Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
Country France:
The Castle
Three children transform an abandoned building in the middle of Palermo into a secret fantasy world. A charming Sicilian adventure with a bittersweet aftertaste.
Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli & Stefano La Rosa / France & Italy / 2025 / World Premiere
The Eukrainian
Working in the corridors of power with Ukraine's young Minister for the EU and NATO in a film about ideals, diplomacy and international grand politics.
Viktor Nordenskiöld / Sweden, France, Ukraine & Belgium / 2025 / World Premiere
The Typewriter and Other Headaches
A surprisingly funny and warm tale of the most compassionate partnership in the French social sector - a deeply sympathetic duo that fixes things for people on the margins of society.
Nicolas Philibert / France / 2024
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
Trans Memoria
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Unanimal
An imaginative and philosophical film about the relationship between humans and animals, with Isabella Rossellini as narrator. Innovative, absurdly witty and with a genuinely creative spirit.
Sally Jacobson & Tuva Bjork / Sweden & France / 2025 / World Premiere
Viktor
A deaf war photographer defends his country against invasion with the camera as a weapon. A visionary film from Ukraine with a subjective sound design by the team behind 'Sound of Metal'.
Olivier Sarbil / Denmark, Ukraine, France & United States / 2024
Writing Hawa
Three generations of Afghan women dream of freedom and change. A daughter's cinematic and personal letter to her mother takes a tragic turn when the Taliban returns.
Najiba Noori & Rasul Noori / France, Netherlands, Qatar & Afghanistan / 2024
Youth (Hard Times)
Times are hard for the young workers in China's textile factories, struggling with and against each other for a better future. The second installment in Wang Bing’s ‘Youth’ trilogi.
Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024
Youth (Homecoming)
The workers are leaving the factory to celebrate the Chinese New Year in Wang Bing's panoramic film about the dreams and dramas of young workers in the country's textile factories.
Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024