Schedule
Here you will find all films and events during CPH:DOX 2025, day by day.
16:00
Experience this year's eye-opening INTER:ACTIVE exhibition titled "Untamed: Humanity Rewilded" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
A controversial masterpiece from Catalan auteur Albert Serra that analyses the masculine death cult known as bullfighting with few words and seemingly simple means.
Miyazaki – Spirit of Nature
Leo Favier / France / 2024 / 82 min
A fascinating tour of Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki's imaginative universes, his 40-year career and not least his spirited view of nature and the world around us.
A Sisters’ Tale
Leila Amini / Switzerland, France & Iran / 2024 / 94 min
An Iranian housewife dreams of becoming a singer, but her husband and the regime say no. But it takes more than that to stop her in a genuine festival hit, filmed over seven years by her own sister.
A filmmaker unfolds the story behind the scars on her husband's body. The answer is the story of the 1980 military coup and Türkiye’s slide towards authoritarianism.
17:00
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. As it intertwines their stories, the film reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of youth against the military's might.
Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
Firat Yucel, Erhan Örs, Sibil Çekmen, Serra Akcan, Nadir Sönmez, Hakan Bozyurt, Can Memiş & belit sağ / Netherlands & Türkiye / 2024 / 66 min
Eight directors from Turkey reflect on (auto)censorship and possible counter-strategies in a video work that looks at prison graffiti, desktop collages, surveillance cameras and the art of cruising.
18:00
Experience this year's eye-opening INTER:ACTIVE exhibition titled "Untamed: Humanity Rewilded" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
From Ground Zero – Untold Stories from Gaza
Various Directors / Palestine, France, Qatar & Jordan / 2024 / 115 min
+ Talk: Gaza in focus: a conversation on experiencing the war from a distance
After the film you can meet IMS Regional Director, Michael Irving Jensen, and Danish-Palestinian Reem Daniel, who has roots in the Gaza Strip. Together they will use the film and the stories from Gaza as a starting point and talk about experiencing the war from a distance.
Language: English
In the heart of Gaza, Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi brings together local filmmakers to document their own lives and stories.
19:00
The Brink of Dreams
Nada Riyadh & Ayman El Amir / Egypt, France, Qatar & Saudi Arabia / 2024 / 102 min
Winner of the Documentary Award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A group of lively Egyptian girls start a theater troupe using the city streets as a stage to share their dreams and opinions.
The Shadow Scholars
Eloise King / United Kingdom / 2024 / 98 min
Thousands of young, highly educated Kenyans make a living ghostwriting papers for Western students. An exposé of a murky academic underworld that has become a billion-dollar business.
Googoosh – Made of Fire
Niloufar Taghizadeh / Germany / 2024 / 94 min
Hope never fades in the resistance story about Iran's greatest pop icon: The incomparable singer and activist Googoosh, who makes an unexpected comeback after 20 years under house arrest.
Bogancloch
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, Germany & Iceland / 2024 / 86 min
CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers is back with a poetic portrait of hermit Jake Williams and his life in the Scottish Highlands. An ingenious film shot in beautiful black and white.
My Sweet Land
Sareen Hairabedian / United States, Jordan, France & Ireland / 2024 / 86 min
Vrej is a tender 11-year-old boy living in Artsakh, a small mountain paradise with porous borders. But when war breaks out again, will he be able to carry the hopes of his wounded homeland on his young shoulders?
Facing War
Tommy Gulliksen / Norway & Belgium / 2025 / World Premiere / 100 min
Åbningsgalla - livestream
Jens Stoltenberg's last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.
21:15
Caught by the Tides
Zhang-Ke Jia / China / 2024 / 111 min
Hailed as one of the best films of the year since its premiere at Cannes. Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke is back with a poetic masterpiece shot over 20 years as a woman searches for her missing husband.
Pavements
Alex Ross Perry / United States / 2024 / 127 min
Slacker heroes Pavement are back in a creative and kaleidoscopic meta-musical with as many layers as there are grooves in a record - directed with love by Alex Ross Perry.
Gender affirming transition is portrayed with nerve and a deep sense of presence in a personal film diary where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
Sam Pollard & Jason Pollard / United States / 2024 / 88 min
The true story of the mad, brilliant rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, who was swallowed by the industry and left the world too soon.
Wishing on a Star
Peter Kerekes / Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria & Croatia / 2024 / 99 min
Bittersweet docu-comedy about a female astrologer from Naples who offers the perfect solution to her clients' very human problems.