Visit our festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Just like in the past years, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again constitute the heart of the festival. Here, you can drop by daily to visit cinemas, our VR exhibition INTER:ACTIVE, as well as the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows, which is the artist's first major solo exhibition in Scandinavia, running from March 13th to August 11th.
Welcome to CPH:DOX’s festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Every day during the festival, we open the doors at 10:00 AM to two festival cinemas, exhibitions, events, and parties. You can also eat and drink at Apollo Bar, which is open every day from 10:00 AM (except for Monday), and at Apollo Kantine, which is open daily from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Also, visit our own DOX:BAR, which is open every day from the first to the last event.
At Charlottenborg, you’ll find our very own cinema – SOCIAL:CINEMA. Because at festivals like CPH:DOX, it’s not always easy to get to, from, and around if you’re, for example, a wheelchair user, we’ve built a new, temporary cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It is inspired by the principles of universal design and aims to be more inclusive for guests with mobility impairments.
The cinema, designed by the studio Aspekt Office and supported by the Bevica Foundation’s grant fund, is called SOCIAL:CINEMA and focuses on the body, inclusivity, and sustainability. Scaffold constructions, specially designed furniture, and wheelchair-friendly tables and bars provide access to a more diverse and varied audience.
Poet and disability activist Caspar Eric, who opens SOCIAL:CINEMA on March 16th with a new and visual version of the manifesto ‘Sorry we’re here’, which is a collective outcry from a wide range of people with disabilities and their relatives.
During CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg also opens the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition ‘Reincarnations of Shadows’. In this first solo exhibition on Scandinavian soil, Phan delves into pressing questions about her homeland’s history in relation to more contemporary issues of environment, colonialism, and historiography.
Moreover, we open the doors to a new edition of our INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, which is based on the interplay between creativity and technology. Through various media such as games, interactive installations, video art, textiles, and AI, a number of artists explore changes in how we relate to our physical self and investigate how we break the boundaries of our imagined limitations. The INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition is curated by Mark Atkin.
12:30
La Base
Vadim Dumesh / France / 2023 / International Premiere / 72 min
Social-realist sci-fi from the taxi centre around a Paris airport that looks more like a run-down space base where an incredible cast of characters cross each other's paths.
13:00
Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Virpi Suutari / Finland / 2024 / World Premiere / 93 min
+ The Youth Editorial Group: Meditative future journey
Come into Social Cinema and experience a scenic movie in soft sofas, after which you will be guided through a meditative future journey by Frederikke Oldin from Gentænk. With our eyes closed, we will imagine a future sustainably transformed society where anything is possible - a utopia. Here, hope can flourish as we reflect on how we want to live, eat and dwell, and the change that can happen when we think about nature and our relationship with it. Before the film, we serve a free refreshment from To Øl.
Language: Danish
Biodiversity and generation gaps collide in a politically urgent and thoughtful film about two young activists' fight to save the vast Finnish forests. Is it still civil disobedience when you know you have both history and the future on your side?
14:30
Invisible People
Alisa Berger / France & Germany / 2024 / World Premiere / 71 min
An atmospheric trip to Japan in an existential and expressive film where the nightmarish butoh dance becomes the prism through which the forces of life express themselves. The hideous and the sublime meet and strange micro-connections emerge.
16:30
The Black Garden
Alexis Pazoumian / France & Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere / 80 min
With cinematic brushstrokes and few words, a bleak story is told of three generations living in the shadow of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. A brilliantly orchestrated study in how conflicts recreate themselves.
17:00
+ The Youth Editorial Group: SygtStærk with Sofie Riise Nors
CPH:DOX's Youth Editorial invites you to a screening of the film 'Ibelin', followed by a conversation with two young panelists who both live a youthful life with physical disabilities and chronic illness moderated by Danish illustrator and host of the podcast SygtStærk, Sofie Riise Nors. Together they will give an insight into their everyday lives, thoughts and perspectives on life with physical limitations. In continuation of the film's theme, they will also shed light on the role digital communities can play for young people who, for various reasons, cannot participate in physical spaces on an equal footing with most people - and finally, there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Before the film, we serve a free refreshment from To Øl.
Language: Danish
A young Norwegian gamer with an unusual double life in 'World of Warcraft' turns out to be a true online superhero, much to his family's surprise. A genuinely moving film about transcending your disability and making a real difference in other people's lives.
18:30
Blueberry Dreams
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium & Qatar / 2024 / World Premiere / 75 min
A warm and understatedly humourous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. A young film from the old world, where the family's two sons dream of a different future.
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