Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
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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
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
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
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 & Iceland / 2024
Collective Monologue
A sensory film from a variety of zoos in Argentina, where the life and world of animals is closely connected to their human caretakers.
Jessica Sarah Rinland / Argentina & United Kingdom / 2024
Constantinopoliad
Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the work is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.
Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Death Without Mercy
An Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker uncovers the political and human aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey two years ago.
Waad Alkateab / United Kingdom / 2024
How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth. Here, biologists struggle to study the enigmatic wildlife that looks like something from another planet. But time is running out as deepsea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.
Eleanor Mortimer / United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
Human Race
Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.
Simon Lec / Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Younes Ben Slimane, Yuyan Wang & Saodat Ismailova / United Kingdom, Tunisia, Republic of Korea (South Korea), France, China, Uzbekistan, Italy & Portugal
Lost for Words
The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.
Hannah Papacek Harper / France & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
One to One: John & Yoko
A lively and compelling account of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's first year in New York. A year of political and cultural turmoil culminating in Lennon’s only solo concert.
Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
The absolute frontwoman of the 2-Tone movement is a British style icon with a strong political stance and the voice to get it out into the world.
Jane Mingay / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Spacewoman
Cosmic portrait of the first female astronaut to pilot a space shuttle mission. Eileen Collins broke the glass ceiling all the way into space, and is a riveting storyteller of her own incredible story.
Hannah Berryman / United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Tarang
'Tarang' is a multimedia artwork by Kinnari Saraiya exploring colonial surveillance and indigenous dreamworlds. Using textiles, interactive tech, and dance, it reclaims dreams as a decolonial archive.
Kinnari Saraiya / United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
Roisin Agnew & Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Ireland, United Kingdom & Lebanon
The Dating Game
Three Chinese men are looking for love on the dating market in China, where the one-child policy has shattered the gender balance but a celebrity love coach is on hand with advice. A tragicomic audience favourite with a heart.
Violet Du Feng / United States, United Kingdom & Norway / 2025
The Gardener, the Buddhist & the Spy
Cynical spy for the asbestos industry or a whistleblower facing a miscarriage of justice? Judge for yourself in a film about deception and manipulation, where one twist leads to another.
Håvard Bustnes / Norway, Germany & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
The Golden Spurtle
Welcome to the Oatmeal World Cup - and if that sounds gray and boring, think again! A warm and genuinely funny Scottish film about finding the greatest meaning in the smallest things.
Constantine Costi / United Kingdom & Australia / 2025 / World Premiere
The Secret of Me
A female student makes a discovery that turns her life upside down in a harrowing and gripping film from the team behind 'Three Identical Strangers'.
Grace Hughes-Hallett / United Kingdom & United States / 2025 / European Premiere
The Shadow Scholars
Thousands of young, highly educated Kenyans make a living ghostwriting papers for Western students. An exposé of a murky academic underworld that has become a billion-dollar business.
Eloise King / United Kingdom / 2024
Minha Park, Jiawei Zheng & Maeve Brennan / Republic of Korea (South Korea), Denmark, China & United Kingdom
To a Land Unknown
Two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens dream of Northern Europe. By day they hustle to survive, by night they disappear into drugs and poetry. Mahdi Fleifel's Cannes hit is a feature film rooted deep in reality.
Mahdi Fleifel / United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024
Tracing Light
Thought-provoking and cinematic exploration of the most fascinating natural phenomenon of all: Light. Art and science join forces to illuminate the indescribable and create a space of mystery, magic and sensuality.
Thomas Riedelsheimer / Germany & United Kingdom / 2024
Twiggy
A modern fairytale from Swingin' London about the first international supermodel, told with great energy and British humour by the protagonist herself. She is visiting this year's CPH:DOX herself.
Sadie Frost / United Kingdom / 2024
Where Dragons Live
One last summer in an enchanted family home in Oxfordshire for four adult siblings before their childhood home is sold. A charming, arch-British upper-class family story with a dash of dragon's blood and a bit of fairytale magic.
Suzanne Raes / Netherlands & United Kingdom / 2024
Zodiac Killer Project
The true crime genre is deconstructed in an entertaining and intelligent film with a brilliant eye for genre clichés and movie magic. Intellectual pop at its best, set against a backdrop of 70s California.
Charlie Shackleton / United States & United Kingdom / 2025