Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
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How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth. Here, biologists struggle to study the enigmatic wildlife that looks like something from another planet. But time is running out as deepsea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.
Eleanor Mortimer / United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
How to Build a Library
In Kenya's bustling capital Nairobi, two young women start a project to transform a colonial library into a vibrant cultural center for a new generation of young Africans.
Maia Lekow & Christopher King / Kenya / 2025
Human Race
Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.
Simon Lec / Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Hydrogen – Revolution or Illusion?
Can innovative pioneers in green hydrogen technology solve the energy challenges of the future, or is the hydrogen hype closer to wishful thinking? A film about energy, technology and science.
Eliyah Mesayer, Nanna Rebekka & Mariah Garnett / Denmark & United States
ILOVERUSS
Two artistic souls meet on the outskirts of Hollywood and a 20-year friendship is born. Illusions and realities are challenged while a raw and intimate film emerges.
Tova Mozard / Sweden / 2025 / World Premiere
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Four decades of the long, painful conflict between Palestine and Israel, presented with sober clarity and exemplary overview by the director of 'Black Power Mixtape 1967-75'.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Although Jeff Buckley only released one album before his tragic death, the man and his music are brought back to life for a while in a new and breathtaking film.
Amy Berg / United States / 2025 / International Premiere
Leos Carax & Marie Losier / France
K-Number
A Korean adoptee seeks answers about her biological origins, but ends up unravelling the shadowy side of international adoption. An existential detective film with red threads to Denmark.
Seyoung Jo / Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2024 / International Premiere
Latina, Latina
Elegant and philosophical journey through Italy where a young geologist, guided by her father's diaries, studies the architectural heritage of fascism. A thoughtful film between reality and fiction.
Adrian Duncan / Ireland / 2025 / International Premiere
Legacy
The incredible, hardboppin’ story of when Scandinavia became the creative haven for black American jazz stars - told by their children who, for better or worse, still live with their fathers' life choices.
Manal Masri / Sweden & United States / 2024
Letters from Wolf Street
How long are you a stranger in a new country? An Indian filmmaker seeks an answer in Warsaw, in an unexpected audience favorite about nationalism and xenophobia.
Arjun Talwar / Poland & Germany / 2025 / International Premiere
Little Syria
An intimate look into the lives of a group of Syrian refugees in Berlin as they fight for justice for the victims of the Assad regime. When the regime suddenly topples, new questions arise.
Madalina Rosca & Reem Karssli / Portugal, Romania & Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
Lost for Words
The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.
Hannah Papacek Harper / France & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone
A captivating IMAX film from Yellowstone National Park in the USA, where a group of biologists led by a charismatic woman set out to bring back the wolves - a project that changed their own lives forever.
Thomas Winston / United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Lowland Kids
The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.
Sandra Winther / Denmark & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Memory Wars
Can we trust our own memories? An American psychologist with expertise in the brain's ability to make up its own truths takes us into her fascinating field of research.
Hendrik Löbbert / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
Men of War
Reality surpasses fiction in a real-life action movie about a former US soldier's failed coup d'état in Venezuela - told in incredible detail by the man himself.
Jen Gatien & Billy Corben / United States & Canada / 2024 / European Premiere
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
Leo Favier / France / 2024
Observer
Can we observe the world without affecting it? An adventure in eight chapters from around the world where a group of professional scientists taking part in a playful, philosophical experiment.
Ian Cheney / United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
The true story of the mad, brilliant rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, who was swallowed by the industry and left the world too soon.
Sam Pollard & Jason Pollard / United States / 2024
One to One: John & Yoko
A lively and compelling account of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's first year in New York. A year of political and cultural turmoil culminating in Lennon’s only solo concert.
Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
The absolute frontwoman of the 2-Tone movement is a British style icon with a strong political stance and the voice to get it out into the world.
Jane Mingay / United Kingdom / 2024 / International Premiere
Pavements
Slacker heroes Pavement are back in a creative and kaleidoscopic meta-musical with as many layers as there are grooves in a record - directed with love by Alex Ross Perry.
Alex Ross Perry / United States / 2024
Portrait of a Confused Father
An unusual father/son story takes an unexpected and tragic turn in a film shot over 20 years, that turns into a (self-)portrait of a Norwegian filmmaker in the biggest crisis of his life.
Gunnar Hall Jensen / Norway / 2025 / World Premiere
Predators
Vigilante justice, journalism and ethical gray zones were challenged in a controversial TV show that lured male pedophiles into the public spotlight. But did the show cast its own long shadows?
David Osit / United States / 2025 / International Premiere
Rule of Stone
In-depth and thought-provoking analysis of Israeli architecture and the type of stone that has shaped modern Jerusalem and has been used to control the city.
Save Our Souls
A filmmaker boards a ship bound for the coast of Libya to document the crew's rescue mission: to bring migrants to safety from drowning. The operation succeeds, but an uncertain future lies ahead.
Jean-Baptiste Bonnet / France / 2024