Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 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.
Wilfried Hauke / Germany & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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 egelant portrait of an invincible champion through thick and thin.
Christophe Hermans & Boris Tilquin / Belgium / 2025 / Danish Premiere
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.
Joshua Baker / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
Three years in the life of revolutionary post-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon. Based on extensive research and Fanon's own notes, and reconstructed as a cinematic docufiction from a psychiatric hospital in Algeria.