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The documentary film 'Yugo ide u Ameriku' (Yugo Goes to America) has achieved significant success at international festivals, including its world premiere at CPH:DOX and an audience award at Beldocs.
The documentary 'MARIINKA' by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue has won the CPH:DOX Audience Award, offering audiences a look into the lives of young Ukrainians affected by a decade of conflict in the Donbas region.
The CPH:DOX film festival has announced its major award winners, with a documentary about teenage girls' road trip taking the main prize and a film about a secret reading club in Afghanistan winning the Nordic category.
More than €110,000 ($127,000) total in awards were handed out in Copenhagen this evening as another edition of CPH:DOX’s industry arm came to an end.
"Updated Reflections on Contemporary Palestinian Documentary Filmmaking," a panel during the industry conference of CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, drew a crowd.
"The general level of hypervigilance is rising across society," says curator Mark Atkin. "Embedded within each experience is a form of resistance or rebellion."
A panel at the Copenhagen doc festival's industry conference also discussed a key reason for the documentary Oscar win for 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' on Sunday.
A sense of outrage compelled Oscar-nominated producer Poh Si Teng to make her directorial debut, the searing American Doctor, now screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. “I was very angry and then came despair,” she explained in a talk at the CPH:Conference on Tuesday. “I didn’t know what to do with those emotions.” Her emotions sprang […]
Amongst growing conversation on conglomeration, the shifting landscape of global media and restrained freedom of speech, the leading documentary festival CPH:DOX chose “Media Sovereignty: Rethink,…
Kenya-Jade Pinto‘s film, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, goes inside “a global black box of migration, surveillance and control.”
The documentary from Shakiba Adil and Elina Hirvonen, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, features clandestinely shot mobile phone footage and shows "the power of art to keep hope and humanism…
Stanley Schtinter discusses his doc, narrated by Jeremy Irons and debuting at CPH:DOX, and how it "parasitizes the predatory relationship the dominant screen culture encourages people to have with…
EXCLUSIVE: Swedish filmmaker Nathan Grossman (I Am Greta) has returned to feature filmmaking with Amazomania, which is set to debut at this year’s CPH:DOX Film Festival. Check out the film’s trailer above and poster below. The film’s official synopsis reads: In 1996, a Brazilian official and the Swedish journalist, Erling Söderström, ventured into the Amazon […]
Rachel Taparjan's first feature, debuting at Copenhagen, sees the director and another woman returning to the orphanage where they were adopted, putting her on a path to confronting a painful legacy.
Nolwenn Hervé discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, which follows a nurse fighting for safe birthing conditions in Venezuela's "broken" health care system.
Directors Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen say their new doc, premiering at Copenhagen, is about how identity is "shaped, tested, and rebuilt in the presence of friends, family, and the larger…
Paula Cury discusses taking “the hard route” for her first feature film, premiering at Copenhagen doc fest CPH:DOX, finding “very brave” women to speak up, and the global backlash against women’s…
There is much good to be found as a wave of documentaries washes over Denmark in the coming days. Berlingske's culture desk has found its favorites that you should see at the CPH:DOX film festival.
Laurits Nansen talks "beer girls," the "wild" cocktail of alcohol and capitalism, how beer ads trump street signs in Phnom Penh, and how his doc, debuting at Copenhagen, gets inside the heads of…
From Norwegian witches and rebellious Afghan women to ghost elephants and Danish film's big, embarrassing provocateur.
Artistic director Niklas Engstrøm shares why he wants to broaden the notion of what docs can be and his take on fests under fire: "The important thing is that we continue conversations even when it's…
Laurits Nansen's film explores "neo-colonial alcohol capitalism," "beer girls" and "what happens to people, ethics, and morality when alcohol and capitalism are unleashed like two wild animals."
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) has teamed up with European Film Promotion for the second year of Europe! Docs, an initiative to highlight European documentaries and improve market access.
The Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX has announced the lineup for its industry Summit and Conference program, featuring speakers such as John Wilson and Sara Dosa.
The film 'Yugo ide u Ameriku' will be presented to the Serbian audience starting September 3rd, following its world premiere at the CPH:DOX festival.
CPH:DOX Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm commented on the challenges of keeping government oversight 'at arm's length' at international film festivals, referencing issues at the Berlin Film Festival.
Whispers in May, Dongnan Chen’s film exploring the rite of passage of a 14-year-old girl in rural China, won the top award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen Friday night, automatically qualifying the…
In the United States, according to Nielsen audience data, the 2026 edition of the Oscar Awards attracted approximately 17.86 million viewers, a decrease of almost 9% compared to the 19.7 million from...
The HBO cult icon shared how Street photography inspired him and why "I really don't like manipulating the image" during an on-stage interview at the industry conference of CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
Like a flower that somehow emerges through concrete, love can blossom even in a space of unfathomable violence.
“Amazomania” is exactly the kind of documentary one hopes to see in the main competition of a film festival like CPH:DOX: ambitious, sprawling, with a lot on its mind.
During a Q&A at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, co-directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig discussed the use of Super 8 footage and stylized, almost music video-ish, sequences.
Director Andreas Pichler and producer Christian Beetz discussed the doc during a Q&A following a screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
In the CPH:DOX-debuting doc, Gabriela Pena and Picho García, partners in film and life, return to the womb, figuratively speaking, to explore her relationship with her mother, affected by exile and…
Ian Purnell looked to imbue his debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, with a "sensual connection": "We were often talking about what kind of animal something could be."
EXCLUSIVE: Ominous clouds are gathering at SXSW and CPH:DOX – not necessarily in the skies, but certainly on the big screen.
Swedish director Nathan Grossman discusses his new film, premiering at CPH:DOX, exploring the Western gaze, turning the camera on colonial legacy, and collaborating with the Korubo community.
“I like taking risks. I love going into adventures,” Oscar winner Juliette Binoche observes.
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance award-winning One in a Million, a longitudinal film about a Syrian girl caught between life as a refugee in Germany and memories of her homeland, has just made its European…
Doc director Jeanie Finlay ('Your Fat Friend') loves to go hyperlocal and give a voice, in the local accent, to fishermen and others who are not commonly heard or seen on screens beyond "poverty…
Jens Schanze’s doc, premiering at Copenhagen, confronts "past colonization and present-day resource politics" in Bolivia and beyond with epic images, an observational approach, and, yes, llamas.
As major film festivals struggle with tackling complex political issues at a time of great global unrest, CPH:DOX is pushing forward with prodding at the root of sensitive conversations surrounding…
EXCLUSIVE: At the height of its power, the Russian mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group numbered tens of thousands of soldiers who were dispatched to Ukraine, Syria, and several African…
Felipe Bustos Sierra's film recently opened the Glasgow Film Festival after its Sundance world premiere and hits the U.K. and Ireland on March 13 after screening at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
As elections approach in Denmark, the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, also known as CPH:DOX, has a role in the national debate during its 23rd edition, running March 11-22.
Passion Pictures, CNN Films, and Propagate Content are joining forces on The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door, a documentary about a notorious chemical weapon attack in the UK that triggered an…
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) has announced its complete program for its 23rd edition, featuring special guests such as Juliette Binoche, Louis Theroux, and John Wilson.
A Doc Talk podcast from Copenhagen features CPH:DOX Artistic Chief Niklas Engstrøm and the directors of 'Queens Ballroom,' highlighting the growing influence of the documentary film festival.
There’s money in potash. A lot of it. Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev earned vast sums by mining the substance, used as an agricultural fertilizer.
The secretly filmed Finnish documentary 'The Secret Reading Club of Kabul,' which focuses on women in Afghanistan, has won the main prize in the Nordic competition series at the CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen.
On the sidelines of CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, creators Andreas Dalsgaard and Christoph Jörg discuss the series, the first episode of which premiered at Sundance, followed by all episodes at the Danish…
Swedish artist Ester Bergsmark merges art forms, an approach for which she has developed a reputation: "This film is about the human pulse that keeps so many transgender people alive today."
Director Richard Rowley discusses 'Hell's Army,' his new CPH:DOX doc about the rise of the Wagner Group — and why he thinks it's a warning about where democracy is headed: "Mercenary armies are what…
'Molly vs the Machines' director Marc Silver, Denmark's tech ambassador, featured in new doc 'Techplomacy,' and other experts discussed the dark sides of technology at CPH:DOX’s industry conference.
A sense of imminence pervades Dream of Another Summer, Irene Bartolomé’s film that’s set in Beirut. A sense that something could happen at any moment, perhaps something terrible.
Irene Kaltenborn's 'The Mother Age' and Otilia Portillo Padua's 'Daughters of the Forest' feature in this year's Copenhagen International Documentary Festival lineup and follow “journeys that gather instead of conquer.”
Rachel Taparjan discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, trauma-informed filmmaking and why Western media's portrayal of Romanian orphans is a hidden "antagonist" of the doc.
Dongnan Chen's second feature, premiering at CPH:DOX, follows three girls in China, one of whom has just had her first menstruation: "I think of the film as a dream running parallel to reality."
Elena Andreicheva's doc, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, sees some of the world's brightest minds diving into "how artificial intelligence might reshape power itself": "The future is all to play…
The trailer for the documentary film 'Yugo Goes to America' has been released, the feature-length directorial debut of authors Filip Grujić and Aleksa Borković, which will have its world premiere at the prestigious...
Anna Bruun Nørager's documentary, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, comes amid a global backlash: "Extreme conservative forces are trying to push down the fight for women’s rights."
Manuel Correa discusses using cutting-edge technology in his eight-year work on the doc, debuting at Copenhagen's CPH:DOX, and how "modes of repression" are also becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Born in the Transvaal in 1931, Archbishop Desmond Tutu died nearly five years ago, in the last week of 2021, but this documentary arrives as a timely reminder of his legacy and the great strides he…
Director Karl Friis Forchhammer, who was born in the community and debuts his doc about one of the world's largest social experiments at CPH:DOX, discusses its timely lessons for our age and making a…
To Belgian director Pieter-Jan De Pue, fewer commodities are as precious to a creative as time. The photographer spent seven years in Afghanistan to tell the story of children digging up Soviet mines in the high mountains of Pamir for his 2016 Sundance award-winning “The Land of the Enlightened.” The decade since has seen the […]
Mara Gourd-Mercado discusses the Copenhagen festival's 18th CPH:INDUSTRY edition, attendance trends, a spotlight on Palestinian doc filmmaking and addressing documentary's biggest challenges.
EXCLUSIVE: They’ve disrupted a high-profile charity baseball game, public appearances by politicians and fossil fuel company executives, and even a Broadway show – a production of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. “They” are Climate Defiance, a group of young activists led by founder Michael Greenberg who use controversial tactics to demand urgent action on […]
Otilia Portillo Padua's feature documentary world premieres at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, immediately followed by its North American debut at SXSW.
Together Films has secured world rights (excluding Canada) for Kenya-Jade Pinto’s debut feature documentary 'The Sandbox,' which is set to premiere on March 17 in the CPH:DOX DOX:AWARD competition.
"The festival converges urgent reports from the world’s geopolitical boiling points with critical inquiries into AI disruption, Big Tech, oligarchs, and the battle for freedom of expression."