Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Section Audience Award 2026:
Our Land
Does everyone have the right to roam freely in nature? Not in England, where eccentric landowners and nature lovers fight a creative battle over the land.
Orban Wallace / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Palestinian Unwanted
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Omar Shargawi / Denmark & Jordan / 2026 / World Premiere
Penkelemes
Onyeka Igwe’s new film work is a post-colonial analysis that unfolds the complex history of a university in Nigeria, built under imperial rule.
Onyeka Igwe / Nigeria & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Petrolheads
Two very special friends on a road trip through Denmark in search of a used Honda Civic that might make life just a little bit more normal. A warm film that goes straight to the heart.
Emil Langballe & Emil Langballe / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Qajaq Man
A British chef paddles 3,000 kilometers along Greenland's west coast, surviving on nature's bounty and discovering the power of community in a country surrounded by geopolitical tensions.
Joe Derrick / Norway, Denmark & Greenland / 2026 / World Premiere
Scarlet Girls
A young filmmaker's graceful and courageous film from the Dominican Republic, where women speak openly about living in a country where abortion is banned - without exception.
Paula Cury Melo / Dominican Republic, Germany & Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere
Social Landscapes
A virtual trip around the world, with commentary exclusively from TripAdvisor. A deeply original film of true satirical wit that confronts us with a world where mass tourism has triumphed.
Jonas Meier / Switzerland / 2026 / International Premiere
Some of You Fucked Eva
A mysterious and disturbing video work about a group of American high school cheerleaders who suddenly began fainting simultaneously in a collective psychosis.
Lilith Grasmug / France / 2025
Something Familiar
While trying to help a stranger find her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into the shadows of her own family history, uncovering a dark legacy that has loomed over its women.
Rachel Taparjan / Romania & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Summer Tour
Let your hair down and join an acid-fueled road trip through the summer with two young ‘Deadheads’ as they follow Grateful Dead on their final tour.
Mischa Richter / United States / 2025
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
Space is the place! A colorful portrait of the visionary jazz composer who shaped both jazz and black Americans' self-image with his bold visions for music and humanity.
Christine Turner / United States / 2025
Takkuuk
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
Zak Norman & Charlie Miller / United Kingdom / 2025
Tamatta Ataqatigiippugut – We are all connected
Greenlandic Inuk Arina is witnessing that their ancestral Inuit beliefs are disappearing in her community, and it must be one of the reasons why climate is changing. We don’t respect Nature the way we used to, and consumerism and pollution have taken over.
Arina Kleist / Greenland / 2025
Techplomacy
From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.
Susanne Kovacs / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
The Calf Doll
A beautiful fable from India, where the inhabitants of a small village play themselves in a simple and enigmatic tale about a retired professor and his cow.
Ankur Hooda / India / 2026 / World Premiere
The Cord
Venezuela: In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from her past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.
Nolwenn Hervé / France / 2026 / World Premiere
The Futora
Connecting traces of hypnagogia, fragmented geography and childhood sci-fi media, through senses of time belonging to translucent dreams, shadows, fantasies and family owned workshops. the images drift into the peripheral glimmers of a nocturnal city and slip into another world.
Yuqing Lin / China & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
The Great Experiment
A cinematic time capsule depicting one of the most volatile eras of American history - a historical record, non-fiction experiment, and intimate observation of the state of American democracy.
Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzgar / United States & Mexico / 2026 / International Premiere
The Lives of My Father
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
Magnus Skatvold / Norway / 2026 / International Premiere
The Mother Age
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin and other female thinkers, a Norwegian filmmaker invites us on a sensual and richly philosophical journey of (re)discovery in the deep Finnish forests.
Irene Kaltenborn / Norway & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
The Park (Dancing on the Rubble of Empire)
Over two long summers, this film spends time at a community park in London and asks what it means to celebrate, play, and belong amid the rubble of empire.
Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
The Patriarch
Danish film producer Peter Aalbæk is a self-proclaimed patriarch. Now his daughters are sending him to therapy—but can he really change? A loving, funny, and merciless portrait of a threatened species.
Andrea Storm Henriksen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
The Peace Particle
Black holes. The birth of the internet. The potential destruction of the universe. The world's largest scientific experiment at CERN opens a Pandora's box of new discoveries and unforeseen problems.
Alex Kiehl / United Kingdom & Wales / 2025 / European Premiere
The Phantom Pain of Rojava
In a secret house in northern Syria, wounded Kurdish guerrilla soldiers live with phantom pains in the shadow of a failed revolution. An Emmy-winning director's portrayal of five years in a secret community.
Maryam Embrahimi / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / 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 / International Premiere
The Revolution Against Death
Joshua Oppenheimer is back with a short film about technology, self-deception, and the dream of immortality under the dazzling Californian sun.
Joshua Oppenheimer / United States, Denmark & Sweden / 2026
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 Seasons
Local fables and myths are brought to life in a film with deep roots in southern Portugal where the communal is always at the heart of the culture.
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
The Way Elsewhere
Three experienced taxi drivers roam the streets of Athens dreaming of art and new beginnings in a nocturnal and poetic film for night owls.
Eirini Vourloumis / Greece / 2026 / International Premiere