Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
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Everybody to Kenmure Street
On a street in Glasgow, hundreds of residents flock to prevent the deportation of two of their neighbors. Award-winning Sundance hit about civil disobedience and radical neighborliness.
Felipe Bustos Sierra / United Kingdom / 2026
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
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
Finding Connection
What do you want in a relationship? And what exactly is a relationship? When people fall in love with robots, an avalanche of existential questions is set off.
Florian Karner / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Flying Scents
Scientific research and artistic practices exchange and inspire new ideas in a visually graceful film about the complex connections between plants, insects and humans in a volatile world.
Antshi von Moost / Switzerland / 2025
Flying Scents + Errabonda
Two sensuous short films about body, nature and transformation: 'Flying Scents' by Antshi von Moos and 'Errabonda' by Emma Harris.
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.
Fuck the Polis
The beauty and joy of living and traveling are at the heart of an award-winning, enigmatic work by a renowned Portuguese filmmaker. A cinematic travel diary full of poetry, art, and Greek myths.
Rita Azevedo Gomes / Portugal / 2025
Fukushima
The Fukushima disaster, recounted hour by hour by the people who stayed behind to prevent a meltdown. An ultra-intense and gripping epic from the director of ‘Antidote’.
James Jones & Megumi Inman / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Ghost Elephants
German film legend Werner Herzog is back. This time, he has joined an expedition into the jungles of Angola to search for a mysterious herd of giant ghost elephants.
Werner Herzog / United States / 2025
Hell’s Army
A dissident Russian journalist chases the world’s most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe as she races to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.
Richard Rowley / Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Lithuania & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
here and not here
A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.
Andrea Zimmerman / Palestine & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
here and not here + Aerial + Boy Cried Wolf
Three poetic short films about memory, the gaze and identity in a world in constant shift: 'here and not here' by Andrea Zimmerman, 'Aerial' by Aida Berisha and 'Boy Cried Wolf' by Max Göran.
Holding Liat
The winner of last year's Berlinale award for best documentary is a complex portrait of how a Jewish family's tragedy on October 7 turns into a pawn in a geopolitical game.
Brandon Kramer / United States / 2025
I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore
Young love and intertwined lives in Taipei in a romantic and charming debut film with a colossal creative energy that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality - just like when you are in love.
Ka Ki Wong / Taiwan, Hong Kong, Türkiye & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
In the Current Of Being
A haptic VR experience chronicling the harrowing journey of a survivor of electroshock conversion therapy.
Cameron Kostopoulos / United States & France / 2025 / Danish Premiere
In-I In Motion
Juliette Binoche visits CPH:DOX with her debut film as director: An intimate film about the demanding creative process of developing a dance performance with herself on stage.
Juliette Binoche / France / 2025
Inside: The Childhood of an Artist
An evocative multisensory biography capturing the moment artist Judith Scott’s life changed forever.
Sacha Wares / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Intelligence Rising
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Jaripeo
Behind the hypermasculine rituals of a Mexican rodeo show a hidden queer desire pulsates. A festival hit about performative masculinity and the longings of the subconscious.
Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / United States, Mexico & United Kingdom / 2026
Jason’s Box
What happens when an experienced climate scientist becomes an activist? In Greenland, scientist Jason Box and his local colleagues are launching a radical project to raise global awareness.
Michael Strassburger / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
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
Kenny Dalglish
A captivating portrait of legendary Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish, told by the man himself, and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Amy’ and ‘Maradona’.
Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2025
Kikuyu Land
A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere
Killing Anna
A shocking video from Syria leads to an unusual detective story when a Syrian woman makes up a fake name to catch war criminals - on Facebook. A psychological thriller with a brave woman as a virtual Sherlock Holmes.
Sam Benstead / United Kingdom / 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
KitKatClub – Kinks of Berlin
Step inside Berlin's legendary sex club, KitKatClub in a gorgeous black-and-white film. An intimate and generous tale of freedom, lust, boundaries, and sex in all its varieties.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
The world-renowned author, who survived a brutal assassination attempt, confronts his past in a deeply personal account of the struggle for freedom of expression by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Alex Gibney / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
La belle année
As a teenager, she was in love with her teacher. Now, a French-Swedish filmmaker returns to her youthful obsession in a beautiful diary film about desire, vampires and self-discovery.
Last Movies
Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.
Stanley Schtinter / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Like Any Other Mortal
On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.
Maria Molina Peiró / Netherlands & Spain / 2026 / International Premiere
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