Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
language-category French:
À demain sur la Lune
An ordinary woman finds hope and an unexpected friend in her last months on Earth. A sensual film about life and death, where gratitude gets the last word.
Thomas Balmès / France / 2025 / World Premiere
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
Casa
A group of 20-year-olds from tough backgrounds pursue their fashion dreams at Casa 93, a unique institute offering a last chance for some and a new beginning for others, capturing their transformative journey through an extraordinary year.
Caroline Benarrosh / France / 2025 / World Premiere
Elementary
French first-rate director Claire Simon portrays the small dramas and triumphs of a progressive Parisian primary school with empathetic gentleness. Touching, funny and thoughtful.
Claire Simon / France / 2024
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
Grand Tour
Melancholic and imaginative expedition across the Asian continent in the name of love. A new cinematic milestone from the freely imaginative Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes.
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
I Am Night at Noonday
Don Quixote is resurrected in Marseille and sets out to fight fences, gates, private property rights and general segregation with his faithful squire, an ex-criminal pizza delivery man on a scooter.
Gaspard Hirschi / France / 2025 / International Premiere
Younes Ben Slimane, Yuyan Wang & Saodat Ismailova / United Kingdom, Tunisia, Republic of Korea (South Korea), France, China, Uzbekistan, Italy & Portugal
Leos Carax & Marie Losier / France
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
Mika Ex Machina
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
Mika Tard & Deborah Saïag / France / 2025
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
On the Border
The desert city of Agadez in Niger is a hub of trade routes, migration, EU politics and the nomadic culture of the Tuaregs. A cinematic report from a human tower of babel, where dilemmas line up.
Gabriela Schild & Gerald Igor Hauzenberger / Austria, Germany & Switzerland / 2024
Red Forest
A growing group of anarchists establish an eco-activist, anti-capitalist community in a French forest. But the state has other plans. A cinematic, revolutionary film about freedom and ideals.
Laurie Lassalle / France / 2025 / World Premiere
Scars of a Putsch
A filmmaker unfolds the story behind the scars on her husband's body. The answer is the story of the 1980 military coup and Türkiye’s slide towards authoritarianism.
The Typewriter and Other Headaches
A surprisingly funny and warm tale of the most compassionate partnership in the French social sector - a deeply sympathetic duo that fixes things for people on the margins of society.
Nicolas Philibert / France / 2024
Trans Memoria
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Unanimal
An imaginative and philosophical film about the relationship between humans and animals, with Isabella Rossellini as narrator. Innovative, absurdly witty and with a genuinely creative spirit.
Sally Jacobson & Tuva Bjork / Sweden & France / 2025 / World Premiere