CPH:DOX Forum Projects 2026

17 projects to be presented at the Royal Theatre of Denmark March 17-19. Here they are copy-pasted from the website of CPH:DOX:

ARTIFACTS OF WAR

Marketed as safe tools of public order, less-lethal weapons circulate globally. ARTIFACTS OF WAR moves between Europe’s arms fairs, archival material, and a forensic algorithm to explore how force is shaped, regulated, and audited.

Jorge Caballero / Anna Giralt Gris & Diego Pino Anguita / Artefacto Films / CangrejoFilms / Spain & Chile

BLACKEST EVER BLACK

A film crew sets out to make a film about data centres and Ireland’s tax system when a series of blackouts derails the project.

Roisin Agnew / Alison Millar, Jack O’Brien & Luke McManus / Erica Starling Productions & Sixteen Films / Unbecoming / United Kingdom & Ireland

BROMANSKY

At a turning point in history, two world leaders from very different backgrounds strike up a strange friendship and set out to change the world. This is the story of Bill & Boris – told through archival footage and in their own words.

Arthur Franck / Sandra Enkvist, Anders Lindström, Rémi Grellety, Sara Skrodzka, Esther Nissen & Thorvald Nilsen / Polygraf / IndieFilm Bergen, Warboys Films & Final Cut For Real / Finland, France, Denmark & Norway

CHILDREN OF THE MOON LAND

In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that become their only form of resistance.

Roman Ďuriš / Richard Šimeček, Michal Sikora & Albin Bourgeois / Svjetski Films / Lonely Production & Weplus / Slovakia, Czech Republic & France

COSMOFONIA

COSMOFONIA intends to perform a shift in the very conditions of perception. At its core lies a radical cinematic gesture: a film whose soundtrack is composed almost entirely of sounds never heard before by human ears.

Véréna Paravel / Florence Cohen / Anna Lena Films / France

DARK HORSE

With the 2026 World Cup on the horizon, a banned betting influencer and a relentless investigative journalist expose how sports manipulation has evolved from scandal to business model, now threatening to destroy the game itself.

Lauren DeFilippo & Sam Soko / Amanda Pollak / Insignia Films / LBx Africa / Sweden, Kenya & United States

DIRECTOR’S CUT [WT]

What started as a promotional commission becomes a moral thriller.

Radu Ciorniciuc / Tereza Šimíková, Oleksandra Kravchenko & Darya Bassel / Ciorniciuc Films / MOON MAN & Wingman Media / Romania, Denmark & Ukraine

EVERYTHING IS RED AND GREY

A group of young Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza overcome the tragic killing of their friend and use their tools of creative resistance to document their own genocide and their communities beyond the colonial lens of rubble and cardboard boxes.

Shourideh C. Molavi & Shrouq Alaila / Shourideh C. Molavi, Henry Plavidal & Laura Poitras / SCM Research / Palestine & Canada

FACE VALUE

FACE VALUE examines how advances in cosmetic medicine, digital culture and AI are reshaping global beauty norms and transforming algorithmic aesthetic ideals into increasingly compulsory standards that redefine women’s identity, agency, and self-worth.

Faye Tsakas / Riel Roch-Decter / MEMORY / United States

GOD OF THE IN-BETWEEN

A fabled island of ruins has survived for generations thanks to an unlikely saviour – seaweed. Panchavarnam has spent a lifetime collecting this treasure. She now fights to save her sisterhood of seaweed, even as her daughter chooses another life.

Archana Phadke / Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann & James Wilson / Kiterabbit Films & Valentine Films / India & United States

GREEN GOLD

In Mexico’s avocado capital, prosperity and violence grow side by side as communities fight to hold on to their land, their livelihood, and their future.

Ivonne Serna & Selim Benzeghia / Geoffrey Livolsi, Alex Pritz, Will N. Miller & Selim Benzeghia / Koudéta Films / Documist / France & United States

JOUD

For Joud, a German-Palestinian-Syrian journalist, turning 40 means choosing love at all cost. Living across Berlin, Beirut, and Damascus, he documents his gender confirmation and political exile, negotiating a life where legal recognition, family history, and romance are divided by borders he must constantly cross.

Diana El Jeiroudi / Diana El Jeiroudi & Orwa Nyrabia / No Nation Films / Docmakers / Germany& Netherlands

LAST STANDING WOMEN

Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers and during the pitch in March.

Talal Derki / Charlotte Reekers & Talal Derki / Derki Film Production / Germany

LAST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER

In Nigeria’s ferocious fashion scene, three designers fight to escape erasure and reach Lagos Fashion Week’s runway — where visibility means survival. A story about who gets seen, who remains invisible, and the fragile ecosystem that depends on them all.

Nosarieme Garrick / Chioma Onyenwe / Black Gazelle Productions / Raconteur Productions / United States & Nigeria

LETTER TO ALVIN

LETTER TO ALVIN uncovers the life and work of Alvin Baltrop – a largely unrecognized but profoundly important African American artist who chronicled the LGBTQ+ experience at the fringes of New York’s waterfront in the 1970s and 1980s.

Göran Hugo Olsson & Hilton Als / Tobias Janson, Melissa Lindgren, Yona Backer & Joslyn Barnes / Story / Louverture Films & Third Streaming / Sweden & United States

LETTERS OF HOPE

Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk follows the scars of war across Ukraine’s wounded landscapes, carrying her own trauma into a global fight to recognize ecocide as a war crime. As her resolve meets the fragile promise of justice, she inspires us to find hope — and act.

Lea Glob / Sigrid Dyekjær, Eric Holland & Konstanze Speidel / Real Lava / Flare Film & DIM Filmhouse / Denmark, Germany & Ukraine

LIVING IN OUR HEADS (CONFIDENTIAL)

Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers.

David Borenstein / Helle Faber / made in copenhagen / Denmark

MATRESCENCE

A genre-defying, cinematic documentary that explores the radical and under-explored transformations that occur in pregnancy and early motherhood, adapted from the groundbreaking book by Lucy Jones.

Kathryn Ferguson / Rosie Crerar & Eleanor Emptage / Tara Films & barry crerar / United Kingdom

MY FATHER THE ICEMAN

Ewa lives in the shadow of her father’s crime — the assassination of an anti-apartheid leader in South Africa. Despite this, she fights for his release. When he returns to Poland after 30 years and joins the far right, she is forced to confront him.

Łukasz Kowalski / Łukasz Kowalski, Anna Mazerant & Signe Byrge Sørensen / 4.30 Studio / Final Cut For Real / Poland & Denmark

QUEENS BALLROOM

In a ballroom in Queens, NY, senior Asian American immigrants are transported through dance, revisiting worlds left behind and creating lives anew.

Hansen Lin & Siyi Chen / Siyi Chen, Hansen Lin, Clara Vuillermoz & Laurence Buelens / Queens Disco Production / SOLENT Production & Rayuela Productions / United States, France & Belgium

SKEPTICS

As the US dismantles decades of climate change legislation, an environmental activist strikes up an anonymous, online conversation with a climate skeptic. Shifting between the personal and scientific, can this dialog reveal any common ground?

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz / James Doolittle & Thomas Lennon / All Ages Productions / Once in a Blue Moon Films / United States

STATE OF IMMORTALITY

The film explores our passion for defeating death by tracing the Russian Cosmism – a 100-y-o movement influencing today’s biohackers and longevity enthusiasts. It is not only a film about how we can live forever but about what happens if we do.

Piotr Winiewicz / Henrik Underbjerg / Stray Dog Productions / Pressman Film / Denmark & United States

SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE

In a dreamlike 1950s town square built inside a warehouse, we will investigate our memory care crisis, the healing potential of filmmaking and the fragility of reality itself.

Robert Greene / Bennett Elliott, Susan Bedusa & Douglas Tirola / 4th Row Films / Square Peg Films / United States

THE CALLING

An artist persuades his son to make a film about him — but as their visions collide the project unravels into an exploration on masculinity, the need to be seen, and cinema’s elusive promise of redemption from the ghosts that haunt and bind them both.

Beniamino Barrese / Harry Vaughn & Beniamino Barrese / Real Lava / Denmark

THE DAY AFTER

Over 3 years, beginning in 2023, a group of Palestinians and Israelis travel to Northern Ireland to learn how bitter enemies made peace. But as their own divided homeland descends into deeper violence, they struggle to make peace amongst themselves.

Yuval Orr & Aziz Abu Sarah / Margaux Missika & Liel Maghen / No Man’s Land / Upian / France, Palestine & Israel

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

An all-archival adventure documentary that explores the creation of the American Museum of Natural History. Through the interconnected histories of its extraordinary artifacts and the people behind them, the museum becomes a mirror for humanity’s longing to freeze time, amass treasures, and reflect on our place in the world.

Marley McDonald / John Cardellino / Unimerical Studios / future perfect / United States

THE NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE DOCUMENTARY PROJECT

The definitive story of Niki de Saint Phalle, a pioneering artist who blasted into the art world with a rifle, and became the architect of her own reality with her self-funded visionary masterpiece, the monumental Tarot Garden.

Matt Wolf & Svetlana Zill / Emmanuelle Lepers / Haut et Court Doc / France

THE SILENT NETWORK

THE SILENT NETWORK uncovers an organized movement that builds and spreads political and economic influence through hidden financial networks, revealing a Europe-wide threat to democratic institutions and human rights.

Pernille Rose Grønkjær & Noa Agnete Metz / Vibeke Vogel, Nina Leidersdorff & Malthe Koch / Danish Documentary / Up North Films / Denmark& Norway

UNTITLED UNRWA ARCHIVE DOCUMENTARY

A group of Palestinians investigate their personal histories in UNRWA’s formerly hidden archives. Interwoven with Israel’s assault on UNRWA, the film shows that preserving memory is an act of resistance, defying erasure.

Benedict Moran & Ramzy Haddad / Benedict Moran, Ramzy Haddad & Sergeo Kirby / Blind River Media / Loaded Pictures / Canada

USA VS EUROPE

What does the world look like for those standing exactly where history begins to fracture? Do they cling to the past, or reach for the future? The film tells the story of a political meteor strike — the chaos that follows, and the challenges of finding direction in a new and unfamiliar world.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen / Peter Engel / Wingman Media / The Ark / Denmark, Germany & Norway

WE ARE VOLCANOES

Confidential project. Detailed information and materials will be available to forum financiers, and during the pitch in March.

Sharon Yeung & Natalie Chao / Jillian Schlesinger / Hong Kong & Norway