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March 19 – 30, 2025

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CPH:FORUM

CPH:FORUM is our long-standing financing and co-production event dedicated to visually strong creative documentary projects with international potential.

The next edition of CPH:FORUM (including CPH:ROUGHCUT and CHANGE) takes place in 24-27 March 2025, during the Industry week of CPH:DOX 2025 (19-30 March).

At CPH:FORUM, top producers and highly acknowledged directors from all over the world take the stage to pitch 32 carefully selected projects of documentary features and series in the intersection of non-fiction, fiction, visual art, journalism and science. Besides project presentations, CPH:FORUM offers pitch preparation and highly tailored one-to-one meetings between the presenting teams, potential co-production partners and interested financiers and distributors.

Previously pitched projects include: Mistress Dispeller by Elizabeth Lo; Hollywoodgate by Ibrahim Nash’at; Architecton by Victor Kossakovsky; Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych; Queendom by Agniia Galdanova; Twice Colonized by Lin Alluna; Nocturnes by Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan; Confessions of a Good Samaritan by Penny Lane; Rising up at Night by Nelson Makengo; All Light, Everywhere by Theo Anthony; Epicentro by Hubert Sauper; The Hottest August by Brett Story; De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor; Innocence by Guy Davidi; President by Camilla Nielsson; Strong Island by Yance Ford – and many more!

Check out last year’s selected projects here!

Projects

Here you can see the line-up of all projects selected for CPH:FORUM including CHANGE and CPH:WIP 2024.

CPH:ROUGHTCUT

As a brand new part of CPH:FORUM we are presenting a selection of projects at a rough cut stage looking for distributors (including theatrical), sales agents, buyers, high profile festival premieres and other forms of exhibition.

CHANGE

CHANGE is our development co-production training program in collaboration with IMS and EAVE, featuring documentary projects in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

FINANCIERS & INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES

Find our list of CPH:FORUM Financiers & Industry Representatives.

CPH:FORUM Rules & Regulations

Read more about the Rules & Regulations to apply to CPH:FORUM.