Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2025.
The Sequel to Summer Rain
An anarchic and hilarious meta-film about the chaotic struggle of a group of film fans to make a sequel to a cult Swedish film from the 90s.
Viktor Johansson / Sweden / 2025 / International Premiere
The Shadow Scholars
Thousands of young, highly educated Kenyans make a living ghostwriting papers for Western students. An exposé of a murky academic underworld that has become a billion-dollar business.
Eloise King / United Kingdom / 2024
The Shards
A personal story about death and love in the context of contemporary Russia of the last 2 years.
The Shipwrecked Triptych
Three short stories, imagining the human experience with visionary power and dark humour. Danish-Turkish artist Deniz Eroglu's debut film is work of a deeply inventive and original spirit.
Deniz Eroglu / Germany / 2025
The Silence in my Heart
A Black woman's journey through her own history becomes a beautiful and redemptive film about finding yourself after a lifetime of searching.
Lene Kamm / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The Sound of Love Letters
The frontman of the successful Danish band Ganger writes an album based on his parents' love letters, while rewriting his own life story in a charming and musical tale from the Danish West Coast.
Tammes Bernstein / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
The Tender Revolution
In a society where caregiving is rarely valued, four idealists seek to change the system from within with tenderness, love and care - and start a tender revolution.
Annelie Boros / Germany / 2024 / Danish Premiere
The Typewriter and Other Headaches
A surprisingly funny and warm tale of the most compassionate partnership in the French social sector - a deeply sympathetic duo that fixes things for people on the margins of society.
Nicolas Philibert / France / 2024
The White House Effect
How US climate policy changed course and set the stage for decades of polarization, told through archival footage that unfolds the overlooked story.
Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk & Bonni Cohen / United States / 2024
The Wolves Always Come at Night
Magnificent and cinematic docu-western set in Mongolia, where a young shepherd couple and their four children fight an epic battle against the elements to stay in the world they know.
Minha Park, Jiawei Zheng & Maeve Brennan / Republic of Korea (South Korea), Denmark, China & United Kingdom
To a Land Unknown
Two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens dream of Northern Europe. By day they hustle to survive, by night they disappear into drugs and poetry. Mahdi Fleifel's Cannes hit is a feature film rooted deep in reality.
Mahdi Fleifel / United Kingdom, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024
Tracing Light
Thought-provoking and cinematic exploration of the most fascinating natural phenomenon of all: Light. Art and science join forces to illuminate the indescribable and create a space of mystery, magic and sensuality.
Thomas Riedelsheimer / Germany & United Kingdom / 2024
Trans Memoria
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Truth Bears No Scandal
With my installation, I explore three well-known Sudanese songs with hidden backstories—songs written by males for their male lovers, and females for their female lovers. These stories, often concealed to obscure the queer side of our culture, are presented here as I believe they should be, direct and unapologetically queer.
Ahmed Umar / Norway / 2024 / European Premiere
Truth or Dare
In the heart of Berlin's sex-positive queer scene, a collective of people come together for a game of 'truth and dare' focusing on sexuality, consent and self-knowledge.
Maja Classen / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
TV-2: Kys det satans liv
Irony is reined in and truths are revealed in a warm and openhearted film about Denmark's oldest (and in their own words most boring) band.
Jesper Skaaning / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Twiggy
A modern fairytale from Swingin' London about the first international supermodel, told with great energy and British humour by the protagonist herself. She is visiting this year's CPH:DOX herself.
Sadie Frost / United Kingdom / 2024
Unanimal
An imaginative and philosophical film about the relationship between humans and animals, with Isabella Rossellini as narrator. Innovative, absurdly witty and with a genuinely creative spirit.
Sally Jacobson & Tuva Bjork / Sweden & France / 2025 / World Premiere
Viktor
A deaf war photographer defends his country against invasion with the camera as a weapon. A visionary film from Ukraine with a subjective sound design by the team behind 'Sound of Metal'.
Olivier Sarbil / Denmark, Ukraine, France & United States / 2024
W.O.M.B. (Worth of My Body)
A dance performance that explores - and celebrates - motherhood in all its contradictory beauty.
Julienne Doko / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Walls – akinni inuk
Two strong Greenlandic women are united by a shared traumatic past and a chaotic present - one behind bars, the other behind a cool facade. A moving journey for justice, freedom and a second chance at life.
Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg & Sofie Rørdam / Greenland / 2025 / World Premiere
We Live Here
On a desolate former nuclear test site, three generations confront the haunting legacy of the past as they fight for survival and hope in a world on the brink of destruction.
Zhanana Kurmasheva / Kazakhstan / 2025 / World Premiere
When The Phone Rang
Memories of ex-Yugoslavia meet autofiction in a critically acclaimed film about an 11-year-old girl who receives a series of mysterious phone calls that change her life.
Iva Radivojević / Serbia & United States / 2024
Where Dragons Live
One last summer in an enchanted family home in Oxfordshire for four adult siblings before their childhood home is sold. A charming, arch-British upper-class family story with a dash of dragon's blood and a bit of fairytale magic.
Suzanne Raes / Netherlands & United Kingdom / 2024
Who Witnessed the Temples Fall
Under the burning sun of Granada, the lonely figure of the mythical Roma king Chorrojumo wanders as an emissary from the past. An enigmatic and evocative film between dream and reality.
Lucía Selva / Spain / 2025 / World Premiere
Wishing on a Star
Bittersweet docu-comedy about a female astrologer from Naples who offers the perfect solution to her clients' very human problems.
Peter Kerekes / Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria & Croatia / 2024
Witch
Danish author and self-proclaimed witch Andrea Hejlskov invites us into her personal universe of divination, spirituality and nature motifs from Nordic mythology. After 10 years in the wilderness, she finds herself in the middle of the crisis of her life.
Emil Nørgaard Munk / Denmark / 2025 / World Premiere
Writing Hawa
Three generations of Afghan women dream of freedom and change. A daughter's cinematic and personal letter to her mother takes a tragic turn when the Taliban returns.
Najiba Noori & Rasul Noori / France, Netherlands, Qatar & Afghanistan / 2024
You Need This
A revealing film about the vicious cycle of consumerism and the destructive power of hyper-capitalism. Can we break the grip of the system before it is too late?
Ryan Andrej Lough / United States / 2025 / World Premiere
Youth (Hard Times)
Times are hard for the young workers in China's textile factories, struggling with and against each other for a better future. The second installment in Wang Bing’s ‘Youth’ trilogi.
Bing Wang / France, Netherlands & Luxembourg / 2024