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CPH:FORUM 2025 reveals its project selection, first batch of confirmed financiers and new awards
CPH:FORUM 2025 (March 24-27, 2025) will showcase brand new and exciting projects by directors such as Anirban Dutta & Anupama Srinivasan (‘Nocturnes’), Jennie Livingston (‘Paris is Burning’), Peter Middleton (‘Notes on Blindness’), Tamara Kotevska (‘Honeyland’), Maximilien Van Aertryck & Axel Danielson (‘And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine’), Margreth Olin (‘Songs of Earth’), Anabel Rodriguez (‘Once Upon a Time in Venezuela’), Marc Cousins (‘The Story of Film: An Odyssey’), Robin Petré (‘Only on Earth’), Agnieszka Zwiefka (‘Silent Trees’), along with producers such as Monica Hellström (‘Flee’), Paul Dallas (‘Invisible Beauty'), Sigrid Dyekjær (‘The Territory’) and John Archer (‘Bogancloch 2024’) - among many others!
Join the preview screening of ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ – ADDITIONAL SCREENING
We’re celebrating the release of the full CPH:DOX 2025 program on February 27 with a preview screening of the critically acclaimed and timely documentary 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' at Empire Bio in Copenhagen.
Expanding SCIENCE – From a Festival Program to a Year-Round Initiative
When CPHDOX opens its doors from March 19–30, 2025, the program will feature even more science. Moving forward, the festival will further engage both audiences and students in the world of science through film, dialogue, and debate – a proven and highly effective method. This initiative is made possible, in part, by the largest grant in the festival's history.
Launching the Annual Summit at CPH:CONFERENCE and introducing the curators
As we gear up for another exciting edition of CPH:DOX in the new year, we’re introducing some key updates to our signature industry events. With a refreshed structure for CPH:CONFERENCE, presented in partnership with Documentary Campus, and new, expanded venues for CPH:FORUM, 2025 promises to be our most exciting year yet.
Meet Twiggy and Warren Ellis at CPH:DOX 2025
We are thrilled to announce that both fashion icon Twiggy and star musician Warren Ellis will be coming to Copenhagen with premieres of their respective documentary films during this year's festival.
No Other Land Opens in Danish Cinemas November 21st
The winner of this year's CPH:DOX Audience Award will be released in Danish cinemas on November 21. The film portrays how an alliance forms when an Israeli journalist meets a young Palestinian activist fighting against the control and forced deportations taking place in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank.
OPEN CALL: SUBMIT YOUR PROJECTS FOR CHANGE
REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED. CPH:DOX, EAVE and IMS are calling filmmakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to submit their documentary projects in development to a tailor-made co-production training programme CHANGE.
The winning films of CPH:DOX 2024
The juries have deliberated and have reached a final decision on the winners of this year's 6 international awards, and the winner of this year's AUDIENCE:AWARD has also been found. The main prize DOX:AWARD goes to 'The Flats', while the Danish 'The Son and the Moon' will win the NORDIC:DOX AWARD.
A Cinema for All: Aspekt Office and CPH:DOX Collaborate to Shape the Future of Cinema
Telecoil loops, different types of seating and acoustic control are just a few of the things that design studio Aspekt Office, in collaboration with Sylvester Struckmann, has incorporated into the new temporary cinema at Charlottenborg, where inclusivity and sustainability are the overriding democratic focus.
Wellcome to this year’s CPH:DOX 2024 program
More than 200 new films representing the perspectives of filmmakers from all over the world: 84 world premieres, 32 international premieres and 9 European premieres are featured in this year's festival. Running from March 13-24, CPH:DOX 2024 takes off with a new nation-wide festival approach, with new thematic sections focusing on the most urgent topics of our time, from geopolitics to body politics. World premieres include films about Apollo 13, gender and Gaza, whereas the international premiere lineup includes hot Sundance titles like ‘Eno’, ‘Gaucho Gaucho’, ‘Frida’ and ‘Look into My Eyes’. Stars coming to Copenhagen include musicians Peter Doherty and Peaches as well as Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and James Marsh.
New award with The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Join us when CPH:DOX and the Danish Institute for Human Rights honor the filmmakers who portray the human rights challenges of our time.
CPH:DOX 2024 unveils competition line-up
CPH:DOX unveils the films nominated across all six award categories. The selection features 66 films in competition, among which 47 are world premieres, 17 international premieres and 2 European premieres. For the second year in a row, all films in the main competition celebrate their world premieres in Copenhagen.
THE LINE-UP OF CPH:CONFERENCE 2024 IS READY
Filmmakers Alex Gibney, Johan Grimonprez, and Laura Huertas Millan, along with industry figures Jessica Harrop (Sandbox), Marie Nelson (Hot Docs) among many others will be sharing the stage with a wide array of documentary experts and visionaries at CPH:DOX’ upcoming CPH:CONFERENCE 2024 themed ‘RE:BUILDING NARRATIVES’.
CPH:FORUM 2024 REVEALS ITS SELECTION
The 2024 CPH:FORUM line-up puts forward a curated group of projects, ranging from deeply personal to global stories, all painting a portrait of the state of our world and representing diverse documentary styles.
Join us for a special screening of ‘Peter Doherty: Stranger in my Own Skin’ and meet the legendary rock star
We mark the Danish premiere of 'Peter Doherty: Stranger in my Own Skin' with a special screening and a unique opportunity to hear Peter Doherty perform an acoustic mini-concert afterwards and talk about his years-long struggle to overcome his addiction.
Max Kestner’s 'Life and Other Problems' will be the opening film at CPH:DOX 2024
The Danish documentary 'Life and Other Problems' has been selected as the opening film at the 21st edition of CPH:DOX. The opening gala will be held on March 12 in Copenhagen at the Conservatory's Concert Hall, where director Max Kestner and a number of the film's participants will be present.
Programme launch: Unique Nation Wide Preview of 'As the Tide Comes In'
Join us for a special preview of the critically acclaimed documentary 'As the Tide Comes In' as we celebrate the release of the full program for CPH:DOX 2024 in cinemas nationwide on February 21.
CPH:DOX 2024 focuses on the body as a battleground and builds a new inclusive festival cinema
When CPH:DOX opens its doors for its 21st edition from March 13 - 24, 2024 it will do so under the theme 'Body Politics.' With a focus on everything from fertility and 'ableism' to discrimination and trauma, the festival engages in current conversations about the body as a battleground. In connection with this, CPH:DOX introduces a new cinema at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg festival center – designed to be more inclusive for guests with disabilities.
See the Selection for CHANGE 2023/2024
CPH:DOX, EAVE and IMS are proud to announce the third round of CHANGE and reveal the 2023/2024 line-up. Eight teams will join the co-production training workshop series for documentary projects from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Here are the projects selected for CPH:LAB 2023/2024
Nine new international immersive documentary projects have been selected for CPH:DOX’s talent development and training programme, CPH:LAB. The participants will go through an intense development phase and be ready to present their prototypes at CPH:DOX 2024, which takes place in Copenhagen March 13-24.
OPEN CALL: SUBMIT YOUR PROJECTS FOR CHANGE
CPH:DOX, EAVE and IMS are calling filmmakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to submit their documentary projects in development to a tailor-made co-production training programme CHANGE.
CPH:DOX stands with Ukraine’s filmmakers
In solidarity with the nation of Ukraine and its filmmakers, CPH:DOX adds three Ukrainian films to this year’s programme. A dedicated programme of seven powerful films focuses on Ukraine during this year’s CPH:DOX from March 23 to April 3.