Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
Hacking Hate
Undercover in the far-right online communities in the Nordics with a fearless female journalist. A riveting story with more than a few twists along the way, at a moment when there is both power and money in spreading hate.
Holy Electricity
Fiction and social realism merge in an imaginative film from Georgia, where a young man and his uncle come up with a bright idea: they are going to get rich selling neon crosses.
Tato Kotetishvili / Georgia & Netherlands / 2024
How Deep is Your Love
The deep sea is the last unknown territory on Earth. Here, biologists struggle to study the enigmatic wildlife that looks like something from another planet. But time is running out as deepsea mining threatens the fragile ecosystems.
Eleanor Mortimer / United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
How to Build a Library
In Kenya's bustling capital Nairobi, two young women start a project to transform a colonial library into a vibrant cultural center for a new generation of young Africans.
Maia Lekow & Christopher King / Kenya / 2025
Huk, The Jaguaress
An ancient jaguaress deity from the Amazon, reborn through artificial intelligence, calls on humanity to confront their role in her rainforest's destruction and the future of our shared world.
Violeta Ayala / Australia, Canada & Bolivia / 2025 / World Premiere
Human Race
Professor Eske Willerslev has an ambition to build the world's largest collection of prehistoric human DNA. As the collection grows, he is forced to confront the ghosts of his own past.
Simon Lec / Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Hydrogen – Revolution or Illusion?
Can innovative pioneers in green hydrogen technology solve the energy challenges of the future, or is the hydrogen hype closer to wishful thinking? A film about energy, technology and science.
I Am Night at Noonday
Don Quixote is resurrected in Marseille and sets out to fight fences, gates, private property rights and general segregation with his faithful squire, an ex-criminal pizza delivery man on a scooter.
Gaspard Hirschi / France / 2025 / International Premiere
If I Die Today
Seven years in the life of a troubled young man. From his time in prison for attempted murder, to his time as a hopeful parolee, to his fatal decision.
Camilla Arlien / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Eliyah Mesayer, Nanna Rebekka & Mariah Garnett / Denmark & United States
ILOVERUSS
Two artistic souls meet on the outskirts of Hollywood and a 20-year friendship is born. Illusions and realities are challenged while a raw and intimate film emerges.
Tova Mozard / Sweden / 2025 / World Premiere
Younes Ben Slimane, Yuyan Wang & Saodat Ismailova / United Kingdom, Tunisia, Republic of Korea (South Korea), France, China, Uzbekistan, Italy & Portugal
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Four decades of the long, painful conflict between Palestine and Israel, presented with sober clarity and exemplary overview by the director of 'Black Power Mixtape 1967-75'.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Although Jeff Buckley only released one album before his tragic death, the man and his music are brought back to life for a while in a new and breathtaking film.
Amy Berg / United States / 2025 / International Premiere
Leos Carax & Marie Losier / France
K-Number
A Korean adoptee seeks answers about her biological origins, but ends up unravelling the shadowy side of international adoption. An existential detective film with red threads to Denmark.
Seyoung Jo / Republic of Korea (South Korea) / 2024 / International Premiere
Kontinental ’25
A pitch-black comedy from Transylvania where a woman's guilty conscience sends her on a tour of an ex-socialist universe of religion, nationalism and questionable morals.
Radu Jude / Romania / 2025
Latina, Latina
Elegant and philosophical journey through Italy where a young geologist, guided by her father's diaries, studies the architectural heritage of fascism. A thoughtful film between reality and fiction.
Adrian Duncan / Ireland / 2025 / International Premiere
Legacy
The incredible, hardboppin’ story of when Scandinavia became the creative haven for black American jazz stars - told by their children who, for better or worse, still live with their fathers' life choices.
Manal Masri / Sweden & United States / 2024
Letters from Wolf Street
How long are you a stranger in a new country? An Indian filmmaker seeks an answer in Warsaw, in an unexpected audience favorite about nationalism and xenophobia.
Arjun Talwar / Poland & Germany / 2025 / International Premiere
Little Syria
An intimate look into the lives of a group of Syrian refugees in Berlin as they fight for justice for the victims of the Assad regime. When the regime suddenly topples, new questions arise.
Madalina Rosca & Reem Karssli / Portugal, Romania & Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
Lost for Words
The year's most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' bestseller.
Hannah Papacek Harper / France & United Kingdom / 2025 / World Premiere
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone
A captivating IMAX film from Yellowstone National Park in the USA, where a group of biologists led by a charismatic woman set out to bring back the wolves - a project that changed their own lives forever.
Thomas Winston / United States / 2024 / International Premiere
Love, Z
Generation Z takes the floor in this year's definitive generation portrait. Twelve young people share their thoughts and feelings about love in our time.
Anna-Sofie Uth Juncker / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Lowland Kids
The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.
Sandra Winther / Denmark & United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Matabeleland
In the shadow of a forgotten massacre, an immigrant haunted by his father’s unburied spirit sets out to break a family curse, confronting both past horrors and his own troubled legacy.
Nyasha Kadandara / Zimbabwe, Kenya & Botswana / 2025 / World Premiere
Memory Wars
Can we trust our own memories? An American psychologist with expertise in the brain's ability to make up its own truths takes us into her fascinating field of research.
Hendrik Löbbert / Germany / 2025 / World Premiere
Men of War
Reality surpasses fiction in a real-life action movie about a former US soldier's failed coup d'état in Venezuela - told in incredible detail by the man himself.
Jen Gatien & Billy Corben / United States & Canada / 2024 / European Premiere
Mika Ex Machina
Free-wheeling docu-comedy about two Parisian women trying to figure out who is behind the sabotage of their motorbike. A mischievous play with form, fiction and your expectations.
Mika Tard & Deborah Saïag / France / 2025
Mistress Dispeller
One of the biggest surprises of the year is a love triangle drama from China where a heartbroken woman hires another woman to sabotage her husband's affair. A love story unlike any other.
Elizabeth Lo / China & United States / 2024
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
Leo Favier / France / 2024