Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
language-category Arabic:
American Doctor
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Bouchra
An animated autofiction from Morocco, in which a queer filmmaker calls home from NYC to her mother in Casablanca to talk things out. Truly original, and truly cool.
Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025
Burning Voice
Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.
Anna Bruun Nørager / Denmark & Iraq / 2026 / World Premiere
Cinema Kawakeb
A visit to a worn-out backyard cinema in Jordan, where the two employees and their only regular customer become the protagonists in a witty and politically poignant course in filmmaking.
Colors Under The Sky
Aya, a young artist from Gaza, lost her father and brother and was displaced with her mother to a tent in Rafah. Amid the destruction and war, she insists on composing and recording her new song.
Do You Love Me
Lebanese festival hit that paints a fragmented portrait of a country, a city, and a people. A cinematic love letter to Lebanon - and a virtuoso act of creative filmmaking.
Dream of Another Summer
A dreamlike exploration of Beirut as a state of mind, where every shadowy image is a moving photograph and the intimacy is like lines in a diary.
Irene Bartolomé / Spain & Lebanon / 2026 / World Premiere
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me
A woman is separated from her newborn twins during the war in Gaza. A filmmaker follows her for 16 long months as war and chaos rage and her children take their first steps far away.
Mohammed Sawwaf / Palestine, Qatar & Netherlands / 2025 / International Premiere
Hassan
A 17-year-old Palestinian is trapped by need amid Gaza’s starvation war. His dangerous attempt to fetch a sack of flour ends with a lone fifteen-month journey from north to south Gaza.
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
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
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
My Father and Qaddafi
A Libyan diplomat disappears under mysterious circumstances after breaking with Gaddafi. Decades later, his daughter seeks the truth about her father's disappearance and a brutal regime.
Jihan / Libya & United States / 2025
One in a Million
Ten years in the life of an extraordinary young girl, from her escape from Syria to Germany with her family, where she grows up and becomes a young woman. A captivating film about exile, hope and dreams.
Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes / United Kingdom & Germany / 2026
Out of School
In a remote village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a brother and sister are forced out of education before their childhood is over.
Hind Bensari / Morocco & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Palestinian shorts: The Miracle of Life + Colors Under The Sky + Very Small Dreams + Hassan
Four short films from Palestine about everyday resilience, fragile hope and lives shaped by occupation and displacement: 'The Miracle of Life', 'Colors Under The Sky', 'Very Small Dreams' and 'Hassan'.
Palestinian Unwanted
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Omar Shargawi / Denmark & Jordan / 2026 / World Premiere
The Miracle of Life
A Palestinian mother-to-be navigates the upheavals of pregnancy from the Netherlands in a deeply personal and partially animated documentary poem.
Sabrine Khoury / Netherlands & Palestine / 2025
The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire)
Over two long summers, this film spends time at a community park in London and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.
Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
The Sandbox
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / 2026 / World Premiere
The Tingbjerg Experiment
What happens when a select group of young, idealistic middle-class families settle in a Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ with a dream of developing a new neighborhood?
Louise Detlefsen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Very Small Dreams
In Gaza’s refugee camps, women struggle to maintain their dignity and health amid inhumane conditions, where even the simplest needs become a daily battle for survival.