CPH:WIP
As a part of CPH:FORUM and for the ninth year running, we are presenting a selection of documentary works in progress looking for gap financing or a launch pad for further distribution.
The 2025 edition of CPH:WIP, in addition to its commitment to present strong documentary films from the Nordic region, will for the third time also showcase international documentary projects from all over the world. Each selected title and presenting team will show longer scenes from their upcoming documentary films to a dedicated professional audience followed by tailored by one-to-one meetings with interested buyers, sales agents and festival programmers.
CPH:WIP will take place as part of CPH:FORUM during next year’s CPH:DOX festival, 13-24 March, in Copenhagen.
The event is accessible for CPH:FORUM and INTRO:DOX accredited guests only.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to send an email to forum@cphdox.dk.
CPH:WIP projects presented in 2024
ABOUT A HERO
After Dorem Clery supposedly commits suicide in despair over losing his job to a machine, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film, not what we expect.
"About a Hero" is an adaptation of a script written by a large language model custom trained on Herzog’s body of work. The ironically self-reflective fictional narrative is intertwined with a series of ‘real’ interviews with artists, philosophers and scientists reflecting on the notion of originality, authenticity, immortality and soul in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
BURNT EARTH
Firefighters from rural and small town Finland form a specialist brigade to prepare for the large wildfires of the future. They travel to Portugal to learn from their elite colleagues already fighting on the frontlines of our climate emergency.
CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT FROM YEMEN
IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD
A balancing act between love and hate, care and destruction in film that seeks to discover if family saves our life or – on the contrary – destroys it.
Pepa Lubojacki / Wanda Kaprálová & Klára Mamojková / CLAW AV / guča films / Czech Republic & Slovakia
NORTH SOUTH MAN WOMAN
With the divided Korean nation as her recruitment pool, businesswoman Han Yujin's unusual marriage agency matches women defectors from her native North with South Korean men, challenging society's perceptions of both groups in the process.
Sun Kim & Morten Traavik / Verona Meier / Studio Kozlovski / VFS / Uldis Cekulis & Mirror & Story / Gary Kam / Norway, Latvia & Republic of Korea (South Korea)
UNWELCOMED
Traversing the majestic Andean Highlands, Atacama Desert, and Coastal Cliffs, "Unwelcomed" unveils the harsh reality of the migration crisis in Latin America, alongside the cultural clash and radicalisation in northern Chile.
Amilcar Infante & Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez / Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez / Amilcar Films & Someday Productions / Chile