Welcome to CPH:DOX @ Danish Red Cross
Documentaries on hope and action hosted by the Danish Red Cross
Reality surpasses fiction. Just think about the pandemic five years ago. The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan. Or the sudden regime-change in Syria. All the many wars currently ongoing. Forgotten or new conflicts flaring up: Yemen, Sudan, Ukraine, Gaza. The severe natural disasters that destroy communities in seconds, forcing millions of people to abandon their homes and flee.
Fortunately, we also see popular resistance against unjust dictatorships, the mobilization of people supporting each other and refusing to accept the status quo. We see humanity. Action. Hope. Light in the darkness.
Yes, reality moves fast. CPH:DOX helps us pause and reflect.
The Danish Red Cross once again invites you to our beautiful Volunteer House at Blegdamsvej 27 in Copenhagen for films that take you into the wild world where the Red Cross works to help vulnerable people. In Denmark and in the world’s hotspots. At all films, there will be talks with relevant experts’, practitioners, film makers etc., and the audience is of course invited to join the conversations. You can meet the Head of Communications at Red Cross, Klaus Nørskov, as he introduces the screening of the film From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza on March 30 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – read more here.
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Save Our Souls
Jean-Baptiste Bonnet / France / 2024 / 91 min
+ Talk: Meet researcher and author Sine Plambech (DIIS) at Danish Red Cross and director of communications, Klaus Nørskov
CPH:DOX presents a special cinema in the Red Cross Community Center over five days. Meet senior researcher and author Sine Plambech (DIIS) for this screening in conversation in conversation with Maja Rettrup Mørch and Klaus Nørskov after the film.
Language: Danish
A filmmaker boards a ship bound for the coast of Libya to document the crew's rescue mission: to bring migrants to safety from drowning. The operation succeeds, but an uncertain future lies ahead.