CPH:DOX, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is a Danish film festival focused on documentary films, held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2008 has been run by Copenhagen Film Festivals, which also managed the now-defunct CPH PIX festival.

CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Festival)
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
Founded2003
Most recent2024
DirectorsNiklas Engstrøm
No. of films200
Festival date13 to 24 March 2024
Websitewww.cphdox.dk
Current: 21st
22nd
20th

History

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The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival was established in 2003. CPH:DOX has since grown to become one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe, with 114,408 admissions in 2019.[1] The festival's founder-director was Tine Fischer [da].[2]

Following the 2015 edition of CPH:DOX, the festival announced that it would change its dates from November to March, and the first of the new spring editions of the festival was held from 16 to 26 March 2017, with the centrally-located Kunsthal Charlottenborg as the new festival centre.[3][1] From 2016, Jacob Neiiendam and CPH:DOX founder-director Tine Fischer were co-CEOs of the three festivals (CPH PIX, CPH:DOX, and Buster Film Festival). In September 2018 it was announced that Jacob Neiiendam would be stepping down after 31 October, and that Fischer would continue as sole CEO for all three festivals.[2]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 CPH:DOX held their festival virtually, using a Shift72 video-on-demand platform that was built and launched in just 24 hours.[4]

In February 2021 it was announced that Tine Fischer would be stepping down from the CEO role after the 18th edition (21 April to 2 May 2021) to take up a position as director of the National Film School of Denmark.[5][6]

The 2023 event took place between 15 and 26 March.[7]

Past guest curators of film programmes have included artists and filmmakers such as The xx; Anohni; Harmony Korine; Animal Collective; Nan Goldin; Douglas Gordon; Ben Rivers with Ben Russell; Ai Weiwei; The Yes Men; Olafur Eliasson; and Naomi Klein with Avi Lewis.[citation needed]

Description and governance

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CPH:DOX is the official name of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.[1] Copenhagen Film Festivals has managed CPH:DOX and CPH PIX since the latter was created in 2008.[2][7] It is held in Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

CPH:DOX is devoted to supporting independent and innovative film and to present contemporary non-fiction, art cinema, and experimental film.[8]

In 2009, the festival launched the international talent development and film production workshop CPH:LAB (formerly known as DOX:LAB) where around 20 filmmakers are invited each year to develop and direct a film in teams of two.[citation needed]

Besides its seven international competitions, the festival presents parallel curated and guest-curated sections.[citation needed] The festival hosts seminars, debates and events as well as the curated concert series "Audio:Visuals", where bands and artists perform to original work created for the occasion by visual artists. CPH:DOX also presents a number of other initiatives parallel to the festival itself: the industry platform CPH:Forum, with the attached CPH:Market for buyers and programmers, is a financing and co-production forum as well as a networking facility which takes place for three days during the festival. In 2011, the related ART:FILM branch was launched with the aim to facilitate the development and actual production of artists' films in the feature length format. CPH:DOX runs the five-day CPH:Conference as well as the experimental educational course DOX:Academy for students, both of which take place during the festival.[citation needed]

At the industry segment CPH:WIP, Nordic works-in-progress are presented to the potential sponsors and distributors.[9]

CPH: DOX is part of the Doc Alliance, a creative partnership among seven key European documentary film festivals.[citation needed]

Awards

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Juries hand out prizes in seven international competition programmes:

  • CPH:DOX Award, for international documentary features (€10,000)[10]
  • NEW:VISION Award, for experimental and artists' film (€5,000 prize)[10]
  • F:ACT Award, for films in the field between investigative journalism and documentary (€5,000 prize)[10]
  • NORDIC:DOX Award, for Nordic documentaries and artists' films (€5,000 prize)[10]
  • NEXT:WAVE Award, for emerging filmmakers and artists (€5,000 prize)[10]
  • Politiken:Danish:Dox Award, awarded by a jury of film critics from the Danish newspaper Politiken
  • Doc Alliance Award, given in collaboration with six other European documentary film festivals, to one of the seven films nominated by the participating festivals[10]
  • Audience Award, chosen by the festival-goers (€5,000)[10]
  • Human:Rights Award, introduced in 2024 in collaboration with the Danish Institute for Human Rights[10][11]

Award winners

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CPH:DOX Award

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Year Film Director Country
002003 (1st) Dans Grozny Dans Jos de Putter   Netherlands
002004 (2nd) Darwin's Nightmare (shared) Hubert Sauper   Austria
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (shared) Pirjo Honkasalo   Finland
002005 (3rd) Workingman's Death (shared) Michael Glawogger   Austria
The White Diamond (shared) Werner Herzog   Germany
002006 (4th) Black Sun Gary Tarn   United Kingdom
002007 (5th) Santa Fe Street Carmen Castillo   Chile
002008 (6th) Burma VJ Anders Østergaard   Denmark
002009 (7th) Trash Humpers Harmony Korine   United States
002010 (8th) Le Quattro Volte Michelangelo Frammartino   Italy
002011 (9th) Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers   United Kingdom
002012 (10th) The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer   Denmark
002013 (11th) Bloody Beans Narimane Mari   Algeria
002014 (12th) The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer   Denmark
002015 (13th) God Bless the Child Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck   United States
002017 (14th) Last Men in Aleppo Feras Fayyad   Denmark
002018 (15th) The Raft Marcus Lindeen   Sweden
002019 (16th) Ridge John Skoog   Sweden
002020 (17th) Songs of Repression[12][13] Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga   Denmark
002021 (17th) The Last Shelter Ousmane Samassekou   Mali

2003 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
The Damned and the Sacred
(Dans, Grozny dans)
  Jos de Putter
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
Screaming Men
(Huutajat – Screaming Men)
  Mika Ronkainen
Amnesty Award
Bus 174
(Ônibus 174)
  José Padilha
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
Cuban Rafters
(Balseros)
  Carlos Bosch &
  Josep Maria Domènech

2004 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Hubert Sauper
  Pirjo Honkasalo

Amnesty:Award
Justice
(Justiça)
  Maria Ramos
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
Disbelief
(Nedoverie)
  Andrei Nekrasov
New:Vision Award
I Love You All
(Aus Liebe zum Volk)
  Audrey Maurion [fr] &
  Eyal Sivan
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
Max by Chance [da]
(Rejsen på ophavet)
Gunnar Goes Comfortable [no]
  Max Kestner

  Gunnar Hall Jensen [no]

2005 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Michael Glawogger
  Werner Herzog
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
   Michale Boganim
Amnesty:Award
  Sabina Guzzanti
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
  Peter Raymont
New:Vision Award
  Clive Holden
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Mike Stubbs

2006 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Gary Tarn
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Amnesty:Award
  Staffan Julén [sv]
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
Voices of Bam
(Stemmen van Bam)
Maquilapolis
(Maquilápolis)
  Maasja Ooms &
  Aliona van der Horst [nl]
  Vicky Funari &
  Sergio De La Torre
New:Vision Award
(short)
  Gabriele Mathes [de]
New:Vision Award
(long)
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
(Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle)
Tarachime birth/mother
(Tarachime)
  Douglas Gordon &
  Philippe Parreno
  Naomi Kawase

Sound & Vision Award
  Michel Gondry

2007 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
Santa Fe Street
(Calle Santa Fe)
  Carmen Castillo
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Michael Noer
Amnesty:Award
  Charles Ferguson
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
The Not Dead
Umbrella
(San)
  Brian Hill
  Du Haibin

New:Vision Award
(short)
  Gee-Jung Jun
New:Vision Award
(long)
  Hartmut Bitomsky [de; ja]

  Hila Peleg
Sound & Vision Award
  Grant Gee
Sound & Vision Award
Special Mention
  Luke Fowler

2008 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Anders Østergaard [ar; arz; da; de; fi; fr; pt]
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie Andersson
Amnesty:Award
  Anders Østergaard
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
  Joseph Bullman
New:Vision Award
  Michel Auder, Andrew Neel
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sound & Vision Award
  Sacha Gervasi
Sound & Vision Award
Special Mention
  Margarita Jimeno

2009 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Harmony Korine
DOX Award
Special Mention
  Måns Månsson [sv]
Amnesty:Award
  Geoffrey Smith, Roberto Hernández [es]
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
  Yoav Shamir
New:Vision Award
shared by: O'er The Land and Trypps 1-6
  Deborah Stratment / Ben Russell
Sound & Vision Award
  Vincent Moon
Sound & Vision Award
Special Mention
  Kara Blake

2010 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Michelangelo Frammartino
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Andrei Ujică
Danish:Dox Award
  Ada Bligaard Søby / Jakob Boeskov
Danish:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Jacob Schulsinger
Amnesty:Award
  Kim Longinotto
New:Vision Award
  Hito Steyerl
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
Out
  Roee Rosen
Sound & Vision Award
  Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys
Sound & Vision Award
Special Mention
Backyard
  Árni Sveinsson
Short:Dox Award
Irma
   Charles Fairbanks
Politiken Audience Award
  Theis Molin [da]

2011 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Ben Rivers
New:Vision Award
  Philippe Grandrieux
Amnesty:Award
  Anca Damian
Nordic:Dox Award
  Thomas Østbye
Sound & Vision Award
Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Politiken Audience Award
  Wim Wenders

2012 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Joshua Oppenheimer
New:Vision Award
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
Nordic:Dox Award
  Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Amnesty:Award
  Andrey Gryazev
Sound & Vision Award
  Jay Bulger
Politiken Audience Award
  Mikala Krogh

2013 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Narimane Mari [de]
New:Vision Award
  Ben Rivers & Ben Russell
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Wilhelm Sasnal & Anka Sasnal
Nordic:Dox Award
After You
  Marius Dybwad Brandrud [de; sv]
F:ACT Award
  Richard Rowley
Politiken Audience Award
  Arash T. Riahi [de; fa; fr; id; mg] & Arman T. Riahi [arz; de]

2014 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Joshua Oppenheimer
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Camilla Nilsson
New:Vision Award
  Basim Magdy [it]
Nordic:Dox Award
  Lea Glob & Petra Costa
F:ACT Award
  Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman
Politiken Audience Award
  Grant Baldwin

2015 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands
New:Vision Award
  Ali Cherri
New:Vision Award
  Rosa Barba
Nordic:Dox Award
  Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Ane Hjort Guttu [no]
F:ACT Award
  Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi
F:ACT Award
Special Mention
  Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe
Politiken Audience Award
  David Sington

2017 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Feras Fayyad, co-directed by Steen Johannessen
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Austin Lynch & Matthew Booth
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Jeppe Rønde
New:Vision Award
  Chen Zhou
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Ane Hjort Guttu & Daisuke Kosugi
Nordic:Dox Award
  Camilla Magid
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Egil Håskjold Larsen
F:ACT Award
  Reber Dosky
F:ACT Award
Special Mention
  Schaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau
Next:Wave Award
  Marcos Migliavacca & Nahuel Lahora
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Wattanapume Laisuwanchai
Politiken Audience Award
  Matthew Heineman

2018 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Marcus Lindeen [sv]
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
América
  Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll
New:Vision Award
  Jumana Manna
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Tinne Zenner
Nordic:Dox Award
  Lasse Lau [da]
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Steffan Strandberg
F:ACT Award
  Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei
Next:Wave Award
  Giorgio Ferrero
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Bing Liu
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Anat Yuta Zruia & Shira Clara Winther
Politiken Audience Award
  Katrine Philp

2019 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  John Skoog
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Pia Hellenthaler
New:Vision Award
  Mania Akbari & Douglas White
Nordic:Dox Award
  Petter Sommer & Jo Vemund Svendsen
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Lina Mannheimer
F:ACT Award
  Julien Elie
F:act:Award
Special Mention
  Luke Lorentzen
Next:Wave Award
  Aboozar Amini
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Juan Palacios
Politiken Audience Award
  Fredrik Gertten

2020 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga
New:Vision Award
South
  Morgan Quaintance
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Wingyee Wu & Lap-See Lam [sv]
Nordic:Dox Award
  Jannik Splidsboel [da]
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Lotta Petronella
F:ACT Award
  Marc Wiese
F:act:Award
Special Mention
  Jeff Orlowski
Next:Wave Award
  David Osit
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Lisa Rovner
Politiken:Danish:Dox Award
  Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga

2021 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
  Ousmane Samassekou
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
  Rami Farah & Signe Byrge Sørensen
New:Vision Award
  Haig Aivazian
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
  Maxime & Audrey Jean-Baptiste
Nordic:Dox Award
  Nina Hobert
Nordic:Dox Award
Special Mention
  Cille Hannibal & Christine Hanberg
F:act Award
  Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Evie Cheung, Han Yan Yuen & Jen Lee
F:act:Award
Special Mention
  Theo Anthony
Next:Wave Award
  Fanny Chotimah
Next:Wave Award
Special Mention
  Liesbeth de Ceulaer
Politiken:Danish:Dox Award
  Frigge Fri

References

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  1. ^ a b c "About us". CPH:DOX 2021. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Mitchell, Wendy (6 September 2018). "Jacob Neiindam stepping down from CPH PIX after 10th edition (exclusive)". Screen. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  3. ^ "CPH:DOX moves festival dates to March!". Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  4. ^ White, David (20 June 2020). "Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival Case Study". www.shift72.com. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  5. ^ Alcinii, Daniele (8 February 2021). "CPH:DOX festival director, founder Tine Fischer to step down". Realscreen. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  6. ^ Mitchell, Wendy (13 May 2024). "Tine Fischer to depart CPH:DOX to run Danish film school". Screen. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  7. ^ a b Dams, Tim (15 May 2024). "Danish film festival CPH PIX closes down permanently". Screen. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  8. ^ Kudláč, Martin (15 March 2023). "Niklas Engstrøm • Artistic director, CPH:DOX". Cineuropa. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  9. ^ Bałaga, Marta (27 March 2019). "Nordic talents are celebrated once again at CPH:WIP". Cineuropa. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Barraclough, Leo (15 February 2024). "Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX Unveils Competition Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  11. ^ Dalton, Ben (14 May 2024). "CPH:DOX unveils competitions, adds human rights award". Screen. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
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  13. ^ a b c "Review: Songs of Repression". Cineuropa – the best of european cinema. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
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