Highlights
Festival hits and front page stories. Great films, great stories, and great characters.
A Sisters’ Tale
An Iranian housewife dreams of becoming a singer, but her husband and the regime say no. But it takes more than that to stop her in a genuine festival hit, filmed over seven years by her own sister.
Leila Amini / Switzerland, France & Iran / 2024
About a Hero
A hallucinatory crime mystery where an AI version of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog must solve a suspicious death - all based on a script written by an AI.
Piotr Winiewicz / Denmark / 2024
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot
Ai Weiwei makes his debut as an opera director with an interpretation of Puccini's 'Turandot' in Rome's Opera House. The classic and controversial opera has a lot to say about our own time.
Maxim Derevianko / Italy & United States / 2025 / International Premiere
Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story
The Irish author turned taboos and traditions upside down in the 1960s. In her own words, we get the wild story as told from the inside and with zero filters.
Sinéad O'Shea / Ireland & United Kingdom / 2024
Coexistence, My Ass!
With humor as her weapon of choice, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi has provoked strong reactions with her mission for freedom and justice. A goal that suddenly needs to be defended like never before.
Amber Fares / United States & France / 2025
Dear Tomorrow
In Japan, two people have more in common than they think in a film about loneliness in the modern world, and about finding the courage to reconnect with life.
Kaspar Astrup Schröder / Denmark, Sweden & Japan / 2025 / European Premiere
How to Build a Library
In Kenya's bustling capital Nairobi, two young women start a project to transform a colonial library into a vibrant cultural center for a new generation of young Africans.
Maia Lekow & Christopher King / Kenya / 2025
Letters from Wolf Street
How long are you a stranger in a new country? An Indian filmmaker seeks an answer in Warsaw, in an unexpected audience favorite about nationalism and xenophobia.
Arjun Talwar / Poland & Germany / 2025 / International Premiere
Mistress Dispeller
One of the biggest surprises of the year is a love triangle drama from China where a heartbroken woman hires another woman to sabotage her husband's affair. A love story unlike any other.
Elizabeth Lo / China & United States / 2024
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
Leo Favier / France / 2024
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A brave and resilient primary school teacher secretly exposes Putin's aggressive militarisation of Russia's schools in one of the great documentary sensations of the year.
Co-director: Pavel Talankin & David Borenstein / Denmark & Czech Republic / 2025
One to One: John & Yoko
A lively and compelling account of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's first year in New York. A year of political and cultural turmoil culminating in Lennon’s only solo concert.
Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards / United Kingdom / 2025 / Danish Premiere
Only on Earth
A visually stunning film from Galicia where humans and animals struggle with apocalyptic forest fires during the hottest and driest summer on record.
Seeds
Depicting the lives of black farmers in the American South, this Sundance winning debut film paints a vivid and rich picture of a world in historical transition.
Brittany Shyne / United States / 2025
Tata
The roles are reversed in a brave and unusual film about a courageous filmmaker's willingness to confront her father with the violence and trauma of the past.
Lina Vdovii & Radu Ciorniciuc / Romania, Germany & Netherlands / 2024
The Brink of Dreams
Winner of the Documentary Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A group of lively Egyptian girls start a theater troupe using the city streets as a stage to share their dreams and opinions.
Nada Riyadh & Ayman El Amir / Egypt, France, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024
The Dating Game
Three Chinese men are looking for love on the dating market in China, where the one-child policy has shattered the gender balance but a celebrity love coach is on hand with advice. A tragicomic audience favourite with a heart.
Violet Du Feng / United States, United Kingdom & Norway / 2025
The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop
If you like to throw a dice and shuffle the cards, this is the winning film! Board games are more than just games n this affectionate, character-driven portrait of a surprisingly diverse culture.
Simon Ennis / Canada & United States / 2024 / International Premiere
The Secret of Me
A female student makes a discovery that turns her life upside down in a harrowing and gripping film from the team behind 'Three Identical Strangers'.
Grace Hughes-Hallett / United Kingdom & United States / 2025 / European Premiere
The Shards
A personal story about death and love in the context of contemporary Russia of the last 2 years.
The Typewriter and Other Headaches
A surprisingly funny and warm tale of the most compassionate partnership in the French social sector - a deeply sympathetic duo that fixes things for people on the margins of society.
Nicolas Philibert / France / 2024
Trans Memoria
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Truth or Dare
In the heart of Berlin's sex-positive queer scene, a collective of people come together for a game of 'truth and dare' focusing on sexuality, consent and self-knowledge.
Maja Classen / Germany / 2024 / International Premiere
Twiggy
A modern fairytale from Swingin' London about the first international supermodel, told with great energy and British humour by the protagonist herself. She is visiting this year's CPH:DOX herself.
Sadie Frost / United Kingdom / 2024
Viktor
A deaf war photographer defends his country against invasion with the camera as a weapon. A visionary film from Ukraine with a subjective sound design by the team behind 'Sound of Metal'.
Olivier Sarbil / Denmark, Ukraine, France & United States / 2024
Where Dragons Live
One last summer in an enchanted family home in Oxfordshire for four adult siblings before their childhood home is sold. A charming, arch-British upper-class family story with a dash of dragon's blood and a bit of fairytale magic.
Suzanne Raes / Netherlands & United Kingdom / 2024
Wishing on a Star
Bittersweet docu-comedy about a female astrologer from Naples who offers the perfect solution to her clients' very human problems.
Peter Kerekes / Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria & Croatia / 2024
Zodiac Killer Project
The true crime genre is deconstructed in an entertaining and intelligent film with a brilliant eye for genre clichés and movie magic. Intellectual pop at its best, set against a backdrop of 70s California.
Charlie Shackleton / United States & United Kingdom / 2025