CPH:DOX is warming up for next year’s festival by regularly sharing special events, films, and guests that you can look forward to experiencing at the festival, which takes place March 11-22, 2026.
True to tradition, the program will be packed with documentaries that shed light on the world we live in, seen from scientific, artistic, power-critical, human, young, experienced, unshakeable, fantastically funny, and completely absurd perspectives.
The full program for CPH:DOX and DOX:DANMARK will be announced in February 2026.
Preliminary film and events at CPH:DOX 2026
A Celebration of Merckx – With Café Eddy – EXTRA
Meet Bastian Emil and Brian Holm in a live version of their hit podcast Café Eddy, in celebration of their icon, cycling legend Eddy Merckx.
A Celebration of Merckx – With Café Eddy
Meet Bastian Emil and Brian Holm in a live version of their hit podcast Café Eddy, in celebration of their icon, cycling legend Eddy Merckx. March 16 at 20.00 in Bremen.
Adam’s Apple
A mother has followed her transgender teenager through a camera lens for two decades. A touching, intimate, and eye-opening account of parents, children, and butterflies spreading their wings.
Amy Jenkins / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
All hail feminism in black metal
As a part of 'Norden på film' we screen the film 'HEX', about the Norwegian group Witch Club Satan, and talk about equality within the metal community.
Amadou & Mariam – The Blind Couple From Mali
The unlikely love story of two blind Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam, who have toured all over the world. Now they are returning home to Mali to play a big concert and record one last album.
Ryan Marley / Canada / 2026 / International Premiere
An evening with John Wilson – EXTRA
Meet the HBO star behind 'How To with John Wilson' live at Bremen Teater for a very special evening. After the screening of his feature debut 'The History of Concrete', John Wilson appears on stage for a live Q&A.
An Evening with Juliette Binoche
Iconic film star Juliette Binoche visits CPH:DOX for a very special evening at Grand Teatret. Experience Binoche's debut as a documentary filmmaker on the big screen and meet her in an exclusive conversation about her creative process.
An Evening with Louis Theroux
Meet the genre-defining documentarist Louis Theroux in conversation with journalist Lotte Folke Kaarsholm from Politiken.
Arctic Stories: ‘Takkuuk’ – film, concerts and talk
After the premiere of 'Takkuuk' there will be a Q&A, and a concert with Tarrak and Katarina Barruk and the film's director.
Astrid Lindgren’s war diaries - Film and talk with Bertel Haarder
Astrid Lindgren portrait and talk with former member of the Danish Parliament and the author of ‘Sjælespark’, Bertel Haarder, about our collective cultural values in the Nordics.
Bouchra
An animated autofiction from Morocco, in which a queer filmmaker calls home from NYC to her mother in Casablanca to talk things out. Truly original, and truly cool.
Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025
Boy George & Culture Club
The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.
Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
Broken English
The legendary Marianne Faithfull's extraordinary life, told by herself and accompanied by George MacKay, Tilda Swinton, and Nick Cave in a deeply original film by the duo behind ‘20,000 Days on Earth’.
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025
Burning Voice
Alongside her studies, 35-year-old Tamara Amer is fighting a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq where she grew up.
Anna Bruun Nørager / Denmark & Iraq / 2026 / World Premiere
Burning Voice (film) + Luna Ersahin (solo concert)
Experience the premiere of the Danish documentary 'Burning Voice', a harsh and political film about women's rights, identity, and the price of speaking out. Through one woman's personal story, the film depicts negative social control and the oppression of women around the world. After the screening, the evening will continue with a concert by Luna Ersahin from the band AySay!
Celtic Utopia
What does Irish folk music sound like in 2026? There are as many answers to that question as there are singers in the countless pubs where the genre is still kept alive throughout Ireland today.
Everybody to Kenmure Street
On a street in Glasgow, hundreds of residents flock to prevent the deportation of two of their neighbors. Award-winning Sundance hit about civil disobedience and radical neighborliness.
Felipe Bustos Sierra / United Kingdom / 2026
Fairuz Tribute: Film Screening and Concert with Dana Alshihaby at the David Collection
Experience an intimate concert with Dana Alshihaby, accompanied by oud player Bilal Irshed, at the David Collection – an atmospheric tribute to Lebanon and Fairuz's enduring legacy.
Final Night Folk! Newport Folk Festival film + mini concert with Geo Pjäserna
In keeping with tradition, we conclude this year's CPH:DOX with music at the Bremen Theater: a film about the legendary Newport Folk Festival, followed by a mini-concert in the same spirit with the sensational Danish duo Geo Pjäserna.
Football was better in the good old days – with Morten Bruun
Football was simply better back when players drank tea in the locker room, had mud under their boots, and mirrored themselves in the people in the stands. Following the screening of the epic portrait film ‘Kenny Dalglish’, CPH:DOX invites you to take part in a nostalgic and insightful conversation with Morten Bruun about the lost era of football.
In-I In Motion
Juliette Binoche visits CPH:DOX with her debut film as director: An intimate film about the demanding creative process of developing a dance performance with herself on stage.
Juliette Binoche / France / 2025
Indulge Your Senses with Classical Music, Film, and Homemade Finger Food
Allow yourself to be teleported directly from Park Bio in Østerbro to Jacob Shaw's musical farm – Scandinavian Cello School - in Stevns when we invite you to the world premiere of Katrine Philp's documentary 'Where Music Grows' – accompanied by delicious food and wonderful music.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition – Opening Vernissage
Join us for the opening Vernissage of the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition on Thursday, March 11th, from 18:00! The Vernissage will start with an opening speech by Mark Atkin, Curator of the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, and the exhibition space will be free to explore until 21:00. Tø Øl will provide the beers!
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition + Brains in the state of suspension Performance 17.03 15:30-17:30
This exhibition slot will also include a special live performance of 15 minutes called: 'Brains in the State of Suspension', created by Kakia Konstantinaki and Nalyssa Green. This live-performed horror film explores how human intelligence depends on domination, ultimately leading to its own undoing. In a post-human world, disembodied brains awaken from cryogenic sleep and attempt to survive by possessing inanimate objects, only to discover that their drive for domination has created the very monsters that threaten their existence.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition + Brains in the state of suspension Performance 17.03 17:30-19:30
This exhibition slot will also include a special live performance of 15 minutes called: 'Brains in the State of Suspension', created by Kakia Konstantinaki and Nalyssa Green. This live-performed horror film explores how human intelligence depends on domination, ultimately leading to its own undoing. In a post-human world, disembodied brains awaken from cryogenic sleep and attempt to survive by possessing inanimate objects, only to discover that their drive for domination has created the very monsters that threaten their existence.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 12.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 12.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 12.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 12.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 13.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 13.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 13.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 13.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 14.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 14.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 14.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 14.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 15.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 15.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 15.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 15.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 16.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 16.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 16.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 16.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 17.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 17.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 18.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 18.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 18.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 18.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 19.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 19.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 19.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 19.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 20.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 20.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 20.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 20.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 21.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 21.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 21.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 21.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 22.03 11:30-13:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 22.03 13:30-15:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 22.03 16:00-17:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition 22.03 18:00-19:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
INTER:ACTIVE Live Performance by Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control. The experience is a special event of live cinema and will be performed twice on the 17th of March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for a limited capacity.
INTER:ACTIVE talk by Mohamed Jabaly
Artist Mohamed Jabaly will be present and give a talk about 'My Tent Is Not a Shelter' on the 14th of March 18.00-19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
INTER:ACTIVE talk with Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm will be present and give a talk about 'Celestis Obscura' on the 16th of March from 18.00 - 19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
INTER:ACTIVE talk with the Dark Rooms team
The artists will be present and give a talk about the piece on the 21st of March 18.00 - 19.00 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg by the entrance to the INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition. Attendance is free but with limited capacity, reserve your ticket.
Jenny – A story on Lydmor
An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.
Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
John Wilson in conversation with Louis Theroux
Meet the HBO star behind 'How To with John Wilson' live at Bremen Teater for a very special evening. After the screening of his feature debut 'The History of Concrete', John Wilson appears in conversation with documentarist Louis Theroux.
Kenny Dalglish
A captivating portrait of legendary Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish, told by the man himself, and directed by the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Amy’ and ‘Maradona’.
Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2025
Lars H.U.G. cinema concert: ‘METAMETA – A World Without Us’
Experience a cinema concert with Lars H.U.G., who will be playing live for his debut as a film director. As an extra treat for fans, he has included a handful of brand new songs on the soundtrack.
Let The Music Grow! Concert at SMK
Meet the musicians from the film as they perform a concert after the screening of ‘Where Music Grows’.
Lydmor – film & concert!
A 45-person choir, a guitarist, a Foley artist - and, last but not least, Jenny Rossander aka. Lydmor, on stage for a very special live performance of the album ‘Nimue’, after the screening of the film about her.
Mekdes mini-concert following the screening of ‘Adam’s Apple’
Come along when Mekdes plays an acoustic concert and performs a few songs from his album 'The Boy I Am' at Tapperiet BRUS.
METAMETA – The World Without Us
A journey through Lars H.U.G.'s creative mind and musical universe with the man himself as tour guide, and with brand new songs on the soundtrack.
Elias Schaffalitzky, Nicklas Koney, Edward Therkildsen, Markus Simonsen, Jacques Pedersen, Martin CitySlang Kogi & Lars H.U.G. / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Molly vs the Machines
The responsibility of tech giants for young people's mental health is put to the test in a film in which a tragedy in a British family leads to a court case where a heartbroken father takes legal action.
Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Calling all fans of ‘A Complete Unknown’! Join us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Newport Folk Festival in the years 1963–66, culminating in Bob Dylan's landmark electric performance.
Robert Gordon / United States / 2025
Nick Cave’s Veiled World
Friends, colleagues, and spiritual companions paint an intimate portrait of Nick Cave - an artist in transformation, shaped by grief, curiosity, and the search for meaning after the loss of his son.
Mike Christie / United Kingdom / 2026
Opening: New exhibition ‘Pani, so tradeł / Water that Wanders’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and launch of ‘Right Here, Right Now’
Join us on Thursday, March 12, when Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens the first solo exhibition in Denmark by Polish visual artist and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978). The exhibition opens in collaboration with CPH:DOX, which once again has its festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Program launch x Gala premiere of ‘Christiania’
You’re invited to the launch of the festival program for CPH:DOX 2026 on February 18th in Grand Teatret! We will also celebrate the gala premiere of the new Danish documentary ‘Christiania’, which is nominated for the festival’s main award.
Stormbound
Visually stunning IMAX film about the world's most powerful tornadoes and hurricanes – depicted from the inside by a photographer who is himself living on borrowed time. A sublime experience with an unexpected love story at its dark heart.
Miko Lim / United States / 2025 / International Premiere
Summer Tour
Let your hair down and join an acid-fueled road trip through the summer with two young ‘Deadheads’ as they follow Grateful Dead on their final tour.
Mischa Richter / United States / 2025
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
Space is the place! A colorful portrait of the visionary jazz composer who shaped both jazz and black Americans' self-image with his bold visions for music and humanity.
Christine Turner / United States / 2025
Takkuuk
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
Zak Norman & Charlie Miller / United Kingdom / 2025
The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist
AI is changing the world as we know it. An Oscar-winning director asks all the questions that keep him awake at night in a compelling and urgent film with great creative energy.
Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
The Ballad of Judas Priest
Put on your studded belt and leather vest! 50 entertaining years of rock history with the iconic heavy metal legends that changed the sound and style of heavy metal forever.
Sam Dunn & Tom Morello / United States / 2026
The History of Concrete
The man behind the beloved HBO series ‘How To with John Wilson' makes his feature film debut with a hilarious and quirky exploration of a fundamental element of city life: concrete.
John Wilson / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
The Musician And The Whale
An electronic composer sets out to sea, where his music evokes a deep, poetic resonance in a humpback whale. Can we communicate with animals through music?
Valentin Paoli / France / 2026
The Mystery of the Lacking Research in Women’s Health
At the world premiere of 'Menopause Mystery' you can meet the film's director, Louise Unmack Kjeldsen, in conversation with nurse Sanne Gottlieb and Pauline Maki, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Illinois.
The Peace Particle
Black holes. The birth of the internet. The potential destruction of the universe. The world's largest scientific experiment at CERN opens a Pandora's box of new discoveries and unforeseen problems.
Alex Kiehl / United Kingdom & Wales / 2025 / European Premiere
The Settlers
Fourteen years ago, Louis Theroux visited the Westbank, following a group of ultra Zionists, infringing on international law by building their homes in Palestinian territory. Now, Theroux is back in the Westbank, in a post October 7th world.
Joshua Baker / United Kingdom / 2025
The Tingbjerg Experiment
What happens when a select group of young, idealistic middle-class families settle in a Copenhagen ‘ghetto’ with a dream of developing a new neighborhood?
Louise Detlefsen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
What is spiritual armament? A conversation between Ida Auken and Knud Romer
Join politician Ida Auken and author Knud Romer as they explore the concept of spiritual armament and celebrate unity.
Where Music Grows
On a farm south of Copenhagen, young elite musicians practice the difficult art of classical music. A beautiful and life-affirming film full of wonderful music.
Katrine Philp / Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
Whispers in May
In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage, their journey drifting into a suspended interval where childhood quietly lingers.
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere