SOCIETY:CINEMA
Try to imagine CPH:DOX as a newspaper. With a foreign section, big interviews, and cultural content - and an overview of the most important events in the world right now - combine it with a huge ballroom party and you have our SOCIETY:CINEMA.
Once again this year, we welcome you to a three-day society festival in collaboration with our media partner, Politiken. From March 15th to 17th, there is SOCIETY;CINEMA at Pressen. Friday is dedicated to this year’s theme Body Politics, when we discuss the right to a good youth life – also with disabilities – with TV host Anna Lin, researcher Emil Falster, and chairman of the Association of Young People with Disabilities, William Korte.
Later, there is a debate about body-positive communities and performance at the screening of ‘This is Ballroom’ with a visit from the film’s Brazilian dancer and main character, and afterwards, we hold a ballroom party until late at night – where everyone is welcome.
The rest of the weekend, you can meet, among others, the Palestinian doctor, Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost three daughters during Israeli attacks in Gaza. He is the main character in the documentary film ‘I Shall Not Hate’, which is nominated for our new Human:Rights Award. You can also experience the exhibition ‘Turning Points’, which marks 75 years of the Human Rights Convention.
Also look forward to debates on fertility and expectations of motherhood, about fat activism, about the Taliban, about French literature and autofiction a la Édouard Louis, and about the failure of the food industry.
14:00
The Mum in Me
Hilde Merete Haug / Norway / 2023 / 83 min
A sensitive and scientific analysis of infertility as a social phenomenon that will make you blush if you have ever asked your colleague when they are going to have children.
17:00
Death of a Saint
Patricia Bbaale Bandak / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 92 min
A Danish director travels to Uganda to find out what happened the Christmas Eve her mother lost her life. A personal and life-affirming film about family, motherhood and confronting the past.
20:00
Food Inc. 2
Melissa Robledo & Robert Kenner / United States / 2023 / 94 min
Turbo chickens, plant-based steaks and a pandemic. A lot has happened since the first 'Food Inc.' film, and it's time for a fresh in-depth look at the food industry and at possible solutions.
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