Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
Country Denmark:
50 Meters
Deeply charming Egyptian debut from an outswimming pool in Cario where an adult daughter's relationship with her good-natured father is universally recognizable about life's big questions.
Yomna Khattab / Egypt, Denmark & Saudi Arabia / 2025 / World Premiere
About a Hero
A hallucinatory crime mystery where an AI version of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog must solve a suspicious death - all based on a script written by an AI.
Piotr Winiewicz / Denmark / 2024
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
Another World
The mind behind the underground film hit 'The Great Glitch' is back with a new, unbridled series that takes us on a galloping journey through the great rabbit hole of the internet.
Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Cirkeline & the invisible artist
An honest, loving and insightful portrait of Cirkeline's mother: Hanne Hastrup, the artist behind one of Denmark's most beloved animated characters, who never received the recognition she deserves.
Esther Wellejus / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Cosmic Balance
Hour-long musical trance sessions lead a young man from a small Indonesian village to his first concert outside the city limits at a music festival in Denmark. A cosmic film about music, spirituality and heritage.
Andreas Johnsen / Denmark & Indonesia / 2025 / World Premiere
Dear Tomorrow
In Japan, two people have more in common than they think in a film about loneliness in the modern world, and about finding the courage to reconnect with life.
Kaspar Astrup Schröder / Denmark, Sweden & Japan / 2025 / European Premiere
Rikke Luther, Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Denmark & Greenland
Elendig Software
A unique taste of a playful and brand new series about the Danish pop rock success Zar Paulo.
Freja Rørkær & Oskar Langballe Dahl / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Fantastic Family
A young director returns to a family trauma buried deep in the soil of her father’s garden. But what do you do when no one in the family agrees on what actually happened? A courageous film with creative energy and the will to bring the past to light.
Nicoline Skotte / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
From Here Where We Stand – 80 years with Niels Skousen
The popular Danish songwriter is lovingly portrayed by his wife and film director Linda Wendel in a film that spans six decades in the service of music.
Linda Wendel / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Hacking Hate
Undercover in the far-right online communities in the Nordics with a fearless female journalist. A riveting story with more than a few twists along the way, at a moment when there is both power and money in spreading hate.
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
I Think We Begin as Light
Could a collaboration between plants, light and microorganisms show us a new and more fruitful path for agriculture? Take a journey beneath the earth's surface and meet the farmers who are making the attempt.
Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
If I Die Today
Seven years in the life of a troubled young man. From his time in prison for attempted murder, to his time as a hopeful parolee, to his fatal decision.
Camilla Arlien / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Eliyah Mesayer, Nanna Rebekka & Mariah Garnett / Denmark & United States
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Four decades of the long, painful conflict between Palestine and Israel, presented with sober clarity and exemplary overview by the director of 'Black Power Mixtape 1967-75'.
Love, Z
Generation Z takes the floor in this year's definitive generation portrait. Twelve young people share their thoughts and feelings about love in our time.
Anna-Sofie Uth Juncker / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Lowland Kids
The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.
Sandra Winther / Denmark & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A brave and resilient primary school teacher secretly exposes Putin's aggressive militarisation of Russia's schools in one of the great documentary sensations of the year.
Co-director: Pavel Talankin & David Borenstein / Denmark & Czech Republic / 2025
Nobody’s Angel
The five women in the Danish band Miss B. Haven rocked the 1980s at a time when men still had a monopoly on rock, but where a new movement was taking shape.
Torben Skjødt Jensen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Only on Earth
A visually stunning film from Galicia where humans and animals struggle with apocalyptic forest fires during the hottest and driest summer on record.
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.
Take the Money and Run
The (art)work of a genius or simple theft? Artist Jens Haaning made headlines around the world when he pocketed a fortune in protest against the conditions of the art world - and exhibited his action as a work of art.
Ole Juncker / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The Caring Machine
In the artwork The Caring Machine, we are invited to imagine that we are lying on our deathbeds, our loving digital companion 'sitting' by our side, watching over us, and speaking to us in a soothing human voice.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2024 / International Premiere
The Father, The Sons and The Holy Spirit
Two brothers reunite after a multi-million inheritance dispute in a film about blood, bonds and breakups - and about how hard it is to escape your own family.
Christian Sønderby Jepsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The More Naked We Dare to Be
Danish auteur Jon Bang Carlsen takes stock of his life's work, the art of cinema and life itself in a film that stretches from the west coast of Denmark to the red desert sands of Arizona.
Jon Bang Carlsen / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The Nicest Men on Earth
If Denmark is the best country in the world to be a woman, what does that mean for its men? A tender and humorous group portrait of the soft, modern men who live alongside the strong Danish women.
Josefine Exner & Sebastian Gerdes / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The Ox Road
Prince Joachim and author Steffen Jacobsen are on a hike through Jutland, bringing with them their own life stories. A beautiful nature film with words of wisdom along the way.
Jesper H. Grand / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere