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“Cone Unit”
A brief experimental journey through the night on the outskirts of Copenhagen in the company of a group of young, carefree dreamers full of loss and compassion.
2000 Meters to Andriivka
An Oscar-winning Ukrainian director's unflinching film from the frontline, where a small group of soldiers fight their way two kilometers through a harsh landscape to liberate a village in ruins.
4.48 Dysphoria
A video work created in response to a play by Sarah Kane, and gender perceptions and queerness past and present.
50 Meters
Deeply charming Egyptian debut from an outswimming pool in Cario where an adult daughter's relationship with her good-natured father is universally recognizable about life's big questions.
7 Summers
A documentation of an artistic experiment set within a state-of-the-art climate simulation facility at the scientific campus of Risø, located in the picturesque surroundings of Roskilde fjord.
80 Angry Journalists
When Hungary’s largest newsroom collapses under political pressure, one journalist keeps filming, capturing the inside story of a collective stand for press freedom in an increasingly authoritarian state.
9-Month Contract
Nine months of pregnancy for 14,000 dollars? A long friendship between director and protagonist evolves into a film about surrogate motherhood and dignity in an unregulated industry in Tbilisi.
A Century in Sound
A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst the chaotic streets of Tokyo.
A Child of My Own
A young Mexican woman fakes her own pregnancy, but soon becomes a hostage to her own stories. An incredible story, told in an equally unusual way by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi.
A Colombian Family
A mother and daughter confront the past after years of civil war, but end in the difficult dilemma between reconciliation and political ideals.
A Colombian Family
A mother and daughter confront the past after years of civil war, but end in the difficult dilemma between reconciliation and political ideals.
A Dangerous Boy
Reality beats fiction in the story of Icelandic teenage hacker Siggi who became Julian Assange's sidekick in a story of paranoia, intelligence services, abuse, friendship and betrayal. A coming of age film unlike any other.
À demain sur la Lune
An ordinary woman finds hope and an unexpected friend in her last months on Earth. A sensual film about life and death, where gratitude gets the last word.
A Disturbance in the Force
A wildly entertaining deep dive into the Star Wars film everone tried to forget, but which refused to die and has grown to become the ultimate cult favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special.
A Family
Controversial and confrontational film debut from French author Christine Angot who confronts past abuse and the family that covered it up. A merciless film with a belligerent willpower.
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe with her mobile phone.
A Life Illuminated
On an expedition in the deep sea with marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder, who is on a mission to document the luminescent life forms that live in the dark - a sight no one has ever seen on film before.
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
A Russian journalist and her young, Western-minded daughter travel across Putin's Russia to confront themselves and each other with their political differences.
A New Kind of Wilderness
A family who have created an idyllic self-sufficient life for their four children are forced to rethink their choices and try to (re)integrate into modern society when tragedy strikes unexpectedly. Radical life choices meet dilemmas in a moving and wise film.
A Place in The Sun
A visual tour of the pastel-coloured holiday destination of Gran Canaria, a haven for millions of tourists - and for people fleeing more than just rain and cold. The paradoxes of tourism meet the harsh realities of those who live in paradise all year round.
A Poem for Little People
The unlikely but close friendship of two elderly women brings to life a cinematic poem about courage and resistance during wartime, while a young man and his team of volunteers struggle to get people away from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.
A Sisters’ Tale
An Iranian housewife dreams of becoming a singer, but her husband and the regime say no. But it takes more than that to stop her in a genuine festival hit, filmed over seven years by her own sister.
A Song Without Home
After 11 years locked up in her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in the hope of finding the freedom to be herself. But even in exile, the chains of the past prove difficult to break free from.
A stranger in the world
A filmmaker and his son with autism. A composer and his musical work inspired by the slow processes of dripstone caves. Two parallel love stories.
A Sweetness from Nowhere
A performative and visually explosive film, where lived experiences take shape in a constant state of becoming.
A Very Good Boy
An aging French gay porn icon recounts a life story worthy of a novel. A beautiful and existential film that also tells the forgotten story of the gay rights movement with erotic power and style.
A World Gone Mad – The War Diaries of Astrid Lindgren
The Swedish author's early years during World War II, told through her own diaries in a beautiful and thoughtful film about life, death and art in the shadow of war.
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Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]
The battle for the earthly remains of Indigenous peoples is both bureaucratic and spiritual in a highly topical film by two members of the New Red Order artist collective.
ABBA: Against the Odds
World premiere of the ultimate film about the ultimate pop band. On the 50th anniversary of their iconic urovision victory, this is the untold story of ABBA in the golden years between 1976 and 1980.
Abiding Nowhere
A barefoot monk slowly wanders through the streets of Washington DC in Tsai Ming-liang's new and meditative work, which uses few and simple means to send one’s mind wandering (and wondering) along.
Abode of Dawn
10 years in a Christian cult in the Siberian wilderness, where a growing following has realized the vision of a self-proclaimed prophet. A sensational debut.
About a Hero
A hallucinatory crime mystery where an AI version of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog must solve a suspicious death - all based on a script written by an AI.
Adam’s Apple
A mother has followed her transgender teenager through a camera lens for two decades. A touching, intimate, and eye-opening account of parents, children, and butterflies spreading their wings.
Aerial
A ritualistic and dizzying audio-visual poem, following singer Lei Lowe on an eruptous pilgrimage through ancient Sicilian landscapes where she communes with the Earth in search of emancipation.
Afternoons of Solitude
A controversial masterpiece from Catalan auteur Albert Serra that analyses the masculine death cult known as bullfighting with few words and seemingly simple means.
Afterwar
Four survivors confront us with their own words in a cinematic post-war report from Kosovo. A performative feature film created over 15 years in a twilight borderland between raw realism and inner battlefields.
Agatha’s Almanac
Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm preserving heirloom seeds. A film from a vanishing world, immersing us in a handmade universe.
Agent of Happiness
How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10? Two government officials are sent out to measure the happiness of the people of Bhutan, but how are they doing themselves? A bittersweet, existential crowd favourite from the Himalayas.
Aggregate
If an artificial intelligence were to learn to desire, what path would it take to bridge the space between intimacies? Aggregate is a collective process requiring a large number of players to take turns and experience reinforcement learning (punishment/reward) as they progress through the uncharted territory of machine learning and queer desire.
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot
Ai Weiwei makes his debut as an opera director with an interpretation of Puccini's 'Turandot' in Rome's Opera House. The classic and controversial opera has a lot to say about our own time.
All About the Money
The curse of old money and the shadows of the past haunt a young and ultra-rich anti-capitalist from one of America's wealthiest families in one of the most incredible stories of the year.
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
A wave of poisoned crabs, like a biblical plague has washed ashore on the coast of North East England, where fishermen, coastal communities and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.
All These Summers
What kind of presence is made possible by the cinematic encounter? With the camera as an intermediary, an artist punches a hole in the wall that separates her responsibilities as a filmmaker from her role as a daughter.
Almost Forever
From the carefree summers of childhood to the turbulent teenage years. Five formative years in a young group of friends in Stockholm, where their bond is put to the test as they navigate their way into adulthood.
Alreadymade
Is that supposed to be art? Marcel Duchamp's urinal became the most influential artwork of the 20th century, but the story of the iconic piece unravels itself in an intelligent and witty film that dares to ask: Did a woman actually come up with the idea?
Always
A Chinese boy discovers the power of poetry in a picturesque and magical film from a mountain village. A striking debut of great beauty.
Amadou & Mariam – The Blind Couple From Mali
The unlikely love story of two blind Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam, who have toured all over the world. Now they are returning home to Mali to play a big concert and record one last album.
Amazomania
A hazardous expedition in the Amazon becomes a moral minefield in a thought-provoking film about the white man's gaze, as the project turns the camera on itself and the colonial legacy.
American Doctor
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Amílcar
A dazzlingly beautiful portrait of one of anti-colonialism's most iconic and enigmatic figures. A guerrilla leader, poet, and agronomist who was diplomatic, utopian, and ruthless in the struggle for freedom.
Amongst the Birds
Understated Icelandic humour and breathtaking landscapes in a charming and picturesque film about birds and people – and about a deeply lovable elderly couple and their friends.
An Eye For an Eye
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband fights for her life in a nerve-racking courtroom thriller about life, death and the very real price of forgiveness.
Anamnesis
In this simulation, you are a medical student tasked with obtaining anamnesis from an AI-simulated entity by posing investigative questions. Your empathy towards the suffering chatbot will be assessed.
And So It Begins
Democracy is crumbling in the Philippines, where presidential candidate Leni Robredo is running for power in a toxic and brutal battle against one of the most extreme figures of the populist right, by celebrating freedom and solidarity.
Animality
Ai Weiwei examines our relationship with animals, from China and Egypt to the Danish mink farms. At times violent, always thought-provoking - and above all, a mirror image of ourselves.
Another World
The mind behind the underground film hit 'The Great Glitch' is back with a new, unbridled series that takes us on a galloping journey through the great rabbit hole of the internet.
Antarctica Calling
The sequel to the international mega-hit 'The March of the Penguins' returns to Antarctica on an epic adventure with director Luc Jacquet as a familiar guide in the alien landscapes.
Antidote
Whistleblower and Bellingcat journalist Christo Grozev and his deadly fight against the Russian government. Premiering in a new version.
Antipsychotic
Embark on an immersive XR installation that blends psychotropic cyberpunk aesthetics with high fidelity sound and poetry to explore personal experiences with bipolar disorder.
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Five years after her Academy-Award nominated ‘The Edge of Democracy’, Petra Costa dives into Brazil’s political inferno, brilliantly exposing the apocalyptical clash between religion and democracy.
Apollo Thirteen: Survival
The greatest and most iconic space rocket drama in history is told in a thrilling and human way through crisp, crunchy archive footage and unique audio clips from the shuttle, the control centre and the astronauts' families.
Appearances
An atmospheric and dreamy picture poem from Argentina's vast La Pampa region, where ancient stories of spirits are evoked in dark and evocative images between reality and the beyond.
Archive of the Future
The Natural History Museum in Vienna is a vast, labyrinthine archive of meticulously archived records, rare animals and curious stories. A picturesque and wryly humorous film from a veritable Noah's Ark headed for an uncertain future.
Arctic Link
A remote corner of Alaska is finally connected to the internet, but what does that mean for the islanders? An epic debut film about the technological imaginaries of a changing world.
As the Tide Comes In
The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.
Atlas of Disappearance
On the trail of the earthly remains of the victims of Franco's regime in a film that combines modern technology and paper archives in a historical investigation based on the director's own research through Forensic Architecture.
Available Light
A beautiful, fragmented film about home as a concept and physical place, with Tokyo and London as examples in opposite corners of the world.
Azza
An existential road movie from Saudi Arabia where a brave woman is determined to create a life on her own terms. A close friendship with a filmmaker opens the door to new horizons.
Balane 3
A snapshot of life as a young African right now in a lively and chatty film from a town on the coast of Mozambique.
Balomania
With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.
Banu Cennetoğlu
Exhibition with the Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from March 19 - August 10.
Barrio Triste
Banger of the year! A breathless and trippy hybrid film sensation, shot on a VHS tape in Medellín by four young punks. Produced by Harmony Korine and featuring a new score by Arca.
bauhaus forever.
A cinematic essay on perception and the afterlife of ideas - told through a place in transition. A film of magnificent intellectual scope and uncompromising formal integrity.
Becoming Ema
A young woman defies her parents' wishes and the pressure of society, and moves to the forest to start a family close to nature. But the road to becoming herself is long and difficult.
Becoming Madonna
Pop lovers unite! The story of ‘the material girl's stratospheric leap to fame is told in riveting fashion through unseen and unheard archive clips and interviews.
Being Ola
Heartwarming and life-affirming Norwegian coming-of-age story about the intellectually disabled man Ola, his deeply felt friendship with Danish Lasse and the need for all people to belong.
Belleville Beats
It's summer in Paris, and at a youth club in Belleville the young people have an idea: they want to organize a music festival in a park. A fast-paced film where the positive energy comes from within.
Below the Clouds
In the shadow of Vesuvius, Italian maestro Gianfranco Rosi follows the everyday lives of the Neapolitans. The final film in the award-winning Italy trilogy, told in sublime black-and-white images.
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Czech festival hit about two ageing twins with revolutionary blood in their veins who have created a world for themselves on a farm outside of society. But now their bond is starting to unravel.
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
One of the most heartwarming love stories of the year is about the close friendship between a melancholic Scottish man - and an otter. An irresistible film that goes straight to the heart.
Birita
In the Faroe Islands, a family of theatre people are working on staging ‘King Lear’ with the mother in the lead role – a beloved actress who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Birthdays
A short hybrid film about Bruno who doesn't get invited to birthday parties with either the boys or the girls in his class.
Black Box Diaries
A Japanese journalist becomes both detective and protagonist in her own story of overcoming a sexual assault and confronting both the boss of Japan's leading TV networks and a deeply conservative system. Dramatic, moving and determined to change a toxic culture.
Black Snow
A Siberian mother-of-three finds herself under the aggressive scrutiny of the Russian authorities when she steps up as a citizen journalist and uncovers a huge coal scandal. A revealing journalistic thriller with deep personal consequences.
Black Water
In southern Bangladesh, Lokhi and her family prepare to escape an extreme climate and flee to Dhaka - the fastest growing city in the world. A film about a future that is already a reality.
Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story
The Irish author turned taboos and traditions upside down in the 1960s. In her own words, we get the wild story as told from the inside and with zero filters.
Blueberry Dreams
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
Bluish
Beautiful and atmospheric feature film about two young women in an unnamed city, which with delicate poetic and psychological presence maps out life after social isolation.
Bogancloch
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a poetic portrait of hermit Jake Williams and his life in the Scottish Highlands. An ingenious film shot in beautiful black and white.
Børne:Dox – Corona i børnehøjde
A Norwegian and a Danish story about life in isolation during the corona pandemic - seen from the children's perspective.
Børne:Dox – Et nyt liv
In two heartwarming short films, we follow first a family's love through the chaos of war and then a brave girl's journey in Aleppo, exploring hope and love in the midst of darkness.
Børne:Dox: De største spørgsmål med de mindste
Meet the talented Ömer Sami as we screen three of his touching films, all of which depict the world through the eyes of children with a unique intensity.
BØRNE:DOX: Lupus instituttet og de vilde ulve
Nature nerd Bjørli Lehrman and guests guide us through a fantastic film about wolves and their return to Europe.
Børne:Dox: Verdensnyheder i børnehøjde
Mads Køngerskov has travelled all over the world for DR Nyheder with his camera, telling visual stories and with his special eye for children, he has collected his best stories that give insight into children's lives across the globe.
Bottle Conditioned
Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.
Bottlemen
7,000 years ago, the area was one of the largest civilisations in prehistoric Europe. Today, it is the largest landfill on the continent. An unexpected festival hit about the men who fight a daily battle against the fury of the elements.
Bouchra
An animated autofiction from Morocco, in which a queer filmmaker calls home from NYC to her mother in Casablanca to talk things out. Truly original, and truly cool.
Boy Cried Wolf
Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority and obedience.
Boy George & Culture Club
The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.
Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
Bright Future
A deeply fascinating time travel to North Korea, where young socialists from all over the planet gathered in 1989, a few months before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
Broken English
The legendary Marianne Faithfull's extraordinary life, told by herself and accompanied by George MacKay, Tilda Swinton, and Nick Cave in a deeply original film by the duo behind ‘20,000 Days on Earth’.
Bulakna
Two Filipino women are heading in different directions in life, but face the same choices in a film that subtly connects postcolonial realities and storytelling.
Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede
'Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede' is a surreal, abstract memoir of Joe Bini's life as a film editor and storyteller, presented as a live cinema experience for one audience member at a time.
Burning Out
Dad humour is declared a thing of the past at a fire station in Amsterdam, where diversity must be promoted and employees must learn to interact with each other anew. A witty and human film about finding yourself in a time of cultural upheaval where fires still need to be put out.
Burning Voice
Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.
Bushman
A Nigerian man embarks on an adventure in 1960s San Francisco in this rediscovered sensation, which blends documentary and fiction, and manages to collapse and reinvent itself along the way. The greatest rediscovery of the last year, screened in a newly restored version.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
Cambodian Beer Dreams
What happens to people, ethics, and morals when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed in a poor and corrupt country with few restrictions? One man takes up the fight against a corrupt system.
Can’t Feel Nothing
An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.
Carlos
The life of guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana from his childhood in Mexico to international stardom, according to the 76-year-old legend himself.
Casa
A group of 20-year-olds from tough backgrounds pursue their fashion dreams at Casa 93, a unique institute offering a last chance for some and a new beginning for others, capturing their transformative journey through an extraordinary year.
Caught by the Tides
Hailed as one of the best films of the year since its premiere at Cannes. Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke is back with a poetic masterpiece shot over 20 years as a woman searches for her missing husband.
Celestis Obscura
Linking the historic gold rush to the commercial space race, Falkenstrøm’s work investigates how power dynamics and ownership may follow humanity beyond Earth and into the solar system.
Celtic Utopia
What does Irish folk music sound like in 2026? There are as many answers to that question as there are singers in the countless pubs where the genre is still kept alive throughout Ireland today.
Christiania
Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.
Cinema Kawakeb
A visit to a worn-out backyard cinema in Jordan, where the two employees and their only regular customer become the protagonists in a witty and politically poignant course in filmmaking.
Cinema Laika
Cool Finnish countryside charm meets French elegance when Finland's greatest film director Aki Kaurismäki decides to build the ultimate cinema from the past in an abandoned mining town.
Cirkeline & the invisible artist
An honest, loving and insightful portrait of Cirkeline's mother: Hanne Hastrup, the artist behind one of Denmark's most beloved animated characters, who never received the recognition she deserves.
City Child
An enigmatic and elliptical narrative slowly takes shape in 'City Child', whose architectural form mirrors the geometric structure of a high-rise building rising against a dark sky above Berlin.
City of Light
The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.
Climate in Therapy
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution?
Coded Black
'Coded Black' is a social justice game exploring the insidious and haunting histories of systemic racism in the US and UK, revealing stories of racial injustice and Black resilience.
Coexistence, My Ass!
With humor as her weapon of choice, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi has provoked strong reactions with her mission for freedom and justice. A goal that suddenly needs to be defended like never before.
Collapse
Shortly after 7 October 2023, an Israeli filmmaker returns to her destroyed kibbutz and documents life along the fence to Gaza. An essayistic testimony about war and loss.
Collective Monologue
A sensory film from a variety of zoos in Argentina, where the life and world of animals is closely connected to their human caretakers.
Colors Under The Sky
Aya, a young artist from Gaza, lost her father and brother and was displaced with her mother to a tent in Rafah. Amid the destruction and war, she insists on composing and recording her new song.
Compact Disc
After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.
Conscious
Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist.
Constantinopoliad
Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the work is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.
Construction Site
Star architect Renzo Piano's project to renovate a cinema in the heart of Paris becomes a fascinating study in reconciling artistic vision and practical realities.
Copa 71
A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.
Copan
Social-realist sci-fi from an apartment block with five thousand inhabitants in the centre of São Paulo. A Brazilian microcosm about money, power and a fragile democracy.
Core Memory + You Are Closer To God When You Do Not Indulge + My Next Door Neighbours + Finale
Four artistic Danish short films screened together.
Cosmic Balance
Hour-long musical trance sessions lead a young man from a small Indonesian village to his first concert outside the city limits at a music festival in Denmark. A cosmic film about music, spirituality and heritage.
Creatures of the Mind
A hypnotic study of dreams, sleep and the mysteries of the subconscious. Science meets myth in a Brazilian film where indigenous knowledge sheds new light on the deep mysteries of the mind.
Dance First
Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh's biopic on the life and works of the literary genius. The man behind the myth is portrayed with humour and irony.
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
A Lebanese film crew is hit by a deluge of obstacles while shooting the feature film 'Costa Brava, Lebanon'. But team spirit and a solid sense of humour win out in the end in a wonderful film about sticking together against all odds.
Dark Rooms
'Dark Rooms' invites intimate exploration across virtual spaces where real stories of sexual awakening ask us to confront taboos, and move beyond shame and prejudice into the realm of unspoken desire and personal liberation.
Daughter of Genghis
A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.
Daughters of the Forest
Science fiction meets ancient practices deep in Mexico's mushroom-rich forests, where two female mycologists from the country's indigenous peoples seek to unite past and present across life forms.
Dear Tomorrow
In Japan, two people have more in common than they think in a film about loneliness in the modern world, and about finding the courage to reconnect with life.
Death of a Saint
A Danish director travels to Uganda to find out what happened the Christmas Eve her mother lost her life. A personal and life-affirming film about family, motherhood and confronting the past.
Death Without Mercy
An Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker uncovers the political and human aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey two years ago.
Deep Sky
Experience the furthest reaches of our galaxy in IMAX where the incredible images from the James Webb Telescope are framed in ideal conditions on the big screen.
Democracy Noir
Three brave women are fighting to expose the corruption and incremental destruction of democracy in Viktor Orbán's Hungary - a white nationalist regime that is the envy of authoritarian movements around the world.
Desire Lines
An enigmatic and restless queer fable about a sleepless man who follows his brother on a cruise through the dark nights of Belgrade.
Devo
Meet the cult band of them all in the rockumentary of the year about a band that fused a political vision with being bizarre, nerdy and rock star cool. From the director of ‘American Movie’ and the hit series about the Fyre Festival.
Disco’s Revenge
From resistance to dancefloor, and from Studio 54 to 'Saturday Night Fever': Disco is an ever-evolving movement.
Do You Love Me
Lebanese festival hit that paints a fragmented portrait of a country, a city, and a people. A cinematic love letter to Lebanon - and a virtuoso act of creative filmmaking.
Double Trouble
What do you get when you leave two aging Polish widows and inseparable soul mates in each other's loving company in a village in Romania? Double trouble!
Dracula
No one messes with national myths with the same recklessness as the Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. This time, he pulls Dracula out of his coffin in a pitch-black comedy from Transylvania.
Dream of Another Summer
A dreamlike exploration of Beirut as a state of mind, where every shadowy image is a moving photograph and the intimacy is like lines in a diary.
Dreaming Arizona
One of Danish documentary's most original voices is back in the US with a new hybrid film in which five American teenagers from a small town in Arizona are invited to participate in a performative performance of their own stories and dreams.
Dreaming of Serenada
Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father’s rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.
Dry Leaf
A modern fairy tale in which the real world is enchanted with the fabulous, cinematic inventiveness of Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze.
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.
Echo of You
A poetic and touchingly honest film about lifelong love and what remains when it disappears. The echoes of love resound in the poignant, humorous and life-affirming stories of those left behind.
Efterklang: The Makedonium Band
A charming tour of Macedonian folk music and a fascinating insight into the creative process of the Danish band Efterklang.
Elementary
French first-rate director Claire Simon portrays the small dramas and triumphs of a progressive Parisian primary school with empathetic gentleness. Touching, funny and thoughtful.
Elendig Software
A unique taste of a playful and brand new series about the Danish pop rock success Zar Paulo.
Ellis Park
Charismatic composer Warren Ellis invites us into his personal universe where he runs a shelter for endangered animals in Sumatra when he is inventing new sounds with his violin and synthesizer.
Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment
Elon Musk wants to lead the race to develop self-driving cars, but it comes at a price. A docu-thriller about Tesla's fatal safety breach and the mindset behind it.
Elsewhere in India
‘Elsewhere in India’ is an audiovisual electronica performance about a future world where global cultures are nearing extinction. We follow a motley crew in the year 2079 as they face the dystopian cultural consequences of unbridled technological growth.
Enough is Enough
Amidst the chaos of war in Congo, a young filmmaker documents his generation's struggle for dignity, using his camera as a weapon.
Entropy + Sunspot + The Cloud People
Three short and fascinating films about science and celestial bodies.
Eros
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
Errabonda
An experimental and beautiful 16mm film about an organic Italian farm, where soil, weeds, and microbes leave their mark on both the fields and the film itself.
Eternal You
Can modern technology realise the dream of eternal life? Yes, say the sci-fi optimists in Silicon Valley, who are determined to make death obsolete through artificial intelligence in a film that soberly and thoughtfully raises the biggest questions - and provides possible answers.
Eureka
Argentinian wizard Lisandro Alonso is back with his first feature film in 10 years, and it's been worth the wait. Three stories woven together by a cosmic, post-colonial dream logic.
Europe Endless
The life of a Bulgarian truck driver in Denmark and on the lonely European highways is depicted with brutal realism and precision.
Everest Dark
A visually stunning film from Mount Everest, but from an overlooked angle - the local one. A Nepalese mountaineer embarks on a dangerous mission to appease the mountain gods who demand respect for nature.
Every Little Thing
Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.
Everybody to Kenmure Street
On a street in Glasgow, hundreds of residents flock to prevent the deportation of two of their neighbors. Award-winning Sundance hit about civil disobedience and radical neighborliness.
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.
Facing War
Jens Stoltenberg's last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.
Facing War 2025
Jens Stoltenberg's last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.
Fahrenheit
In a strange musical autopsy of post-war Iraq, a waiter's daily routine is relentlessly monitored. Her movements take center stage to Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Fallen Noon
A fragmented love, a fallen system, a drifting city: in the quiet unrest of Hanoi’s youth, memory flickers; tired, persistent, and endlessly returning.
Familiar Phantoms + And Still, It Remains
Two films nominated for CPH:DOX's Art Film Award.
Fantastic Family
A young director returns to a family trauma buried deep in the soil of her father’s garden. But what do you do when no one in the family agrees on what actually happened? A courageous film with creative energy and the will to bring the past to light.
Fantasy
Sexuality, the body, and dark desires are the driving forces in a truly original French hybrid film about a young woman who loses a notebook containing all her inner secrets.
Fear Fokol
A dark journey into the world of private security, where the illusion of protection is hard currency in a fragile climate of inequality, fear and masculinity in crisis.
Fighter
Hard-hitting and hopeful tragedy about a Norwegian MMA fighter whose life is tied to his ability to move. But when a tragic accident sets him back, he must reinvent himself from the bottom up.
Fighting Demons
A young man struggles to break free from the demons of his past that still haunt him years after the sexual abuse he survived as a child.
Finding Connection
What do you want in a relationship? And what exactly is a relationship? When people fall in love with robots, an avalanche of existential questions is set off.
Finite Horizon
Finite Horizon is an amalgamated skyline of Asian futures imagined by white filmmakers. Sourced from 20th and 21st century sci-fi, these movies depict a vice-ridden, dangerous world.
Fire of Love
A unique, poetic and visually stunning adventure film about a French scientist couple, cut entirely with their own footage from Earth travels in search of erupting volcanoes in the 1970s and 80s.
Fire of Wind
A mythological and enchantingly beautiful story from the hot, southern Portuguese vineyards, where harvesting farmers hang out high in the oak trees to avoid a ravenous bull.
Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Four stories from the Nordic region paint a picture of a changing natural world, where the elements rage and where being prepared proves to be much more than sandbags and fire extinguishers.
Fission
A warm film about a hot topic. Is nuclear power the future, or...? The locals of two small European towns throw themselves into the discussion in a film with humor and heart, even though the stakes are high.
Fiume o Morte!
The wittiest history lesson of the year is the story of the flamboyant Italian poet and fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio, who conquered a Croatian town and declared war on his own country.
Flophouse America
A 12-year-old boy defies his parents' alcohol abuse and finds glimmers of hope in an unexpected tragedy, in a heartbreaking film from the desperate flip side of America.
Flying Scents
Scientific research and artistic practices exchange and inspire new ideas in a visually graceful film about the complex connections between plants, insects and humans in a volatile world.
Food Inc. 2
Turbo chickens, plant-based steaks and a pandemic. A lot has happened since the first 'Food Inc.' film, and it's time for a fresh in-depth look at the food industry and at possible solutions.
Forever We Are Young
K-pop's biggest group BTS and their global army of loyal superfans finally get the film they deserve. An epic and captivating journey around the world in the biggest fan culture of the 21st century.
Frida
Frida Kahlo's illustrated diary is brought to life by poetic animations in a passionate and dramatic account of the iconic Mexican artist's life, told in her own words.
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza
In the heart of Gaza, Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi brings together local filmmakers to document their own lives and stories.
From Here Where We Stand – 80 years with Niels Skousen
The popular Danish songwriter is lovingly portrayed by his wife and film director Linda Wendel in a film that spans six decades in the service of music.
From this Day Forth
A highly cinematic hybrid reflection on the fragility of life in which a director explores the boundaries of the documentary form with an actor.
Fuck the Polis
The beauty and joy of living and traveling are at the heart of an award-winning, enigmatic work by a renowned Portuguese filmmaker. A cinematic travel diary full of poetry, art, and Greek myths.
Fukushima
The Fukushima disaster, recounted hour by hour by the people who stayed behind to prevent a meltdown. An ultra-intense and gripping epic from the director of ‘Antidote’.
Fungi: Web of Life
With Björk as narrator and in IMAX 3D, we are taken on a fascinating journey of discovery into the world of fungi, which may hold new solutions to our biggest problems.
Fungi: Web of Life
With Björk as narrator and in IMAX 3D, we are taken on a fascinating journey of discovery into the world of fungi, which may hold new solutions to our biggest problems.
G – 21 scenes from Gottsunda
The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at home portraying one of Sweden's most dangerous areas, which he is now moving out of. A poetic and existential film about life, death and brotherhood.
Garden of Ghost Flowers – The Embodiment Archive
An ongoing exploration of resonance as a model for intra-action between tech, humans, and the more-than-human. Visitors are invited to witness the creation of virtual ghost flowers which depend on human voices for growth.
Gasoline Rainbow
Five teenagers embark on an all-American road trip to the Pacific Ocean in a dreamy and sprawling hybrid film from the Ross brothers. A feature film shot as a documentary headed for the end of the gasoline rainbow.
Gaucho Gaucho
The duo behind the 'The Truffle Hunters' are back with a timeless and visually stunning tribute to the cowboys and cowgirls who keep old traditions alive. An Argentinian western with understated humour and an eye for the epic drama in the detail.
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me
A woman is separated from her newborn twins during the war in Gaza. A filmmaker follows her for 16 long months as war and chaos rage and her children take their first steps far away.
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In a public hospital in Milan, the progressive Dr. Maurizio Bini gives advice to childless couples and transgender people. But his stubborn fight for his patients' rights faces political opposition.
Ghost Elephants
German film legend Werner Herzog is back. This time, he has joined an expedition into the jungles of Angola to search for a mysterious herd of giant ghost elephants.
Girlfriend Experience
Girlfriend Experience is an interactive video installation that explores emotional distress in our hyper-connected society.
Girls & Gods
Can feminism and religion coexist? Inna Shevchenko of the Ukrainian FEMEN collective seeks answers to a difficult question in candid conversations with priests, imams, rabbis and other activists.
GLITCHBODIES
GLITCHBODIES:is an experimental game project that explores body transformations, LGBTQ+Draq and intimate sensitive representations of the 59 protagonists and aims to bring them to a wider audience. It is a play of transformation, a catwalk of vogeuism, exhibitionism & voyeurism.
God is a Woman
The Search for a lost film from the 70s takes a young man from one of South America's largest indigenous communities on an existential journey in a post-colonial film about the right to one's own image.
God, Please Send a Whale
A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?
Googoosh – Made of Fire
Hope never fades in the resistance story about Iran's greatest pop icon: The incomparable singer and activist Googoosh, who makes an unexpected comeback after 20 years under house arrest.
Grand Me
A 9-year-old Iranian girl plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce in a lively and bittersweet film directed by her aunt. A lively contribution to the great Iranian tradition of films about the world of children.
Grand Theft Hamlet
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: They want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Grand Tour
Melancholic and imaginative expedition across the Asian continent in the name of love. A new cinematic milestone from the freely imaginative Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes.
Green Grey Black Brown
Philosophical science fiction that exposes the dark underbelly of the plastics and tech industry, where a dark slime with remnants of the Jurassic era resurfaces in today's shopping malls.
Hacking Hate
Undercover in the far-right online communities in the Nordics with a fearless female journalist. A riveting story with more than a few twists along the way, at a moment when there is both power and money in spreading hate.
Hair, Paper, Water…
With great patience, an elderly Vietnamese woman tries to pass on her wisdom to her grandchildren. A tactile film shot with an old Bolex camera about the power of language and cultural heritage.
Hard to Break
Two young Finns are fuelled by their (self-)destructive love for each other as their parallel lives on social media become further and further removed from reality.
Hassan
A 17-year-old Palestinian is trapped by need amid Gaza’s starvation war. His dangerous attempt to fetch a sack of flour ends with a lone fifteen-month journey from north to south Gaza.
Hell’s Army
A dissident Russian journalist chases the world’s most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe as she races to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.
here and not here
A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.
Hex
Three young Norwegian women form a coven and start the black metal band Witch Club Satan. Before they know it, they are playing at major international festivals, but the battle has only just begun.
Holding Liat
The winner of last year's Berlinale award for best documentary is a complex portrait of how a Jewish family's tragedy on October 7 turns into a pawn in a geopolitical game.
Hollywoodgate
A filmmaker makes a pact with the devil and risks his life to tag along when the Taliban take over an abandoned US military base in Afghanistan. An unforgettable and chilling insight into a radically alien mentality.
Holy Destructors
A deeply original and inventive film about microfungi, the passage of time, and human vanity, which turns the microscope both on these mysterious life forms and on ourselves.
Holy Electricity
Fiction and social realism merge in an imaginative film from Georgia, where a young man and his uncle come up with a bright idea: they are going to get rich selling neon crosses.
Homecoming
The museum world is at a turning point. Artefacts from indigenous peoples and other cultures are being encouraged to be returned to their place of origin. A Sami filmmaker traces the heritage of her own people in a personal film.
Homesick
A Danish-Korean director explores her life as an adopted child and discovers a family history full of shadows, stretching from the west coast of Denmark to the mountains of South Korea.
Housewife of the Year
It was a different time! The female contestants on an Irish TV show with an iconic gentleman host look back on a beige-coloured chapter in TV history. More than entertaining kitsch, and with some delightfully quick-witted ladies in the winning role.
How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth. Here, biologists struggle to study the enigmatic wildlife that looks like something from another planet. But time is running out as deepsea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.
How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth. Here, biologists struggle to study the enigmatic wildlife that looks like something from another planet. But time is running out as deepsea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.
How to Build a Library
In Kenya's bustling capital Nairobi, two young women start a project to transform a colonial library into a vibrant cultural center for a new generation of young Africans.
Huk, The Jaguaress
An ancient jaguaress deity from the Amazon, reborn through artificial intelligence, calls on humanity to confront their role in her rainforest's destruction and the future of our shared world.
Human Race
Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Led by star scientist Eske Willerslev, a team of researchers are sequencing DNA from before the Ice Age for the first time in history. A project that could revolutionise our understanding of the history of life itself.
Hydrogen – Revolution or Illusion?
Can innovative pioneers in green hydrogen technology solve the energy challenges of the future, or is the hydrogen hype closer to wishful thinking? A film about energy, technology and science.
I am everything
An artificial intelligence develops self-awareness and reflects on humanity's moral codes and social structures.
I Am Night at Noonday
Don Quixote is resurrected in Marseille and sets out to fight fences, gates, private property rights and general segregation with his faithful squire, an ex-criminal pizza delivery man on a scooter.
I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore
Young love and intertwined lives in Taipei in a romantic and charming debut film with a colossal creative energy that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality - just like when you are in love.
I see it, so you don’t have to
Combining machine learning and Jacquard weaving, the artistic wall-hanging delves intomental health of low paid micro-workers laboring in the data and content moderationsector of the AI industry.
I Shall Not Hate
A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.
I Want Her Dead
In a Calabrian village, peace is threatened by a long-standing family feud between two sisters-in-law. A tragicomic portrait of a tiny town where the art of the melodrama is alive and well.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.
Ibelin
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
If I Die Today
Seven years in the life of a troubled young man. From his time in prison for attempted murder, to his time as a hopeful parolee, to his fatal decision.
If Luck Will Come
Through beautiful images and with a camera at eye level with its young protagonists, we gain a rare insight into what it means to grow up in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power.
Illiyeen
A lone rider from the imaginary state of Illiyeen crosses an empty landscape and their reflections unfold in a poetic meditation on identity and belonging.
ILOVERUSS
Two artistic souls meet on the outskirts of Hollywood and a 20-year friendship is born. Illusions and realities are challenged while a raw and intimate film emerges.
Immortals
A feminist who sneaks out of the house dressed as a man and a filmmaker who uses his camera as a weapon. Milo and Khalili are two young Iraqis who risk their lives for freedom and the future in an unusual and cinematic film about life in Baghdad.
In Defense of Self
The tragic killing of a Norwegian man in urgent need of psychiatric help is recounted in a film that uses his own tape recordings as a guide to ask what happened and how it could have been avoided.
In Full Agreement
The ideological war between Russia and the West takes on a highly dramatic form in Finland, where three Russian women are locked in a bitter dispute over Putin's regime and their own heritage.
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon
The legendary singer has finally received the major portrait film he deserves. Oscar winner Alex Gibney unravels Paul Simon's life's work, from his time with Art Garfunkel to solo highlight 'Graceland' to his latest album.
In the Current Of Being
A haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.
In the Rearview
From a simple and minimalistic setup, an entire universe of human stories emerges as a Polish director shuttles to the Ukrainian border to rescue fleeing families from the country.
In-I In Motion
Juliette Binoche visits CPH:DOX with her debut film as director: An intimate film about the demanding creative process of developing a dance performance with herself on stage.
Inside: The Childhood of an Artist
An evocative multisensory biography capturing the moment artist Judith Scott’s life changed forever.
Intangible
Intangible investigates the oddly satisfying sensation of touching simulated natural phenomena while calling attention to the controversial idea of reconnecting with nature through computational means.
Intelligence Rising
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
Into My Name
Four young Italian friends' individual gender transitions, told with an overwhelming, natural sensibility. An honest and poetic film with Elliot Page in the producer's chair.
Into the Rabbit Hole
Jess Coldrey explores her uncertain and pain-ridden relationship to the world during her battle with endometriosis by creating a soft, surreal, yet alien world through contemporary quilts and surreal digital imagery.
Invisible Nation
With unrestricted access to Taiwan's current president, we follow the tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the country's first female head of state, during a time of great political tension between East and West. A competent and charismatic defender of democracy.
Invisible People
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Four decades of the long, painful conflict between Palestine and Israel, presented with sober clarity and exemplary overview by the director of 'Black Power Mixtape 1967-75'.
Israelism
Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Although Jeff Buckley only released one album before his tragic death, the man and his music are brought back to life for a while in a new and breathtaking film.
It’s Not Me
Leos Carax's new film is cinematic dynamite - a uniquely creative collage of clips from his life's work and a loving tribute to both Jean-Luc Godard and David Bowie.
Jaripeo
Behind the hypermasculine rituals of a Mexican rodeo show a hidden queer desire pulsates. A festival hit about performative masculinity and the longings of the subconscious.
Jason’s Box
What happens when an experienced climate scientist becomes an activist? In Greenland, scientist Jason Box and his local colleagues are launching a radical project to raise global awareness.
Jenny – A story on Lydmor
An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.
Jirapo
A beautiful Colombian film that draws parallels between native bee species, the country's colonial past, and a female biologist's family history.
Joan of Arc
As the seasons change, three young siblings build a knight figure as a target in a field on the edge of the world. A minimalist and very funny film by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
Just Look Up
Michael Greenberg is a defiant young visionary and climate activist in the US. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, lightning intelligence, and the charisma of a young Bob Dylan, he is rallying a generation in the fight for a livable future.
K-Number
A Korean adoptee seeks answers about her biological origins, but ends up unravelling the shadowy side of international adoption. An existential detective film with red threads to Denmark.
Kabul Between Prayers
A young Taliban fighter turns out to be a complex individual, but inherited ideologies weigh heavily in a lavishly cinematic film by an Afghan CPH:DOX winner.
Kenny Dalglish
A captivating portrait of legendary Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish, told by the man himself, and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Amy’ and ‘Maradona’.
Kikuyu Land
A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.
Killing Anna
A shocking video from Syria leads to an unusual detective story when a Syrian woman makes up a fake name to catch war criminals - on Facebook. A psychological thriller with a brave woman as a virtual Sherlock Holmes.
King Hamlet
Filmmaker Elvira Linds returns with a deeply personal portrait of her husband, actor Oscar Isaac, who is facing the most difficult role of his life.
KitKatClub – Kinks of Berlin
Step inside Berlin's legendary sex club, KitKatClub in a gorgeous black-and-white film. An intimate and generous tale of freedom, lust, boundaries, and sex in all its varieties.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
The world-renowned author, who survived a brutal assassination attempt, confronts his past in a deeply personal account of the struggle for freedom of expression by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Kontinental ’25
A pitch-black comedy from Transylvania where a woman's guilty conscience sends her on a tour of an ex-socialist universe of religion, nationalism and questionable morals.
La Base
Social-realist sci-fi from the taxi centre around a Paris airport that looks more like a run-down space base where an incredible cast of characters cross each other's paths.
La belle année
As a teenager, she was in love with her teacher. Now, a French-Swedish filmmaker returns to her youthful obsession in a beautiful diary film about desire, vampires and self-discovery.
Landmarks
The murder of a defenseless leader of an indigenous people draws parallels to decades of land theft and centuries of colonialism in Lucrecia Martel's documentary debut.
Last Movies
Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.
Latina, Latina
Elegant and philosophical journey through Italy where a young geologist, guided by her father's diaries, studies the architectural heritage of fascism. A thoughtful film between reality and fiction.
Laughing Day
A quirky hybrid film that employs understated humour and spontaneous encounters to explore the healing power of conversation and its ability to break down both internal and external boundaries.
Legacy
The incredible, hardboppin’ story of when Scandinavia became the creative haven for black American jazz stars - told by their children who, for better or worse, still live with their fathers' life choices.
Let Our Mountains Live
The Norwegian government prioritizes green energy and economic gain over the Sami people's rights to land in a tense courtroom drama about power, land, trust, and cultural heritage.
Letters from Wolf Street
How long are you a stranger in a new country? An Indian filmmaker seeks an answer in Warsaw, in an unexpected audience favorite about nationalism and xenophobia.
Lie To Me
They promised a digital revolution of the financial market. It all turned out to be one of the biggest scams in history, but 10 years and countless scandals later, OneCoin is still in action. A docu-thriller about psychology and manipulation in a crypto-age.
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Like Any Other Mortal
On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero
The story of the icon behind the monster hit 'Old Town Road' and his exhilerating journey as he defies musical boundaries and redefines what it means to be a superstar in the 21st century.
Limits of Europe
A Czech journalist goes undercover in the European market for cheap labour. But documenting the outrageous conditions and social inequality on her own body while her family waits for her to return home comes at a personal cost.
Little Girl Blue
Marion Cotillard gives a hypnotic performance in a phenomenal docu-hybrid that charts one woman's dramatic life in the cultural bohemian milieu of Paris in the 60s and 70s. A reconstruction of a dark family history and an artist's attempt to understand her mother's tragedy.
Little Sinner
20 years of deeply personal recordings compiled into a raw and unfiltered journey from Damascus to Denmark, depicting a Syrian woman's relentless struggle against violence, betrayal, and her own past.
Little Syria
An intimate look into the lives of a group of Syrian refugees in Berlin as they fight for justice for the victims of the Assad regime. When the regime suddenly topples, new questions arise.
Local Sensations
An elegant and thought-provoking film shot in graceful black-and-white images that move from room to room in an exploration of location, architecture, and monuments.
Look Into My Eyes
Try your hand at the world of spirits in a true audience favourite from this year's Sundance Festival, where seven New York psychics can put their clients in touch with the supernatural beyond - or maybe just in touch with their own emotions.
Look On the Bright Side + Dieseline Dreams + Trash The Musical
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Lost for Words
The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone
A captivating IMAX film from Yellowstone National Park in the USA, where a group of biologists led by a charismatic woman set out to bring back the wolves - a project that changed their own lives forever.
Love, Z
Generation Z takes the floor in this year's definitive generation portrait. Twelve young people share their thoughts and feelings about love in our time.
Low-Tech
The solution to the climate crisis is already here if you ask the growing low tech movement, who insist that with simple means and great ingenuity, it is possible to live a modern life without destroying the planet.
Lowland Kids
The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.
Lynetteholm on Trial
The climate movement and two lawyers are challenging the Danish state in a high-profile court case to stop a new artificial peninsula in Copenhagen Harbor.
Magic Mud
Star geologist Minik Rosing loves mud. Especially Greenlandic mud, also known as glacial rock flour - but can he prove that this magical mud can really save both the climate and solve global inequality?
Marching in the Dark
The widows come together to break the vicious cycle of debt and climate related chaos in Indian agriculture that has pushed their desperate husbands to kill themselves - and leave them with the debt. A powerful and compelling film about solidarity between sisters.
Mare’s Nest
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a trippy and magical hybrid film based on a play by Don DeLillo about a girl's journey from the Stone Age to the future through a mysterious world without adults.
MARIINKA
Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and derails their fates. An epic and visionary masterpiece filmed over 10 years.
Matabeleland
In the shadow of a forgotten massacre, an immigrant haunted by his father’s unburied spirit sets out to break a family curse, confronting both past horrors and his own troubled legacy.
Materia Prima
The Bolivian Andes are rich in both lithium and drama in a film about a new gold rush, where global interests collide and 500 years of colonial history continue to haunt the present.
Matter of Britain
An enchanting film about an entire British village reenacting the myth of the Holy Grail over the course of a year. A striking debut film with enormous imaginative power.
Mediha
A teenage girl from northern Iraq is fighting to bring her former Islamic State hostage taker to justice for the terrorist movement's biggest crime to date.
Memory of Princess Mumbi
In a futuristic Africa, a filmmaker falls in love with his protagonist and loses control of his film. A playful and deeply original sci-fi mockumentary unlike anything you've ever seen before.
Memory Wars
Can we trust our own memories? An American psychologist with expertise in the brain's ability to make up its own truths takes us into her fascinating field of research.
Men of War
Reality surpasses fiction in a real-life action movie about a former US soldier's failed coup d'état in Venezuela - told in incredible detail by the man himself.
Menopause Mystery
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
Menus plaisirs – Les Troisgros
World-class cooking at a Michelin-starred restaurant in the French countryside, depicted in all its rich detail by legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Lively, humorous and human - and with an eye for the tinist details.
Merckx – Race of a Champion
Eddy Merckx is the greatest cyclist of all time. The Belgian legend has won everything there is to win. An elegant portrait of an invincible champion through thick and thin.
METAMETA – The World Without Us
A journey through Lars H.U.G.'s creative mind and musical universe with the man himself as tour guide, and with brand new songs on the soundtrack.
Mika Ex Machina
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
Milli Vanilli
From a meteoric career to tabloid tragedy. Get the untold details of the lip-synch scandal of them all in thr stranger-than-fiction account of the pop duo behind the mega-hit 'Girl You Know It's True'.
Mina and The Radio Bandits
There's more than cops and robber stories at stake in this heartbreaking and dramatic film about Norwegian Mina with the kind heart who starts a radio station for (and with) prison inmates. Can she find the line between life and work when an unexpected tragedy strikes?
Minted
How can a digital artwork that anyone can download for free be sold for 69 million dollars? Get the answer - and lots of new questions to ponder - in a critical and entertaining film about culture and capital in the 21st century.
Mistress Dispeller
One of the biggest surprises of the year is a love triangle drama from China where a heartbroken woman hires another woman to sabotage her husband's affair. A love story unlike any other.
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
Molly vs the Machines
The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.
Moria Six
Six young refugees are convicted of the Moria camp fire in Lesbos after a questionable trial. A look at a justice system where justice itself is only one interest among many.
Mother Creature
A daughter attempts to pull the monster of her childhood out from under the bed in an original, deeply personal and creative film about her mother's mental illness.
Motherboard
Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.
Mountain of Gold
With dollar signs in their eyes, gold miners venture into a barren desert landscape, driven by dreams of wealth and a different life. An intense documentary thriller about the gold rush in Niger.
Movement
A celebration of the dancefloor and of underground clubs as places of freedom and diversity, defying the pressures of norms and systems.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A special screening of the now Oscar winning Danish documentary! A brave and resilient primary school teacher secretly exposes Putin's aggressive militarisation of Russia's schools in a sensation of a film.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A brave and resilient primary school teacher secretly exposes Putin's aggressive militarisation of Russia's schools in one of the great documentary sensations of the year.
Museum
A French school class from the provinces goes on a trip to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in a film that explores what art and culture mean – and to whom.
Music
Angela Shanelec's enigmatic and elliptical reinterpretation of the myth of King Oedipus is one of the greatest works of the past year. A deeply original highlight in the artistic career of one of the most singular names in European cinema.
My Dear Théo
In a series of letters to her young son, a mother, soldier and filmmaker documents her thoughts from the Ukrainian frontline. A deeply moving and existential film of unimaginable courage.
My Father and Qaddafi
A Libyan diplomat disappears under mysterious circumstances after breaking with Gaddafi. Decades later, his daughter seeks the truth about her father's disappearance and a brutal regime.
My First Film
A 20-something filmmaker embarks on making her first film with a group of friends. A meta-indie deconstruction of cinema itself, based on director Zia Anger's own experiences and on her live performance of the same name.
My Sweet Land
Vrej is a tender 11-year-old boy living in Artsakh, a small mountain paradise with porous borders. But when war breaks out again, will he be able to carry the hopes of his wounded homeland on his young shoulders?
My Tent Is Not a Shelter
Stitched from the artist's own clothes, a fragile tent becomes a haunting memorial for Gaza, and a powerful symbol for people who are still living in tents over the rubble of their destroyed homes.
NATURAL CONTACTS
NATURAL CONTACTS is a piece of malware designed to arrest control over its host machine for 24 hours, transforming it into a dynamic virtual garden.
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Calling all fans of ‘A Complete Unknown’! Join us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Newport Folk Festival in the years 1963–66, culminating in Bob Dylan's landmark electric performance.
Nick Cave’s Veiled World
Friends, colleagues, and spiritual companions paint an intimate portrait of Nick Cave - an artist in transformation, shaped by grief, curiosity, and the search for meaning after the loss of his son.
Night of Nights
A nocturnal and semi-surrealistic science fiction portrait of life in two Asian megacities after 2020, shot at night with an hypnotic intensity and with the lens pointing to the future.
Night of the Coyotes
To avoid becoming a ghost town, a Mexican village invents a role-playing game that offers tourists the chance to experience an authentic illegal migration across the US border, complete with gangsters and border police.
No Place at Home
'No Place at Home' follows a mother and her trans teen deciding to leave the US after gender-affirming care restrictions, allowing us to feel the pain of leaving their world behind.
Nobody’s Angel
The five women in the Danish band Miss B. Haven rocked the 1980s at a time when men still had a monopoly on rock, but where a new movement was taking shape.
Nova ’78
A cinematic time capsule from William S. Burroughs' legendary Nova Convention in New York, where icons such as Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, and Laurie Anderson met in an explosive artistic clash.
Nurses come and go, but none for me
His father's diaries from his final months in hospital, minimalistically staged by artist Ed Atkins and by Steven Zultanski as a performative film in two acts.
Oasis
A panoramic snapshot of Chile in a turbulent period where a new youth movement has joined the fight for the country's future. A razor-sharp take on a time of upheaval with a clear vision of the nature of political conflict.
Observer
Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking part in a playful, philosophical experiment.
Of Caravan and the Dogs
Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
The true story of the mad, brilliant rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, who was swallowed by the industry and left the world too soon.
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Friendship, love and rock n' roll! The lives of the pioneering rock bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, authentically and honestly portrayed on video through a lifetime by the two childhood friends at the front of the stage.
On the Border
The desert city of Agadez in Niger is a hub of trade routes, migration, EU politics and the nomadic culture of the Tuaregs. A cinematic report from a human tower of babel, where dilemmas line up.
Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests. Is it still civil disobedience when you know you have both history and the future on your side?
One in a Million
Ten years in the life of an extraordinary young girl, from her escape from Syria to Germany with her family, where she grows up and becomes a young woman. A captivating film about exile, hope and dreams.
One to One: John & Yoko
A lively and compelling account of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's first year in New York. A year of political and cultural turmoil culminating in Lennon’s only solo concert.
Only on Earth
A visually stunning film from Galicia where humans and animals struggle with apocalyptic forest fires during the hottest and driest summer on record.
Open Call
A witty satire on public art and culture, as the citizens of Oslo are invited to celebrate the city’s 400th anniversary. Things don’t quite go according to plan.
Open My Mind
Experimental, psychedelic therapy is put to the test in a film that is equal parts scientific and deeply personal, with the protagonist himself serving as the guinea pig.
Ottu + My Want of You Partakes of Me
Two films nominated for the festival's art film award.
Our Body
Monumental and unfiltered story about women and their bodies, told empathetically and insightfully through the eyes of patients, doctors and nurses in a Parisian public hospital.
Our Father Wears a Sun
A brother and sister's loving, poetic and personal film poem to their late father, Danish actor Søren Spanning.
Our Flag
The story of Greenland's national flag is a story of cultural identity, pride, and unity. In ‘Our Flag’, we meet the artist who created the iconic motif of a red sun rising over the sea.
Our Land
Does everyone have the right to roam freely in nature? Not in England, where eccentric landowners and nature lovers fight a creative battle over the land.
Out of School
In a remote village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a brother and sister are forced out of education before their childhood is over.
Pacífico
Pacífico is the name of a region, but also that of a force. A land where music accompanies life, where one can be reborn.
Palestinian Unwanted
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Palm Oil in the Land of Orangutans
Copenhagen Zoo is partnering with a palm oil plantation in Borneo to shift production in a sustainable direction.
Paul
A lonely man with low self-esteem has found the solution to his problems in BDSM and cleaning bathrooms on social media. An unexpected recipe for an unusual feel-good hit, wrapped in latex.
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
The absolute frontwoman of the 2-Tone movement is a British style icon with a strong political stance and the voice to get it out into the world.
Pavements
Slacker heroes Pavement are back in a creative and kaleidoscopic meta-musical with as many layers as there are grooves in a record - directed with love by Alex Ross Perry.
Penkelemes
Onyeka Igwe’s new film work is a post-colonial analysis that unfolds the complex history of a university in Nigeria, built under imperial rule.
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
10 years in the turbulent life of the British rock n' roll poet as a singer in The Libertines and Babyshambles, and as a regular in the tabloids. The struggle to quit the drugs is the untold chapter in the story of Pete Doherty - until now.
Petrolheads
Two very special friends on a road trip through Denmark in search of a used Honda Civic that might make life just a little bit more normal. A warm film that goes straight to the heart.
Phantoms
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.
Phenomena
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker’s immersive practical experiments that transcend into a deeply hypnotic audio-visual experience (re)connecting us to the natural world.
Polish Prayers
A young, ultra-conservative man on the black-clad Catholic right suddenly discovers the colours of the rainbow and starts sawing at the ideological branch he was so securely perched on.
Portrait of a Confused Father
An unusual father/son story takes an unexpected and tragic turn in a film shot over 20 years, that turns into a (self-)portrait of a Norwegian filmmaker in the biggest crisis of his life.
Power
A sharp and thought-provoking essay on power, race and class. Yance Ford's analysis of the dark history of policing in the US is a highly topical and ever relevant deep dive into one of society's institutions.
Powwow People
From dawn to dusk, filmmaker Sky Hopinka depicts a powwow where Native Americans gather to celebrate their community and shared history.
Predators
Vigilante justice, journalism and ethical gray zones were challenged in a controversial TV show that lured male pedophiles into the public spotlight. But did the show cast its own long shadows?
Preemptive Listening
Sound and film art on innovative wavelengths in a work that explores the function and iconic value of the siren in a time of overlapping natural and man-made disasters. A participatory piece with contributions from 20 different sound artists.
Primitive Diversity
German avant-garde artist Alexander Kluge has created a visual essay about (and with) AI, based on the cultural history and possible future of images.
Qajaq Man
A British chef paddles 3,000 kilometers along Greenland's west coast, surviving on nature's bounty and discovering the power of community in a country surrounded by geopolitical tensions.
Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
A retired playwright is losing his memories and seeks companionship on a transformative journey to reconstruct and preserve fragments of his cherished remembrances.
Rave
Techno and rave culture had its own breakthrough in the former Sovjet bloc-countries in the early 90s, when the world suddenly opened up and a whole new scene emerged from the Cold War.
Real
A kaleidoscopic but insightful trip into contemporary visual culture, where the Internet and social media have created a parallel reality where wishful thinking and reality merge.
Realm of Satan
Talking crows, red velour and black Lamborghinis. Get a rare glimpse into the life of a Satanist in a stylish and suitably mischievous film that challenges our expectations of the alternative philosophy.
Reas
A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.
Red Forest
A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the state has other plans. A cinematic, revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.
Redoubt
A man builds a bunker out of junk on a field in the Swedish countryside to be ready when the enemy comes. A modern myth based on reality, by former CPH:DOX winner John Skoog.
Rehab (From Rehab)
How can a building become part of the treatment in physical and mental rehabilitation? A film about architecture, bodies and universal design that could revolutionise the way we shape our shared spaces.
Rule of Stone
In-depth and thought-provoking analysis of Israeli architecture and the type of stone that has shaped modern Jerusalem and has been used to control the city.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.
Sanatorium
At a colossal ex-Soviet wellness center in Odesa, both patients and staff search for health, happiness and love while the war echoes through the lime green corridors.
Save Our Souls
A filmmaker boards a ship bound for the coast of Libya to document the crew's rescue mission: to bring migrants to safety from drowning. The operation succeeds, but an uncertain future lies ahead.
Scarlet Girls
A young filmmaker's graceful and courageous film from the Dominican Republic, where women speak openly about living in a country where abortion is banned - without exception.
Scars of a Putsch
A filmmaker unfolds the story behind the scars on her husband's body. The answer is the story of the 1980 military coup and Türkiye’s slide towards authoritarianism.
Seeds
Depicting the lives of black farmers in the American South, this Sundance winning debut film paints a vivid and rich picture of a world in historical transition.
Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
Eight directors from Turkey reflect on (auto)censorship and possible counter-strategies in a video work that looks at prison graffiti, desktop collages, surveillance cameras and the art of cruising.
Silenced
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.
Silent Flood
A festival hit that uses dazzling, hypnotic images to tell the story of a deeply religious and pacifist community whose way of life is threatened by the Russian invasion.
Silent Observers
A dark and deeply original film about superstition in a Bulgarian village where the bewitched farm animals are silent witnesses to a human tragicomedy. Documentary meets folk horror with a wry sense of humor.
Silent Trees
A 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl is stranded in an icy pine forest between Belarus and Europe with her family in a dirty political power play. She has only one choice: to grow up in an instant and save her family.
Single File + Silent Night + Efforts of Nature + No Exorcism Film
Four short works nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self
The Norwegian-American author recounts her life journey from her and her husband Paul Auster's beautiful home in New York. A beautiful and sincere film about choosing a life of literature and art.
Social Landscapes
A virtual trip around the world, with commentary exclusively from TripAdvisor. A deeply original film of true satirical wit that confronts us with a world where mass tourism has triumphed.
Sofina + Altid/Aldrig noget andet
The debut from the group 'A Good Year', consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust known from bands like Liss and Goss + A poetic collage film by Lydmor and Sebastian Cordes.
Some of You Fucked Eva
A mysterious and disturbing video work about a group of American high school cheerleaders who suddenly began fainting simultaneously in a collective psychosis.
Something Familiar
While trying to help a stranger find her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into the shadows of her own family history, uncovering a dark legacy that has loomed over its women.
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Olha Zhurba paints a panoramic picture of life in Ukraine during Russia's tragic war. An elegiac masterpiece from one of the country's most talented filmmakers.
Songs of Travel
An animated graphic novel exploring the unique stories of five migrants seeking new beginnings in Europe. Together, these stories paint a mosaic of themes such as our hopes, dreams, and identities; home; and the things we treasure most.
Spacewoman
Cosmic portrait of the first female astronaut to pilot a space shuttle mission. Eileen Collins broke the glass ceiling all the way into space, and is a riveting storyteller of her own incredible story.
Stephen
A young actor in rehab is cast as a gambler in a crime thriller based on a film from 1901. Realities are layered in a British visual artist's performative film about the risk - and freedom - of letting go of yourself and becoming someone else.
Sting Like a Bee
A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.
Stormbound
Visually stunning IMAX film about the world's most powerful tornadoes and hurricanes – depicted from the inside by a photographer who is himself living on borrowed time. A sublime experience with an unexpected love story at its dark heart.
Stray Bodies
Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.
Sudan, Remember Us
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. As it intertwines their stories, the film reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of youth against the military's might.
Summer Tour
Let your hair down and join an acid-fueled road trip through the summer with two young ‘Deadheads’ as they follow Grateful Dead on their final tour.
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
Space is the place! A colorful portrait of the visionary jazz composer who shaped both jazz and black Americans' self-image with his bold visions for music and humanity.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
One of the biggest audience favourites of the year is a genuinely gripping and truly epic film about the man who first became Superman and then became a real-life superhero after a tragic accident changed his life forever.
Swan Song
A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.
Take the Money and Run
The (art)work of a genius or simple theft? Artist Jens Haaning made headlines around the world when he pocketed a fortune in protest against the conditions of the art world - and exhibited his action as a work of art.
Takkuuk
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
Tales of a Nomadic City
This VR experience, co-created with Nouakchott youth, artists, poets, and scholars, weaves personal stories, archives, and immersive sound to portray the city’s complex history and ongoing urban transformation.
Tales of a Nomadic City
The exhibition is a palimpsest of material from the ongoing research-based project Tales of a Nomadic City by anthropologist and visual artist Christian Vium (March 14 - April 20).
Tamatta Ataqatigiippugut – We are all connected
Greenlandic Inuk Arina is witnessing that their ancestral Inuit beliefs are disappearing in her community, and it must be one of the reasons why climate is changing. We don’t respect Nature the way we used to, and consumerism and pollution have taken over.
Tarang
'Tarang' is a multimedia artwork by Kinnari Saraiya exploring colonial surveillance and indigenous dreamworlds. Using textiles, interactive tech, and dance, it reclaims dreams as a decolonial archive.
Tata
The roles are reversed in a brave and unusual film about a courageous filmmaker's willingness to confront her father with the violence and trauma of the past.
Teaches of Peaches
Fuck the pain away! 20 years after queer musician Peaches kicked off the new millennium, she's embarking on an anniversary tour - and she's armed with bare breasts, a razor-sharp entourage and a prophetic fuck you to the patriarchy.
Techplomacy
From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.
Teenage Life Interrupted
Never before have so many children and young people suffered from unexplained illnesses. Two doctors at the University Hospital in Tromsø specialize in treating the undiagnosable.
Tehachapi
The hardest core of inmates in a maximum security prison in California participate in a life-changing photography project with French art star and Oscar-nominated director JR.
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Thank You Very Much
Andy Kaufman was the favourite comedian of all the other comedians. The story of his life is an endlessly fascinating and entertaining trip through the mind of a brilliant, tragic and extreme human being with an unsurpassed sense of humour.
Thao Nguyen Phan: Reincarnations of Shadows
Exhibition by Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from 13 March to 11 August, presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX.
The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist
AI is changing the world as we know it. An Oscar-winning director asks all the questions that keep him awake at night in a compelling and urgent film with great creative energy.
The Alluvials
The Alluvials is a four-level video game set in a near-future version of Los Angeles. Players take on the agency of conventionally non-playable and nonhuman characters, including wild fire, the LA River, a Yucca Moth and Joshua Tree, and a pack of wolves.
The Arctic Circle of Lust
In Finland, a middle-aged couple of potato farmers must agree on the rules for living together, as the man's bisexuality puts the limits of their love to the test.
The Ballad of Judas Priest
Put on your studded belt and leather vest! 50 entertaining years of rock history with the iconic heavy metal legends that changed the sound and style of heavy metal forever.
The Ban
Censorship and resistance collide in a curious but disquieting case study from Northern Ireland in the 1980s, where the media found a way out by dubbing all interviews with the IRA and Sinn Féin.
The Battle for Laikipia
Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.
The Bibi Files
All the cards in the corruption case against Benjamin Netanyahu are laid out on the table in a film based on leaked footage and interviews from the Israeli Prime Minister's inner circle. A political docu-thriller of historical relevance.
The Bones
Dinosaur fossils are worth their weight in gold in a market where serious scientists and fortune hunters vie to be first to the next big find. An eye-opening adventure documentary about bones, cash and big egos - and an absolute must for dinosaur fans.
The Brink of Dreams
Winner of the Documentary Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A group of lively Egyptian girls start a theater troupe using the city streets as a stage to share their dreams and opinions.
The Buriti Flower
Enchantingly beautiful hybrid film from the Brazilian forests about the indigenous Krahô people and their fight for freedom while the outside world tries to steal and destroy their territory.
The Calf Doll
A beautiful fable from India, where the inhabitants of a small village play themselves in a simple and enigmatic tale about a retired professor and his cow.
The Caring Machine
In the artwork The Caring Machine, we are invited to imagine that we are lying on our deathbeds, our loving digital companion 'sitting' by our side, watching over us, and speaking to us in a soothing human voice.
The Castle
Three children transform an abandoned building in the middle of Palermo into a secret fantasy world. A charming Sicilian adventure with a bittersweet aftertaste.
The Color of Ice
Two scientists and a Greenlandic hunter each investigate and discover climate change in their own way on the white and blue ice sheets, but the goal and the hope are the same.
The Contestant
A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.
The Cord
Venezuela: In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from her past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.
The Cycle of Love
A young Indian man cycles 10,000 km from Delhi to Sweden to find the love of his life. An epic adventure film and an incredible but true story – and one of the biggest romantic hits of the year.
The Dating Game
Three Chinese men are looking for love on the dating market in China, where the one-child policy has shattered the gender balance but a celebrity love coach is on hand with advice. A tragicomic audience favourite with a heart.
The Daughters of Fire + Man in Black
Two expressive new films by Pedro Costa and Wang Bing – screened together.
The Dialogue Police
Freedom of speech, democracy and the right to demonstrate. In Sweden, a special unit struggles to ensure everyone's right to speak their mind - and they are armed only with words. A captivating film from the frontline of democracy and dilemmas.
The Diary of a Sky
Lawrence Abu Hamdan examines the invisible militarization and violence taking place in the skies above the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The Encampments
The occupation of Columbia University by pro-Palestinian students made waves around the world. A film about power and resistance in the 21st century.
The End of the Internet
From a squat in Berlin through a futuristic Taiwan to the Brazilian rainforest. Around the world, hacktivists are fighting a shadow war for an internet beyond the influence of tech giants.
The Eukrainian
Working in the corridors of power with Ukraine's young Minister for the EU and NATO in a film about ideals, diplomacy and international grand politics.
The Expedition to the End of the World
Tribute screening in memory of Michael Haslund. An epic and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white spaces on the world map.
The Father, The Sons and The Holy Spirit
Two brothers reunite after a multi-million inheritance dispute in a film about blood, bonds and breakups - and about how hard it is to escape your own family.
The Flats
A run-down Belfast housing estate becomes a haunted inner landscape in a dark, cinematic film where the echoes of the conflict in Northern Ireland still reverberate in the corridors. An aging man on his final, existential mission confronts the ghosts of the past.
The Forest that Breathes Us
A VR journey immersing participants in the sensory lives of a Douglas fir, a coyote, and a humpback whale, inviting reconciliation with the more-than-human world as active collaborators in life.
The Futora
Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.
The Garden Caretaker
An art project is reconnecting with nature and other species at an old asphalt factory that is being converted into a new urban district.
The Garden Caretaker
An art project is reconnecting with nature and other species at an old asphalt factory that is being converted into a new urban district.
The Garden Says…
This is the garden. In this experience there is no game, there is no story to follow… It is an investigation into meetings. Meetings between human and nature, between human and technology, and most importantly, meetings between human and human.
The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
Cynical spy for the asbestos industry or a whistleblower facing a miscarriage of justice? Judge for yourself in a film about deception and manipulation, where one twist leads to another.
The Golden Spurtle
Welcome to the Oatmeal World Cup - and if that sounds gray and boring, think again! A warm and genuinely funny Scottish film about finding the greatest meaning in the smallest things.
The Great Experiment
A cinematic time capsule depicting one of the most volatile eras of American history - a historical record, non-fiction experiment, and intimate observation of the state of American democracy.
The Ground Beneath Our Feet
A warm, human film from an elderly home in Reykjavík with a poetic eye for the small mysteries and miracles of everyday life - and a great love for life itself, as long as it lasts.
The Helsinki Effect
Hundreds of hours of archival footage from a historic Cold War summit is rolled out with ironic wit and a sharp political eye for the human drama on the grand, diplomatic stage.
The History of Concrete
The man behind the beloved HBO series ‘How To with John Wilson' makes his feature film debut with a hilarious and quirky exploration of a fundamental element of city life: concrete.
The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop
If you like to throw a dice and shuffle the cards, this is the winning film! Board games are more than just games n this affectionate, character-driven portrait of a surprisingly diverse culture.
The House
Hver lejlighed i en ni-etagers boligblok er sit eget menneskelige mikrokosmos i Carl Olssons korte, men episke stemningsrapport fra en myretue af cement.
The Human Surge 3
A cinematic trip across time and space, shot with a 360-degree camera in an inventive gesture unlike any other in contemporary cinema. Eduardo Willams breaks every conceivable rule of what the cinema experience can be.
The Kyiv Files
The secret KGB archives in Ukraine have been opened to the public for the first time, testifying to a surveillance culture of distrust that remains a weapon in Russian politics. Three people open their own files for the first time.
The Labour of Pain and Joy
A generous and eye-opening story that unfilteredly follows two Finnish birth attendants as they struggle to improve birthing practices and challenge old traditions.
The Last Ambassador
What do you do as an ambassador for Afghanistan when the Taliban take power and you are a feminist? You fight back - at least if you're Manizha Bakhtari.
The Last Misfits by The Golden River
A picturesque documentary western from the cold north, where the last gold miners search for happiness and riches in the Finnish wilderness.
The Last Republican
A conservative Republican standing up to Trump teams up with a left-leaning filmmaker in a film about risking everything to do the right thing - and about maintaining a sense of humor in a bitter ideological battle.
The Lions By The River Tigris
Cultural heritage is the invisible casualty of any war. ISIS left Mosul in ruins after liberation. Today, a fisherman, a musician and a collector struggle to preserve what remains of the city's soul.
The Lives of My Father
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
The Lost Golden Lotus
'The Lost Golden Lotus' reimages China’s foot-binding legacy through multisensory art and Deaf-led performance, connecting historical beauty ideals to today’s exacting body standards.
The Lost Notebook
The discovery of a diary with meticulous records of a Hungarian man's 2,158 visits to the cinema becomes a tale of a divided family held together by a shared love of film.
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
The Miracle of Life
A Palestinian mother-to-be navigates the upheavals of pregnancy from the Netherlands in a deeply personal and partially animated documentary poem.
The More Naked We Dare to Be
Danish auteur Jon Bang Carlsen takes stock of his life's work, the art of cinema and life itself in a film that stretches from the west coast of Denmark to the red desert sands of Arizona.
The Mother Age
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin and other female thinkers, a Norwegian filmmaker invites us on a sensual and richly philosophical journey of (re)discovery in the deep Finnish forests.
The Mother of All Lies
Last year's critically acclaimed Cannes winner is a Moroccan filmmaker's attempt to reconstruct her family's shadowy past. A miniature model of the family's labyrinthine neighbourhood in Casablanca is an important piece in a cinematic puzzle.
The Mum in Me
A sensitive and scientific analysis of infertility as a social phenomenon that will make you blush if you have ever asked your colleague when they are going to have children.
The Musician And The Whale
An electronic composer sets out to sea, where his music evokes a deep, poetic resonance in a humpback whale. Can we communicate with animals through music?
The Nature of Grief
A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.
The Nicest Men on Earth
If Denmark is the best country in the world to be a woman, what does that mean for its men? A tender and humorous group portrait of the soft, modern men who live alongside the strong Danish women.
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.
The Oldest Person in the World
A warm and subtle film about life, death and everything in between – which is quite a lot! Not least if you are one of the oldest people in the world, like those we meet in Sam Green's new film.
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
The incredible story of one of the 21st century’s most sensational art scandals is a ten-year war over billions between a Russian oligarch and a Swiss art dealer.
The Ox Road
Prince Joachim and author Steffen Jacobsen are on a hike through Jutland, bringing with them their own life stories. A beautiful nature film with words of wisdom along the way.
The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire)
Over two long summers, this film spends time at a community park in London and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.
The Pathogen of War
It’s 2073, a decade after the Bio-Rift which killed half of humanity. This show at the Museum of Medical Archaeology will explain how a benign bacteria was driven by war to become a “perfect killer.” A speculative interactive work based on the real science of antibiotic resistance.
The Patriarch
Danish film producer Peter Aalbæk is a self-proclaimed patriarch. Now his daughters are sending him to therapy—but can he really change? A loving, funny, and merciless portrait of a threatened species.
The Peace Particle
Black holes. The birth of the internet. The potential destruction of the universe. The world's largest scientific experiment at CERN opens a Pandora's box of new discoveries and unforeseen problems.
The Perfect Meal – The Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet
A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.
The Perfect Neighbor
A shocking and heartbreaking story of a fatal neighborhood dispute in Florida, that shines a light on legal blind spots in the US. One of the most innovative films of the year.
The Phantom Pain of Rojava
In a secret house in northern Syria, wounded Kurdish guerrilla soldiers live with phantom pains in the shadow of a failed revolution. An Emmy-winning director's portrayal of five years in a secret community.
The Pledge
'The Pledge' is an interactive installation turning encounters with AI bias into a collective digital monument.
The Recovery Channel
A filmmaker who has been set back by her own brother's decades-long battle with the mental health system, invents a fictional TV channel to expose the injustices of modern psychiatric treatment.
The Red Line
A fascinating and original portrait of Stockholm's constant expansion and today's human hustle and bustle, told through a red metro line and its passengers.
The Residents: Barking in the Dark
French film artist Marie Losier is back at CPH:DOX with a delightful film about the eccentric San Francisco cult band The Residents.
The Revolution Against Death
Joshua Oppenheimer is back with a short film about technology, self-deception, and the dream of immortality under the dazzling Californian sun.
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
A botched assassination. A quiet English city contaminated by a chemical weapon. Russian spies on the run. A mother of three killed. A government fearing the start of WW3. The most extraordinary true spy tale in modern history.
The Sanctuary of Dreams
'The Sanctuary of Dreams' invites audiences into a collective future-dreaming ritual, where imagination becomes a tool to envision new social, spiritual, and cultural realities shaped by shared human desires.
The Sandbox
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
The Seasons
Local fables and myths are brought to life in a film with deep roots in southern Portugal where the communal is always at the heart of the culture.
The Secret of Me
A female student makes a discovery that turns her life upside down in a harrowing and gripping film from the team behind 'Three Identical Strangers'.
The Secret Reading Club of Kabul
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
The Sequel to Summer Rain
An anarchic and hilarious meta-film about the chaotic struggle of a group of film fans to make a sequel to a cult Swedish film from the 90s.
The Settlers
Fourteen years ago, Louis Theroux visited the Westbank, following a group of ultra Zionists, infringing on international law by building their homes in Palestinian territory. Now, Theroux is back in the Westbank, in a post October 7th world.
The Shadow Scholars
Thousands of young, highly educated Kenyans make a living ghostwriting papers for Western students. An exposé of a murky academic underworld that has become a billion-dollar business.
The Shards
A personal story about death and love in the context of contemporary Russia of the last 2 years.
The Shipwrecked Triptych
Three short stories, imagining the human experience with visionary power and dark humour. Danish-Turkish artist Deniz Eroglu's debut film is work of a deeply inventive and original spirit.
The Silence in my Heart
A Black woman's journey through her own history becomes a beautiful and redemptive film about finding yourself after a lifetime of searching.
The Silo and Us
A group of passionate creatives set out to transform the old concrete silo on the harbor in Stubbekøbing into an artistic landmark for the town. Now the community must decide: Should the silo be torn down — or should this small town dare to dream big?
The Sky Above Zenica
In the centre of Europe, one of the world's three most polluted cities has united its citizens in a common fight for a viable future. But money, power and environmental politics prove to be as toxic an opponent as the factory smoke that clouds the city.
The Son and the Moon
A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.
The Sound of Love Letters
The frontman of the successful Danish band Ganger writes an album based on his parents' love letters, while rewriting his own life story in a charming and musical tale from the Danish West Coast.
The Sound Voice Project
The Sound Voice Project explores the intrinsic value of the human voice – merging synthetic voices with live opera, performers who have no voice box and digital voices, sharing real-life stories about the symbiotic relationship between our identity and the way we sound.
The Stimming Pool
Created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers in an attempt to provide an alternative and artistic take on what it's like to live with neurodivergence in a chaotic world not made for those who are different.
The Stones & Brian Jones
Genius, sex symbol, lost soul. The director of 'Kurt and Courtney' and 'Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love' unravels the story of the Rolling Stones icon who mysteriously ended his days at the bottom of a swimming pool aged just 27.
The Tender Revolution
In a society where caregiving is rarely valued, four idealists seek to change the system from within with tenderness, love and care - and start a tender revolution.
The Tingbjerg Experiment
What happens when a select group of young, idealistic middle-class families settle in a Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ with a dream of developing a new neighborhood?
The Train and the Peninsula
A thoughtful and sensuous tour along Mexican train tracks on the Yutacán Peninsula, where a new, large-scale railway project threatens the indigenuos Mayan culture and the nature around them.
The Typewriter and Other Headaches
A surprisingly funny and warm tale of the most compassionate partnership in the French social sector - a deeply sympathetic duo that fixes things for people on the margins of society.
The Unfair Body Fight
It's a paradox that the world's population is getting fatter and fatter when many dream of being thin. Why can't weight be controlled?
The Walk
The director of 'Honeyland' returns with a contemporary fairytale made with sensitivity and poetry as a giant puppet travels from Syria up through Europe to tell the story of migration from a child's perspective.
The Way Elsewhere
Three experienced taxi drivers roam the streets of Athens dreaming of art and new beginnings in a nocturnal and poetic film for night owls.
The White House Effect
How US climate policy changed course and set the stage for decades of polarization, told through archival footage that unfolds the overlooked story.
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Magnificent and cinematic docu-western set in Mongolia, where a young shepherd couple and their four children fight an epic battle against the elements to stay in the world they know.
There was Nothing Here Before
A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.
They (no longer) remember
A silent visual poem dedicated to the artist's grandfather, who seeks answers and finds new questions in the organic surroundings.
They Know We Know They Lie
A performative video work that analyzes the complex relationship between urbanity, economy and memory in the 21st century.
This is Ballroom
An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.
This is Not a French Film
A young, racialised director's struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with political punch that takes you by surprise. Entertaining, energetic and intensely unpredictable.
This suffocating now
Vika Kirchenbauer’s essayistic video work examines the political currents in contemporary Germany, where censorship of critical voices is becoming increasingly repressive.
Three of Cups
A poetic hybrid exploration of love, identity, and change among three queer friends on a cold winter evening in Berlin.
ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c
Field recordings of the Atacama desert of Chile and analogue 8mm images explore the grainy, silent textures of sand, dust and noise.
Time and Water
Iceland's ancient landscapes are changing, and for author Andri Snær Magnason, the deep changes are about more than ice. A thoughtful and existential film from the director of ‘Fire of Love’.
Time to Gather
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
To a Land Unknown
Two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens dream of Northern Europe. By day they hustle to survive, by night they disappear into drugs and poetry. Mahdi Fleifel's Cannes hit is a feature film rooted deep in reality.
To be an Extra
A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.
To Hold a Mountain
This year's Sundance winner is an immersive and down-to-earth portrayal of the lives of a woman and a young girl in the mountains of Montenegro, which are in danger of becoming a NATO training area.
Traces
Ukrainian women who have survived sexual violence during Russia's war refuse to remain silent. A brutally honest testimony from the female victims of war.
Tracing Light
Thought-provoking and cinematic exploration of the most fascinating natural phenomenon of all: Light. Art and science join forces to illuminate the indescribable and create a space of mystery, magic and sensuality.
Trans Hero
Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.
Trans Memoria
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Truth Bears No Scandal
With my installation, I explore three well-known Sudanese songs with hidden backstories—songs written by males for their male lovers, and females for their female lovers. These stories, often concealed to obscure the queer side of our culture, are presented here as I believe they should be, direct and unapologetically queer.
Truth or Dare
In the heart of Berlin's sex-positive queer scene, a collective of people come together for a game of 'truth and dare' focusing on sexuality, consent and self-knowledge.
Tsumu – Where Do You Go With Your Dreams?
Lars, Eino and Thomas are fighting for a better future for themselves and their friends in Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. A youth film about hope, dreams and the right to be yourself in turbulent times.
Turbulence: Jamais Vu
An intimate mixed reality docu-essay exploring the phenomenon of derealisation, inviting audiences to reflect on the fragility of perception.
Tutu
A historical and inspiring portrait of South African Nobel Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who rallied an entire generation in the fight against apartheid.
TV-2: Kys det satans liv
Irony is reined in and truths are revealed in a warm and openhearted film about Denmark's oldest (and in their own words most boring) band.
Twiggy
A modern fairytale from Swingin' London about the first international supermodel, told with great energy and British humour by the protagonist herself. She is visiting this year's CPH:DOX herself.
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
Two Suns + You, My, Omma, Mama + Lichens are the Way
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Unanimal
An imaginative and philosophical film about the relationship between humans and animals, with Isabella Rossellini as narrator. Innovative, absurdly witty and with a genuinely creative spirit.
Unbuilt Environments
Utopian and dystopian environments for disabled people, built in Unreal Engine and based on collaboration with disabled-led groups and disabled people in East London.
Underland
Three underground astronauts explore the underworld and reveal deep connections between the past and the future. Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller and narrated by Sandra Hüller.
Union
The employees at an Amazon warehouse start a union against all odds, but internal divisions and powerful opponents makes the fight for rights and decent conditions a long and hard one.
Unstable Rocks
A beautiful analog visual poem from the wild Portuguese nature with an organic rhythm that propagates from landscapes and wildlife to the editing.
Very Small Dreams
In Gaza’s refugee camps, women struggle to maintain their dignity and health amid inhumane conditions, where even the simplest needs become a daily battle for survival.
Viktor
A deaf war photographer defends his country against invasion with the camera as a weapon. A visionary film from Ukraine with a subjective sound design by the team behind 'Sound of Metal'.
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Waking Hours
Smugglers transport people across the border to Europe during an endless, sleepless night. A cinematic film shot in pitch darkness, which should be experienced in the cinema at all costs.
Walls – akinni inuk
Two strong Greenlandic women are united by a shared traumatic past and a chaotic present - one behind bars, the other behind a cool facade. A moving journey for justice, freedom and a second chance at life.
War Game
A nerve-wracking political thriller where elite politicians and military personnel engage in a role-playing game based on January 6th. Is the democratic system strong enough to handle a real-life coup attempt in the near future?
Watching People Watching Birds
Birds are an endangered species, but birdwatchers around the world are on the case in a delightful, charming film about amateur ornithologists.
Wax & Gold
Austrian documentary veteran Ruth Beckermann has traveled to Addis Ababa to uncover a historical truth. An essay about Ethiopia's divided past, where the questions outnumber the answers.
We are Stardust
What if the mysteries of life can be found in the gutter? That question drives an unusual man on a journey to explore our connection to the stars.
We Live Here
On a desolate former nuclear test site, three generations confront the haunting legacy of the past as they fight for survival and hope in a world on the brink of destruction.
We Want The Funk
Get ready for a pure funk explosion! Wild stories from the 70s are mixed with sweaty bass lines, electric grooves and the kind of rhythms that get right into your feet.
Welcome to the Darkness
The party-loving British glam rockers in The Darkness are trying to reclaim stadiums around the world. But not everything goes according to plan in an unpretentious, funny and touching story of brotherhood and rock n' roll.
When Pigs Fly
Would you still be the same if your heart belonged to someone else - even if that someone else was a pig? A philosophical and quietly poignant film about our relationship with our fellow creatures.
When The Phone Rang
Memories of ex-Yugoslavia meet autofiction in a critically acclaimed film about an 11-year-old girl who receives a series of mysterious phone calls that change her life.
Where Am I From?
Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs the director's genealogical journey using two different voices, her own and an AI 'narrator.'
Where Dragons Live
One last summer in an enchanted family home in Oxfordshire for four adult siblings before their childhood home is sold. A charming, arch-British upper-class family story with a dash of dragon's blood and a bit of fairytale magic.
Where Ever You Are
With visual elegance, a moving hybrid-story of diasporic grief and family reconciliation is told through a Filipino immigrant who wants to return to his homeland before it is too late.
Where Music Grows
On a farm south of Copenhagen, young elite musicians practice the difficult art of classical music. A beautiful and life-affirming film full of wonderful music.
Where the Silence is Heard
A young Chilean woman moves into an abandoned house in Valparaíso to piece together her family's history, which has been colored by dictatorship, exile, and silence for five decades.
While the Green Grass Grows
A beautiful and enriching experience from one of the most original voices in documentary filmmaking, who has made his most personal film to date without lowering the philosophical altitude.
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
Peter Mettler's visionary new film. Epic in scope, yet generous and intimate - a unique experience unparalleled in modern cinema.
Whispers in May
In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.
Whispers in the Woods
The film sensation, which has sold over a million cinema tickets in France, is a uniquely beautiful and sensual nature experience with music by Warren Ellis.
White Hot Iron Rainbow
Thermal infrared study of how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections in a world shaped by surveillance and mediated violence.
Who Witnessed the Temples Fall
Under the burning sun of Granada, the lonely figure of the mythical Roma king Chorrojumo wanders as an emissary from the past. An enigmatic and evocative film between dream and reality.
Wilfred Buck
An elderly member of the indigenous Cree people of Canada is our spiritual guide in a film that, like its charismatic protagonist, moves between past and present, and between Earth and the stars, to overcome the ghosts of colonisation.
Wishing on a Star
Bittersweet docu-comedy about a female astrologer from Naples who offers the perfect solution to her clients' very human problems.
Witch
Danish author and self-proclaimed witch Andrea Hejlskov invites us into her personal universe of divination, spirituality and nature motifs from Nordic mythology. After 10 years in the wilderness, she finds herself in the middle of the crisis of her life.
Writing Hawa
Three generations of Afghan women dream of freedom and change. A daughter's cinematic and personal letter to her mother takes a tragic turn when the Taliban returns.
You Need This
A revealing film about the vicious cycle of consumerism and the destructive power of hyper-capitalism. Can we break the grip of the system before it is too late?
You Say That You’re Staying at the Party Because You’re Having Fun
A stylish and thought-provoking courtroom drama examines sexual assault through institutional and linguistic filters as a young woman recounts her testimony twice in two different languages.
Your Cards Are Bleeding
A performative work of fiction set in a contemporary time, where both reality and fiction itself crack open in small, unsettling ways as a couple attempts to help an absent friend move house.
Your Fat Friend
A humorous, personal and highly educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic texts and activist Aubrey Gordon, and on six years of lived experience from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.
Youth (Hard Times)
Times are hard for the young workers in China's textile factories, struggling with and against each other for a better future. The second installment in Wang Bing’s ‘Youth’ trilogi.
Youth (Homecoming)
The workers are leaving the factory to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Wang Bing's panoramic film about the dreams and dramas of young workers in the country's textile factories.
Youth (Spring)
China's greatest documentary filmmaker was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for his epic portrayal of life behind the sewing machines in the country's vast textile industry, where young employees flirt, argue and dream of the future.
Yugo Goes to America
Three young friends from Belgrade drive from New York to Los Angeles in a Yugo – a cult relic of a car from the 1980s. A docu-comedy and a road trip with many unexpected encounters.
Zlatan’s Nose
Someone has stolen the nose from a statue of world-famous football star Zlatan Ibrahimović. A film crew hires a private detective to solve the mystery in a hilarious, sprawling romp of a true crime film.
Zodiac Killer Project
The true crime genre is deconstructed in an entertaining and intelligent film with a brilliant eye for genre clichés and movie magic. Intellectual pop at its best, set against a backdrop of 70s California.
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