Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
Climate in Therapy
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution?
Nathan Grossman / Sweden & Norway / 2025 / World Premiere
Coexistence, My Ass!
With humor as her weapon of choice, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi has provoked strong reactions with her mission for freedom and justice. A goal that suddenly needs to be defended like never before.
Amber Fares / United States & France / 2025
Collective Monologue
A sensory film from a variety of zoos in Argentina, where the life and world of animals is closely connected to their human caretakers.
Jessica Sarah Rinland / Argentina & United Kingdom / 2024
Constantinopoliad
Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the work is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.
Sister Sylvester & Nadah El Shazly / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Copan
Social-realist sci-fi from an apartment block with five thousand inhabitants in the centre of São Paulo. A Brazilian microcosm about money, power and a fragile democracy.
Carine Wallauer / Brazil & France / 2025 / World Premiere
Cosmic Balance
Hour-long musical trance sessions lead a young man from a small Indonesian village to his first concert outside the city limits at a music festival in Denmark. A cosmic film about music, spirituality and heritage.
Andreas Johnsen / Denmark & Indonesia / 2025 / World Premiere
Dear Tomorrow
In Japan, two people have more in common than they think in a film about loneliness in the modern world, and about finding the courage to reconnect with life.
Kaspar Astrup Schröder / Denmark, Sweden & Japan / 2025 / European Premiere
Death Without Mercy
An Oscar-nominated Syrian filmmaker uncovers the political and human aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey two years ago.
Waad Alkateab / United Kingdom / 2024
Disco’s Revenge
From resistance to dancefloor, and from Studio 54 to 'Saturday Night Fever': Disco is an ever-evolving movement.
Omar Majeed & Peter Mishara / Canada / 2024
Rikke Luther, Emma Harris & Sille Skovgaard / Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Denmark & Greenland
Mila Turajlić, Elizabeth Lo, Martín Benchimol & Sam Soko / Serbia, United States, Argentina & Kenya
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
Elendig Software
A unique taste of a playful and brand new series about the Danish pop rock success Zar Paulo.
Freja Rørkær & Oskar Langballe Dahl / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
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
Everest Dark
A visually stunning film from Mount Everest, but from an overlooked angle - the local one. A Nepalese mountaineer embarks on a dangerous mission to appease the mountain gods who demand respect for nature.
Jereme Watt / Canada / 2025 / World Premiere
Facing War
Jens Stoltenberg's last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.
Tommy Gulliksen / Norway & Belgium / 2025 / World Premiere
Fantastic Family
A young director returns to a family trauma buried deep in the soil of her father’s garden. But what do you do when no one in the family agrees on what actually happened? A courageous film with creative energy and the will to bring the past to light.
Nicoline Skotte / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Fighter
Hard-hitting and hopeful tragedy about a Norwegian MMA fighter whose life is tied to his ability to move. But when a tragic accident sets him back, he must reinvent himself from the bottom up.
Sunniva Sundby & Mari Bakke Riise / Norway / 2025 / International Premiere
Fire of Wind
A mythological and enchantingly beautiful story from the hot, southern Portuguese vineyards, where harvesting farmers hang out high in the oak trees to avoid a ravenous bull.
Marta Mateus / Portugal, Switzerland & France / 2024
Fission
A warm film about a hot topic. Is nuclear power the future, or...? The locals of two small European towns throw themselves into the discussion in a film with humor and heart, even though the stakes are high.
João Pedro Prado & Anton Yaremchuk / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
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.
Flophouse America
A 12-year-old boy defies his parents' alcohol abuse and finds glimmers of hope in an unexpected tragedy, in a heartbreaking film from the desperate flip side of America.
Monica Strømdahl / Norway, Netherlands & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Forever We Are Young
K-pop's biggest group BTS and their global army of loyal superfans finally get the film they deserve. An epic and captivating journey around the world in the biggest fan culture of the 21st century.
Grace Lee & Patty Ahn / United States & Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2025 / International Premiere
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza
In the heart of Gaza, Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi brings together local filmmakers to document their own lives and stories.
From Here Where We Stand – 80 years with Niels Skousen
The popular Danish songwriter is lovingly portrayed by his wife and film director Linda Wendel in a film that spans six decades in the service of music.
Linda Wendel / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
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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
Girlfriend Experience
Girlfriend Experience is an interactive video installation that explores emotional distress in our hyper-connected society.
Ugo Arsac / France / 2024 / International Premiere
Girls & Gods
Can feminism and religion coexist? Inna Shevchenko of the Ukrainian FEMEN collective seeks answers to a difficult question in candid conversations with priests, imams, rabbis and other activists.
Arash T. Riahi & Verena Soltiz / Austria / 2025 / World Premiere
Googoosh – Made of Fire
Hope never fades in the resistance story about Iran's greatest pop icon: The incomparable singer and activist Googoosh, who makes an unexpected comeback after 20 years under house arrest.
Niloufar Taghizadeh / Germany / 2024
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.