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.
Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Founded | 2003 |
Most recent | 2024 |
Directors | Niklas Engstrøm |
No. of films | 200 |
Festival date | 13 to 24 March 2024 |
Website | www |
History
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 Tine Fischer .[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.[citation needed]
Description and governance
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.[2][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.[8]
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.[citation needed]
Besides its seven international competitions, the festival presents parallel curated and guest-curated sections.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
At the industry segment CPH:WIP, Nordic works-in-progress are presented to the potential sponsors and distributors.[9]
CPH: DOX is part of the Doc Alliance, a creative partnership among seven key European documentary film festivals.[citation needed]
Awards
Juries hand out prizes in seven international competition programmes:
- CPH:DOX Award, for international documentary features (€10,000)[10]
- NEW:VISION Award, for experimental and artists' film (€5,000 prize)[10]
- F:ACT Award, for films in the field between investigative journalism and documentary (€5,000 prize)[10]
- NORDIC:DOX Award, for Nordic documentaries and artists' films (€5,000 prize)[10]
- NEXT:WAVE Award, for emerging filmmakers and artists (€5,000 prize)[10]
- Politiken:Danish:Dox Award, awarded by a jury of film critics from the Danish newspaper Politiken
- Doc Alliance Award, given in collaboration with six other European documentary film festivals, to one of the seven films nominated by the participating festivals[10]
- Audience Award, chosen by the festival-goers (€5,000)[10]
- Human:Rights Award, introduced in 2024 in collaboration with the Danish Institute for Human Rights[10][11]
Award winners
CPH:DOX Award
Year | Film | Director | Country |
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(1st) | 2003Dans Grozny Dans | Jos de Putter | ![]() |
(2nd) | 2004Darwin's Nightmare (shared) | Hubert Sauper | ![]() |
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (shared) | Pirjo Honkasalo | ![]() | |
(3rd) | 2005Workingman's Death (shared) | Michael Glawogger | ![]() |
The White Diamond (shared) | Werner Herzog | ![]() | |
(4th) | 2006Black Sun | Gary Tarn | ![]() |
(5th) | 2007Santa Fe Street | Carmen Castillo | ![]() |
(6th) | 2008Burma VJ | Anders Østergaard | ![]() |
(7th) | 2009Trash Humpers | Harmony Korine | ![]() |
(8th) | 2010Le Quattro Volte | Michelangelo Frammartino | ![]() |
(9th) | 2011Two Years at Sea | Ben Rivers | ![]() |
(10th) | 2012The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | ![]() |
(11th) | 2013Bloody Beans | Narimane Mari | ![]() |
(12th) | 2014The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | ![]() |
(13th) | 2015God Bless the Child | Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck | ![]() |
(14th) | 2017Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad | ![]() |
(15th) | 2018The Raft | Marcus Lindeen | ![]() |
(16th) | 2019Ridge | John Skoog | ![]() |
(17th) | 2020Songs of Repression[12][13] | Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga | ![]() |
(17th) | 2021The Last Shelter | Ousmane Samassekou | ![]() |
2003 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | The Damned and the Sacred (Dans, Grozny dans) | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Screaming Men (Huutajat – Screaming Men) | ![]() |
Amnesty Award | Bus 174 (Ônibus 174) | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | Cuban Rafters (Balseros) | ![]() ![]() |
2004 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award | Justice (Justiça) | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | Disbelief (Nedoverie) | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | I Love You All (Aus Liebe zum Volk) | ![]() ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Max by Chance (Rejsen på ophavet) Gunnar Goes Comfortable | ![]() ![]() |
2005 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Odessa... Odessa! | ![]() ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | Trains of Winnipeg: 14 Film Poems | ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Cultural Quarter | ![]() |
2006 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award | The Prize of the Pole | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
New:Vision Award (short) | Eine Million Kredit ist normal sagt mein Grossvater | ![]() |
New:Vision Award (long) | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
Sound & Vision Award | ![]() |
2007 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | Santa Fe Street (Calle Santa Fe) | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Vesterbro | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | The Not Dead Umbrella (San) | ![]() ![]() |
New:Vision Award (short) | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award (long) | Dust (Staub) A Crime Against Art | ![]() ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | ![]() | |
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention | Pilgrimage from Scattered Points | ![]() |
2008 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Maggie in Wonderland | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | Dynamiters, Assassins, Fiends. | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Morakot | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | ![]() | |
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention | ![]() |
2009 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
DOX Award Special Mention | H:r Landshövding | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | ![]() | |
Amnesty:Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | shared by: O'er The Land and Trypps 1-6 | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | La Faute Des Fleurs | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention | ![]() |
2010 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | The Autobiography of Nicolae Cweaucescu | ![]() |
Danish:Dox Award | shared by: The Naked of St. Petersburg and Empire North | ![]() |
Danish:Dox Award Special Mention | Fini | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | Pink Saris | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | In Free Fall | ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Out | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | ![]() | |
Sound & Vision Award Special Mention | Backyard | ![]() |
Short:Dox Award | Irma | ![]() ![]() |
Politiken Audience Award | Lost Inside a Dream – The Story of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy | ![]() |
2011 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthen Our Resolve – Masao Adachi | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | Crulic – The Path Beyond | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Imagining Emmanuel | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Nielsdóttir | Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir |
Politiken Audience Award | ![]() |
2012 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | ![]() | |
Nordic:Dox Award | Searching for Bill | ![]() |
Amnesty:Award | Tomorrow | ![]() |
Sound & Vision Award | ![]() | |
Politiken Audience Award | A Normal Life | ![]() |
2013 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | Bloody Beans | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Alexander | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | After You | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | ![]() | |
Politiken Audience Award | Everyday Rebellion | ![]() |
2014 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | The Dent | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Olmo & the Seagull | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | ![]() | |
Politiken Audience Award | Just Eat It – A Food Waste Story | ![]() |
2015 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | God Bless the Child | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Uncertain | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | ![]() | |
New:Vision Award | Bending to Earth | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Return of the Atom | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award Special Mention | Time Passes | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | ![]() | |
F:ACT Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
Politiken Audience Award | ![]() |
2017 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | ![]() | |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Gray House | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | The John Dalli Mystery | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | Life Imitation | ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Land of the Free | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award Special Mention | 69 Minutes of 86 Days | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | Radio Kobani | ![]() |
F:ACT Award Special Mention | Trophy | ![]() |
Next:Wave Award | 1996 Lucy and the Corpses in the Pool | ![]() |
Next:Wave Award Special Mention | Phantom of Illumination | ![]() |
Politiken Audience Award | ![]() |
2018 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | The Raft | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | América | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | Wild Relatives | ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Translations | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Lykkelænder | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award Special Mention | The Night | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | ![]() | |
Next:Wave Award | Beautiful Things | ![]() |
Next:Wave Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
Next:Wave Award Special Mention | Conventional Sins | ![]() |
Politiken Audience Award | False Confessions | ![]() |
2019 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | Ridge | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Searching Eva | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | A Moon for My Father | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | ![]() | |
Nordic:Dox Award Special Mention | Mating | ![]() |
F:ACT Award | ![]() | |
F:act:Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
Next:Wave Award | ![]() | |
Next:Wave Award Special Mention | Inland | ![]() |
Politiken Audience Award | Push | ![]() |
2020 CPH:DOX
2021 CPH:DOX
Award | Film | Director |
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CPH:DOX Award | The Last Shelter | ![]() |
CPH:DOX Award Special Mention | Our Memory Belongs to Us | ![]() |
New:Vision Award | All of Your Stars are but Dust on My Shoes | ![]() |
New:Vision Award Special Mention | Listen to the Beat of our Images | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award | Julia & I | ![]() |
Nordic:Dox Award Special Mention | He's My Brother | ![]() |
F:act Award | When a City Rises | ![]() |
F:act:Award Special Mention | ![]() | |
Next:Wave Award | You and I | ![]() |
Next:Wave Award Special Mention | Holgut | ![]() |
Politiken:Danish:Dox Award | Dark Blossom | ![]() |