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Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
10:30
Magic Mud
Jakob Gottschau / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 65 min
Star geologist Minik Rosing loves mud. Especially Greenlandic mud, also known as glacial rock flour - but can he prove that this magical mud can really save both the climate and solve global inequality?
A New Kind of Wilderness
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen / Norway / 2024 / 83 min
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.
11:00
Børne:Dox: Verdensnyheder i børnehøjde
Mads Køngerskov / Denmark / 2023 / 37 min
+ Event: Meet children from all over the world
Film photographer Mads Køngerskov has worked for DR News and correspondent Puk Damsgaard for 10 years. Mads travels 180 days a year and has experienced the whole world with his camera, telling stories about natural disasters, war, political events and, not least, people. He has a special eye for children and often turns his camera on them. In this conversation, he has collected some of his best, most beautiful and exciting stories that give us an insight into children's lives across the globe. Stories we rarely hear. The conversation is moderated by Buster Film Festival's Programme Manager, Mariella Harpelunde Jensen, and the films are live-translated by actress Lykke Sand Michelsen, so everyone can join in.
Language: Danish
Mads Køngerskov has travelled all over the world for DR Nyheder with his camera, telling visual stories and with his special eye for children, he has collected his best stories that give insight into children's lives across the globe.
12:00
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub / Switzerland / 2024 / World Premiere / 89 min
+ Event: Guided tour: The sea as inspiration
After the film screening, you can join a free guided tour of SMK's art collection. In continuation of the film, the tour will delve into selected works in the collection, where Danish artists have been inspired by the sea - both in stormy weather and moonlight. The tour begins directly after the film screening and lasts approximately 30 minutes. Please note that there is a limited number of seats. Presented in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Festival..
Language: Danish
Remember that with your cinema ticket to ART:CINEMA, you have access to SMK all day and can explore the museum's many exhibitions. If you have an annual pass to SMK, you get 20 percent off all screenings and events in ART:CINEMA.
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.
Mina and The Radio Bandits
Kari Anne Moe / Norway / 2024 / World Premiere / 108 min
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?
The Flats
Alessandra Celesia / France, United Kingdom, Ireland & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere / 114 min
A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.
China's greatest documentary filmmaker was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for his epic portrayal of life behind the sewing machines in the country's vast textile industry, where young employees flirt, argue and dream of the future.
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
Charlie Hamilton James / United Kingdom & United States / 2024 / International Premiere / 78 min
The screening is presented by Dyrenes Venner.
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.
Børne:Dox: De største spørgsmål med de mindste
Ömer Sami / Denmark & United Kingdom / 81 min
+ Event: Meet the giant talent Ömer Sami
We will be screening film director Ömer Sami's three films 'Into the Blue', 'Sam and the Plant Next Door' and 'Eternal Father'. The films are fantastic examples of documentary filmmaking told at a child's level, and Sami's presence and intensity in both his choice of images and storytelling is unique. We're lucky enough to have Ömer joining us. The conversation will be moderated by Buster Film Festival's Programme Manager, Mariella Harpelunde Jensen.
Language: Danish
Meet the talented Ömer Sami as we screen three of his touching films, all of which depict the world through the eyes of children with a unique intensity.
The Mum in Me
Hilde Merete Haug / Norway / 2023 / 83 min
A sensitive and scientific analysis of infertility as a social phenomenon that will make you blush if you have ever asked your colleague when they are going to have children.
La Base
Vadim Dumesh / France / 2023 / International Premiere / 72 min
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.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
13:00
Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Virpi Suutari / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere / 93 min
+ The Youth Editorial Group: Meditative future journey
Come into Social Cinema and experience a scenic movie in soft sofas, after which you will be guided through a meditative future journey by Frederikke Oldin from Gentænk. With our eyes closed, we will imagine a future sustainably transformed society where anything is possible - a utopia. Here, hope can flourish as we reflect on how we want to live, eat and dwell, and the change that can happen when we think about nature and our relationship with it. Before the film, we serve a free refreshment from To Øl.
Language: Danish
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests. Is it still civil disobedience when you know you have both history and the future on your side?
14:15
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
Andreas Hartmann & Arata Mori / Germany & Japan / 2024 / 86 min
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.
Grand Me
Atiye Zare Arandi / Belgium & Iran / 2024 / World Premiere / 78 min
A 9-year-old Iranian girl plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce in a lively and bittersweet film directed by her aunt. A lively contribution to the great Iranian tradition of films about the world of children.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Neo Sora / Japan / 2023 / 103 min
20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.
Silent Trees
Agnieszka Zwiefka / Poland, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 84 min
A 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl is stranded in an icy pine forest between Belarus and Europe with her family in a dirty political power play. She has only one choice: to grow up in an instant and save her family.
Archive of the Future
Joerg Burger / Austria / 2023 / 92 min
The Natural History Museum in Vienna is a vast, labyrinthine archive of meticulously archived records, rare animals and curious stories. A picturesque and wryly humorous film from a veritable Noah's Ark headed for an uncertain future.
Echo of You
Zara Zerny / Denmark / 2023 / 76 min
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.
Invisible People
Alisa Berger / France & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere / 71 min
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
Marching in the Dark
Kinshuk Surjan / Belgium, Netherlands & India / 2024 / World Premiere / 108 min
The widows come together to break the vicious cycle of debt and climate related chaos in Indian agriculture that has pushed their desperate husbands to kill themselves - and leave them with the debt. A powerful and compelling film about solidarity between sisters.
I Shall Not Hate
Tal Barda / Canada & France / 2024 / World Premiere / 95 min
A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.
Bushman
David Schickele / United States / 1971 / 73 min
A Nigerian man embarks on an adventure in 1960s San Francisco in this rediscovered sensation, which blends documentary and fiction, and manages to collapse and reinvent itself along the way. The greatest rediscovery of the last year, screened in a newly restored version.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
15:00
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
Deep Sky
Nathaniel Kahn / United States / 2023 / 40 min
Experience the furthest reaches of our galaxy in IMAX where the incredible images from the James Webb Telescope are framed in ideal conditions on the big screen.
16:00
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.
The Mother of All Lies
Asmae El Moudir / Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia & Qatar / 2023 / 96 min
Last year's critically acclaimed Cannes winner is a Moroccan filmmaker's attempt to reconstruct her family's shadowy past. A miniature model of the family's labyrinthine neighbourhood in Casablanca is an important piece in a cinematic puzzle.
Heartwarming and life-affirming Norwegian coming-of-age story about the intellectually disabled man Ola, his deeply felt friendship with Danish Lasse and the need for all people to belong.
Black Snow
Alina Simone / United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 100 min
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.
The Black Garden
Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
Eternal You
Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck / Germany & United States / 2024 / 87 min
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.
17:00
+ The Youth Editorial Group: SygtStærk with Sofie Riise Nors
CPH:DOX's Youth Editorial invites you to a screening of the film 'Ibelin', followed by a conversation with two young panelists who both live a youthful life with physical disabilities and chronic illness moderated by Danish illustrator and host of the podcast SygtStærk, Sofie Riise Nors. Together they will give an insight into their everyday lives, thoughts and perspectives on life with physical limitations. In continuation of the film's theme, they will also shed light on the role digital communities can play for young people who, for various reasons, cannot participate in physical spaces on an equal footing with most people - and finally, there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Before the film, we serve a free refreshment from To Øl.
Language: Danish
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.
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.
Trans Hero
Sol Amanda Wendel & Evo Smilla S. Sidney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 54 min
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.
No Other Land
Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere / 95 min
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 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.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
18:20
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
Nocturnes
Anupama Srinivasan & Anirban Dutta / India & United States / 2024 / 83 min
+ Event: Moths and meditation
Before a very special film experience, we invite everyone to explore the hidden connections in the moths' secret connections as yoga instructor, Ida Kilias, takes us on a guided meditation journey. Sit back in Big Bio's luxury seats and let yourself drift off into the night.
Language: English
The night is buzzing with life in the dense jungles of the mountains on the border between India and Bhutan, where two local biologists study a microcosm of moths. A deep, atmospheric film sensation with an exceptional sound design.
Laughing Day
Lars Emil Leonhardt & Brendan Cooney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
A quirky hybrid film that employs understated humour and spontaneous encounters to explore the healing power of conversation and its ability to break down both internal and external boundaries.
Stray Bodies
Elina Psykou / Greece, Switzerland, Italy & Bulgaria / 2024 / International Premiere / 109 min
+ Debate: Bodily autonomy across borders
Why is there such a difference in what you can decide about your own body across European borders? After the screening, we will debate body autonomy and legislation in the EU when it comes to abortion, fertility treatment and euthanasia. Participants in the debate are former professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen and current head of Rigshospitalet's fertility department, Søren Ziebe, and external associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Annika Frida Petersen. The debate will be moderated by Jakob Skaaning, journalist and Europe writer at Zetland.
Language: Engelsk
Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.
Blueberry Dreams
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 2024 / World Premiere / 75 min
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.
The relationship between students and their favourite teacher in a bilingual Austrian school class, observed with loving attention over three formative years by documentary auteur Ruth Beckermann.
19:00
Cool Finnish countryside charm meets French elegance when Finland's greatest film director Aki Kaurismäki decides to build the ultimate cinema from the past in an abandoned mining town.
The Bones
Jeremy Xido / Canada & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere / 98 min
Dinosaur fossils are worth their weight in gold in a market where serious scientists and fortune hunters vie to be first to the next big find. An eye-opening adventure documentary about bones, cash and big egos - and an absolute must for dinosaur fans.
The Son and the Moon
Roja Pakari / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 87 min
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.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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 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.
Israelism
Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen / United States / 2023 / 84 min
Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.
7,000 years ago, the area was one of the largest civilisations in prehistoric Europe. Today, it is the largest landfill on the continent. An unexpected festival hit about the men who fight a daily battle against the fury of the elements.
Can’t Feel Nothing
David Borenstein / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 81 min
An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.
A Century in Sound
Nicholas Dwyer & Tu Neill / Japan & New Zealand / 2024 / World Premiere / 101 min
A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst the chaotic streets of Tokyo.
20:00
Bottle Conditioned
Jerry Franck / United States / 2023 / 82 min
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.
Time to Gather
Sofia Bairrão / Portugal / 2023 / International Premiere / 97 min
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
21:00
Free Party
Aaron Trinder / United Kingdom / 2023 / European Premiere / 107 min
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.
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.
Life and Other Problems
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 99 min
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.
Gaucho Gaucho
Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw / United States & Argentina / 2024 / International Premiere / 84 min
The duo behind the 'The Truffle Hunters' are back with a timeless and visually stunning tribute to the cowboys and cowgirls who keep old traditions alive. An Argentinian western with understated humour and an eye for the epic drama in the detail.
The Human Surge 3
Eduardo Williams / Argentina, Portugal, Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka & Peru / 2023 / 121 min
A cinematic trip across time and space, shot with a 360-degree camera in an inventive gesture unlike any other in contemporary cinema. Eduardo Willams breaks every conceivable rule of what the cinema experience can be.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská / Czech Republic, Slovakia & Austria / 2024 / 90 min
A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.
The Contestant
Clair Titley / United Kingdom / 2023 / 90 min
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.
Balomania
Sissel Morell Dargis / Denmark & Spain / 2024 / World Premiere / 93 min
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.
No Other Land
Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere / 95 min
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.