As better spring weather stays in hiding – enjoy films at the festival CPH:DOX

Now is your chance to flee the cold wind by going to the CINEMA. From 15 to 26 March, at CPH:DOX, one of the world’s biggest documentary film festivals, you can choose from a selection of more than 600 films from around the world.

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By Bente D. Knudsen  Picture: CPH Dox PR,

For its 20th edition, the festival will offer an ambitious programme of films, talks and debates, events and 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 of architects Anne Dorthe Vester and Lise Birgens Kristensen in collaboration with designer and artist Birgitte Due Madsen and the three design brands Flos, PLEASE WAIT to be SEATED and &Tradition;ready to be sat in of course.

Charlottenborg will also host free VR screenings and interactive installations, as well as an art exhibition and unmissable parties!

All foreign and Danish films will have English subtitles.

OUR BEST TIPS

With such a vast selection of more than 600 films there is certainly something for everyone. Below we have selected a few film tips with an expat audience in mind. All films at the festival are either in English or with English subtitles.

SONGS OF EARTH
The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for the cinematic nature experience of the year.

A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker’s parents as its human yardstick, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock.
March 18 at 19.15 in Empire Bio.  After the screening you can meet the director for a Q&A
March 21 at 12.30 in Cinemateket
March 22 at 19.00 in Grand Teatret. After the screening you can meet the director for a Q&A
March 25 at 18.30 in Big Bio Nordhavn

THE OTHER PROFILE
An elementally suspenseful and completely unpredictable detective story from Kinshasa, where a French film director has to find his double.

A film about virtual identities in a post-colonial century.

March 21 at 19.00 at Grand Teatret – After the film’s world premiere you can meet the film’s director Armel Hostiou for a Q&A.

March 23 at 19.00 at Grand Teatret
March 25 at 19.30 at Empire Bio
March 26 at 21.30 at Dagmar Teatret

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BODY PARTS
Behind the camera during Hollywood’s sex scenes in an eye-opening and engaging film-about-film that sheds light on the rotten sides of the film world with wit and bite.

A must-see for any serious cineast.

March 20 at 19.00 at Dagmar Teatret. After the screening you can meet the director for a Q&A

March 23 at 19.00 at Valby Kulturhus. After the screening we will host a panel debate about sex on film where we ask: What do we learn from the sex and naked bodies we see on television?

A TOTAL TRUST
The first major film about the Chinese surveillance state is a disturbing tale of technology, (self-)censorship and abuse of power in the 21st century.

Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison.

March 21 at 19.30 at Empire Bio. After the film’s world premiere you can meet the film’s director Jialing Zhang for a Q&A.

March 22 at 17.00 at Politikens Hus. After the screening we debate China’s constant surveillance. Join philosopher and PhD in digitisation and democracy Mads Vestergaard for a conversation about cameras and social control in modern China.

March 23 at 10.15 at Cinemateket
March 25 at 16.40 at Grand Teatret

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DEEP RISING
The depths of the world’s oceans are the new Wild West as gold fever rages among mining companies fighting for the right to extract rare metals from the planet’s last untouched environment.

March 19 at 16.30 at Dagmar Teatret – After the screening you can meet the director for a Q&A

March 21 at 19.00 at Dagmar Teatret
March 26 at 18.30 at Big Bio Nordhavn

A TIGER IN PARADISE
A surreal journey into singer José González’s inner world of thoughts and shadows. Staged with dark humour in the picturesque Swedish countryside around his home with Ruben Östlund’s regular creative partners behind the camera.

March 18 at 19.30 at Bremen Teater. After the screening you can experience José Gonzaléz in a moderated conversation, where he will play some songs acoustically between questions.

March 20 at 20.00 at Bremen Teater.  After the screening you can experience José Gonzaléz in a moderated conversation, where he will play some songs acoustically between questions.