Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
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.
András Földes, András Földes & Anna Kis / Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark & Norway / 2026
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.
Maite Alberdi / Mexico / 2026
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.
Tasha Van Zandt / United States / 2025 / European Premiere
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
En russisk journalist og hendes unge, vestligtsindede datter rejser tværs gennem Putins Rusland for at konfrontere sig selv og hinanden med deres politiske uenigheder.
Zhanna Agalakova / Croatia, Netherlands & France / 2025
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.
Rati Tsiteladze / Georgia & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
A Sweetness from Nowhere
A performative and visually explosive film, where lived experiences take shape in a constant state of becoming.
Ester Bergsmark / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Sébastien Lifshitz / France / 2026
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.
Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil / United States / 2026 / European Premiere
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.
Amy Jenkins / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
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.
Sinéad O'Shea / Ireland / 2026
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
A wave of biblical plagues is crashing down on north-east England, where fishermen, eco-activists and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Lia Hietala & Hannah Reinikainen / Sweden & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Ryan Marley / Canada / 2026 / International Premiere
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.
Nathan Grossman / Sweden, Denmark & France / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
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.
Mika Kaurismäki, Ragnar Axelsson & Ingvar Þórðarson / Iceland / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025
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.
Ian Purnell / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Manuel Correa / Spain & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
STILLZ / Colombia & United States / 2025
bauhaus forever.
A cinematic manifesto dedicated to the Bauhaus movement, which revolutionized modern art, design, and architecture. A film of magnificent intellectual scope and uncompromising formal integritet.
Nico Weber / Germany & Netherlands / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Patricia Drati / Denmark, Spain & Slovakia / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Hugo Sobelman / France / 2025
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.
Gianfranco Rosi / Italy / 2025
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.
Miro Remo / Czech Republic & Slovakia / 2025
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.
Búi Dam / Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025
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.
Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
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.
Kakia Konstantinaki / Greece / 2025 / International Premiere