Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Section Urgent Matters: Topical, political and relevant. Powerful stories from the world right now.
80 Angry Journalists
When Hungary’s largest newsroom collapses under political pressure, one journalist keeps filming, capturing the inside story of a collective stand for press freedom in an increasingly authoritarian state.
András Földes & Anna Kis / Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark & Norway / 2026
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe with her mobile phone.
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
A Russian journalist and her young, Western-minded daughter travel across Putin's Russia to confront themselves and each other with their political differences.
Zhanna Agalakova / Croatia, Netherlands & France / 2025
An Eye For an Eye
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband fights for her life in a nerve-racking courtroom thriller about life, death and the very real price of forgiveness.
Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025
Colors Under The Sky
Aya, a young artist from Gaza, lost her father and brother and was displaced with her mother to a tent in Rafah. Amid the destruction and war, she insists on composing and recording her new song.
Everybody to Kenmure Street
On a street in Glasgow, hundreds of residents flock to prevent the deportation of two of their neighbors. Award-winning Sundance hit about civil disobedience and radical neighborliness.
Felipe Bustos Sierra / United Kingdom / 2026
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
Hassan
A 17-year-old Palestinian is trapped by need amid Gaza’s starvation war. His dangerous attempt to fetch a sack of flour ends with a lone fifteen-month journey from north to south Gaza.
Holding Liat
The winner of last year's Berlinale award for best documentary is a complex portrait of how a Jewish family's tragedy on October 7 turns into a pawn in a geopolitical game.
Brandon Kramer / United States / 2025
Kabul Between Prayers
A young Taliban fighter turns out to be a complex individual, but inherited ideologies weigh heavily in a lavishly cinematic film by an Afghan CPH:DOX winner.
Aboozar Amini / Belgium & Netherlands / 2025
Molly vs the Machines
The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.
Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025
Mountain of Gold
With dollar signs in their eyes, gold miners venture into a barren desert landscape, driven by dreams of wealth and a different life. An intense documentary thriller about the gold rush in Niger.
Palestinian shorts: The Miracle of Life + Colors Under The Sky + Very Small Dreams + Hassan
Four short films from Palestine about everyday resilience, fragile hope and lives shaped by occupation and displacement: 'The Miracle of Life', 'Colors Under The Sky', 'Very Small Dreams' and 'Hassan'.
Takkuuk
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
Zak Norman & Charlie Miller / United Kingdom / 2025
The Miracle of Life
A Palestinian mother-to-be navigates the upheavals of pregnancy from the Netherlands in a deeply personal and partially animated documentary poem.
Sabrine Khoury / Netherlands & Palestine / 2025
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
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.
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