Highlights
Festival hits and front page stories. Great films, great stories, and great characters.
Minted
How can a digital artwork that anyone can download for free be sold for 69 million dollars? Get the answer - and lots of new questions to ponder - in a critical and entertaining film about culture and capital in the 21st century.
As the Tide Comes In
The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.
Bottle Conditioned
Cheers! The sour lambic beer that is experiencing a big comeback. Join us on a trip to the Flemish Pajottenland region and learn more about the process, tradition and the drama behind scenes.
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.
The Train and the Peninsula
A thoughtful and sensuous tour along Mexican train tracks on the Yutacán Peninsula, where a new, large-scale railway project threatens the indigenuos Mayan culture and the nature around them.
Copa 71
A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.
Antarctica Calling
The sequel to the international mega-hit 'The March of the Penguins' returns to Antarctica on an epic adventure with director Luc Jacquet as a familiar guide in the alien landscapes.
Agent of Happiness
How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10? Two government officials are sent out to measure the happiness of the people of Bhutan, but how are they doing themselves? A bittersweet, existential crowd favourite from the Himalayas.
Bottlemen
7,000 years ago, the area was one of the largest civilisations in prehistoric Europe. Today, it is the largest landfill on the continent. An unexpected festival hit about the men who fight a daily battle against the fury of the elements.
Tehachapi
The hardest core of inmates in a maximum security prison in California participate in a life-changing photography project with French art star and Oscar-nominated director JR.
Hard to Break
Two young Finns are fuelled by their (self-)destructive love for each other as their parallel lives on social media become further and further removed from reality.
God is a Woman
The Search for a lost film from the 70s takes a young man from one of South America's largest indigenous communities on an existential journey in a post-colonial film about the right to one's own image.
Being Ola
Heartwarming and life-affirming Norwegian coming-of-age story about the intellectually disabled man Ola, his deeply felt friendship with Danish Lasse and the need for all people to belong.
The Walk
The director of 'Honeyland' returns with a contemporary fairytale made with sensitivity and poetry as a giant puppet travels from Syria up through Europe to tell the story of migration from a child's perspective.
Cinema Laika
Cool Finnish countryside charm meets French elegance when Finland's greatest film director Aki Kaurismäki decides to build the ultimate cinema from the past in an abandoned mining town.
Swan Song
A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.
The Contestant
A real-world 'The Truman Show’ in which a Japanese man became a national superstar without realising it through a bizarre reality TV show. A story stranger than fiction, which gets a second chapter as he is looking back at it today.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
Thank You Very Much
Andy Kaufman was the favourite comedian of all the other comedians. The story of his life is an endlessly fascinating and entertaining trip through the mind of a brilliant, tragic and extreme human being with an unsurpassed sense of humour.
Every Little Thing
Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.
A Disturbance in the Force
A wildly entertaining deep dive into the Star Wars film everone tried to forget, but which refused to die and has grown to become the ultimate cult favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special.
Ibelin
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
Johatsu – Into Thin Air
In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.
Time to Gather
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
12:30
A Disturbance in the Force
Steve Kozak & Jeremy Coon / United States / 2023 / 86 min
A wildly entertaining deep dive into the Star Wars film everone tried to forget, but which refused to die and has grown to become the ultimate cult favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special.
14:30
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská / Czech Republic, Slovakia & Austria / 2024 / 90 min
+ Intro: Meet photographer Fryd Frydendahl
Before the film, you can meet photo artist and head of the photo school Fatamorgana, Fryd Frydendahl, who will introduce the film and talk about her own work as a photo artist. Fryd Frydendahl studied at The International Center of Photography in New York, works as a photographer and is, among other things, a creative collaborator for the world famous musician, MØ.
Language: Danish
A black and white (self-)portrait of a fascinating, liberated artist and the memory of her wild youthful journey from Czechoslovakia to freedom in the last decades of the Soviet Union.
15:00
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
A New Kind of Wilderness
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen / Norway / 2024 / 83 min
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.
Copa 71
Rachel Ramsay & James Erskine / United Kingdom / 2023 / 90 min
A forgotten chapter in Danish football history finally gets its place in the spotlight 50 years after a legendary World Cup match in Mexico. A film with women in all the leading roles and with all the drama and excitement you would expect from a true adventure.
16:00
+ Talk: World of Warcraft and Digitalized Bodies
Meet the film's director, Benjamin Ree, along with the mother and father of Mats Steen, Robert and Trude, and two of the Danish cast members, mother Xenia-Anni and her son Mikkel, who became closer in real life through online communities with Ibelin in World of Warcraft. Look forward to a conversation about the unique virtual world that also hides behind the screen and the potential of digital communities for people with, for example, physical disabilities, functional impairments or neurodivergence. The conversation will be moderated by journalist Maria Bülow (Sex med P3 and P3 Missionen) and is presented in collaboration with Netcompany and IDA – The Danish Society of Engineers.
Language: English
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
17:30
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
18:30
Time to Gather
Sofia Bairrão / Portugal / 2023 / International Premiere / 97 min
Q&A: Meet the directors
A sunlit and sensuous film from the center of Portugal, where an entire village has been growing cork for generations. An elegant fable about the changing times in an old world.
Every Little Thing
Sally Aitken / Australia / 2024 / European Premiere / 93 min
Hummingbirds are the fairies of nature's grand fairy tale. But for a woman who has dedicated her life to saving them from her Los Angeles mansion, the magical creatures are more than just cute.
19:00
As the Tide Comes In
Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen (Co-director) / Denmark / 2023 / 89 min
Q&A: Meet the director
The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. Still, they stubbornly cling to their identity as islanders, as they have done for generations.
20:00
+ Event: Absalon x CPH:DOX: Film and debate
Together with Folkehuset Absalon, we invite you to an evening of film and debate about the 'brown ballerina' and the problem with pink tights and pointe shoes in pink satin silk. The classical performing arts are steeped in tradition, but is there a place for classical dance in our modern world? Can the traditions and history keep up with the times? Or is it time for a change of scenery? Together with principal dancer at The Royal Danish Ballet, Ryan Tomash, professionel dancer and choreographer, Patricia Tjørnelund, and project manager and co-founder of Another Life Community, Sofie Westh, we look at body ideals and examine the body as a weapon in the struggle for representation in the performing arts. After the panel discussion, we will screen 'Swan Song' in Absalon's main hall. The conversation will be moderated by Aram Ostadian-Binai, founder and CEO of 'The Soulfuls' and creative DEI consultant. Presented in collaboration with Absalon, A
A love sonata to ballet and to 'Swan Lake' with all that it entails of hard training, low self-esteem, dreams, racism, redemption and stubborn traditions that might be in a process of change.
21:15
Hard to Break
Krista Moisio & Anna-Maija Heinonen / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere / 81 min
Q&A: Meet the directors
Two young Finns are fuelled by their (self-)destructive love for each other as their parallel lives on social media become further and further removed from reality.