Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Birita
In the Faroe Islands, a family of theatre people are working on staging ‘King Lear’ with the mother in the lead role – a beloved actress who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Búi Dam / Faroe Islands / 2026 / World 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
Boy Cried Wolf
Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority and obedience.
Max Göran / Germany & Sweden / 2026 / International Premiere
Boy George & Culture Club
The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.
Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
Kakia Konstantinaki / Greece / 2025 / International Premiere
Broken English
The legendary Marianne Faithfull's extraordinary life, told by herself and accompanied by George MacKay, Tilda Swinton, and Nick Cave in a deeply original film by the duo behind ‘20,000 Days on Earth’.
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025
Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede
'Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede' is a surreal, abstract memoir of Joe Bini's life as a film editor and storyteller, presented as a live cinema experience for one audience member at a time.
Joe Bini / United Kingdom / 2026
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
Cambodian Beer Dreams
What happens to people, ethics, and morals when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed in a poor and corrupt country with few restrictions? One man takes up the fight against a corrupt system.
Laurits Nansen / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2026 / World Premiere
Celestis Obscura
Falkenstrøm’s work aligns the Gold Rush with today’s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth’s inequalities across the solar system.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Celtic Utopia
What does Irish folk music sound like in 2026? There are as many answers to that question as there are singers in the countless pubs where the genre is still kept alive throughout Ireland today.
Christiania
Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 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.
City of Light
The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.
Joséphine Privat / France / 2025 / International Premiere
Coded Black
'Coded Black' is a social justice game exploring the insidious and haunting histories of systemic racism in the US and UK, revealing stories of racial injustice and Black resilience.
Maisha Wester / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
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.
Compact Disc
After years of silence, the director and his friends return to fragments of a shared youth shaped by imprisonment, revisiting memory, friendship, and the images that refuse to settle.
Rico Wong / Hong Kong & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Conscious
Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist.
Suki Chan / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Construction Site
Star architect Renzo Piano's project to renovate a cinema in the heart of Paris becomes a fascinating study in reconciling artistic vision and practical realities.
Jean-Stéphane Bron / France & Switzerland / 2025
Creatures of the Mind
A hypnotic study of dreams, sleep and the mysteries of the subconscious. Science meets myth in a Brazilian film where indigenous knowledge sheds new light on the deep mysteries of the mind.
Marcelo Gomes / Brazil / 2025
Dark Rooms
'Dark Rooms' invites intimate exploration across virtual spaces where real stories of sexual awakening ask us to confront taboos, and move beyond shame and prejudice into the realm of unspoken desire and personal liberation.
Mads Damsbo & Laurits Flensted-Jensen / Denmark, Germany & Taiwan / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Daughters of the Forest
Science fiction meets ancient practices deep in Mexico's mushroom-rich forests, where two female mycologists from the country's indigenous peoples seek to unite past and present across life forms.
Otilia Portillo / Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere
Desire Lines
An enigmatic and restless queer fable about a sleepless man who follows his brother on a cruise through the dark nights of Belgrade.
Dane Komljen / Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia & Germany / 2025
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.
Double Trouble
What do you get when you leave two aging Polish widows and inseparable soul mates in each other's loving company in a village in Romania? Double trouble!
Dracula
No one messes with national myths with the same recklessness as the Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. This time, he pulls Dracula out of his coffin in a pitch-black comedy from Transylvania.
Radu Jude / Romania, Luxembourg & Brazil / 2025
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
Dreaming of Serenada
Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father’s rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.
Katrine Weber / Uganda, Denmark & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
Dry Leaf
A modern fairy tale in which the real world is enchanted with the fabulous, cinematic inventiveness of Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze.
Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment
Elon Musk wants to lead the race to develop self-driving cars, but it comes at a price. A docu-thriller about Tesla's fatal safety breach and the mindset behind it.
Andreas Pichler / Germany / 2025