Schedule
Here you will find all films and events during CPH:DOX 2026, day by day.
16:45
Ghost Elephants
Werner Herzog / United States / 2025 / 99 min
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.
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Felipe Bustos Sierra / United Kingdom / 2026 / 98 min
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.
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.
17:00
Lynetteholm on Trial
Naja Andersen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 58 min
Q&A with directors Naja Andersen & Karen Stokkendal
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.
Q&A in presence of directors Johannes Ujo Müller & Arina Kleist
Two powerful short films about identity, belonging and responsibility in a Greenlandic reality: 'Our Flag' by Johannes Müller and 'Tamatta Ataqatigiippugut – We are all connected' by Arina Kleist.
My Father and Qaddafi
Jihan / Libya & United States / 2025 / 88 min
A Libyan diplomat disappears under mysterious circumstances after breaking with Gaddafi. Decades later, his daughter seeks the truth about her father's disappearance and a brutal regime.
18:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Free entrance and no ticket needed.
19:00
Five bold short films by contemporary artists about bodies, boundaries and systems under pressure.
MARIINKA
Pieter-Jan De Pue / Belgium / 2026 / World Premiere / 94 min
Q&A in presence of director Pieter-Jan De Pue
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.
Waking Hours
Filippo Foscarini & Federico Camamrata / Italy / 2025 / 78 min
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.
Qajaq Man
Joe Derrick / Norway, Denmark & Greenland / 2026 / World Premiere / 67 min
Q&A in presence of director Joe Derrick
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.
Barrio Triste
STILLZ / Colombia & United States / 2025 / 89 min
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.
20:00
Four short films from Palestine about everyday resilience, fragile hope and lives shaped by occupation and displacement: 'The Miracle of Life', 'Colors Under The Sky', 'Very Small Dreams' and 'Hassan'.
21:00
The Musician And The Whale
Valentin Paoli / France / 2026 / 83 min
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?
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.
Just Look Up
Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey / United States & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 94 min
+ Q&A with directors Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey
After the film, the two directors Emma Wall & Betsy Hershey will take to the stage and participate in a Q&A session.
Language: Conversation is in English
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.
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.
Broken English
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025 / 99 min
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’.
Mare’s Nest
Ben Rivers / United Kingdom, France & Canada / 2025 / 98 min
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.


















