Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
premiere-type International Premiere:
Adam’s Apple
A mother has followed her transgender teenager through a camera lens for two decades. A touching, intimate, and eye-opening account of parents, children, and butterflies spreading their wings.
Amy Jenkins / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
Amadou & Mariam – The Blind Couple From Mali
The unlikely love story of two blind Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam, who have toured all over the world. Now they are returning home to Mali to play a big concert and record one last album.
Ryan Marley / Canada / 2026 / International Premiere
American Doctor
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Boy Cried Wolf
Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority and obedience.
Max Göran / Germany & Sweden / 2026 / International Premiere
Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control.
Kakia Konstantinaki / Greece / 2025 / International Premiere
Celestis Obscura
Falkenstrøm’s work aligns the Gold Rush with today’s space race, examining how corporate power in asteroid and lunar exploitation threatens to replicate Earth’s inequalities across the solar system.
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm / Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
City of Light
The earth beneath Paris is a twilight world of fungi, data centers, and secret communities that meet in silence beneath the city. An underground network of connections is mapped out in a dark film.
Joséphine Privat / France / 2025 / International Premiere
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me
A woman is separated from her newborn twins during the war in Gaza. A filmmaker follows her for 16 long months as war and chaos rage and her children take their first steps far away.
Mohammed Sawwaf / Palestine, Qatar & Netherlands / 2025 / International Premiere
here and not here
A cinematic diary from the West Bank and the Golan Heights – places caught between occupation, oppression, and a lived, collective experience.
Andrea Zimmerman / Palestine & United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
In Full Agreement
The ideological war between Russia and the West takes on a highly dramatic form in Finland, where three Russian women are locked in a bitter dispute over Putin's regime and their own heritage.
Panu Suuronen / Finland / 2025 / International Premiere
Inside: The Childhood of an Artist
An evocative multisensory biography capturing the moment artist Judith Scott’s life changed forever.
Sacha Wares / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Kikuyu Land
A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere
King Hamlet
Filmmaker Elvira Linds returns with a deeply personal portrait of her husband, actor Oscar Isaac, who is facing the most difficult role of his life.
Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
The world-renowned author, who survived a brutal assassination attempt, confronts his past in a deeply personal account of the struggle for freedom of expression by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Alex Gibney / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
Like Any Other Mortal
On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.
Maria Molina Peiró / Netherlands & Spain / 2026 / International Premiere
My Tent Is Not a Shelter
Stitched from the artist's own clothes, a fragile tent becomes a haunting memorial for Gaza, and a powerful symbol for people who are still living in tents over the rubble of their destroyed homes.
Mohamed Jabaly / Norway & Palestine / 2026 / International Premiere
Nurses come and go, but none for me
His father's diaries from his final months in hospital, minimalistically staged by artist Ed Atkins and by Steven Zultanski as a performative film in two acts.
Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Our Flag
The story of Greenland's national flag is a story of cultural identity, pride, and unity. In ‘Our Flag’, we meet the artist who created the iconic motif of a red sun rising over the sea.
Johannes Müller / Greenland / 2025 / International Premiere
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
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
Phantoms
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Netherlands & Thailand / 2025 / International 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
Stormbound
Visually stunning IMAX film about the world's most powerful tornadoes and hurricanes – depicted from the inside by a photographer who is himself living on borrowed time. A sublime experience with an unexpected love story at its dark heart.
Miko Lim / United States / 2025 / International Premiere
The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist
AI is changing the world as we know it. An Oscar-winning director asks all the questions that keep him awake at night in a compelling and urgent film with great creative energy.
Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
The Arctic Circle of Lust
In Finland, a middle-aged couple of potato farmers must agree on the rules for living together, as the man's bisexuality puts the limits of their love to the test.
Markku Heikkinen / Finland, Germany & Sweden / 2026 / International 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 History of Concrete
The man behind the beloved HBO series ‘How To with John Wilson' makes his feature film debut with a hilarious and quirky exploration of a fundamental element of city life: concrete.
John Wilson / United States / 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 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 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





























