Juryerne har talt. Her er alle prisvinderne på CPH:DOX 2025!

Ud over festivalens hovedpris, DOX:AWARD, er der blevet uddelt priser i kategorierne F:ACT AWARD, NORDIC:DOX AWARD, NEW:VISION AWARD, NEXT WAVE AWARD, HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD og INTER:ACTIVE AWARD. Publikumsprisen – AUDIENCE AWARD – vil blive annonceret den 4. april, mens onlinefestivalen udfolder sig, og giver publikum uden for København mulighed for at stemme på deres favoritfilm.

Vinderne af de internationale konkurrencer på CPH:DOX 2025 er:

DOX:AWARD
Vinder: ‘ALWAYS’ af Deming Chen / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘Always’ kan ses mandag den 1. april i Cinemateket (køb billet her) og på PARA:DOX.

Special mention: ‘FLOPHOUSE AMERICA’ af Monica Strømdahl / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘Flophouse America’ kan ses søndag den 30. marts i Empire (køb billet her) og på PARA:DOX.

DOX:AWARD, sponsoreret af Politiken og Politiken-Fonden med en præmie på 10.000 euro, er festivalens hovedkonkurrence, der hædrer film med kunstnerisk kvalitet, kulturel relevans og et stærkt personligt udtryk.

Juryen bestod af Rikke Tambo Andersen, Max Kestner, Nicolas Rapold, Adele Tulli og Raul Niño Zambrano.

 

F:ACT AWARD
Vinder: ‘2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA’ af Mstyslav Chernov / 2025 / Europæisk premiere

‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ kan ses den 29. marts i Big Bio Nordhavn og den 2. april i Gloria (køb billetter her).

Special mention: ‘THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR’ af Geeta Gandbhir / 2025 / international premiere

‘The Perfect Neighbor’ kan ses den 31. marts i Empire og den 2. april i Gloria. Køb billetter her.

Støttet af International Media Support (IMS) og Dansk Journalistforbund med en præmie på €5.000 anerkender F:ACT AWARD-konkurrencen film, der blander dokumentarisme og undersøgende journalistik.

Juryen bestod af Alexis Bloom, Mikala Krogh og Steffi Niederzoll.

 

HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD
Vinder: ‘9-MONTH CONTRACT’ af Ketevan Vashagashvili / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘9-MONTH CONTRACT’ kan ses lørdag den 29. marts i Park Bio, 30. marts på Kunsthal Charlottenborg og 1. april i Empire (køb billetter her) og på PARA:DOX.

Special mention: ‘THE ENCAMPMENTS’ af Michael T. Workman & Kei Pritsker / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

THE ENCAMPMENTS kan ses søndag den 30/03 i Grand Teatret. Køb billetter her.

Human:Rights Award uddeles for andet år i træk og er sponsoreret af Institut for Menneskerettigheder med en pris på 5.000 euro og fokuserer på film, der beskæftiger sig med menneskerettighedsspørgsmål.

Juryen bestod af Mohamed Saïd Ouma, Tomáš Poštulka og Birgitte Stærmose.

 

NORDIC:DOX AWARD
Vinder: ‘WALLS – AKINNI INUK’ af Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg & Sofie Rørdam / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

WALLS – AKINNI INUK kan ses 29. marts i Cinemateket (køb billetter her) og på PARA:DOX.

Special Mention: ‘Verdens sødeste mænd’ af Josefine Exner & Sebastian Gerdes / DK / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘Verdens sødeste mænd’ kan ses mange gange under og efter festivalen (køb billetter her) og på PARA:DOX.

NORDIC:DOX AWARD (5.000 euro) hædrer fremragende dokumentarfilm fra Norden.

Juryen bestod af Butheina Kazim, Dario Oliveira og Roja Pakari.

 

NEXT:WAVE AWARD
Vinder: »ABODE OF DAWN« af Kristina Shtubert / 2024 / International premiere

ABODE OF DAWN kan ses den 30. marts i Cinemateket (køb billetter her) og på PARA:DOX.

Special mention: ‘WHO WITNESSED THE TEMPLES FALL’ af Lucía Selva / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

WHO WITNESSED THE TEMPLES FALL kan ses den 29. marts i Dagmar (køb billetter her) og på PARA:DOX.

NEXT:WAVE AWARD (5.000 euro) fremhæver nye og fremadstormende filmskabere.

Juryen bestod af Sissel Morell Dargis, Sona Karapoghosyan og María Palacios Cruz.

 

NEW:VISION AWARD
Vinder: ‘RAMALLAH, PALESTINE, DECEMBER 2018’ af Juliette Le Monnyer / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘RAMALLAH, PALESTINE, DECEMBER 2018’ kan ses på PARA:DOX.

Special mention: ‘SCRAP’ af Noémie Lobry / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

‘SCRAP’ kan ses på PARA:DOX.

NEW:VISION AWARD (5.000 euro) hylder kunstfilm og grænsesøgende eksperimenter.

Juryen bestod af Mason Leaver-Yap, Jeppe Lange og Marina Kožul.

 

INTER:ACTIVE
Vinder: CONSTANTINOPOLIAD af Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly / Installation / 2025 / International premiere

Speciel mention: THE GARDEN SAYS… af Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot, Sara Topsøe Jensen, Sarah John & Marieke Breyne / XR Perfomance-Installation / 2025 / Verdenspremiere

Begge værker kan opleves i INTER:ACTIVE-udstillingen på Kunsthal Charlottenborg indtil 30. marts.

Prisvinderen modtager en vinderpakke med to gratis brancheakkrediteringer til Sunny Side of the Doc, to akkrediteringer med fuld adgang til Industry Days of New Images Festival, seks timers juridisk rådgivning om europæisk IP-lovgivning og en pengepræmie på €1000.

Juryen bestod af Irene Campolmi, David Adler og Carl Emil Carlsen.

Jury-udtalelser – på engelsk

 

DOX:AWARD

Winner: ‘ALWAYS’
‘There’s a huge difference between nothing and small things. But life is in fact made up of many, often unnoticed, small things. We need the sensibilities of artists to show us the greatness of the little things.

This exquisitely shot chronicle of a rural farming family is alive with compassion and poetry.
The DOX AWARD goes to ALWAYS, directed by Deming Chen.’

Special mention: ‘FLOPHOUSE AMERICA’
‘Home is where the heart is, in love and in pain. A 12-year-old, his mother and his father live in close quarters that involve constant back and forth, fighting, making up, and fussing over one another (and the cat).

For its vision of living as a work-in-progress, squeezed by circumstances, the special mention goes to FLOPHOUSE AMERICA, directed by Monica Strømdahl.’

F:ACT AWARD

Winner: ‘2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA’
‘Ultimately we give the F: ACT award to ”2000 Meters to Andriivka” not just because it’s a conflict on our doorstep, but because it’s a masterpiece in filmmaking: a haunting, multi layered portrayal of war comparable to All Quiet on the Western Front. But this is not the First World War, it’s today. The meaningless of war, and also its unsettling poetry are all on full display here. An artist in amongst bloodshed brings the reality home, and make an anti war film that forces us to reflect on the diginity of each human life lost.’

Special Mention: ‘THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR’
‘Our special mention is extremely powerful on a physical level. The choice to stay on the bodycam footage was brave, and it paid off. This shows enormous filmmaking skill. This is a devastating film about gun violence, but it’s also a film about families, about every day life, and the connections between us. The triangle between the perpetrator, the police and the neighbors is woven together with great sensitivity. In its own way, The Perfect Neighbor is a restrained film, and that’s what proves so shattering.’

HUMAN:RIGHTS AWARD

Winner: ‘9-MONTH CONTRACT’
‘The winner in the Human Rights Competition is a film that portrays the relationship between a mother and her daughter with a radical intimacy and an outstanding tenderness.

Through its visual poetry the film balances delicately between the harshness of their situation and the humanity of Zhana and her intense love for her daughter.

The Human Rights Award goes to 9 MONTH CONTRACT directed by Ketevan Vashagashvili.’

Special Mention: ‘THE ENCAMPMENTS’
‘The Special Mention goes to a hopeful and inspiring film that immerses you in the activism of students in times of conflict and oppression.

While it was surprising for us that this was the only film in the Human Rights Competition that addresses the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, we are extremely happy to give the Special Mention to THE ENCAMPMENTS directed by Michael T. Workman & Kei Pritsker.’

NEXT:WAVE AWARD

Winner: ‘ABODE OF DAWN’
‘Set in a northern forest, the film follows a community which emerged as a replacement for a lost past which perhaps never existed.

For its immense respect and long-term commitment, nuanced approach to existential questions and ability to embrace an environment with so many contradictions, The Next:Wave award goes to Adobe of Dawn.’

Special Mention: ‘WHO WITNESSED THE TEMPLES FALL’
‘We also want to award a special mention to a film imbued with magic and mystery whose visual language and soundscapes impressed us. A film that blurs past and present to address issues around urbanisation, gentrification and the social landscape and troubled history of Spain.

The film with the most beautiful name and title design, we award a special mention to Who Witnessed the Temples Fall.’

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Winner: ‘WALLS – AKINNI INUK’
‘Out of the periphery, armed with radical dignity in the face of a prolonged and harsh injustice, we bore witness to a pure flow of vulnerability, front and center, refusing to be cast aside.

In the heartbroken cadence of its native tongue, we found an alignment of elements, an intuitive and steadfast tale of a feminine force of nature.

Fresh like a gust of the Nordic wind, the healing powers of the film left us breathing hope and gentle triumph.

A reminder of putting cameras in the rightful hands, demonstrating the difference between observational documentary and representational storytelling.

For sending us off all the wiser, we present the award for Best Nordic Documentary to WALLS (Akinni Inuk) by Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg & Sofie Rørdam from Greenland.’

Special Mention: ‘THE NICEST MEN ON EARTH’
‘Because some of the hardest questions can sometimes be answered with the simplest of ideas and a whole lotta style, an honorable mention goes to THE NICEST MEN ON EARTH by Josefine Exner & Sebastian Gerdes’

NEW:VISION

Winner: ‘RAMALLAH, PALESTINE, DECEMBER 2018’
‘Penetrating a sunny pastoral landscape in single-take, Juliette Le Monnyer’s video takes us through an unfolding yet unspecified moment of conflict. The shakey camera pans as if scaling a ziggurat from afar. Dated from 2018, this is a document of a just-past that refuses to give a comprehensive overview and yet, in its partial nature, reveals much about the moment we find ourselves in — the timing of this film’s release: March 2025.

Wavering hesitantly between the everyday and the unknowable, this is a short film delivered with uncompromising conceptual rigor. It demands questions about what we – as viewers, as filmmakers – are witnessing. What we choose to focus on and when – what do we overlook, what do we withold, when do we stop watching.’

Special mention: ‘SCRAP’
‘Through an inventive use of associations the film weaves together childhood memories, eerie scenes from computer games, and glimpses of a post-apocalyptic future.

Salvaging and cannibalising components of the coming of age drama and the road movie genre, we’ve been taken to look upon it with a different eye.’

INTER:ACTIVE AWARD

Winner: ‘CONSTANTINOPOLIAD’
‘In a world of hyper-immersive technologies, where interactivity often demands movement, headsets, or VR goggles, Costantinopoliad invites us to do something far more radical: to sit still and listen.

Costantinopoliad is not just a work of storytelling; it is an invitation to discovery. It intertwines narrative with action, making us feel as though we are the first to stumble upon this archive, the first to unearth Cavafy’s story, to breathe life into his words. The work radiates a rare curiosity and playfulness, slipping between the boundaries of literature, performance, and archaeology.

Yet, just as we settle into this deeply personal experience, an uncanny sensation creeps in. As we turn the pages, touch the stones, and immerse ourselves in the poet’s world, we become the protagonist, performers in an unfolding documentary. Our movements, our gestures, become part of a cinematic language, synchronized with the voice-over that narrates a past we are now embodying.

It is with great pleasure that we announce Costantinopoliad by Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly as the recipient of this year’s INTER:ACTIVE exhibition award. This work is not just an artwork—it is an experience, a portal, a living archive.’

Special Mention: ‘THE GARDEN SAYS …’
‘We are delighted to extend an Honorable Mention to The Garden Says… by Uri and Michelle Kranot, Sara Topsøe Jensen, Sarah John & Marieke Breynefor their beautiful, thought-provoking, and deeply reflective installation.
Centered on the aesthetic experience of a virtual garden and the serendipity of chance encounters, this work dares to create a space where interactions unfold organically—and it does so with remarkable success. The Garden Says… is not just an environment but an invitation—one that encourages return, exploration, and the continuous possibility of new meetings.

Thank you for offering us a heartfelt and personal experience, one that reminds us of the power of connection and shared presence.’