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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

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.

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)
Netherlands Jos de Putter
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
Screaming Men
(Huutajat – Screaming Men)
Finland Mika Ronkainen
Amnesty Award
Bus 174
(Ônibus 174)
Brazil José Padilha
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
Cuban Rafters
(Balseros)
Spain Carlos Bosch &
Spain Josep Maria Domènech

2004 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
Austria Hubert Sauper
Finland Pirjo Honkasalo

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

Norway Gunnar Hall Jensen [no]

2005 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
Austria Michael Glawogger
Germany Werner Herzog
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
IsraelFrance Michale Boganim
Amnesty:Award
Italy Sabina Guzzanti
Amnesty:Award
Special Mention
Canada Peter Raymont
New:Vision Award
Canada Clive Holden
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
United Kingdom Mike Stubbs

2006 CPH:DOX

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

Sound & Vision Award
France Michel Gondry

2007 CPH:DOX

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

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

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

2008 CPH:DOX

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

2009 CPH:DOX

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

2010 CPH:DOX

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

2011 CPH:DOX

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

2012 CPH:DOX

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

2013 CPH:DOX

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Award Film Director
CPH:DOX Award
Algeria Narimane Mari [de]
New:Vision Award
France Ben Rivers & Ben Russell
New:Vision Award
Special Mention
Poland Wilhelm Sasnal & Anka Sasnal
Nordic:Dox Award
After You
Sweden Marius Dybwad Brandrud [de; sv]
F:ACT Award
United Kingdom Richard Rowley
Politiken Audience Award
Austria 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
Denmark Joshua Oppenheimer
CPH:DOX Award
Special Mention
Denmark Camilla Nilsson
New:Vision Award
Egypt Basim Magdy [it]
Nordic:Dox Award
Denmark Lea Glob & Petra Costa
F:ACT Award
United States Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman
Politiken Audience Award
Canada Grant Baldwin

2015 CPH:DOX

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

2017 CPH:DOX

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

2018 CPH:DOX

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

2019 CPH:DOX

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

2020 CPH:DOX

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

2021 CPH:DOX

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

References

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  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.
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  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.
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