Discover the full line-up of projects presented at CPH:FORUM 2025
ANATOMY OF A GENOCIDE
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, diligently documents the human rights situation amid unprecedented devastation. This film explores her besieged mandate and the challenging efforts to hold the perpetrators accountable.
BEING HUMAN: PERSPECTIVES ON PEACE AND CONFLICT
Through powerful real-world footage and multiple scientific lenses, we explore humanity's paradoxical nature: our capacity for both profound empathy and terrible violence - and ultimately, reconciliation.
CONFIDENTIAL
Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers and during the pitch in March.
Andreas Pichler / Christian Beetz & Anne von Petersdorff / beetz brothers film production GmbH / Germany
CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT
Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers and during the pitch in March.
EARTH CAMP ONE
Earth Camp One tells the story of how I lost five family members in a decade. At 12, I attended a Northern California summer camp Earth Camp One. I believed hippie culture would save me. We often want to break away from our families: what happens when they leave us?
Jennie Livingston / Jennie Livingston / Earth Camp One LLC / United States
ENTR’ACTES
A retired concierge, Olena, from Kyiv leads an amateur theater group for the elderly. Neither war nor deteriorating health can stop them from preparing for a local competition, which might be their final chance to perform on stage.
EYES WIDE OPEN
A reluctant hero navigates his life in a country in limbo, caught in the crossfire of shifting political narratives, as a young generation fights for freedom and democracy.
Sopho Apriamashvili / Nino Orjonikidze / Chai Docs / Georgia
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FOUR BROTHERS [WT]
Since 2014, four orphan brothers struggle in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. Like other survivors they face their destroyed hometown Marinka's harsh reality, wrestling with loss and hope, as the conflict reshapes their lives and the world.
Pieter-Jan De Pue / Emilie Blezat, Bart Van Langendonck & David Dusa / Dark Riviera AB & Savage Film / Submarine, beetz brothers film production GmbH & Naoko Films / Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands & Germany
HOPEFULLY, NOT TODAY
As the Arctic sinks into darkness, the old nightmares of a world war crystallize here.
Tereza Šimíková & Eivind H. Natvig / Peter Engel / Wingman Media / Denmark, Norway, Iceland & Czech Republic
HOUSE NO. 7
Three young women strive for independence in a complex post-war Syria. Together, they forge a physical space for their realities to exist in a rented house, but threats from the outside world make protecting their fragile space a challenge.
Rama Abdi / Hazar Yazji / N/A / Syria
IMPORT/EXPORT MD
IMPORT/EXPORT MD follows a group of doctors-turned-comedians who use humour to confront daily struggles, while also exploring the journeys of those who leave the profession to seek integrity and opportunity abroad.
Max T. Ciorbă / Sergiu Scobioala / Realitatea Film / Moldova
IN THE BLACK FANTASTIC
A visually stunning documentary that explores the complexities of Black life through myth, fantasy, and speculative fiction, transforming the fantastical into a profound lens for liberation.
Julian Knox / Debo Amon, Ekow Eshun, Jenny Berglund, Patrick Bedeau, Arianna Nourse & Claude Grunitzky / Rememory Ltd / Studioknxx / United Kingdom
KURA
The lifeblood of the Caucasus – called Mother Kura river - is fading away, threatening millions. A shaman girl, who tries to save the river and people who share the same destiny, makes an effort to chase away the nightmare with ancient Tengri rituals.
Murad Allahverdi / Afag Yusifli / Azerbaijan
LANDFALL
LANDFALL is a cinematic exploration of place and displacement, migration and the landscape, and the entangled relationships between humanity and the natural world.
Peter Middleton / Hugh Davies & Clive Patterson / Fee Fie Foe / Insight Film / United Kingdom
LEAVE EASY COME BACK SAFE
LEAVE EASY COME BACK SAFE explores Polesia, a Belarusian region where traditions have been preserved in the swampy landscape. Guided by the artist Masha Maroz, the film follows the rituals honoring life and death under the ongoing challenges in Belarus.
METROPOLIS
The unseen “other worlds” of New York City where mosquitoes thrive, and a multi-ethnic team’s quest to keep the people of the metropolis safe. The “heroes” here are a mild-mannered 65-year old South Asian immigrant, and a gutsy woman from Malaysia.
Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan / Anirban Dutta / Metamorphosis Film Junction / India & United States
MISSING IN ACTION
Natalia starts her life over, even though she confronts the uncertainty around the fate of her missing brother.
Marharyta Melnychuk & Kateryna Holovko / Aliona Kachkan / Tabor Ltd / Ukraine
MY FRIEND THE BEAR
MY FRIEND THE BEAR will show the unprecedented, decades-long relationship between a severely dyslexic researcher and a bear. His story and insights challenge our modern ideas of how humanity fits into the rest of nature.
Drew Xanthopoulos / Bennett Elliott / Walking Upstream Pictures / United States
MY NAME IS ENOUGH
In a remote Armenian village where female fetuses rarely survive until birth due to sex-selective abortions, a young pregnant mother awaits a crucial ultrasound that will determine both her and her unborn child's future.
Ani Grigoryan & Marina Arzumanova / Ani Ordyan / Order Film Production / Armenia
ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE
We are a same-sex couple from China. To honor one partner’s parents’ wish to continue the family lineage, we chose to undergo IVF treatment in Cambodia. In a patriarchal society, is it possible for us both to become this child’s mothers?
Hang Ji & Jiang Xuan-nian / Hui-Chen Huang & Vincent Du / DuGood Productions / China
RESCUE
29 women and children are kidnapped on the Mediterranean by an armed Libyan militia in front of the crew on a MSF rescue ship. Yemenite Hani starts a fight to be reunited with his wife and baby in this unflinching portrayal of EUs new border politics.
SPACEMAN IN KONGO
Two young rocket engineers, propelled by the memory of African dreamers and a resilient belief in their homeland, work on building the first Congolese Space Program.
Maisha Maene / Leo Nelki & Josune Hahnheiser / Maene Film Production & Leo Nelki Productions / Black Forest Films / Democratic Republic of Congo, United Kingdom & Germany
STORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM
From Mark Cousins, writer/director of the groundbreaking Story of Film, comes a new epic you’ll want to see. An innovative exploration of documentaries from the start of film to now, from all around the world: boldly feminist, jargon-free and global.
Mark Cousins / John Archer / Hopscotch Films Limited / United Kingdom
THE ALARMIST
THE ALARMIST is the story of Stav Shaffir, the youngest woman ever elected to the Israeli Parliament. Through her story, the film offers insight into what caused the downfall of the left wing and the early legitimization of the extremists who are now in government in Israel.
Jacob Tschernia & Tomer Slutzky / Kirstine Barfod / Drive Studios & Nordland Pictures / Denmark & United States
THE AMNESIAC
Jeff Ingram, living with dissociative fugue - a rare amnesia that erases his past without warning - sets out on a journey to uncover his lost memories.
Marcus Lindeen / Jesper Kurlandsky, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements & Philippe Martin / Fasad Production AB / Motto Pictures & Les Films Pelléas / Sweden, United States & France
THE COIL CASE
Thousands of Inuit women where fitted with IUDs by Danish doctors in the 1960-70s - often without their consent. This film follows their fight for justice against the Danish state and questions the act of genocide, colonial power and indigenous peoples rights.
THE FRONTLINE THEATRE
In a devastated area where militancy calls, a group of young boys yearns for a meaningful identity amidst the chaos.
THE JOURNEY TO SANTA ROSA DE AMANADONA
In Venezuela’s Amazon a flamboyantly gay singer-politician campaigns along the Orinoco, while an indigenous artist seeks to restore his heritage. The forest's destruction reflects the clash between exploitation and survival.
Anabel Rodríguez / Karin Berghammer, Sepp R. Brudermann & Margarita Cadenas / berg hammer film GmbH / Spiraleye Productions Ltd., Sancocho Publico A.C. & MC2 Productions / Austria, Venezuela, United Kingdom & France
THE LAST NOMADS
A gripping family and environmental drama unfolds as semi-nomadic mother and daughter Gara and Nada defend their herding tradition and mountain from militarisation, as the story of violence against women echoes that of violence against nature.
Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić / Biljana Tutorov / Wake Up Films / Ardor Films, Les Films de l'oeil sauvage, Cvinger Film & Stenola / Serbia, Montenegro, France, Slovenia & Croatia
THE LAST WITNESSES
Through the eyes of Nakba survivors, THE LAST WITNESSES embarks on a personal journey, confronting the ongoing war against the Palestinian people and searching for a path to peace.
THE MAMMOTHS THAT ESCAPED THE KINGDOM OF ERLIK KHAN
In the northernmost part of the Yakut Tundra, Vladik, a young Dolgan reindeer herder is at a crossroads when he has to make a decision to either follow in his fathers ancestral footsteps or join the modern mammoth tusk hunters.
Tamara Kotevska / Sigrid Dyekjaer, Harry Vaughn, Jean Dakar, Anna Hashmi & Enrico Saraiva / Real Lava / the corner shop, Ciconia Films, Alecrim Vagabundo & Tamara Kotevska / Denmark, United Kingdom, Portugal, United States & North Macedonia
THE SALT OF THE SOUTH
A family’s bond with the sea spans continents and generations as they face ecological collapse. Fathia, a marine farmer in Tunisia, fights to preserve their heritage, while her son Fadhel, a former fisherman, seeks climate refugee status in Europe.
THE SINNER
A former boxer-turned-vigilante, Petar Nizamov’s rise and fall unravels in The Sinner - a journey into the biblical battle of good and evil during the rise of the far-right across Europe. In his search for the Light, he was drawn into the Darkness.
THE TRUTH (LA VERDAD)
By examining the contested truth about the poet, Pablo Neruda’s death during Chile’s military coup, THE TRUTH explores how a truth is shaped and transformed, echoing Neruda's own words: "And to truth: Don't stop so much that you harden into lies."
THERMOCENE
Two composers, isolated at 3,000 metres in the Alps, create a symphony by recording human tracks sown in the air to demonstrate that zero impact does not exist, while a group of visionary minds envision changing habits in an inevitable new era.
Giorgio Ferrero / Giovanni Pompili / Kino produzioni / My Boss Was / Italy
UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
In a small mountain-top village, residents are shaken by the sightings of triangular crafts in the night sky. They believe these objects have a non-human origin. As the search for answers unfolds, a scientific revolution begins.
Guylaine Maroist & Eric Ruel / Eric Ruel, Guylaine Maroist & Geneviève Pigeon / La Ruelle Films / Canada
UNTITLED EDWARD SAID DOCUMENTARY
Celebrated as a prophet and vilified as a terrorist, Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said was America’s most outspoken critic of the West. Twenty years after his death, Said narrates his political awakening in this intimate archival documentary.
Maiken Baird / Paul Dallas, Alex Gibney & Sarah Mowaswes / Jigsaw Productions / United States
UNTITLED HORSE PROJECT
An all new experience. Immerse yourself in an exploration into the unknown through the eyes of a horse. This journey reveals how the horse perceives its environment, navigates its place within the herd, and interacts with humans.
Margreth Olin / Margreth Olin / Speranza Film / Norway
UNTITLED SCIENCE PROJECT
A young chemistry student contemplates the nature of black holes.
Emilia Mello / Elijah Stevens, Julia Alves & Hanne Phlypo / Enciclopédia de Lugares Imaginários / Space Time Films, Clin d’Oeil & Quarta-Feira Filmes / Brazil, United States & Belgium
VIRTUAL GIRLFRIENDS
They say you can't put a price on love—on OnlyFans, you can. This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
Barbora Chalupová / Pavla Klimešová / Helium Film / Super film & Soul Food / Bulgaria, Czech Republic & Slovakia
WHISPERS OF WOMANHOOD
For 13 years, Dea dreams of having a child in a society that defines a woman’s worth by motherhood. After traumatic loss and years of infertility, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, challenging societal expectations and her sense of identity.
Rati Tsiteladze / Olga Slusareva / ArtWay Film / Georgia
WOLF MOON
WOLF MOON takes us deep into the landscapes of the night in search of wild animals. As wildlife around the world turns increasingly nocturnal in an effort to evade humans, the film explores human-animal relations in the emerging Anthropocene.
Robin Petré / Monica Hellström / Ström Pictures / Denmark
WORDS WE NEVER SAY
Among the rise of the far right, a mother and a daughter on two sides of an increasing political conflict go on a journey through Poland and Europe and recreate their past disagreements in a film studio. A creative blend of a documentary road movie and fiction.
Agnieszka Zwiefka / Agnieszka Zwiefka & Izabela Igel / Chilli Productions / Poland