Discover the full line-up of projects presented at CPH:FORUM 2026! The selected projects will be presented during CPH:FORUM, running from March 17-19, 2026 in Copenhagen, with CPH:ROUGHCUT and CHANGE presentations taking place on Monday, March 16. Read the full press release here!
Section FORUM:
ARTIFACTS OF WAR
Marketed as safe tools of public order, less-lethal weapons circulate globally. ARTIFACTS OF WAR moves between Europe’s arms fairs, archival material, and a forensic algorithm to explore how force is shaped, regulated, and audited.
BLACKEST EVER BLACK
A film crew sets out to make a film about data centres and Ireland’s tax system when a series of blackouts derails the project.
Roisin Agnew / Alison Millar, Jack O'Brien & Luke McManus / Erica Starling Productions & Sixteen Films / Unbecoming / United Kingdom & Ireland
BROMANSKY
At a turning point in history, two world leaders from very different backgrounds strike up a strange friendship and set out to change the world. This is the story of Bill & Boris – told through archival footage and in their own words.
CHILDREN OF THE MOON LAND
In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that become their only form of resistance.
Roman Ďuriš / Richard Šimeček, Michal Sikora & Albin Bourgeois / Svjetski Films / Lonely Production & Weplus / Slovakia, Czech Republic & France
COSMOFONIA
COSMOFONIA intends to perform a shift in the very conditions of perception. At its core lies a radical cinematic gesture: a film whose soundtrack is composed almost entirely of sounds never heard before by human ears.
Véréna Paravel / Florence Cohen / Anna Lena Films / France
DARK HORSE
With the 2026 World Cup on the horizon, a banned betting influencer and a relentless investigative journalist expose how sports manipulation has evolved from scandal to business model, now threatening to destroy the game itself.
Lauren DeFilippo & Sam Soko / Amanda Pollak / Insignia Films / LBx Africa / Sweden, Kenya & United States
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DIRECTOR’S CUT [WT]
What started as a promotional commission becomes a moral thriller.
EVERYTHING IS RED AND GREY
A group of young Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza overcome the tragic killing of their friend and use their tools of creative resistance to document their own genocide and their communities beyond the colonial lens of rubble and cardboard boxes.
FACE VALUE
FACE VALUE examines how advances in cosmetic medicine, digital culture and AI are reshaping global beauty norms and transforming algorithmic aesthetic ideals into increasingly compulsory standards that redefine women’s identity, agency, and self-worth.
Faye Tsakas / Riel Roch Decter / MEMORY / United States
GOD OF THE IN-BETWEEN
A fabled island of ruins has survived for generations thanks to an unlikely saviour – seaweed. Panchavarnam has spent a lifetime collecting this treasure. She now fights to save her sisterhood of seaweed, even as her daughter chooses another life.
Archana Phadke / James Wilson, Aman Mann & Shaunak Sen / Kiterabbit Films & Valentine Films / India & United States
GREEN GOLD
In Mexico’s avocado capital, prosperity and violence grow side by side as communities fight to hold on to their land, their livelihood, and their future.
Ivonne Serna & Selim Benzeghia / Geoffrey Livolsi, Alex Pritz, Will N. Miller & Selim Benzeghia / Koudéta Films / Documist / France & United States
JOUD
For Joud, a German-Palestinian-Syrian journalist, turning 40 means choosing love at all cost. Living across Berlin, Beirut, and Damascus, he documents his gender confirmation and political exile, negotiating a life where legal recognition, family history, and romance are divided by borders he must constantly cross.
Diana El Jeiroudi / Diana El Jeiroudi & Orwa Nyrabia / No Nation Films / Docmakers / Germany & Netherlands
LAST STANDING WOMEN
Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers and during the pitch in March.
Talal Derki / Charlotte Reekers & Talal Derki / Derki Film Production / Germany
LAST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER
In Nigeria's ferocious fashion scene, three designers fight to escape erasure and reach Lagos Fashion Week's runway — where visibility means survival. A story about who gets seen, who remains invisible, and the fragile ecosystem that depends on them all.
Nosarieme Garrick / Chioma Onyenwe / Black Gazelle Productions / Raconteur Productions / United States & Nigeria
LETTER TO ALVIN
LETTER TO ALVIN uncovers the life and work of Alvin Baltrop - a largely unrecognized but profoundly important African American artist who chronicled the LGBTQ+ experience at the fringes of New York's waterfront in the 1970s and 1980s.
Göran Hugo Olsson & Hilton Als / Tobias Janson, Melissa Lindgren, Yona Backer & Joslyn Barnes / Story / Louverture Films & Third Streaming / Sweden & United States
LETTERS OF HOPE
Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk follows the scars of war across Ukraine's wounded landscapes, carrying her own trauma into a global fight to recognize ecocide as a war crime. As her resolve meets the fragile promise of justice, she inspires us to find hope — and act.
LIVING IN OUR HEADS (CONFIDENTIAL)
Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers.
David Borenstein / Helle Faber / made in copenhagen / Denmark
MATRESCENCE
A genre-defying, cinematic documentary that explores the radical and under-explored transformations that occur in pregnancy and early motherhood, adapted from the groundbreaking book by Lucy Jones.
Kathryn Ferguson / Rosie Crerar & Eleanor Emptage / Tara Films & barry crerar / United Kingdom
MY FATHER THE ICEMAN
Ewa lives in the shadow of her father's crime — the assassination of an anti-apartheid leader in South Africa. Despite this, she fights for his release. When he returns to Poland after 30 years and joins the far right, she is forced to confront him.
QUEENS BALLROOM
In a ballroom in Queens, NY, senior Asian American immigrants are transported through dance, revisiting worlds left behind and creating lives anew.
Hansen Lin & Siyi Chen / Siyi Chen, Hansen Lin, Clara Vuillermoz & Laurence Buelens / Queens Disco Production / SOLENT Production & Rayuela Productions / United States, France & Belgium
SKEPTICS
As the US dismantles decades of climate change legislation, an environmental activist strikes up an anonymous, online conversation with a climate skeptic. Shifting between the personal and scientific, can this dialog reveal any common ground?
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz / James Doolittle & Thomas Lennon / All Ages Productions / Once in a Blue Moon Films / United States
STATE OF IMMORTALITY
The film explores our passion for defeating death by tracing the Russian Cosmism - a 100-y-o movement influencing today’s biohackers and longevity enthusiasts. It is not only a film about how we can live forever but about what happens if we do.
Piotr Winiewicz / Henrik Underbjerg / Stray Dog Productions / Pressman Film / Denmark & United States
SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE
In a dreamlike 1950s town square built inside a warehouse, we will investigate our memory care crisis, the healing potential of filmmaking and the fragility of reality itself.
Robert Greene / Bennett Elliott, Susan Bedusa & Douglas Tirola / 4th Row Films / Square Peg Films / United States
THE CALLING
An artist persuades his son to make a film about him — but as their visions collide the project unravels into an exploration on masculinity, the need to be seen, and cinema's elusive promise of redemption from the ghosts that haunt and bind them both.
Beniamino Barrese / Harry Vaughn & Beniamino Barrese / Real Lava / Denmark
THE DAY AFTER
Over 3 years, beginning in 2023, a group of Palestinians and Israelis travel to Northern Ireland to learn how bitter enemies made peace. But as their own divided homeland descends into deeper violence, they struggle to make peace amongst themselves.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
An all-archival adventure documentary that explores the creation of the American Museum of Natural History. Through the interconnected histories of its extraordinary artifacts and the people behind them, the museum becomes a mirror for humanity’s longing to freeze time, amass treasures, and reflect on our place in the world.
Marley McDonald / John Cardellino / Unimerical Studios / future perfect / United States
THE NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
The definitive story of Niki de Saint Phalle, a pioneering artist who blasted into the art world with a rifle, and became the architect of her own reality with her self-funded visionary masterpiece, the monumental Tarot Garden.
Matt Wolf & Svetlana Zill / Emmanuelle Lepers / Haut et Court Doc / France
THE SILENT NETWORK
THE SILENT NETWORK uncovers an organized movement that builds and spreads political and economic influence through hidden financial networks, revealing a Europe-wide threat to democratic institutions and human rights.
UNTITLED UNRWA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTARY
A group of Palestinians investigate their personal histories in UNRWA’s formerly hidden archives. Interwoven with Israel’s assault on UNRWA, the film shows that preserving memory is an act of resistance, defying erasure.
Benedict Moran & Ramzy Haddad / Benedict Moran, Ramzy Haddad & Sergeo Kirby / Blind River Media / Loaded Pictures / Canada
USA VS EUROPE
What does the world look like for those standing exactly where history begins to fracture? Do they cling to the past, or reach for the future? The film tells the story of a political meteor strike — the chaos that follows, and the challenges of finding direction in a new and unfamiliar world.
WE ARE VOLCANOES
Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers, and during the pitch in March.