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A magical festival of documentaries at CPH:DOX – enjoy five of them with a 20 percent Your Danish Life Discount

— 28. februar 2025
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For its 21th edition, the festival offers an ambitious programme of films, talks and debates, events and parties, audiovisual concerts, art installations and much more.

From 19 to 30 March don’t miss out on enjoying exceptional documentaries and films from around the globe at this year’s CPH:DOX. The festival is one of the world’s biggest documentary film festivals here you can choose from a selection of more than 600 films in English or with English language subtitles.

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By Bente D. Knudsen   Picture: CPH Dox PR,

For its 22nd edition, the festival offers an ambitious programme of films, talks, debates, events, parties, audiovisual concerts, art installations and much more.

At the festival centre at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you will be able to enjoy the unique monochrome interior design by different architects and it is also here you will find events such as  free VR screenings and interactive installations, as well as an art exhibition and unmissable parties!

All foreign and Danish films will have English subtitles. The CPH:DOX website is in both Danish and English making it easy to navigate. The screeenings take place at different venues around or close to Copenhagen. Find a link to the programme here.

20 Percent Discount offered

Get a 20 percent discount this year when you order your tickets online for the five selected films below- a discount composed specially for Your Danish Life’s readers with the help of CPH:DOX’s team

Use the code YOURDANISHLIFE when you order online for one of the selected films- the code works only with caps so make sure you write it correctly as the discount box is case sensitive for tickets go here . A regular ticket costs DKK 100.

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With such a vast selection of more than 600 films there is certainly something for everyone. We have tried to select five films with an expat audience in mind – these are the ones where you get a 20 percent discount with the above code. All films at the festival are either in English or with English subtitles.

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THE LAST AMBASSADOR

What do you do as an ambassador for Afghanistan when the Taliban take power and you are a feminist? You fight back – at least if you’re Manizha Bakhtari.

Manizha Bakhtari is the Afghan ambassador in Vienna when the Taliban takes power in 2021. Overnight, she finds herself in the bizarre situation of representing, on paper at least, a country whose government she does not support, and which has no international recognition.

In difficult economic and personal circumstances, Bakhtari decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the rights of Afghan women and girls. Through her daughters’ program, she provides Afghan schoolgirls with the opportunity to educate themselves in secret, while also organising political resistance against the Taliban on the international stage as an ambassador.

See screening times and buy tickets here.

LOWLAND KIDS

The waters are rising in the American South. Two young people watch the only world they know disappear before their eyes in a sensuous film about leaving childhood behind.

Since the tragic deaths of their parents, Howard and Juliette have been close to each other. Their kind-hearted Uncle Chris has taken care of them so that they could remain in the only world they know: Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana in the American Deep South. A long, thin piece of land surrounded by water on all sides. And the water is rising.

In 2021, Hurricane Ida destroyed nearly every home on the peninsula and forced residents to flee. Since then, the authorities have worked to move the entire community further inland, and now Howard and Juliette must leave their childhood behind as they and the rest of the small community watch their world disappear.

Young Danish documentary filmmaker Sandra Winther has created a sensual and intimate film about pain and unity, and about the new realities of being a climate refugee in the American South.

See screening times and buy tickets here.

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FACING WAR ( this one is getting sold out quickly so book tickets asap)

Jens Stoltenberg’s last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unique access to one of the greatest political leaders of our time at a time of upheaval. An epic drama about the war between Russia and Ukraine and the role the alliance will play in the future.

Jens Stoltenberg had planned to step down after nine years in the powerful position of NATO Secretary General. The 65-year-old politician had packed his bags to go home to his wife in Norway, as he had promised her. But then Joe Biden called and asked him to stay another year. Because in a troubled world, an experienced leader is needed more than ever.
With unprecedented access, we follow Jens Stoltenberg through his last year as Secretary General of NATO. And there’s plenty to keep him busy, as he has promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj that the alliance will stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes. But the fear of the war in Ukraine spreading to the rest of Europe is causing tensions to rise between the 32 allied countries.
Stoltenberg will need all his diplomatic skills to keep the member states together. Fortunately, the Norwegian politician has mastered the difficult art of compromise and understands the importance of a well-timed pat on the back. And when it comes to making deals with the likes of Recep Erdoğan and Viktor Orbán, the little details that can make all the difference.
See screening times and buy tickets here.
LOST FOR WORDS

The year’s most beautiful natural experience on the big screen is also a poetic film about the power of language to re-enchant the world around us. Based on Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris’ bestseller.

It’s not just nature’s wealth of species that is under threat. Our own language is also in danger of losing the words that enable us to understand the world around us – and not least to re-enchant it at a critical time. ‘Lost for Words’ is a visually poetic and thought-provoking film inspired by the book by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris’ book of the same name.

The film takes us on a journey through local landscapes in the UK, exploring the deep connection between language, nature and the pressing challenges facing the world today. Meanwhile, words associated with the natural world are disappearing from the collective vocabulary.

See screening times and buy tickets here.
TWIGGY

A modern fairytale from Swingin’ London about the first international supermodel, told with great energy and British humour by the protagonist herself. She is visiting this year’s CPH:DOX herself.

She was born as Lesley Hornby in a working-class London home, but when she changed her name to Twiggy as a teenager, she became the world’s first international supermodel almost overnight.
Twiggy was the iconic face of 1960s Swingin’ London – a period when fashion and music changed the world forever. With her androgynous look and giant eyes, she might as well have landed from another planet, and that was pretty much the effect she had on the media.
All this could have become a traditional film, but with the protagonist herself as a completely irresistible guide to her own life story as both Lesley and Twiggy, director Sadie Frost has created a film that radiates British humour, energy and joie de vivre – just like Lesley herself.
Read more about the film, see screening times and buy tickets here.

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