Conflicted

CPH:DOX is a contemporary festival that showcases documentary films about and in a troubled world. We are very much concerned with the battles, conflicts, and wars unfolding around us right now, leaving us sorrowful, angry, frustrated, and, yes, in conflict. That’s why this year we have also gathered a series of films under the theme ‘Conflicted’

It’s important to have difficult conversations about what’s currently happening in Gaza. But it’s also crucial to engage in discussions about other territorial and cultural conflicts and wars such as those in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Kenya – not to mention the simmering crisis around Taiwan, the ongoing tensions in Northern Ireland, and the increasingly frozen war in Ukraine. Therefore, for the theme, we have chosen nine films that all put geopolitical crises into perspective in a way that a rapid news flow often cannot match. The intent is not to equate the conflicts – each of them is entirely different and has its own characteristics and issues. But across the board, they all deal with identity, culture, and territorial disputes – and none of them have easy solutions.