CPH:CONFERENCE returns with a four-day programme that brings together visionary thinkers and bold filmmakers to explore the most urgent questions shaping documentary today. As part of CPH:DOX, the conference offers a dynamic and interactive platform where professionals from across the international documentary community gather to exchange ideas, challenge perspectives, and imagine the future of the field.

Each morning begins with intimate, in-depth conversations on the art of filmmaking. A Morning With invites acclaimed directors to reflect on their creative journeys, unpack their methods, and share the ethical and artistic dilemmas behind their work. These sessions set the tone for days filled with curiosity, critical thinking, and creative inspiration.

Across the programme, filmmakers and creatives whose works are presented throughout the festival come together to explore shared values, creative challenges, and the evolving language of nonfiction storytelling. Through thought-provoking panels, keynotes, workshops, and live performances, the conference examines how documentary can remain artistically daring while responding to a rapidly shifting media landscape.

Building on the themes of the CPH:DOX SUMMIT, this year’s conference places a strong focus on the accessibility of independent and trustworthy media. Sessions address how emerging technologies (including AI and immersive formats) can expand documentary’s reach and open up new ways of engaging audiences. At the same time, critical conversations tackle the structural realities of financing, distribution, and the sustainability of creative documentary in a changing ecosystem.

From discussions on duty of care toward contributors, to debates around narrative positionality and representation, the conference asks how filmmakers can work through the lens of ethics and responsibility. Conversations also explore how to create more globally egalitarian funding structures and ensure that diverse voices can shape their own stories.

Participants can expect explorations of truth and trust in an era of misinformation, reflections on documentary as cultural resistance, and bold visions for the future of nonfiction cinema. The programme highlights documentary’s unique power to provoke, move, and inspire — and to create impactful, unsettling, and beautiful works that resonate far beyond the screen.

Join us for four days of dialogue, experimentation, and collective reflection on the role documentary plays in our media landscape today and tomorrow.

Read more about the programme down below.