DOX:AWARD

International main competition. 13 films are nominated for the main prize in the festival’s international competition – our pick of the best and most important new films this year. All the films are premieres with directorial visits from around the world. Tickets go on sale 21 February.

DOX:Award is sponsored by Danish Radio

A Storm Foretold

Christoffer Guldbrandsen's long-awaited film about Donald Trump's former adviser Roger Stone is a chilling report from the rotten core of power, ahead of the riot on Capitol Hill.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen / Denmark / 2023 / 90 min / World Premiere

A surreal journey into singer José González's inner world of thoughts and shadows. Staged with dark humour in the picturesque Swedish countryside around his home with Ruben Östlund's regular creative partners behind the camera.

Mikel Cee Karlsson / Sweden / 2023 / 78 min / World Premiere

After Work

A thought-provoking film that looks at the phenomenon of work in the 21st century with the razor sharp X-ray vision and equally sharp humour. From Kuwait to Korea, from the US to Europe, and from nine to five - with Swedish mastermind Erik Gandini behind the camera.

Erik Gandini / Sweden, Italy, Norway / 2023 / 81 min / World Premiere

Eat Bitter

An eye-opening drama about a Chinese immigrant and a Central African sand fisherman in their pursuit of wealth and happiness during a civil war.

Ningyi Sun, Pascale Appora-Gnekindy / Central African Republic, China / 2023 / 93 min / World Premiere

Light Needs

Generous and imaginative film about the inner life of houseplants, which takes other life forms seriously with creative and artistic originality. A film that expands our consciousness and opens up new paths of thought and action.

Jesse McLean / United States / 2023 / 72 min / World Premiere

Motherland

Dark and monumental film from Belarus, where corruption and a brutal military culture push young people to choose sides. A film in two tracks, from rave parties in heavy industrial wastelands to the neo-nationalism of post-Soviet society.

Alexander Mihalkovich, Hanna Badziaka / Sweden, Ukraine, Norway / 2023 / 92 min / World Premiere

On the Edge

A young doctor with an exemplary humanist spirit fights a brave battle to hold together the run-down Paris hospital where he works – and to hold his patients together in the process.

Nicolas Peduzzi / France / 2023 / 93 min / World Premiere

Songs of Earth

The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for the cinematic nature experience of the year. A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker's parents as its human yardstick, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock.

Margreth Olin / Norway / 2023 / 90 min / World Premiere