Discover the full line-up of projects presented at CPH:FORUM 2025
Section FORUM:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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