Films
Country Germany:
Architecton
Thousands of years of architectural history are woven together in Kossakovsky's visionary epic, a film almost almost dialogue but with images as sharp as flint and a soundtrack as massive as an earth quake.
Victor Kosakovskiy / Germany, France & United States / 2024
BØRNE:DOX: Lupus instituttet og de vilde ulve
Nature nerd Bjørli Lehrman and guests guide us through a fantastic film about wolves and their return to Europe.
Ralf Bücheler / Germany / 2023
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
A Lebanese film crew is hit by a deluge of obstacles while shooting the feature film 'Costa Brava, Lebanon'. But team spirit and a solid sense of humour win out in the end in a wonderful film about sticking together against all odds.
Democracy Noir
Three brave women are fighting to expose the corruption and incremental destruction of democracy in Viktor Orbán's Hungary - a white nationalist regime that is the envy of authoritarian movements around the world.
Connie Field / United States, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Eternal You
Can modern technology realise the dream of eternal life? Yes, say the sci-fi optimists in Silicon Valley, who are determined to make death obsolete through artificial intelligence in a film that soberly and thoughtfully raises the biggest questions - and provides possible answers.
Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck / Germany & United States / 2024
GLITCHBODIES
GLITCHBODIES:is an experimental game project that explores body transformations, LGBTQ+Draq and intimate sensitive representations of the 59 protagonists and aims to bring them to a wider audience. It is a play of transformation, a catwalk of vogeuism, exhibitionism & voyeurism.
Hollywoodgate
A filmmaker makes a pact with the devil and risks his life to tag along when the Taliban take over an abandoned US military base in Afghanistan. An unforgettable and chilling insight into a radically alien mentality.
Ibrahim Nash'at / Germany & United States / 2023
Invisible People
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
Alisa Berger / France & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
Look On the Bright Side + Dieseline Dreams + Trash The Musical
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Music
Angela Shanelec's enigmatic and elliptical reinterpretation of the myth of King Oedipus is one of the greatest works of the past year. A deeply original highlight in the artistic career of one of the most singular names in European cinema.
Night of the Coyotes
To avoid becoming a ghost town, a Mexican village invents a role-playing game that offers tourists the chance to experience an authentic illegal migration across the US border, complete with gangsters and border police.
Clara Trischler / Germany & Austria / 2024 / World Premiere
Of Caravan and the Dogs
Putin had been preparing his country for the big war long before it started. A group of independent Russian journalists and activists face severe punishment and end up facing personal and political dilemmas in Askold Kurov’s couragous and critical film.
Askold Kurov & Anonymous 1 / Germany / 2024
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Friendship, love and rock n' roll! The lives of the pioneering rock bands At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, authentically and honestly portrayed on video through a lifetime by the two childhood friends at the front of the stage.
Nicolas Jack Davies / Germany & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Reas
A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.
Lola Arias / Argentina, Germany & Switzerland / 2024
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
Single File + Silent Night + Efforts of Nature + No Exorcism Film
Four short works nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Simon Liu, Jonathan Schaller, Philipp Schaeffer, Morgan Quaintance & Komtouch Napattaloong / Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Germany & Thailand
Teaches of Peaches
Fuck the pain away! 20 years after queer musician Peaches kicked off the new millennium, she's embarking on an anniversary tour - and she's armed with bare breasts, a razor-sharp entourage and a prophetic fuck you to the patriarchy.
Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Rand Beiruty / Germany & Jordan / 2024 / World Premiere
The Bones
Dinosaur fossils are worth their weight in gold in a market where serious scientists and fortune hunters vie to be first to the next big find. An eye-opening adventure documentary about bones, cash and big egos - and an absolute must for dinosaur fans.
Jeremy Xido / Canada & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
A hypnotic film debut from Mozambique, where a young director visits his grandmother's village to measure the depths of her memories. Each moment is staged as a drama in itself in a dark and disquieting piece of cinema.
Inadelso Cossa / Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands & Norway / 2024 / International Premiere
To be an Extra
A charismatic young woman's intelligent film about making the leap from supporting roles in German TV dramas to play the leading role in her own life. A courageous piece of performative autofiction which invents its own rules as it unfolds.
Henrike Meyer / Germany / 2024 / World Premiere