Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Country Denmark:
“Cone Unit”
A brief experimental journey through the night on the outskirts of Copenhagen in the company of a group of young, carefree dreamers full of loss and compassion.
Frederik Tøt Godsk / Denmark / 2025
7 Summers
A documentation of an artistic experiment set within a state-of-the-art climate simulation facility at the scientific campus of Risø, located in the picturesque surroundings of Roskilde fjord.
Bjarke Hvass Kure, Amitai Romm, Emil Rønn Andersen & Aslak Aamot Helm / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
80 Angry Journalists
When Hungary’s largest newsroom collapses under political pressure, one journalist keeps filming, capturing the inside story of a collective stand for press freedom in an increasingly authoritarian state.
András Földes & Anna Kis / Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark & Norway / 2026
A Motherfucking Life
Through two years of passion, provocation and porn, young artist Frida Retz’s alternative lifestyle collides with the oldest convention of all: becoming a mother.
Frederik Vahle & Astrid Agnes Hald / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Aerial
A ritualistic and dizzying audio-visual poem, following singer Lei Lowe on an eruptous pilgrimage through ancient Sicilian landscapes where she communes with the Earth in search of emancipation.
Aida Berisha / Denmark & Italy / 2026 / World Premiere
All About the Money
The curse of old money and the shadows of the past haunt a young and ultra-rich anti-capitalist from one of America's wealthiest families in one of the most incredible stories of the year.
Amazomania
A hazardous expedition in the Amazon becomes a moral minefield in a thought-provoking film about the white man's gaze, as the project turns the camera on itself and the colonial legacy.
Nathan Grossman / Sweden, Denmark & France / 2026 / World Premiere
American Doctor
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
An Eye For an Eye
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband fights for her life in a nerve-racking courtroom thriller about life, death and the very real price of forgiveness.
Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025
Becoming Ema
A young woman defies her parents' wishes and the pressure of society, and moves to the forest to start a family close to nature. But the road to becoming herself is long and difficult.
Patricia Drati / Denmark, Spain & Slovakia / 2026 / World Premiere
Burning Voice
Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.
Anna Bruun Nørager / Denmark & Iraq / 2026 / World Premiere
Cambodian Beer Dreams
What happens to people, ethics, and morals when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed in a poor and corrupt country with few restrictions? One man takes up the fight against a corrupt system.
Laurits Nansen / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2026 / World Premiere
Celestis Obscura
Falkenstrøm’s work aligns the Gold Rush with today’s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth’s inequalities across the solar system.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Christiania
Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Dark Rooms
'Dark Rooms' invites intimate exploration across virtual spaces where real stories of sexual awakening ask us to confront taboos, and move beyond shame and prejudice into the realm of unspoken desire and personal liberation.
Mads Damsbo & Laurits Flensted-Jensen / Denmark, Germany & Taiwan / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Dreaming of Serenada
Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father’s rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.
Katrine Weber / Uganda, Denmark & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
Errabonda
An experimental and beautiful 16mm film about an organic Italian farm, where soil, weeds, and microbes leave their mark on both the fields and the film itself.
Emma Harris / Denmark & Italy / 2026 / World Premiere
Errabonda + White Hot Iron Rainbow + Some of You Fucked Eva + The Red Line + “Cone Unit”
Five bold short films by contemporary artists about bodies, boundaries and systems under pressure.
Fahrenheit
In a strange musical autopsy of post-war Iraq, a waiter's daily routine is relentlessly monitored. Her movements take center stage to Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Kamil Dossar / Iraq & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Four stories from the Nordic region paint a picture of a changing natural world, where the elements rage and where being prepared proves to be much more than sandbags and fire extinguishers.
Ewa Cederstam, Janne Lindgren, Rógvi Rasmussen & Phie Ambo / Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere
From this Day Forth
A highly cinematic hybrid reflection on the fragility of life in which a director explores the boundaries of the documentary form with an actor.
Jonatan Egholm Keis / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
From This Day Forth + Where Ever You Are + You Say That You’re Staying at the Party Because You’re Having Fun + Three of Cups
Four short films about love, rupture and fragile connections: 'From This Day Forth' by Jonatan Egholm Keis, 'Where Ever You Are' by Jenna Mangulad, 'You Say That You’re Staying at the Party Because You’re Having Fun' by Siri Hammarén and 'Three of Cup' by Mário Macedo.
Homesick
A Danish-Korean director explores her life as an adopted child and discovers a family history full of shadows, stretching from the west coast of Denmark to the mountains of South Korea.
Taekyung Tanja In Wol Sørensen / Denmark, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
If Luck Will Come
Through beautiful images and with a camera at eye level with its young protagonists, we gain a rare insight into what it means to grow up in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power.
Camille Bildsøe / Denmark, Iceland & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
Jenny – A story on Lydmor
An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.
Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Joan of Arc
As the seasons change, three young siblings build a knight figure as a target in a field on the edge of the world. A minimalist and very funny film by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
Just Look Up
Michael Greenberg is a defiant young visionary and climate activist in the US. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, lightning intelligence, and the charisma of a young Bob Dylan, he is rallying a generation in the fight for a livable future.
Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey / United States & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
King Hamlet
Filmmaker Elvira Linds returns with a deeply personal portrait of her husband, actor Oscar Isaac, who is facing the most difficult role of his life.
Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere
Landmarks
The murder of a defenseless leader of an indigenous people draws parallels to decades of land theft and centuries of colonialism in Lucrecia Martel's documentary debut.
Lucrecia Martel / Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands & Denmark / 2025
Little Sinner
20 years of deeply personal recordings compiled into a raw and unfiltered journey from Damascus to Denmark, depicting a Syrian woman's relentless struggle against violence, betrayal, and her own past.
Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Lynetteholm on Trial
The climate movement and two lawyers are challenging the Danish state in a high-profile court case to stop a new artificial peninsula in Copenhagen Harbor.
Naja Andersen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Menopause Mystery
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
Louise Unmack Kjeldsen / Denmark, Norway & Germany / 2026 / World Premiere