CPH:DOX
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Techplomacy
TECH: Susanne Kovács' thought-provoking doc chronicles the efforts of Denmark's tech ambassador as Big Tech wields an unprecedented power over today's geopolitics.
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Who owns the truth machine? Documentary and AI at CPH:INDUSTRY SUMMIT 2026
The question organising CPH:INDUSTRY SUMMIT 2026 was an institutional one, bearing directly on the material arrangements through which documentary authority is produced. Each attended panel, over the course of the conference, circled a single axis of concern from different disciplinary angles. Who currently administers the conditions under which documentary truth is made visible and given…
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The Cord
HEALTHCARE: In The Cord, Nolwenn Hervé follows a community worker helping pregnant women survive Venezuela’s shattered healthcare system, while a possible birth house shaped by Wayúu ancestral knowledge opens onto another vision of care.
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Arctic Link
NATURE: The arrival of broadband to remote Alaskan islands unfolds here as a meditation on civilisation itself, where maritime craft, industrial process, and post-industrial connectivity are woven into one fragile but far-reaching chain.
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80 Angry Journalists
JOURNALISM: As political and institutional pressure tightens around Hungary’s largest independent news outlet, a newsroom is pushed from exhaustion into collective rupture.
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Open My Mind
DRUGS: Set against Switzerland’s unusually progressive therapeutic framework, a personal account of psychedelic treatment unfolds as both self-exposure and self-repair.
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CPH:DOX 2026 crowns Whispers in May as DOX:AWARD winner
CPH:DOX has announced the winners of its 2026 international competitions, with Dongnan Chen’s Whispers in May taking the festival’s top honor, the DOX:AWARD, at the award show held at Social Cinema in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The Copenhagen festival said this year’s international competition lineup comprised 74 films selected from thousands of submissions, including 53 world premieres,…
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Iranian composer Atena Eshtiaghi takes Germany’s top documentary film music prize for MATERIA PRIMA
Iranian cellist and composer Atena Eshtiaghi has won the 2026 German Documentary Film Music Award for her score to MATERIA PRIMA, Jens Schanze’s documentary on lithium extraction in Bolivia that premiered last week at CPH:DOX. It is the second time Eshtiaghi has received the prize, after winning in 2024 for My Stolen Planet. Presented by…
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Something Familiar
FAMILY: A search for a birth family becomes a nuanced meditation on trauma, shared fates, loss, and self-authorship.