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Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, with more than 200 films from around the world

CPH:DOX is one of the world’s biggest documentary #film festivals, which each November fills Copenhagen’s cinemas with more than 200 films from around the world. The films are divided into four international competitions, an audience award and a number of thematic series, which focus on cur- rent political and cultural issues. The festival was founded in 2003 by Tine Fischer, who is still its director. CPH:DOX is committed to presenting the latest and most interesting aspects of the documentary scene, and thus has a programme that includes both films by major internationally acclaimed directors and works by new or unknown talents.
New perspectives on creativity and interdisciplinary thinking.
Using the documentary as a starting point, CPH:DOX aims to bridge the gap between the world of #film and the many related art forms. CPH:DOX explores the on-going interaction between different cultural traditions and therefore, over the course of the festival’s eleven days, CPH:DOX also presents a series of special events in collaboration with various partners. Debates, Q&As and lectures with invited directors and guests are a major part of the festival’s programme, and its parties, art exhibitions and nonconformist events have become a hallmark of the festival’s profile.
At the crossroads between genres and media, CPH:DOX offers new per- spectives on creativity and interdisciplinary thinking between #film, media, art and music each year. This translates in different kinds of exhibitions, performances, audio projects, live concerts, VJ’ing, and the latest conceptual forms within the medium of #film. This innovative festival format has on record made CPH:DOX one of the largest public events within the documentary scene with 83.300 attendants in 2014.
CPH:DOX as an industry #event
CPH:DOX has distinguished itself as an industry #event. The festival is also a central meeting place and an important showcase for Danish documenta- ries - both nationally and internationally. With CPH:FORUM and the festival’s highly acclaimed seminar and master class programme, CPH:DOX ranks among the most important new events on the international festival scene. CPH:DOX also produces its own documentary films at CPH:LAB, where 10 pairs of directors create innovative and groundbreaking low-budget films within a year.
Highlights from this year’s festival
This year, CPH:DOX presents over 200 of the best documentaries from around the world, including 60 world premieres, 18 European premieres and 14 international premieres - as well as plenty of concerts, nonconformist events, Q&As, parties, a democracy meeting, laboratories, exhibitions, two conferences and much more.
Where to start? A good place is CPH:DOX’s main competition, DOX:AWARD, our selection of this year’s best international documentaries from around the world. Here you can enjoy the indescribably aesthetically pleasing ‘Lost & Beautiful’ or get carried away with ‘A Good American’, a deeply disturbing docu-thriller about William Binney’s programme ‘Thinthread’ that could have prevented 9/11, but was cancelled by the NSA.
Politics! Climate, migration and extremism
Last year, CPH:DOX launched the Megatrends initiative, which this year has developed into the concept REALITY:CHECK, created in collaboration with Politiken. REALITY:CHECK is a brand new democracy laboratory, which through talks, workshops, discussions, #film screenings and parties measures reality and tests democracy in the year 2015.
In relation to this, the festival has two political guest-curators on the pro- gramme: activist and author Naomi Klein, along with director Avi Lewis, and contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson, who have selected films for CPH:DOX. The two guest curated programmes form the core of CPH:DOX’s political agenda, which this year focuses on climate change in preparation for COP 21 in November.
You will also find political films at this year’s F:ACT Award, the competition for investigative journalism, where you can get informed with films about Russian oligarchs, anti-cult crusades and Islamic extremism. This year, CPH:- DOX also puts a special focus on the refugee crisis with the series Borderline, films that tell the human stories behind the headlines.


Copenhagen International Documentary #film Festival
November 5-15, 2015
http://cphdox.dk

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