Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
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2000 Meters to Andriivka
An Oscar-winning Ukrainian director's unflinching film from the frontline, where a small group of soldiers fight their way two kilometers through a harsh landscape to liberate a village in ruins.
Mstyslav Chernov / Ukraine / 2025 / European Premiere
Abode of Dawn
10 years in a Christian cult in the Siberian wilderness, where a growing following has realized the vision of a self-proclaimed prophet. A sensational debut.
Kristina Shtubert / Germany / 2024 / International 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
Agatha’s Almanac
Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm preserving heirloom seeds. A film from a vanishing world, immersing us in a handmade universe.
Amalie Atkins / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot
Ai Weiwei makes his debut as an opera director with an interpretation of Puccini's 'Turandot' in Rome's Opera House. The classic and controversial opera has a lot to say about our own time.
Maxim Derevianko / Italy & United States / 2025 / International Premiere
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
Animality
Ai Weiwei examines our relationship with animals, from China and Egypt to the Danish mink farms. At times violent, always thought-provoking - and above all, a mirror image of ourselves.
Weiwei Ai / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
Antidote
Whistleblower and Bellingcat journalist Christo Grozev and his deadly fight against the Russian government. Premiering in a new version.
James Jones / United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Five years after her Academy-Award nominated ‘The Edge of Democracy’, Petra Costa dives into Brazil’s political inferno, brilliantly exposing the apocalyptical clash between religion and democracy.
Petra Costa / Brazil / 2024
Azza
An existential road movie from Saudi Arabia where a brave woman is determined to create a life on her own terms. A close friendship with a filmmaker opens the door to new horizons.
Stefanie Brockhaus / Germany & Saudi Arabia / 2025 / World Premiere
Becoming Madonna
Pop lovers unite! The story of ‘the material girl's stratospheric leap to fame is told in riveting fashion through unseen and unheard archive clips and interviews.
Michael Ogden / United Kingdom & United States / 2024
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story
The Irish author turned taboos and traditions upside down in the 1960s. In her own words, we get the wild story as told from the inside and with zero filters.
Sinéad O'Shea / Ireland & United Kingdom / 2024
Bogancloch
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a poetic portrait of hermit Jake Williams and his life in the Scottish Highlands. An ingenious film shot in beautiful black and white.
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, Germany & Iceland / 2024
Bright Future
A deeply fascinating time travel to North Korea, where young socialists from all over the planet gathered in 1989, a few months before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
Andra MacMasters / Romania / 2024
Climate in Therapy
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution?
Nathan Grossman / Sweden & Norway / 2025 / World Premiere
Coexistence, My Ass!
With humor as her weapon of choice, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi has provoked strong reactions with her mission for freedom and justice. A goal that suddenly needs to be defended like never before.
Amber Fares / United States & France / 2025
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
Disco’s Revenge
From resistance to dancefloor, and from Studio 54 to 'Saturday Night Fever': Disco is an ever-evolving movement.
Omar Majeed & Peter Mishara / Canada / 2024
Rikke Luther, Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Denmark & Greenland
Mila Turajlić, Elizabeth Lo, Martín Benchimol & Sam Soko / Serbia, United States, Argentina & Kenya
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
Ellis Park
Charismatic composer Warren Ellis invites us into his personal universe where he runs a shelter for endangered animals in Sumatra when he is inventing new sounds with his violin and synthesizer.
Justin Kurzel / Australia, Indonesia & France / 2024 / European Premiere
Everest Dark
A visually stunning film from Mount Everest, but from an overlooked angle - the local one. A Nepalese mountaineer embarks on a dangerous mission to appease the mountain gods who demand respect for nature.
Jereme Watt / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere
Facing War
Jens Stoltenberg's last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.
Tommy Gulliksen / Norway & Belgium / 2025 / World Premiere
Flophouse America
A 12-year-old boy defies his parents' alcohol abuse and finds glimmers of hope in an unexpected tragedy, in a heartbreaking film from the desperate flip side of America.
Monica Strømdahl / Norway, Netherlands & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Forever We Are Young
K-pop's biggest group BTS and their global army of loyal superfans finally get the film they deserve. An epic and captivating journey around the world in the biggest fan culture of the 21st century.
Grace Lee & Patty Ahn / United States & Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2025 / International Premiere
Girls & Gods
Can feminism and religion coexist? Inna Shevchenko of the Ukrainian FEMEN collective seeks answers to a difficult question in candid conversations with priests, imams, rabbis and other activists.
Arash T. Riahi & Verena Soltiz / Austria / 2025 / World Premiere
Googoosh – Made of Fire
Hope never fades in the resistance story about Iran's greatest pop icon: The incomparable singer and activist Googoosh, who makes an unexpected comeback after 20 years under house arrest.
Niloufar Taghizadeh / Germany / 2024
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.