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.
17:00
God, Please Send a Whale
Julie Bezerra Madsen / Denmark / 2024 / World Premiere / 75 min
A Danish family travels to Brazil to say goodbye to their mother, who passed away six years ago. But things don't quite go according to plan. Can the father and the two adult sisters reach each other and talk about loss, life and death?
18:00
There was Nothing Here Before
Yvann Yagchi / Switzerland / 2024 / 71 min
+ Talk: Heritage and Trauma through generations
No matter where in the world they were born, people of Palestinian or Jewish descent must relate to the unresolved situation in Palestine and Israel, even though they may never have been there - and even more now than ever before. How does the inherited trauma arise and why does it hurt so much to talk about it, even when you were born and raised abroad and want justice and peace first and foremost? Meet the film's director, Yvann Yagchi, in conversation with two of the co-authors of the citizen proposal 'Denmark has a duty to prevent genocide', doctor Suher Othman, who has Palestinian roots, and peace activist Yonatan Goldhstein, who has a Jewish background, in a conversation about how wars and conflicts far away cast heavy shadows over everyone with ties to both Palestine and Israel - through several generations. The conversation will be moderated by investigative journalist Kevin Shakir from DR Dokumentar.
Language: English
A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.
19:00
Ottu + My Want of You Partakes of Me
Sandra Ignagni, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner / Canada, France, Italy, United Kingdom & Netherlands / 75 min
Two films nominated for the festival's art film award.
20:30
Israelism
Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen / United States / 2023 / 84 min
+ Talk: Meet the film's producer and protagonist
After the film, we ask the difficult but important questions about how we should relate to Israel and what meaning our words and actions have. When do we criticize the war in Gaza, when do we criticize Israel as a state and project, and what are the different prerequisites for our criticism depending on our origins and standpoint? Meet the film's protagonist Simone Zimmerman and the film's producer Daniel J. Chalfen in conversation.
Language: English
Two young American Jews are raised to love Israel unconditionally, but their lives take a sharp left turn when they experience the plight of the Palestinians. A film about Jewish identity on both sides of the generation gap.
21:00
Look On the Bright Side + Dieseline Dreams + Trash The Musical
Yuyan Wang, Max Göran & Loretta Fahrenholz / France, Italy, Sweden & Germany / 71 min
Three short films nominated for the CPH:DOX Art Film Award and screened together.
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