CPH: DOX, Copenhagen’s International Documentary Festival, has set the total lineup for its 2024 version, together with 84 world premieres, 32 worldwide premieres, and 9 European premieres.
Running March 13-24, the competition will function six competitors classes: Dox: Award, F: Act Award, Nordic: Dox Award, Next: Wave Award, New: Vision Award, and the brand new Human: Rights Award.
Musician Pete Doherty will attend the competition for a screening of Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin. The occasion will happen on March 18 at Bremen Theater, when he and the movie’s director Katia de Vidas – who turned Doherty’s spouse over the ten years she adopted him together with her digicam – brazenly focus on the substance abuse that has shadowed his whole profession. After the screening, Doherty will give an acoustic live performance. Other high-profile titles embody Lana Wilson’s Look Into My Eyes, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s Gaucho Gaucho, Carla Gutierrez’s Frida, Yance Ford’s Power, and Gary Hustwit’s Eno, the definitive documentary about Brian Eno.
The competition has stated this yr’s lineup has been formed across the themes of physique politic, geopolitics, and territorial disputes, with a specific give attention to the battle in Gaza.
Seven movies this yr discover what the competition described as “Israel-Palestine conflict,” together with three world premieres. Tal Barda’s I Shall Not Hate world premiering within the competition’s new Human Rights Competition. Other movies about Israel and Palestine embody Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s Familiar Phantoms (world premiere) and Jonathan Schaller and Philipp Schaeffer’s Silent Night (world premiere), alongside new movies like No Other Land, Bye Bye Tiberias, There was Nothing right here earlier than and Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen’s controversial Israelism.
“For CPH: DOX, our primary focus is on tackling the most crucial and pressing contemporary issues. In a world increasingly marked by polarization, we must be willing to challenge our own established truths and engage in meaningful dialogues with those holding different opinions and perspectives,” stated Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm.
“Director Max Kestner exemplifies this open and inquisitive spirit in the festival’s opening film ‘Life and Other Problems’, where he embarks on a quest to unravel the meaning and value of life, inspired by the global media scandal surrounding the euthanasia of a giraffe in a Danish Zoo exactly a decade ago. This same ethos of openness and curiosity guides us at CPH:DOX as we navigate the complexities of the world – even during tumultuous times, as we are experiencing at the moment.”
The full CPH:DOX lineup could be considered right here.
The competition runs March 13 – 24.
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