Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
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 Pledge
'The Pledge' is an interactive installation turning encounters with AI bias into a collective digital monument.
Daniela Nedovescu & Octavian Mot / Germany / 2025 / Danish 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 Revolution Against Death + Fahrenheit + 7 Summers
Three short films about resistance, survival and the emotional temperature of political struggle: 'The Revolution Against Death', 'Fahrenheit' and '7 Summers'.
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 Sanctuary of Dreams
'The Sanctuary of Dreams' invites audiences into a collective future-dreaming ritual, where imagination becomes a tool to envision new social, spiritual, and cultural realities shaped by shared human desires.
Pierre-Christophe Gam / France, Benin & Cameroon / 2025 / Danish 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 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 Settlers
Fourteen years ago, Louis Theroux visited the Westbank, following a group of ultra Zionists, infringing on international law by building their homes in Palestinian territory. Now, Theroux is back in the Westbank, in a post October 7th world.
Joshua Baker / United Kingdom / 2025
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
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
They (no longer) remember + Jirapo + City of Light + ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c
Four experimental short films about memory, landscape and the traces history leaves in the present: 'They (no longer) remember' by Hira Nabi, 'Jirapo' by María Rojas Arias, 'City of Light' by Joséphine Privat and 'ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c' by Anne Gry Friis Kristensen.
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
This suffocating now
Vika Kirchenbauer’s essayistic video work examines the political currents in contemporary Germany, where censorship of critical voices is becoming increasingly repressive.
Vika Kirchenbauer / Germany / 2026 / International 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
ti y l tt e dr ps ff sp c
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
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 an immersive 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 / Serbia, 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
Very Small Dreams
In Gaza’s refugee camps, women struggle to maintain their dignity and health amid inhumane conditions, where even the simplest needs become a daily battle for survival.
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