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.
11:00
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
François Caillat / France / 2023 / 72 min
+ Event: Asta Olivia Nordenhof on literature's critique of capitalism
Bodily transformations, physical manifestations and bodies in social boxes and classes. Who creates our identity? And what is our authentic self? For this screening, we have invited author Asta Olivia Nordenhof ('Djævlebogen' and 'Penge på lommen') to read aloud from her own works and talk about the roles we create for ourselves and the roles that society creates for us. The conversation will be moderated by Jonas Vase from Politiken.
Language: Danish
One of the most important contemporary writers invites us on a personal stroll through the past he has come to terms with in his autobiographical novels. Class, culture, sexuality, identity and education: Édouard Louis speaks from experience.
14:00
I Shall Not Hate
Tal Barda / Canada & France / 2024 / World Premiere / 95 min
A Canadian-Palestinian doctor's mission of tolerance and forgiveness is put to the ultimate test when he loses his three daughters. Meet a Nobel-nominated bestselling author from Gaza whose greatest adversary is hate itself.
17:00
Hollywoodgate
Ibrahim Nash'at / Germany & United States / 2023 / 91 min
A filmmaker makes a pact with the devil and risks his life to tag along when the Taliban take over an abandoned US military base in Afghanistan. An unforgettable and chilling insight into a radically alien mentality.
20:00
Your Fat Friend
Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom & United States / 2023 / 96 min
+ Debate: Welcome to the fat body! A reckoning with society's fatphobia
What is fatphobia, how does it arise in society and what is the way to change our negative view of our own and other people's bodies? Join us for a debate about society's lack of space for fat people. Joining the panel are fat activist Dina Amlund, creative DEI consultant and founder of The Soulfuls, Aram Ostadian-Binai, and visual artist Tore Hallas, who works with fatness and queerness in his art and also has the short film 'You are Closer to God When You Do Not Indulge' in this year's programme. The conversation will be moderated by debate editor at Politiken, Kirstine Dons Christensen. Presented in collaboration with The Soulfuls.
Language: English
A humorous, personal and highly educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic texts and activist Aubrey Gordon, and on six years of lived experience from anonymous blogger to best-selling author.
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