The MUBI-Special Who Owns the Truth? shows a number of documentary films shown at DOK Leipzig, one of the world’s most important stages for documentary film.

After this year's symposium, which questioned the role of truth in today's non-fiction cinema, they present a series of documentaries that have been premiering at the festival in recent years. These stories respond in their own way to the unstable and changing current political climate. Every single one of these films is characterized by a unique and always attentive approach, with which you can try the time in which we live on the slip.

The Moscow Trials directed by Milo Rau and produced by Fruitmarket Art & Media GmbH traces the story of a state and church staged campaign against uncomfortable artists - with the means of political theater. A courtroom is being set up in the Sakharov center of Moscow, where the "Caution, Religion" exhibition, which was destroyed in 2003, is being held. In a staged show trial with the most important exponents of the Russian cultural struggle, "art" appears against "religion", the "dissident" against "true" Russia.

On the stage are not actors, but actors from the real, political life: professional lawyers, a constitutional judge, witnesses and experts of all political circles. In the style of an open-ended court drama, in cross-examination, pleading and the arguments at the edge of the process, a disturbing and contradictory picture of today's Russia emerges: Does Putin's cultural policy violate freedom of expression and human rights? Or is it the art that violates the feelings of the faithful? Who is the attacker, who is the defender?