Artists & Auteurs
New work by some of the world’s most original artists and filmmakers.
Afternoons of Solitude
A controversial masterpiece from Catalan auteur Albert Serra that analyses the masculine death cult known as bullfighting with few words and seemingly simple means.
Bogancloch
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a poetic portrait of hermit Jake Williams and his life in the Scottish Highlands. An ingenious film shot in beautiful black and white.
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, Germany & Iceland / 2024
Collective Monologue
A sensory film from a variety of zoos in Argentina, where the life and world of animals is closely connected to their human caretakers.
Jessica Sarah Rinland / Argentina & United Kingdom / 2024
Elementary
French first-rate director Claire Simon portrays the small dramas and triumphs of a progressive Parisian primary school with empathetic gentleness. Touching, funny and thoughtful.
Claire Simon / France / 2024
Leos Carax & Marie Losier / France
Primitive Diversity
German avant-garde artist Alexander Kluge has created a visual essay about (and with) AI, based on the cultural history and possible future of images.
Alexander Kluge / Germany / 2025
Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
Eight directors from Turkey reflect on (auto)censorship and possible counter-strategies in a video work that looks at prison graffiti, desktop collages, surveillance cameras and the art of cruising.
Firat Yucel, Erhan Örs, Sibil Çekmen, Serra Akcan, Nadir Sönmez, Hakan Bozyurt, Can Memiş & belit sağ / Netherlands & Türkiye / 2024
Silent Observers
A dark and deeply original film about superstition in a Bulgarian village where the bewitched farm animals are silent witnesses to a human tragicomedy. Documentary meets folk horror with a wry sense of humor.
Roisin Agnew & Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Ireland, United Kingdom & Lebanon
The More Naked We Dare to Be
Danish auteur Jon Bang Carlsen takes stock of his life's work, the art of cinema and life itself in a film that stretches from the west coast of Denmark to the red desert sands of Arizona.
Jon Bang Carlsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Youth (Hard Times)
Times are hard for the young workers in China's textile factories, struggling with and against each other for a better future. The second installment in Wang Bing’s ‘Youth’ trilogi.
Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024
Youth (Homecoming)
The workers are leaving the factory to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Wang Bing's panoramic film about the dreams and dramas of young workers in the country's textile factories.
Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024