Films
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.
Neo Sora / Japan / 2023
Silent Trees
A 16-year-old Kurdish refugee girl is stranded in an icy pine forest between Belarus and Europe with her family in a dirty political power play. She has only one choice: to grow up in an instant and save her family.
Agnieszka Zwiefka / Poland, Germany & Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Single File + Silent Night + Efforts of Nature + No Exorcism Film
Four short works nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
Simon Liu, Jonathan Schaller, Philipp Schaeffer, Morgan Quaintance & Komtouch Napattaloong / Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Germany & Thailand
Sofina
Live recordings, everyday notes and vocal music intertwine in an audiovisual project where every digital line and musical note are creative expressions of a shared grief.
Albert R. Hildebrand & Tobias Laust Hansen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere
Sofina + Altid/Aldrig noget andet
The debut from the group 'A Good Year', consisting of video artist Albert Hildebrand and composer and producer Tobias Laust known from bands like Liss and Goss + A poetic collage film by Lydmor and Sebastian Cordes.
Albert R. Hildebrand, Tobias Laust Hansen, Jenny Rossander & Sebastian Cordes / Denmark
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
The incredible story of how jazz music and soft power were used on both fronts of America's ideological battles during the Cold War - including in the Congo. An epic, original and supremely stylish trip through the 20th century from an original angle.
Johan Grimonprez / Belgium, France & Netherlands / 2024
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In his first documentary, music video legend Anton Corbijn tells the wild story of the visionary album cover designers behind Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many others. The rockumentary of the year!
Anton Corbijn / United Kingdom / 2022 / European Premiere
Stephen
A young actor in rehab is cast as a gambler in a crime thriller based on a film from 1901. Realities are layered in a British visual artist's performative film about the risk - and freedom - of letting go of yourself and becoming someone else.
Melanie Manchot / United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere
Sting Like a Bee
A warmhearted and beautiful hybrid film about a group of Italian teenagers flirting their way through the summer on their three-wheeled, self-styled Piaggio Ape mopeds. Love, sex and young dreams come together in a film-within-the-film about the young heroes.
Leone Balduzzi / Italy / 2023 / International Premiere
Stray Bodies
Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.
Elina Psykou / Greece, Switzerland, Italy & Bulgaria / 2024 / International Premiere
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
One of the biggest audience favourites of the year is a genuinely gripping and truly epic film about the man who first became Superman and then became a real-life superhero after a tragic accident changed his life forever.
Peter Ettedgui & Ian Bonhôte / United Kingdom / 2024 / European Premiere
Tales of a Nomadic City
The exhibition is a palimpsest of material from the ongoing research-based project Tales of a Nomadic City by anthropologist and visual artist Christian Vium (March 14 - April 20).
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Teaches of Peaches
Fuck the pain away! 20 years after queer musician Peaches kicked off the new millennium, she's embarking on an anniversary tour - and she's armed with bare breasts, a razor-sharp entourage and a prophetic fuck you to the patriarchy.
Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
Tell Them About Us
A group of delightful teenage girls who have all fled to Germany find their own creative ways to overcome hidden discrimination in a film about friendship, sisterhood and living your dreams.
Rand Beiruty / Germany & Jordan / 2024 / World Premiere
Thank You Very Much
Andy Kaufman was the favourite comedian of all the other comedians. The story of his life is an endlessly fascinating and entertaining trip through the mind of a brilliant, tragic and extreme human being with an unsurpassed sense of humour.
Alex Braverman / United States / 2023
The Battle for Laikipia
Drought, politics and colonial history collide in a stormy and unpredictable conflict between Kenyan cattle herders and white ranchers in the vast African country. A complex and wise film about the consequences of climate change.
Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi / United States & Kenya / 2024 / International Premiere
The Black Garden
With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.
Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere
The Bones
Dinosaur fossils are worth their weight in gold in a market where serious scientists and fortune hunters vie to be first to the next big find. An eye-opening adventure documentary about bones, cash and big egos - and an absolute must for dinosaur fans.
Jeremy Xido / Canada & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere
The Buriti Flower
Enchantingly beautiful hybrid film from the Brazilian forests about the indigenous Krahô people and their fight for freedom while the outside world tries to steal and destroy their territory.
The Contestant
A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.
Clair Titley / United Kingdom / 2023
The Daughters of Fire + Man in Black
Two expressive new films by Pedro Costa and Wang Bing – screened together.
Pedro Costa & Wang Bing / Portugal, France, United States & United Kingdom
The Expedition to the End of the World
Tribute screening in memory of Michael Haslund. An epic and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white spaces on the world map.