Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 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 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.
Alle os og siloen
In a small Danish town, a large new art project aims to put the town on the map and boost the entire municipality of Guldborgsund.
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 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
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
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’.
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025
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.
Anna Bruun Nørager / Denmark & Iraq / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Laurits Nansen / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2026 / World Premiere
Celestis Obscura
Falkenstrøm’s work aligns the Gold Rush with today’s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth’s inequalities across the solar system.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
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.
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Maisha Wester / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
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.
Mads Damsbo & Laurits Flensted-Jensen / Denmark, Germany & Taiwan / 2025 / Danish Premiere
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.
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
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.
Taekyung Tanja In Wol Sørensen / Denmark, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
In the Current Of Being
A haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.
Cameron Kostopoulos / United States & France / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Inside: The Childhood of an Artist
This beautiful multi-sensory biography transports you to a sun-kissed 1950’s family home in Ohio, placing you at the heart of artist Judith Scott’s devastating story of love and separation.
Sacha Wares / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
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.
Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Jenny – A Portrait of the Artist 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.
Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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’.
Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2025
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.
Pieter-Jan De Pue / Belgium / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Louise Unmack Kjeldsen / Denmark, Norway & Germany / 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
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.
Elias Schaffalitzky, Nicklas Koney, Edward Therkildsen, Markus Simonsen, Jacques Pedersen, Martin CitySlang Kogi & Lars H.U.G. / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025
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.
Mohamed Jabaly / Norway & Palestine / 2026 / International Premiere
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.
Robert Gordon / United States / 2025
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.
Mike Christie / United Kingdom / 2026