Films
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A Poem for Little People
The unlikely but close friendship of two elderly women brings to life a cinematic poem about courage and resistance during wartime, while a young man and his team of volunteers struggle to get people away from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.
Ivan Sautkin / Ukraine, Lithuania & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
ABBA: Against the Odds
World premiere of the ultimate film about the ultimate pop band. On the 50th anniversary of their iconic urovision victory, this is the untold story of ABBA in the golden years between 1976 and 1980.
James Rogan / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Apollo Thirteen: Survival
The greatest and most iconic space rocket drama in history is told in a thrilling and human way through crisp, crunchy archive footage and unique audio clips from the shuttle, the control centre and the astronauts' families.
Peter Middleton / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
One of the most heartwarming love stories of the year is about the close friendship between a melancholic Scottish man - and an otter. An irresistible film that goes straight to the heart.
Charlie Hamilton James / United Kingdom & United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Black Box Diaries
A Japanese journalist becomes both detective and protagonist in her own story of overcoming a sexual assault and confronting both the boss of Japan's leading TV networks and a deeply conservative system. Dramatic, moving and determined to change a toxic culture.
Shiori Ito / Japan, United States & United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke / United Kingdom & India / 2024 / Danish Premiere
Børne:Dox: De største spørgsmål med de mindste
Meet the talented Ömer Sami as we screen three of his touching films, all of which depict the world through the eyes of children with a unique intensity.
Ömer Sami / Denmark & United Kingdom
Copa 71
A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.
Rachel Ramsay & James Erskine / United Kingdom / 2023
Dance First
Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh's biopic on the life and works of the literary genius. The man behind the myth is portrayed with humour and irony.
James Marsh / United Kingdom, Hungary & Belgium / 2023
Eno
Experience Brian Eno's creative process and foresight in a film that changes every time it is shown! Using new technology, director Gary Hustwit has created a phantom portrait of the musical genius that reassembles his life's work.
Gary Hustwit / United Kingdom & United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Entropy + Sunspot + The Cloud People
Three short and fascinating films about science and celestial bodies.
Inuk Jørgensen, David Blandy, Iulian Furtuna, Iulian Furtuna & Marius Lena / Greenland, United Kingdom, France & Barbados
Søren Lind, Larissa Sansour, Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah / United Kingdom, Palestine & Algeria
Free Party
Welcome to a party so wild that the British state had to rewrite the law to ban it, and that the electronic sound waves of the raging Free Party movement of the 1990s still resonate today.
Aaron Trinder / United Kingdom / 2023 / European Premiere
Garden of Ghost Flowers – The Embodiment Archive
An ongoing exploration of resonance as a model for intra-action between tech, humans, and the more-than-human. Visitors are invited to witness the creation of virtual ghost flowers which depend on human voices for growth.
Lundahl & Seitl & Untold Garden / Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Grand Theft Hamlet
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: They want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
Sam Crane & Pinny Grylls / United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Motherboard
Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.
Victoria Mapplebeck / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Friendship, love and rock n' roll! The lives of the pioneering rock bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, authentically and honestly portrayed on video through a lifetime by the two childhood friends at the front of the stage.
Nicolas Jack Davies / Germany & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Sandra Ignagni, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner / Canada, France, Italy, United Kingdom & Netherlands
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
10 years in the turbulent life of the British rock n' roll poet as a singer in The Libertines and Babyshambles, and as a regular in the tabloids. The struggle to quit the drugs is the untold chapter in the story of Pete Doherty - until now.
Katia De Vidas / France & United Kingdom / 2023
Preemptive Listening
Sound and film art on innovative wavelengths in a work that explores the function and iconic value of the siren in a time of overlapping natural and man-made disasters. A participatory piece with contributions from 20 different sound artists.
Aura Satz / United Kingdom & Finland / 2024 / World Premiere
Single File + Silent Night + Efforts of Nature + No Exorcism Film
Four short works nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Simon Liu, Jonathan Schaller, Philipp Schaeffer, Morgan Quaintance & Komtouch Napattaloong / Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Germany & Thailand
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In his first documentary, music video legend Anton Corbijn tells the wild story of the visionary album cover designers behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others. The rockumentary of the year!
Anton Corbijn / United Kingdom / 2022 / European Premiere
Stephen
A young actor in rehab is cast as a gambler in a crime thriller based on a film from 1901. Realities are layered in a British visual artist's performative film about the risk - and freedom - of letting go of yourself and becoming someone else.
Melanie Manchot / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere