CPH:DOX 2025 unveils full programme with record-breaking lineup
CPH:DOX has announced its full programme for 2025, featuring over 200 films, including a record-breaking 94 world premieres. Running from
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The State of Abolition During Late-Stage Capitalism
ACTIVISM: Angela Y. Davis’s essays and speeches on abolition, feminism, and the fight for collective liberation.
Movies That Matter 2024: the complete winners
In a celebration of cinema that marries social critique and harrowing narratives, the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague
A role model
ACTIVISM: Masih Alinejad, Nobel nominee, voices Iran’s silenced through social and global media.
Changing the world through documentary
MEDIA: Cultural anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner provides an easy-read introduction to the logic and visions behind Brave New Films, whose documentary production is non-profit and distributed through social and political networks with the articulated goal of mobilising resistance against capitalism, racism, and fascism.
An anti-anti-racism
RACISM: A neo-conservative movement has made its virtue to ‘expose’ the political agenda of critical race theory.
Volker Schlöndorff – Full of hope for Africa
ENVIRONMENT: «It’s about changing mindsets», says Volker Schlöndorff. Jokingly, the German veteran director refers to his new documentary on agronomist Tony Rinaudo’s reforestation projects in Africa as propaganda.
SDI announces return of in-person «Phenomenal Women» series through September
The Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) has announced its special programme of acclaimed documentaries directed by women. Tackling issues of #mental
The modern world in contemporary films
FESCAAAL: This year’s edition in Milano offered an insight into the major transformations of the modern world.
Lives lost, opportunities wasted
CHINA: Looking back in anger at the lost chances to help China attain democracy, 30 years after Tiananmen Square.
Searching for an anti-capitalist fugitive
ACTIVISM: In her feature doc Robin Bank, director Anna Giralt Gris goes searching for Catalan activist Enric Duran, who lives in hiding after he «stole» almost 500 000 Euros to expose the banks’ unethical practices.