CPH:DOX (15-25 March) has announced the full line-up of DOX:AWARD nominated films. All are world premieres that screen at the festival’s main competition. 13 films have been selected for this year’s competition.

2023 DOX:AWARD films

• After Work (Erik Gandini, Sweden)
  A thought-provoking film that looks at the phenomenon of work in the 21st century with a sharp eye and an equally sharp humor.
• Eat Bitter (Ningyi Sun & Pascale Appora-Gnekindy, Central African Republic/China)
  A local construction worker and a Chinese engineer are assigned to build a bank in the Central African Republic.
• The Hearing (Lisa Gerig, Switzerland)
  Four asylum seekers reenact their conversations with the authorities in a role-playing game that reverses the roles.
• Light Needs (Jesse McLean, United States)
  Generous and imaginative film about the inner life of houseplants, which takes other life forms seriously with creative and artistic originality.
• Motherland (Alexander Mihalkovich & Hanna Badziaka, Sweden/Ukraine/Norway)
  Dark and monumental film from Belarus, where corruption and a brutal military culture push young people to choose sides.
• On the Edge (Nicolas Peduzzi, France)
  A young doctor with an exemplary humanist spirit fights a brave battle to hold together the run-down Paris hospital where he works.
• The Other Profile (Armel Hostiou, France)
  An elementally suspenseful and completely unpredictable detective story from Kinshasa, where a French film director has to find his own double.
• Songs of Earth (Margreth Olin, Norway)
  The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for a magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker’s parents as its human yardstick.
• A Storm Foretold (Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Denmark)
  Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s long-awaited film about Donald Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone is a chilling report from the rotten core of power.
• Theatre of Violence (Emil Langballe & Lukasz Konopa, Denmark)
  An epic and unshakeable drama of guilt and punishment about the first ever court case against a former child soldier accused of crimes against humanity.
• A Tiger in Paradise (Mikel Cee Karlsson, Sweden)
  A surreal journey into singer José González’s inner world of thoughts and shadows, staged with dark humor in the picturesque Swedish countryside.
• Total Trust (Jialing Zhang, China)
  The first major film about the Chinese surveillance state is a disturbing tale of technology, abuse of power and (self-)censorship in the 21st century.
• Vintersaga (Carl Olsson, Sweden)
  The human comedy unfolds in an aesthetically uncompromising and unmistakably Nordic saga in 24 chapters with dark humor and a sociological gaze.