Schedule
Here you will find all films and events during CPH:DOX 2026, day by day.
12:00
I Want Her Dead
Gianluca Matarrese / Italy / 2025 / 85 min
In a Calabrian village, peace is threatened by a long-standing family feud between two sisters-in-law. A tragicomic portrait of a tiny town where the art of the melodrama is alive and well.
14:30
Watching People Watching Birds
Michael Loeken & Ulrike Franke / Germany / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min
Birds are an endangered species, but birdwatchers around the world are on the case in a delightful, charming film about amateur ornithologists.
What do you get when you leave two aging Polish widows and inseparable soul mates in each other's loving company in a village in Romania? Double trouble!
16:45
The Swedish author's early years during World War II, told through her own diaries in a beautiful and thoughtful film about life, death and art in the shadow of war.
17:00
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.
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.
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.
19:00
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.
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.
A Fox Under a Pink Moon
Mehrdad Oskouei & Soraya / Iran, Türkiye & Greece / 2025 / 76 min
Over five years, young Soraya documents her repeated attempts to flee Iran for Europe with her mobile phone.
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.
Qajaq Man
Joe Derrick / Norway, Denmark & Greenland / 2026 / World Premiere / 67 min
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.
20:00
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.
21:00
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.
Step inside Berlin's legendary sex club, KitKatClub in a gorgeous black-and-white film. An intimate and generous tale of freedom, lust, boundaries, and sex in all its varieties.
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.
Palestinian Unwanted
Omar Shargawi / Denmark & Jordan / 2026 / World Premiere / 73 min
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.















