-round implementation of DOK.education - the School for the Art of Seeing as well as the film education and film practice projects for school classes and young people.

Contact: kloeckner@dokfest-muenchen.de