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
80 Angry Journalists
When Hungary’s largest newsroom collapses under political pressure, one journalist keeps filming, capturing the inside story of a collective stand for press freedom in an increasingly authoritarian state.
András Földes & Anna Kis / Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark & Norway / 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.
A Celebration of the Hidden World Beneath the Surface! First Screening
Join us beneth the surface as we screen 'Underland' in Cisternerne.
A Celebration of the Hidden World Beneath the Surface! Second Screening
Join us beneth the surface as we screen 'Underland' in Cisternerne.
A Child of My Own
A young Mexican woman fakes her own pregnancy, but soon becomes a hostage to her own stories. An incredible story, told in an equally unusual way by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi.
Maite Alberdi / Mexico / 2026
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe with her mobile phone.
A Journey Through Water and Climate Preparedness
How do we prepare for a future with more water and more violent climate disasters? Meet documentary director Phie Ambo in conversation with Maria Reumert Gjerding, president of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, and climate researcher Nina Baron about climate preparedness, hope and options for action. The conversation will be moderated by journalist Signe Iversen.
A Life Illuminated
On an expedition in the deep sea with marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder, who is on a mission to document the luminescent life forms that live in the dark - a sight no one has ever seen on film before.
Tasha Van Zandt / United States / 2025 / European Premiere
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
En russisk journalist og hendes unge, vestligtsindede datter rejser tværs gennem Putins Rusland for at konfrontere sig selv og hinanden med deres politiske uenigheder.
Zhanna Agalakova / Croatia, Netherlands & France / 2025
A Saturday to Remember: A Seven Hour Film, Dinner and Q&A
Meet the visionary director Peter Mettler at the screening of his seven hour long film 'While the Green Grass Grows: A Seven part Diary', as he hosts the filmscreening and a communal dinner.
A Song Without Home
After 11 years locked up in her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in the hope of finding the freedom to be herself. But even in exile, the chains of the past prove difficult to break free from.
Rati Tsiteladze / Georgia & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
A Sweetness from Nowhere
A performative and visually explosive film, where lived experiences take shape in a constant state of becoming.
Ester Bergsmark / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
A Very Good Boy
An aging French gay porn icon recounts a life story worthy of a novel. A beautiful and existential film that also tells the forgotten story of the gay rights movement with erotic power and style.
Sébastien Lifshitz / France / 2026
A World Gone Mad – The War Diaries of Astrid Lindgren
The Swedish author's early years during World War II, told through her own diaries in a beautiful and thoughtful film about life, death and art in the shadow of war.
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Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]
The battle for the earthly remains of Indigenous peoples is both bureaucratic and spiritual in a highly topical film by two members of the New Red Order artist collective.
Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil / United States / 2026 / European Premiere
Activism in America: The Fight for a Better Future
A conversation with the directors of 'Just Look Up' Emma Hall and Betsy Hershey, together with the acitvists from the film, Michael and Maxwell, about living in Trump's USA and why the fight for climate justice is still the foundation for a better future.
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
Alcohol, Anarchy & Ethical Responsibility
What happens when an entire country deregulates the alcohol market? Join us for a conversation with Kim Eng, the main source in Cambodian Beer Dreams, Lærke Højgaard Christiansen, professor at DTU in Corporate Social Responsibility, and Maria Koch Aabel, director of Alkohol & Samfund. Moderator: Knud Brix.
All About the Money
The curse of old money and the shadows of the past haunt a young and ultra-rich anti-capitalist from one of America's wealthiest families in one of the most incredible stories of the year.
All Hail Feminism in Black Metal + Krøyer Mini Concert
As part of Norden på film, Ditte Krøyer (Vulvatorious) will play a mini concert with songs from her solo project Krøyer before the screening. After the film, Ditte and guitarist Sofie Angen join the panel for a conversation on equality within the metal community.
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
A wave of biblical plagues is crashing down on north-east England, where fishermen, eco-activists and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Almost Forever
From the carefree summers of childhood to the turbulent teenage years. Five formative years in a young group of friends in Stockholm, where their bond is put to the test as they navigate their way into adulthood.
Lia Hietala & Hannah Reinikainen / Sweden & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
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
Amazomania
A hazardous expedition in the Amazon becomes a moral minefield in a thought-provoking film about the white man's gaze, as the project turns the camera on itself and the colonial legacy.
Nathan Grossman / Sweden, Denmark & France / 2026 / World Premiere
American Doctor
When three American doctors - Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian - enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere
Amongst the Birds
Understated Icelandic humour and breathtaking landscapes in a charming and picturesque film about birds and people – and about a deeply lovable elderly couple and their friends.
Mika Kaurismäki, Ragnar Axelsson & Ingvar Þórðarson / Iceland / 2026 / World 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.
An Eye For an Eye
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband fights for her life in a nerve-racking courtroom thriller about life, death and the very real price of forgiveness.
Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025
Architecton
Thousands of years of architectural history are woven together in Kossakovsky's visionary epic, a film almost almost dialogue but with images as sharp as flint and a soundtrack as massive as an earth quake.
Victor Kosakovskiy / Germany, France & United States / 2024
Archiving Legacy
How do we tell today’s stories through the icons of the past? At Designmuseum Denmark, the conversation Archiving Legacy explores the curatorial choices and responsibilities that come with presenting living cultural heritage through archives, movements, and historical figures.
Arctic Link
A remote corner of Alaska is finally connected to the internet, but what does that mean for the islanders? An epic debut film about the technological imaginaries of a changing world.
Ian Purnell / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Atlas of Disappearance
On the trail of the earthly remains of the victims of Franco's regime in a film that combines modern technology and paper archives in a historical investigation based on the director's own research through Forensic Architecture.
Manuel Correa / Spain & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
Barrio Triste
Banger of the year! A breathless and trippy hybrid film sensation, shot on a VHS tape in Medellín by four young punks. Produced by Harmony Korine and featuring a new score by Arca.
STILLZ / Colombia & United States / 2025
bauhaus forever.
A cinematic essay on perception and the afterlife of ideas - told through a place in transition. A film of magnificent intellectual scope and uncompromising formal integrity.
Nico Weber / Germany & Netherlands / 2026 / World Premiere
Becoming Ema
A young woman defies her parents' wishes and the pressure of society, and moves to the forest to start a family close to nature. But the road to becoming herself is long and difficult.
Patricia Drati / Denmark, Spain & Slovakia / 2026 / World Premiere
Behind the transnational adoption system
Transnational adoption has often been portrayed in the West as a humanitarian solution, but what happens when we look at the systems behind it? Meet moderator and journalist Haena Laura Na Blankholm, Stine Moon Joo Pitney from Forum For Adoption Politics and Louise Kwang, one of the 56 people whose adoption cases have been selected for the South Korean Truth Commission.
Belleville Beats
It's summer in Paris, and at a youth club in Belleville the young people have an idea: they want to organize a music festival in a park. A fast-paced film where the positive energy comes from within.
Hugo Sobelman / France / 2025
Below the Clouds
In the shadow of Vesuvius, Italian maestro Gianfranco Rosi follows the everyday lives of the Neapolitans. The final film in the award-winning Italy trilogy, told in sublime black-and-white images.
Gianfranco Rosi / Italy / 2025
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Czech festival hit about two ageing twins with revolutionary blood in their veins who have created a world for themselves on a farm outside of society. But now their bond is starting to unravel.
Miro Remo / Czech Republic & Slovakia / 2025
Between Bricks and Meals
Film and a shared dinner at Karens Minde Cultural Center. An evening about being together, sharing experiences, and feeling how culture can create connections across differences.
Birita
In the Faroe Islands, a family of theatre people are working on staging ‘King Lear’ with the mother in the lead role – a beloved actress who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
Búi Dam / Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere
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
BRUS party: Intersection
Join our party where queer art, film, and culture merge with dance, presence, and celebration.
Burden of Other People’s Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede
'Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede' is a surreal, abstract memoir of Joe Bini's life as a film editor and storyteller, presented as a live cinema experience for one audience member at a time.
Joe Bini / United Kingdom / 2026
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!
Cambodian Beer Dreams
What happens to people, ethics, and morals when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed in a poor and corrupt country with few restrictions? One man takes up the fight against a corrupt system.
Laurits Nansen / Denmark, Sweden & France / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
CERN: Standing Together in the Name of Science
Meet the director Alex Kiehl and the producer Elin Rhys of the film 'The Peace Particle' in a conversation about the unique project that is CERN.
Christiania
Christiania is one of the world's most iconic social experiments. After 50 years of big dreams, strong tobacco and anarchy, this colourful neighbourhood finally got the film its colourful history deserves.
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Cinema Kawakeb
A visit to a worn-out backyard cinema in Jordan, where the two employees and their only regular customer become the protagonists in a witty and politically poignant course in filmmaking.
Climate change is still a thing! And how to keep on making a difference
Following the world premiere of 'Jason's Box, we invite you to a panel discussion on climate activism in Greenland and all the small actions we can take to avoid drowning in a feeling of powerlessness. Meet the film's protagonist and glaciologist, Jason Box, in conversation with the film's director Michael Strassburger and co-star Niels Sakariassen.
Conscious
Can subjective consciousness be studied objectively? A philosophical and scientific dilemma looms large in a film about the mysteries of the brain, where life itself catches up with a neuroscientist.
Suki Chan / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Construction Site
Star architect Renzo Piano's project to renovate a cinema in the heart of Paris becomes a fascinating study in reconciling artistic vision and practical realities.
Jean-Stéphane Bron / France & Switzerland / 2025
CPH:DOX at Absalon: Film & Communal Dining
CPH:DOX and Absalon invite you inside for an evening of film and communal dining. Join us for a night that begins around the table and continues in front of the screen with a screening of 'Christiania'. Experience how stories and shared meals can create space for dialogue, reflection, and collective inspiration.
CPH:DOX x Absalon: Film & IBYEN’s Kærlighedspanel
CPH:DOX and Absalon invite you to an evening dedicated to love in a time when the boundaries between human and machine are becoming increasingly blurred. Join us as we explore the interface between artificial intimacy and human relationships.
Creatures of the Mind
A hypnotic study of dreams, sleep and the mysteries of the subconscious. Science meets myth in a Brazilian film where indigenous knowledge sheds new light on the deep mysteries of the mind.
Marcelo Gomes / Brazil / 2025
Daughters of the Forest
Science fiction meets ancient practices deep in Mexico's mushroom-rich forests, where two female mycologists from the country's indigenous peoples seek to unite past and present across life forms.
Otilia Portillo / Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere
Dementia and art: Memory, loss, body and presence
Join us at Emmauskirken for an evening presentet en collaboration with Teater Fluks exploring dementia, community, and the supportive power of art. This is an evening for anyone who wants to experience how art can hold memory, grief, and presence — and create dialogue around some of life’s most vulnerable moments.
Democracy vs. Big Tech: The Battle for Our Digital Future
Meet Denmark's tech ambassador, Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard, in conversation with doctor and author Imran Rashid about their work to ensure a better digital future for us all.
Desire Lines
An enigmatic and restless queer fable about a sleepless man who follows his brother on a cruise through the dark nights of Belgrade.
Dane Komljen / Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia & Germany / 2025
Double Trouble
What do you get when you leave two aging Polish widows and inseparable soul mates in each other's loving company in a village in Romania? Double trouble!
Dracula
No one messes with national myths with the same recklessness as the Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. This time, he pulls Dracula out of his coffin in a pitch-black comedy from Transylvania.
Radu Jude / Romania, Luxembourg & Brazil / 2025
Dream of Another Summer
A dreamlike exploration of Beirut as a state of mind, where every shadowy image is a moving photograph and the intimacy is like lines in a diary.
Irene Bartolomé / Spain & Lebanon / 2026 / World Premiere
Dreaming of Serenada
Danish-Ugandan Luba returns to her father’s rainforest in Uganda to save what is on the brink of being lost. A personal story about climate struggle, identity, and belonging.
Katrine Weber / Uganda, Denmark & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
Dry Leaf
A modern fairy tale in which the real world is enchanted with the fabulous, cinematic inventiveness of Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze.
Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment
Elon Musk wants to lead the race to develop self-driving cars, but it comes at a price. A docu-thriller about Tesla's fatal safety breach and the mindset behind it.
Andreas Pichler / Germany / 2025
Enough is Enough
Amidst the chaos of war in Congo, a young filmmaker documents his generation's struggle for dignity, using his camera as a weapon.
Elisé Sawasawa / France & Democratic Republic of Congo / 2026
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
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere
Expressing Yourself Inside and Outside of Afghanistan
Using art and storytelling as tools, DFUNK's Lida Afghan and human rights advocate Manilla Ghafuri invite the audience to share in experiences from Afghanistan after a screening of IDFA winner 'A Fox Under a Pink Moon'.
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.
Film and panel discussion at BRØK
After a screening of 'The Tingbjerg Experiment', we talk about local neighbourhoods and gentrification.
Filmmaking as an Act of Protest: A screening in collaboration with Africa Engage
Panelconversation with the directors of 'Kikuyu Land', Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu.
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.
FINAL PARTY: Space of expression
After the last screening of KitKat Club followed by a panal on creating a safer night life and spaces for self expression, we bring the vibe to the dance floor.
We invite you to a celebration where freedom, curiosity, and care merge into one shared space.
Finding Connection
What do you want in a relationship? And what exactly is a relationship? When people fall in love with robots, an avalanche of existential questions is set off.
Florian Karner / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Fire, Water, Earth, Air
Four stories from the Nordic region paint a picture of a changing natural world, where the elements rage and where being prepared proves to be much more than sandbags and fire extinguishers.
Ewa Cederstam, Janne Lindgren, Rógvi Rasmussen & Phie Ambo / Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere
Firsthand Accounts From a Hospital Ward in Gaza
Meet director Poh Si Teng and the three doctors at the center of the film 'American Doctor', which follows their struggle to save lives at a hospital in Gaza —and to raise awareness among the American public about the war crimes they have witnessed.
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.
Forgotten Allies: Rojava After IS
Do the Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? Meet director Maryam Embrahimi, creator of 'The Phantom Pain of Rojava', in conversation with Joanna Palani, who fought against Islamic State, and Naila Bugyi-Bozo, a former doctor stationed in Rojava. The conversation is moderated by assistant professor of international security Hetav Rojan and revolves around the current political landscape in Rojava.
Form follows community
Form, function, and feeling — a conversation with Danh Vo and Oliver Stilling about how art, architecture, and culture can be more than aesthetics - and perhaps become the spark for something new.
Fuck the Polis
The beauty and joy of living and traveling are at the heart of an award-winning, enigmatic work by a renowned Portuguese filmmaker. A cinematic travel diary full of poetry, art, and Greek myths.
Rita Azevedo Gomes / Portugal / 2025
Fukushima
The Fukushima disaster, recounted hour by hour by the people who stayed behind to prevent a meltdown. An ultra-intense and gripping epic from the director of ‘Antidote’.
James Jones & Megumi Inman / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me
A woman is separated from her newborn twins during the war in Gaza. A filmmaker follows her for 16 long months as war and chaos rage and her children take their first steps far away.
Mohammed Sawwaf / Palestine, Qatar & Netherlands / 2025 / International Premiere
Ghost Elephants
German film legend Werner Herzog is back. This time, he has joined an expedition into the jungles of Angola to search for a mysterious herd of giant ghost elephants.
Werner Herzog / United States / 2025
Greenlandic Art in Focus
Join us for a short introduction to Greenlandic art before the screening, with a focus on indigenous history, artistic traditions, and contemporary practices. The talk offers context for the film and highlights how art has shaped — and been shaped by — Greenland’s cultural and political landscape.
Hair, Paper, Water…
With great patience, an elderly Vietnamese woman tries to pass on her wisdom to her grandchildren. A tactile film shot with an old Bolex camera about the power of language and cultural heritage.
Hell’s Army
A dissident Russian journalist chases the world’s most feared mercenary army, Wagner, across the globe as she races to unmask a new model of violence that is transforming the world for all of us.
Richard Rowley / Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Lithuania & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
History written through the organic, the fragile, and the ephemeral
What if history were not told through weapons, wars, and heroes — but through what we carried, shared, and allowed to disappear? Turning our gaze toward art as a form of historiography, the panel explores which stories are preserved and which are lost. Using the Carrier Bag Theory as a shared point of departure, the conversation examines the place and legitimacy of ephemeral art within history.
Holding Liat
The winner of last year's Berlinale award for best documentary is a complex portrait of how a Jewish family's tragedy on October 7 turns into a pawn in a geopolitical game.
Brandon Kramer / United States / 2025
Holy Destructors
A deeply original and inventive film about microfungi, the passage of time, and human vanity, which turns the microscope both on these mysterious life forms and on ourselves.
Homesick
A Danish-Korean director explores her life as an adopted child and discovers a family history full of shadows, stretching from the west coast of Denmark to the mountains of South Korea.
Taekyung Tanja In Wol Sørensen / Denmark, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
How Do You Provide Humanitarian Aid in Gaza?
Meet senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, Nadia Hardmann, in conversation with doctors that have been stationed in Gaza, in a conversation about bearing witness to a humanitarian crises.
I Am Not Your Token
What is wrong with the representation debate in film? The Soulfuls sets the stage for a panel discussion where filmmakers from the network explore why the debate often goes round in circles.
I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore
Young love and intertwined lives in Taipei in a romantic and charming debut film with a colossal creative energy that dissolves the boundary between fiction and reality - just like when you are in love.
Ka Ki Wong / Taiwan, Hong Kong, Türkiye & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
I Want Her Dead
In a Calabrian village, peace is threatened by a long-standing family feud between two sisters-in-law. A tragicomic portrait of a tiny town where the art of the melodrama is alive and well.
Gianluca Matarrese / Italy / 2025
If Luck Will Come
Through beautiful images and with a camera at eye level with its young protagonists, we gain a rare insight into what it means to grow up in Afghanistan after the Taliban took power.
Camille Bildsøe / Denmark, Iceland & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
In Defense of Self
The tragic killing of a Norwegian man in urgent need of psychiatric help is recounted in a film that uses his own tape recordings as a guide to ask what happened and how it could have been avoided.
Linn Helene Løken / Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
In Full Agreement
The ideological war between Russia and the West takes on a highly dramatic form in Finland, where three Russian women are locked in a bitter dispute over Putin's regime and their own heritage.
Panu Suuronen / Finland / 2025 / International Premiere
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.
Inside The Psychedelic Mind
What happens when the mind opens through pyschedelia? Meet doctor and clinical researcher in psychedelic therapy, Mathias Ebbesen, in conversation with Catharina Messell, Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) therapist. Moderated by Lola Klint, journalist.
Intelligence Rising
Thinkers such as Yuval Harari and leaders from the EU, China and the US participate in a war game on AI, where they are confronted with geopolitical scenarios for possible future crises.
Elena Andreicheva / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Jaripeo
Behind the hypermasculine rituals of a Mexican rodeo show a hidden queer desire pulsates. A festival hit about performative masculinity and the longings of the subconscious.
Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / United States, Mexico & United Kingdom / 2026
Jason’s Box
What happens when an experienced climate scientist becomes an activist? In Greenland, scientist Jason Box and his local colleagues are launching a radical project to raise global awareness.
Michael Strassburger / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
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.
Just Look Up
Michael Greenberg is a defiant young visionary and climate activist in the US. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, lightning intelligence, and the charisma of a young Bob Dylan, he is rallying a generation in the fight for a livable future.
Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey / United States & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Kabul Between Prayers
A young Taliban fighter turns out to be a complex individual, but inherited ideologies weigh heavily in a lavishly cinematic film by an Afghan CPH:DOX winner.
Aboozar Amini / Belgium & Netherlands / 2025
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
Kikuyu Land
A Kenyan journalist returns to her ancestral home to cover a legal battle between multinational corporations and the country's indigenous people, but must confront her own family's role.
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere
Killing Anna
A shocking video from Syria leads to an unusual detective story when a Syrian woman makes up a fake name to catch war criminals - on Facebook. A psychological thriller with a brave woman as a virtual Sherlock Holmes.
Sam Benstead / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
King Hamlet
Filmmaker Elvira Linds returns with a deeply personal portrait of her husband, actor Oscar Isaac, who is facing the most difficult role of his life.
Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere
KitKatClub – Kinks of Berlin
Step inside Berlin's legendary sex club, KitKatClub in a gorgeous black-and-white film. An intimate and generous tale of freedom, lust, boundaries, and sex in all its varieties.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
The world-renowned author, who survived a brutal assassination attempt, confronts his past in a deeply personal account of the struggle for freedom of expression by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Alex Gibney / United States / 2026 / International Premiere
La belle année
As a teenager, she was in love with her teacher. Now, a French-Swedish filmmaker returns to her youthful obsession in a beautiful diary film about desire, vampires and self-discovery.
Landmarks
The murder of a defenseless leader of an indigenous people draws parallels to decades of land theft and centuries of colonialism in Lucrecia Martel's documentary debut.
Lucrecia Martel / Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands & Denmark / 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.
Last Movies
Film history from Kafka to Kurt Cobain: A darkly humorous, alternative timeline based on the last films iconic celebrities watched before (and sometimes while) they died – narrated by Jeremy Irons.
Stanley Schtinter / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Law and litigation as tools in the climate and environmental fight
Can law and litigation be effective tools in the fight for climate and environmental protection? This is what we will explore in an evening at Islands Brygge Kulturhus with the Lynetteholm project and the courtroom as the battleground in focus.
Let Our Mountains Live
The Norwegian government prioritizes green energy and economic gain over the Sami people's rights to land in a tense courtroom drama about power, land, trust, and cultural heritage.
Håvard Bustnes / Norway & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere
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’.
Like Any Other Mortal
On a distant planet, a lonely robot roams around looking for signs of life, while scientists search for unknown life forms in Andalusia. A visionary journey with deep philosophical resonance.
Maria Molina Peiró / Netherlands & Spain / 2026 / International Premiere
Little Sinner
20 years of deeply personal recordings compiled into a raw and unfiltered journey from Damascus to Denmark, depicting a Syrian woman's relentless struggle against violence, betrayal, and her own past.
Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Lost in psychiatry
Meet Svend Aage Madsen, psychologist, PhD, and clinical specialist in a conversation about the limitations of the psychiatric system.
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.
Lynetteholm on Trial
The climate movement and two lawyers are challenging the Danish state in a high-profile court case to stop a new artificial peninsula in Copenhagen Harbor.
Naja Andersen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
M23 and The Current Crisis in DR Congo
Meet the director of the film 'Enough is Enough', Elisé Sawasawa, in conversation with journalist Oscar Rothstein, about the rebel group M23.
Mare’s Nest
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a trippy and magical hybrid film based on a play by Don DeLillo about a girl's journey from the Stone Age to the future through a mysterious world without adults.
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, France & Canada / 2025
MARIINKA
Young Ukrainians from the frontline town of Mariinka face a decade of war that divides their families and derails their fates. An epic and visionary masterpiece filmed over 10 years.
Pieter-Jan De Pue / Belgium / 2026 / World Premiere
Masculine camouflage and performativity – Jaripeo + talk
Join us for the screening of 'Jaripeo' followed by a Q&A with the directors on masculine camouflage, performativity and gender expression. And stay for the Hyper Expression Party afterward where we celebrate gender expression in our very own queer jaripeo!
Materia Prima
The Bolivian Andes are rich in both lithium and drama in a film about a new gold rush, where global interests collide and 500 years of colonial history continue to haunt the present.
Jens Schanze / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Matter of Britain
An enchanting film about an entire British village reenacting the myth of the Holy Grail over the course of a year. A striking debut film with enormous imaginative power.
Peter Treherne / United Kingdom / 2026 / European Premiere
Meditation & Performance by Cassie Augusta Jørgensen
Join the director of 'A Sweetness from Nowhere', Ester Bergsmark, for a short guided meditation before the film, followed by a performance by Cassie Augusta Jørgensen after the film.
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.
Memory of Princess Mumbi
In a futuristic Africa, a filmmaker falls in love with his protagonist and loses control of his film. A playful and deeply original sci-fi mockumentary unlike anything you've ever seen before.
Damien Hauser / Kenya, Switzerland & Saudi Arabia / 2025
Menopause Mystery
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
Louise Unmack Kjeldsen / Denmark, Norway & Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Merckx – Race of a Champion
Eddy Merckx is the greatest cyclist of all time. The Belgian legend has won everything there is to win. An elegant portrait of an invincible champion through thick and thin.
Christophe Hermans & Boris Tilquin / Belgium / 2025
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
Mountain of Gold
With dollar signs in their eyes, gold miners venture into a barren desert landscape, driven by dreams of wealth and a different life. An intense documentary thriller about the gold rush in Niger.
Mushrooms as Medicine — an Evening of Dinner & Film
What can mushrooms teach us about the past and the future? Join us for an introduction to contemporary fungal research, followed by a dinner and documentary, in partnership with Grønt Marked.
My body, Our rights
Self-determination under pressure: A global conversation moderated by Nazila Kivi about abortion and women's rights in 2026 with representatives from Sex & Samfund and Institute for Human Rights.
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
Nova ’78
A cinematic time capsule from William S. Burroughs' legendary Nova Convention in New York, where icons such as Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, and Laurie Anderson met in an explosive artistic clash.
Aaron Brookner & Rodrigo Areias / United Kingdom & Portugal / 2025
Nuclear power – Yes please or no thanks?
Is nuclear power a necessary solution to the climate crisis, or does it pose risks we can't afford to take? After the screening of 'Fukushima', meet Christian Fromberg, Campaigner at Green Peace in discussion with Ike Houmann Nielsen, deputy chairman at REO about benefits, risks and challenges regarding nuclear power. Moderated by Anders Lund Madsen.
One in a Million
Ten years in the life of an extraordinary young girl, from her escape from Syria to Germany with her family, where she grows up and becomes a young woman. A captivating film about exile, hope and dreams.
Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes / United Kingdom & Germany / 2026
Open My Mind
Experimental, psychedelic therapy is put to the test in a film that is equal parts scientific and deeply personal, with the protagonist himself serving as the guinea pig.
Marcel Wyss / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere
Opening Party of Charlottenborg: Hyper Expressions!
First time at the rodeo? Join os for a queer jaripeo: a gender expression rodeo at the Opening of Charlottenborg party!
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.
Our Land
Does everyone have the right to roam freely in nature? Not in England, where eccentric landowners and nature lovers fight a creative battle over the land.
Orban Wallace / United Kingdom / 2025 / International Premiere
Out of School
In a remote village high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a brother and sister are forced out of education before their childhood is over.
Hind Bensari / Morocco & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Palestinian Unwanted
During the bombardments of Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian filmmaker tries to raise awareness among the Danish public while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Omar Shargawi / Denmark & Jordan / 2026 / World Premiere
Petrolheads
Two very special friends on a road trip through Denmark in search of a used Honda Civic that might make life just a little bit more normal. A warm film that goes straight to the heart.
Emil Langballe / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Phenomena
A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker’s immersive practical experiments that transcend into a deeply hypnotic audio-visual experience (re)connecting us to the natural world.
Josef Gatti / Australia / 2026 / European Premiere
Poetry as a hidden form of resistance
Can silence be a positive strategy for resistance? Writing school alumna Uzma Akbari introduces 'The Secret Reading Club of Kabul', based on landai poetry and women's hidden communities in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. We also celebrate Nowruz and serve haft mewa after the screening.
Powwow People
From dawn to dusk, filmmaker Sky Hopinka depicts a powwow where Native Americans gather to celebrate their community and shared history.
Sky Hopinka / United States / 2025
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.
Qajaq Man
A British chef paddles 3,000 kilometers along Greenland's west coast, surviving on nature's bounty and discovering the power of community in a country surrounded by geopolitical tensions.
Joe Derrick / Norway, Denmark & Greenland / 2026 / World Premiere
Reindeer Can’t Eat Money: A Conversation About Climate and Indigenous Justice
What is the price of justice and who pays the price? Meet Sissel Stormo Holtan, a Sámi reindeer herder from Fosen and climate activist from the film Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen in a conversation about indigenous peoples' rights and what the fight for justice in Fosen, Norway, has meant for the Sami people's lives, culture, and relationship with their mountains.
Safe Space, kinks and chemsex
After a screening of 'KitKatClub - Kinks of Berlin', we invite you to a conversation about Safe Space, kinks and chemsex, with a particular focus on how these concepts are practiced in nightlife.
Scarlet Girls
A young filmmaker's graceful and courageous film from the Dominican Republic, where women speak openly about living in a country where abortion is banned - without exception.
Paula Cury Melo / Dominican Republic, Germany & Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere
Science for Peace: A Conversation About CERN at Rundetårn
Film and panel discussion about science for peace in Rundetårn, with Jeffrey Hangst, scientist at Aalborg University and CERN. At Rundetårn!
Science is Not Just for Men: A Conversation About Menopause
Meet the scientist from the film 'Menopause Mystery', Anette Tønnes, senior physician at Rigshospitalet, Pauline Maki, professor at the University of Illinois and Silje Mæland, University of Bergen, in a conversation about the state of menopause research.
See and taste Portugal through the four seasons
Taste Portugal: communal long-table dining with authentic Portuguese food at Karens Minde Cultural Center.
Silent Flood
A festival hit that uses dazzling, hypnotic images to tell the story of a deeply religious and pacifist community whose way of life is threatened by the Russian invasion.
Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self
The Norwegian-American author recounts her life journey from her and her husband Paul Auster's beautiful home in New York. A beautiful and sincere film about choosing a life of literature and art.
Sabine Lidl / Germany & Switzerland / 2026
Social Landscapes
A virtual trip around the world, with commentary exclusively from TripAdvisor. A deeply original film of true satirical wit that confronts us with a world where mass tourism has triumphed.
Jonas Meier / Switzerland / 2026 / International Premiere
Something Familiar
While trying to help a stranger find her birth mother, a filmmaker is drawn into the shadows of her own family history, uncovering a dark legacy that has loomed over its women.
Rachel Taparjan / Romania & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
Standing Up for Press Freedom in an Increasingly Authoritarian State
Meet the director of '80 Angry Journalists' András Földes, in conversation with Human Rights Watch advocacy director in Europe and Central Asia, Iskra Kirova, about the fight for press freedom in Hungary.
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
Syria Post-Assad
When freedom finally arrives, how do you begin to live with it? Join us in conversation with Syrian-Danish journalist Solaf Massoud and Haifaa Awad, chairwoman of Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke and Danish-Syrian doctor for a discussion about hope, uncertainty, and the long road forward. Moderated by Nagieb Khaja, award winning journalist.
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
Techplomacy
From freedom of speech to fake news and AI. In a largely unregulated digital world, a 33-year-old Danish woman is appointed tech ambassador with a global mandate.
Susanne Kovacs / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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 Architecture of Care: Film screening + talk
In connection with the Platform exhibition 'Rest and Routine – Duet for Sanatorium and Modern Hospital', Nikolaj Kunsthal invites you to a film screening and discussion about the healing properties of architecture.
The Arctic Circle of Lust
In Finland, a middle-aged couple of potato farmers must agree on the rules for living together, as the man's bisexuality puts the limits of their love to the test.
Markku Heikkinen / Finland, Germany & Sweden / 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 Calf Doll
A beautiful fable from India, where the inhabitants of a small village play themselves in a simple and enigmatic tale about a retired professor and his cow.
Ankur Hooda / India / 2026 / World Premiere
The Clerical Regime, Patriarchy and The Ongoing Uprising in Iran
Can murder be a woman's last resort in Iran's theocracy? Meet Ramus Elling, PhD in Iranian Studies, and the activists Jino Doabi and Maria Kafaei Zandeh Del in a conversation about women's rights after Woman, Life, Freedom.
The Cord
Venezuela: In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from her past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.
Nolwenn Hervé / France / 2026 / World Premiere
The Cycle of Love
A young Indian man cycles 10,000 km from Delhi to Sweden to find the love of his life. An epic adventure film and an incredible but true story – and one of the biggest romantic hits of the year.
Orlando von Einsiedel / United Kingdom & Sweden / 2025 / European Premiere
The Games We Play in Time of War
Panel debate about wargaming with professor at DTU Compute, Aasa Feragen, together with Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Assistant Professor (PhD) at the Institute for Military Technology.
The Great Experiment
A cinematic time capsule depicting one of the most volatile eras of American history - a historical record, non-fiction experiment, and intimate observation of the state of American democracy.
Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzgar / United States & Mexico / 2026 / International Premiere
The Hidden Processes of Migration Control
What happens behind the scenes in migration control? Come inside Demokrati Garage and gain a rare insight into the mechanisms that normally remain hidden, with Ahlam Chemlali, researcher in migration and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, associate professor at the Centre for War Studies.
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 Lives of My Father
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
Magnus Skatvold / Norway / 2026 / International Premiere
The Mother Age
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin and other female thinkers, a Norwegian filmmaker invites us on a sensual and richly philosophical journey of (re)discovery in the deep Finnish forests.
Irene Kaltenborn / Norway & Sweden / 2026 / World 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
Opening of our SCIENCE:CINEMA! 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 Oldest Person in the World
A warm and subtle film about life, death and everything in between – which is quite a lot! Not least if you are one of the oldest people in the world, like those we meet in Sam Green's new film.
Sam Green / United States / 2026
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
The incredible story of one of the 21st century’s most sensational art scandals is a ten-year war over billions between a Russian oligarch and a Swiss art dealer.
Andreas Dalsgaard / Denmark, France, Netherlands, Switzerland & United States / 2026 / World Premiere
The Patriarch
Danish film producer Peter Aalbæk is a self-proclaimed patriarch. Now his daughters are sending him to therapy—but can he really change? A loving, funny, and merciless portrait of a threatened species.
Andrea Storm Henriksen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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 Phantom Pain of Rojava
In a secret house in northern Syria, wounded Kurdish guerrilla soldiers live with phantom pains in the shadow of a failed revolution. An Emmy-winning director's portrayal of five years in a secret community.
Maryam Embrahimi / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere
The Power of Civil Disobedience
If I can’t change anything with my voice, I can do it with my body. In collaboration with Demokrati Garage, we invite you to a talk on activism, mobilization, and the life cycle of social movements. Join activists José Arce and Nanna Dahler, alongside Alex Cuzzolino from Ulydig Retshjælp, for a conversation on civil disobedience.
The Russian Propaganda Machine and How to Fight Back
Join is in our SOCIETY:CINEMA and learn more about the Russian propaganda machine.
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
A botched assassination. A quiet English city contaminated by a chemical weapon. Russian spies on the run. A mother of three killed. A government fearing the start of WW3. The most extraordinary true spy tale in modern history.
Dan Vernon / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere
The Sandbox
A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision.
Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / 2026 / World Premiere
The Seasons
Local fables and myths are brought to life in a film with deep roots in southern Portugal where the communal is always at the heart of the culture.
The Secret Reading Club of Kabul
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, and speak freely, a group of young women risk their lives to form a secret reading circle.
Shakiba Adil & Elina Hirvonen / Finland & Norway / 2026 / World 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 Silo and Us
A group of passionate creatives set out to transform the old concrete silo on the harbor in Stubbekøbing into an artistic landmark for the town. Now the community must decide: Should the silo be torn down — or should this small town dare to dream big?
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
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
The Way Elsewhere
Three experienced taxi drivers roam the streets of Athens dreaming of art and new beginnings in a nocturnal and poetic film for night owls.
Eirini Vourloumis / Greece / 2026 / International Premiere
This is Not a French Film
A young, racialised director's struggles to make his debut film turn into a docu-satire with political punch that takes you by surprise. Entertaining, energetic and intensely unpredictable.
Tom Adjibi / Belgium & France / 2026 / World Premiere
Through a Queer Lens
In collaboration with MIX Copenhagen, we open up the conversation Through a Queer Lens, exploring representation, intersectionality, and the right to define one’s own story on screen.
Time and Water
Iceland's ancient landscapes are changing, and for author Andri Snær Magnason, the deep changes are about more than ice. A thoughtful and existential film from the director of ‘Fire of Love’.
Sara Dosa / United States & Iceland / 2026
To Hold a Mountain
This year's Sundance winner is an immersive and down-to-earth portrayal of the lives of a woman and a young girl in the mountains of Montenegro, which are in danger of becoming a NATO training area.
Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić / Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia & Croatia / 2026 / European Premiere
Traces
Ukrainian women who have survived sexual violence during Russia's war refuse to remain silent. A brutally honest testimony from the female victims of war.
Tutu
A historical and inspiring portrait of South African Nobel Prize winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who rallied an entire generation in the fight against apartheid.
Sam Pollard / United Kingdom / 2026
Underland
Three underground astronauts explore the underworld and reveal deep connections between the past and the future. Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller and narrated by Sandra Hüller.
Robert Petit / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
Waking Hours
Smugglers transport people across the border to Europe during an endless, sleepless night. A cinematic film shot in pitch darkness, which should be experienced in the cinema at all costs.
Filippo Foscarini & Federico Camamrata / Italy / 2025
Watching People Watching Birds
Birds are an endangered species, but birdwatchers around the world are on the case in a delightful, charming film about amateur ornithologists.
Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
Wax & Gold
Austrian documentary veteran Ruth Beckermann has traveled to Addis Ababa to uncover a historical truth. An essay about Ethiopia's divided past, where the questions outnumber the answers.
Ruth Beckermann / Austria / 2026
We are Stardust
What if the mysteries of life can be found in the gutter? That question drives an unusual man on a journey to explore our connection to the stars.
We Want The Funk
Get ready for a pure funk explosion! Wild stories from the 70s are mixed with sweaty bass lines, electric grooves and the kind of rhythms that get right into your feet.
Stanley Nelson & Nicole London / United States / 2025
What is Consciousness? Dementia Research and Understanding Your Own Mind
At the premiere of the film, meet the director Suki Chan in conversation with collaborator and participant in the film, neuroscientist and author Dr. Anil Seth.
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.
What Makes a Scientist?
We screen 'We Are Stardust' in Rundetårn and debate the term Citizen Science.
When architecture shapes community
What do buildings mean for the way we understand ourselves? Join us at Designmuseum Denmark for an evening exploring architecture, urban development, and the stories our buildings carry.
When childhood has an expiration date, who carries the burden of knowledge when the world closes?
After the screening of 'If Luck Will Come', journalist Sofie Buch Hoyer will tie up the threads in a conversation about childhood in Afghanistan with Berit Muhlhausen, director of Mobile Mini Circus for Children and co-developer of the children’s circus we follow in the film, and Najiba Akbari Omar, spokesperson for the Afghan Daanish Foundation.
When Pigs Fly
Would you still be the same if your heart belonged to someone else - even if that someone else was a pig? A philosophical and quietly poignant film about our relationship with our fellow creatures.
Denise Riedmayr / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere
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
Where the Silence is Heard
A young Chilean woman moves into an abandoned house in Valparaíso to piece together her family's history, which has been colored by dictatorship, exile, and silence for five decades.
Gabriela Pena & Picho García / Chile & Spain / 2026 / World Premiere
While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts
Peter Mettler's visionary new film. Epic in scope, yet generous and intimate - a unique experience unparalleled in modern cinema.
Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2025
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. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
Whispers in the Woods
The film sensation, which has sold over a million cinema tickets in France, is a uniquely beautiful and sensual nature experience with music by Warren Ellis.
Vincent Munier / France / 2025
Who are boys raised to be in Taliban’s Afghanistan?
Martyrdom, war and loyalty to the Taliban. Journalist and documentary director Nagieb Khaja introduces 'Kabul Between Prayers' and nuances extremism in Afghanistan.
Who Gets the Land? — Lunch Screening
Join us for an introduction ahead of the screening of 'Our Land', followed by a shared lunch in partnership with Grønt Marked. A relaxed way to ease into the themes of the film and spend the afternoon together.
Will AI Be Making Our Future Geopolitical Decisions?
Meet the director of 'Intelligence Rising' Elena Andreicheva, together with author and former adviser at Pentagon Nicholas Wright, in a conversation about how we make big decisions in times of war and how AI will impact geopolitical decision making.
World premiere of the full series: ‘The Oligarch and the Art Dealer’ with Q&A
Watch all three episodes of Andreas Dalsgaard's thrilling series about art trade, fraud, staggering fortunes, and a feud of epic proportions.
Written in the Stars
Was it coincidence, courage, or cosmic timing that carried PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist, 6,000 miles across continents in pursuit of love? Join us for a talk with astrologist and podcast host at Astropod Amalie Bendixen and Mia Skjold Tvede Henriksen, astrologist and Ph.d., when they map out PK's incredible journey through the scope of astrology.
Your Algorithm Exploits Your Attention
After the screening of 'Molly vs. The Machines' we discuss how Big Tech has built business models that exploits it's users and how we can hold them accountable. With author prof. Shoshana Zuboff, the films director Marc Silver and psychologist Lotte Rubæk.
Yugo Goes to America
Three young friends from Belgrade drive from New York to Los Angeles in a Yugo – a cult relic of a car from the 1980s. A docu-comedy and a road trip with many unexpected encounters.
Filip Grujić & Aleksa Borković / Serbia & Croatia / 2026 / World Premiere