CPH:FORUM is our international financing and co-production event, dedicated to facilitating the development and financing of highly creative, risk-taking and visually strong film projects, spanning from cinema, hybrid film, visual art to impact journalism and science film projects across documentary feature films, and series.

A discussion with ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI

Independent Spirit Award nominated, Academy Award-winning American documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi presents her new feature film, Wild Life (2023), which tells the love story of Kris McDivitt Tompkins and Douglas Tompkins, and their mission to create National Parks throughout Chile and Argentina. Vasarhelyi will discuss her approach to getting guarded people to tell their stories.

Join us for A DIALOGUE ON CRAFT with visual artist and filmmaker, working across sound, cinema, sculpture, installation and performance, Alison O’Daniel, in conversation with Academy Award shortlisted Ten Meter Tower (2016) directors, Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, from Ruben Östlund’s Plattform Produktion. Bending cinematic language to portray new stories, they will discuss their meticulous, transcendental image-making, exploring the very nature of film language in their most recent films The Tuba Thieves (2023) and And the king said, what a FANTASTIC MACHINE (2023), featured in this year’s CPH:DOX programme.

with Forum Accreditation only

Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings between the pitch teams and invited industry representatives only.

CPH:FORUM observers are invited to contact and arrange their own individual meetings with the CPH:FORUM pitch teams or decision makers via our online delegate list upon login.

In times of scarcity, what does a seat at the table mean, and who gets it?
Recognising enhanced market pressures on creative documentaries, the first day of the Conference will invite the documentary community to collectively brainstorm on how filmmakers can be better equipped, empowered and freed to bring on screen nuanced stories from all four corners of the world.

Presented by The Why Foundation

WHY ARGUE? is a series of 30 minute conversations between 2 people about power structures, facts, media and the right to ASK WHY. We invite you to intimate, intellectual and philosophical dialogues as known from the French Salon tradition.

Hosted by Fremantle

by invitation only