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 ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS

Award-winning director, producer and writer Roger Ross Wiliams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award. He is having a banner year with the release of a new TV series (The 1619 Project, 2023), fiction film (Cassandro, 2023) and documentary, playing this year at CPH:DOX, Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023). Williams will discuss how he navigated the different creative and logistic demands of these projects.

The Symposium roundtable discussions will take place on Wednesday March 22, 10:00-12:00 at the Odd Fellow Palace Concert Hall, Bredgade 28, 1260 Copenhagen and will be accessible only to invited contributors.

join us for A DIALOGUE ON CRAFT with Emmy-nominated, Sundance winning independent Chinese filmmaker Jialing Zhang, discussing her newest film Total Trust (2023), with the authors of the The Hostage Takers (2023), award-winning investigative journalists and filmmakers Puk Damsgård and Søren Klovborg, whose films are competing against each other at CPH:DOX’s F:ACT Award competition. The filmmakers will discuss ways they obtained access to secret and politically sensitive information, maintained the security of the protagonists and the shoot itself, but also figure out how to use controversial materials and come up with nuanced stories that make the audience consider more than one perspective.

DocuMentality’s focus group during CPH:DOX will explore the results of anecdotal research on the mental health experiences of filmmakers working in the documentary industry, following focus groups carried in the UK, USA and Canada.

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.

Roundtables with industry experts and financiers.

Prior sign up required.

How to burn for non-fiction stories and not to burn out?

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 Indie Film Bergen

Together with some of the most prominent Danish production companies, we are thrilled to host yet another party that celebrates the Danish documentary film industry. Come join us for a fun evening in great company with Danish filmmakers and our wonderful international guests. 

By invitation only & online RSVP needed.