Films
Laughing Day
A quirky hybrid film that employs understated humour and spontaneous encounters to explore the healing power of conversation and its ability to break down both internal and external boundaries.
Lars Emil Leonhardt & Brendan Cooney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Life and Other Problems
The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya.
Max Kestner / Denmark, Sweden & United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere
Magic Mud
Star geologist Minik Rosing loves mud. Especially Greenlandic mud, also known as glacial rock flour - but can he prove that this magical mud can really save both the climate and solve global inequality?
Jakob Gottschau / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Our Father Wears a Sun
A brother and sister's loving, poetic and personal film poem to their late father, Danish actor Søren Spanning.
Jasper Spanning & Rosalinde Mynster / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Palm Oil in the Land of Orangutans
Copenhagen Zoo is partnering with a palm oil plantation in Borneo to shift production in a sustainable direction.
Dan Säll / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Silent Trees
A 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl is stranded in an icy pine forest between Belarus and Europe with her family in a dirty political power play. She has only one choice: to grow up in an instant and save her family.
Agnieszka Zwiefka / Poland, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Sofina
Live recordings, everyday notes and vocal music intertwine in an audiovisual project where every digital line and musical note are creative expressions of a shared grief.
Albert R. Hildebrand & Tobias Laust Hansen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Sofina + Altid/Aldrig noget andet
The debut from the group 'A Good Year', consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust known from bands like Liss and Goss + A poetic collage film by Lydmor and Sebastian Cordes.
Albert R. Hildebrand, Tobias Laust Hansen, Jenny Rossander & Sebastian Cordes / Denmark
The Expedition to the End of the World
Tribute screening in memory of Michael Haslund. An epic and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white spaces on the world map.
The Lost Notebook
The discovery of a diary with meticulous records of a Hungarian man's 2,158 visits to the cinema becomes a tale of a divided family held together by a shared love of film.
Ida Marie Gedbjerg Sørensen / Denmark & Hungary / 2024 / World Premiere
The Nature of Grief
A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.
Sami Saif / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
The Sky Above Zenica
In the centre of Europe, one of the world's three most polluted cities has united its citizens in a common fight for a viable future. But money, power and environmental politics prove to be as toxic an opponent as the factory smoke that clouds the city.
Nanna Frank Møller & Zlatko Pranjic / Bosnia and Herzegovina & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
The Son and the Moon
A Danish-Iranian filmmaker's brave and honest journey through six years of cancer, love and a life project of mapping her family's dramatic history. Existential poetry with an unforgettable woman in front of (and behind) the camera.
Roja Pakari / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
The Unfair Body Fight
It's a paradox that the world's population is getting fatter and fatter when many dream of being thin. Why can't weight be controlled?
Mette Korsgaard / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Trans Hero
Charli, Nya, Chris, Alia and Milo are children. They tell their own stories in their own voices about being between genders - surrounded by family and love.
Sol Amanda Wendel & Evo Smilla S. Sidney / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet / United Kingdom, Denmark & United States / 2024 / World Premiere
Two Suns + You, My, Omma, Mama + Lichens are the Way
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
SUPERFLEX , Laure Prouvost & Ondřej Vavrečka / Denmark, Marshall Islands, Belgium, France, Austria, Czech Republic & Slovakia