With CPH:DOX ready for the 2025 edition, organizers unveiled a bold show that includes 200+ movies, with its sharp deal with human rights being “right now, right now” theme.
With 94 world premieres, 68 features, this is the best number in the past in the game history – CPH:DOX continues to increase its world footprint.
For the third consecutive year, all major competitor titles are world premiere. While this is not an appropriate selection criterion, the director of the invention, Niklas Engelstester, told choose“The truth about the Prime Minister’s choice of premiere films with us shows how the competition develops.” He stipulated that from November to March 2017, the competition would be transferred to a position in the world, as Sundance later served as the United States For filmmakers, the European launch pad.
Niklas Engstrom
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The keen Sundance champion heads to CPH: Dox embraces “Mr. No Ho Bor Putin,” “Relationship Sports” and “Zodiac Killer Challenge.”
Among the competitors’ many world premieres, Ai Weewei’s “Animation”, Ian Cheney’s “Observer”, Hannah Papasker Harper Papacek Harper’s “Missive Phrase,” Jereme Watt’s “Everest Darkish” and Nathan Grossman’s “The Therapy Local weather”.
Highlighting human rights This year’s choice is not accidental: A new survey shows that more than half of Danes cannot identify a particular human-appropriate thing, a shocking statistics in today’s unstable geopolitical panorama .
Engstrøm said human rights have always been indispensable in documentary production, but the instability of world politics makes it crucial to discover specific human rights in these views in the past.
“Given how good power has been transferred in the East and the West, it’s time to deal with rights, not just specific people, but the rights of the state and the state, which may be the construction of our global system.
“Turandot of ai Weiwei”
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“It is possible that we enter a world that is less inclined to maintain a worldwide authorization system that was built after World Struggle II, especially after the cold Struggle.” Panama or Gaza, I think many people look at it To the new U.S. government demonstrates little respect for global legislation. ”
This political footage is reflected in choices like Arthur Franck (“Holsinki Influence”) by Arthur Franck (“Hypnotist”), who is at the cusp of the cold struggle and the opening film of the game, Tommy Gu Tommy Gulliksen's “Occasional”. By Struggle,” an epic drama about NATO’s position in the Russian-Ukrainian battle Stoltenberg.
The competition also returned with its new Humanity: Rights Award class, with its 2024 champion Shiori Itō now an Oscar candidate for the Oscar “Diary of Black Fields”.
The visitor list of the year stacks with many of the most visionary figures in the latest tradition to date, as well as Famend Chinese language artist and activist AI Weewei, Ukrainian feminist feminist Inna Shevchenko, Bulgarian investigative journalist Chris Christo Groze and Republican Trump Trump Kinzinger.
AI will take the stage of the Human Rights Group and can introduce the world premiere of his new document, “Animatelational,” a painfully cruel statement about the animal created with filmmakers around the world. The competition can even showcase Maxim Derevianko's “Turandot of AI Weiwei”, a game that captures the debut of a Chinese artist's opera director in Rome.
Another highly anticipated visitor, Israeli architect and researcher Eyal Weizman, known for leveraging spatial assessments and expertise, will research structures in isolation and human rights violations at Danae Elon's “Stone Rule of Stone Rule of Stone,” position in.
CPH: Dox's Star Energy extends to comics and film producer Jerrod Carmichael, who will take a look at it through the competition's ongoing collaboration with HBO and the sixties-style Icon Twiggy (the world's first supermodel) who will At Copenhagen, Sadie Frost's Premere of Sadie Frost's's' Doc was named after her.
The lineup of the year also includes a great collection of musical documentaries in the sound and imaginative and prescient sections, rather than just rejoicing in music, but examines the cultural and political power that shapes the artist’s career. Each of Engstrøm's personal highlights is “It's by no means: Jeff Buckley, directed by Amy Berg, is the life of the late singer and author and Intimate portrait of the legacy.
Warren Ellis, a longtime collaborator of Nick Cave, will tell him about Justin Kurzel's “Ellis Park” Animal shelter in Sumatra. Ellis can even do a stop-to-do live show, organizers working to increase demand to increase the second time.
Different outstanding musical documents range from Michael Ogden's “To Becomes Madonna” who examines the stratosphere of material ladies' rise to fame, to Grace Lee and Patty Ahn's Docu specializes in OK-Pop Pop Powerhouse BTS, “No Ending, We Are Young, Niloufar” and Niloufar Taghizade's “googoosh: Products of Fireplaces”, documenting the famous Iranian singer's Profession.
In reflecting on his 2023 proposition to make CPH:DOX the most important documentary contest in the world, Engstrøm acknowledged the outstanding development of the occasion, but still targeted the retaining of his signature intimacy.
“One of the biggest challenges is how we develop in a sustainable way and make sure attendees and filmmakers are truly valued and connected. Without them, we are nothing,” he said.
The full competitor lineup and jury for the year is here.
CPH: DOX will start on March 19 and run with 30 runs.
