Films
Get an overview of the films coming to CPH:DOX 2026.
Section Brainwaves: With art, society, and science as its three dimensions, CPH:DOX focuses on the brain and consciousness.
Birita
In the Faroe Islands, a family of theatre people are working on staging ‘King Lear’ with the mother in the lead role – a beloved actress who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Búi Dam / Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere
Conscious
Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist.
Suki Chan / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Creatures of the Mind
A hypnotic study of dreams, sleep and the mysteries of the subconscious. Science meets myth in a Brazilian film where indigenous knowledge sheds new light on the deep mysteries of the mind.
Marcelo Gomes / Brazil / 2025
Daughters of the Forest
Science fiction meets ancient practices deep in Mexico's mushroom-rich forests, where two female mycologists from the country's indigenous peoples seek to unite past and present across life forms.
Otilia Portillo / Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere
Finding Connection
What do you want in a relationship? And what exactly is a relationship? When people fall in love with robots, an avalanche of existential questions is set off.
Florian Karner / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
In Defense of Self
The tragic killing of a Norwegian man in urgent need of psychiatric help is recounted in a film that uses his own tape recordings as a guide to ask what happened and how it could have been avoided.
Linn Helene Løken / Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
Intelligence Rising
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Menopause Mystery
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
Louise Unmack Kjeldsen / Denmark, Norway & Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
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
Open My Mind
Experimental, psychedelic therapy is put to the test in a film that is equal parts scientific and deeply personal, with the protagonist himself serving as the guinea pig.
Marcel Wyss / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere
Techplomacy
From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.
Susanne Kovacs / Denmark / 2026 / World 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
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.
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