Breaking News: CPH:DOX Moves from November
While IDFA is running, CPH:DOX communicates that it will move from November to March. Festival director Tine Fischer puts it like this:
“This year’s festival has been outstanding. We have once again had great response from our audiences, and the interest from the international film industry is now so significant that we have decided to move the festival to March to give ourselves the space it takes to develop the international ambitions of the festival further. CPH:DOX has taken place in the week before IDFA since the very beginning without too many overlaps and complications, but with the latest year’s growth in international industry attendance we need more space around us.”
According to the press release, link below, the producers and the Film Institute are very happy with this decision, using words like ”unique” and ”a leading platform” about the festival, that in the same text – most important from this blogger’s point of view – stresses that…
… the mission of the festival continues to be to present challenging and critical works of documentary cinema – and other arts – in an original and intelligent context. CPH:DOX aims to set a high cultural standard and to stimulate critical thinking, while insisting on documentary as an art form across different practices…
By the way the 2015 version finished with a new audience record: 91.400 (in 2011 it was 47.000).
Next festival March 16-26 2017.
Photo by Amanda Obitz
