As CPH: Docks For its 2025 edition, Geers Up, the organizers have unveiled the audacious program of more than 200 films, which “here, now, now, now.
With 94 World Premier-68 of them, the highest number in the history of the festival-CPH: Dox continues to expand its global footprint.
The third consecutive year, all the main competition titles are world premiere. While it is not a formal selection criteria, artistic director Niclas angstrum Says Diversity“The fact that top directors have chosen to premiere their films with us, the volume speaks about how the festival has increased.” He said that its global status was strengthened by transferring the festival from November to March in 2017, it was kept as European launch for American filmmakers after Sunandan.
Niclas Angstrom
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The title Hot Sunandans is heading towards CPH: Docs includes “no one against Putin,” The Dating Game “and” Zodiac Killer Project “.
In the world of screening out of the competition, AI Weewei’s “Animality,” Ian Chenee’s “Observer,” Hannah Papsek Harper’s “Lost for Words,” Jerem Wat’s “Everest Dark” and Nathan Grosman’s “Climate in Therapy”.
The decision to highlight human rights this year was not casual: A recent survey suggests that more than half of Danes could not name a single specific human right .
ENGSTRøm says that human rights have always been integral for documentary film production, but the increasing instability of global politics is more important to detect these issues beyond personal rights.
“Given how many great powers are running in both East and West, it was time to focus on rights – not only individual, but also the rights of nations and states which are the creation blocks of our international system.
“Aye Wevei’s Turandot”
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“We are going into a world that is less keen on maintaining the international legal system created after World War II and especially after the Cold War,” Angstrom says, “Are we Greenland, Panama or Talking about Gaza, “I think it is for many people to see how the new US administration has shown the lack of respect for international law. ,
This political lens is reflected in selection like “The Helsinki Effect” by Arthur Frank (“The Hypnotist”), which brings new lights on the events going to the end of the Cold War, and the festival’s early film, Tommy Guliksen’s “facing” War “,” A epic drama about the role of NATO in the Russia-Ukraine War through the work of its general secretary Jens Stoltenberg From.
The festival also returns to its new human: Rights Award category, with 2024 winners, Shiori Eto, now named Oscar for “Black Box Diary”.
The guest list of this year is stacked with some of the most visionary figures in contemporary culture, including famous Chinese artists and activists A Wivei, Ukrainian feminist Inna Shevachnco, Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev and Republican Trump Critic Adam Kinger.
AI will take the stage for a human rights panel and introduce the world premiere of his new doctor “Animality” with a annoying account of co-made animal cruelty with filmmakers around the world. The festival will also showcase the “Aye Wevei’s Turandot” from Maxim Darvevianko, which captures the Chinese artist’s start as an opera director in Rome.
Another much awaited guest, Israeli architect and researcher Ile Vizman, who is famous for using spatial analysis and technology to expose human rights violence and technology, a conversation after Dana Elon’s premiere of “Rule of Stone “‘s” Rule of Stone ” Will participate in, who examines the role of architecture. Isolation and violation of human rights.
CPH: Dox’s star power comedian and filmmaker extends to Jerode Carmicy, which will make an appearance through the ongoing cooperation of the festival with HBO, and the 1960s fashion icon Twigi – the world’s first supermodel – Jo Copenhagen in Will be for the premiere of Saddy Frost. After that.
This year’s lineup also includes a notable selection of music documentaries in the Sound and Vision section, which not only celebrates music, but also examines the cultural and political forces that shape the career of the artists. One of the individual highlights of ENGSTRøm is “It’s Never Over: Jeff Bakle,” a intimate picture of the life and heritage of the late singer-songwriter directed and produced by Amy Berg.
Warren Ellis, a long -time associate of Nick Kev, will present about Justin Kurzel’s “Alice Park” about his animal sanctuary at Sumatra. Ellis will also have a live concert, in which the organizers worked to connect the second incident due to heavy demand.
The other standout music range from “Being Madonna” by Dockes Michael Ogden, who took dedicated to K-Pop Powerhouse BTS, “Forever We R Young,” and Nilofar Tagijadeh and Patty Ahan’s dock and patty Ahaan’s Doku and Patty Ahan’s Doku The material for the girl examines up to the fame of stratospheric rise. Googoosh: Made of Fire, “chronic the career of the famous Iranian singer.
Considering its 2023 statement to create CPH: Dox Accepted a notable growth of the world’s most important documentary festival, ENGSTRøm phenomenon, but focuses on preserving its signature intimacy.
“One of the biggest challenges is: how we can grow in a permanent way, and make sure the attendees and filmmakers feel valuable and connected. Because without them, we are nothing, ”he says.
This year’s full competition is lineups and jeries Here,
CPH: Dox closes on March 19 and runs through 30.
