Presentations and Networking Roundtables

A discussion with ASIF KAPADIA

Asif Kapadia likes a good challenge whether he’s working in fiction, documentary or in between. When making his biography Senna (2010), he made the bold choice to stick exclusively to archival footage to tell the race car driver’s story. For his Oscar-winning portrait of Amy Winehouse, he transformed our understanding of a life distorted by tabloid journalism. His new film Creature (2022), playing at CPH:DOX, captures a dance performance choreographed by Akram Khan in a way that “succeeds in making dance feel accessible and intimate” (Deadline). Kapadia will discuss this new work and why he pushes himself to try new things.

Join Doc Society’s Queer Now Lab to hear from leaders in the genderqueer film space about their thoughts on LGBTQ+ storytelling: where we’ve been, where we’re going, and where we need to be. What do filmmakers want from the field? What kinds of stories are useful to the queer rights movement? We’ll dig in deep for a candid conversation.

Moderated by Tabitha Jackson.

Join us for A DIALOGUE ON CRAFT with the Academy Award nominated, award-winning Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi (Mole Agent, 2020) and recent Sundance Best Directing awardee, Estonian filmmaker Anna Hints. The two filmmakers will have a conversation about their most recent films The Eternal Memory (2023) and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023), celebrating their European premieres at CPH:DOX 2023.

CHANGE is our development co-production training program in collaboration with IMS and EAVE, featuring projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Eight projects developed by CHANGE 2023 will be presented for the first time at CPH:FORUM 2023 to the international industry. The Copenhagen pitch will be a culmination of a 6-month long training program, consisting of three residential workshops, the first two of which took place in Tbilisi, Georgia in October 2022 and in Chișinău, Moldova in January 2023, the third to be held in Copenhagen in March 2023 in partnership with the National Film School of Denmark.

The 2023 edition of CPH:WIP will expand and in addition to its commitment to present strong documentary films from the Nordic region, it will also showcase international documentary projects from all over the world. Each selected title and presenting team will show longer scenes from their upcoming documentary films to a dedicated professional audience followed by tailored by one-to-one meetings with interested buyers, sales agents and festival programmers.

The INTER:ACTIVE SYMPOSIUM is a unique event in which we introduce the cohort of the 2023 CPH:LAB to specially-invited festival guests from across the creative industries.

In a conference-style programme we will examine with them the creative landscape into which their new works are emerging with  a series of lightning talks from a number of festival guests.

The Symposium is followed by the CPH:LAB Prototype Pop-Up event at 19:00-22:00 at Odd Fellow Palace.

Hosted by EURODOC, German Films & German Documentaries