Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Country Palestine:
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
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.
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.
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.
Mohammed Sawwaf / Palestine, Qatar & Netherlands / 2025 / International Premiere
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.
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.
Andrea Zimmerman / Palestine & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
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
Palestinian shorts: The Miracle of Life + Colors Under The Sky + Very Small Dreams + Hassan
Four short films from Palestine about everyday resilience, fragile hope and lives shaped by occupation and displacement: 'The Miracle of Life', 'Colors Under The Sky', 'Very Small Dreams' and 'Hassan'.
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.
Sabrine Khoury / Netherlands & Palestine / 2025
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.