15 years of CPH:FORUM
CPH:FORUM, our long-standing financing and co-production event dedicated to visually strong creative documentary projects, turns 15 in 2025!
Over the years, more than 500 projects from around the globe have trusted CPH:FORUM as the place to present their new work. A majority of these projects have gone on to premiere at prestigious festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, IDFA, (and of course CPH:DOX), and to win awards and nominations at the Oscars, Emmys and Griersons, among many more.
Here is a selection of some of the projects that have been presented at CPH:FORUM in the past 15 years according to the year they pitched in Copenhagen. The year and festival in parenthesis indicates the world premiere.
2025
- The Story of Documentary Film by Mark Cousins (Sundance, 2026)
- Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment by Andreas Pichler (IDFA, 2025)
2024
- Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai (Berlinale, 2025)
- The Helsinki Effect by Arthur Franck (CPH:DOX, 2025)
- Powwow People by Sky Hopinka (TIFF, 2025)
2023
- Only on Earth by Robin Petré (Berlinale, 2025)
- Mr. Nobody Against Put_n by David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin (Sundance, 2025)
- Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych (Berlinale, 2024)
- A Bit of a Stranger by Svitlana Lishchynska (Berlinale, 2024)
2022
- To Hold a Mountain by Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazic (Sundance, 2026)
- The Human Surge 3 by Eduardo Williams (Locarno, 2023)
- Queendom by Agniia Galdanova (SXSW, 2023)
- Mistress Dispeller by Elizabeth Lo (Venice, 2024)
- Hollywood Gate by Ibrahim Nash’at (Venice, 2023)
- Blueberry Dreams by Elene Mikaberidze (CPH:DOX, 2024)
- A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Mehrdad Oskouei (IDFA, 2025)
- Silent Flood by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuck (IDFA, 2025)
2021
- Twice Colonized by Lin Alluna (Sundance, 2023)
- The Oldest Person in the World by Sam Green (Sundance, 2026)
- The Oligarch and the Art Dealer by Andreas Dalsgaard (Sundance, 2026)
- Tata by Radu Ciorniciuc & Lina Vdovîi (TIFF, 2024)
- Sudan, Remember Us by Hind Meddeb (Venice, 2024)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’État by Johan Grimonprez (Sundance, 2024)
- Songs of Earth by Margreth Olin (CPH:DOX, 2023)
- Rising Up at Night by Nelson Makengo (Berlinale, 2024)
- Nocturnes by Anupama Srinivasan & Anirban Dutta (Sundance, 2024)
2020
- President by Camilla Nielsson (Sundance, 2021)
- When a City Rises by Amy Ip, Yuling Chow & Cathy Chu (CPH:DOX, 2021)
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World by Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri (Sundance, 2021)
- The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosołowski (Locarno, 2022)
- Free Money by Lauren DeFilippo & Sam Soko (TIFF, 2022)
- Confessions of a Good Samaritan by Penny Lane (SXSW, 2023)
2019
- The Voyage Out by Ana Vaz (Cannes, 2022)
- Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson (Sundance, 2022)
- Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels by Mila Turajlic (IDFA, 2022)
- Krabi 2562 by Anocha Suwichakornpong & Ben Rivers (Locarno, 2019)
- iHuman by Tonje Hessen Schei (IDFA, 2019)
- I Am Greta by Nathan Grossman (Venice, 2021)
- De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Cannes, 2022)
- Coded Bias by Shalini Kantayya (Sundance, 2020)
- Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky (Berlinale, 2024)
- And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine by Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck (Sundance, 2023)
- All Light, Everywhere by Theo Anthony (Sundance, 2019)
2018
- Transnistra by Anna Eborn (IFFR, 2019)
- The Hottest August by Brett Story (Sundance, 2019)
- Riotsville, USA by Sierra Pettengill (Sundance, 2022)
- Reconstructing Utøya by Carl Javér (Berlinale, 2018)
- Innocence by Guy Davidi (Venice, 2022)
- Aleph by Iva Radivojevic (FEST, 2021)
2017
- What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire? by Roberto Minervini (Venice, 2018)
- The Society of the Spectacle by Göran Hugo Olsson & Sophie Vukovic (CPH:DOX, 2023)
- Skate Kitchen by Crystal Moselle (Sundance, 20218)
- Sisters With Transistors by Lisa Rovner (SXSW, 2020)
- Heartbound – A Different Kind of Love by Janus Metz (TIFF, 2018)
- Hale Country This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross (Sundance 2018)
- Epicentro by Hubert Sauper (Sundance, 2020)
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets by Bill Ross & Turner Ross (Sundance, 2020)
2016
- *Between 2015-2017, CPH:DOX moved its dates from November to March and therefore skipped an edition
2015
- Strong Island by Yance Ford (Sundance, 2017)
- Hunting for Hedonia by Pernille Rose Grønkjær (CPH:DOX, 2019)
- Casting Jonbenet by Kitty Green (Sundance, 2017)
2014
- Childhood by Margreth Olin (CPH:DOX, 2017)
- Kate Plays Christine by Robert Greene (Sundance, 2015)
- Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami by Sophie Fiennes (TIFF, 2017)
- Bring Down the Walls by Phil Collins (IFFR, 2020)
2013
- This Changes Everything by Avi Lewis & writer Naomi Klein (TIFF, 2015)
- The Raft by Marcus Lindeen (CPH:DOX, 2018)
- Aquarela by Victor Kossakovsky (Venice, 2018)
2012
- Tarzan’s Testicles by Alexandru Solomon (Karlovy Vary, 207)
- Mimosas by Oliver Laxe (Cannes, 2016)
- A Modern Man by Eva Mulvad (CPH:DOX, 2017)
2011
- The Crash Reel by Lucy Walker (Sundance, 2013)
- Project Nim by James Marsh (Sundance, 2011)
- Lovetrue by Alma Har’El (Tribeca, 2015)
2010
- The Ambassador by Mads Brügger (IDFA, 2011)
- Democrats by Camilla Nielson (CPH:DOX, 2014)
- A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness by Ben Russell & Ben Rivers (Locarno, 2013)
