Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
premiere-type World Premiere:
The Red Line
A fascinating and original portrait of Stockholm's constant expansion and today's human hustle and bustle, told through a red metro line and its passengers.
Mira Campau / Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
A botched assassination. A quiet English city contaminated by a chemical weapon. Russian spies on the run. A mother of three killed. A government fearing the start of WW3. The most extraordinary true spy tale in modern history.
Dan Vernon / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
The Sandbox
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / 2026 / World Premiere
The Secret Reading Club of Kabul
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
Shakiba Adil & Elina Hirvonen / Finland & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
The Silo and Us
A group of passionate creatives set out to transform the old concrete silo on the harbor in Stubbekøbing into an artistic landmark for the town. Now the community must decide: Should the silo be torn down — or should this small town dare to dream big?
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
The Tingbjerg Experiment
What happens when a select group of young, idealistic middle-class families settle in a Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ with a dream of developing a new neighborhood?
Louise Detlefsen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
They (no longer) remember
A silent visual poem dedicated to the artist's grandfather, who seeks answers and finds new questions in the organic surroundings.
Hira Nabi / Pakistan / 2026 / World Premiere
This is Not a French Film
A young, racialised director's struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with political punch that takes you by surprise. Entertaining, energetic and intensely unpredictable.
Tom Adjibi / Belgium & France / 2026 / World Premiere
Three of Cups
A poetic hybrid exploration of love, identity, and change among three queer friends on a cold winter evening in Berlin.
Mário Macedo & Enotea / Portugal & Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
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Field recordings of the Atacama desert of Chile and analogue 8mm images explore the grainy, silent textures of sand, dust and noise.
Anne Gry Friis Kristensen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Watching People Watching Birds
Birds are an endangered species, but birdwatchers around the world are on the case in a delightful, charming film about amateur ornithologists.
Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
When Pigs Fly
Would you still be the same if your heart belonged to someone else - even if that someone else was a pig? A philosophical and quietly poignant film about our relationship with our fellow creatures.
Denise Riedmayr / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Where Ever You Are
With visual elegance, a moving hybrid story of diasporic grief and family reconciliation is told through a Filipino immigrant who wants to return to his homeland before it is too late.
Jenna Mangulad / Denmark & Philippines / 2026 / World Premiere
Where Music Grows
On a farm south of Copenhagen, young elite musicians practice the difficult art of classical music. A beautiful and life-affirming film full of wonderful music.
Katrine Philp / Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
Where the Silence is Heard
A young Chilean woman moves into an abandoned house in Valparaíso to piece together her family's history, which has been colored by dictatorship, exile, and silence for five decades.
Gabriela Pena & Picho García / Chile & Spain / 2026 / World Premiere
Whispers in May
In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
White Hot Iron Rainbow
Thermal infrared study of how bodies react, adapt, and seek connections in a world shaped by surveillance and mediated violence.
Maria Meinild / Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
You Say That You’re Staying at the Party Because You’re Having Fun
A stylish and thought-provoking courtroom drama examines sexual assault through institutional and linguistic filters as a young woman recounts her testimony twice in two different languages.
Siri Hammarén / Sweden, Denmark & Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Your Cards Are Bleeding
A performative work of fiction set in a contemporary time, where both reality and fiction itself crack open in small, unsettling ways as a couple attempts to help an absent friend move house.
Kåre Frang / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Yugo Goes to America
Three young friends from Belgrade drive from New York to Los Angeles in a Yugo – a cult relic of a car from the 1980s. A docu-comedy and a road trip with many unexpected encounters.
Filip Grujić & Aleksa Borković / Serbia & Croatia / 2026 / World Premiere



















