Sound & Vision
Tune in to a selection of the best music films of the year.
Amadou & Mariam – The Blind Couple From Mali
The unlikely love story of two blind Malian musicians, Amadou and Mariam, who have toured all over the world. Now they are returning home to Mali to play a big concert and record one last album.
Ryan Marley / Canada / 2026 / International Premiere
The Ballad of Judas Priest
Put on your studded belt and leather vest! 50 entertaining years of rock history with the iconic heavy metal legends that changed the sound and style of heavy metal forever.
Sam Dunn & Tom Morello / United States / 2026
Boy George & Culture Club
The story of one of the most groundbreaking pop bands of the 1980s is a dramatic journey filled with internal infatuation, secret homosexuality, and destructive heroin abuse.
Alison Ellwood / United States & United Kingdom / 2025
Broken English
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’.
Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth / United Kingdom / 2025
Celtic Utopia
What does Irish folk music sound like in 2026? There are as many answers to that question as there are singers in the countless pubs where the genre is still kept alive throughout Ireland today.
Jenny – A Portrait of the Artist Lydmor
An intimate portrait of an uncompromising feminist artist and musician, depicting both her fierce creative drive and the personal costs of using her own life as raw material.
Sebastian Cordes / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Where Music Grows
On a farm south of Copenhagen, young elite musicians practice the difficult art of classical music. A beautiful and life-affirming film full of wonderful music.
Katrine Philp / Denmark & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere
The Musician And The Whale
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?
Valentin Paoli / France / 2026
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
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.
Robert Gordon / United States / 2025
Nick Cave’s Veiled World
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.
Mike Christie / United Kingdom / 2026
METAMETA – The World Without Us
A journey through Lars H.U.G.'s creative mind and musical universe with the man himself as tour guide, and with brand new songs on the soundtrack.
Elias Schaffalitzky, Nicklas Koney, Edward Therkildsen, Markus Simonsen, Jacques Pedersen, Martin CitySlang Kogi & Lars H.U.G. / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere
Summer Tour
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.
Mischa Richter / United States / 2025
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
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.
Christine Turner / United States / 2025
Takkuuk
A visually explosive, musical journey into the Arctic, where musicians and researchers share their personal stories about nature, culture, and rapidly changing identities to a dizzying score by BICEP.
Zak Norman & Charlie Miller / United Kingdom / 2025
We Want The Funk
Get ready for a pure funk explosion! Wild stories from the 70s are mixed with sweaty bass lines, electric grooves and the kind of rhythms that get right into your feet.
Stanley Nelson & Nicole London / United States / 2025
Concerts and music events
Final Night Folk! Newport Folk Festival film + mini concert with Geo Pjäserna
In keeping with tradition, we conclude this year's CPH:DOX with music at the Bremen Theater: a film about the legendary Newport Folk Festival, followed by a mini-concert in the same spirit with the sensational Danish duo Geo Pjäserna.
Mekdes mini-concert following the screening of ‘Adam’s Apple’
Come along when Mekdes plays an acoustic concert and performs a few songs from his album 'The Boy I Am' at Tapperiet BRUS.
Arctic Stories: ‘Takkuuk’ – film, concerts and talk
After the premiere of 'Takkuuk' there will be a Q&A, and a concert with Tarrak and Katarina Barruk and the film's director.
Lars H.U.G. cinema concert: ‘METAMETA – A World Without Us’
Experience a cinema concert with Lars H.U.G., who will be playing live for his debut as a film director. As an extra treat for fans, he has included a handful of brand new songs on the soundtrack.
‘Burning Voice’ (film) + Luna Ersahin (solo concert)
Experience the premiere of the Danish documentary 'Burning Voice', a harsh and political film about women's rights, identity, and the price of speaking out. Through one woman's personal story, the film depicts negative social control and the oppression of women around the world. After the screening, the evening will continue with a concert by Luna Ersahin from the band AySay!
All hail feminism in black metal
As a part of 'Norden på film' we screen the film 'HEX', about the Norwegian group Witch Club Satan, and talk about equality within the metal community.
Indulge Your Senses with Classical Music, Film, and Homemade Finger Food
Allow yourself to be teleported directly from Park Bio in Østerbro to Jacob Shaw's musical farm – Scandinavian Cello School - in Stevns when we invite you to the world premiere of Katrine Philp's documentary 'Where Music Grows' – accompanied by delicious food and wonderful music.
Lydmor – film & concert!
A 45-person choir, a guitarist, a Foley artist - and, last but not least, Jenny Rossander aka. Lydmor, on stage for a very special live performance of the album ‘Nimue’, after the screening of the film about her.
Fairuz Tribute: Film Screening and Concert with Dana Alshihaby at the David Collection
Experience an intimate concert with Dana Alshihaby, accompanied by oud player Bilal Irshed, at the David Collection – an atmospheric tribute to Lebanon and Fairuz's enduring legacy.
Let The Music Grow! Concert at SMK
Meet the musicians from the film as they perform a concert after the screening of ‘Where Music Grows’.
INTER:ACTIVE Live Performance by Brains in the State of Suspension
'Brains in the State of Suspension' is a live performance horror film exploring disembodied intelligence, domination, and horror as self-aware brains confront the monstrous consequences of their own drive for control. The experience is a special event of live cinema and will be performed twice on the 17th of March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for a limited capacity.
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