Schedule
Here you will find all films and events during CPH:DOX 2026, day by day.
10:30
Four short films about love, rupture and fragile connections: 'From This Day Forth' by Jonatan Egholm Keis, 'Where Ever You Are' by Jenna Mangulad, 'You Say That You’re Staying at the Party Because You’re Having Fun' by Siri Hammarén and 'Three of Cup' by Mário Macedo.
11:30
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
12:00
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.
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.
Dracula
Radu Jude / Romania, Luxembourg & Brazil / 2025 / 170 min
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.
13:00
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.
A French school class from the provinces goes on a trip to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in a film that explores what art and culture mean – and to whom.
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
14:00
Meet the director of 'Intelligence Rising' Elena Andreicheva, together with author and 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.
The Silo and Us
Carina Randløv / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 78 min
Q&A: Meet director Carina Randløv and a bunch of proud Stubbekøbing locals - new and old
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?
Palestinian Unwanted
Omar Shargawi / Denmark & Jordan / 2026 / World Premiere / 73 min
Q&A in presence of director Omar Shargawi
During the disaster in Gaza, a Danish-Palestinian film director attempts to raise awareness among the Danish public, while struggling to keep himself together. A deeply personal film with a mission.
Amongst the Birds
Mika Kaurismäki, Ragnar Axelsson & Ingvar Þórðarson / Iceland / 2026 / World Premiere / 83 min
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.
Watch all three episodes of Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg's thrilling series about art trade, fraud, staggering fortunes, and a feud of epic proportions.
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.
Nick Cave’s Veiled World
Mike Christie / United Kingdom / 2026 / 65 min
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.
15:00
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.
16:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie
Alex Gibney / United States / 2026 / International Premiere / 107 min
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.
Kikuyu Land
Bea Wangondu & Andrew H. Brown / United States & Kenya / 2026 / International Premiere / 95 min
Q&A in presence of directors Andrew H. Brown & Bea Wangondu
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.
Watching People Watching Birds
Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
Q&A in presence of directors Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke
Birds are an endangered species, but birdwatchers around the world are on the case in a delightful, charming film about amateur ornithologists.
Birita
Búi Dam / Faroe Islands / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
Q&A in presence of director Búi Dam
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.
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.
Becoming Ema
Patricia Drati / Denmark, Spain & Slovakia / 2026 / World Premiere / 83 min
In presence of the film crew
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.
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
Christine Turner / United States / 2025 / 84 min
+ Meet Kresten Osgood for an introduction
Danish jazz musician Kresten Osgood introduces his relationship with Sun Ra the day before(!) he travels to Philadelphia to perform with Marshall Allen, the 101-year-old saxophonist and bandleader of Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995.
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.
Molly vs the Machines
Marc Silver / United Kingdom / 2025 / 83 min
Q&A in presence of director Marc Silver
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.
Let Our Mountains Live
Håvard Bustnes / Norway & Finland / 2026 / World Premiere / 100 min
In presence of director Håvard Bustnes
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.
This is Not a French Film
Tom Adjibi / Belgium & France / 2026 / World Premiere / 80 min
Q&A in presence of director Tom Adjibi
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.
17:00
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.
American Doctor
Poh Si Teng / United States, Palestine, Malaysia & Denmark / 2026 / International Premiere / 90 min
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.
Do You Love Me
Lana Daher / Lebanon, France, Germany & Qatar / 2025 / 77 min
Lebanese festival hit that paints a fragmented portrait of a country, a city, and a people. A cinematic love letter to Lebanon - and a virtuoso act of creative filmmaking.
18:00
Experience this year's INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition titled "Hypervigilance" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
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.
Dreaming of Serenada
Katrine Weber / Uganda, Denmark & United States / 2026 / World Premiere / 75 min
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.
A Child of My Own
Maite Alberdi / Mexico / 2026 / 93 min
Q&A in presence of director Maite Alberdi
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.
Matter of Britain
Peter Treherne / United Kingdom / 2026 / European Premiere / 103 min
Q&A in presence of director Peter Treherne
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.
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.
Q&A in presence of director Elisabeth Rasmussen and protagonist Jon Larsen
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.
Open My Mind
Marcel Wyss / Switzerland / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
Q&A in presence of director Marcel Wyss
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.
19:00
Little Sinner
Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
Q&A: Meet directors Daro Hansen & Thomas Papapetros
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.
The Lives of My Father
Magnus Skatvold / Norway / 2026 / International Premiere / 86 min
Q&A in presence of director Magnus Skatvold
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.
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.
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]
Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil / United States / 2026 / European Premiere / 81 min
Q&A in presence of directors Adam & Zach Khalil
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.
The Cycle of Love
Orlando von Einsiedel / United Kingdom & Sweden / 2025 / European Premiere / 98 min
Q&A in presence of director Orlando von Einsiedel and the protagonists PK and Lotta,
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.
Whispers in May
Dongnan Chen / Hong Kong, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea) & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere / 95 min
Q&A in presence of director Dongnan Chen
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.
Fukushima
James Jones & Megumi Inman / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
Q&A in presence of director James Jones
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’.
An Eye For an Eye
Tanaz Eshaghian & Farzad Jafari / United States, Iran & Denmark / 2025 / 84 min
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.
A Life Illuminated
Tasha Van Zandt / United States / 2025 / European Premiere / 89 min
Q&A in presence of director Tasha Van Zandt
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.
20:00
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.
A Very Good Boy
Sébastien Lifshitz / France / 2026 / 87 min
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.
21:00
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.
Petrolheads
Emil Langballe & Emil Langballe / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 77 min
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.
The Seasons
Maureen Fazendeiro / Portugal, France, Spain & Austria / 2025 / 82 min
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.
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.
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
Robert Gordon / United States / 2025 / 99 min
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.
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.
Creatures of the Mind
Marcelo Gomes / Brazil / 2025 / 84 min
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.
The Tingbjerg Experiment
Louise Detlefsen / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 75 min
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?
Summer Tour
Mischa Richter / United States / 2025 / 82 min
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.














































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