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 JESSICA KINGDON

Join us for A DIALOGUE ON CRAFT with the Academy Award nominated Syrian Kurdish filmmakers Talal Derki and Heba Khaled (Of Fathers and Sons) in conversation with Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winner Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi (5 Broken Cameras), discussing their most recent films Under the Sky of Damascus (2023) and Innocence (2023), featured by this year’s CPH:DOX post their Berlinale and Venezia premiere. The filmmakers will discuss the challenges and creative obstacles of making politically critical films in their war-thorn home countries, whose respective regimes fail in guaranteeing freedom and equality to all its citizens. While the world turns away from the old news, their filmmaking keeps challenging deeply grounded power structures of the status quo.

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.

Keep an eye out for the eyeballs we are missing out!
Making a point of the changed post-pandemic distribution landscape, the third day of the Conference will tap into understanding new audiences and innovative ways to reach and engage them! We open a discussion of forgotten audience demographics and ways to make sure distribution can actually generate an income.

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.

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