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Can modern technology realise the dream of eternal life? Yes, say the sci-fi optimists in Silicon Valley, who are determined to make death obsolete through artificial intelligence in a film that soberly and thoughtfully raises the biggest questions - and provides possible answers.

Join The Climate Story Lab Nordic for a day of conversations about climate storytelling and strategic audience engagement.

Join Beadie Finzi (Doc Society) and Diego Galafassi (Hum Studio interactive) in a conversation on climate docs.

Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.

Dive into the art of climate storytelling and justice alongside Vasna Ramasar, Phie Ambo, and Kat Cizek.

Join Rebekka Nystabakk and Hazel Falck, for a meaningful conversation on the power of climate documentaries to engage communities and create ethical relations.

The museum world is at a turning point. Artefacts from indigenous peoples and other cultures are being encouraged to be returned to their place of origin. A Sami filmmaker traces the heritage of her own people in a personal film.

One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.

The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.

A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.

One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.

A poetic and touchingly honest film about lifelong love and what remains when it disappears. The echoes of love resound in the poignant, humorous and life-affirming stories of those left behind.

Lunch and mingle: Meet the Nordic Climate Storytellers at CPH:DOX!

One of the most heartwarming love stories of the year is about the close friendship between a melancholic Scottish man - and an otter. An irresistible film that goes straight to the heart.

Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.

A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.

The director of 'Honeyland' returns with a contemporary fairytale made with sensitivity and poetry as a giant puppet travels from Syria up through Europe to tell the story of migration from a child's perspective.

A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.

Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.

Democracy is crumbling in the Philippines, where presidential candidate Leni Robredo is running for power in a toxic and brutal battle against one of the most extreme figures of the populist right, by celebrating freedom and solidarity.

A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.

Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.

How can a building become part of the treatment in physical and mental rehabilitation? A film about architecture, bodies and universal design that could revolutionise the way we shape our shared spaces.

A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.

A panoramic snapshot of Chile in a turbulent period where a new youth movement has joined the fight for the country's future. A razor-sharp take on a time of upheaval with a clear vision of the nature of political conflict.

A family who have created an idyllic self-sufficient life for their four children are forced to rethink their choices and try to (re)integrate into modern society when tragedy strikes unexpectedly. Radical life choices meet dilemmas in a moving and wise film.

The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.

In the centre of Europe, one of the world's three most polluted cities has united its citizens in a common fight for a viable future. But money, power and environmental politics prove to be as toxic an opponent as the factory smoke that clouds the city.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

Tribute screening in memory of Michael Haslund. An epic and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white spaces on the world map.

In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.

A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.

The solution to the climate crisis is already here if you ask the growing low tech movement, who insist that with simple means and great ingenuity, it is possible to live a modern life without destroying the planet.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.

A Siberian mother-of-three finds herself under the aggressive scrutiny of the Russian authorities when she steps up as a citizen journalist and uncovers a huge coal scandal. A revealing journalistic thriller with deep personal consequences.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

One of the biggest audience favourites of the year is a genuinely gripping and truly epic film about the man who first became Superman and then became a real-life superhero after a tragic accident changed his life forever.

Try your hand at the world of spirits in a true audience favourite from this year's Sundance Festival, where seven New York psychics can put their clients in touch with the supernatural beyond - or maybe just in touch with their own emotions.

A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.

There's more than cops and robber stories at stake in this heartbreaking and dramatic film about Norwegian Mina with the kind heart who starts a radio station for (and with) prison inmates. Can she find the line between life and work when an unexpected tragedy strikes?

Marion Cotillard gives a hypnotic performance in a phenomenal docu-hybrid that charts one woman's dramatic life in the cultural bohemian milieu of Paris in the 60s and 70s. A reconstruction of a dark family history and an artist's attempt to understand her mother's tragedy.

A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.

A family who have created an idyllic self-sufficient life for their four children are forced to rethink their choices and try to (re)integrate into modern society when tragedy strikes unexpectedly. Radical life choices meet dilemmas in a moving and wise film.

A 20-something filmmaker embarks on making her first film with a group of friends. A meta-indie deconstruction of cinema itself, based on director Zia Anger's own experiences and on her live performance of the same name.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.

A humorous, personal and highly educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic texts and activist Aubrey Gordon, and on six years of lived experience from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.

The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.

The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.

A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.

Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.

A poetic and touchingly honest film about lifelong love and what remains when it disappears. The echoes of love resound in the poignant, humorous and life-affirming stories of those left behind.

A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.

A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.

With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.

Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.

A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.

A wildly entertaining deep dive into the Star Wars film everone tried to forget, but which refused to die and has grown to become the ultimate cult favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special. 

Social-realist sci-fi from the taxi centre around a Paris airport that looks more like a run-down space base where an incredible cast of characters cross each other's paths.

Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.

The life of guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana from his childhood in Mexico to international stardom, according to the 76-year-old legend himself.

A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.

A nerve-wracking political thriller where elite politicians and military personnel engage in a role-playing game based on January 6th. Is the democratic system strong enough to handle a real-life coup attempt in the near future?

Meet the cult band of them all in the rockumentary of the year about a band that fused a political vision with being bizarre, nerdy and rock star cool. From the director of ‘American Movie’ and the hit series about the Fyre Festival.

The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.

Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.

The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.

Welcome to a party so wild that the British state had to rewrite the law to ban it, and that the electronic sound waves of the raging Free Party movement of the 1990s still resonate today.

With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.

A barefoot monk slowly wanders through the streets of Washington DC in Tsai Ming-liang's new and meditative work, which uses few and simple means to send one’s mind wandering (and wondering) along.