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CPH:DOX announces 2021 competition titles

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The 2021 edition of #CPH:DOX has released its full lineup of competition titles. Across the five programmes, 64 titles appear 47 of which are world premieres. The competition sections included are DOX:AWARD (main competition), NEW:VISION AWARD (short and mid-length films), F:ACT AWARD (documentary filmmaking, investigative journalism and activism), NORDIC:DOX AWARD, NEXT:WAVE AWARD (emerging filmmakers), and POLITIKEN:DANISH:DOX AWARD

DOX:AWARD

  • 70/30 (dir. Phie Ambo) – Denmark
  • A Man and a Camera (dir. Guido Hendrikx) – Netherlands
  • Children of the Enemy (dir. Gorki Glaser-Müller) – Sweden, Denmark, Qatar
  • Gabi, Between Ages 8 and 13 (dir. Engeli Broberg) – Sweden
  • Life of Ivanna (dir. Renato Borrayo Serrano) – Russia/Norway/Estonia/Finland
  • Passion (dir. Maja Borg) – Sweden
  • Skál (dir. Cecilie Debell, Maria Guldbrandsø Tórgarð) – Denmark, Faroe Islands
  • The Last Shelter (dir. Ousmane Samassekou) – Mali/France/South Africa
  • The Mushroom Speaks (dir. Marion Neumann) – Switzerland
  • In the Same Breath (dir. Nanfu Wang) – United States
  • Lost Boys (dir. Sadri Cetinkaya & Joonas Neuvonen) – Finland
  • President (dir. Camilla Nielsson) – Denmark/United States/Norway/Zimbabwe
  • The United States vs. Reality Winner (dir. Sonia Kennebeck) – USA
  • White Cube (dir. Renzo Martens) – Netherlands/Belgium/DR Congo

NEW:VISION AWARD

  • All of your Stars are but Dust on My Shoes (dir. Haig Aivazian) – Lebanon
  • Best Year Ever (dir. James N. Kienitz Wilkins) – United States
  • Industries of Freedom (dir. Freja Sofie Kirk & Esben Weile Kjær) – Denmark
  • Listen to the Beats of our Images (dir. Maxime Jean-Baptiste & Audrey Jean-Baptiste) – French Guiana/France
  • Look at Me (dir. Christian Falsnaes) – Denmark
  • My Favorite Software is Being Here (Alison Nguyen) – United States
  • Night Splitter (dir. Kaari Upson) – United States
  • Re-dit-en-un-in-learning (dir. Laure Prouvost) – France, United Kingdom
  • Shadow Codex (dir. Saara Ekström) – Finland
  • Shelly Belly inna Real Life (dir. Cecilia Bengolea) – France, Argentina
  • Summer Night by the Beach (dir. Kirsten Astrup & Maria Bordorff) – Denmark/Norway
  • Two Minutes to Midnight (dir. Yael Bartana) – Israel/Germany

F:ACT AWARD

  • Behind the Headlines (dir. Daniel Sager) – Germany
  • Invisible (dir. Marianna Kakaounaki) – Greece
  • Room Without a View (dir. Roser Corella) – Germany/Austria
  • Sabaya (dir. Hogir Hirori) – Sweden
  • The Gig is Up (dir. Shannon Walsh) – Canada
  • All Light, Everywhere (dir. Theo Anthony) – United States
  • The Other Side of the River (dir. Antonia Kilian) – Germany/Finland
  • The Tiger Mafia (dir. Karl Ammann & Laurin Merz) – Switzerland/Kenya
  • Too Fast to be True (dir. Anna Thyrri & Stine Uldbjerg Hansen) – Denmark
  • When a City Rises (dir. Han Yan Yuen, Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Jenn Lee & Evie Cheung) – Hong Kong
  • Writing with Fire (dir. Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh) – India

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

  • Elsewhere (dir. Vibeke Bryld) – Denmark
  • Follow You Home (dir. Kathrine Ravn Kruse) – Denmark
  • He’s My Brother (dir. Cille Hannibal & co-dir. Christine Hanberg) – Denmark/Norway
  • How to Kill a Cloud (dir. Tuija Halttunen) – Finland
  • Julia&I (dir. Nina Hobert) – Sweden/Denmark
  • Oh, It Hertz! (dir. Gunnar Hall Jensen) – Norway
  • Raising a School Shooter (dir. Frida Barkfors & Lasse Barkfors) – Denmark/Sweden/France/Belgium
  • Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam (dir. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen) – Norway
  • Solutions (dir. Pernille Rose Grønkjær) – Denmark
  • The Banality of Grief (dir. Jon Bang Carlsen) – Denmark
  • The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole – A Bipolar Musical Documentary With Elephants (dir. Andri Magnason & Anní Ólafsdóttir) – Iceland
  • Trust Me (dir. Emil Trier) – Norway

NEXT:WAVE AWARD

  • A Story of One’s Own (dir. Amandine Gay) – France
  • All-In (dir. Volkan Üce) – Belgium/Netherlands/France
  • Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (dir. Mads Hedegaard) – Denmark
  • Captains of Zaatari (dir. Ali El Arabi) – Egypt
  • Dark Blossom (dir. Frigge Fri) – Denmark
  • Eastwood (dir. Alireza Rasoulinejad) – Iran
  • Fiasco (dir. Nicolas Khoury) – Lebanon/Netherlands
  • Holgut (dir. Liesbeth de Ceulaer) – Belgium
  • Reconciliation (dir. Marija Zidar) – Slovenia/Serbia/Montenegro/Kosovo
  • So Foul a Sky (dir. Álvaro F. Pulpeiro) – Colombia/Spain/United Kingdom/Venezuela
  • The Soldier (dir. Nikolaj Møller) – Denmark
  • You and I (dir. Fanny Chotimah) – Indonesia

POLITIKEN:DANISH:DOX AWARD

  • Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (dir. Mads Hedegaard) – Denmark
  • Dark Blossom (dir. Frigge Fri) – Denmark
  • The Soldier (dir. Nikolaj Møller) – Denmark
  • Raising a School Shooter (dir. Frida Barkfors & Lasse Barkfors) – Denmark/ Sweden/France/ Belgium
  • Too Fast to be True (dir. Anna Thyrri & Stine Uldbjerg Hansen) – Denmark
  • 70/30 ( dir.Phie Ambo) – Denmark
  • President (dir. Camilla Nielsson) – Denmark/United States/Norway/Zimbabwe
  • Skál (dir. Cecilie Debell, Maria Guldbrandsø Tórgarð) – Denmark, Faroe Islands
  • Loves Me, Loves Me Not (dir. Andrine Moland, Caroline Mathilde Salic, Kathrine Skibsted) – Denmark
  • From the Wild Sea (dir. Robin Petré) – Denmark
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