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March 19 – 30, 2025

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CPH:DOX stands with Ukraine’s filmmakers

In solidarity with the nation of Ukraine and its filmmakers, CPH:DOX adds three Ukrainian films to this year’s programme. A dedicated programme of seven powerful films focuses on Ukraine during this year’s CPH:DOX from March 23 to April 3.

Tuesday 15th Mar 2022

The uprising in Kyiv’s Maidan Square, life in Donetsk during the Russian bombings and glimpses of hope at an orphanage in Ukraine. These are some of the focal points of CPH:DOX’s special programme focusing on Ukraine.

CPH:DOX is now expanding this year’s programme with three more films from Ukraine, giving audiences the chance to experience seven highly topical films that provide new perspectives on the reality of the now war-torn country.

These are the films in CPH:DOX’s special programme with films from Ukraine:

Niklas Engstrøm, Artistic Director of CPH:DOX, says:
“Almost three weeks have gone since Putin’s Russia started its invasion of Ukraine and turned our world and worldview upside down. Like everyone else, CPH:DOX is of course very concerned about the current situation in Ukraine, and therefore we have chosen to expand our program and give more space to some of the many brave Ukrainian filmmakers who in recent years have created strong and important films with the conflict as a backdrop. All our thoughts go to Ukraine and the many refugees who are currently being forced to leave their homeland.”

The three new films that have just been added to CPH:DOX programme are ‘The Earth is Blue as an Orange’ (Iryna Tsilyk/Ukraine & Lithuania), Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa/Ukraine & The Netherlands) and ‘This Rain Will Never Stop’ (Alina Gorlova/Ukraine, Germany & Latvia).

Audience favourite from Sundance and Berlin and award winner from IDFA 
‘Maidan’ explores the uprising in Ukraine in 2014, which started as a protest against President Lanoukovitch, but has since become a crisis of unpredictable, international proportions. Sergei Loznitsa’s film will go down in history as a document of the far from unambiguous uprising in Kiev, where ‘the people’ consists of both left-wing activists and extreme nationalists. From battles to soup breaks and heroic folk songs. The months in Maidan Square are unusually depicted alone in vast, static panoramas.

‘This Rain Will Never Stop’ is the artistic breakthrough of filmmaker Alina Gorlova, who received the award for Best Debut Film at the 2019 IDFA Film Festival. In atmospheric and meaningful black and white, Gorlova depicts the seemingly endless conflicts that constantly find new ways to recreate themselves, but at the same time she finds hope in the human ability to defy war.

‘The Earth is Blue as An Orange’ is one of the big audience favorites from Sundance and Berlin. While the war in Ukraine rubles in the background, a single mother and her two children gather around their shared passion: making small films together. They recreate scenes from a life in the middle of the war involving local people from the village and patrolling military personnel in the artistic process. The older sister in particular is fascinated by the possibilities of the camera, and when she is admitted to film school, she is over the moon. With the war-torn landscapes of Donbass as a dramatic backdrop, the film not only brings light and hope into their lives, but also an opportunity to take the story into their own hands in the midst of chaos.

The seven films from Ukraine will be screened at CPH:DOX’s physical festival from March 23 to April 3. From April 1 to 10 a selection of the films will also be available online on CPH:DOX’s new streaming platform (geoblocked to Denmark).

CPH:DOX cooperates with the organization IMS (International Media Support), which supports filmmakers in conflict areas, and some screenings will be followed by a discussion. See the complete overview of films from Ukraine here.

In addition to the films about Ukraine, CPH:DOX also shows a number of films that take a critical look at Putin’s Russia, including ‘Navalny’, ‘Holidays’ and ‘F@ck this Job’.

For further information: 
Sune Blicher, Head of Communication at  CPH:DOX, +45 3122 2661, sune@cphdox.dk