Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
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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
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
Fiume o Morte!
The wittiest history lesson of the year is the story of the flamboyant Italian poet and fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio, who conquered a Croatian town and declared war on his own country.
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In a public hospital in Milan, the progressive Dr. Maurizio Bini gives advice to childless couples and transgender people. But his stubborn fight for his patients' rights faces political opposition.
Gianluca Matarrese / France, Italy & Switzerland / 2025
Tata
The roles are reversed in a brave and unusual film about a courageous filmmaker's willingness to confront her father with the violence and trauma of the past.
Lina Vdovii & Radu Ciorniciuc / Romania, Germany & Netherlands / 2024
The Castle
Three children transform an abandoned building in the middle of Palermo into a secret fantasy world. A charming Sicilian adventure with a bittersweet aftertaste.
Danny Biancardi, Virginia Nardelli & Stefano La Rosa / France & Italy / 2025 / World Premiere
Wishing on a Star
Bittersweet docu-comedy about a female astrologer from Naples who offers the perfect solution to her clients' very human problems.
Peter Kerekes / Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria & Croatia / 2024