Films
Black Snow
A Siberian mother-of-three finds herself under the aggressive scrutiny of the Russian authorities when she steps up as a citizen journalist and uncovers a huge coal scandal. A revealing journalistic thriller with deep personal consequences.
Alina Simone / United States / 2024 / World Premiere
Blood Speaks: Periods, Power and Protest 2013-2024
Mapping the body as a site of resistance Blood Speaks is an odyssey of womanhood and defiance drawing together the real and the imaginary to trace possible paths to resilience and justice.
Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke / United Kingdom & India / 2024 / Danish Premiere
Blueberry Dreams
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 2024 / World Premiere
Børne:Dox – Corona i børnehøjde
A Norwegian and a Danish story about life in isolation during the corona pandemic - seen from the children's perspective.
Børne:Dox – Et nyt liv
In two heartwarming short films, we follow first a family's love through the chaos of war and then a brave girl's journey in Aleppo, exploring hope and love in the midst of darkness.
Børne:Dox: De største spørgsmål med de mindste
Meet the talented Ömer Sami as we screen three of his touching films, all of which depict the world through the eyes of children with a unique intensity.
Ömer Sami / Denmark & United Kingdom
BØRNE:DOX: Lupus instituttet og de vilde ulve
Nature nerd Bjørli Lehrman and guests guide us through a fantastic film about wolves and their return to Europe.
Ralf Bücheler / Germany / 2023
Børne:Dox: Verdensnyheder i børnehøjde
Mads Køngerskov has travelled all over the world for DR Nyheder with his camera, telling visual stories and with his special eye for children, he has collected his best stories that give insight into children's lives across the globe.
Mads Køngerskov / Denmark / 2023
Bottle Conditioned
Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.
Jerry Franck / United States / 2023
Bottlemen
7,000 years ago, the area was one of the largest civilisations in prehistoric Europe. Today, it is the largest landfill on the continent. An unexpected festival hit about the men who fight a daily battle against the fury of the elements.
Bravehearts
The first two years in Denmark's only crisis centre for young people under 18. Joannahuset gives vulnerable young people a temporary home and a helping hand in the fight against a bureaucracy that doesn't always listen to them.
Mette Korsgaard / Denmark / 2023 / World Premiere
Burning Out
Dad humour is declared a thing of the past at a fire station in Amsterdam, where diversity must be promoted and employees must learn to interact with each other anew. A witty and human film about finding yourself in a time of cultural upheaval where fires still need to be put out.
Saskia Gubbels / Netherlands / 2023 / International Premiere
Bushman
A Nigerian man embarks on an adventure in 1960s San Francisco in this rediscovered sensation, which blends documentary and fiction, and manages to collapse and reinvent itself along the way. The greatest rediscovery of the last year, screened in a newly restored version.
David Schickele / United States / 1971
Bye Bye Tiberias
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
Can’t Feel Nothing
An eye-opening film about numbness in the age of social media. The diagnosis is alarming, but it is made with understated humour and energy by director David Borenstein, himself a screen zombie in digital rehab.
David Borenstein / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Carlos
The life of guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana from his childhood in Mexico to international stardom, according to the 76-year-old legend himself.
Rudy Valdez / United States / 2023
Cinema Laika
Cool Finnish countryside charm meets French elegance when Finland's greatest film director Aki Kaurismäki decides to build the ultimate cinema from the past in an abandoned mining town.
Copa 71
A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.
Rachel Ramsay & James Erskine / United Kingdom / 2023
Core Memory
A simple and beautiful film about a three-year-old girl spending an afternoon in her own company, with a jar of colour at hand and her own body as a canvas.
Patricia Drati / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Core Memory + You Are Closer To God When You Do Not Indulge + My Next Door Neighbours + Finale
Four artistic Danish short films screened together.
Patricia Drati, Tore Hallas, Maia Torp Neergaard & Marlene Lyngstad / Denmark
Dance First
Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning documentarian James Marsh's biopic on the life and works of the literary genius. The man behind the myth is portrayed with humour and irony.
James Marsh / United Kingdom, Hungary & Belgium / 2023
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
A Lebanese film crew is hit by a deluge of obstacles while shooting the feature film 'Costa Brava, Lebanon'. But team spirit and a solid sense of humour win out in the end in a wonderful film about sticking together against all odds.
Daughter of Genghis
A seven-year odyssey through Mongolia's underworld with nationalist gang leader, hardcore feminist and single mum Gerel, who wears a black balaclava and fights for a racially pure Mongolia and to look after her son Temuulen.
Kristoffer Juel Poulsen, Christian Als & Knud Brix / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2024 / World Premiere