Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
Country France:
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
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.
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
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
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
Casa
A group of 20-year-olds from tough backgrounds pursue their fashion dreams at Casa 93, a unique institute offering a last chance for some and a new beginning for others, capturing their transformative journey through an extraordinary year.
Caroline Benarrosh / France / 2025 / World Premiere
Coexistence, My Ass!
With humor as her weapon of choice, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi has provoked strong reactions with her mission for freedom and justice. A goal that suddenly needs to be defended like never before.
Amber Fares / United States & France / 2025
Copan
Social-realist sci-fi from an apartment block with five thousand inhabitants in the centre of São Paulo. A Brazilian microcosm about money, power and a fragile democracy.
Carine Wallauer / Brazil & France / 2025 / World Premiere
Elementary
French first-rate director Claire Simon portrays the small dramas and triumphs of a progressive Parisian primary school with empathetic gentleness. Touching, funny and thoughtful.
Claire Simon / France / 2024
Ellis Park
Charismatic composer Warren Ellis invites us into his personal universe where he runs a shelter for endangered animals in Sumatra when he is inventing new sounds with his violin and synthesizer.
Justin Kurzel / Australia, Indonesia & France / 2024 / European Premiere
Fire of Wind
A mythological and enchantingly beautiful story from the hot, southern Portuguese vineyards, where harvesting farmers hang out high in the oak trees to avoid a ravenous bull.
Marta Mateus / Portugal, Switzerland & France / 2024
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza
In the heart of Gaza, Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi brings together local filmmakers to document their own lives and stories.
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In a public hospital in Milan, the progressive Dr. Maurizio Bini gives advice to childless couples and transgender people. But his stubborn fight for his patients' rights faces political opposition.
Gianluca Matarrese / France, Italy & Switzerland / 2025
Girlfriend Experience
Girlfriend Experience is an interactive video installation that explores emotional distress in our hyper-connected society.
Ugo Arsac / France / 2024 / International Premiere
Grand Tour
Melancholic and imaginative expedition across the Asian continent in the name of love. A new cinematic milestone from the freely imaginative Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes.
I Am Night at Noonday
Don Quixote is resurrected in Marseille and sets out to fight fences, gates, private property rights and general segregation with his faithful squire, an ex-criminal pizza delivery man on a scooter.
Gaspard Hirschi / France / 2025 / International Premiere
Younes Ben Slimane, Yuyan Wang & Saodat Ismailova / United Kingdom, Tunisia, Republic of Korea (South Korea), France, China, Uzbekistan, Italy & Portugal
Leos Carax & Marie Losier / France
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
Mika Ex Machina
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
Mika Tard & Deborah Saïag / France / 2025
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
Leo Favier / France / 2024
My Sweet Land
Vrej is a tender 11-year-old boy living in Artsakh, a small mountain paradise with porous borders. But when war breaks out again, will he be able to carry the hopes of his wounded homeland on his young shoulders?
Sareen Hairabedian / United States, Jordan, France & Ireland / 2024
Red Forest
A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the state has other plans. A cinematic, revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.
Laurie Lassalle / France / 2025 / World Premiere
Sanatorium
At a colossal ex-Soviet wellness center in Odesa, both patients and staff search for health, happiness and love while the war echoes through the lime green corridors.
Gar O'Rourke / Ireland, Ukraine & France / 2025 / World Premiere
Save Our Souls
A filmmaker boards a ship bound for the coast of Libya to document the crew's rescue mission: to bring migrants to safety from drowning. The operation succeeds, but an uncertain future lies ahead.
Jean-Baptiste Bonnet / France / 2024
Lisa Rovner / France / 2020
Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Olha Zhurba paints a panoramic picture of life in Ukraine during Russia's tragic war. An elegiac masterpiece from one of the country's most talented filmmakers.
Sudan, Remember Us
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. As it intertwines their stories, the film reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of youth against the military's might.
The Brink of Dreams
Winner of the Documentary Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A group of lively Egyptian girls start a theater troupe using the city streets as a stage to share their dreams and opinions.
Nada Riyadh & Ayman El Amir / Egypt, France, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024