Little Syria
MIGRANTS: Filmed over 20 years across several countries, a group of Syrian refugees in Berlin fight for justice for Assad-regime victims.
Putin
The taste of Kyiv
UKRAINE: How can you think when you are surrounded by explosions? In Kyiv, the normal and the abnormal exist side by side. Here, UNESCO has reported at least 670 destroyed cultural sites, including 145 religious and 238 of historical/artistic significance. On this investigative journey, we meet European intellectuals on the front line. How can we bear witness to and share their reality?
The Eukrainian
UKRAINE: The high-wire act of a Ukrainian leader navigating war, diplomacy, and EU bureaucracy in a continent losing its sense of unity.
Facing War
NATO: If this opening film at CPH:DOX was screened 30 years ago, we would have bought this narrative. But now, we have alternative media, independent authors, investigative journalists, Wikileaks and solidarity communities outside the military media research community.
The Propagandist
PROPAGANDA: The rise and fall of a filmmaker who reshaped Dutch cinema by serving Nazi propaganda during World War II.
An unknown soldier
CONFLICT: Contrasting quiet Ukrainian life compositions with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.
Victory Day
RUSSIA: Victory Day in Russia in 2022 – barely six weeks after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – plays out the same tired old themes of the Red Army’s victory over Nazism in 1945, with those celebrating eagerly taking up the new propaganda of victory.
The bot economy
TECH: Discover the silent drain on global ad budgets with Unclickable, an investigative documentary revealing how digital ad fraud impacts not just companies but the very fabric of society and democracy.
Of Caravans and the Dogs
RUSSIA: Askold Kurov’s compelling documentary Of Caravan and the Dogs details the final destruction of independent voices in Putin’s Russia that oppose his war on Ukraine.