Diversity didn’t end social inequality
IDENTITY: For the young, queer community of Medellín, the injustices of colonial heritage consistently intertwine with the brutality of today’s global liberal capitalism.
CPH:DOX
Located in Copenhagen, Denmark
CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – is one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. CPH:DOX was founded in 2003. CPH:DOX continues to develop and expand, presenting a program that ranges from the works of major international directors to new talent, from large-scale theatrical releases to film/video works in the field between cinema and visual art. The program goes beyond traditional boundaries between disciplines and media, offering perspectives on creative crossovers between cinema, television and media art.
Bizarre love triangle
NATURE: The extraordinary love story of volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died as explosively as they lived.
Stones from space and the meaning of life
UNIVERSE: Behind the search for abundant fallen meteorites in the Moroccan desert lies the fragments of human complexity.
The spiral of unrest and power
LAW ENFORCEMENT: In a collage of archival tapes, delve into the stormy era of the 1960s in the United States with a detailed investigation of the period’s incidents and their public reception through the lens of police militarization.
Behind the scenes
COVID-19: The Swedish pandemic approach has been discussed internationally, with it its main figures both the targets of hate campaigns and personality cults.
Asian documentary forum Docs by the Sea concludes 2022 edition; presents awards
Amidst recovering from Covid-19-related challenges, Docs by the Sea 2022 soared to new heights as it entered its 6th edition.
A forgotten Caucasian geopolitical fracture line
CONFLICT: A slow-burn lesson in the human casualties of failed politics on the disputed Georgian-Abkhazian border.
The power game
GAZE: The mechanisms of exploitation of women as sexual objects in Hollywood films, exposed.
The means to gaze into the fire
WAR: Confronting Serbia’s wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.
Unpacking trauma
UKRAINE: The young Ukrainian generation, scarred by war, prepares a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Tied to the land
PALESTINE: The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.
New cinematic form for a better world
DISSENT: The hybrid Cinéma du réel Grand Prize winner follows an all-female gang who roam one of Brazil’s biggest favelas selling cheap fuel.