Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
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.
Mstyslav Chernov / Ukraine / 2025 / European Premiere
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.
Yomna Khattab / Egypt, Denmark & Saudi Arabia / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Ketevan Vashagashvili / Georgia, Bulgaria & Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Thomas Balmès / France / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Leila Amini / Switzerland, France & Iran / 2024
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.
Sturla Pilskog / Norway / 2024
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.
Kristina Shtubert / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
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.
Piotr Winiewicz / Denmark / 2024
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.
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.
Amalie Atkins / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Distraction / France / 2024 / World Premiere
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.
Maxim Derevianko / Italy & United States / 2025 / International Premiere
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.
Therese Henningsen / United Kingdom & Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Deming Chen / United States, France & China / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Weiwei Ai / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Antidote
Whistleblower and Bellingcat journalist Christo Grozev and his deadly fight against the Russian government. Premiering in a new version.
James Jones / United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Petra Costa / Brazil / 2024
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.
Stefanie Brockhaus / Germany & Saudi Arabia / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Ico Costa / Portugal & France / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Michael Ogden / United Kingdom & United States / 2024
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.
Natxo Leuza / Spain / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Sinéad O'Shea / Ireland & United Kingdom / 2024
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.
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom & Germany / 2024
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.
Andra MacMasters / Romania / 2024
Casa
At an alternative fashion school in the toughest suburb of Paris, the young fashion designers of the future give free rein to their wild creative dreams.
Caroline Benarrosh / France / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Zhang-Ke Jia / China / 2024
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.
Esther Wellejus / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Austin Lynch / United States & Germany / 2025 / World Premiere