| CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Festival) | |
| Location: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Founded: | 2003 |
| Last: | 2024 |
| Date: | 13 to 24 March 2024 |
| Directors: | Niklas Engstrøm |
| Number: | 200 |
| Previous: | 20th |
| Followed By: | 22nd |
| Main: | Current: 21st |
CPH:DOX, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is a Danish film festival focused on documentary films, held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2008 has been run by Copenhagen Film Festivals, which also managed the now-defunct CPH PIX festival.
The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival was established in 2003. CPH:DOX has since grown to become one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe, with 114,408 admissions in 2019.[1] The festival's founder-director was .[2]
Following the 2015 edition of CPH:DOX, the festival announced that it would change its dates from November to March, and the first of the new spring editions of the festival was held from 16 to 26 March 2017, with the centrally-located Kunsthal Charlottenborg as the new festival centre.[3] [1] From 2016, Jacob Neiiendam and CPH:DOX founder-director Tine Fischer were co-CEOs of the three festivals (CPH PIX, CPH:DOX, and Buster Film Festival). In September 2018 it was announced that Jacob Neiiendam would be stepping down after 31 October, and that Fischer would continue as sole CEO for all three festivals.[2]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 CPH:DOX held their festival virtually, using a Shift72 video-on-demand platform that was built and launched in just 24 hours.[4]
In February 2021 it was announced that Tine Fischer would be stepping down from the CEO role after the 18th edition (21 April to 2 May 2021) to take up a position as director of the National Film School of Denmark.[5] [6]
The 2023 event took place between 15 and 26 March.[7]
Past guest curators of film programmes have included artists and filmmakers such as The xx; Anohni; Harmony Korine; Animal Collective; Nan Goldin; Douglas Gordon; Ben Rivers with Ben Russell; Ai Weiwei; The Yes Men; Olafur Eliasson; and Naomi Klein with Avi Lewis.
CPH:DOX is the official name of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.[1] Copenhagen Film Festivals has managed CPH:DOX and CPH PIX since the latter was created in 2008.[8] [7] It is held in Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
CPH:DOX is devoted to supporting independent and innovative film and to present contemporary non-fiction, art cinema, and experimental film.[9]
In 2009, the festival launched the international talent development and film production workshop CPH:LAB (formerly known as DOX:LAB) where around 20 filmmakers are invited each year to develop and direct a film in teams of two.
Besides its seven international competitions, the festival presents parallel curated and guest-curated sections. The festival hosts seminars, debates and events as well as the curated concert series "Audio:Visuals", where bands and artists perform to original work created for the occasion by visual artists. CPH:DOX also presents a number of other initiatives parallel to the festival itself: the industry platform CPH:Forum, with the attached CPH:Market for buyers and programmers, is a financing and co-production forum as well as a networking facility which takes place for three days during the festival. In 2011, the related ART:FILM branch was launched with the aim to facilitate the development and actual production of artists' films in the feature length format. CPH:DOX runs the five-day CPH:Conference as well as the experimental educational course DOX:Academy for students, both of which take place during the festival.
At the industry segment CPH:WIP, Nordic works-in-progress are presented to the potential sponsors and distributors.[10]
CPH: DOX is part of the Doc Alliance, a creative partnership among seven key European documentary film festivals.
Juries hand out prizes in seven international competition programmes:
| Year | Film | Director | Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | 2003 | Dans Grozny Dans |  Netherlands | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | 2004 | Darwin's Nightmare |  Austria | ||
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia |  Finland | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | 2005 | Workingman's Death | Austria | ||
| The White Diamond |  Germany | ||||
| align=left | 2006 | Black Sun |  United Kingdom | ||
| align=left | 2007 | Santa Fe Street |  Chile | ||
| align=left | 2008 | Burma VJ |  Denmark | ||
| align=left | 2009 | Trash Humpers |  United States | ||
| align=left | 2010 | Le Quattro Volte |  Italy | ||
| align=left | 2011 | Two Years at Sea | United Kingdom | ||
| align=left | 2012 | The Act of Killing | Denmark | ||
| align=left | 2013 | Bloody Beans |  Algeria | ||
| align=left | 2014 | The Look of Silence | Denmark | ||
| align=left | 2015 | God Bless the Child | United States | ||
| align=left | 2017 | Last Men in Aleppo | Denmark | ||
| align=left | 2018 | The Raft |  Sweden | ||
| align=left | 2019 | Ridge | Sweden | ||
| align=left | 2020 | Songs of Repression[13] [14] | Denmark | ||
| align=left | 2021 | The Last Shelter |  Mali |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jos de Putter | |||
| Mika Ronkainen | |||
 José Padilha | |||
 Carlos Bosch &<br /> Josep Maria Domènech |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hubert Sauper Pirjo Honkasalo | |||
| Maria Ramos | |||
 Andrei Nekrasov | |||
 &<br /> Eyal Sivan | |||
Max Kestner |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Glawogger Werner Herzog | |||
| Michale Boganim | |||
| Sabina Guzzanti | |||
 Peter Raymont | |||
| Clive Holden | |||
| Mike Stubbs |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Tarn | |||
| Pernille Rose Grønkjær | |||
Maasja Ooms &<br />  Vicky Funari &<br /> Sergio De La Torre | |||
| | |||
Douglas Gordon &<br /> Philippe Parreno Naomi Kawase | |||
| Michel Gondry |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen Castillo | |||
| Michael Noer | |||
| Charles Ferguson | |||
| Brian Hill Du Haibin | |||
| Gee-Jung Jun | |||
| Hila Peleg | |||
| Grant Gee | |||
| Luke Fowler |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie Andersson | |||
| Anders Østergaard | |||
| Joseph Bullman | |||
| Michel Auder, Andrew Neel | |||
 Apichatpong Weerasethakul | |||
| Sacha Gervasi | |||
| Margarita Jimeno |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony Korine | |||
| | |||
| Geoffrey Smith, | |||
| Yoav Shamir | |||
| Deborah Stratment / Ben Russell | |||
| Vincent Moon | |||
| Kara Blake |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelangelo Frammartino | |||
| Andrei Ujică | |||
| Ada Bligaard Søby / Jakob Boeskov | |||
| Jacob Schulsinger | |||
| Kim Longinotto | |||
| Hito Steyerl | |||
| Roee Rosen | |||
| Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys | |||
 Árni Sveinsson | |||
| Charles Fairbanks | |||
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Rivers | |||
| Philippe Grandrieux | |||
| Anca Damian | |||
| Thomas Østbye | |||
| Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir | |||
| Wim Wenders |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Oppenheimer | |||
| Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel | |||
| Jonas Poher Rasmussen | |||
| Andrey Gryazev | |||
| Jay Bulger | |||
| Mikala Krogh |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Rivers & Ben Russell | |||
 Wilhelm Sasnal & Anka Sasnal | |||
| | |||
| Richard Rowley | |||
| & |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Oppenheimer | |||
| Camilla Nilsson | |||
 | |||
| Lea Glob & Petra Costa | |||
| Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman | |||
| Grant Baldwin |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck | |||
| Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands | |||
| Ali Cherri | |||
| Rosa Barba | |||
| Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola | |||
| | |||
 Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi | |||
| Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe | |||
| David Sington |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feras Fayyad, co-directed by Steen Johannessen | |||
| Austin Lynch & Matthew Booth | |||
| Jeppe Rønde | |||
 Chen Zhou | |||
| Ane Hjort Guttu & Daisuke Kosugi | |||
| Camilla Magid | |||
| Egil Håskjold Larsen | |||
| Reber Dosky | |||
| Schaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau | |||
 Marcos Migliavacca & Nahuel Lahora | |||
| Wattanapume Laisuwanchai | |||
| Matthew Heineman |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| | |||
| Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll | |||
| Jumana Manna | |||
| Tinne Zenner | |||
| Steffan Strandberg | |||
 Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei | |||
| Giorgio Ferrero | |||
| Bing Liu | |||
| Anat Yuta Zruia & Shira Clara Winther | |||
| Katrine Philp |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Skoog | |||
| Pia Hellenthaler | |||
| Mania Akbari & Douglas White | |||
| Petter Sommer & Jo Vemund Svendsen | |||
| Lina Mannheimer | |||
| Julien Elie | |||
| Luke Lorentzen | |||
| Aboozar Amini | |||
| Juan Palacios | |||
| Fredrik Gertten |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga | |||
| Morgan Quaintance | |||
| Wingyee Wu & | |||
| | |||
| Lotta Petronella | |||
| Marc Wiese | |||
| Jeff Orlowski | |||
| David Osit | |||
| Lisa Rovner | |||
| Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga |
| Award | Film | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ousmane Samassekou | |||
| Rami Farah & Signe Byrge Sørensen | |||
 Haig Aivazian | |||
| Maxime & Audrey Jean-Baptiste | |||
| Nina Hobert | |||
| Cille Hannibal & Christine Hanberg | |||
 Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Evie Cheung, Han Yan Yuen & Jen Lee | |||
| Theo Anthony | |||
 Fanny Chotimah | |||
 Liesbeth de Ceulaer | |||
| Frigge Fri |