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
Night of the Coyotes
Clara Trischler / Germany & Austria / 2024 / World Premiere / 78 min
To avoid becoming a ghost town, a Mexican village invents a role-playing game that offers tourists the chance to experience an authentic illegal migration across the US border, complete with gangsters and border police.
13:00
No Other Land
Rachel Szor, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra & Hamdan Bilal / Palestine / 2024 / International Premiere / 95 min
+ The Youth Editorial Group: Palestine in focus
Gain new perspectives on Palestine and Israel when the Youth Editorial organises a double event with two film screenings to highlight the situation. After the first film, Ungdomsredaktionen will host a panel discussion on activism for Palestine in a Danish context. In Denmark, we are currently seeing a huge wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The situation in both Gaza and the West Bank is critical, but for the Palestinian people, the circumstances are far from unfamiliar. Moderator Nadeen Aiche, political science student and former chairperson of Mino Denmark, together with Birke Friedländer Jessing, anthropologist & PhD student, who is also a member of the activist group "Jews For Just Peace" and Elijah Kashmir, queer rapper who has worked with Palestinian activism activism through art and music, open up the topic with their own reflections and give an insight into what activism can look like behind the scenes.
The alliance between a young Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank and an Israeli journalist provides a unique and human insight into a decades-old conflict, as the two fight against the forced expulsion of the Masafer Yatta community. A film created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective.
15:00
Preemptive Listening
Aura Satz / United Kingdom & Finland / 2024 / World Premiere / 89 min
Sound and film art on innovative wavelengths in a work that explores the function and iconic value of the siren in a time of overlapping natural and man-made disasters. A participatory piece with contributions from 20 different sound artists.
16:00
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem / France, Palestine, Belgium & Qatar / 2023 / 82 min
+ Youth Editorial Group: Palestine in Focus
Gain new perspectives on Palestine and Israel when the Youth Editorial hosts a double event with two film screenings to highlight the situation. Do you want to know more about how Danes/Palestinians are feeling right now? Based on 'Bye Bye Tiberias' and its focus on having a homeland far away, the CPH:DOX's Youth Editorial will host a panel discussion. Manila Ghafuri, chairperson of Rapolitics, will moderate the conversation between Natasha Al-Hariri, project manager at Trygfonden, and Nidal Abu Arif, journalist, both with a Palestinian background. They will talk about generational trauma, deprivation of a homeland and, of course, how it feels to follow the current situation in Palestine from a distance. Before the film, we serve a free refreshment from To Øl.
Language: Danish
Four generations of Palestinian women give vivid and moving accounts of their relationship with their homeland, their hometown of Tiberias, and the resistance that has been passed down from mother to daughter.
17:00
A Poem for Little People
Ivan Sautkin / Ukraine, Lithuania & United Kingdom / 2023 / International Premiere / 83 min
The unlikely but close friendship of two elderly women brings to life a cinematic poem about courage and resistance during wartime, while a young man and his team of volunteers struggle to get people away from the frontline in Eastern Ukraine.
19:00
This is Ballroom
Juru & Vitã / Brazil / 2024 / World Premiere / 94 min
An upbeat tribute to the Brazilian ballroom scene, where LGBTQ+ and non-white people create the creative space they are not allowed in a repressive society.
From a simple and minimalistic setup, an entire universe of human stories emerges as a Polish director shuttles to the Ukrainian border to rescue fleeing families from the country.
21:00
Night of Nights
Truman / United States / 2024 / World Premiere / 86 min
A nocturnal and semi-surrealistic science fiction portrait of life in two Asian megacities after 2020, shot at night with an hypnotic intensity and with the lens pointing to the future.
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