Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
The Silo and Us
In a small Danish town, a large new art project aims to put the town on the map and boost the entire municipality of Guldborgsund.
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
The Spy Next Door
The nerve agent attack on a Russian spy in an idyllic English provincial town sets off all the alarm bells in Downing Street. What do the country's leaders talk about when the nation is under attack?
Dan Vernon / United Kingdom / 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
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
Time and Water
Iceland's ancient landscapes are changing, and for author Andri Snær Magnason, the deep changes are about more than ice. A thoughtful and existential film from the director of ‘Fire of Love’.
Sara Dosa / United States & Iceland / 2026
To Hold a Mountain
This year's Sundance winner is a sensual and down-to-earth portrayal of the lives of a woman and a young girl in the mountains of Montenegro, which are in danger of becoming a NATO training area.
Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić / Spain, France, Montenegro, Slovenia & Croatia / 2026 / European Premiere
Traces
Ukrainian women who have survived sexual violence during Russia's war refuse to remain silent. A brutally honest testimony from the female victims of war.
Tutu
A historical and inspiring portrait of South African Nobel Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who rallied an entire generation in the fight against apartheid.
Sam Pollard / United Kingdom / 2026
Underland
Three underground astronauts explore the underworld and reveal deep connections between the past and the future. Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller and narrated by Sandra Hüller.
Robert Petit / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
Waking Hours
Smugglers transport people across the border to Europe during an endless, sleepless night. A cinematic film shot in pitch darkness, which should be experienced in the cinema at all costs.
Filippo Foscarini & Federico Camamrata / Italy / 2025
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
Wax & Gold
Austrian documentary veteran Ruth Beckermann has traveled to Addis Ababa to uncover a historical truth. An essay about Ethiopia's divided past, where the questions outnumber the answers.
Ruth Beckermann / Austria / 2026
We are Stardust
What if the mysteries of life can be found in the gutter? That question drives an unusual man on a journey to explore our connection to the stars.
We Want The Funk
Get ready for a pure funk explosion! Wild stories from the 70s are mixed with sweaty bass lines, electric grooves and the kind of rhythms that get right into your feet.
Stanley Nelson & Nicole London / United States / 2025
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 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
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
Peter Mettler's visionary new film. Epic in scope, yet generous and intimate - a unique experience unparalleled in modern cinema.
Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2025
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, their journey drifting into a suspended interval where childhood quietly lingers.
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
Whispers in the Woods
The film sensation, which has sold over a million cinema tickets in France, is a uniquely beautiful and sensual nature experience with music by Warren Ellis.
Vincent Munier / France / 2025
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