With a record breaking number of over 70.000 visitors in 2013, CPH:DOX has established itself as one of the leading documentary film festivals in the world – and one of Denmark’s biggest cultural events.
This year the festival, which will run from the 6th to the 16th of November, launches a new programme called MEGATRENDS.
CPH:DOX is a documentary film festival, which each November fills Copenhagen’s cinemas with more than 200 films from all over the world. The films are distributed among four international competition series and a number of thematic programmes, which focus on current political and cultural issues. The festival was established in 2003 by Tine Fischer, who is still its director.
CPH:DOX emphasises the latest and most interesting aspects of the documentary scene, and therefore the film programme contains both films by major and internationally renowned directors and less-known titles by new or unknown talents.
Using the documentary as its starting point, CPH:DOX aims to build bridges between the world of film and the many related art forms. CPH:DOX is continuously exploring the interaction between different cultural traditions, and therefore, over the course of the festival’s eleven days, CPH:DOX also presents a series of special events in collaboration with a number of partners. Debates, Q&As and presentations with invited directors and guests are a major part of the festival’s programme, and its club nights, art exhibitions and unorthodox events have become a distinguishing aspect of the festival’s profile.
In the crossroads between genres and media, CPH:DOX each year creates new perspectives on creativity and interdisciplinary thinking between films, the media, art and music. All of this results in different kinds of exhibitions, performances, music and sound projects, live concerts, VJ’ing, and the latest conceptual forms within the film medium.
This innovative festival format has in no time turned CPH:DOX into one of Europe’s largest audience events within the documentary scene.
CPH:DOX has strongly distinguished itself as an industry event. The festival is also a central meeting place and an important platform for Danish documentaries – both nationally and internationally. With CPH:FORUM and the festival’s highly praised seminar and master class programme, CPH:DOX has mad an irrevocable name for itself as one of the most important new events on the international festival circuit.
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