Schedule
Here you will find all films and events during CPH:DOX 2026, day by day.
14:15
Daughters of the Forest
Otilia Portillo / Mexico / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
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.
Merckx – Race of a Champion
Christophe Hermans & Boris Tilquin / Belgium / 2025 / 84 min
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.
Amadou & Mariam – The Blind Couple From Mali
Ryan Marley / Canada / 2026 / International Premiere / 82 min
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.
A dazzlingly beautiful portrait of one of anti-colonialism's most iconic and enigmatic figures. A guerrilla leader, poet, and agronomist who was diplomatic, utopian, and ruthless in the struggle for freedom.
Where the Silence is Heard
Gabriela Pena & Picho García / Chile & Spain / 2026 / World Premiere / 94 min
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.
A Life Illuminated
Tasha Van Zandt / United States / 2025 / 89 min
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.
Homesick
Taekyung Tanja In Wol Sørensen / Denmark, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
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.
15:00
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me
Mohammed Sawwaf / Palestine, Qatar & Netherlands / 2025 / International Premiere / 96 min
+ The Legacy of Palestine
Following the screening of Gaza's Twins, Come Back To Me, we present a conversation about the struggle between losing and regaining one's Palestinian identity. We warmly welcome the authors Tarek Omar, Nada Omar, and Salim Melhem to the stage as they put into words the legacy of Palestine and read from their book The Palestinian.
Language: Danish
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.
This is Not a French Film
Tom Adjibi / Belgium & France / 2026 / World Premiere / 80 min
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.
Join us for a short introduction to Greenlandic art by artist Nina Sikkersoq Kristoffersen before the screening, with a focus on indigenous history, artistic traditions, and contemporary practices. The talk offers context for the film and highlights ...
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer
Andreas Dalsgaard / Denmark, France, Netherlands, Switzerland & United States / 2026 / World Premiere / 174 min
+ Panel discussion about the editing process
This screening will be followed by a conversation between Estephan Wagner, Martin Anthon, and Torsten Høgh Rasmussen about editing the series. Co-presented by Dansk Filmklipper Selskab and moderated by Nikolaj Scherfig.
Language: Conversation is in English
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.
MARIINKA
Pieter-Jan De Pue / Belgium / 2026 / World Premiere / 94 min
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.
16:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Hell’s Army
Richard Rowley / Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Lithuania & United States / 2026 / World Premiere / 92 min
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.
Whispers in May
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
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.
Join us for a mini concert by Krøyer. Followed by a panel discussion on equality within the metal community with musician Ditte Krøyer, guitarist Sofie Angen, and Stine Omega (Booker and Promoter at Copenhell), moderated by Hanna Ella Sandvik (Selvtaegt).
After the screening of 'Palestinian Unwanted' you can meet the film's director, Omar Shargawi, in conversation with Anton Geist, editor-in-chief of Information, with Paula Larrain, Senior Advisor at Amnesty International and Marcus Rubin, Feature Editor at Politiken.
Open My Mind
Marcel Wyss / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
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.
In Defense of Self
Linn Helene Løken / Norway / 2026 / World Premiere / 87 min
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.
A Little Gray Wolf Will Come
Zhanna Agalakova / Croatia, Netherlands & France / 2025 / 90 min
A Russian journalist and her young, Western-minded daughter travel across Putin's Russia to confront themselves and each other with their political differences.
Memory of Princess Mumbi
Damien Hauser / Kenya, Switzerland & Saudi Arabia / 2025 / 79 min
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.
The Sandbox
Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
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.
I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore
Ka Ki Wong / Taiwan, Hong Kong, Türkiye & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 86 min
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.
Social Landscapes
Jonas Meier / Switzerland / 2026 / International Premiere / 78 min
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.
Menopause Mystery
Louise Unmack Kjeldsen / Denmark, Norway & Germany / 2026 / World Premiere / 74 min
A personal and investigative documentary about a phase of life that half the world's population goes through, yet we know surprisingly little about.
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
Dan Vernon / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 79 min
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.
17:00
Experience the beautiful 'The Peace Particle' in Rundetaarn, with a following conversation about CERN and how science, can foster peace.
The Arctic Circle of Lust
Markku Heikkinen / Finland, Germany & Sweden / 2026 / International Premiere / 97 min
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.
+ Palestinian stories in exile
How do you tell stories about exile, home and belonging? Director Mahdi Fleifel introduces the film based on his own filmmaking. He has previously been featured at Cannes and CPH:DOX with To a Land Unknown, which follows two Palestinian refugees stranded in Athens. In the introduction, he will reflect on his body of work, which deals with identity and displacement on the big screen.
Language: The introduction will be in English.
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.
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.
18:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Meet artist and protagonist of 'A Motherfucking Life' Frida Retz in a moderated conversation with co-founder of Bedside Productions, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup.
bauhaus forever.
Nico Weber / Germany & Netherlands / 2026 / World Premiere / 96 min
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.
Landmarks
Lucrecia Martel / Argentina, United States, Mexico, France, Netherlands & Denmark / 2025 / 122 min
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.
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
+ Introduction by Lauren Bowey, Climate Campaigner at Green Peace
Danish
A wave of poisoned crabs, like a biblical plague has washed ashore on the coast of North East England, where fishermen, coastal communities and politicians are fighting for different futures after Brexit. A highly topical tale with a strong local accent.
To Hold a Mountain
Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić / Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia & Croatia / 2026 / European Premiere / 105 min
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.
Christiania
Karl Friis Forchhammer / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 93 min
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.
19:00
Kenny Dalglish
Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2025 / 103 min
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’.
Bouchra
Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025 / 82 min
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.
The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist
Daniel Roher & Charlie Tyrell / United States / 2026 / International Premiere / 104 min
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.
Wax & Gold
Ruth Beckermann / Austria / 2026 / 97 min
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.
Time and Water
Sara Dosa / United States & Iceland / 2026 / 90 min
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’.
King Hamlet
Elvira Lind / United States & Denmark / 2025 / International Premiere / 89 min
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.
Little Sinner
Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
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.
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.
Yugo Goes to America
Filip Grujić & Aleksa Borković / Serbia & Croatia / 2026 / World Premiere / 87 min
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.
A Sweetness from Nowhere
Ester Bergsmark / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / World Premiere / 86 min
A performative and visually explosive film, where lived experiences take shape in a constant state of becoming.
Kikuyu Land
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere / 95 min
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.
20:30
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.
The Great Experiment
Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzgar / United States & Mexico / 2026 / International Premiere / 100 min
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.
I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore
Ka Ki Wong / Taiwan, Hong Kong, Türkiye & United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 86 min
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.
Belleville Beats
Hugo Sobelman / France / 2025 / 87 min
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.
21:00
Jaripeo
Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / United States, Mexico & United Kingdom / 2026 / 71 min
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.
Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere / 90 min
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.
The Cord
Nolwenn Hervé / France / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
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.
Q & A: Meet director John Skoog
A man builds a bunker out of junk on a field in the Swedish countryside to be ready when the enemy comes. A modern myth based on reality, by former CPH:DOX winner John Skoog.
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.
Underland
Robert Petit / United States & United Kingdom / 2025 / 79 min
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.
Whispers in the Woods
Vincent Munier / France / 2025 / 94 min
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.

































































