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Today's film recommendations
The Flag
A furious, iconoclastic attack on power and the media in a modern France where Islamophobia has become mainstream and inequality is growing from the suburbs to the boulevards.
De humani corporis fabrica
Two of the most radically innovative minds of contemporary cinema are back with an experience unlike anything seen on screen: A high-tech moving image work shot inside the human body.
The Last Seagull
Bittersweet and darkly humorous about the 58-year-old beach bum Ivan from Sunny Beach, who dreams of retiring from life as a romantic companion to rich women, but will Ivan find happiness before his time runs out?
Cross Words
Parisian nouvelle vague magic in a modern film made by a collective of friends that encapsulates both the shimmering unreality of life and of the corona years with a jazzy and restless energy. Shot on an old video camera and with radical artistic freedom.
Inventing Truth - The Relotius Affair
The story of one of the biggest media scandals of our time is an epic thriller about deception and psychological manipulation in a world where integrity and credibility are everything - but where the art of telling a good story sometimes weighs heaviest.
Kokomo City
One of the sensations at this year's Sundance Film Festival was this candid, taboo-breaking in-your-face depiction of life as a black, transgender sex worker in New York and Atlanta.
The Arc of Oblivion
A filmmaker builds his own ark to protect his memories from the ravages of time in a rambunctious, thought-provoking and entertaining essay that tackles grand topics like memory and impermanence with great wit and care.
Voice
A documentary maker from Norwegian TV meets resistance when she contacts a group of activists in good faith to tell a story that is not her own at all. Witty and well-crafted satire that pokes at one of the sore spots of our times.
Just Before Death
Veteran director Anne Regitze Wivel has created a beautiful and life-affirming memoir about the indomitable staff at Bispebjerg Hospital – and about the last time in her and her husband Svend Auken's lives.
Dancing Pina
Two of Pina Bausch's mythological dance works are reinterpreted in Dresden and Senegal in an iconic film that pays tribute to both Bausch and the hard-working dancers who today embody her revolutionary ideas about dance.
On the Edge
A young doctor with an exemplary humanist spirit fights a brave battle to hold together the run-down Paris hospital where he works – and to hold his patients together in the process.
Baghdad on Fire
A burning insider account of the hopes and dreams of Iraqi youth, led by a 19-year-old woman who faces the enormous consequences of fighting for democracy, freedom and a future.
Bobi Wine: The People's President
Political activist and pop star Bobi Wine is the young generation's hope for the future in Uganda, where the opposition leader's path to the presidency starts with popular protest songs that go viral in the ghetto.
The Hearing
Four asylum seekers reenact their conversations with the authorities in a role-playing game that reverses the roles. What happens when your future depends on your ability to tell your own life story in a convincing way?
Blix Not Bombs
A deep and thorough interview-portrait of Swedish top diplomat Hans Blix, who held world history in his hands in Iraq 20 years ago. International politics dissected with rare insight and elegance.
Francesca & Love
A life-affirming and colourful documentary cousin to an Almódovar film about a middle-aged woman's search for love – and about learning to navigate a dating app in your second youth.
By Heart
Isabelle Huppert on stage and backstage, preparing for a Chekhov play. A vivid and elegant portrait of one of the world's coolest and most charismatic women, who lets us into her creative process.
Queendom
21-year-old queer artist Gena looks like a visitor from another planet in her hometown in the far reaches of Russia, where she challenges everyone with her extravagant, homemade costumes – but her lone rebellion comes at a high price.
Villeneuve Pironi
Formula 1 legends Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi were team-mates at Ferrari before becoming deadly rivals. A full-blooded drama - and an absolute must for anyone with petrol in their blood.
The Deepest Breath
Two of the world's best free divers find the love of their lives in each other, but risk everything in the depths of the ocean. A dizzying epic that surges with adrenaline and big emotions.
Drifting Woods
A non-linear, interdisciplinary film work that explores a vast forest area where human and non-human life forms are part of an organic and polyphonic narrative about the history and possible future of the forest.
Body Parts
Behind the camera during Hollywood's sex scenes in an eye-opening and engaging film-about-film that sheds light on the rotten sides of the film world with wit and bite. A must-see for any serious cineast.
The Group Crit
A social experiment spins out of control at an art school in Norway, where the students take part in a role play that uses humour and satirical bites to discuss the political currents in contemporary art – literally.
The Etilaat Roz
Join the newsroom of Afghanistan's largest newspaper as the Taliban took power. A highly dramatic day-by-day account of a group of courageous journalists' struggle for democracy, freedom and life itself.
White Balls on Walls
What do we do with an art history where all the works are made by men? Join the meetings as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam tries to bring art into a new age. It is wise and funny to listen to in an elegant film that sets the bar high.
The Man Who Stole the Scream
The true story about the master thief who stole Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream' - told by himself! A witty and wildly entertaining film about boyhood dreams, lost friendships and one of the world's most famous works of art.
Special Live Events
Queering the Industry w. Doc Society's Queer Now Lab
Join Doc Society’s Queer Now Lab to hear from leaders in the genderqueer film space about their thoughts on LGBTQ+ storytelling: where we’ve been, where we’re going, and where we need to be. What do filmmakers want from the field? What kinds of stories are useful to the queer rights movement? We’ll dig in deep for a candid conversation.
Live Show: Hvad ville Jesus have sagt? (P1)
Tag med CPH:DOX og Podcasts Live-programmet i kirken, når Emmauskirken slår dørene op og inviterer indenfor til en live-udgave af Iben Maria Zeuthens populære P1-program ‘Hvad ville Jesus have sagt?’ Med sit panel bestående af præster står Zeuthen klar til dine dilemmaer.
Opgøret Live
Mød skaberne bag podcasten ‘Opgøret’, Puk Damsgaard, Merle Baeré, når de fortæller om processen med at skabe den dramatiske podcast-dokumentar, der danner grundlag for den F:ACT Award-nominerede ‘The Hostage Takers’. Sammen udgør podcast og film en fuldendt fortælling, hvor historien om IS-fangevogterne ‘The Beatles’ udrulles.
Aske Zidore & Anders Lauge Meldgaard: 'Sange fra i dag' iscenesat
With a digital boys' choir and poems about the macro economy, two of the country's boldest composers have created a unique concert work for CPH:DOX.
Nic Krog + visuals by Matija Lujic
Enter an alluring hall of mirrors of improvised video feedback and light sonic discomfort when the electronic artist gives a live performance at CPH:DOX in collaboration with video artist Matija Lujic.
ISÁK (koncert) + Rahčan – Ella’s riot (film)
Our Youth Team invites you to a concert with one of Norway's best live bands after the screening of the film depicting the band's Sami lead singer on the environmentalist barricades.
José González (live & Q&A) + 'A Tiger in Paradise' (film)
José González was at the center of the resurgence of folk music at the start of the millennium. Now he's visiting the festival with film, Q&A and his live acoustic songs.
Experience CPH:DOX all over Copenhagen
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Once again our festival center will be at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It will be open to all guests from 10.00 am every day during the festival. Here you’ll find our very own cinemas Social Cinema and Mezzaninen.
Aveny-T
There are films, podcast live shows and concerts on the programme when we invite you to Aveny-T during this year’s festival! We will be visited by both Danish and international guests on the stage, located in the heart of Frederiksberg.
Bremen Teater
Jada, Joan Baez, Wim Wenders, Nathan Fielder and José González. These are just a few of the big stars making their way to Bremen Theater during this year’s CPH:DOX. Experience a wide range of films, talks and mini-concerts at one of the festival’s biggest stages.
Nationalmuseet
From March 17-19, the National Museum of Denmark will be transformed into the festival’s Science Stage. Look forward to amazing documentaries on everything from climate science, sustainable cities and cyborgs to human brains, living wages and the Arctic from the inside.
Pressen
In Pressen at Rådhuspladsen, the old and raw printing hall has been converted into a cinema, where CPH:DOX and Politiken present both domestic and foreign material on everything from work ethics and surveillance culture to Iranian women’s struggle and American right-wing nationalism.
Statens Museum for Kunst
CPH:DOX’s Art Scene at the National Gallery of Denmark presents a weekend full of documentaries about and with art at the center, framed by guided tours, artist talks, group critiques and audiovisual concerts from 24 – 26 March.
Calendar
Get an overview of all our films and events in Copenhagen.
Film A-Z
Discover all the films in this year’s programme.
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