Films
Subject Heia Norway!: Norwegian documentary films are having a moment these years with awards at many of the biggest international film festivals. In this year's program of CPH:DOX we have collected no less than 8 of the best new documentary films from Norway. The films are presented in collaboration with Fondet for Dansk-Norske Samarbejde.
A New Kind of Wilderness
A family who have created an idyllic self-sufficient life for their four children are forced to rethink their choices and try to (re)integrate into modern society when tragedy strikes unexpectedly. Radical life choices meet dilemmas in a moving and wise film.
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen / Norway / 2024
Lie To Me
They promised a digital revolution of the financial market. It all turned out to be one of the biggest scams in history, but 10 years and countless scandals later, OneCoin is still in action. A docu-thriller about psychology and manipulation in a crypto-age.
Baar Tyrmi / Norway / 2024 / International Premiere
Mina and The Radio Bandits
There's more than cops and robber stories at stake in this heartbreaking and dramatic film about Norwegian Mina with the kind heart who starts a radio station for (and with) prison inmates. Can she find the line between life and work when an unexpected tragedy strikes?
Kari Anne Moe / Norway / 2024 / World Premiere
Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
Three men embark on a boyhood dream of a Western adventure in search of a lost Apache tribe in Mexico, but end up in a very different place than they had planned. A thought-provoking film about being out of place - and about realising it along the way.
Håvard Bustnes / Norway, Finland, United States & Mexico / 2024 / World Premiere
The Mum in Me
A sensitive and scientific analysis of infertility as a social phenomenon that will make you blush if you have ever asked your colleague when they are going to have children.
Hilde Merete Haug / Norway / 2023
The Recovery Channel
A filmmaker who has been set back by her own brother's decades-long battle with the mental health system, invents a fictional TV channel to expose the injustices of modern psychiatric treatment.
Ellen Ugelstad / Norway / 2023 / International Premiere