CPH:DOX 2015 English Catalogue by CPH Filmfestivals

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Special Screenings Curated by Olafur Eliasson Curated by Naomi Klein Borderline Before and After Science Under the Asphalt, the Beach! Crime Wave Limited Editions

Sidebars 216 230 244 264 276 290 302

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Dox:Award New:Vision Award Nordic:Dox Award F:act Award Doc Alliance Award Politiken Audience Award

Themes 98 110 130 142 152 166 186 198

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Info & Tickets Venues Welcome Map Credtis Juries Premieres

Competitions 28 46 62 76 88 94

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Artists & Auteurs Sound & Vision Top Dox Danish:Dox Exhibitions Audio:Visuals Events & Parties

Industry 314 324 326 328 330 332 334 340 342 348

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Contacts

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Seminars CPH:FORUM CPH:CHANGE ART:FILM CPH:CONFERENCE FACT:CONFERENCE Reality:Check CPH:LAB CPH:MARKET Doc Alliance

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Info & Tickets Accreditation & Information Desk

* CPH:DOX Festival Centre Danish Film Institute (DFI) / Cinematheque Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen K Open November 5 - 15 from 10:00-20:00 TELTET King’s Gardens (Entrance from Gothersgade by the Cinematheque)

Accreditation & Tickets Delegates can pick up their accreditations as well as the 2015 catalogues at the Accreditations & Information Desk. CPH:DOX staff is available at the info desk to assist you every day from 10:00 - 20:00. The CPH:DOX accreditation allows delegates to obtain a single ticket for each ordinary festival screening. Tickets can be picked up any day in advance at the cinema where the screening is taking place. The accreditation must be presented along with the ticket upon entrance to the cinema.

CPH:MARKET CPH:MARKET is a video library and screening room with over 200 titles from the official festival selection on demand. The market is open daily from 10:00 - 20:00 to all delegates with Industry Accreditations, and is located on the 4th floor at the Danish Film Institute / Cinematheque.

CPH:FORUM CPH:FORUM, CPH:DOX’s international financing and co-production event, is taking place on November 11-12. Project presentations will take place both days from 8:30 - 13:30, followed by oneon-one meetings. CPH:FORUM is by invitation only and takes place at The Tent in The King’s Garden by the Danish Film Institute. As part of CPH:FORUM we are presenting ART:FILM case studies on Friday November 13 from 9:30 - 16:00 at the Cinematheque. The case studies are open to all festival participants.

CPH:CONFERENCE CPH:DOX presents two full-day conference programmes on November 10 and 13 at the Festival Center in The King’s Garden. See the Conference pages in the Industry chapter for more information.

Reality:Check Reality:Check is a three-day programme of talks, events, debates and screenings arranged by CPH:DOX from November 6 - 8 which takes place at the Festival Center in the King’s Gardens. See the Reality:Check pages in the Industry chapter for more information. Please note: parts of the programme are held in Danish.

Events, Exhibitions, Concerts and Gala Events Due to limited seat availability, all non-film screening events, exhibitions, concerts and ceremonies are not included in the accreditation unless otherwise stated. Tickets for concerts, exhibitions and other events must be bought at the venue or at cph.dox.dk. Invitations for industry gatherings, dinners and ceremonies that are by invitation only will be sent by mail.

Main Venues Danish Film Institute (DFI) / Cinemateket Gothersgade 55 1123 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 33743412 TELTET Kongens Have (The King’s Garden) entrance from Gothersgade Nordisk Film Biografer Imperial Ved Vesterport 4 1612 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 70131211 Nordisk Film Biografer Palads Axeltorv 9 1609 Copenhagen

First Hotel Kong Frederik Vester Voldgade 25 1552 Copenhagen

Mungo Park Fritz Hansensvej 23 3450 Lillerød

KUA Karen Blixens Vej 14 2300 Copenhagen

Bremen Teater Nyropsgade 39 1602 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 33139090

Osramhuset Valhalsgade 4 2200 Copenhagen

Kulturhuset Islands Brygge Islands Brygge 18 2300 Copenhagen

Wakeup Copenhagen Borgergade 9 1300 Copenhagen First Hotel 27 Løngangstræde 27 1468 Copenhagen Nikolaj Kunsthal Nikolaj Plads 10 1067 Copenhagen

Solbjerg Kirke Howitzvej 30A 2000 Frederiksberg Store Vega Enghavevej 40 1674 Copenhagen

Kvarterhuset Jemtelandsgade 3 2300 Copenhagen Malmö Live Dag Hammarskiölds Torg 4 211 18 Malmö

Other Venues 8tallet Richard Mortensens Vej, 2300 Copenhagen

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Bakken Flæsketorvet 17-19 Aveny-T Dagmar Teatret Frederiksberg Alle 102 1820 1711 Copenhagen Jernebanegade 2 Frederiksberg 1608 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 32689300 Byens Lys, Christiania Tel. 0045 7013121 Christiania 2300 Copenhagen Den Grå Hal Grand Teatret Refshalevej 2 Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8 1432 Christiania CinemaxX 1460 Copenhagen Kalvebod Brygge 57 Tel. 0045 33151611 1560 Copenhagen Jazzhouse Tel. 0045 70101202 Niels Hemmingsens Vester Vov Vov Gade 10 Absalonsgade 15 1714 Copenhagen CPH:DOX 1658 Copenhagen Tagensvej 85F 2200 Copenhagen Jazzhus Montmartre Gloria Biograf & Café Store Regnegade 19A Rådhuspladsen 59 1110 Copenhagen Den Blå Planet 1550 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 31723494 Jacob Fortlingsvej 1 Tel. 0045 33122492 2770 Kastrup Tel. 0045 44 22 22 44 Kayak Bar Empire Bio Børskaj 12 Guldbergsgade 19F 1221 Copenhagen Den Grønne Friskole 2200 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 30490013 Strandlodsvej 40 Tel. 0045 35360036 2300 Copenhagen Knippelsbrotårnet Falkoner Biografen Knippelsbro 1 Den Sorte Diamant Sylows Allé 15 1400 Copenhagen Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1, 2000 Frederiksberg 1214 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 70131211 Tel. 0045 33474747 Koncerthuset (Studie 2) Emil Holms Kanal 20 Absalon 2300 Copenhagen DR koncerthuset Sønder Boulevard 73 1720 Ørestads Boulevard 13 Copenhagen 2300 Copenhagen Lille Vega Enghavevej 40 Kunsthal Charlottenborg 1674 Copenhagen Imam Ali Moské Kongens Nytorv 1 Vibevej 23 1050 Copenhagen 2400 Copenhagen Tel. 0045 33744639 Tel. 0045 38100078

Normann Copenhagen Østerbrogade 70 2100 Copenhagen Pressen i Politikens Hus Rådhuspladsen 37 1785 Copenhagen Republique Øster Fælled Torv 37 2100 Copenhagen Skuespilhuset Lille Scene Sankt Annæ Pl. 36 1250 Copenhagen Space10 Flæsketorvet 10 1711 Copenhagen Tycho Brahe Planetarium Gammel Kongevej 10 1610 Copenhagen

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Welcome

to the 13th edition of CPH:DOX! We are very happy to bid you welcome to an edition of CPH:DOX that crosses more intersections and explores more new ground than ever before. As in previous years we have done our best to reflect on what is happening in the world of non-fiction cinema in 2015 but also more specifically what is happening in the ever growing field between artistic innovation and political impact. We have since the early years of the festival been insisting on documentary as an art form with all the artistic autonomy that goes with it. This year’s selection strongly testifies to the fact that artistic innovation and art’s ability to create political impact is not only needed but also growing in the wildest and most beautiful way. Artistic autonomy never meant turning your back to society, at CPH:DOX it has always meant creating an impact on society from a free and often radically new position. In this line of thought it is a great pleasure for us to include three people who have been an inspiration and a constant reference to us throughout the years. They have kindly accepted our invitation to guest curate two film programmes exclusively for CPH:DOX. Even though they come with different backgrounds they share a direct interest in changing society through art, film and political activism. They are highly needed – even more so this year than ever before.

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The contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson has curated a film programme that, much like his own work, is based on the physical world around us, and on how we perceive both our immediate and distant surroundings through the body and immediate sensation. The programme looks at the man-made changes of both a climatic and geological nature that have given the relatively new concept of the ‘Anthropocene’ a very significant relevance for contemporary art as well as for philosophy and the geo-sciences. The Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein has been a leading voice in modern activism since her breakthrough with ‘No Logo’ in 2000. Klein and her partner, film director Avi Lewis, are present at CPH:DOX with their brand new film ‘This Changes Everything’, based on Klein’s book of the same name, and have guest curated a film programme that provides a critical and historical background to the very urgent issues raised by their work. Eliasson and Klein & Lewis are the latest among guest curators to have created programmes for CPH:DOX, and are joining Laura Poitras, Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Douglas Gordon, Nan Goldin, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Harmony Korine and Animal Collective.

CPH:LAB & VR:LAB In 2009 CPH:DOX launched what was then known as DOX:LAB. A film laboratory where a selected number of international filmmakers and artists are invited to develop and direct films in teams of two. Everything in this programme is a challenge: two filmmakers, one film, a micro-budget frame, restricted time, no limits. A new year, new films, a new team of filmmakers – and an outcome that we cannot wait to see ourselves, as we are continuing to expand and develop the experiment in new directions supervised by our new LAB manager Mille Haynes and our new Head of Studies Vanja Kaludjercic. We are also launching a new lab in partnership with the creative minds behind Makropol. It’s called VR:LAB and is an exploration of virtual reality as a medium and means of expression. We believe that VR could possibly redesign how we engage in cinema in the future and we have carefully selected 20 participants who in teams of two will create a short VR experience during the lab, shown for the public audience by the end of the festival. After the festival, all the experiences will be available via a downloadable app, and they will go on a tour to other festivals and cultural events around the world.

CPH:FORUM & CONFERENCES Five years ago we re-launched CPH:FORUM as a financing and co-production forum with specific focus on hybrid projects in the ever growing landscape between fiction and non-fiction, between film and contemporary art and between documentary and investigative journalism. We have invited funders and institutions from fiction, non-fiction and visual art and we hope that these meetings will give birth to brand new partnerships and fresh approaches to the entire cinema cycle. We are also strengthening our conference program by welcoming you to two days of thoughts and talks from leading thinkers and makers. CPH:CONFERENCE with focus on the intersection between art, technology and change. And F:ACT CONFERENCE, a brand new initiative focusing on new platforms and possible media revolutions in the explosive field between documentary and new digital journalism. Needless to say Field of Vision, RYOT and The Intercept will be here but also many new and lesser known minds and projects will be introduced. Things are happening in this field and it’s of high relevance to the entire documentary landscape!

THE TENT Last but not least we are also delighted to bid you welcome to our new festival center, which is located in and across the street from the Danish Film Institute in the King’s Gardens where we will be hosting several of our industry activities - as well as a long line of talks, debates, film screenings and parties - in our brand new venue: TELTET! We hope you will like what you find and that you will accept our invitation to take some chances, see films by filmmakers that may be new to you, and to take a trip outside of charted territory where the greatest experiences are often waiting for you. Thank you to the artists and filmmakers who trusted their films to us. We promise to do the best we can to support you. Welcome to CPH:DOX. Tine Fischer Festival Director

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Guest Curators: Olafur Eliasson and Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis

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Main Venues Danish Film Institute (DFI) / Cinemateket Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen TELTET Kongens Have (The King’s Garden) entrance from Gothersgade Nordisk Film Biografer Imperial Ved Vesterport 4, 1612 Copenhagen Nordisk Film Biografer Palads Axeltorv 9, 1609 Copenhagen Dagmar Teatret Jernebanegade 2, 1608 Copenhagen Grand Teatret Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8, 1460 Copenhagen Vester Vov Vov Absalonsgade 15, 1658 Copenhagen Gloria Biograf & Café Rådhuspladsen 59, 1550 Copenhagen Empire Bio Guldbergsgade 19F, 2200 Copenhagen Falkoner Biografen Sylows Allé 15, 2000 Frederiksberg Absalon Sønder Boulevard 73, 1720 Copenhagen Kunsthal Charlottenborg Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen First Hotel Kong Frederik Vester Voldgade 25, 1552 Copenhagen Bremen Teater Nyropsgade 39, 1602 Copenhagen Wakeup Copenhagen Borgergade 9, 1300 Copenhagen First Hotel 27 Løngangstræde 27, 1468 Copenhagen Nikolaj Kunsthal Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 Copenhagen

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CPH:DOX Festival Centre Danish Film Institute (DFI), Cinemateket Gothersgade 55 1123 Copenhagen

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Press Office

DFI Reception

SULT Restaurant

gade Gothers

CINEMAS (Bio Carl & Asta)

Info & Accreditation Office

LĂ¸nporten

4 / fourth floor

CPH:MARKET

CPH:LAB / Filmworkshop

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TELTET Kongens Have (The King’s Garden) Gothersgade 1123 Copenhagen

CPH:FORUM / CPH:CHANGE / CPH:CONFERENCE / F:ACT CONFERENCE / (BIO) gade Gothers

CPH:FORUM / One-on-One Meetings (BAR)

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Credits Festival Director: Tine Fischer Head of Operations: Susanne Thygaard Head of Programme and Outreach: Niklas K. Engstrøm Selection Committee: Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen, Adam Thorsmark Programme Assistants: Ida Cathrine Holme Nielsen, Lotte Krag, Annie Karlsson, Betina Husen, Anne Sofie Vermund, Nannan Chen, Jacob Christian Eriksen, Kira Mynster, Cecilie Armand, Martin Rasmussen Preview Group: Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen, Adam Thorsmark, Marie Ørbæk Christensen, Hans Frederik Jacobsen, Emil Leth Meilvang, Jeppe Carstensen, Daniel Flendt Dreesen, Frederik Kyhn Bøge CPH:FORUM, CPH:MARKET, CPH:CHANGE: Daniella Eversby (Head of Industry, maternity leave), Katrine Kiilgaard (Head of Industry), Gry Arendse Voss, Camilla Gaarder, Lea Larsen Volay, Siri Leijonhufvud, Katrine Haugaard CPH:LAB: Mille Haynes (Head of CPH:LAB), Vanja Kaludjercic, Chiara Renèe Podbielski, Emilia C.Q. Gehrig, Kristoffer Hammer-Jakobsen, Nathascha Domagala, Agnieszka Musialska, Mads Larsen Industry Consultant: Vanja Kaludjercic Everyday Project: Kristoffer Tjalve (Head of Everyday Project), Marie Ørbæk Christensen (Head of Everyday Project), Anders Morgenstierne, Cecilie Sylvest Carlsen, Sofia Ditlefsen, Frigg Harlung, Nanna Jo Poulsen, Albert Ravn, Aliki Seferou, Simon Munkshøj, Elena Hybel Colding CPH:CONFERENCE & F:ACT CONFERENCE: Kristoffer Tjalve (Head of Conference), Caroline Sommer Sutherland (Head of Conference), Morten Vejrup, Julie Stigsen REALITY:CHECK: Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Kristine Lykke Roed, Marie Ørbæk Christensen, Lærke Hein, Christoffer Emil Bruun

Debate Programme: Niklas K. Engstrøm, Marie Ørbæk Christensen, Jacob Christian Eriksen, Ida Cathrine Holme Nielsen, Lotte Krag Programme Coordinators: Casper Andersen (Head of Programme Coordination), Annie Kilde Bajwa, Monica Svane, Henrik Jessen Marketing: Tine Jespersen (Head of Marketing), Mathias Büchner Jensen Advertisements: Salgsbureauet Outreach: Niklas K. Engstrøm (Head of Outreach), Nannan Chen, Kira Mynster, Martin Rasmussen Sponsorships: Susanne Thygaard, Tine Fischer, Tine Jespersen, Kristoffer Tjalve Website: Thinh Duc Tran (Head of Digital and Production), Raymond Christian Ortiz, Niels Ørbæk Christensen Graphics and Design: Romain Gorisse (Art Director), Valeria Granillo, Sofie Mietke Rasmussen, Sarah Nielsen, Stine Nygaard Catalogue Editor: Mads Mikkelsen Programme Notes: Mads Mikkelsen (editor), Niklas K. Engstrøm, Adam Thorsmark, Emil Leth Meilvang, Frederik Kyhn Bøge, Kim Ambrosius, Freja Sofie Madsen, Nannan Chen, Cecilie Armand, Jacob Christian Eriksen, Marie Ørbæk Christensen, Katrine Ravndal, Lotte Krag, Ida Højlund Guest Department: Cecilie Waitz Søborg (Head of Guest Industry Department), Anne-Mette Sønderby Saugbjerg (Head Industry Guest Coordinator), Ione Mignogna, Tania-Valentina Coceșiu, Maria-Heloisa Ferreira Aalling, Adriana Tovar Velez, Mathilde Oda Meyer Jørgensen, Stella Tumidei, Jasmin Ravesh, Erdal Bilici, Marta Simões, Rosa Tortorella, Rio Morales, Aleksandra Shimanska, Maarja Miller, Linn Helene Løkken Volunteer Coordination: Başak Yılmaz (Head of Volunteers), Ida Ågård, Nermen Ghoniem Translation: Andrew Blackwell

AUDIO:VISUALS & Music Programme: Adam Thorsmark (Head of Music Department), Frederik Kyhn Bøge, Kim Ambrosius Seminars: Tine Fischer, Niklas K. Engstrøm, Mads Mikkelsen, Katrine Kiilgaard Event Programme: Niklas K. Engstrøm, Anne Sofie Vermund, Betina Husen, Lotte Krag

Production: Susanne Thygaard (Head of Operations), Thinh Duc Tran (Head of Digital and Production), Giovanni Marini, Tine Jespersen, Ayoe Fridriksdottir, Nanna Lundgren Jensen, Anders Borre Mathiesen, Daniel Vestergaard, Frederik Barfod, Barbod Rezai, Catharina Bigler, Aske Just Technical Production: Andreas Steinmann

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Press: Katrine Ravndal (Head of Press), Jakob Rønn, Freja Sofie Madsen, Camilla Qvistgaard Madsen, Ditte Priess Steffens, Taifour Muslim, Sebastian Christensen, Ida Højlund, Jette Lin Nielsen, International PR and Communication: Katrine Ravndal (Head of Press), Anastasia Shekshnya, Martin Johannessen

Doc Alliance: Tine Fischer, Daniella Eversby, Katrine Kiilgaard CPH:DOX, DR & Filmværkstedets Talentpris: Daniella Eversby, Katrine Kiilgaard Financial Manager: Lars Sørensen Festival Trailer: Andreas Johnsen

DOX:ON:TOUR: Adam Thorsmark (Head of Regional Activities), Beate Gottfredsen, Mathilde Pedersen, Peter Nørgaard DOX:TV: Katrine Ravndal (Head of Press), Aviaja Skotte, Amanda Obitz og Lasse Hansen VR:LAB: Tine Fischer, Mads Damsbo, Kristoffer Tjalve, Johan Knattrup, Ditte Wulff, Signe Ungermand UNG:DOX: Niklas K. Engstrøm, Amalie Brok, Caroline Livingstone, Cecilie Jessen Hansen, Cecilie Armand, Thomas Bech DOX:ACADEMY: Lotte Krag, Nannan Chen Bremen Teater: Ayoe Fridriksdottir, Tine Jespersen, Barbod Rezai, Catharina Bigler Bar Manager: Marie Søborg

Festival Poster: Romain Gorisse Print: Politiken, Erritsø, 2015. Reprinting permitted on condition of mention of course CPH:DOX - Festival office: Tagensvej 85 F DK 2200 Copenhagen N Tel. +45 339 307 34 Fax: +45 331 275 05 CPH:DOX is a part of the Copenhagen Film Festival Foundation. CEO: Steffen Andersen-Møller Board: Erik Stephensen, Nina Crone, John Tønnes, Stig Andersen, Elin Schmidt, Poul Nesgaard

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DOX:AWARD NEW:VISION AWARD NORDIC:DOX AWARD F:ACT AWARD DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

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DOX:AWARD Jury members

Elena Fortes Mexico / Director

Elena Fortes is the director of Ambulante, a non-profit organisation and film festival working to support and promote a documentary film culture in Mexico. A fundamental aspect of Ambulante has been to always generate encounters with the audience and confront the filmmakers with real audiences.

Miguel Velverde Portugal / Festival Director & Programmer

Miguel Valverde is the festival director of IndieLisboa. IndieLisboaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main objectives are to encourage authorial creation, boost the circulation of the films and authors nationally and internationally - and to promote Portuguese cinema in the world. IndieLisboa aims to bring contemporary cinema closer to the greatest number of people.

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USA / Film Programmer

Jim Kolmar programs international film and documentary for SXSW, including the Digital Domain program for transmedia and related works, and the five day film conference. He is also a contributing writer to sxsw.com and the SXSWORLD print publication.

Bernie Krause USA / Soundscape Ecologist

Professional musician turned soundscape ecologist, author, and sound designer, Bernie Krause, blends science, technology and the humanities into cohesive expressions based on the voices of the natural world, its biophonies.

Katja Adomeit Denmark / Producer

Katja Adomeit is a producer. Among her productions are ‘The Weight of Elephants’ by Daniel Borgman and ‘Pine Ridge’ by Anna Eborn. For Cannes FF 2013, Screendaily selected Adomiet for Future Leaders. Katja is an ACE member. She also freelances in Coproduction Office Denmark, where she co-produced Ruben Östlund’s ‘Force Majeure’.

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NEW VISION Jury members

Basim Magdy Egypt / Artist

Basim Magdy is an artist and filmmaker. In 2014, he won the New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Dentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. His films have been screened at festivals including New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Art of the Real and Curtas Vila do Conde (Experimental Award winner 2015).

Tine Colstrup Denmark / Curator

Tine Colstrup is a curator at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located north of Copenhagen and an internationally leading museum of modern and contemporary art.

Mouna Mekouar France / Curator

Mouna Mekouar is an art critic and independent curator based in Paris. Mekouar has been a curator at Palais du Tokyo in Paris from 2012 to 2014, where she co-curated the exhibition ‘Philippe Parreno: Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World’ in 2013, and he been associate curator of ‘Simple Shapes’ at Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2014. She has published numerous essays and contributed to journals such as Art Press, Revue de l’art, Études photographiques, Images re-vues and Patrimoines.

John Skoog Sweden / Artist

John Skoog is an artist and filmmaker. He graduated as a Meisterschuler from Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2012. In 2014 he received the 16th Baloise Art Prize.

Diana Baldon Sweden / Director & Curator

Diana Baldon is an Italian art historian, critic and curator of several international exhibitions. She previously lead Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm and is now the Director of Malmö Konsthall.

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NORDIC:DOX Jury members

Paolo Moretti Italy / Festival Director

Paolo Moretti worked for several film festivals and film institutions in Europe, including Pompidou Center and Venice Film Festival. A Selection Committee member of FIDMarseille and Visions du Réel, Moretti was appointed as the director of the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival in 2014.

Johan Blomqvist Sweden / Programmer

Johan Blomqvist has been working as a programmer and programme coordinator for Göteborg Film Festival since 2008. He holds a degree in literature, film studies and journalism from the University of Göteborg and has worked as a news reporter and freelance journalist before joining Göteborg Film Festival.

Anna Eborn Sweden / Filmmaker

Anna Eborn is a filmmaker whose debut feature documentary ‘Pine Ridge’ premiered at the Venice International Film Festival 2013. At the moment she is working on two new projects, the documentary ‘Lida’ and the film ‘Epifania’ which she is co-directing with Oscar Ruiz Navia as a project developed through CPH:LAB.

Nathaniel Budzinski United Kingdom / Filmmaker & Journalist

Nathan Budzinski is a writer, filmmaker and artist specialising in the subjects of contemporary art, film and television, sound arts and music. Since 2008 he has worked as an editor at The Wire magazine out of London, while also writing for leading international publications like Frieze, Sight & Sound and others.

Francesco Gial Vai Italy / Programmer

Francesco Giai Via is a festival programmer and film critic based in Torino, Italy. He has been documentary programmer for the Torino Film Festival. Since 2012 he is Head of Programming for CinemAmbiente, the longest running and most important environmental film festival in Italy.

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FACT:AWARD Jury members

Nagieb Khaja Denmark / Journalist

Nagieb Khaja is an award winning journalist and filmmaker known for his coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Syria as one of very few journalists to have gained access to jihadi groups including Al Qaeda and the Taliban. He has recently directed documentary and current-affairs films for BBC Panorama (‘Inside the Taliban’), VICE News (‘Rise of the British Jihadists’), the Guardian (‘European Jihadi’) and Al Jazeera English (‘Gaza Under Siege’, ‘This is Taliban Country’ and ‘Western Jihadis in Syria’).

Sean McAllister United Kingdom / Filmmaker

Sean McAllister is a director and cinematographer known for ‘Japan: A Story of Love and Hate’ (2008), ‘The Liberace of Baghdad’ (2005) and ‘The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012)’. He is attending CPH:DOX with his new film ‘A Syrian Love Story’.

Hannah Attalah Palestine / Filmmaker

Hanna Atallah is a filmmaker, producer and cultural art manager who worked in different countries like Palestine, Egypt and Berlin. His experience covers filmmaking projects (fiction and documentary) as director, director assistant and executive producer for several local and international TV channels. Hanna was the initiator, producer and manager of the Palestinian Memory Documentation Project in the Talbiyeh refugee camp in Jordan and he is the founder and Artistic Director of the FilmLab: Palestine, which is focusing on a productive, dynamic film industry in Palestine, to boost Palestinian film production and cinema culture.

Veton Nurkollari Kosovo / Festival Director

Veton Nurkollari is a photographer, producer, programmer, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of DokuFest, Kosovoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest documentary and short film festival. He is also one of the curators of DokuPhoto, the annual documentary photography exposition taking place at the same time as the film festival.

Lauren Spohrer USA / Producer & Director

Lauren Spohrer was a producer, director and editor for The Story with Dick Gordon. Before that, she was a producer with NPRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weekend Edition Saturday and Bryant Park Project. She writes fiction, and runs the online literary magazine Two Serious Ladies.

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Premieres

* World Premieres / Features:

* European Premieres / Features:

A Good American The Swedish Theory of Love In Limbo Unseen: The Lives of Looking Birobidjan Man Falling The Letters The Moulin CodeGirl The Act of Becoming Ejersbo My Friend Rockefeller Anthropocene Simulation Beach Dreaming of Denmark Citizen Khodorkosvky Town on a Wire At Home in the World Facebookistan In Pursuit of Silence Waiting for B Hugland Cool Cats 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting Born to Lose UIP27 Fragment 53 Homo Sacer Spectrographies Time / Out of Joint Monalisa Story Natural Disorder I Remember When I Die Déjà Vu Iron Grandpa Pelota II Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist A Place Called Lloyd The Invention - and My Dad Future Road What We Did Børge Mogensen - Designs for Life Life According to Anton Josefine's Farm

Uncertain God Bless the Child The Infinite Happiness Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous Muhammed: The Messenger of God Bolshoi Babylon The Mind of Mark Defriest (Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies This Changes Everything Je suis Charlie Among the Believers Sugar Coated Salam Neighbor Return of the Atom Motley’s Law

* International Premieres / Features: Brothers A Girl of Her Age The Death Of J.P. Cuenca Mallory The Fear of 13 Dream/Killer The Dark Gene In Utero The Dream of Europe The Great Wall Nice People The Accidental Rock Star Monsterman Ghost Rockets

* World Premieres / Shorts and Midlength: A Crackup at the Race Riots Nightlife Bending to Earth Josef - My Fathers’ Criminal Record L’Horizons des événements Kwassa Kwassa The Digger We Chose the Milky Way First Day (Now only the eye can catch) Mother of Monsters Breaker of Horses It Runs About Like Ants Time Passes When You See This Film, I’m Already Another Cosmopolitanism A Film, Reclaimed A Tour of the Self Cleaning House Nielsen I Gave My Body to the Revolution Out and Bad

* International Premieres / Shorts and Midlength: Eyelid Off the Grid Grace of God

* European Premieres / Shorts and Midlength: Ah Humanity! No No Sleep Faux Départ Anóme Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars The Everyday Ritual of Hatching Monkeys

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Competitions

DOX:AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

F:ACT AWARD

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

POLITIKEN AUDIENCE AWARD

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DOX:AWARD

16 films have been chosen to compete for this year’s Dox:Award. The nominated films are our selection of this year’s outstanding, international documentaries. They stand out thanks to their strong personal vision, their cinematic qualities, and by insisting on the rightful place of documentaries on the cinema screen. Since the first edition of the festival, CPH:DOX has been committed to documentaries that constantly challenge the genre and our understanding of the idea of documentary. Exploring the field between documentary and other artforms has been a constant part of this project since the beginning, in parallel with being the defining tendency in contemporary auteur-driven filmmaking over the last decade. This year, we are excited to present a selection of magnificent films that in very different ways explore the potential of cinema, formally as well as in political terms - and one of the lessons of this year’s selection is that the two do not exclude each other. The films nominated for this year’s Dox:Award walk the line between fact and fiction, the poetic and the personal, the political and the (thought) provoking. 16 filmsthat in our view represent the state of cinema at its best and brightest. Dox:Award is a prize of 5,000 Euros. The award is kindly sponsored by Denmark’s Radio (DR).

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

A Good American Dir.: Friedrich Moser Original Title A Good American / Country Austria / Year 2015 / Running time 100 mins. / Production blue+green communication / Producer Friedrich Moser / World Sales Austrian Film Commision

The mass surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden was not the first scandal in the history of the American intelligence agency NSA. Friedrich Moser’s eye-opening ‘A Good American’ soberly unfolds the deeply disturbing story of how corruption, lies and personal ambitions led to the closure of a cheap and effective monitoring system that demonstrably could have stopped the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The mind behind the ingenious system was former intelligence agent Bill Binney, whom Moser gives the opportunity to tell the whole story of how his brilliant system was abandoned in favour of an expensive, useless intelligence programme that in turn had the advantage of creating hundreds of jobs at the intelligence agency - and handsomely rewarded a number of former NSA employees. ‘A Good American’ is a chilling docu-thriller of the most dizzying kind. and may well prove to be one of the year’s most important films.

Bremen Teater Cinemateket Grand Teatret

Tue. 10/11 Wed. 11/11 Fri. 13/11

at 21:30 at 10:00 at 16:40

Filmography The Brussels Business (2012)

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Unseen: The Lives of Looking Dir.: Dryden Goodwin Original Title Unseen: The Lives of Looking / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Dryden Goodwin Projects in Co-Production with Red Bee Media / Producer Jo Cole & Sarah Caddy / World Sales Red Box Films

The fine veins of the retina are interlaced with geological experiments in an endless desert, and with whistleblowing, drone attacks and government surveillance of British citizens. in contemporary artist Dryden Goodwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visually and philosophically sophisticated film, where the diverse elements are strung together by his own delicate pencil drawings. Their common denominator? Eyesight, and its influence on our experience and understanding of the world around us. An immense and immersive film, but with a refined sense of detail that gives the big picture its weight and texture. Goodwin has directed, written, produced, filmed, edited, composed and drawn his impressive and incredibly confident debut, which moves in the same visionary altitudes as auteurs such as Peter Mettler and Patrick Keiller. But it comes from a new name, who is his own master, and of whom it is safe to have high expectations.

Grand Teatret Cinemateket Empire Bio

Tue. 10/11 Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 21:30 at 12:00 at 15:00

Filmography Poised (2012, short), Reveal (2003, short), Closer (2001, short), Ospedale (1997, short), Hold (1996, short), Heathrow (1994, short)

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

The Swedish Theory of Love Dir.: Erik Gandini Original Title The Swedish Theory of Love / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Fasad Cine AB / Producer Erik Gandini, Juan Pablo Libossart / World Sales Swedish Film Institute

For many people around the world, the Nordic social model is an ideal organization of society. A peak in the history of civilization, and a shimmering example for others to follow. Or is it? What kind of society have we actually created for ourselves? The Swedish iconoclast Erik Gandini takes a loving and critical look at our little corner of the world from the other end of the telescope and finds the recipe for the good Nordic life in a manifesto published by the political elite in Sweden in the 1970s. Here, one would find that happiness is a life lived in freedom - from others. And so it has been ever since. But the question is whether our individualism and independence have isolated us from each other. Is the price of happiness a lifetime of loneliness? Like a sociologist from another planet, Gandini travels across the globe (and Scandinavia) drawing startling parallels between our way of life and all the other forms it could have taken. Over the years, Gandini has specialised in a poignant kind of political pop art essays, and in bringing to the surface surprising patterns in vast amounts of data. A combination that is tailored to letting us re-examine the Nordic model from the outside in a film of global relevance.

Grand Teatret Empire Bio Empire Bio Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Wed. 11/11 Thu. 12/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:00 at 12:00 at 17:30 at 14:30

Filmography Cosmopolitanism (CPH:DOX 2015, short), Videocracy (CPH:DOX 2010), Gitmo (CPH:DOX 2005), Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (CPH:DOX 2003), Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara (2001), Amerasians (1999).

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

In Limbo Dir.: Antoine Viviani Original Title Dans les limbes / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Providences / Producer Antoine Viviani / World Sales Providences

The internet is the memory of mankind. Here, all the world’s knowledge is stored in binary codes, and the cerebral lobes of the server park are connected by fibre-optic cables that extend in a network across the entire globe. But does the internet also have anything that would ressemble a soul? The French filmmaker Antoine Viviani brings the thought experiment to life in a visually breathtaking digital essay where an ethereal subject – an electronic ghost – wakes up somewhere in the electronic labyrinth of information and charts a virtual world where digital librarians, Google CEO’s and the founding fathers of the Internet themselves are lurking in the cables. ‘In Limbo’ is a speculative and in every way singular exploration of a place that is often - and wrongly - considered as being without a physical existence. The spirit caught in limbo is embodied by the writer and essayist Nancy Huston. Big data, big ideas.

Grand Teatret Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret

Wed. 11/11 Thu. 12/11 Fri. 13/11

at 21:30 at 10:00 at 19:00

Filmography Insitu (2011), Little Blue Nothing (2009)

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Birobidjan Dir.: Guy-Marc Hinant Original Title Birobidjan / Country Belgium / Year 2015 / Running time 124 mins. / Production Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles - CVB / Producer Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles - CVB / World Sales Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles - CVB

A clenched fist, which at a furious pace colours a white piece of paper totally black with a piece of charcoal against a thundering choral work, is a sight that will stay with you, together with the young children’s angelic faces. And this is exactly the intention of Guy-Marc Hinant’s ‘Birobidjan’, which is an attempt to preserve a place, a people and a culture in a cinematic form. The city Birobidjan is located in Oblast, which was created in 1934 by Stalin himself as an independent state for communist Jews, in the far eastern part of the Soviet Union. Over time, it became a thriving haven for Jews from all parts of the world, but today they are only a disappearing minority in a culture on the brink of disintegration. Even if Oblast is still the only recognised Jewish state outside Israel. You sense the presence of the past in the spaces and landscapes, in every moment and in every dark and atmospheric image of Hinant’s at once humble and monumentally ambitious film opus.

Dagmar Teatret Dagmar Teatret

Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:00 at 16:30

Filmography Whisky Time, un portrait de Charlemagne Palestine (2014, short), Ghost of silence (2014, short), Hommage au sauvage: Un portrait d’Henri Pousseur (2005)

DOX:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

The Letters Dir.: Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez Original Title Las Letras / Country Mexico / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Production Bengala / Producer Alexandro Aldrete, Juan Farré F. / World Sales Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province. The letters he wrote to his daughter from prison are a fierce indictment against a corrupt system in a film that almost without dialogue manages to be a sensory and psychological portrait of both a place and a state of mind. Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez has made a striking and all-absorbing film in the visionary mode of the wave of younger filmmakers, who in recent years have experimented with transcending the traditional constraints of documentarism in favour of a sensorial and suggestive practice without losing sight of its political and social relevance for a second. Just like the letters to his daughter instil courage for continued resistance, ‘The Letters’ is a film that inspires one to a renewed faith in that documentary filmmaking is first and foremost an art form.

Cinemateket Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret

Wed. 11/11 Thu. 12/11 Sat. 14/11

at 17:15 at 11:45 at 12:00

Filmography Alexfilm (2015), The Rest of the World (2014), Tapetum Lucidum (2012, short), Terrafeni (2012, short), Telúrico (2011, short)

DOX:AWARD

Competitions

The Fear of 13 Dir.: David Sington Original Title The Fear of 13 / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 96 mins. / Production DOX Productions Ltd / Producer David Sington, Chris Riley / World Sales Dogwoof

After 23 years on death row, an inmate who is convicted of murder applies to the court to be executed. But as the highly charismatic narrator’s incredible story unfolds in one single long take in front of a rolling camera, it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems – right until the final twist, which again turns everything you thought you knew upside down. ‘The Fear of 13’ is a phenomenal piece of storytelling and a fascinating character study, which simply does not get any better. An absolute minimum of dramatic means merely reinforce one’s experience of being part of a paradoxical performance, where naked reality and theatrical drama meet in one and the same room. Nick, as our man is simply called, has prison life’s implicit rules and routines so deeply entrenched in both body and soul, that he can conjure up an entire universe with nothing but the nuances of his voice and his sad but basically inscrutable gaze. A man and a film that both keep their cards close to their chests.

Grand Teatret Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret

Sat. 7/11 Mon. 9/11 Tue. 10/11 Sun. 15/11

at 21:30 at 21:30 at 14:00 at 16:40

Filmography Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science (2015), The Flaw (2011), In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

DOX:AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

The Death Of J.P. Cuenca Dir.: João Paulo Cuenca Original Title A Morte de J.P. Cuenca / Country Brazil / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Duas Mariola Filmes / Producer Mariana Jannuzzi / World Sales Duas Mariola Filmes

In July 2008, the young Brazilian writer – and now also filmmaker – João Paulo Cuenca was told the news of his own death. A true story about doppelgangers and identity theft, as if taken out of a delirious piece of pulp literature, and a plot that Cuenca tries to solve while also embellishing the fiction of his labyrinthine meta-docu-noir of a debut film. Where a living person would otherwise adopt a dead man’s identity to start a new life, the opposite is the case here: a man steals another person’s identity to die in his place. Interviews with those involved, mysterious telephone calls and a steamy love affair with a mysterious woman all take place against an urban and modernist background of a Rio de Janeiro undergoing great changes in the run-up to the football World Cup, where the bulldozers of gentrification are well underway to eradicate the city’s history. Cuenca’s autobiographic detective film is a Chinese box of stories, which like in a short story by Borges is made up of deceitful layers. Composed like a work of architecture, edited like a text and presented as a film.

Cinemateket Cinemateket Gloria

Tue. 10/11 Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 09:30 at 19:15 at 17:00

Filmography The Death Of J.P. Cuenca (2015)

DOX:AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

A Girl of Her Age Dir.: Márcio Laranjeira Original Title Uma rapariga da sua idade / Country Portugal / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Terratreme / Producer Márcio Laranjeira / World Sales Terratreme Filmes

Mariana is a young woman in her 20s who has moved from her parents’ home in the northern part of crisis-ridden Portugal to Lisbon, to live with her boyfriend Alex. But now he is on his way to New York to pursue his ambitions as an actor. The two of them differ quite dramatically in their approach to the country’s crisis and bleak prospects when they meet again in her home town, where a local myth talks about how crossing the river of oblivion will allow you to put the past behind you. Marian and Alex must make their own choices. Lisbon, which is gradually recognized as a new Berlin, and the desolate landscapes in the north of the country are the locations where an elegant encounter takes place between a real social reality, the couple’s own experiences and a cinematic vision, which is not limited by documentary dogma. ‘A Girl of Her Age’ is Márcio Laranjeira’s debut and in its own words a ‘documentary novel’, in which Laranjeira demonstrates a special sense of a place’s atmosphere and character, and for the underlying social and political currents.

Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret

Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 16:45 at 19:00

Filmography Yet It Remains (2011, short), Out of the Picture (2010, short)

DOX:AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

Brothers Dir.: Aslaug Holm Original Title Brødre / Country Norway / Year 2015 / Running time 102 mins. / Production Fenris Film AS / Producer Tore Buvarp / World Sales Norwegian Film Institute

Markus and Lukas are brothers and the sons of the Norwegian filmmaker Aslaug Holm, who over the course of more than eight years has filmed their childhood and youth from when they were five and eight years old. The result is an unusually poetic and almost epic home movie. And no, you don’t just make your own documentary version of ‘Boyhood’ from one week to the next! Big brother Markus loves soccer and is dreaming of playing at the top level in Liverpool FC, whereas little brother Lukas is less physical and more philosophically inclined. But then again, human nature is more complicated than that, and Aslaug Holm’s great talent comes through in the way she manages to show the tiny details that sometimes make way for big changes in the brother’s relation. And she doesn’t shy away from showing how the presence of her camera itself complicates the rules of the family game. Holm’s beautiful film takes part in the boys’ dreams and expectations with both tenderness and an adult eye, and follows the brothers all the way into the wildness of teenage life. You will recognise much from your own life, and be reminded of even more.

Bremen Teater Empire Bio Nordisk Film Falkoner Grand Teatret Empire Bio

Thu. Fri. Fri. Thu. Thu. Sat.

29/10 6/11 6/11 12/11 12/11 14/11

at 09:30 at 09:30 at 17:30 at 10:00 at 19:15 at 17:30

Filmography The Rich Country (2006)

DOX:AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

Uncertain Dir.: Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands Original Title Uncertain / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 82 mins. / Production Lucid Inc. / Producer Anna Sandilands, Ewan McNicol / World Sales Submarine Entertainment

With a population of 94 and a geographic location in the swamps between Louisiana and Texas, the town of Uncertain is more a state of mind than an actual place. As the sheriff himself says: you have to get lost to find us. Here, you can live and do as you like, and when you like. And that’s exactly what people here do. 74-year-old Henry, who has spent all of his long life in the swamps and experienced a bit of everything as a black man in the deep South. The 21-year old alcoholic Zach, who has a heart of gold and a death sentence from his doctor hanging over his head. And then there is Wayne, previously a drunk driver with a person’s life on his conscience, who has done everything to get hold of a malicious boar, as if it was a mythological creature and he himself a delirious Captain Ahab roaming in the wilderness. But by now the river Caddo Lake – their only source of income – is so polluted that their common future is threatened. ‘Uncertain’ is a funny, heartbreaking and cinematic film from the borderland between the two states. And between reality and dream. A place and a state that the directing duo Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilans explore in their debut film with an eminent sense for both.

Nordisk Film Palads Bremen Teater Empire Bio

Sat. 7/11 Mon. 9/11 Thu. 12/11

at 21:30 at 14:30 at 20:00

Filmography Ewan McNicol: The Roper (2013, short), Biker Church (2013, short), Harold Little (2013, short), Ufologist (2012, short). Anna Sandilands: The Roper (2013, short), Harold Little (2013, short), Ufologist (2012, short), Dirt Racer (2012, short)

DOX:AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

God Bless the Child Dir.: Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck Original Title God Bless the Child / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production 433 Pictures, Hot Metal Films, 3R Films / Producer Laura Heberton, Robert Thomas / World Sales Laura Heberton

Four young boys and their 13-year-old sister are left at home alone by their mother in a house in California. Forever, or just for the rest of the day during which the film takes place? The mother’s disappearance forms a (fictional) setting for a film that is lively and impulsive, as only a film about five (real) siblings aged 1 to 13 can be, when all of a sudden everything is allowed. The boys have more energy than a bag of fleas, and there is no shortage of activity and trouble-making! The loose scenes are stringed together by impressionistic and sunlit images, which emanate real life. Not last in a fantastic scene, where the responsible sister in a several-minute one-take talks her weeping, 1-year-old little brother to sleep with a bedtime story. As a modern version of a hybrid film, where reality and minimal staging become one, ‘God Bless the Child’ is one of the most vibrant ones around.

Empire Bio Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

Sat. 7/11 Sun. 8/11 Sun. 15/11

at 20:00 at 12:00 at 19:00

Filmography Robert Machoian: The Diggers (2014, short), Forty Years from Yesterday (2013), Movies Made from Home (2012, short) Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck: The Diggers (2014, short), Forty Years from Yesterday (2013), Ella and the Astronaut (2008, short)

DOX:AWARD

Competitions

The Moulin Dir.: Huang Ya-li Original Title Ri Yao Ri Shih San Pu Zhe / Country Taiwan / Year 2015 / Running time 160 mins. / Production ROOTS FILMS / Producer Huang Ya-li, Chang Wen-pei / World Sales Roots Films

Taiwan had already been under Japanese rule for forty years, and was in a stable period of cultural assimilation, when the country’s first modern art group – ‘Le Moulin’ – arose in the 1930s in a poetic protest against the colonial power’s cultural superiority. The name reflected the small group’s orientation towards the West and especially France, with the surrealists as their absolute role models. In an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated reconstruction of the group’s underground activities, the young filmmaker Huang Ya-Li has created a delicate and evocative feature film debut about a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and self-awareness. A film where enigmatic tableaux and beautifully calligraphed texts surround the ‘Moulin’ members, and where you sense an echo of their fellow Taiwanese writer Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s epic and elliptical period dramas.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Sat. 14/11

at 21:00 at 16:00

Filmography The Unnamed (2010, short), In Pursuit of What Was (2008, short), In Light (2003, short)

DOX:AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

Mallory Dir.: Helena Trestíková Original Title Mallory / Country Tjekkiet / Year 2015 / Running time 101 mins. / Production Negativ / Producer Pavel Strnad, Katerina Cerná / World Sales Negativ Film Production

Mallory is living a hard life. Her wild youth among punks and skinheads in Prague’s underground is over, and after several years on both drugs and living on the streets, it is slowly the last chance for the self-conscious Mallory – and nobody is more aware of this than herself. But when the self-destructive lifestyle was, in her own words, a protest against both her parents and the Bolsheviks, it is not easy to replace heroin with a steady job. Especially if you live in a car and are up against a social bureaucracy that seems to come straight out of a Kafka story. The fact, however, that the Czech veteran Helena Trestíkovás has followed Mallory for 7 years makes the film about her an existential and almost physical experience of the passage of life, and of the good and bad choices that shape it along the way. Not least when it all suddenly takes a dramatic turn, and the possibility to turn back to life appears from a new, unexpected direction. Grand Teatret Grand Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

Mon. 9/11 Fri. 13/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:15 at 12:00 at 16:30

Filmography Life With Jester (2013), Katka (2010), René (2008), Marcela (2007)

DOX:AWARD

Competitions

Lost and Beautiful Dir.: Pietro Marcello Original Title Bella e perduta / Country Italy / Year 2015 / Running time 84 mins. / Production Avventurosa, Rai Cinema / Producer Sara Fgaier, Pietro Marcello / World Sales The Match Factory

One of this year’s most beautiful - and strangest - films. We are among peasants in the countryside of Campania in southern Italy. Here, you live off the earth, and Pietro Marcello makes an honest virtue of portraying rural life with respect for tradition, craft and work. But the picturesque realism does not stop there. Marcello also includes the area’s folk myths, fables and commedia dell’arte adventures, which he Italians have told each other and lived with for centuries - and he does it all within the frame of the same image which in a wildly imaginative manner contains several historical periods at once. The central myth, however, is the adventure of the poor shepherd Tommaso. A local hero figure, who a long time ago rescued a buffalo named Sarchiapone, and the two of them set out on a long journey through Italy. According to folklore, that is - but folklore is also an important part of the local historical reality in which Marcello’s lyrical and almost magical film has its roots. A highly original take on contemporary ethnographic filmmaking, which acknowledges the film medium’s potential to simultaneously (and within the same image) document the real and the possible.

Dagmar Teatret Gloria Cinemateket

Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11 Sun. 15/11

at 16:40 at 17:00 at 21:45

Filmography Il silenzio di Pelesjan (2011), La bocca del lupo (2009), Il passaggio della linea (2007)

Competitions

DOX:AWARD

Man Falling Dir.: Anne Regitze Wivel Original Title Mand falder / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 111 mins. / Production Danish Documentary Production / Producer Sigrid Dyekjær / World Sales Wide House

What happens when a world-famous artist suddenly loses his natural abilities? The director Anne Wivel has followed her friend, painter Per Kirkeby, up close after he fatally fell down a flight of stairs, gravely injuring his head. Kirkeby had previously recovered from a brain haemorrhage and two blood clots, but the fall resulted in a brain injury that still prevents him from working as before. He has not just lost his mobility, but also the ability to recognise colours and even his own art works. Anne Wivel is there both as a friend, an interlocutor and as a discretely observing filmmaker that follows a struggling Per Kirkeby while he is fighting for a comeback while constantly confronting his own lack of progress. There seems to be a long way to go. as art is not just a question of being able to paint and create beauty, but rather in transgressing good taste. It is this transgressive gesture that Kirkeby is missing and longing for. In addition to the artist, we also meet his wife, friends and collaborators, but the absolute protagonist is Per Kirkeby in an unusually open and frank portrait. Everything – from everyday rehabilitation to emotional insights – is presented in a sober, accurate way.

Grand Teatret Grand Teatret Grand Teatret

Sat. 7/11 Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11

at 12:00 at 12:00 at 19:00

Filmography Svend (2011), The Castle in Italy (2000), Johannes’ hjerte (1988), Danish Girls Show Everything (1996), Ansigt til ansigt (1987),

Competitions

NEW:VISION AWARD

NEW:VISION AWARD is our exclusive competition section for artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; films and video from the field between documentary filmmaking and artistic practices. Established in 2004, the works nominated here come from both the worlds of cinema and visual art, and some are screening in a cinema for the first time at CPH:DOX. The programme consists of new work from some of the contemporary artists that we admire the most, as well as new names from whom we are expecting just as much. The works nominated for the NEW:VISION AWARD all insist on cinema as a form of artistic expression and share a formal and methodological curiousity of paramount importance for the continued development of film and video art. Provocative and challenging, radical and borderline, poetic and abstract â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and always with the courage to explore. From the short, poetic moment via the cinematic essay to philosophical genre excursions beyond the limits of reality. These are works that will rather strive for the impossible than make do with the average, and works that critically investigate the status of images in our time. NEW:VISION AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros and is kindly sponsored by Normann.

NEW:VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Fragment 53 Dir.: Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli & Federico Lodoli Original Title Frammento 53 / Country Italy, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 71 mins. / Production Ring Film, Federica Schiavo Gallery / Producer Tommaso Bertani, Federica Schiavo / World Sales Ring Film

According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, war is a universal constant. The statues of war gods from different times and cultures, which appear before us in the first scene of ‘Fragment 53’, backs up the obscure thinker – and so do the seven former warlords from the civil war-torn Liberia, which in the rest of the film go to confession in an expressively restrained delirium from the dark, Liberian mangrove forests. ‘Fragment 53’ is an extremely densely executed, research-based and formally organised study of not just Liberia’s violent, modern history, but of the nature and essence of war itself. The seven men share their cruel memories of the brutal orgies of violence of the 1990s with an almost aggressively apathetic directness, which is punctured by precisely composed motifs of the landscapes, where we understand that the by now forgotten horrors took place. A terrifying and hypnotic look at a kind of hell that is impossible to shake off. The Italian artist duo Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli and Federico Lodoli make a mark with their first full-length and deeply compelling film opus as a significant new voice in the contemporary field between documentary filmmaking and visual arts.

Empire Bio Cinemateket

Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 17:00 at 14:00

Filmography Fragment 53 (2015)

NEW VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

UIP27 Dir.: Joachim Hamou Original Title UIP27 / Country Denmark, Sweden, France / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Production Vendredi / Marie Vachette / Producer Joachim Hamou / World Sales Joachim Hamou

The territorial conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is radically re-examined in Joachim Hamou’s performative project, which is the result of a public seminar attended by lawyers, observers, anthropologists and historians. A discussion that had a direct impact on the direction the film took during the shoot. The year is 2027, and the endless conflict has finally found its natural equilibrium: the two states have merged into United Israel Palestine. Through this imaginary future scenario, ‘UIP27’ takes a futuristic look at the current conflict, while the film’s fictional dimension is more a theoretical or hypothetic space in the form of a courtroom, where the different viewpoints meet and interact. The issue being fought about is a small piece of land that a Palestinian family has been granted the right to after it was annexed by a Jewish family in 1970, which in the meantime has invested in and developed the land by building a well, and therefore needs to be compensated. Not even the hermetic, Brechtian setting is immune to the individual players’ personal passions and conflicts.

Dagmar Teatret Cinemateket

Sun. 8/11 Tue. 10/11

at 21:30 at 13:30

Filmography Notes (2013), The Primal Scene (CPH:DOX 2011)

NEW:VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Nightlife Dir.: Cyprien Gaillard Original Title Nightlife / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 15 mins. / World Sales Sprueth Magers Berlin

Cyprien Gaillard’s 3D piece is a hallucinatory ride through urban botany and architecture, shot over two years in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Berlin. ‘Nightlife’ starts out with Rodin’s world famous sculpture ‘The Thinker’. Precisely this cast was bombed to pieces in the 1970s by an activist group, and thanks to the film’s high-tech 3D effects, Gaillard lets it be resurrected in its mutated, destroyed form. The futuristic technology is grafted with an analogue sample from Anton Ellis’s political soul classic ‘Blackman’s Word’, whose self-effacing refrain ‘I was born a loser’ makes up the film’s sonic backbone. From Rodin we glide through L.A. and Berlin in chemical, almost synthetic night shots, where colours and shapes constantly transform themselves and modulate. The trees on the Californian boulevards sway as if in a trance, or as if they were dancing with Ellis’s chorus. Until the film shifts to Berlin, where the camera rises into the sky over the Olympic Stadium, which explodes in sparkling fireworks. ‘Nightlife’ is actually created as an installation and can here be seen for the first time in the cinema. Screening with ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’, ‘Bending to Earth’ and ‘Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 19:00 at 21:15

Filmography Artefacts (2013), The Crystal World (2013), Cities of Gold and Mirrors (2009), Desniansky Raion (2007)

Competitions

NEW VISION AWARD

Untitled (Human Mask) Dir.: Pierre Huyghe Original Title Untitled (Human Mask) / Country France / Year 2014 / Running time 19 mins. / Production Anna Lena Films / Producer Anna Lena Vaney / World Sales Anna Lena Films

It is impossible to forget the strange and frightening sight of a monkey wearing an apron and a human mask, working as a waiter in an abandoned restaurant, where it repeats the same carefully learned routines in a pointless pattern of repetition and variation. But the thoughts that the French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe’s latest film work suggest, are just as hard to shake off. ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’ starts off in the desolate and destroyed landscapes around Fukushima before it in a dystopian movement switches to the equally deserted restaurant, and suggests a collapse between both biological and cultural distinctions: authenticity and artificiality, the natural and the man-made. Huyghe hereby continues and further develops his work in an almost ritualistic form with concepts such as intervention, identity and performance within self-imposed limits. See also Huyghe’s ‘A Journey That Wasn’t’ (2005) in Olafur Eliasson’s film programme at CPH:DOX this year. Screening with ‘Nightlife’, ‘Bending to Earth’ and ‘Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 19:00 at 21:15

Filmography Untilled (CPH:DOX 2013, short), The Host and the Cloud (CPH:DOX, 2013), A Journey That Wasn’t (2005, short), The Third Memory (2000, short).

NEW:VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Bending to Earth Dir.: Rosa Barba Original Title Bending to Earth / Country Germany, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 15 mins. / Production Rosa Barba / Producer Rosa Barba / World Sales Studio Rosa Barba

Meticulously strewn across deserts and rocky landscapes, man has left a deadly trail. In the golden, shimmering sunlight they otherwise just look like stagnant ponds, cool and bottle-green oases in the sweltering heat, but from the depths of the water emanates an atomic death symbol. Immersed in the ponds is a smouldering radioactive substance. From a helicopter circulating at a safe distance from the fatal radiation, Rosa Barba’s 35mm film opus ‘Bending to Earth’ uses the nuclear installations and mutated landscapes as a stepping stone for a cinematic experiment that allow us to imagine that the landscapes they have arrived before us from the future. Following ‘Subconscious Society’ (CPH:DOX 2014), Barba continues her study of modern ruins and man-made landscapes as places where one senses the outlines of a futures society. The dizzying images are interspersed with radio noise, mutated voices and synthetic sound collages, which all sound like they are radioactively contaminated. The result is hallucinatory – a geological mirage in the middle of a nuclear desert. Screening with ‘Nightlife’, ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’ and ‘Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 19:00 at 21:15

Filmography Subconscious Society (CPH:DOX 2014), Time as Perspective (2012, short), The Hidden Conference: A Fractured Play (2011), Somnium (2011), The Long Road (2010), A Private Tableaux (2010), The Empirical Effect (2010), Let Me See It (2009), Waiting Grounds (2007), It’s Gonna Happen (2005), Machine Vision Seekers (2003)

NEW VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record Dir.: Antoinette Zwirchmayr Original Title Josef - Täterprofil meines Vaters / Country Austria / Year 2015 / Running time 19 mins. / Producer Antoinette Zwirchmayr & Carmen Weingartshofer / World Sales Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Through longingly romantic ‘nature morte’ motifs we are introduced to the tragic and mysterious story about the young Joseph, who attempts and fails with a bank robbery. He ends up fleeing to Brazil. Antoinette Zwirchmayr’s dark film opus is equal parts aesthetically captivating and mildly cryptic noir, where objects, light, colours and figures are staged with a neat and gentle hand as beautiful cinematic still lifes, with compositional references to the visual arts and its ability to let the subjects speak. For the same reason, the images are captured on analogue 35mm film, which is also the format that it is projected on. Zwirchmayr’s perfectionism, however, is never in the way of the unresolved trauma that her images here lend a restless and nagging form to. Screening with ‘Nightlife’, ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’ and ‘Bending to Earth’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 19:00 at 21:15

Filmography House and Universe (2015, short), Waterbath (2014, short), Ocean Sea (2014, short), Diffusbläulich II (2013), Untitled (2012), Raumstudien I, II & III (2009-2013, short), Floaters in the Eye (2011)

NEW:VISION AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

Ah Humanity! Dir.: Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Original Title Ah Humanity! / Country Japan, France, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 22 mins. / Production Sensory Ethnograpy Lab / World Sales Castaing/Paravel Studio

The Harvard-based Sensory Ethnography Lab represents the most advanced contemporary intersection between film and scientific research. Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ernst Karel’s brand new film and sound opus thus follows the trio’s seminal mammoth work ‘Leviathan’ (New Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2012). Not least thanks to its attempt to give the world that surrounds us – and which we in many ways have created ourselves – an audiovisual form that lets us see and comprehend things afresh. The short ‘Ah Humanity!’ is based on the Fukushima disaster to present what the three brains behind the film call an apocalyptic vision of modernity in an era that is seduced by notions of the absence of history and futuristic phantasmagoria. And it is shot on a mobile phone through a telescope – a gesture that both brings us closer to the world in front of the lens and distances ourselves from it. Ernst Karel’s extremely dense soundtrack on four parallel tracks combines clips from Japanese films, seismic laboratory recordings and field recordings. Screening with ‘Event Horizon’ and ‘No No Sleep’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 19:00 at 21:30

Filmography Leviathan (CPH:DOX 2012, dir. Paravel & Castaing-Taylor), Foreign Parts (2010, dir. Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki), Sweetgrass (2009, dir. Castaing-Taylor)

NEW VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Event Horizon Dir.: Guillermo Moncayo Original Title L’Horizons des événements / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 17 mins. / Production Le Fresnoy / Producer Le Fresnoy / World Sales Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains

A luminous tent drifts around slowly on a dark jungle river at night in a mysterious vision, accompanied merely by the rustling of palm trees and the subdued gurgling of water. The Colombian filmmaker Guillermo Moncayo throws his cinematic beam onto the dark peripheries of the mind and tells the story of a German explorer, who in the beginning of the 20th century, deep inside the Amazon’s moist forests, tried something impossible: to dream up an ideal society. From the fabric of these dreams grew people, leopards and stars. The legends have been handed down in a yellowed manuscript. In floating and haunting images – with nods to cinematic dream makers such as Sokurov and Kaneto Shindô – Moncayo pushes himself out to the limits of human imagination and comprehension. With its ethereal and almost breathless cinematic language, ‘L’horizon des événements’ balances on the threshold between fantasy and reality. Or rather: if our dreams must always vanish when we wake up and think about them, Moncayo shows that they can attach themselves, made flesh and live on in film images. Screening with ‘Ah Humanity!’ and ‘No No Sleep’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 19:00 at 21:30

Filmography Echo Chamber (CPH:DOX 2014), Fata Morgana (2013), Le désert du réel (2013), Ode à la joie (2013), Ulysse (2012), Le miroir (2012), Fearless (2012).

NEW:VISION AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

No No Sleep Dir.: Tsai Ming-Liang Original Title No No Sleep / Country Taiwan / Year 2015 / Running time 35 mins. /Production Homegreen Films / Producer Chen Yi-Hsuen / World Sales Hong Kong International Film Festival Society

As always, time itself is the real protagonist in Tsai Ming-Liang’s films. The same is also true for the latest instalment in the ‘Walker’ series (presented at previous editions of CPH:DOX), which nonetheless marks a break with any expectations one may have of Tsai’s series about a Buddhist monk’s solitary wanderings in extreme slow motion through busy metropolitan landscapes. Even if ‘No No Sleep’ is shot in Tokyo, the neon-dazzling bastion of hypermodernity. The red-dressed monk (Lee Kang-Sheng) delivers his minimal and defiantly interventionist performance, but with a visual move that almost breaks the film in two, we are transported from the streets of Tokyo to a futuristic capsule hotel and a sauna, where the dense steam blurs the contours of the body and opens up the space around the two lonely guests. Here we rediscover Lee’s character in the silent company of a young Japanese man. Are they holding hands underwater, or is it just our sight that is deceived by the shimmering, flowing water and Tsai’s virtuoso compositions? Screening with ‘Ah Humanity!’ and ‘Event Horizon’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 19:00 at 21:30

Filmography Afternoon (2015), Journey to the West (CPH:DOX 2014), Stray Dogs (2013), Walker (CPH:DOX 2012), Madame Butterfly (CPH:DOX 2009), The Wayward Cloud (2006), Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)

Competitions

NEW VISION AWARD

Black Code/Code Noir Dir.: Louis Henderson Original Title Black Code/Code Noir / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 21 mins. / Production Spectre Productions / Producer Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf / World Sales Spectre Productions

Based on the murders of the young black Americans Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell in 2014, ‘Black Code’ adopts a form-transgressing macro perspective, which reads the two murders as the latest materialisation of a century-long story of slavery and racial oppression. It is true that this repression today takes on other, more invisible forms, but its basic mechanisms are the same. Contemporary racism has maybe taken on a new face, but the violence persists. Louis Henderson expressively charts the intricate and layered story as it develops from slave plantations to the riots in Ferguson. And his film activism tests the opportunities to break the stranglehold of racism. Breathless sequences of mobile footage, digital diagrams, animations and graphics create an explosive mixture, that Henderson further adds to by exploring the possibilities of breaking the code. In the Haitian Revolution’s mix of animistic thinking and radical critique of power, he sees the outlines of potential liberation. Henderson connects and translates the various image fragments, and creates a critical film prism, through which we can observe our own times. Screening with ‘A Crackup at the Race Riots’.

Grand Teatret Empire Bio

Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:15 at 22:30

Filmography All That is Solid Melts Into Air (2014, short), Lettres du voyant (CPH:DOX 2013, short), Logical Revolts (CPH:DOX 2012, short), Capital (2011, short), A Walk With Nigel (2010, short).

NEW:VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

A Crackup at the Race Riots Dir.: Leo Gabin Original Title A Crackup at the Race Riots / Country Belgium / Year 2014 / Running time 56 mins. / Production Leo Gabin / Producer Leo Gabin / World Sales Elizabeth Dee Gallery

Harmony Korine’s novel ‘A Crackup at the Race Riots’ is a provocative, anthropological odyssey through the semi-surreal and almost post-apocalyptic world of pop-art America, which the former CPH:DOX winner has turned into his speciality to document and fantasise about. This is ideal material for the artist group Leo Gabin, which has been called contemporary art’s answer to Robert Rauschenbert, and which has here adapted Korine’s novel as a hallucinatory collage of YouTube clips, all of which were shot in the crisis-ridden sunshine state of Florida. A fascinating and bizarre chaos of situations, which involuntarily reflect an entire culture’s obsession with celebrities, money, death, religion and gossip. There is no plot, no recurring characters and, at first glance, neither order nor direction to be found in the impasto and at times almost abstract lo-fi images, which succeed each other on the canvas. Alternating between self-documentation and performance, Leo Gabin’s work is a paradoxically entertaining and disturbing film – especially if you imagine how it will eventually develop as an anthropological time capsule from something that mostly resembles another planet. Screening with ‘Black Code/Code Noir’.

Grand Teatret Empire Bio

Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:15 at 22:30

Filmography A Crackup at the Race Riots (2015)

NEW VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Kwassa Kwassa Dir.: SUPERFLEX & Tuan Andrew Nguyen Original Title Kwassa Kwassa / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 17 mins. / World Sales Superflex

A piece of Europe lies in the Indian Ocean. As a relic from the colonial era, Mayotte belongs to France, and people set out from neighbouring islands across the foamy sea to reach Europe’s shores just north of Madagascar. The boat has become a metaphor for a world where people, as opposed to goods, can not circulate freely. And where arbitrary lines on a world map can determine the people’s fates. The artist group SUPERFLEX inject their subversive and topical contrast fluid into the current refugee and migration issue, allowing a questionable political fantasy to emerge: the idea of Europe. Is there anyone who knows what or who Europe is? Does Europe know its own Arab roots, or its geographic and imaginary boundaries? Our own continent’s creation myth is presented as seen from the outside by a stoic narrator, while the production of a fibreglass boat is observed in all its manual steps by a mobile drone camera, whose freedom of movement stands in emphatic contrast to the islanders’ desperate escapist dreams. Screening with ‘The Digger’ and ‘Faux Départ’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 17:00 at 20:15

Filmography SUPERFLEX, Selected work: The Working Life (CPH:DOX 2013, short), Flooded McDonald’s (2009, short), Burning Car (2008, short). Tuan Andrew Nguyen, selected work: Hip-hop History Sampling Hip-hop History: The Red Remix (2008), Jackfruit Thorn Kiss (2005, feature), Better than Friends (2003, short), The Two Tuans: A Civil Dispute (1998, short)

NEW:VISION AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

The Digger Dir.: Ali Cherri Original Title Al Haffar / Country Lebanon, UAE, France / Year 2015 / Running time 25 mins. / Production Sharjah Art Foundation / Producer Ali Cherri / World Sales Ali Cherri

A vibrating voice echoes across a colourless stone landscape. The voice belongs to Sultan Zeib Khan, the Pakistani caretaker at a huge, prehistoric burial ground on the Arabian Peninsula. Khan is set to prevent the ruin from being ruined even further. For even historical remains should be kept presentable, and as the only living being in the barren, deserted landscape, Khans roams around every day on the large burial complex. Even though the bodies have long since been removed, the area still seems haunted, as if the spirits had settled in among the stones. When ‘The Digger’ digs deeper into the graves, he opens a hatch for the ghosts of the past, which he sings to and has his own tacit agreement with. The Lebaneses artist Ali Cherri paints his evocative and enigmatic film with broad landscape tableaux, in which the human being gradually fades away, reduced to a cog in the clockwork of eternity. Screening with ‘Kwassa Kwassa’ and ‘Faux Départ’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 17:00 at 20:15

Filmography Dreams in Three Chapters (2011, short), You (2008, short), Slippage (2007, short), Untitled (2006, short), Un Cercle autour du Soleil (2003, short)

Competitions

NEW VISION AWARD

Faux Départ Dir.: Yto Barrada Original Title Faux Départ / Country Morocco / Year 2015 / Running time 23 mins. / Production Commissioned by The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015. Courtesy Pace Gallery, London and Sfeir Semler Gallery, Hamburg / Producer Simo Mohamed / World Sales Pace Gallery

In the midst of a sandy Moroccan desert, a group of young men dig up fossils from under the surface. Prehistoric ferns, scorpions, shells and even dinosaurs. But this is not a team of sober archaeologists. Instead, they start embellishing, sometimes even fabricating their own fossils to sell them as authentic natural history artefacts. ‘Faux départ’ is an intelligent and understated speculation about the genuine, the fake and the hybrid. On shimmering, picturesque 16mm, Yto Barrada portrays the fossil-inventing craftsmen as a kind of contemporary artists, who with a hypersensitive consciousness of materials meticulously conjure up geological artefacts. For maybe the souvenir-buying tourists are not at all interested in a genuine piece of fossilised natural history, but in objects that confirm adopted ideas about museum pieces. The history of the earth is entangled with human interferenc, but Barrada suggests a very different perspective on the human (re)writing of geological history. Screening with ‘Kwassa Kwassa’ and ‘The Digger’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 17:00 at 20:15

Filmography Hand-Me-Downs (2011, short), Playground (2010, short), Beau Geste (2009, short), The Botanist (2007, short), The Smuggler (2006, short), The Magician (2003, short)

Competitions

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

The best and brightest in non-fiction filmmaking from the nordic countries are nominated for the NORDIC:DOX AWARD. The selection reflects the diversity and level of ambition at the nordic scene scene right now. Not least artistically, in films with a clear vision and a personal touch. And it is exactly by insisting on the creative take on contemporary reality that the nordic documentaries have made their mark on the international film scene. Many of the nominated films are made by young directors with new ideas and the courage to take chances, and it is this courage that we wish to reward. If there is a common lesson to be learned from the films it is that things are not always the way they seem at first glance. NORDIC:DOX AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros and is kindly sponsored by the Danish Producers Association.

NORDIC:DOX AWARD

Competitions

Natural Disorder Dir.: Christian Sønderby Jepsen Original Title Naturens uorden / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Production Moving Documentary / Producer Malene Flindt Pedersen, Sidsel Lønvig Siersted / World Sales Moving Documentary What is the price when science overtakes evolution? The journalist and comedian Jacob Nossell is self-proclaimed spastic. He should have been ‘deselected’ by both scientists and his parents before birth. Now, he is in fact a burden on the economy and at best an interesting scientific case study. With an intact intellect trapped in a challenged body, he is the embodiment of the dilemma of normality. He is too disabled to be normal and too normal to accept himself as being disabled. In his quest to understand his own destiny he sets out to challenge the concept of normality and his own inabilities. He wants to show that his life is worth living. Therefore, Jacob embarks on an autobiographical theatre project with the aim of filling the Royal Danish Theatre and accepting the praise of the audience. But he is forced to admit his own limitations when he is knocked down by fate - and a city bus. Christian Sønderby Jepsen (‘The Will’) has created a deliberately black-humoured film, which through Nossell’s courage and incredible self-irony confronts us with an urgent question that concerns us all. Should we all be ‘normal’ just because science has caught up with biology? Falkoner Biografen Falkoner Biografen Nordisk Film Palads

Thu. 5/11 Sun. 8/11 Tue. 10/11

at 10:00 at 21:45 at 12:00

Filmography Mother is God (2014, short), Over byen under himmelen (2013, short), Cristopher Wants to Fly (2008, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

I Remember When I Die Dir.: Maria Bäck

Original Title I Remember When I Die / Country Denmark, Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Garagefilm / Producer Anna-Maria Kantarius / World Sales Garagefilm International AB Death, the passage of time and eternity. Big topics, but seen from a new and original perspective in a film based on a simple idea: that one’s sense of time ceases to function when one dies, and that one for a short – or in fact very long – moment has the chance to experience eternity. And to therefore live in a single memory forever. Which one would you choose? ‘I Remember When I Die’ takes place at life’s last destination, a hospice, but is a poetic and vital journey into the borderland of consciousness, and right into a possible afterlife. Maria Bäck interviews visitors, employees and residents about what memory they want to retain in the eternal moment. But she lets her film transcend the recognisable reality of the white-painted and tranquil setting, and lends the participants’ last wishes her own images. A picnic with a family and friends in a luminous and exotic mountain scenery, or fresh dew in the grass that you can almost smell. Humanist cinema with an echo of Bergman and Kore-eda, but with a documentary’s obligation to the real – and to all the people who here share their innermost wishes with us.

Dagmar Teatret Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret

Sat. 7/11 Wed. 11/11 Sun. 15/11

at 19:00 at 14:45 at 21:30

Filmography Mother is God (2014, short), Over byen under himmelen (2013, short), Cristopher Wants to Fly (2008, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Monalisa Story Dir.: Jessica Nettelbladt

Original Title Monalisa Story / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Jessica Nettelbladt / Producer Lejoni Produktion / World Sales Swedish Film Institute ‘I was born high,’ says Monalisa, whose mother was a drug addict and who now finds herself struggling to drop heroin before it’s too late. ‘When I took drugs for the first time, it was like coming home.’ Jessica Nettelbladt has followed the long-suffering but at the same time proud and stubborn Monalisa for eight years, and has documented her life’s ups and downs, both in chemical and mental terms. And the result is an unusually honest - and raw - film. Monalisa also has a past as a school teacher and mother. If you entertain a romantic notion about drugs, her story is an abrupt awakening to a reality that is anything but ‘heroin chic’. What is romantic, however, is her relationship with Fredrik, another lost soul she meets while they are both well underway to destroying themselves. Monalisa falls in and out of abuse and prison during the eight years that Nettelbladt follows her. But maybe she and Fredrik are also each other’s last chance? ‘Monalisa Story’ is the story of a both vulnerable and strong woman’s struggle with herself and the world.

Empire Bio Nordisk Film Palads

Tue. 10/11 Fri. 13/11

at 17:30 at 16:30

Filmography I Am My Own Dolly Parton (2011), Mitt Helvete (2009, short), I Edens Lustgård (2007, short), The Path to Pearly Gates (2005, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

Return of the Atom Dir.: Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola

Original Title Atomin paluu / Country Finland, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 110 mins. / Production Kinotar, Blinker Filmproduktion, YLE, WDR, ZDF / Producer Cilla Werning, Meike Martens / World Sales Deckert Distribution GmbH In 2004, the Finns broke the ground to construct the first nuclear plant in the West since the Chernobyl disaster. A monumental Babylonian construction, which is celebrated with toasts and fanfare as a visionary take on where the sustainable energy of the future should come from, and as a technological triumph in line with the Eiffel Tower. At least according to the building work’s French director, the first of many. For both the five-year plan and the budget quickly start to spiral completely out of control. Miscalculations, political wishful thinking, vanity and plain human mistakes is all it takes to throw the Olkiluoto plant off course before it is even finished. A human comedy, as Finland’s possibly most important contemporary artist Mika Taanila together with Jussi Eerola has documented from the outset with analytic lucidity – and with a sense of humour as black as Finnish liquorice. Eleven years later, the film is finally finished, whereas the power plant itself is now scheduled to be ready in 2018 - after Fukushima, and at a time when Germany has turned off all its nuclear power plants. And just as Olkiluoto itself, ‘Return of the Atom’ is an epic and ominous story about a belief in the future and about the European nuclear renaissance, whose perspectives reach far, far into the future. No matter how it ends.

Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11

at 18:30 at 21:30

Filmography Mika Taanila: Six Day Run (2013, short), Optical Sound (2005, short), The Future is Not What it Used to Be (2002), Thank You For the Music (1997, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

The Accidental Rock Star Dir.: Igor Devold Original Title Den tilfeldige rockestjernen / Country Norway / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Medieoperatørene AS / Producer Ingvil Giske / World Sales Norwegian Film Institute

With an untraditional instrumental set-up of pump organs and oil barrels, Kaizers Orchestra occupied the place as one of Scandinavia’s biggest rock bands at the start of the new millenium. Not only because of their joint penchant for chaotic Klezmer and self-invented oompah-rock, but also thanks to their theatrical expression – and their gas mask-wearing organist and involuntary frontman. Behind the mask is Helge Risa, a good-natured and religious gentleman from southwestern Norway. With his love for sailing and woodwork, Helge seems like the most improbable person to be the frontman of Norway’s biggest rock success. But in ‘The Accidental Rock Star’, we not only visit Helge in his idyllic, red wooden house. We visit him all the way inside his curly brain: a KGB-like inner labyrinth of copper piping and steam! For even if Helge says grace every day and has very little hope for his band mates to go to heaven, he turns into Omen Kaizer as soon as the mask comes on, and the warped, suit-wearing band fires off its highly potent oompah.

Bremen Teater Empire Bio Grand Teatret

Thu. 5/11 Wed. 11/11 Sun. 15/11

at 21:30 at 22:30 at 19:00

Filmography My Norwegian Grandfather (2010, short), Tyvstart (2007, short), Tomorrow (2004, short), The Journalist (2004, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

Ghost Rockets Dir.: Michael Cavanagh & Kerstin Übelacker Original Title Ghost Rockets / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 68 mins. / Production We Have A Plan / Producer Kerstin Übelacker / World Sales We Have a Plan

It is all right to both laugh and shed a tear when watching this delightful film about a group of ageing Swedish UFO enthusiasts who gather in a common dream to answer the biggest questions - and to unravel the mystery of the mysterious ghost rockets. Unidentified, flying objects, which have kept the club’s otherwise somewhat introverted chairman awake at night since the Cold War started. But now he’s had it! With the backing of the entire club, a complicated mission is embarked on, which will – maybe – shed light on the mystery. But it is not just about life in outer space. It is also about life on earth, and about sharing the puzzles of existence with each other. Or as one of the club’s members spontaneously and enthusiastically exclaims to a friend during the annual general meeting at a summer camp: ‘I want to know everything!’ There is also renewed enthusiasm thanks to the club having three new, younger members. For even if the ghost rockets are lurking in the marshes and the quixotic project is not without its challenges, there is nothing like solidarity and community when one is nothing but a tiny dot in the universe.

Nordisk Film Falkoner Nordisk Film Palads Empire Bio

Thu. 5/11 Mon. 9/11 Sat. 14/11

at 21:45 at 16:30 at 17:00

Filmography Leftovers (2008, Short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Homo Sacer: The Sacred Man or the Accursed Man Dir.: Lode Kuylenstierna Original Title Homo Sacer / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 60 mins. / Production LodeDetlof Produktion / Producer Lode Kuylenstierna / World Sales LodeDetlof

During the violent riots in London in 2011, Esau Essadi Green is caught on video as he robs a man who is lying half unconscious on the pavement. When his identity is leaked on the internet shortly after, Esau is bombarded with insults and threats. His face becomes the symbol for the indifferent selfishness that the English riots was an expression of in the eyes of many – not least compared to the glorious Arab Spring that was sprouting all over North Africa. Esau, however, is a digital phantom created as equal parts prejudice and creative thinking, as the core of the young artist Lode Kuylenstierna’s research in a project about authenticity and the social medias’ influence on society’s sense of moral judgement. From Libya to Tottenham: the people who react to Esau’s crime in Kuylenstierna’s film are indeed real, and so are their reactions. ‘Homo sacer’ is Latin and has the double meaning of the sacred and accused man. To see the film of the same name is like playing a game where the tricky rules first become clear as you play it. Screening with Erik Gandini’s short film ‘Cosmopolitanism’ (see: Artists & Auteurs).

Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 16:40 at 17:00

Filmography Jag är konstnär (2011, short), Fågelboet (2007, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

At Home In The World Dir.: Andreas Koefoed Original Title Et Hjem i Verden / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 58 mins. / Production Sonntag Pictures / Producer Sara Stockmann / World Sales Sonntag Pictures

Magomed is a thoughtful 10-year-old boy from Chechnya, who has just arrived in Denmark to seek asylum. His father has been both threatened and tortured by the Russians, and now the small family lives in the hope of being allowed to stay. While their case is being dealt with, Magomed goes to school, where a teacher quickly notices the bright but shy boy, who slowly starts to make new friends and learn from the teaching. But his new life with new friends takes on a dark and heartbreaking turn when the decision about the family’s application for asylum comes with both good and bad news. And Magomed must try to come to terms with his father’s story - and with the fact that he might soon be losing him again. Andreas Koefoed has a special talent for putting himself in children’s shoes to look at the injustices and disappointments of the adult world. A perspective that is all the more striking. ‘A Home in the World’ is a poignant but never sentimental film from an invisible corner of Danish reality.

Dagmar Teatret Grand Teatret Cinemateket Skuespilhuset - lille scene Cinemateket

Thu. 5/11 Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11 Wed. 11/11 Thu. 12/11

at 19:00 at 15:20 at 12:15 at 19:00 at 09:30

Filmography The Arms Drop (2014), Efterklang: The ghost of Piramida (CPH:DOX 2012), Ballroom Dancer (CPH:DOX 2011), Pig Country (2010, short), Albert’s Winter (CPH:DOX 2009, short), Beg, Borrow and Steel (2006, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

A Place Called Lloyd Dir.: Sebastian Cordes Original Title A Place Called Lloyd / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Breidablik Film / Producer Niels Wee / World Sales Breidablik Film

Bolivia’s proud air carrier LAB went bankrupt in 2008. But the workers still come to work, look after the planes and keep the place going – all without getting a single Boliviano for their troubles. And all in the hope that their company will one day be airborne again. The Danish filmmaker Sebastian Cordes has made an almost photographic portrait of a determined but toughly challenged community, which defies the crisis and refuses to let itself be thrown off the track. But when you – like one of the airline’s pilots tells us without blinking, in a scene that is bound to give anyone a tremendous fear of flying – has tried to crash-land a plane after a bomber has blown himself to pieces three kilometres up in the air, you have seen it all. Life in the living ruin of a hangar continues, and when Lloyd Aereo Boliviano one day gets its license back, there will be both life jackets under the seats and paperwork that is in order. ‘A Place Called Lloyd’ is a stylistically and photographically complete portrait of a resilient community.

Absalon Dagmar Teatret

Thu. 5/11 Tue. 10/11

at 19:00 at 14:20

Filmography Life and Times of Don Rosa (CPH:DOX 2010)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Time Passes Dir.: Ane Hjort Guttu Original Title Tiden Går / Country Norway / Year 2015 / Running time 47 mins. / Production Ane Hjort Guttu / Producer Elisabeth Kleppe / World Sales Ane Hjort Guttu

Damla is a young arts student, who embarks on a radical arts projects: to sit on the street and beg together with the Roma woman Bianca. 10 hours a day, every day for 10 months. An extremely gruelling and taboo-breaking ‘project’, which raises more questions than neither Damla herself nor her fellow students and professor turn out to be able to answer. Self-destructive or self-absorbed? Is Damla’s symbolic martyrdom an expression of a social shift in contemporary art, or is her performance an empty and vain gesture? And can art actually facilitate real social change, as it is so popular to talk about at the moment? The project evolves into a personal crisis, and ends up isolating her from her environment. The Norwegian contemporary artist Ane Hjort Guttu is not content with observing her character’s examination of the contradictions of art from the outside. ‘Time Passes’ is also in itself a carefully measured, performative work that undermines our notions of spontaneity and realism. The film is commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall. Screening with the short film ‘When You’re Watching This Film, I’m Already Another’ (see Danish:Dox).

Cinemateket Absalon

Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:30 at 14:00

Filmography The Adults (2014), This Place Is Every Place (2014, short), Untitled(The City At Night) (2013, short), Four Studies of Oslo and New York (2012)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD International Premiere

Competitions

Grace of God Dir.: Kristján Lodmfjörd Original Title Drottins nád / Country Iceland, Poland / Year 2015 / Running time 43 mins. / Production Sputnik Photos / Producer Marzena Michalek-Dabrowska / World Sales Sputnik Photos

In an Icelandic settlement in the vast and supernaturally beautiful wilderness, people and their livestock have lived side by side as long as the small community has existed. The apparently simple, but on reflection multifaceted and complex, film reveals through conversations with the traditional Christian community that the relationship between humans and animals is an integrated part of a religious world view that includes its own morality and friendships across species, and even symbolic visions of a possible afterlife. Watching the animals and mirroring our own place in nature in their silence is an art form with a long and rich tradition, which here takes on a cinematic form with an attentive and observant modesty, whose yield is all the more unexpected. Tradition and continuity are only a limitation if you have already decided to have enough in yourself. Screening with the short film ‘Pebbles at Your Door’ (see Danish:Dox).

Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

Wed. 11/11 Sun. 15/11

at 16:40 at 16:00

Filmography NS-12 (2014, short)

NORDIC:DOX AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Iron Grandpa Dir.: Janiv Oskar & Terhi Romo Original Title Teräsvaari / Country Finland / Year 2015 / Running time 74 mins. / Producer Aino Mättö / World Sales Janiv Oskár

The 72-year-old Finn Esko Ketola is a four-times world champion weightlifter, and before the strong-as-an-ox senior resigns and leaves the stage to younger forces, he plans to take the first prize at a last World Cup. But the road to the podium and to the final triumph takes more than just discipline and hard training, and it is paved with events that even the stubborn Esko could not have predicted! Finnish deadpan meets ‘Rocky’ in an offbeat and different film about stopping while you are on top of the game –accompanied by Scandinavia’s answer to the soundtrack of a relaxed spaghetti western, recorded by the two directors Janiv Oskar and Terhi Romo themselves. The charming ‘Iron Grandpa’ is both unmistakably Scandinavian in tone and fundamentally human in its narrative. Hats off for Esko himself who is an acquaintance of a very rare kind.

Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret Empire Bio

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Filmography Iron Grandpa (2015)

Competitions

F:ACT AWARD

The F:ACT AWARDwas launched in 2013 as an award dedicated to films in the field between documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism. Films that not only document the world, but actively takes part in it in order to change it. The F:ACT AWARD was instigated in collaboration with the Danish Union of Journalists in a wish to honor and acknowledge the often time-consuming work in a genre, which at the same time is threatened by short deadlines and in creative growth. The 10 films nominated for the new award together prove that strong characters and strong stories do not stand in the way of strong, research-based journalistic content. Several of the films are backed by campaigns that reach beyond the limit of a single film. But if there is one thing they all share, it is the will to create a well-researched debate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and you are invited to join in. F:ACT AWARD is a cash prize of 5,000 Euros, and is kindly sponsored by the Danish Union of Journalists.

F:ACT:AWARD European Premiere

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This Changes Everything Dir.: Naomi Klein & Awi Lewis Original Title This Changes Everything / Country Canada, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 89 mins. / Production The Message Productions, LLC, Klein Lewis Productions, Louverture Films / Producer Avi Lewis, Joslyn Barnes, Anadil Hossain / World Sales Filmbuff

The climate crisis is not just the greatest and most urgent challenge of our times. It is also the greatest opportunity we have ever had to change the world. The idea behind Naomi Klein’s new, international bestseller is not only really good, it is also the first of many. And her ideas are supported by research on a world tour along the front lines of climate change, from western Canada via southern India to eastern China. Naomi Klein is the leading voice in action-oriented, modern activism and not only proves that the time has come for change – she also shows how. Because activism is not (only) about protest, but also about providing constructive, practical and sustainable solutions, and about and living by them. ‘This Changes Everything’ is a film of global relevance that arrives at a highly critical point in history - and just in time for the Cop21 Climate Summit in Paris in December. Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis are attending CPH:DOX not only with their new film, but also with a specially guest curated programme that provides a critical and historical background to the current crisis.

Bremen Teater Grand Teatret Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret Grand Teatret Teltet

Thu. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sat. Sat.

5/11 12/11 13/11 14/11 14/11 14/11

at 18:30 at 16:40 at 10:00 at 16:30 at 16:30 at 16:30

Filmography The Take (2004)

Competitions

F:ACT:AWARD

Dreaming of Denmark Dir.: Michael Graversen Original Title Drømmen om Danmark / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 58 mins. / Production Klassefilm / Producer Lise Saxtrup / World Sales Klassefilm

17-year-old Wasiullah is a teenager like the rest of them. He hangs out with his friends, cracks jokes, takes selfies and flirts with girls. Denmark has become his home after spending three years in asylum centres after arriving alone from Afghanistan. But when Wasiullah turns 18 and his asylum application is rejected, he is suddenly forced to leave the country. He fears for his life in Afghanistan and with the violent family he fled from, and chooses to flee to Italy in the hope that an Italian residence permit will allow him to return to Denmark. The director Michael Graversen has followed Wasiullah for years, and the close relationship between them has given him a unique level of access to a young immigrant’s underground existence in Europe. For Wasi, the dream of returning to his friends and a life in Denmark is the only thing that keeps him going. Graversen follows the young boy with the big backpack on the long train journey to close police stations and detention centres, and nights spent in dilapidated ruins, where the dreams take him back to Denmark. Wasiullah is one of the between 300 and 800 unaccompanied children who flee to Denmark every year.

Absalon Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket

Thu. 5/11 Sun. 8/11 Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11

at 21:30 at 12:00 at 14:15 at 16:45

Filmography No Man’s Land (2013, short), An Anxious Mind (2012, short), Jorden er giftig (2006, short)

F:ACT:AWARD World Premiere

Competitions

Town on a Wire Dir.: Uri Rosenwaks, Eyal Blachson Original Title Ir Be’Ain Haseara / Country Israel / Year 2015 / Running time 95 mins. / Production Uri Rosenwaks / Producer Uri Rosenwaks, Eyal Blachson / World Sales Uri Rosenwaks

The ancient Romans called Lod the City of God. Today, it is a dilapidated suburb ten minutes from Tel Aviv, and a home for both the Palestinian drug barons and fanatical Israeli settlers. Abject poverty has cultivated an environment of racism and violence, and the 75,000 Muslim, Jewish and Christian inhabitants live from day to day in constant fear. All the city’s conflicts are linked, and both the police and politicians, religious leaders and local gangs are involved. The changing mayors have simply driven Lod further and further into the abyss, until the Israeli government was finally forced to step in and appoint one man to save the collapsing city. Uri Rosenwalks and Eyal Blachson’s film offers an immersive, cinematic view on Lod’s inflamed state, and uncovers the nuances in the strained relations between Jews and Palestinians. From the forefront of gang wars to religious and national confrontations, but also to the courageous men and women who have not yet abandoned their beloved, cursed city. Narrated with the fervour of a thriller, and two protagonists who could not have been written any better had they been made up.

Empire Bio Nordisk Film Palads Grand Teatret

Wed. 11/11 Fri. 13/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:45 at 12:00 at 19:15

Filmography Hahug Lekolnoa (2006)

F:ACT:AWARD World Premiere

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Citizen Khodorkovsky Dir.: Eric Bergkraut Original Title Citizen Khodorkovsky / Country Switzerland, Germany, Russia / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production p.s. 72 productions GmbH / Producer Eric Bergkraut / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR

In 2003, Russia’s richest man, the oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was convicted of tax fraud and sent on a one-way trip to a labour camp in Siberia. Curiously enough, the ruling came soon after Khodorkovsky started interfering with the reformation of the democratic, Russian civil society and criticising President Putin. But after 10 years behind bars, Khodorkovsky was suddenly flown out of the country, despite the fact that most people had thought that he would die in prison – and curiously enough his release took place just before the country was going to host the Olympic Games. But also just before the unrest in Ukraine exploded. ‘Putin felt that I was no longer a threat to him. I’d like to think that he was wrong.’ Through extensive correspondence and a budding friendship, the director Eric Bergkraut has followed Khodorkovsky from his first imprisonment to his release, and beyond that during his renewed political activities. In a time when the political culture in Russia is a mystery to most people, ‘Citizen Khodorkovsky’ does not just give us a unique look at the state of things – it does so through the eyes of the man who for many is the epitome of the hope for democratic reform. Equal parts journalistic essay, analysis of major politics and film art.

Grand Teatret Empire Bio Cinemateket

Wed. 11/11 Wed. 11/11 Sat. 14/11

at 11:00 at 17:30 at 12:30

Filmography Service Inbegriffe (2013), Zimmer 202 (2010), Coca: Die Taube von Tschetschenien (2005)

F:ACT:AWARD European Premiere

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Je suis Charlie Dir.: Emmanuel Leconte & Daniel Leconte Original Title L’Hummour A Mort / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Film En Stock / Producer Raphaël Cohen / World Sales Pyramide International

The attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7 this year was an abominable attack on two of Western democracy’s pillars: freedom of speech and satire. Through the depiction of both the shocking attack and its aftermath, and through in-depth interviews with the survivors, the director Daniel Leconte (who also made the Charlie Hebdo film ‘It’s Hard to be Loved by Jerks’ in 2009) and his son Emmanuel take a closer look at both the tragedy, the hypocrisy and the forgetfulness, that also affected Denmark after the famous cartoon crisis in 2005. Politicians and journalists have discussed the extremist’s attack on Charlie Hebdo as a symptom of a deeper, democratic crisis, which is taking place in the midst of the self-understanding integrated in everything we understand as being Western culture. Narrated by Leconte senior himself, and with both new interviews and old extracts featuring, among others, the editor Charb and the cartoonist Cabu of the iconoclastic weekly, which in the week after the killings appeared in seven million copies with the by now iconic front drawing ‘All is forgiven’.

Cinemateket Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

Sun. 8/11 Tue. 10/11 Sat. 14/11

at 16:45 at 19:15 at 16:30

Filmography E. Leconte: Le big bang, mes ancêtres et moi (2009). D. Leconte: Le bal des menteurs (2011), C’est dur d’être aimé par des cons (2008)

F:ACT:AWARD European Premiere

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Motley’s Law Dir.: Nicole Horanyi Original Title Motley’s Law / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 84 mins. / Production made in copenhagen / Producer Helle Faber / World Sales Level K

Kimberley Motley has left her husband and their three children in the United States to work as a defence attorney in the Afghan capital Kabul. Motley is the first and only foreign lawyer holding office in the country, and first came to Afghanistan to earn money. But gradually, her mission took on a new twist. As it dawned on her how badly the Afghan legal system works – and to what extent this essential aspect of Afghan society has been overlooked by the international community – Motley’s primary focal point over the past eight years of her idealistic efforts have been human rights. But threats to her person and the country’s fragile state have also made it increasingly difficult for her to live up to the high expectations that the strong-willed woman has made for herself. And no matter if she wants it or not, it is time to make a decision, which will change her life either way.

Dagmar Teatret Grand Teatret

Wed. 4/11 Thu. 12/11

at 21:30 at 14:20

Filmography Naked (2014, short), Au Pair (2011, short), Soccer Girls (2010, series), The Devilles (2009, short), Mr. P (2007, short)

F:ACT:AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

Among the Believers Dir.: Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi Original Title Among the Believers / Country Pakistan / Year 2015 / Running time 84 mins. / Production Manjusha Films / Producer Jonathan Goodman Levitt, Hemal Trivedi / World Sales Cinephil

In Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, the charismatic Islamist Abdul Aziz Ghazi sits on the floor in the largest of the Koranic schools of which he is the spiritual leader. He takes a big sack into his arms, turns it upside down and out flows loads of money. ‘Politicians left a vacuum in this country’ he says with a wry smile, and continues: ‘Someone has to fill it.’ While IS is massacring people in Syria and the Taliban is gaining ground in Afghanistan, ‘Among The Believers’ gives us a striking and hitherto unprecedented access to the violent world of radical Islamism. The film follows Ghazi’s Islamic sect, the Red Mosque, and the children who attend his school. Wherever the movement takes hold, the Islamists close the regular schools and instead offer their own, free Koranic schools, which slowly radicalise the children and youth. But it is far from all Pakistanis who agree with Ghazi, and when thousands of demonstrators and the army clash with the Islamists, things quickly become violent. A shocking insider report from a society at odds with itself, and an important film in a time when the media coverage is overflowing with atrocities, but rarely shows where radicalisation comes from. And that there are many ordinary people fighting against it.

Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

Fri. 6/11 Mon. 9/11 Wed. 11/11

at 16:30 at 19:15 at 19:00

Filmography Pakistan’s Hidden Shame (2014), Shabeena’s quest (2012, short), Shame (2006), Behind The Scenes of ‘Big River’ (2006, video)

F:ACT:AWARD International Premiere

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Deprogrammed Dir.: Mia Donovan Original Title Deprogrammed / Country Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 78 mins. / Production EyeSteelFilm / Producer Bob Moore / World Sales Eyesteel Film

The director’s stepbrother Matthew was one of Ted Patrick’s last ‘clients’. Patrick made a controversial, but lengthy career for himself in the 1970s as an expert in deprogramming and re-socialising brainwashed cult members. Matthew himself was involved in a satanic cult as a teenager. Today, he has dropped out, but his upper body is still tattooed with occult symbols, while he with a dead look in his eyes sucks on his cigarette and talks about his eerie past from the house in the forest, where he has chosen to isolate himself from the rest of the world. Ted Patrick’s effective but unorthodox methods, however, would never have been accepted today. Even in those days, when cults and alternative religions were flourishing from Manson and Jonestown to the Moonies, his firm grip with kidnapping and reverse ‘mind control’ was also more than just a bit problematic. But the need to curb radicalisation and brainwashing has not diminished since, and ‘Deprogrammed’ is a wise, thoughtful and topical film about how far we should accept to go to reach the victims of charismatic fanatics. Fascinating insider footage from cults and sects (and by Patrick himself in action!) remind us how easy it is to be influenced. Mia Donovan has created a film that invites us to seek our own answers to the many and frighteningly topical questions it raises.

Vester Vov Vov Nordisk Film Palads Empire Bio

Sat. 7/11 Mon. 9/11 Fri. 13/11

at 21:15 at 16:30 at 17:00

Filmography Inside Lara Roxx (CPH:DOX 2011)

F:ACT:AWARD European Premiere

Competitions

Sugar Coated Dir.: Michèle Hozer Original Title Sugar Coated / Country Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production The Cutting Factory / Producer Michèle Hozer, Janice Dawe / World Sales Films Transit International Inc.

Forget everything about Palaeolithic food. The biggest change of our eating habits over the last 10,000 years is the extreme increase in how much sugar we consume every day – often without even knowing it. There is good money in the sweet white powder that can make us dependent on almost everything. But the fact that the sugar industry has since the 1970s been working on maximising our daily dose to a level that is now definitely wiping out parts of humanity, may nevertheless come as a (sugar) shock for most people. ‘Sugar Coated’ is a harrowing film that reveals a hidden agenda with a fatally high price. A secret marketing campaign from 1970s triggers an investigation, and documents the sugar industry’s sweetening of the scientific evidence that sugar is not just unhealthy, but downright toxic. A blackout and a creative misrepresentation on a scale not seen since the heyday of the tobacco industry. A film that will make you think about what you eat – and who has decided what is in your food.

Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Empire Bio

Sat. 7/11 Thu. 12/11 Sun. 15/11

at 12:00 at 12:00 at 17:00

Filmography West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson (2011), Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (2009)

Competitions

F:ACT:AWARD

(T)error Dir.: Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe Original Title (T)error / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 93 mins. / Production Stories Seldom Seen LLC / Producer Christopher St. John / World Sales Ro*co Films International llc

The 63-year-old family father Saeed ‘Shariff’ Torres has for 20 years worked as an informer for the FBI in the dark fight against terror, by infiltrating radical Muslim communities. He has a previous conviction himself, and in spite of his tarnished past he is offered one final mission: to monitor a suspect who live in the same neighbourhood as himself. But when his subject himself smells a rat, the film crew ends up in the wild twist of being undercover on both (!) sides of the muddy front. And now the question is not just who know what about whom, but also where the boundary goes between preventing a crime and actually provoking someone to commit it? ‘(T)error’ gives us an uncensored, unfiltered and in every way transgressive look at the FBI’s own questionable methods in a desperate and increasingly complex struggle against so-called home-grown terrorism since 9/11. A battle in which the end justifies the means and where it is every man for himself. Morality is a luxury nobody can afford in Saaed’s controversial job. But when the story takes a final twist, he nonetheless has to face up to his own responsibility.

Cinemateket Empire Bio Bremen Teater Teltet

Fri. 6/11 Mon. 9/11 Tue. 10/11 Sat. 14/11

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Filmography (T)error (2015), David Felix Sutcliffe: Adama (2011).

Competitions

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

DOC ALLIANCE is a partnership between seven European film festivals: FIDMarseille, DocLisboa, Visions du Réel (Nyon), IDFF Jihlava, DOK Leipzig, Planete Doc Review Warsaw, and ourselves. The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to make European documentaries available to new audiences across borders, and to support diversity and innovation within non-fiction filmmaking. Every year each festival nominates a film for the DOC ALLIANCE AWARD, and a selection of the nominated films are screened throughout the year at the partnering festivals. This year the Doc Alliance Award winner was announced during the Locarno film festival, where the prize went to the Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel for his epic film ’Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)’, which can be experienced at this year’s CPH:DOX. DOC ALLIANCE was initiated with the awareness that new initiatives are needed to promote remarkable films to a general market through a variety of platforms from the cinema to television, DVD and VOD. Its objective is to create an inventive and dynamic distribution outlet for filmmakers and producers. The VOD portal www.dafilms.com offers a selection of 600+ outstanding documentary films from all over the world, selected by the six partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and all films can be viewed through streaming or download.

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

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Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Dir.: Abbas Fahdel

Original Title Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) / Country Irak, France / Year 2015 / Running time 334 mins. / Production Stalker Production / Producer Abbas Fahdel / World Sales Stalker Production There is not a single superfluous moment in the Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel’s richly detailed, unsentimental and at times unexpectedly cheerful depiction of the passage of time and everyday hardships in his own family over the one and a half years up to, during and after the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Time flies while small and large events and impressions assemble themselves in an attentive panorama, which has a special place for the children’s lively interpretation of the chaos that unfolds around them. Fahdel has single-handedly created a simultaneously monumental and minimalist opus, one of today’s most essential films, and a historical chronicle of a tragedy, whose fatal consequences have proven to be quite unpredictable and out of control – also far beyond Iraq’s own borders. The film about Iraq’s long year zero will only become even bigger over time, and deservedly won the main award at the Visions du Réel festival this year, as well as this year’s Doc Alliance Award.

Imam Ali Moské Grand Teatret

Sun. 8/11 Sat. 14/11

at 14:00 at 09:00

Filmography Dawn of the World (2008), We Iraqis (2004), Back to Bablyon (2002)

Competitions

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

Haunted Dir.: Liwaa Yazji Original Title Maskoon / Country Syria / Year 2014 / Running time 113 mins. / Production Liwaa Yazji / Producer Liwaa Yazji / World Sales Mec Film

What does it mean to lose your home? The civil war in Syria has many horrible faces, but in ‘Haunted’, the Syrian director Liwaa Yazji focuses on just one of them: the experience of having to choose whether one wants to risk your life and stay home, or flee and leave everything behind. The canvas is dedicated to the individual people’s own stories, and several of those involved appear just as digital ghosts over Skype. The power of the private and personal narratives hit you with all the more force, while the feeling of homelessness is subtly conveyed in a way that would barely have been possible otherwise. The people, whom we meet here in a mental and physical vacuum, have not just lost everything. They are also haunted by everything they had to leave behind on the way. A poignant, but radically unsentimental film about what it means to have a place in the world.

Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket

Thu. 5/11 Sun. 8/11 Thu. 12/11

at 16:30 at 14:15 at 21:15

Filmography Haunted (2014)

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

Competitions

Walking Under Water Dir.: Eliza Kubarska Original Title Badjao Duchy z Morza / Country Poland, Germany, UK / Year 2014 / Running time 76 mins. / Production Braidmade Films / Producer Monika Braid / World Sales Rise and Shine World Sales

On the scenic Mabul Island off Borneo, the 10-year-old Sari has to learn from his uncle how their ancestors of the Badjao tribe have brought food to the table as long as anyone can remember: by diving down and catching it at up to 30 meters’ depth. Uncle Alexin is the island’s last freediver, but the traditional craft is threatened by the temptation of easy money that tourism brings with it. The pictures do all the talking in ‘Walking Under Water’, which depicts the magical world both above and deep under the surface of the water, and it’s almost like being there yourself. A strikingly beautiful and dreamy film, where the Badjao tribe’s own myths and narratives mingle with the images and add new and unexpected layers to an ever-relevant story of an ancient culture undergoing rapid changes - and about the relationship between an uncle and a nephew, a teacher and his student.

Kayak Bar Nordisk Film Palads Vester Vov Vov

Thu. 5/11 Tue. 10/11 Sat. 14/11

at 19:00 at 19:00 at 21:15

Filmography What Happened on Pam Island (2011, short)

Competitions

DOC ALLIANCE AWARD

Filmography

Competitions

POLITIKEN AUDIENCE AWARD

10 films have been nominated for the leading Danish daily newspaper Politiken’s Audience Award. The audience is the jury, and votes are given by SMS. The award is a cash prize of 5,000€ which goes to the director. The nominated films are: This Changes Everything Dir. Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein, Canada/USA SMS ’DOX1’ to 1218 A Good American Dir. Friedrich Moser, Austria SMS ’DOX2’ to 1218

Rabin, The Last Day Dir. Amos Gitai, Israel SMS ’DOX6’ to 1218 The Wolfpack Dir. Crystal Moselle, USA SMS ’DOX7’ to 1218

Brothers Dir. Aslaug Holm, Norway SMS ’DOX3’ to 1218

Human Dir. Yann Arthus-Bertand, France SMS ’DOX8’ to 1218

The Swedish Theory of Love Dir. Erik Gandini, Sweden SMS ’DOX4’ to 1218

The Accidental Rock Star Dir. Igor Devold, Norway SMS ’DOX9’ to 1218

The Fear of 13 Dir. David Sington, UK SMS ’DOX5’ to 1218

A Syrian Love Story Dir. Sean McAllister, UK SMS ’DOX10’ to 1218

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS

CURATED BY OLAFUR ELIASSON

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CURATED BY NAOMI KLEIN & AVI LEWIS

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BORDERLINE

142

BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE

152

UNDER THE ASPHALT, THE BEACH!

166

CRIME WAVE

186

LIMITED EDITIONS

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Special Screenings

A special selection of premieres screening out of competition. Renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle is present at CPH:DOX as a director with the European premiere of his ’Hong Kong Trilogy’, a portrait of the inhabitants of the ever-changing Asian metropolis across three generations. Nick Read’s ’Bolshoi Babylon’ is a disqueting and discretely political behind-the-scenes investitation of the culture of jealousy, scandals and intrigues at Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet where monumental egos fight a bitter struggle for a place in the limelight. ’CodeGirl’ is the directorial debut of Davis Guggenheim’s producer Lesley Chilcott, and depicts a notorious (young, white) man’s world where a new generation of women are on the rise: the world of computer programming. Two Danish veterans are back: Jon Bang Carlsen looks back at a life in pictures in ’Déjà vu’, and Jørgen Leth returns to CPH:DOX - where the very first film ever to screen at the festival was signed by him - with a follow up to his 1983 film ’Pelota’. Last, but certainly not least, Majid Majidi’s Iranian epic ’Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ is the second film ever to portray the life, childhood and youth of the prophet. Based on a true story and on meticulous, historical research.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS European Premiere

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Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous Dir.: Christopher Doyle Original Title Hong Kong Trilogy / Country Hong Kong / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Pica Pica Media Limited / Producer Jenny Suen, Ken Hui / World Sales Pica Pica Media Ltd.

Christopher Doyle is known as one of the world’s best cinematographers, thanks to his work for directors such as Wong Kar-Wai, Gus van Sant and Jim Jarmusch. But this time he is wearing the director’s cap himself, and has created a vibrant and politically sensitive portrait of Hong Kong and three generations of the city’s inhabitants. The children occupy the narrow streets with fun and games. The youth also occupy the streets, but in a well-organised and resolute struggle for democratic reforms and with the umbrella as a pacifist symbol for the desire for social change. And then there are the elderly who spend their retirement going on blind dates! Doyle’s own penchant for Hong Kong, where he has spent much of his career, shines through as he goes out onto the streets to meet the city’s inhabitants right where they are. Accommodating, direct and with a twinkle in the eye. Whimsical ideas meet loose impressions from a megapolis that is constantly on the move, while massive social and political upheaval smoulders on the horizon.

Cinemateket Grand Teatret Dagmar Teatret

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS European Premiere

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The Infinite Happiness Dir.: Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine Original Title The Infinite Happiness / Country France, Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Beka & Partners + Bjarke Ingels Group / Producer Filippe Clericuzio / World Sales Beka & Partners

You can bike from the ground floor all the way up to the rooftop. This is just one of many unusual experiences that the ‘8’ building complex has to offer. ‘The Infinite Happiness’ is a warm tale about the star architect Bjarke Ingel’s unique building, told through the life lived in it. A frantic treasure hunt at a birthday party, roof climbing, pizza delivery, family dinners, cow feeding and many other normal and less normal everyday activities give us a subjective and intimate insight into life in the ‘8’ building. How do architectural concepts such as the approximately 1 kilometer long footpath that winds its way up along the facade in a double loop to the top of the house, work as a natural meeting place for residents, and as a safe thoroughfare when the children want to visit each other? And how has it generally worked as an ecosystem that invites its residents to cultivate the community, creativity and openness? But not everything is sheer joy and laughter in the ‘8’ building. Given that the building has the status of a popular tourist attraction, the film also provides insight into some of the unexpected problems it gives its residents.

Grand Teatret Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret

Sat. 7/11 Wed. 11/11 Sun. 15/11

at 16:40 at 14:15 at 12:00

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Bolshoi Babylon Dir.: Nick Read & Mark Franchetti Original Title Bolshoi Babylon / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 86 mins. / Production Red Velvet Films, Red Box Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, BBC Storyville / Producer Mark Franchetti / World Sales Altitude Film Entertainment

Intrigues, jealousy, scandals and secrets. The world-famous Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow is, for better or worse, an image of a culture where the biggest dramas take place in the wings. But two years ago the iconic ballet was the setting of a spectacular drama, as the artistic director Sergei Filin was the victim of an acid attack. An attack that was the public culmination of a deep and ramified clash in a perfectionist environment, where monumental egos fight a bitter struggle for the limelight. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bolshoi Babylonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uncovers the dark environment behind the elegance, and follows the attack investigation while the iconic ballet prepares for a new season under new management. While the dark secrets come tumbling out of the closets, the dancers continue their quest for the ultimate, almost unattainable beauty ideals in a proud and tradition-rich house, which in many ways has become a mirror of the Russian reality outside its walls.

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The Act of Becoming Dir.: Jennifer Anderson & Vernon Lott Original Title The Act of Becoming / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 61 mins. / Production Morris Hill Pictures / Producer Jennifer Anderson & Vernon Lott / World Sales Morris Hill Pictures

How can a novel about a mediocre man’s ordinary life lie hidden away in American universities in a few, dusty copies, only to be hailed as one of the best contemporary novels 50 years later? The story of John Williams’ rediscovered book ‘Stoner’ is itself worthy of a novel, and is presented by some of the people we can thank for getting to know the work today. Critical writers, who are linguistically conscious to a degree where it is a pleasure to listen to their choice of words, as they initiate us into what ‘Stoner’ meant to them. ‘The Act of Becoming’ is a sensual introduction to a work that you subsequently have to read or re-read, when critics such as Morris Dickstein and Edwin Frank, authors such as Anna Gavalda and Colum McCann, are given the time not just to praise, but also to try to explain why ‘Stoner’ could lie untouched for so long. Especially after Williams’s description of love, which according to Stoner himself ‘is not an end, but a process, in which a person is trying to get to know another person.’ A literary film of the rare kind that lets words and text take center stage.

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CodeGirl Dir.: Lesley Chilcott Original Title CodeGirl / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 108 mins. / Production Invented by Girls / World Sales Filmbuff

Girls can also make apps! And even if the gender distribution in the lucrative tech world is shockingly skewed, young female programmers are storming ahead in competitions like Technovation, which tour the globe from the United States and Mexico to Moldova, and where an increasing number of women make their breakthrough. The director Lesley Chilcott (who has previously produced successful films such as ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, ‘It Might Get Loud’ and ‘Waiting for Superman’) joins the tour and reports from the digital fast lane, where the competition is fierce. But if you break the code, you are guaranteed a meteoric career. And, in fact, women have historically been pioneers within the field of IT, which may have only been dominated by men for a short while. Once, looking after a computer was considered ‘women’s work’, and much of the tech industry’s most groundbreaking programming work has therefore been thought of by women such as the ‘Code Girls’, who here show us the way towards new, digital revolutions.

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Pelota Dir.: Jørgen Leth & Ole John Original Title Pelota / Country Denmark / Year 1983 / Running time 47 mins. / Production John & Leth Film

The Basque ball game pelota is played with the hands. For generations, Basque men have cultivated this unique sport, where a small hard leather ball is smashed against a wall. Large so-called frontons are set up for the players, the best of which are followed by great public interest, both for the game itself, but also for the financial bets that are placed during the match in an almost ritualistic way. The film gives us a fascinating look at the sport and not least its athletes, both the stars and the myths surrounding them, but also the many people who play on the streets and alleyways. The film places the game in its cultural context and conveys the moods and stories about Basque national uniqueness. The film is shown together with ‘Pelota II’.

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Pelota II Dir.: Jørgen Leth & Olatz Gonzalez Abrisketa Original Title Pelota II / Country Denmark, Spain / Year 2015 / Running time 71 mins. / Production Basque Films & Sunset Productions Inc / Producer Carlos Juarez / World Sales Basque Films

The ball game pelota is the pride of the Basques. A game borne by ancient traditions and kept alive with a passion that Jørgen Leth already in 1983 paid tribute to in his first film about Basque sport and culture. The world may have changed since, but pelota is still just as much a philosophy as a ball game, and in his brand new cinematic sequel, Leth visits some of its top players, and not least examines the very special relationship between the player (pelotari) and the ball. The balls are handmade, and there is prestige in only playing with the finest-quality balls, which becomes clear when we visit a craftsman who lets us in on his secrets in front of a fridge filled with his spherical creations. ‘Pelota II’ is the result of a creative collaboration with the local filmmaker Olatz Gonzalez, who shares an obvious passion with Leth not just for sport, but also for the poetry in the culture around it.

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Déjà vu Dir.: Jon Bang Carlsen Original Title Déjà vu / Country Danmark / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production C&C Productions Aps / Producer Marianne Christensen, Jon Bang Carlsen / World Sales C&C Productions ApS

‘Anyone who has ever held a camera in his hand knows that the photographer is always present in his own picture.’ This is the thought that leads us through Jon Bang Carlsen’s brand new film, which looks back at over 40 years of work as a filmmaker and photographer. But the starting point is a double one, and a memory from Carl’s childhood home is the actual initiating moment. It is a vital and continuously searching documentary master who here looks back in order to look forward. And for both new followers and lifelong fans of Jon Band Carlsen’s comprehensive opus, ‘Déjà vu’ is a glorious (re)encounter and a really good story.

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Muhammad: The Messenger of God Dir.: Majid Majidi Muhammad: The Messenger of God / Country Iran / Year 2015 / Running time 178 mins. / Production Noor-e-Taban Film Company Production, Infinite Production Company GmbH / Producer Mohammed Mahdi Heidarian, Mohammad Reza Saberi / World Sales Infinite Production Company GMBH

Over 200 historical films have been made about Jesus, 120 about Moses, 42 about Buddha, but only two about the prophet Muhammad – and this is one of them. An Iranian epic and now also the country’s official Oscar candidate, based on very real events and thorough historical research. But also a film that does not skimp on anything in its magnificent and emotional tribute to the founder of Islam. On the orders of Abraha, the king of Habasha, one of his commanders launches an attack on Mecca with the purpose of destroying the Kaaba, the shrine that would later become the centre of Islam. Thousands of well-armed soldiers, horses and elephants are under his command, but as the army approaches the holy city, the elephants begin to behave mysteriously and start to limp. Higher powers are playing their part. Millions of small birds pour down like pebbles over Abraha’s army and destroy it. One month later, Muhammad is born. The film depicts the time before the prophet became the Prophet, and his childhood and upbringing before he founded Islam. A period characterised by tyranny and oppression, which would soon change forever.

Imam Ali Moské Bremen Teater Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

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Ronaldo Dir.: Anthony Wonke Original Title Ronaldo / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 128 mins. / Production Universal Pictures / Producer Paul Martin / World Sales Universal Pictures International

Meet the world’s (possibly) best football player. Cristiano Ronaldo is loved by millions, and misunderstood by almost as many. The 30-year-old global superstar has won the prestigious Golden Ball award two years in a row, and is a spectacular personality, who divides opinions. For the first time ever, a film crew is allowed to come up close to Cristiano Ronaldo, and through intimate interviews and effervescent archive material we are told the story of how the small boy from Santo Antonio became a true football monster. At the same time, the film follows the Portuguese superstar at the top of his career during a year, when he competes in all the major tournaments from La Liga via the Champions’ League to the World Cup in Brazil. The team behind the terrific films ‘Amy’ and ‘Senna’ have aimed their lens at the sports star of them all and given us a unique look at Ronaldo’s life and work in the world of football.

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Curated by Olafur Eliasson The contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson has guest curated a film programme especially for CPH:DOX. A programme that, much like Eliasson’s work itself, is based on the physical world around us, and on how we perceive both our immediate and distant surroundings through the body and immediate sensation. The programme moves through nature and looks at the enormous man-made changes of both a climatic and geological nature, which has given the relatively new concept of the ’Anthropocene’ a very significant relevance, both for contemporary art as well as for philosophy and the geo-sciences. The films that you can see here thus use a critical and underlying political perspective of our own time. And of our own influence on the planet’s landscapes, both natural and artificial. It is hardly a coincidence that almost all the films take place outdoors. But it is also through the arts that we can construct a potential haven to reflect on how we can create other – and possibly more sustainable – ways of living and organising our common reality. A haven that is more urgently needed than ever before, and as Eliasson’s film programme explores through the basic elements of both sensation and the film medium: time and space, light and darkness, sound and silence. Eliasson and CPH:DOX’s interactive Everyday Project will also invite everyone to take part in the video project ’Little Changes’, which is based on Eliasson’s own global solar project Little Sun. Read more on everydayproject.dk. Eliasson is the latest in a series of guest curators at CPH:DOX, which among others include Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Douglas Gordon, Nan Goldin and Harmony Korine, as well as Naomi Klein, who is also guest curating a programme at CPH:DOX 2015 together with her partner Avi Lewis.

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Meet Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Tim Morton Running time 90 mins.

Meet Olafur Eliasson in a conversation with one of modern philosophy’s most interesting minds, Timothy Morton. As a philosopher, Morton is an exponent of object-oriented ontology and has among other things earned much attention for his book ‘Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the end of the World’ (2013). He is central to the post-humanistic eco-criticism and has, among other publicatations, collaborated with Björk on a private correspondence. Eliasson and Morton have many overlapping interests, including the question of man’s evolving relationship to nature and, in a wider perspective, the role of art in such a society. Meet the Eliasson and Morton for a special night where everything – or at least a lot – can happen, but above all for a night with two people in an associative free fall through everything from planet scale death drive via deep ecology to anthropocentric copyright control.

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Foreign Parts Dir.: Véréna Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki Original Title Foreign Parts / Country USA, France / Year 2010 / Running time 81 mins. / Production Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab / World Sales Kino Lorber

The rusty car wreck lie in layers outside the auto repair shop in the New York borough of Queens where ‘Foreign Parts’ takes place. Like mechanical fossils in an excavation from a near future, they are waiting to be chopped up, reused and resold in a low-tech ecosystem of spare parts. And around them a lively gallery of mechanics, homeless folks and local eccentrics have set up a post-industrial parallel society. An anthropological field trip to an urban and almost mythological community that is under pressure from breakneck urban renewal, with New York Mets’ new stadium as a monumental sign that major changes are around the corner in every way. Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki are both linked to the innovative Sensory Ethnographic Lab at Harvard University, and have created a film where texture and materials are an almost corporeal part of the experience of a specific place, and of the the people who work and live there.

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The Intruder Dir.: Claire Denis Original Title L’intrus / Country France / Year 2004 / Running time 135 mins. / Production Ognon Pictures / Producer Humbert Balsan, Jérôme Clément, Michel Reilhac / World Sales Pyramide International

The human body is the true protagonist in Claire Denis’s enigmatic and elliptical film based on an autobiographical text by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, written at a time when he had just undergone a heart transplant. ‘The Intruder’ takes place in loosely connected (fictional) episodes, which in a surreal play between dark associations reflects upon the relationship between the inside and external foreign objects. Somewhere in the darkness, a man with acute heart failure (Michel Subor) decides to buy a young heart on the black market for organs. The grim mission brings him to Asia, and back in time to his own youth. Claire Denis structures her fragmented material with a level of precision that is unheard of even in the most advanced contemporary film art. A work with soaring ambitions on behalf of its medium – and its audience.

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Fata Morgana Dir.: Werner Herzog Original Title Fata Morgana / Country Germany / Year 1971 / Running time 79 mins. / Production Werner Herzog Filmproduktion / World Sales Werner Herzog Film GMBH

Werner Herzog had originally planned to make a science fiction film, but ended up making a documentary when he in 1969 set out to the Sahara Desert to film the mirages that paradoxically only exist because you see them. Instead, the result is a trance-inducing and expressive report from an endless landscape and a similar state, where the Mayan creation myth is recited on the soundtrack, and where chance determines the sparse encounters that Herzog and his small film crew make during their journey. The German film historian Lotte Eisner lends her voice to the film, as does Leonard Cohen in the songs, which float through the air like an aural equivalent of the mirages that Herzog set out to capture. An essential desert film â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and a film about being present in the now with both mind and the senses, while searching for the unknown.

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Utopia Dir.: James Benning Original Title Utopia / Country USA / Year 1998 / Running time 93 mins. / Production James Benning / Producer James Benning / World Sales Calarts/Film

James Benning is an undisputed master of bringing silent landscapes to talk, while you as a spectator discover the complexity of the act of looking, listening and not least connecting these two processes. The rarely shown ‘Utopia’ contrasts Death Valley’s dry plains and sparse wildlife with a soundtrack that is largely composed of the audio track from an obscure documentary on Che Guevara. A quote out of time and out of place, which insists on the paradoxical necessity of always striving for an impossible ideal which here resounds in the nothingness of the desert. ‘Less is more’, and the style may seem minimalist. But the scope and resonance is vast, and as always with Benning, the actual experience is just as rich and varied as it is difficult to put into words afterwards.

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Behemoth Dir.: Zhao Liang Original Title Bei Xi Mo Shou / Country China, France / Year 2015 / Running time 95 mins. / Production Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) / Producer Sylvie Blum / World Sales INA

Apocalyptic landscapes that at first glance look like scenes from another planet turn out to be the entrance to a gigantic iron mine stretching far into the ground. Down in the noisy and soot-black depths the raw materials are mined and subsequently driven away to a mill and melted down to cables in a heavy-industrial circuit of almost mythical proportions. Any notion of eternity, however, is punctured by the visionary filmmaker Zhao Liang, who through a subtle use of mirrors and prisms (and well-placed quotes by Dante) undermines the sublime subjects in an elegiac defence of the people who toil their way out of the mines. ‘The fruit of our suffering is borne away to build the paradise of our dreams’, in this case the deserted ghost towns of which there are several hundred in China, and which have cost hundreds of thousands of workers’ lives and the health of several millions. ‘Behemoth’ was recevied as a major work at this year’s Venice Biennale.

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Blow Debris Dir.: Doug Aitken Original Title Blow Debris / Country USA / Year 2000 / Running time 21 mins. / Production The Museum of Contemporary Art / Producer Eric Matthies / World Sales 303 Gallery

From a solar eclipse via a solarium’s artificial rays to the Mojave Desert, where a group of naked people wander around as prototypes of a new society, where mere existence and sensual perception are an end in themselves, and not a means to achieve predetermined functions and objectives. ‘Blow Debris’ is a work that suggests narratives and contexts which, on the other hand, are never elaborated in the actual story. As a contemporary echo of the utopian, pop-cultural fantasies of the late 1960s and early 1970s – with ‘Zabriskie Point’ as the absolute highlight – Doug Aitken’s work is a film that simultaneously suggests a romantic longing for an idealised past and a future that might be taking shape before our very eyes. Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Screening with ‘Topophilia’.

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Topophilia Dir.: Peter Bo Rappmund Original Title Topophilia / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 62 mins. / Production Peter Bo Rappmund / Producer Peter Bo Rappmund / World Sales Peter Bo Rappmund

The 1,300 km long Trans-Alaska Pipeline is one of the world’s longest channels of crude oil, and stretches through both natural and man-made landscapes on its long journey from north to south. An enormous edifice and a topology that the photographer and filmmaker Peter Bo Rappmund maps out in a minimalist but infinitely varied study of both. Our dependence on oil has shaped our planet accordingly. The question is whether the landscapes we are looking at here also have a future. As with James Benning, the simple act of seeing turns into an activity of political urgency. Screening with ‘Blow Debris’.

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Notes from the Anthropocene Dir.: Terra Long Original Title Notes from the Anthropocene / Country Canada / Year 2014 / Running time 16 mins. / Production Terra Long / Producer Terra Long / World Sales Terra Jean Long

‘Notes from the Anthropocene’ looks at our time through the cultural history of dinosaurs. An evolutionary tale that moves through the different stages of dominance, extinction and resurrection as a cultural icon – from plastic figures in a fast food box to fossils of both museological and industrial value. Both at a point in the geological history of the planet where man has replaced the dinosaur as the dominant species, and where especially the extraction of oil and fuel draws parallels between the two eras that are millions of years apart. Terra Jean Long’s film is shot on grainy, analogue 16mm, which places it in an indefinable vacuum outside its own time, and is a speculative elegy to an extinct species, which once dominated the planet that we have since taken over and made our own. Screening with ‘Thing’, ‘Off The Grid’, ‘Deep Sleep’ and ‘A Film, Reclaimed’.

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Thing Dir.: Anouk De Clercq Original Title Thing / Country Belgium, Italy / Year 2014 / Running time 18 mins. / Production Auguste Orts / World Sales Auguste Orts

The Belgian artist Anouk de Clerq’s film is a charting of an imaginary city, the topology of which is visualised against a pitch-dark background with millions of white points in semi-abstract patterns that ressemeble a starry sky and were produced by 3D spatial scanner. The architect behind the urban utopia talks about his creation, while we travel through the virtual and seemingly endless space. A place that literally exists only in theory, which only gradually becomes evident as one goes through its labyrinthine exterior and interior. A mathematical manifestation of an idea, in other words, but an idea that – just like all other architectural axioms – will have direct social and political consequences as it is implemented in a physical reality. Screening with ‘Notes from the Anthropocene’, ‘Off The Grid’, ‘Deep Sleep’ and ‘A Film, Reclaimed’.

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Off The Grid Dir.: Meghna Gupta Original Title Off The Grid / Country UK / Year 2014 / Running time 18 mins. / Production Soul Rebel Films Ltd / Producer Meghna Gupta / World Sales Soul Rebel Films

The inhabitants of a village on a remote island in Bangladesh, which is outside the electrical grid, install solar panels under the direction of a young engineer. The young filmmaker Meghna Gupta’s ‘Off the Grid’ examines the importance of the social changes that the access to electricity – and thus to things like reading light in the dark nights – brings with it. The men have to seek work on the mainland, and the women and children have to remain on the isolated island. But the access to light and electricity is also equivalent to the opportunity to educate oneself, and the installation of modern solar panels thus also bring a promise of a brighter future. ‘Off the Grid’ is a film about minor and major changes, and about how something as basic as sunlight can have such a far-reaching, positive effect. Screening with ‘Notes From the Anthropocene’, ‘Thing’, ‘Deep Sleep’ and ‘A Film, Reclaimed’.

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Deep Sleep Dir.: Basma Alsharif Original Title Deep Sleep / Country Malta, Greece, France, Palestine / Year 2014 / Running time 13 mins. / World Sales Video Data Bank

Basma Alsharif’s ‘Deep Sleep’ is a performative flicker film, created while the director was in a state of self-hypnosis, and is itself a trance-inducing experience, where not least the carefully designed details on the soundtrack play a major, suggestive part. Alsharif was denied entry into Palestine and learned to hypnotise himself in an attempt to achieve bi-location, a state rooted in religious mysticism, where a person is present in two different locations at the same time. A state, which her film itself immerses us in – with the cinema as a sense-dominating medium – as it simultaneously documents how Gaza’s antique and modern ruins occupy the same geographic space across time. Note: contains strobo-like effects. Screening with ‘Notes from the Anthropocene’, ‘Thing’, ‘Off The Grid’ and ‘A Film, Reclaimed’.

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A Film, Reclaimed Dir.: Ana Vaz & Tristan Bera Original Title A Film, Reclaimed / Country France, Brazil / Year 2015 / Running time 20 mins. / Production Sciences Po École des Arts Politiques (SPEAP) and Anna Sanders Films / World Sales Ana Vaz

‘A Film, Reclaimed’ is the result of a research-based project involving, among others, Bruno Latour on the anthropocene and the ecological crisis. The project took place as a ‘debate theatre’, a symposium, which formally simulated the upcoming climate talks in Paris during COP21. The text-based film is thus a collage of quotes from the participants’ conversations and reflections from the interdisciplinary meetings, attended by artists, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and others. An underlying idea, however, has been that the film medium and the acceleration of the modern condition, that is now recognised as the Anthropocene, has developed in parallel and shares a common history. Screening with ‘Notes from the Anthropocene’, ‘Thing’, ‘Off The Grid’ and ‘Deep Sleep’.

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Reign of Silence Dir.: Lukas Marxt Original Title Reign of Silence / Country Austria / Year 2013 / Running time 7 mins. / Production Sixpackfilm / Producer bm:ukk / World Sales Sixpackfilms

The Austrian filmmaker Lukas Marxt’s ‘Reign of Silence’ is an intervention in a majestic and ethereal ice landscape, where a lonely motorboat circulates in front of a huge rock in a movement that echoes Robert Smithson’s now classic Land Art piece ‘A Spiral Jetty’. The monumental landscape, which is as motionless as a photograph and only comes to life as a film when the boat appears, hardly registers the vessel’s presence as it for a short moment and as a representative of absent humanity intervenes in the history of the place before disappearing from sight again. Screening with ‘A Journey That Wasn’t’, ‘Spacy’ and ‘Worldly Desires’.

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A Journey That Wasn’t Dir.: Pierre Huyghe Original Title A Journey That Wasn’t / Country France / Year 2005 / Running time 25 mins. / Production Anna Sanders Films / Producer Melissa Dubbin, Corinne Castel / World Sales Anna Sanders Films

Pierre Huyghe’s ‘A Journey That Wasn’t’ is a work that in two parallel tracks follows a mysterious expedition to the icy wilderness, and reconstructs the journey as a spectacular light and sound show in New York’s Central Park. The reason for the expedition to Antarctica is a double rumour that a yeti-like creature, which for years has been trapped in the now melting ice, is about to be visible. And that the melting glaciers have opened new shipping lanes that give access to places where no human being has ever set foot before. Huyghe’s film is a documentation of both, and raises the question as to what is actually authentic and staged in the two parallel tracks, and in the journey that, according to the title, never took place. Joshua Cody’s compositions from the concert in Central Park were inspired by Huyghe’s topographical records from the journey to Antarctica. Screening with ‘Reign of Silence’, ‘Spacy’ and ‘Worldly Desires’.

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Spacy Dir.: Takashi Ito Original Title Spacy / Country Japan / Year 1981 / Running time 9 mins. / World Sales Light Cone

Takashi Ito’s Japanese ‘Spacy’ from 1981 is an unsurpassed study of space, perception and illusory vanishing points created from almost ten thousand still photographs, which are assembled in an extremely time-consuming stop motion animation. The camera circulates around in a deserted gymnasium, where the formalistic-geometrical architecture’s otherwise so clear and solid framework turns out to be more porous than it at first appears to be. Picture after picture disappears into itself while a whizzing, analogue noise score builds up flashing psychedelic crescendos. Note: contains strobe-like effects. Screening with ‘Reign of Silence’, ‘A Journey That Wasn’t’ and ‘Worldly Desires’.

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Worldly Desires Dir.: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Original Title Worldly Desires / Country Thailand, Sydkorea / Year 2005 / Running time 40 mins. / Production Kick the Machine, Jeonju International Film Festival / World Sales Kick the Machine

A young couple is on an outing in a jungle to look for a tree that reportedly has spiritual powers, while a small film crew is shooting a pop video in the shape of a melodramatic love story in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Worldly Desires’, where a Thai jungle is the lush setting for the documentary meta-musical that is the fruit of the meeting between the two worlds. The setting may be artificial, but the emotions are genuine. A romantic paradox, which the wild nature’s immediate authenticity emphasises with an all-encompassing self-evidence. Screening with ‘Reign of Silence’, ‘A Journey That Wasn’t’ and ‘Spacy’.

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Curated by Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis

The Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein is a leading voice in modern activism. Klein broke through with the bestseller ’No Logo’ in 2000, a book that united the social and anti-globalisation movements in an international criticism of the neoliberal world order. And which stated that activism is not (only) about protest, but also about providing constructive, practical and sustainable solutions – and living by them. Klein and her partner, film director Avi Lewis, have guest curated a film programme especially for CPH:DOX, where they are also showing their new film ’This Changes Everything’, based on Klein’s brand new book of the same name. Klein and Lewis’ curated programme is both a historical and highly topical reminder of why the time is ripe for action – not least in the run-up to the climate summit COP21 in December. From documentary classics such as ’Hour of the Furnaces’ and ’Harlan County USA’ to the cinematically and formally innovative ’West of the Tracks’ and ’Leviathan’. And from the Berlin Film Festival winner ’The Pearl Button’ to activist manifestos such as ’The Corporation’ and Klein and Lewis’ own ’The Take’. Ten suggestions as to how political commitment, film-artistic originality and strong narratives can make a difference. Klein and Lewis are the latest in a series of guest curators at CPH:DOX, which among others include Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Douglas Gordon, Nan Goldin and Harmony Korine, as well as Olafur Eliasson, who is also guest curating a programme at CPH:DOX 2015.

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The Pearl Button Dir.: Patricio Guzman Original Title El Boton de Nacar / Country Chile, France, Spain / Year 2015 / Running time 82 mins. / Production Valdivia Films, Mediapro, France 3 Cinéma / Producer Renate Sachse / World Sales Pyramide International

The Chilean auteur Patricio Guzmán continues his lifelong work of creating a counter-narrative to his country’s official history. Where Guzmán’s previous film ‘Nostalgia for the Light’ attempted to uncover hitherto unseen stories that were buried in the Chilean desert sand, he this time dives down into the sea and finds sunken wreckage from Chile’s tragic past. Along the Chilean coast lived a wealth of indigenous tribes, which were almost wiped out by European colonisation. And during Pinochet’s regime, thousands of corpses were thrown into the mass grave of the foaming ocean. The brutal events, which are suppressed from the pages of the history books, are brought up from the seabed and into broad daylight by Guzmán. But alongside these scenarios, ‘The Pearl Button’ is also a film of unadulterated, striking beauty. In tableaux from the Chilean surf, water becomes a metaphor of cultural memory, and Guzmán finds the balancing point between geography and national self-image. The film won the Silver Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Please note: The film will be screening with Danish subtitles.

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Trouble the Water Dir.: Tia Lessin & Carl Deal Original Title Trouble the Water / Country USA / Year 2008 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Elsewhere Films / Producer Tia Lessin & Carl Deal / World Sales Elsewhere Films

The groundbreaking, Oscar-nominated Sundance winner ‘Trouble the Water’ takes us to the eye of Hurricane Katrina in the middle of its devastating fury – and in the dramatic aftermath, which laid bare the strained relationship between minorities and the state. Kimberley and Scott are a young couple from one of New Orleans’ poor, black communities, who don’t have the means to leave the city when the storm warning comes. Left with no other choices, they barricade themselves and film away while the water rises and a climate that is out of control smashes everything around them. Fifteen minutes of footage before the power dies are seamlessly woven into a film that describes the time after the disaster, where the authorities didn’t know which leg to stand on, and where a latent racism once again reared its ugly head in the shape of bureaucracy’s reaction at a time when entire communities had lost everything – except their dignity and impressive will to survive. With a haunting score by musicians such as Massive Attack.

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Leviathan Dir.: Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel Original Title Leviathan / Country France, UK, USA / Year 2012 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Arrête Ton Cinema, Harbor Picture Company / Producer Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel / World Sales The Cinema Guild

Leviathan is a documentary horror film painted in expressive primary colours on a black canvas. As brutal as a black metal concert, as dramatic as Melville’s novel, and as grotesque as all the biblical plagues served in one go and yet it’s merely about a nocturnal excursion on a fishing trawler. The boat creaks and rattles, while the blackgreen water lashes its sides and the seagulls are fighting over the severed fishheads that are rolling around its floor, while yet another net-load is heaved aboard. The directing duo Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel have installed small cameras everywhere on the boat, and they paint the drama of life and death with impasto layers. But they do not use abstraction for abstraction’s sake. ‘Leviathan’ is also an anthropological study in man’s relationship to nature and the confrontation with ‘raw life’, towards a realisation that we may only have access to through the basic elements of the film medium: light, colour, sound, darkness. A highly physical but nonetheless transcendental total experience. ‘Leviathan’ won the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX 2012, and if you have not yet had the chance to experience it in a cinema, it is an absolute must.

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The Corporation Dir.: Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott Original Title The Corporation / Country Canada / Year 2003 / Running time 145 mins. / Production Big Picture Media Corporation / Producer Mark Achbar, Bart Simpson / World Sales Zeitgeist Films

The modern classic ‘The Corporation’ is a razor-sharp analysis of multinationals that, in the name of the free market, grow into behemoths with powers so vast that we hardly notice it. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott manage to see the forest where the rest of us just see trees. Based on a series of scandals in a league with Enron, they rise above the corridors of power and tell the amazingly eye-opening story about companies, from when the idea of corporations was conceived 150 years ago until today, with wild detours to slave trade and German concentration camps. Through interviews with board chairmen, spies and social critics such as Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein herself, the film paints a picture of multinationals as living organisms that bring forth untold wealth with one hand, and create irreparable damage with the other. It is pure science fiction right outside our windows, told in a both highly amusing and deeply repulsive style, which consciously imitates typical American PR strategies. An eternally topical must for all those who need to be genuinely shocked, seduced and outraged – and ultimately redeemed.

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Darwin’s Nightmare Dir.: Hubert Sauper Original Title Darwin’s Nightmare / Country Austria, Belgium, France, Germany / Year 2004 / Running time 107 mins. / Production Mille et Une Productions, Coop 99, Saga Film / Producer Barbara Albert, Martin Gschlacht, Edouard Mauriat, Hubert Sauper, Antonin Svoboda, Hubert Toint / World Sales Tamasa Distribution

In the 1960s, the gigantic Nile perch was released into Lake Victoria in Tanzania as a biological experiment. Things did not go as expected. The Nile perch wiped out practically all other life under water and even ate its own young. A macabre metaphor for the relationship of the West to the poor fishermen in the town of Mwanza, as the Nile perch has become the region’s biggest export. The African and European businesses are downplaying the importance of the ecological disaster and are neglecting the fact that the local population is starving to death at the shores of the lake, while the fleshy Nile perch feed two million Europeans every day. The Austrian director Hubert Sauper portrays the Darwinistic nightmare with an eye for black irony in even the most desperate situations. But Sauper gets more than he bargains for in the story. For while the men are fishing to feed their white masters, the women prostitutes themselves to the Russian pilots who fly the fish to Europe. And, so they do not fly home with empty cargos the other way, the Russians bring with them Kalashnikovs for eastern and central African rebel movements. So everything is pulsating with nervous tension in a country where human lives are worth less than fish. Sauper’s modern classic is chaos theory in its purest form.

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The Take Dir.: Avi Lewis Original Title The Take / Country Canada, Argentina / Year 2004 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Barna-Alper Productions, Klein Lewis Productions / Producer Laszlo Barna, Silva Basmajian, Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis / World Sales Tamasa Distribution

Like many other critics of the status quo, Naomi Klein has repeatedly been attacked for not offering any alternatives to the development she criticises. In ‘The Take’, Klein and her partner, the journalist and TV commentator Avi Lewis, showed that an alternative is indeed possible. The place is Argentina, a country which in the centrifuge of globalisation fell into an economic Armageddon with thousands of closed factories and sky-high unemployment as a result. In this chaos, a large number of workers all over the country took matters into their own hands and occupied the closed factories to restart them under collective ownership. Klein and Lewis paint a compelling picture of this ‘factory revolution’ as the starting point for a new economic and political development, which is strongly threatened by the old political agenda, symbolised by the corrupt election campaigns of the former president Carlos Menem and Nestor Kirchner. ‘The Take’ is a true globalisation thriller – and offers a true alternative to neoliberalism.

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Harlan County U.S.A. Dir.: Barbara Kopple Original Title Harlan County U.S.A. / Country USA / Year 1976 / Running time 103 mins. / Production Cabin Creek / Producer Barbara Kopple / World Sales Cabin Creek Films

Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning classic has been praised as one of the finest of American documentaries. It is as captivating as a Greek tragedy, and deeply poignant in its human solidarity. We are in Kentucky during the summer of 1972. A trade union goes on strike in a joint protest against the miserable living and working conditions that the management at the local power plant is keeping the workers trapped in. But the bitter dispute ends up lasting for nearly one year, during which Kopple documents a strong community, that is up against both factory bosses and their allies in the police force, who shoot at the workers and in a tragic turning point end up killing one of them. The scene where the killed young man’s mother collapses with grief hits you right in the heart – and it was the last straw, which finally brought victory to the workers. ‘Harlan County USA’ is also a film that over time became a historical documentation of a working culture and solidarity that today seems distant.

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Hour of the Furnaces Dir.: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas Original Title La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación / Country Argentina / Year 1968 / Running time 260 mins. / Production Grupo Cine Liberacion, Solanas Productions / Producer Edgardo Pallero, Fernando E. Solanas /

‘The Hour of the Furnaces’ is a benchmark for activist film art and for the so-called ‘Third Cinema’ of the 1960s. Originally signed by the revolutionary film fraction Grupo Cine Liberación, it is a four hour long and freedom-loving manifesto for a new, unconstrained world. As one of the first and biggest political works in Latin American cinema, ‘The Hour of the Furnaces’ wrestles with the Argentine regime on both political, aesthetic and theoretical fronts. Colonialism, racism, economism and conservative ideology are castigated beyond recognition and swept mercilessly aside, so that the liberation movement can make its entry onto the stage of history. From 1966 to 1968, Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas, who were behind the collective work, shot the film in secret. In the belief that film is the most powerful tool to create new realities. ‘The Hour of the Furnaces’ has given rise to significant aftershocks in political film history. Among others in the films of Patricio Guzmán, whose film ‘The Pearl Button’ also writhes and kicks with critical indignation in this year’s programme.

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West of the Tracks Dir.: Wang Bing Original Title Tiexi qu / Country China, The Netherlands / Year 2002 / Running time 551 mins. / Production Wang Bing Film Workshop / Producer Wang Bing, Zhu Zhu / World Sales Chinese Shadows

The workers are leaving the factory for the last time in the Chinese director Wang Bing’s monumental masterpiece, which is one of the most uncompromising documentaries of modern times – not least because its playing time of over nine sublime hours spread over three chapters is an experience that will stay with you forever. Shenyang in the Liaoning province was previously the centre and pride of the heavy industrial, socialist planned economy. But at the end of the twentieth century, times were changing. The first part of ‘Rust’ follows the workers at three iron mills until they close them down. In the second part, ‘Remnants’, their families (and above all the young generation) are facing an uncertain future. And in the third and last part, ‘Rails’, a father and his son are wandering around in the shadows of the now depopulated factory ruins looking for iron scrap that can possibly be sold. ‘West of the Tracks’ is a film that one should take the time to see once in one’s life.

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’Borderline’ is an attempt at adding human nuances to the refugee crisis on both sides of Europe’s outmost frontiers, and to go beyond the headlines through a selection of films that address their our own historical moment. A time of fundamental changes hat are met with an equally fundamental lack of agreement among political leaders about how to react to the crisis. Love stories, tales of human hopes and hardships, and paradoxically poetic and even, at times, lively and uplifting stories from both sides of the border. But also films that literally and metaphorically address the state of Fortress Europe and the mentality behind its walls. A state of mind which is explored through Franz Kafka in ’The Great Wall’ by the Irish filmmaker Tadhg O’Sullivan, and which we are confronted with in all its harsh yet very human realism in ’The Dream of Europe’. Remember to have a look at the Danish films ’At Home in the World’ and ’Dreaming of Denmark’ elsewhere in the programme, as well as the Syrian film ’Haunted’ in the Doc Alliance section. Documentaries are second to none when it comes to giving you an experience of being in someone else’s place, and these films along with the ones compiled here are above all an urgent call for just that. Only one thing is really certain: There is no way back.

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A Syrian Love Story Dir.: Sean McAllister Original Title A Syrian Love Story / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Producer Elhum Shakerifar, Sean McAllister / World Sales Sean McAllister Films

Armer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison twenty years ago, arrested for protesting against al-Assad’s brutal regime. When the director Sean McAllister meets the couple in 2009, their love is stronger than ever. But in the five years the film shares with them, Syria is thrown into one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our time. An intimate and unusually poignant love story from the epicentre of the war, about two people who love each other and their country more than anything else. And who are being torn apart by both. In the media storm of gruesome images from war-torn Syria, it is easy to forget that a few years ago the country was marketed to Western tourists as a holiday paradise. But behind the glossy images, al-Assad was ruling the country with an iron hand, and his barbaric regime has since proven to be without any human inhibitions. Armer and Raghda’s history is an important and deeply personal reminder that behind every news item there are people just like ourselves.

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The Dream of Europe Dir.: Liv Berit Helland Gilberg, Bodil Voldmo Sachse, Jens Blom Original Title Drømmen om Europa / Country Norway / Year 2015 / Running time 74 mins. / Production Norwegian Broadcasting / Producer Cathrine Wik / World Sales NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

Did you know that the responsibility to guard Europe’s southern borders is in the hands of a single EU agency? Frontex is officially tasked with regulating and controlling the influx of refugees to the European continent. But with the massive influx of refugees, reality has become somewhat more harsh – but not more simple – on both sides of the EU’s more and more militarised borders. Meet two Norwegian employees, who bear the moral and human responsibility every day in a complex film, which does not turn a blind eye to the human rights that are the first to suffer in every political crisis. But which also recognise the need to maintain control of the southern borders after the Schengen rules came into force, at a time when the political wings in Brussels are fighting a battle of words and are brutally at odds with each other. ‘The Dream of Europe’ gives a voice to some of the far too many desperate people who have fled from the world’s most inflamed hotspots, with nothing else in their baggage than the dream of Europe. And a desperate ingenuity as to how a human body can be concealed and brought over the border, when everything is at stake.

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The Great Wall Dir.: Tadhg O’Sullivan Original Title The Great Wall / Country Irland / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Producer Tadhg O’Sullivan / World Sales Tadhg O’Sullivan

The most frightening thing about Kafka is how ever-relevant he is. And his short story about the construction of the Great Wall of China has never been more chillingly relevant than here, where it is adapted as a status report from a heavily militarised Fortress Europe. In a simple but brilliant manoeuvre, we simply hear the story being read aloud while a parade of maps, concrete walls, barbed wire and armed guards in the images chart the security culture that ensures the EU citizens a good night’s sleep (and bad conscience). A simple ploy, a great effect. ‘The Great Wall’ is a film that gives remote concepts such as power and exclusion an understandable form, while mapping out the coordinates for a subtle counter-strategy against the totalitarian undertones in the European project as a disturbing parallel to the story by the Czech writer (and satirist). A visual essay, which in its epic format will change your understanding of one of our times’ greatest crises.

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Lampedusa In Winter Dir.: Jakob Brossmann Original Title Lampedusa in Winter / Country Austria / Year 2015 / Running time 93 mins. / Production Finali Film & Wortschatz Produktion KG / Producer Jakob Brossmann / World Sales Taskovski Films Ltd.

The fact that their small home in the middle of the Mediterranean has become a stepping stone to Europe for streams of African refugees is nothing new for the inhabitants of Lampedusa. It has been like that for over twenty years. But when we meet the island’s residents and the mayor Giusi Nicolini, Lampedusa is not just hit by the most massive influx of refugees ever. The ferry that connects the island with the mainland has burned, and the fishermen are demonstrating against the new ferry company, which is only out to cheat them. We also meet Paola, who is struggling to give the dead on the island a dignified burial, and the museum, which has taken on the task of documenting the refugees’ struggle with the Mediterranean. ‘Lampedusa in Winter’ gives us a strong impression of what it’s like to be the first to receive people who are on the run, without turning a blind eye to the 4500 islanders’ internal conflicts and discussions, when they are involuntarily faced with laws and regulations in one hand and their humanity in the other.

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Those Who Feel the Fire Burning Dir.: Morgan Knibbe Original Title Those Who Feel the Fire Burning / Country The Netherlands / Year 2014 / Running time 74 mins. / Production BALDR Film / Producer Katja Draaijer / World Sales BALDRfilm

A group of refugees are on their way to Europe by boat, when a storm suddenly capsizes the ship and an old man falls overboard. And here the film changes tack: his soul continues its search in a restless quest for his beloved in the promised land of Europe, where refugees are driven away from the streets and an illegal worker and his mother are seeking refuge in drugs at a shelter. A dark, hallucinatory and extraordinary film, which dares to illustrate the desperate plight of refugees on the fringes of Europe in a poetic and elegiac vision, which is impossible to shake off – and all the more politically pressing. With ‘Those Who Feel the Fire Burning’, the merely 25-year-old Dutch filmmaker Morgan Knibbe has created a radical work that contains the existential dimension that most films about the refugee crisis ignore in favour of the purely physical and almost superhuman effort it takes to escape from one continent to another.

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Salam Neighbor Dir.: Zach Ingrasci & Chris Temple Original Title Salam Neighbor / Country USA, Jordan / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Production Living On One, 1001 Media / Producer Salam Darwaza / World Sales Living on One

What is it like to live in a refugee camp with 80,000 others? The two young filmmakers Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple want to find out in the most thorough way possible – by moving in themselves. As the first foreigners in the world, they were given permission to move into the refugee camp Za’atari in Jordan, live there for a month, and film it all. A project that very poignantly and with a sympathetic, young sensitivity shares the human nuances behind the media’s one-sided coverage of life as a refugee. In ‘Salam Neighbor’ we meet among others Um Ali, who finds it difficult to overcome the cultural barriers, the 10-year-old Raouf, who behind his eternal smile hides a violent trauma, and the parents who lost their son in the civil war – and subsequently also their second son, who died on the anniversary of his brother’s death. People who have lost everything, who are struggling to rebuild their lives – and for whom the concept of giving up is not an option. A film made with an honest desire to bring the Syrian refugees closer to the rest of the world.

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Nice People Dir.: Karin af Klintberg & Anders Helgeson Original Title Filip & Fredrik presenterar Trevligt folk / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Thelma/Louise Produktion AB / Producer Lars Beckung / World Sales Swedish Film Institute

Seventeen young men, who have all escaped from their home country Somalia and ended up in the small Swedish town of Borlänge, sign up for the World Cup in the ice-hockey-like ball sport bandy. None of them have stood on skates before, the World Cup in Siberia is just around the corner, and they have six months to qualify. The idea comes from the entrepreneurial Borlänge resident Patrik. With slick hair and sunglasses, he is a real character in search of a real mission: to find a common ground in a town where the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats are making major inroads, and where xenophobia and prejudice are the order of the day. Heading the team is the national team coach Pelle Fosshaug, who himself is known for his fiery temper on the bandy pitch. And for the unlikely team, the game itself is not just a fight for the country they have left behind, but also for the country they now live in. An unexpected feel-good documentary comedy on integration with a serious political agenda – and a film that has been one of Sweden’s biggest documentary success stories ever.

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As part of this year’s programme, we have invited some of the brightest minds and most innovative filmmakers in the field between science and cinema to present their work and let themselves be inspired by each other. The idea is to turn established truths upside down in a (thought)provoking break with habitual thinking. And you do not have to be a rocket scientist to join in. Documentaries and audiovisual media are uniquely conditioned to make otherwise complex research comprehensible, relevant and fascinating. And there is lots to get carried away by here: from robotics and outer space to the insides of the body, the mind, and our planet. ’Before and After Science’ is a title borrowed from one of our own heroes: the British artist and composer Brian Eno, who is a prime example of someone who has thought across artistic, technological and scientific disciplines in an intelligent and ever inspiring way. A title that invites us to consider what science and research actually mean in our everyday lives – and which points back to the sciences themselves and asks where they are headed.

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Anthropocene Dir.: Steve Bradshaw Original Title Anthropocene / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 94 mins. / Production Flaxmoor Productions / Producer Jenny Richards / World Sales Flaxmoor Productions

Humanity is going through an epochal transition to a new reality, where the planet is shaped by our own presence more than by nature itself. On the other hand, we are less in agreement about whether this is a tragedy, comedy, or something more surreal. But what does it mean to exist in a geological era, which we totally dominate: the anthropocene era? And does man have a future? ‘Anthropocene’ is the first film that deals with an all-pervasive paradigm shift and with a term, that in no time has gained ground as the name of our times. An international community of scientists give us their take on the anthropocene revolution’s global consequences in a way that will make anyone who is used to counting the time in hours and minutes feel dizzy. But which also very specifically and based on vast amounts of data – and well-chosen black-humour clips from the 20th century’s inexhaustible dustbin of popular culture – sees today’s ecological and climatic changes from a new and deeply thoughtprovoking perspective.

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Alice Cares Dir.: Sander Burger Original Title Ik ben Alice / Country The Netherlands / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production KeyDocs / Producer Janneke Doolaard / World Sales KeyDocs

Is it possible to design a socially intelligent robot? And will we humans ever get used to it? Alice is a robot. She is designed by a research team of robotic engineers and psychologists to keep elderly people company. And now she is to be tested in practice- There are surprises in store for all involved (and possibly even Alice herself), when she moves in with the solitary residents of a nursing home in a mixture of a social, psychological and technological experiment. The researchers follow the experiment from a lab at the university in Amsterdam, as the elderly ladies, who have never had a close relationship with technology over the course of their long lives, are about to meet their new friend. For some, the distance to the 60 centimeters high Alice is too big, while others take to her immediately. In both cases, the encounter with Alice is followed through in a both funny and thought-provoking film, which is also a look at a future that is just around the corner. And where we might well be friends with our machines.

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Eyelid Dir.: Francesco Mattuzzi & Renato Rinaldi Original Title Eyelid / Country Italy / Year 2015 / Running time 28 mins. / Production LEAPfactory / Producer Francesco Mattuzzi, Renato Rinaldi / World Sales Francesco Mattuzzi

A sphere-shaped space capsule glides past between snowy rocks and misty mountain peaks. The strange construction seems to cradle freely in the air. In the thin air layers, architects are constructing a high-tech alpine eco-hotel and scientific laboratory. Through innumerable spatial forms, such as the hovering UFO capsule, they perform a number of aesthetic experiments that challenge, surprise and excite the eye. But which at the same time represent the most advanced, serious research in sustainability. Francesco Mattuzi and Renato Rinaldi work with a restricted and carefully composed pictorial aesthetic, whose cool precision places yet another layer of frost onto the already ice-covered heights. The passion for scientific study is paired with reflections on the nature of eyesight with an almost surgical clarity. And just as the Italian architects dream up the space that transforms vision, ‘Eyelid’ also becomes its own scientific vision machine, which reminds us that the path to new knowledge often goes through eyesight. Screening with ‘Simulation Beach’.

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Simulation Beach Dir.: Edward Kihn Original Title Simulation Beach / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 61 mins. / Production Edward Kihn Productions / Producer Edward Kihn / World Sales Edward Kihn

On a beach in California an elite team of scientists is creating artificial natural disasters on a small scale to measure and study them. ‘Biotech Beach’ they call the place, and here the modern risk society conducts its basic research into the natural forces that may be larger than ourselves, but which we have a growing influence on. Fire, water, earth and air – the rage of the four elements is charted in controlled environments, which Edward Kihn observes with a fitting accuracy, with both precise compositions shot on analogue 16mm influenced by Farocki and Benning, and with hypermodern high tech visualisations of topographic conditions and complex data. But the paradox of the activities on the artificial beach does not go past Kihn’s cold observation without being subjected to his almost minimalist sense of humour. Security is ‘big business’, but the fact that there is a very real seriousness in the simulation project becomes evident when the scientists are given a say; among them an Iranian immigrant who experienced the earthquake in 1990 and is now trying to develop the ultimate, earthquake-resistant building. ‘Simulation Beach’ is visual knowledge in its purest form and a film that points forward. Screening with ‘Eyelid’.

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Star Men Dir.: Alison Rose Original Title Star Men / Country Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Inigo Films. / Producer Jez Lewis, Alison E. Rose / World Sales Inigo Films

Four outstanding astronomers remember fifty years of friendship, their youthful adventures and their joint discoveries during a life-affirming road trip through the American Southwest. Together, the four old friends have helped to change the way the human being understands itself and its place in the universe. From the telescopes, where the great discoveries were made, to a hike that nearly put an end to it all when they were young. ‘Star Men’ invites us to join the four ageing scientists, who in spite of their incredible zest for life and insatiable curiosity are soon facing life’s last, great journey. But how has working with the vastness of outer space and the most universal questions affected their own outlook on life - and death?

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Ice and the Sky Dir.: Luc Jacquet Original Title La glace et le ciel / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 89 mins. / Production ESKWAD / Producer Richard Grandpierre / World Sales Wild Bunch

Luc Jacquet, the director of ‘March of the Penguins’, goes back to Antarctica in a personal and inspiring portrait of the French polar explorer and pioneer Claude Lorius, who found bubbles of air that were thousands of years old, and with it came across knowledge about man’s influence on the planet’s climate. Lorius responded in 1957 to an ad, and set off together with two companions – without support or plans to return home – as far south as they could possibly get. A journey that was as formative for his life as it had far-reaching scientific consequences. In this unexplored land, the young man discovered that the polar ice contained ice that was thousands of years old, and thereby also contained air that was breathed in ancient Rome and in London during the industrial revolution. His discovery revised our perception of 400,000 years of climate history and of global warming, but was initially met by a wall of silence and direct repression. Luc Jacquet has himself devoted a large part of his life to Antarctica, and through Lorius he tells us a magnificent tale of our planet’s past and future.

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Disaster Playground Dir.: Nelly Ben Hayoun Original Title Disaster Playground / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 66 mins. / Production Disaster Playground, Nelly Ben Studio / Producer Lisa James / World Sales Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio

You might know the scenario from a science fiction film with Bruce Willis. But when an asteroid is on its way towards Earth, the chain of decision makers from the SETI institute and NASA to the White House and the United Nations are ready to take action. And what exactly they are planning to do is what the French artist and experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has set out to find out in the both funny, serious and conceptually original ‘Disaster Playground’. The Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweichart and the astronomer David Morrison are just some of the top people who cross her path when she, armed with a gigantic red toy phone, embarks on a research outing to the top layers of the aerospace elite’s usually closed world. Nelly Ben Hayoun has been called ‘The Willy Wonka of Design and Science’ and last year received WIRED Magazine’s Innovation Fellowship for her interdisciplinary and innovative work in building bridges between research, communication and artistic practices.

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The Visit Dir.: Michael Madsen Original Title The Visit: An Alien Encounter / Country Denmark, Finland / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Magic Hour Films / Producer Lise Lense-Møller / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR

How would the world react if we were suddenly visited by life from outer space? And what would such an encounter tell us about ourselves? ‘The Visit’ is a piece of documentary science fiction and a cinematically and philosophically staggering thought experiment brought to life. As a spectator, you are invited to take on the role as the guest from outer space, who experiences our planet for the first time and allows some of the world’s best brains to ask all the curious questions that would otherwise be politically and scientifically prohibited. And that is not so little. What would the international elite of leaders and scientists actually do, if one day a spaceship landed on Earth? The Danish director Michael Madsen (‘Into Eternity’) does not just work with the science fiction genre’s classic ‘what-if’ scenario, but also with the freedom of art to suggest new and previously unimaginable ways to look at ourselves. From the outside. ‘The Visit’ is both a thought-provoking encounter with the unknown, and a unique visual experience. A journey in time and space, where we even end up going all the way into the spaceship – and an opportunity to recognise that the universe around us is infinitely greater than ourselves.

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In Utero Dir.: Kathleen Gyllenhaal Original Title In Utero / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 83 mins. / Production Upstream Cinema / Producer Stephen Gyllenhaal / World Sales Kathleen Gyllenhaal

Life before birth has long been a blind spot in the medical and psychological research of when (and how) our personality and emotional life takes shape. ‘In Utero’ remedies this by allowing doctors, psychologists and scientists to challenge rooted ideas about the foetus as pure biology, and instead see it as a sensitive and emotionally vulnerable being. It turns out that cinema has known this for a long time. Well supported by the film medium’s image bank, new understandings of life in the womb are presented, together with an understanding of how little shielded we are from the world that will soon surround us. When Neo is slumbering in his slimy cocoon in ‘The Matrix’, or Alice is far too big to get through far too small doors in Wonderland, we are actually looking at symbolic imagery of something we have all experienced. It is just too long ago for us to remember it. Kathleen Gyllenhaal’s surprising science film is a true eye-opener.

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The Dark Gene Dir.: Miriam Jakobs & Gerhard Schick Original Title Das dunkle Gen / Country Germany, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 99 mins. / Production Filmtank GmbH / Producer Thomas Tielsch / World Sales Filmtank

Frank Schauber is both a doctor and a patient. As a patient, he has for years struggled with depression, which he as a doctor has tried to find an explanation for. A quest that has taken him deep into the field of genetics and the mapping of our DNA, which over the last decade has revolutionised the way we understand ourselves from the inside. But the thought-provoking and complex subject matter is given an understandable – and aesthetically fascinating – form in ‘The Dark Gene’, which visualises our genetic foundation with subtle computer animations with input from both scientists and artists. And something that maybe sounds abstract soon turns out to raise some of the most fundamental questions: how much do we know about ourselves? And how much do we even want to know? For knowledge equals power – the power to manipulate, control and alter, for better or for worse. Who are we really, deep inside? How much of us is determined by our genes? And is there a ‘dark’ gene? A thought-provoking and wise film from the micro-world of genetics.

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(Dis)Honesty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Truth About Lies Dir.: Yael Melamede Original Title (Dis)Honesty â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Truth About Lies / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Salty Features / Producer Dan Ariely, Deborah Camiel, Mitch Weitzner, Yael Melamede / World Sales BOND Strategy and Influence

From NASA, doped sport stars and advertisers to your own embellished CV; everybody is lying, but lies are part of the society we live in, so you might as well accept that you are a part of the game. Or? The bestselling author Dan Ariely gives us the truth about lying in an entertaining and thought-provoking film based on sharp analyses, sociological experiments and observations of ordinary human behaviour. For it may well be that most of us will perceive ourselves as being honest. But is it irrational to lie? And is it really immoral? Every time we lie, we add another layer to the complex reality that we are simultaneously creating around ourselves. But one thing is certain: lying is not about being a bad person, but just about being human.

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Racing Extinction Dir.: Louie Psihoyos Original Title Racing Extinction / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 94 mins. / Production Oceanic Preservation Society / Producer Olivia Ahnemann & Fisher Stevens, Gina Papabeis (Co-producer) / World Sales Oceanic Preservation Society

Close to half of the world’s species are threatened today. And we are one of them. But instead of allowing themselves to be annihilated, some of the world’s leading scientists, inventors and artists have joined forces with the Oscar-winning director of ‘The Cove’ to create an activist (and audiovisual) call for action before it is too late. And it is still possible to reverse the trend, if only we learn to appreciate the beauty of nature. This is the biggest and most important part of the good news, which is presented in ‘Racing Extinction’ on a positive note and in a super-modern and visually breathtaking from. From footage with a CO2-sensitive camera in polluted Los Angeles to the sight of phosphorescent plankton – Louis Psihoyos creates unforgettable moments from the most advanced technologies, and together with a dream team he presents a vital topic on the global agenda in a way that should resonate everywhere.

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Under the Asphalt, the Beach!

We invite you to take part in a thought experiment. Documentary may be defined as the kind of filmmaking that engages with ’the real’, which in turn may be defined as that which is actually the case - or just, the hard facts. That which actually is the case is the sum of realized possibilities; let’s for a moment imagine a world of endless potential where anything can happen at any time. Out of this set of unlimited and equally possible turnouts, only a certain number of potential outcomes are made manifest, or real. This is the world we live in – and this is the world documentaries are destined to deal with. However, this idea of documentary in turn suggests its own opposite; a mode of filmmaking engaged with the possible rather than the actual. A kind of cinema that attempts to document what isn’t, but could be the case. And that is what you get here, if you are willing to play the game. Welcome to a world where the palm trees are made of plastic, but the monkeys are real. ’Under the Asphalt, the Beach!’ is the latest entry in an ongoing investigation of the limits, liberties and contradictions of documentary at CPH:DOX, following sections on taste and taboos (MAXIMALISM, 2012), reenactments (Everything is Under Control, 2013), and interventionism (A History of Violence, 2014).

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Arabian Nights vol. 1 The Restless One Dir.: Miguel Gomes Original Title As mil e uma noites - Volume 1, o inquieto / Country Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 125 mins. / Production O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Films, Box Production / Producer Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar / World Sales The Match Factory

Miguel Gomes’s wildly imaginative masterpiece ‘Arabian Nights’ is a trilogy of three films that are based on real Portugal, where the outlook is coloured by hard times and sky-high unemployment. Inspired by the classic Arab text ‘Thousand and One Nights’, Gomes has defied hopelessness and created a parallel reality where everything – everything! – is possible. In the original ‘1001 Nights’, the beautiful and clever Sheherazade entertains an angry and bloodthirsty king with her fantastic stories. Gomes has instead sent journalists to all corners of the country to sniff out stories, large and small, that he has embellished in a series of independent episodes. Here, a modern Sheherazade guides us around in a parallel world of witches, mermaids, exploding whales and EU officials on a collective overdose of viagra. But only after poor Miguel himself escaped from the director’s chair and his own film in a creative crisis! A veritable eruption of ideas and thoughts, but also a film that from the first scene points an angry finger at the faceless bureaucracy behind Portugal’s unmanageable debt and miserable situation.

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Arabian Nights vol. 2 The Desolate One Dir.: Miguel Gomes Original Title As mil e uma noites - Volume 2, o inquieto / Country Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 131 mins. / Production O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Films, Box Production / Producer Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar / World Sales The Match Factory

The second of the three films in Miguel Gomes’s ‘Arabian Nights’ trilogy takes a simultaneously melancholy and absurd approach to its wild report from a country in deep crisis. Portuguese everyday reality may be worn thin by austerity measures, but the world that emerges from the cracks is light years away from the kitchen sink realism that normally enjoys a monopoly during social crises. Here, a grotesque trial takes place in an outdoor amphitheatre under a full moon, and a crime baron is on the run from the law in the endless Portuguese wilderness – well helped by the fact that he is able to teleport himself through time and space. The rest must be seen with your own eyes. But the subject is still a thinly veiled critique of the political and bureaucratic machinery that keeps the Portuguese stuck in a hopeless situation of debt and unemployment. The second film in an epic and almost boundlessly imaginative opus, which simultaneously rages with political indignation, punk vitality and a playful energy that simply resembles no other film.

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Arabian Nights vol. 3 The Enchanted One Dir.: Miguel Gomes Original Title As mil e uma noites - Volume 3, o encantado / Country Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 125 mins. / Production O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Films, Box Production / Producer Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar / World Sales The Match Factory

The real world is invited to a sensual dance by the dreams and reveries that Miguel Gomes lets loose in ‘Arabian Nights’, without ever losing sight of the very real political situation of his homeland. In the third part of the trilogy, Gomes’s documentary impulse leads the way, as we meet a group of taciturn and lonely men in a field outside Lisbon, where they are catching small birds for a singing competition. An entire film-in-the-film, which is touching in its sensitive depiction and immediate simplicity, and which contrasts with the chaos of invented stories and unpredictable whims that fill the rest of the film(s) around it. In addition to his unmatched level of imagination, Gomes is also a filmmaker with an eminent feeling for people and communities, which was already evident in ‘Our Beloved Month of August’ (CPH:DOX 2008). With ‘Arabian Nights’, he has revised how film can take a critical and political approach to reality, while at the same time insisting on imagination and creativity as a ‘last exit’ – an exception from a permanent state of emergency.

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Turumba Dir.: Kidlat Tahimik Original Title Turumba / Country Philippines / Year 1981 / Running time 95 mins. / Production Kidlat Kulog Productions / Producer Kidlat Tahimik / World Sales Blank Films

Of all the films about the postcolonial revision of history, the Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik’s ‘Turumba’ is a genuinely charming surprise. A wonderful, tragicomic manifesto of the liberating potential of the imagination, and a film which for all the same reason disregards the boundaries between documentary realism and fictional reveries. We are among the residents, and above all children, of a small Filipino village, whose entire economy is based on manufacturing papier mâché souvenirs for the Olympic Games, commissioned by a German businessman. But supply and demand are still foreign terms in the small community, which does not hesitate to acquire the comfortable western goods that the economic and cultural ‘exchange’ brings with it. Tahimik does not change his lyrical and documentary depiction of life in the village at the expense of a mischievous, satirical critique of the new world order – or of the old world order’s return in new clothes? Hurricanes are looming on the horizon.

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time / OUT OF JOINT Dir.: Caspar Stracke Original Title time / OUT OF JOINT / Country USA, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Dock 43, Hamburg, Caspar Stracke Filmproduktion, and MOSTRA, New York / Producer Caspar Stracke and Madeleine Dewald / World Sales Caspar Stracke

The mystery of time has preoccupied the human being since eternity began. Everyone knows what time is, but only until you start to think about it – and then there is no way back! Or is there? Is it actually possible to make time go backwards? Amidst this scenario Underground filmmaker-cum-philosopher Manuel DeLanda ping-pongs a predication on the reversals of time, space and age with unstoppable Marxist philosopher Agnés Heller. Questions and answers are layered upon each other in the German director Caspar Stracke’s maximalist (thought) experiment. Quantum experiments worthy of CERN, mirrored sound and the study of ultra-chilled atoms that can slow down light: scientists, philosophers, artists initiate us in current experiments in the art of turning time around in a film that could have been co-directed by Martin Heidegger, Aleister Crowley and Gyro Gearloose - which in practice tests the scientific theorist Karl Popper’s thesis that the road to innovation is to come up with the most unlikely theories and then to disprove them all. If this does not succeed, you have a revolution. There is more than theory at stake: if it all succeeds, there is a potential prospect of eternal life. With the cinema as the ultimate time machine, Stracke presents his neo-psychedelic essay with both, mind-boggling and emotional accounts of contemporary witnesses.

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Nightfall on Gaia Dir.: Juan Francisco Salazar Original Title Nightfall on Gaia / Country Australia, Chile / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production .aq films (Australia) / Producer Juan Francisco Salazar / World Sales Juan Francisco Salazar

The icy expanses of Antarctica do not themselves bear visible markers of which historical era we are in, or of any kind of human presence. Therefore, Juan Francisco Salazar has the freedom to set his speculative, ethnographic documentary in 2043, when the astrobiologist Xue Noon is isolated at GAIA Antarctic Station â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the last outpost of a civilisation on the brink of climatic collapse, but also a place where (real) scientists and their families talk about pioneering life among penguins and snowstorms. Xue Noon collects and archives data, but also discovers a memory bank from 2013 which stores the hope and despair of 30 years ago. The director Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and media researcher, and has published academic texts on the potential of documentary to work in hypothetical modes and relate factually to what exists only as a possibility.

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Celine and Julie Go Boating Dir.: Jacques Rivette Original Title Céline et Julie vont en bâteau / Country France / Year 1974 / Running time 193 mins. / Production Action Films, Les Films 7, Les Films du Losange / Producer Barbet Schroeder / World Sales Les Films du Losange

Acclaimed by the most diverse critics as one of the most free, most original and basically revolutionary – in short: best - films ever. And less will hardly do if you go to see Jacques Rivette’s brilliant Chinese box of a film with the same open mind as it was made with. Two young women, a librarian and a magician, meet by chance on the street in Paris and become friends. Everything that happens afterwards in the Lewis Carroll-inspired action is improvised during the hot summer of 1974, when Rivette and his colleagues shot the film as a kind of social experiment which approaches the unknown with a liberating curiosity that expands the space of the film instead of closing it around itself as fiction. An artistic and social ideal, which in the disillusioned years after May 1968, and with an understated political commitment to a social reality, actually suggested new avenues to radical freedom for both art and life – and thus finally fulfilled the promise that the students had graffitied on the walls of Paris five years earlier: Under the paving stones, the beach!

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Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars Dir.: Akiko Okumura Original Title Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars / Country France, Japan / Year 2015 / Running time 15 mins. / Production Le Fresnoy / Producer Le Fresnoy / World Sales Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains

In Asia it is common to believe in ghosts, in a realistic and completely different way than we are used to in our part of the world. In Akiko Okumura’s short film, some people initiate us poetically and quietly in their own encounters with the supernatural world, which exists as a parallel reality in the midst of our own. A 67-year-old woman talks about a vision of mysterious light, which she has kept in mind since her childhood and upbringing in a village that no longer exists. Their meetings and experiences are due to neither religious nor superstitious ideas, but are pure and clear observations, which are framed by the young filmmaker’s equally clear scenarios. Quite in contrast to how one’s western expectations of a ghost film might look, there are no macabre shock effects to be frightened by, rather an emptiness and absence which is not necessarily eerie in the classical sense. But which nevertheless represents an exception to the rest of reality around us. Screening with ‘Spectrographies’.

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Spectrographies Dir.: Dorothée Smith Original Title Spectrographies / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 59 mins. / Production Spectre Productions / Producer Olivier Marboeuf / Cédric Walter / World Sales Spectre Productions

During one long winter’s night in a neon-lit Paris, a restless young man wanders around to let himself be found by something that most people otherwise try to avoid: ghosts. And the night is full of unexpected encounters in an ultra-chic film, which is neither documentary nor fiction, but rather an adaptation of the idea that Jacques Derrida defines in a guest star appearance on the cinema screen: that film plus psychoanalysis is equal to the science of ghosts. In other words, a form of ‘spectrography’ which the French artist Dorothée Smith in her self-ironic/ self-conscious science fiction essay of a film conjures up with thermal infrared and in the dialogue’s mosaic of quotes of rambling French philosophy from Breton and Barthes to Merleau-Ponty and Derrida himself. Hypermodern and rich in (retro) references – and above all in its own ideas. For there are other ways to answer the question of how far you believe in ghosts, than yes or no. And it is this range of possibilities that ‘Spectrographies’ charts with great ingenuity. Screening with ‘Flying Phosphorous and Shooting Stars’.

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the meaning of style Dir.: Phil Collins Original Title the meaning of style / Country Malaysia, Skotland / Year 2011 / Running time 5 mins. / Production Shady Lane Productions / Producer Fran Borgia, Phil Collins / World Sales Shady Lane Productions

The cinema is a space where anything is possible. And it is during a trip to the cinema that a group of Malaysian skinheads – who have taken over the former British colonial power’s own (counter)cultural style and bully attitudes – are surprised by a box full of butterflies in the Scottish visual artist Phil Collins’s merely five minute long and incredibly stylish ‘the meaning of style’. A dialogue-free course in ‘clean living under difficult circumstances’, as it were, and a film that under its seductive surface is both a postcolonial diversion and a complex meditation on the exceptional state of watching a film. CPH:DOX’s old friend Gruff Rhys is responsible for the dreamlike score. Screening with ‘The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys’, ‘Wayward Fronds’, ‘Talking Mountain’ and ‘The Island is Enchanted with You’.

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The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys Dir.: Basim Magdy Original Title The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys / Country Egypt / Year 2014 / Running time 13 mins. / Production Basim Magdy / Producer Basim Magdy / World Sales Basim Magdy

Last year’s winner of the New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX, Basim Magdy, creates alien worlds where one nevertheless recognises glimpses of ones own reality in the beautiful, manually processed 16mm film images and the surreal adventures that grow forth from them. Last year’s winning film ‘The Dent’ was in itself an inspiration for this year’s series about the intersection between the real and the possible, and is followed up by an imaginative tale of a man who moves away from the sea to avoid being swallowed by the waves, and who soon finds himself isolated when his friends go to the beach and never come back. When he makes a phone call to a random number, he ends up in a romantic conversation about loneliness and the absurdity of reality: under the real, the possible. Screening with ‘the meaning of style’, ‘Wayward Fronds’, Talking Mountain’ and ‘The Island is Enchanted with You’.

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Wayward Fronds Dir.: Fern Silva Original Title Wayward Fronds / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 14 mins. / World Sales Fern Silva

Nature has started to take over civilisation’s temporary manifestations – mobile homes and motels – in Fern Silva’s exotic and evocative ‘Wayward Fronds’, which like a Southern Gothic horror film in slow motion portrays the ecological counterattack in surreal tableaux shot on location in the swamp state Florida. If you see it as a factual documentation of something that exists as a (highly real) possibility, Silva’s post-apocalyptic vision is a take on an imminent future where we again have to adapt to nature’s moods. The fact that it is also as atmospheric and sensually intense as few other films this year, shot as it is on analogue 16mm, does not make its romantic doom motives less seductive. Screening with ‘the meaning of style’, ‘The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys’, ‘Talking Mountain’ and ‘The Island is Enchanted with You’.

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Talking Mountain Dir.: Agnieszka Polska Original Title Talking Mountain / Country Poland / Year 2015 / Running time 9 mins. / Production Agnieszka Polska / Producer Agnieszka Polska / World Sales ZAK | BRANICKA

The contemporary artist Agnieszka Polska’s ‘The Talking Mountain’ appears before ones eyes like a hallucinatory reunion with the kind of radical Eastern European children’s television that many of this film’s specatotors surely grew up with during the 70s and 80s. The film documents a journey that Polska embarked on with her friend Sara van der Heide, in an attempt to find the talking mountain – a fabled rock that is shaped like a face which, rumour has it, can answer all your questions. A playful journey of discovery, which is sceptically aware that much of what we (think we) know in fact are no more than dreams and wishes, which our otherwise so rational brains project onto the world’s infinite movie screen. And which thereby turns a classical philosophical limitation into its own advantage and reformulates it as a game. Screening with ‘the meaning of style’, ‘The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys’, ‘Wayward Fronds’ and ‘The Island is Enchanted with You’.

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The Island is Enchanted with You Dir.: Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver Original Title La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes / Country USA, Switzerland, Australien / Year 2014 / Running time 28 mins. / Production Unity / Producer Daniel Schmidt, Alexander Carver / World Sales Unity

From an erotic encounter between two civilisations at a beach to a karaoke video against a salmon-coloured sunset. ‘The Island is Enchanted with You’ is a sensual (and sexual) colonial-historical fantasy from Puerto Rico across three different centuries with a talking torso as a luminescent host. Based on three real, historical episodes that deal with epidemics, vaccines and capital as symbolic undertakings in the name of colonial exploitation, it is also a film that (re)stages the past as a parenthesis in the midst of the present, to point at a possible – and considerably more tolerant – future. Daniel Schmidt & Alexander Carver’s film is drowsy like an opium dream and meta-exotic to an extent that you can only get away with if you really know what you’re doing. Screening with ‘the meaning of style’, ‘The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys’, ‘Wayward Fronds’ and ‘Talking Mountain’.

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Borne on Men’s Backs Dir.: Bertille Bak Original Title Transport à dos d’hommes / Country France / Year 2012 / Running time 16 mins. / World Sales Bertille Bak

If Buster Keaton had been a documentary filmmaker, the camouflaged caravans in ‘Borne on Men’s Backs’ – where the hospitable inhabitants of a Roma camp open up their doors, walls and roofs for us – could easily have been his work. But the French artist Bertille Bak’s funny and understated deadpan documentary is not just a study of temporary build-and-discard-architecture or in the art of camouflaging a caravan. Her mischievous, semi-objective report from life in the camp, where the usually homeless inhabitants already live an invisible life excluded from the rest of society, is also a comical commentary on a self-righteous discourse, which divides the political and social reality into terms like inside and outside, them and us. Screening with ‘A Tour of the Self Cleaning House’ and ‘Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project’.

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A Tour of the Self Cleaning House Dir.: Lily Benson Original Title A Tour of the Self Cleaning House / Year 2015 / Running time 11 mins. / World Sales Lily Benson

A guided, 3D-animated tour of a failed, fully mechanical house that ended up enslaving the housewives that should have been liberated in the 1950s. The self-cleaning house is a patented invention, which Francis Gabe, an architect from Oregon, can be credited for. The house was hailed far and wide, and highlighted as a feminist frontrunner. When Lily Benson visited the prototype of the house, that Gabe still lived in in 2007, she discovered that the otherwise good idea was never really translated into sustainable practice. ‘A Tour of the Self Cleaning House’ is Benson’s 3D-animated fantasy of a fully functional house, based on the principles of Gabe’s original patent, and therefore takes place in a strange no man’s land between ideal and reality. Lily Benson last visited CPH:DOX in 2013, where she together with Cassandra Guan (and 50 other, young filmmakers) shared the ‘exquisite corpse’ work ‘The Filmballad of Mamadada’ with us. Screening with ‘Borne on Men’s Backs’ and ‘Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project’.

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Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project Dir.: Jodie Mack Original Title Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project / Country USA / Year 2013 / Running time 41 mins. / Production Jodie Mack / Producer Jodie Mack / World Sales Jodie Mack

In the American filmmaker Jodie Mack’s ‘Dusty Stacks of Mom’ tragedy returns, not as farce, but as a cut-and-paste musical from the poster factory which her own mother unfortunately had to close down as a result of the omnipresent financial crisis. But maybe also as a result of the fact that Guns N’ Roses and Aerosmith posters are no longer quite as coveted as they once were. Not even if they come in beautiful colour lithography. In all ways, and with a phenomenally contagious energy and musicality, Jodie Mack has transformed her mother’s personal and professional life crisis into an anarchic stop motion musical with her mother and her posters as the omnipresent protagonists. A perfectionist and political film under the lively and colourful paper surface. Screening with ‘Borne on Men’s Backs’ and ‘A Tour of the Self Cleaning House’.

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True Crime

True Crime is back - with a vengeance! The ultimate tabloid genre has undergone a true comeback in the wake of successful phenomena such as ’The Jinx’ and ’Serial’. As popular as it is controversial, and as problematic as it morbidly fascinating. But is the True Crime genre really as unambiguous as it is most often made out to be? If the films in this selection are to be trusted, True Crime often has more to do with psychology and time-consuming detective work, than it is about sensationalism and shock effects. And with notable predecessors like Errol Morris’s groundbreaking ’The Thin Blue Line’, nonfiction films based on (tragically) true events have also proven to have had a real impact. This might be the case in several of the films here, as real destinies are at stake in all the films in Crime Wave. A fascination with crime is a constant in popular culture, but charismatic characters and suspenseful storytelling take center stage in our guide to the renaissance of the notorious genre - and speaking of it, do not miss ’The Fear of 13’ in our Dox:Award Competition.

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London Road Dir.: Rufus Norris Original Title London Road / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Cuba Pictures, National Theatre / Producer Dixie Linder / World Sales Protagonist Pictures

In 2006, five women between 19 and 29, all former prostitutes, were found murdered in the small town of Suffolk near Ipswich in England. The then 48-year-old Steven Right was found guilty of the murders, which ‘London Road’ investigates in a truly original and morbidly entertaining manner. ‘London Road’ stages the investigative work as a minutely precise, social (sur)realistic docu-musical starring Tom Hardy, where all dialogue is based on the real police interrogations of the frightened and outraged residents – and where almost all of it is sung! Carefully choreographed and (re)constructed in every minute detail, but without losing the connection to the gruesome events that the whole sorry story is built upon. Rufus Norris is the artistic director of the British National Theatre, and his critically acclaimed hit debut as a director is made with an irresistible, black humour and a razor-sharp eye for the social mechanisms of the small community.

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My Friend Rockefeller Dir.: Steffi Kammerer Original Title My Friend Rockefeller / Country Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production LOOKS Filmproduktionen / Producer Martina Haubrich, Gunnar Dedio / World Sales Cinephil

Who is Christian Gerhartsreiter? That depends on whom you ask. Most – at least those living by the wealthy American East Coast! – will recognise the charming man by the name of Clark Rockefeller, a charismatic and cultivated gentleman from a renowned family. And here begins what the FBI has called the longest-lasting hoax in its entire history. An incredible and tragicomic story about a sharp impostor from a German village, who conned his way to the top of New York’s banking elite and who for 13 years was married to a woman who had no idea who he really was, until he after their divorce abducted their child and was revealed to be a myriad of different personalities. Not unlike Andrew Jarecki’s ‘The Jinx’, ‘My Friend Rockefeller’ is an identikit portrait of a man with a thousand faces, but with an ice-cold and calculating intellect. A story full of unexpected twists, told in a collage of interviews with all those who (thought they) knew him. But also an eerie tale about an unsolved double murder, which was committed several decades ago and which has now suddenly resurfaced.

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The Mind of Mark DeFriest Dir.: Gabriel London Original Title The Mind of Mark DeFriest / Country USA, Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 100 mins. / Production Naked Edge Films, Found Object Films / Producer Daniel J. Chalfen, Gabriel London, Charlie Sadoff / World Sales Found Object Films

Mark DeFriest could have been an astrophysicist or an elite engineer. But his life, for some reason, took a criminal turn, and today he is America’s greatest escape artist. A man who – with many short interruptions! – has spent almost all his adult life in prison. What happened to the obviously gifted and charismatic man behind the now haggard face? And can we even count on what he’s saying? A question that becomes all the more urgent when he suddenly has the possibility of going on parole after 30 years behind bars. But only if he can break the cycle of rebellion and disciplinary time, and prove to the Parole Commission that he is finally ready to return to a life of freedom. And that could be hard, as the modern Houdini ended up in Florida’s most heavily guarded prison after being accused of pretending to be mentally ill. ‘The Mind of Mark DeFriest’ is an unusual journey into an extraordinary man’s inner life.

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The Confessions of Thomas Quick Dir.: Brian Hill Original Title The Confessions of Thomas Quick / Country UK, Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 94 mins. / Production Century Films / Producer Katie Bailiff / World Sales Independent Film Company

With no less than 39 brutal murders on his conscience, Thomas Quick is the most notorious serial killer in Swedish history. The country breathed a huge sigh of relief when Quick – also known by his real name Sture Bergvall – was finally found and arrested in 1990. But after almost 20 years in a psychiatric prison, the ‘Swedish Hannibal Lecter’ retracted all his confessions. And from one day to the next the case surrounding Thomas Quick started to crumble. A suspiciously high number of all unsolved murders were attributed to him. Was Sweden’s worst serial killer in fact a victim of Sweden’s biggest miscarriage of justice? ‘The Confessions of Thomas Quick’ is a Scandinavian noir and a true crime thriller, which takes place in a web of murders and lies. But it is not the kind where you heave a huge sigh of relief when it ends. The story of the tragic outsider Thomas Quick / Sture Bergvall is also a story about how easy it is to get carried away by popular moods and group pressure – also within the police force and the psychiatric care system. Everyone has their own motives, but when can we be sure that what we believe is in fact true?

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Dream/Killer Dir.: Andrew Jenks Original Title Dream/Killer / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 110 mins. / Production Andrew Jenks Entertainment, Bloom Project / Producer Chip Rosenbloom / World Sales Preferred Content

On Halloween on 31 October 2001, the sports editor Kent Heitholt is brutally murdered. The case remains unsolved for two years. But in an unexpected twist, the young Chuck Erickson suddenly remembers – in a dream! – that he and his friend Ryan Ferguson have committed the murder. When Chuck confesses and implicates Ryan as an accomplice, all hell breaks loose. Ryan’s father, Bill, starts a tough and long-running battle to prove his son’s innocence. Determined, he initiates one ‘Free Ryan Ferguson’ campaign after another, and drives across the United States with a car bearing a huge portrait of Ryan’s face, posting images on the growing Facebook page that aims to raise awareness about the case. He sets up billboards with a facial composite of an eyewitness who has gone missing, starts a fundraising campaign, hands out rewards and organises a banner flight. Anything that can help his son out of the orange overalls and back to life on the other side of the prison bars. But will he succeed? ‘Dream/ Killer’ is a poignant film about a father’s fight for his son, but also a disturbing look at the American legal system.

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Soaked in Bleach Dir.: Benjamin Statler Original Title Soaked in Bleach / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 89 mins. / Production Daredevil Films Production / Producer Benjamin Statler, Richard Middleton, Donnie Eichar / World Sales Oy Future Film Ab

Was Kurt Cobain’s death really a suicide? Or is there another, more sinister truth behind the 27-year-old’s tragic and far too untimely exit? It is one of rock history’s most exaggeratedly discussed conspiracy theories. But what if? ‘Soaked in Bleach’ adds a whole new perspective and solid evidence to the picture, so it is impossible not to start having one’s doubts. Five days before Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, his wife Courtney Love hired the private investigator Tom Grant to find him. Grant had a habit of recording all his conversations with his clients, and when he once again turns the evidence upside down it is impossible not to start questioning things – in the very least. Grant does not believe that the investigative work was done thoroughly enough back in 1994. And the more the story unfolds and becomes increasingly entangled, the more Courtney’s explanations and evidence for a suicide start to fall apart. Whether you are into conspiracy theories or cold facts is irrelevant. ‘Soaked in Bleach’ is a documentary pulp noir, which insistently keeps poking at whatever doubt you may have.

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The Russian Woodpecker Dir.: Chad Gracia Original Title The Russian Woodpecker / Country UK / Year 2014 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Roast Beef Productions, Rattapallax / Producer Mike Lerner & Ram Devineni / World Sales Roast Beef Productions

Was Chernobyl an inside job? A tipsy, Ukrainian artist embarks on a quest to uncover a conspiracy theory where a failed, Soviet mind control programme was covered up in connection with the nuclear disaster in 1986. Exhibit A: a giant radio antenna the size of a football field, from which the Soviet regime sent interfering signals towards the West, and which still stands today. The suspicion is gnawing at the young Fedor Alexandrovic, and as the circumstantial evidence piles up and the people involved categorically refuse to discuss the matter, one involuntarily starts to share his doubt. For parallel with Alexandrovic’s chaotic but stubborn investigative work, the Russian empire is proving its continued dominance in connection with the uprising in Ukraine. Has the cold war entered its second phase? And will the anonymous threats manage to silence Alexandrovic? The Sundance hit ‘The Russian Woodpecker’ is equal parts entertaining and disturbing. For what if Fedor is just a bit right?

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Italian Gangsters Dir.: Renato De Maria Original Title Italian Gangsters / Country Italy / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Master Five Cinematografica / Producer Davide Tovi / World Sales Minerva Pictures Group

In the ruins of World War II, a chaotic gangster rule arose in north Italian cities such as Milan and Bologna, where the six most notorious crime lords had their base. Their memories of life as major mobsters are retold in a baroque and highly energetic hybrid of performative reconstructions and extracts from Italian archives in ‘Italian Gangsters’, which punches hard from the very first moment and only looks back when the alternately intellectual, anarchistic and downright mad Mafiosi’s own cock-and-bull stories are illustrated with scenes from the highlights of Italian film history. If you ask them directly, it was not just the prospect of fast money that drove them. All six came from the working class, had ties to the Communist Party, and mixed a Robin Hood ideology with somewhat confused (and confusing) political motives. Add the sexual revolution to the mix, and you have a stylised homage to both genre film geniuses such as Fernando Di Leo and Mario Bava, and esteemed auteurs such as Antonioni, Elio Petri and Marco Bellocchio.

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Thought Crimes Dir.: Erin Lee Carr Original Title Thought Crimes / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 82 mins. / Production HBO Documentary Films / Producer Erin Lee Carr, Andrew Rossi / World Sales HBO Documentary Films

Gilberto Valle was dubbed ‘The Cannibal Cop’ by the media, as the former NYPD police officer was accused of plotting to kidnap and eat around one hundred (!) women in 2012. In a fetish chat forum he had told other men about his fantasies and desires, which involved kidnapping his own wife, former student friends and acquaintances, in order to subsequently torture, rape, cook and eat them. The jury found him guilty of conspiracy, but the case was more complicated than that. For how guilty are you if the ‘only’ thing you have done is to write about your fantasies on the internet? Gilberto Valle became patient zero in the phenomenon of thought crimes, where criminals are arrested for crimes they have not yet committed. Through interviews with his mother, his lawyer, experts in the field and Gilberto Valle himself, the macabre story of a hypothetical crime is presented with a massive final twist. ‘Thought Crimes’ exposes Gilberto Valle’s morbid and disgusting thoughts, but the verdict is up to the audience – and it will make you dig deep into your own mind. Is there anything inside it that could get you behind bars?

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Documentary is more than films. And so is CPH:DOX! This year we are exploring nonfiction across various formats, media, and practices. Podcasts, performances, interactive web-based video projects, the unoffical, annual world championship in YouTube Battle, and beyond. Radio kills the video star in the programme that the podcast sensation Third Ear has curated especially for CPH:DOX. Third Ear has invited some of the finest new voices in the innovative world of podcasts - from Scott Carrier to the team behind ’Criminal’, and more. The entire Third Ear programme takes place at Copenhagen’s Planetarium IMAX cinema - and yes, they have an earblowing sound system! Michael Madsen (’The Visit’, ’Into Eternity’) is premiering his new performance piece ’The Reviews’ - and you’ve got to believe it to see it. As elsewhere in the programme, art and activism goes together in our focus on how new technologies allow different stories and realities to be heard and seen. From the everyday to parts of the world that we mainly know from the headlines. This is the shape of things to come - except, it’s already here and happening.

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Third Ear Presents: An Evening with Scott Carrier Dir. Scott Carrier Running time 120 mins.

Scott Carrier is the closest we will ever get to Bob Dylan in the podcast world, and now the man behind ‘This American Life’ and the brand new pod-series ‘Home of the Brave’ is coming to Copenhagen. There is nobody on radios or podcasts who sounds like Carrier, and there is nobody who writes for the radio as well as he does. His easygoing, almost lethargic narrative style. His uncanny ability to place himself in the middle of the most impossible situations. His sense of humour, honesty – and language. Carrier will play bits and pieces from his archive and talk about a long life in American independent radio.

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Third Ear Presents: True Crime Stories Dir. Tim Hinman, Krister Moltzen, Martin Johnson, Anton Berg, Pheobe Judge, Lauren Spohrer. Running time 120 mins.

True Crime is back in TV series, documentaries – and now also audio formats. Meet Lauren Spohrer and Phoebe Judge from Radiotopia’s ‘Criminal’ podcast, Martin Johnson and Anton Berg from the Swedish crime podcast ‘Spår’, as well as Third Ear’s own Tim Hinman and Krister Moltzen. We play stories and talk about what is going on behind the recordings when one creates and tells True Crime stories just with sound. We will talk about the challenges of investigative work, and the ethics and dangers associated with presenting entertainment based on crimes that involve victims and perpetrators.

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Third Ear Presents: Short Cuts Dir. Alan Hall, Eleanor McDowall Running time 120 mins.

British radio has long been the place where you could find some of the finest audio documentaries in the world. Meet two of the field’s most talented Brits, as they play the best bits of British radio to you: Alan Hall and Eleanor McDowall from Falling Tree Productions. Alan’s unique style and ambitions represent the best of what ‘adventurous radio’, as Alan himself calls it, can achieve. Eleanor believes that radio can shake you in your foundation, and that good sound and storytelling can create an overall experience that speaks to both the head and the heart, as she demonstrates with her BBC radio show Short Cuts.

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Third Ear Presents: The Double Dir. Thomas Arent Andersen Running time 45 mins.

13 years ago, in Viborg, lived two young men with the same name: Thomas Andersen. One night in October, they met each other at a pizzeria, they got into an argument, started fighting, and afterwards one Thomas sat in his car and decided to run over the other one. The other Thomas ended up in a coma, and narrowly survived. But when he woke up, he could not remember anything about the night that changed his life forever. Now, he returns to Viborg to shed light on the darkness of the past and to find out what actually happened that night a long time ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and to find Thomas Andersen again. Editors:Tim Hinman & Krister Moltzen. Producer: Thomas Arent Andersen.

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Third Ear Presents: Life on Mars Dir. Tim Hinman & Krister Moltzen Running time 100 mins.

We are getting closer to the Red Planet. Soon, we might be sending people on one-way tickets to Mars. But what is it like to sit in a space station several hundred million miles away from Earth? The short film ‘Mars Closer’ and the fourth episode of Third Ear’s radio podcast ‘Life on Mars’, ‘Best Case Scenario’, will give us their takes on how it feels to be on the way to or live on the almost atmosphere-less planet. Followed by the radio medium’s possibly most bombastic worst-case scenario: when the Martians come to Earth in Orson Welles’s radio classic ‘War of the Worlds’ from 1938. The sound of Mars and its residents will be helped along by VJ Kobe’s live visuals.

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The Reviews Dir. Michael Madsen Running time 60 mins.

With films such as ‘The Visit’ and ‘Into Eternity’, the Danish artist and filmmaker Michael Madsen has set new standards for what contemporary documentaries can achieve. With ‘The Reviews’ he sets the bar even higher, and evokes the film experience directly into your brain! An evocative, performative live review of imaginary – and of course highly original! – filmhistorical works, which quite simply do not exist before you are invited to imagine them, while seated in front of the tabula rasa of the screen in the cinema’s space of possibilities.

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Stand by for Tape Back-Up Dir. Ross Sutherland Original Title Stand by for Tape Back-Up / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 65 mins. / Producer Charlie Lyne, Ross Sutherland / World Sales Ross Sutherland

An old, worn-out VHS tape with extracts from ‘Ghostbusters’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ forms the backbone of Ross Sutherland’s autobiographical stand-up show, where he with a wry, self-effacing honesty speaks live over the grainy images. As a child, Ross spent the summers with his now dead grandfather, whose only videotape was recorded over with something new every year. And just like the black tape stores the low-resolution pop cultural fragments on its magnetic reels, Ross’s own recollection of his childhood and upbringing has taken on the form of a video tape. A sharp, ironic and lo-fi performance, which both makes you laugh and lingers in your thoughts.

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YouTube Battle The audience is guaranteed an explosive mix of talent, musical surprises, videos and poor resolution as we open the doors to this year’s YouTube Battle in Lille VEGA. The annual competition is straightforward: a number of teams battle each other in a tournament to show the wildest, most daring and most intense clips from the ‘Tube. But as an entirely new feature we have a few surprises up our sleeves. Arch rivals from TV, radio, filmmaking and maybe a theme park or two will battle each other, and in addition, the night will offer performance surprises and plenty of musical subtleties. The comedian Martin Nørgaard is hosting and will guide us through tonight’s competition, wilderness, insanity, lol and nyan cats. Expect everything and nothing, and plenty of bellowing laughter.

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Turning Tables: If No One Speaks, No One Is Heard Running time 90 mins.

Turning Tables is a global organisation that works to give a voice to young refugees, activists and the poor in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hotspots. The Kenyan Michael Munyore, Khin Thethar Latt from Myanmar and the Danish Thomas Papapetros and Martin Fernando guide you through Palestinian refugee camps via failed Arab revolutions to Southeast Asian activism â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all through films, music and cock-and-bull stories. Find out more at www.turningtables.org.

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i-D Presents: Documentary in Style Running time 80 mins.

High-end fashion and luxury might not be the first thing you think about when you hear the word documentary. But recently the boundaries started to shift, and documentary is now often the medium that kickstarts new trends. British iD and their new sister channel Amuse are first movers in the field with a sharp mix of online and TV documentaries about lifestyle and street culture. Ravi Amaratunga, i-Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Global Group Director for film, will present a selection of projects on everything from sex and drugs via street style to racial, gender and identity issues.

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Everyday Evening 2015 This year, CPH:DOX has launched the new digital video platform Everyday. With the ambition of breaking the flow of fleeting snapchats and with the support of Nordea-fonden, Everyday was launched to encourage and challenge everyone with a smartphone in their pockets to tell us their unusual stories from new and unusual perspectives. After just four months, www.everydayproject.dk already has more than 150 videos uploaded to the platform. We have been out to hold workshops from high schools and colleges to rural associations and cultural centres, and more than 200 people have attended an Everyday workshop. We want to celebrate this! And we will do so by hosting an Everyday night at Cinemateket, where you can experience some of this year’s best Everyday videos, meet the film director Nagieb Khaja, who will hold an inspiring presentation about working with personal stories in documentary, and who will also be there to hand out the award for the best video in the ‘Everyday at Home’ competition. We finish off the day with bubbly drinks and snacks in Asta Bar.

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Syriatype Launch Event Running time 75 mins.

When the revolution started in Syria it held amazing promises. People joined the demonstrations in the streets to fight for human rights and equality. Today we only hear of violence and suffering in media, therefore Syriatype answers the need to share other stories. Syriatype is an online new media project which uses art, interactivity and new technology as tools. A space for interaction between Syrian artists/activists, and secondly, a global audience. The platform is built by artists for artists and contains personal presentations, web-portraits and art portfolios. Each artist has a project which is being developed and a wishlist on how you can interact with the project to make it happen. Meet some of the minds behind the project for a special launch of the platform and get the full story about how - and why - it came into being.

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C:NTACT presents: Stories Untold Dir. MS Original Title C:NTACT presents: Stories Untold / Country Denmark, Jordan / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production C:NTACT and Ma3mal 612 / Producer Henrik Hartmann /

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Stories Untoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offers a solid handful of short films produced on mobile phones by and with extraordinary women from the MENA region. Meet a peasant woman from Tunisia, who refuses to give up her passion for farming, a footballer from Palestine who had to force her male coaches to take her seriously, and see a woman from Lebanon as she has numerous men interpret a letter she has herself written from the father who left her. At CPH:DOX you can also meet some of the women themselves and hear more about their work. The event is free of charge and places are given on a first-come-first-served basis.

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New work by some of the world’s most respected artists and filmmakers. The selection includes recent work by contemporary nonfiction auteurs such as Sergei Loznitsa, José Luis Guerin and Grant Gee, as well as new work by artists like Andrew Kötting, Thom Andersen and twice CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers. Roberto Minervini is back at CPH:DOX with his new film ’The Other Side’, and you can meet him for a masterclass (see the ’Seminars’ section). The selection also offers a chance to catch up on what giants like Amos Gitai and Frederick Wiseman have been up to since last year - as well as a chance to experience none other than Christopher Nolan’s first foray into documentary with the short 35mm film ’Quay’. The field may be broad, but the filmmakers and artists whose work we are presenting here have one thing in common: The personal signature. And that they make great films.

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Rabin, the Last Day Dir.: Amos Gitai Original Title Rabin, the Last Day / Country Israel / Year 2015 / Running time 153 mins. / Production AGAV Films / Producer Jean-Baptiste Dupont, Amos Gitai, David Kessler, Sylvie Pialat, Michael Tapuah, Laurent Truchot / World Sales Indie Sales Grand Teatret Grand Teatret Grand Teatret

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Amos Gitai’s historical docudrama about the assassination of the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 was one of the most acclaimed films at this year’s Venice Film Festival, and is a detailed and thrilling reconstruction of what went wrong when the young fanatic Yigal Amir shot and killed the man who was prepared to make peace in a region where extremism and political violence has since exploded. The attack

happened a few years after Rabin had signed the so-called Oslo Accords, which would give the Palestinians a greater degree of participation, but after the murder the peace talks crumbled year after year. ‘Rabin, The Last Day’ follows the days before and after the assassination of Rabin with both original footage and reenactments of the events surrounding the assassination. Why did the security forces not have a contingency plan for exactly that day? And why were the threats and curses from fundamentalist Jews ignored?

The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers Dir.: Ben Rivers Original Title The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 98 mins. / Production Artangel / Producer Ben Rivers, Jacqui Davies / World Sales Memento Films International Cinemateket Cinemateket

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The American author Paul Bowles has written the short story which has given the name and – as the film progresses – increasingly also the story to the latest long work by Ben Rivers, which takes place at the foot of the North African Atlas Mountains. In the dusty, heat-shimmering landscape, the shoot of a mysterious (but real) film project is documented. If you look it up in a book on film theory, you would end up in the chapter on ‘meta film’, the kind where one film (de)mystifies the genesis of another. But only until the director suddenly leaves his own film to wander around restlessly in the

desert. And like in a mirage, the boundaries become blurred between factual evidence and a disturbing and threatening febrile fantasy, which ends with a kidnapping and a grotesque ritual that can not / must not be reproduced in words. The twice CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers has with an almost alchemical productivity and visionary consistency created a body of work that often revolves around anthropological ‘field trips’ into unknown lands. This time, he more radically than ever questions his own role and authority as a documentarist. Screening with River’s new short film ‘A Distant Episode’.

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Dir.: Ben Rivers Original Title A Distant Episode / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 18 mins. / Production Artangel / Producer Jacqui Davies / World Sales LUX Cinemateket Cinemateket

Two astronauts in silvery space suits meet in the waves on a beach in Morocco. An unexpected sight, which can only partially be explained by the presence of the film crew that silently observes their encounter behind a wall of cameras and microphones. A film shoot is always a mysterious state of exceptional circumstances, and the double creation myth that we are witnessing here places yet another mysterious layer onto the creation of the film - both the science fiction scene we are witnessing and Rivers’ own images from the deserted

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streets in a whitewashed and almost deserted village, whose inhabitants throw short and shy glances toward the camera before disappearing hastily around a corner. The double CPH:DOX winner Ben Rivers has created a film that bubbles with both chemical and cosmic force, and the wide black-and-white images in his brand-new ‘A Distant Episode’ are no exception. The film can be seen as a companion piece to the feature ‘The Sky Trembles...’, with which it is screening here.

By Our Selves Dir.: Andrew Kötting Original Title By Our Selves / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Andrew Kötting / Producer Andrew Kötting, Ed Fletcher / World Sales Soda Pictures Dagmar Teatret Cinemateket

In 1841, the romantic British poet John Clare fled from a psychiatric sanatorium and walked 140 km through the mid-English forests. A journey, which the anarchistic auteur Andrew Kötting, the situationist Iain Sinclair and the comic guru Alan Moore reconstruct and revisit themselves in ‘By Our Selves’, where the inimitable Toby Jones (you’ll know him when you see him!) lends his voice and not least his amazing face to the errant Clare. A wonderfully eccentric and immensely British

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gentleman film, made of random encounters with interesting strangers and genuine insights into the obscure origins of poetry. Only the loving, grainy home footage of Kötting’s daughter Eden break the spartan, black and white lo-fi aesthetics in a film, which like Kötting’s other work is an unqualified tribute to the spontaneous, impulsive and open-minded – and to the camaraderie between old friends, who long since have become accustomed to each other’s eccentricities.

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Innocence of Memories Dir.: Grant Gee Original Title Innocence of Memories / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 97 mins. / Production Hot Property Films /’ Producer Keith Griffiths, Janine Marmot / World Sales The Match Factory Vester Vov Vov Grand Teatret Dagmar Teatret

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Writing, memory and architecture flow together in this sensual nocturnal wandering through the streets of Istanbul, which becomes a vibrant archive of life lived. In ‘Innocence of Memories’ the British filmmaker Grant Gee adds another layer to the great Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s already multilayered work ‘The Museum of Innocence’. A museum in Istanbul that exhibits real things related to the fictional love story between Kemal and the beautiful but always absent Füsun in the book of the same name. In Gee’s cinematic landscape, fact

and fiction are woven together in a meditative narrative, whose actual protagonist is the historical and modern city by the Bosporus. The budding connections between novel and museum, memory and architecture, unfold through Pamuk’s own voice, interviews, music, animations and archive footage. An atmospheric adaptation of Pamuk’s special ability to let something as mundane as a heap of cigarette stubs accommodate something as ethereal as a long lost love.

The Academy of Muses Dir.: José Luis Guerin Original Title L’accademia delle Muse / Country Spain / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Los films de Orfeo / Producer José Luis Guerin, Nuria Esquerra, Federico Delpero Bejar / World Sales Los films de Orfeo Empire Bio Vester Vov Vov

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At the University of Barcelona, professor Raffaele Pinto is teaching the muses – the goddesses of the arts, sciences and of inspiration - to his students. The students and Pinto are real enough, but José Luis Guerin’s latest, elegant film practices what Pinto talks about and lets Raffaele Pinto play the role as the professor Raffaele Pinto at the university where he has lectured for more than 40 years. From the real framework develops a romantic causerie and thought-provokingly complex meditation on the relationship between art and life,

while the film seamlessly glides ahead and explores poetry as a way of life. ‘Academy of the Muses’ is a hybrid narrative that cross-fertilises reality with imagination. Guerin has cultivated a cinematic mixture, where the spontaneity of the documentary and the precision of fiction have twined round each other. An improvised choral work during a visit to the countryside reaches a touching climax when a farmer sings a poem he has written to his late father.

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Dir.: Sergei Loznitsa Original Title Sobytie / Country The Netherlands, Belgium / Year 2015 / Running time 74 mins. / Production Atoms & Void / Producer Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova-Baker / World Sales Atoms & Void Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Vester Vov Vov

In August 1991, a group of extremist communists tried to come to power in the Soviet Union through a coup. On the streets of Moscow and Leningrad, people were crowding together in suspicious astonishment. The USSR collapsed shortly after. ‘The Event’ dissects the historical event exclusively through masterfully edited and photographed archive material, recorded on the streets and avenues during the few days the whole thing lasted. Without a voice-over, but with a subtly edited soundtrack, Sergei Loznitsa exposes the collective action as a giant, black and white fresco. But where historical upheavals are often shrouded in epic and heroic motives,

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it is the small details and the popular masses’ expectant silence that takes your breath away here. Nobody seems to know exactly what is actually happening. And in the meantime, a rhetorical battle is taking place over who has the moral authority to speak with the voice of the people and to unite the nation again. Look out for a young Putin in the wings. Sergei Loznitsa himself is shining stronger than ever as a crucial coordinate on the cinephile world atlas, and with his distinct style, as in ‘Maidan’ (CPH:DOX 2014), he is earning himself a place in the vanguard of political contemporary documentarism.

In Jackson Heights Dir.: Frederick Wiseman Original Title In Jackson Heights / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 190 mins. / Production Zipporah Films / Producer Frederick Wiseman / World Sales Zipporah Films Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret

Jackson Heights is a neighbourhood in New York. Here, the 85-year-old master documentarist Frederick Wiseman is on home turf, and his latest film is an impressively vital and wise love declaration for his multicultural ‘hood’ and those who live there. Since the 1960s, Wiseman has refined the soberly observant ‘fly on the wall’ genre, which he himself has helped develop, and it really comes to its own in a film, where a face and a simple gesture often suggest small and large dramas that you would otherwise not be able to spot in the middleof the

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megapolis’s human hubbub. But his film is also a story of how a society comes into being and works. And how tolerance is a vital ingredient in the ethnic and cultural melting pot that is New York. So it is an even greater pleasure to experience the community between people who do not necessarily have anything else in common than that they live in the same block, and that they across all their many differences pursue an American, but also universal dream of finding happiness.

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The Other Side Dir.: Roberto Minervini Original Title The Other Side / Country France, Italy, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Agat Films & Cie, Okta Film production / Producer Muriel Meynard, Paolo Benzi, Dario Zonta / World Sales Doc & Film International Dagmar Teatret Vester Vov Vov Empire Bio

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The Italian director Roberto Minervini has quietly evolved into a lyrical talent among modern documentary filmmakers. Based in Texas and specialising in portrayals of life in the American South, he creates films that surround you with their immediacy and evocative stream of images. ‘The Other Side’ takes place in dark and deep Louisiana in something that in any other film could quickly be reduced to ‘white trash’ territory. Here, we find Mark, a drug abuser and (as we later learn) a fugitive, who in the first scene wakes up stark naked and bruised on a deserted road, and tries to get his life

back on track, while his seriously ill mother is dying. In the wings are drunkards, drug addicts and a group of gun-toting paramilitary fanatics, who all have tears in their eyes when they talk of freedom and independence – two pillars of the American dream. Minervini consolidates the artistic breakthrough he had with ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ (which earned him a Special Mention at CPH:DOX 2013) with an anthropologically openminded and at the same time oddly poetic film, which takes its time to immerse itself in both its environment and its characters.

Listen to Me Marlon Dir.: Stevan Riley Original Title Listen to Me Marlon / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 102 mins. / Production Passion Pictures / Producer John Battsek, George Chignell, R.J. Cutler / World Sales Park Circus Limited Grand Teatret Bremen Teater

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Marlon Brando was a man who could embrace all of life’s enigmas, hardships and contradictions, like only the greatest artists could. The fact that he himself was both a cultural icon, an enigmatic superstar and a myth during his own life only makes the legend of him bigger. ‘Listen to Me Marlon’ provides a unique word to Brando himself – and only him – when his dramatic life story is presented through never before seen or heard material from his own, personal archive. It is all told with

his own voice in a self-portrait of extraordinary artistic quality. Brando’s enigmatic personality is present in every moment of the film, where the myth never overshadows the man, and the star’s vanity doesn’t try to airbrush away the human tragedies, of which there were also many in his life. Steven Riley has created a film of outstanding quality, but any less would not have done justice to the man.

The Thoughts That Once We Had Dir.: Thom Andersen Original Title The Thoughts That Once We Had / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 108 mins. / Production Thom Andersen / Producer Thom Andersen / World Sales LUX Gloria Dagmar Teatret

Film history can be written in many ways. One of the more speculative takes is due to the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and it is his famous two-volume ‘Cinéma I-II’ that the American essayist Thom Andersen has adapted as a collage of extracts from hundreds of films. And even though there are both cult hits and canonised classics among them, we are light years from a traditional introduction to the bumpy history of cinema. Who would have thought, for example, that you could create a colour theory about black-and-white films? Deleuze draws new and unexpected connections across the film

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medium’s one hundred year history, and the poetically named ‘The Thoughts That Once We Had’ draws lines between the dots that the French thinker had at the time. Just like Andersen’s magnum opus ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself’, his new essay is a cinematic whirlwind that blows through the history of the moving image without showing consideration for chronology. A film for everyone who is bitten by the cinephile bug – and for those who share a healthy enthusiasm for the infinite potential of both the film medium and the mind.

Quay Dir.: Christopher Nolan Original Title Quay / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 9 mins. / Production Syncopy / Producer Christopher Nolan and Andy Thompson / World Sales Zeitgeist Cinemateket Cinemateket Cinemateket

Christopher Nolan has earned both a large audience and critical acclaim for his visionary blockbusters such as ‘Interstellar’ and the ‘Batman’ trilogy. But he has also, unnoticed, made a poetic portrait of the British filmmakers and twins The Quay Brothers, whose dark and nightmarish animations open the door to an expressionistic world of living porcelain dolls and gothic horror. A world with roots in the Central European

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tradition and aesthetics, which the two alchemistic filmmakers evoke on the silver screen with a flawless sense of accuracy. Nolan himself deserves great credit for insisting on shooting on film, and we are happy to be able to show ‘Quay’ in its proper format on 35mm where it is shown as a pre-feature to ‘Dark Star - H.R. Giger’s World’.

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Dark Star: HR Giger’s World Dir.: Belinda Sallin Original Title Dark Star - HR Giger’s Welt / Country Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 95 mins. / Production T&C Film AG, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, Lucky Film GmbH / Producer Marcel Hoehn / World Sales T&C Edition AG Cinemateket Cinemateket Cinemateket

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In the film’s very first scene, H.R. Giger takes a real human skull down from a shelf in his home. ‘This is the oldest in my collection. I got it from my father when I was six years old.’ Thus, the mood is set. The Swiss artist, who designed the first ‘Alien’ films and is revered with an almost religious respect by his numerous fans for his gothic and futuristic nightmare visions, was also known to be a notoriously private man, who almost never gave interviews. So not only is he here inviting us into his world with a wealth of anecdotes and stories from his life – he is inviting us all the way into his house, where practically the entire film is shot. Here, all the

walls are painted black, and H.R. Giger himself only goes about dressed in black (and barefoot), while he shows us around among drawings, paintings and the skeleton-like metal sculptures that renewed the science fiction genre in the psychedelic 1970s. Giger’s world is dark and industrial. But the man himself was also a gregarious gentleman, who invited his friends over for gin tonics and liked to take a ride on the small train that he had built in his garden. ‘Dark Star’ is the ultimate testament to a unique artistic vision. Screening with Christopher Nolan’s short film ‘Quay’.

Over the Years Dir.: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Original Title Über die Jahre / Country Austria / Year 2015 / Running time 188 mins. / Production NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH / Producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR Dagmar Teatret Grand Teatret Vester Vov Vov

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The Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter is known for his masterful, observational depictions of life in welfare Europe. And with ‘Over the Years’ he has even by his own standards created a major opus shot over 10 years. A small carpet factory closes down in a remote corner of Austria. This kind of thing happens all the time in all places where the distance between the city and the fringes is growing. But we never see it, and we rarely hear about the human stories behind the changes on the industrial map. We do here, and in a worldly-wise

and sympathetic way. For the small handful of former employees, the closure brings a before and after. Some flourish with new jobs and interests, others never quite get used to the time after the closure of the factory. The shy open up and the silent speak. But ‘Over the Years’ is most of all an epic, existential film about how life happens while you are busy making other plans, and with its 10 year in the making it is a completely rich film experience that cements Geyrhalter’s status as a true auteur.

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Dir.: Jean-Gabriel Périot Original Title Une jeunesse allemande / Country France, Switzerland, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 93 mins. / Production Local Films / Producer Nicolas Breviére / World Sales Films Boutique Dagmar Teatret Gloria Grand Teatret

The West German youth that grew up in the post-war vacuum of the 1960s, turned against their parents at the end of the decade in a rebellion that was aimed at both the material wealth and the political suppression of history that the previous generation was now about to hand on to them. A rebellion that had several faces, but with Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader as the ultimate poster stars of a romantic and revolutionary rock ‘n’ roll dream of a youth riot, that was both social and self-absorbed to the extremes. And no matter whether you think that you know the history of the

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Rote Armee Fraktion and their tumultuous time or not, there are many good reasons to see ‘A German Youth’ on the big screen. A vital film based on thorough research and riveting archive material - and nothing else. The well-chosen and unseen clips are allowed to speak for themselves in a montage that makes a virtue and a point of both how naive and necessary the German rebellion was in its most radical form. And, not least, how self-contradictory. That is perhaps exactly why its parallels to the polarisation and the ideological extremism of today are so evident.

A Young Patriot Dir.: Du Haibin Original Title Shao Nian * Xiao Zhao / Country China, USA, France / Year 2015 / Running time 106 mins. / Production CNEX Foundation Limited, ITVS, 24 Images / Producer Ruby Chen / World Sales CNEX Foundation Limited Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket

Young Zhao Chantong is a convinced Maoist and enthusiastic supporter of the communist regime in China. Or that’s at least what he is when we meet him at the age of 19 in the beginning of Du Haibin’s film, which follows him for five years until he is 24. Five years is a long time in today’s China. And the transition from communism to capitalism – and from youth to adulthood – is a complex and corrupt affair, which ends up costing Zhao a number of illusions. He was born in 1990, and if you are like Zhao and want to know where China is headed, there is much to be learnt from following the young

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idealist’s formative journey through a society that is undergoing dizzying change. For no matter how disappointed he occasionally may be about reality and the compromises he encounters along the way, there is no doubt that he really wants the best for his country and for the society around him – and that he is more than willing to do his share of what it takes. With films such as ‘1428’ and ‘Umbrella’, Du Haibin has made a name for himself as one of modern Chinese reality’s most important and competent chroniclers.

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Dreams Rewired Dir.: Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode & Manu Luksch Original Title Mobilisierung der Träume / Country Austria, Germany, UK / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Amour Fou Filmproduktion / Producer Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck & Linda Matern / World Sales Austrian Film Commision Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

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With Tilda Swinton’s whispering and hypnotic voice as a guide and in a virtuoso collage of footage from almost 200 films, ‘Dreams Rewired’ is a backward trip through the technological revolutions of the 20th Century – and through how they have shaped both ourselves and the virtual world we live in today. Telephones, film and TV was once just as fresh and rich in utopian promises as the internet and social media are today. But then as now, hope and fear are steadfast companions, as we

imagine a future the way we want it. The question is whether we in the meantime have become any wiser about ourselves and the machines we share our lives with? One thing is certain: we will not become any wiser by just looking forward. And there is really a lot to learn about in the three Austrian artists’ historical but highly topical and contemporary panorama of an essay film.

Of the North Dir.: Dominic Gagnon Original Title Of the North / Country Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 74 mins. / Production Dominic Gagnon / Producer Dominic Gagnon / World Sales Vidéographe Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Vester Vov Vov

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The history of documentary is rich in films that depict life in distant and exotic places – and preferably in ways that reflect our own (Western) notions of human diversity. This one does the exact opposite. A careful and controversial collage of clattering, powerful and at times strangely beautiful clips, filmed and uploaded by the inhabitants themselves in the planet’s northernmost and most inaccessible regions, like a critical corrective to the docu-classic ‘Nanook of the North’. And where Robert Flahery’s film today is criticised for its manipulative and exoticising look at the Inuit (how many

igloos really have open cross sections when a camera isn’t around?), it is the inhabitants themselves who operate the camera in a video mosaic of unfiltered life in the Arctic. Dominic Gagnon is the YouTube era’s answer to an anthropological outsider artist, and confronts us with our possible prejudices. Even those that you did not even know you had. A modern exercise in self-representation, and a problematic film that prefers to confront its own contradictions than wrap them into political correctness.

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Dir.: Khalik Allah Original Title Field Niggas / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 60 mins. / Production Khalik Allah / Producer Khalik Allah / World Sales Khalik Allah Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads

The night is long and hard in Harlem, where lost souls wander the streets under the influence of drinking, smoking, melancholy and madness. An underworld of asphalt, which the photographer Khalil Allah explores in ‘Field Niggas’, where the boundary between photography and film flows into a dark, delirious stream of faces, impressions and not least voices. Allah documents (night)life on 125th Street in an unmistakable New York tradition for socially conscious street photography, from Jacob Riis to Jacob Holdt, and from Robert Frank to Nan Goldin. But Allah continues and

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renews political photography and film imagery, and with the title’s reference to Malcolm X, it is the poor, black and otherwise often invisible New Yorker’s on the fringes of society that stare you straight in the eye. In his time, Malcolm X spoke of ‘field negroes’, slaves who refused to submit to their white ‘masters’. It is the same pride that shines from Harlem’s residents today, at a time when street violence and racism is commonplace and the United States is far from having put racial tensions to rest.

Film Dir.: Alan Schneider Original Title Film / Country USA / Year 1965 / Running time 24 mins. / Production Evergreen / World Sales Milestone Film and Video Cinemateket

The both scary, surreal and slapstick-comedic cult classic, which is simply called ‘Film’, is also Samuel Beckett’s only attempt at a medium he otherwise admired from a distance and had highly developed theoretical thoughts about. The Irish writer and the legendary stone face Buster Keaton’s strange and dialogue-free film opus is a nightmarish chase between E (the camera) and O (Keaton), who sees eyes everywhere and escapes from

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all types of glances. Keaton plays through Beckett’s own, lifelong discomfort with cameras, and the entire film is structured around seeing and being seen – all with an added dose of absurd and pitch-black humour, which the two geniuses both excelled in. The film is shown with the brand new documentary ‘Notfilm’, a tremendously well-researched account of how the film came about.

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Notfilm Dir.: Ross Lipman Original Title Notfilm / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 128 mins. / Producer Dennis Doros, Amy Heller / World Sales Milestone Film and Video Cinemateket

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The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett and the ageing comic genius Buster Keaton bumped into each other on a New York street in the summer of 1964. The result was the mythical and nightmarish cult film, which quite simply was called ‘Film’. A fiercely ambitious and at the same time scary, surreal and slapstick comic work based on Beckett’s highly developed theoretical thoughts about the medium, with which he here tested intellectual powers for the first – and only – time. Through meticulous research, ‘Notfilm’ digs into the

heart of one of film history’s most curious artistic encounters. James Joyce, Sergei Eisenstein and other intellectual giants appear in the most unexpected places in the strange and pervasive – and surprisingly funny – story about the film’s tumultuous genesis, where an irascible, beer-drinking Keaton would refuse to let his baseball game be disturbed by a pompous author. A must for aficionados of literature, Keaton-fans and people with a really dark sense of humour. The film is shown together with the original ‘Film’ in a restored copy.

Hitchcock/Truffaut Dir.: Kent Jones Original Title Hitchcock/Truffaut / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Artline Films, Cohen Media Group / Producer Charles S. Cohen, Olivier Mille / World Sales Cohen Media Group Bremen Teater Cinemateket Grand Teatret

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François Truffaut’s interviews with Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 was one of those kinds of legendary encounters, that myths – and essential film literature! – are made of. During one intense week, the young French film comet and his ageing idol created the most widely read and influential conversation book on the essence of film art, and a manual for all budding filmmakers. The fact that Truffaut almost knew more about his idol than Hitchcock knew about himself is testimony to a time

where film art became modern overnight in an inspired intersection between French renewal and American classicism. Scorsese, Wes Anderson and James Gray are among the genre-defining directors that have learned their trade here. And their enthusiasm and recognition can clearly be felt in the American film critic and New York Film Festival director Kent Jones’s serious and inspiring film about the landmark meeting and the book that came out of it.

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Dir.: Anocha Suwichakornpong & Sejla Kameric Original Title Thursday / Country Thailand, Bosnien & Herzegovina / Year 2015 / Running time 44 mins. / Production SCCA/pro.ba, Electric Eel Films / Gl. Strand

Seeing ‘Thursday’ is like playing a game in which the spectator is invited to guess the rules and identify the logic of the plot while the film takes place before ones very eyes. And yes, there is a plot. One just has to look carefully – and use ones imagination – to catch it! Every scene is a fragment of a whole, and with repetition and variation as a permanent basic pattern, the result is paradoxically a work that is also almost puritanically

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minimalist as well as highly engaging. ‘Thursday’ is the result of a creative collaboration between the renowned Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong and the visual artist Sejla Kameric from Bosnia-Herzegovina, initiated by our own CPH:LAB, and is made as both a cinema screening and an installation. No matter how you experience it, it is a work where both short-term memory and one’s deeper memories are active co-writers.

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Cosmopolitanism Dir.: Erik Gandini Original Title Cosmopolitanism / Country Sweden, Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 17 mins. / Production Fasad / Producer Erik Gandini / World Sales Swedish Film Institute Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

We no longer live in an isolated corner of the world. Whether we like it or not, we are all citizens of this planet. With his animated documentary ‘Cosmopolitanism’, the Swedish contemporary chronicler Erik Gandini takes the age-old concept of the film’s title, revives it and puts it under his cinematic microscope in a colourful defence for cultural and political visions. Like a sociological concept detective, Gandini oscillates between arguments by the movement’s supporters and meticulously hand-coloured animations, which illustrate our complex global reality. The animator couple Michelle

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and Uri Kranot’s vibrant visuals ooze life and political restlessness, like an artistic companion to the colourfulness and diversity that the film celebrates and defends. Is the idea of a worldwide community naive and unrealistic? The answer is a resounding: no! It is not only possible, but an imperative necessity. Gandini displays an unshakeable belief in humanism and global cohesion, and in the fact that our ideas and ways of thinking can actually change the world. With a saying that is chillingly topical, Gandini insists that we are all in the same boat.

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Musical highlights with a room for the offbeat and the false notes. Music has always had a home away from home at CPH:DOX, both in and outside of the cinema. The films selected for this year’s Sound & Vision is our lineup of the year’s best and most musical experiences in the dark. Unpredictable, inventive and with a strong belief that the best thing happen when you take the biggest chances. The idea behind Sound & Vision is to support the creative diversity of the genre when it elevates itself above the talking head-based portrait. And it very much does so this year where not only the diversity of music genres is broader than ever – so is the range of cinematic genres through which they present themselves. Remember to check out our curated series of concerts and live performances as well in the Audio:Visuals section.

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Blur: New World Towers Dir. Sam Wrench Original Title Blur: New World Towers / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 93 mins. / Production BlinkTV / Producer Tom Colbourne / World Sales Blink TV Grand Teatret Teltet Absalon

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From an unexpected breakthrough in Hong Kong, which became the first tentative steps towards the first album as a reunited band after 16 years, via a spectacular show at home in London, and back again to Hong Kong in an emotional reunion with the audience. ‘New World Towers’ portrays Blur’s reunion and the inner life of the British band – and not least the special dynamics between the singer Damon Albarn and the guitarist Graham Coxon. At times a sorely tested, but ultimately inde-

structible and deeply musical friendship, which shines through on the new album ‘The Magic Whip’. Blur is a band that has never been afraid of exploring new avenues, and in personal recordings and interviews with the four bandmates we see how a perfectly timed recording session unexpectedly gave rise to the new album, but also raised new questions about the band’s future.

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared Dir. Stefan Schwietert Original Title Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared / Country Switzerland, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 83 mins. / Production maximage GmbH, Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln / Producer Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer, Helge Albers / World Sales Maximage Dagmar Teatret Absalon

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The brilliant and charming Bill Drummond is famous and notorious as the brains behind the dance duo KLF, who burned all the bridges with the music industry (and a million British pounds in cash!) just as they were number one on the charts in the 1990s. But Drummond has only just started liberating music – and you are a part of his new choir, The 17! Join the likeable Drummond on an enjoyable road trip across the UK to find out how. The mission: to record a choral piece that will be played once before being deleted forever. Armed

with a handheld voice recorder and his devilishly infectious humour, he travels across the UK to record ordinary people’s contributions to his work. Taxi drivers, road workers, children and old ladies. The cheerful project is also a serious attempt at wrestling musicality out of the greedy hands of the music industry. An anarchic and wild journey that ends in the cinema, where you and the rest of ‘The 17’ perform live. The mad and witty Bill Drummond will himself explain how.

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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson Dir. Julien Temple Original Title The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 91 mins. / Production Jim Gottlieb / Producer hard Conway, Andrew Curtis, Julien Temple / World Sales Moviehouse Entertainment Vester Vov Vov Nordisk Film Palads

Wilko Johnson is living the old punk slogan ‘no future’, unwillingly and with a life-affirming gallows humour. Wilko is the guitarist of the British rock band Dr. Feelgood – and he is about to die. He is ill, a tumour is about to put an end to his life. But when you don’t have a future, you are free to live in the moment, and this is what the charismatic Johnson is doing to the bitter end! His possibly last days are an expressionist and philosophical brain trip, where arch British rock ‘n’ roll meets a psychedelic horror film that could have been signed by Ingmar Bergman. For even if he has lost the game

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of chess with death, the charismatic and deeply likeable Wilko is a man who lives every moment to the fullest while working to organise his life’s last concert. When Wilko goes on stage with the band Dr. Feelgood, tunes are torn off the guitar, hips are wriggled and cheers are shouted from the audience. Since the 1970s, the British filmmaker Julien Temple has created films about and with the British rock scene’s most iconic names, but this time he has gone all in with an ecstatic and vital celebration of life. And rock ‘n’ roll.

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In Pursuit of Silence Dir. Patrick Shen Original Title In Pursuit of Silence / Country USA / Year 2014-2015 / Running time 82 mins. / Production Transcendental Media / Producer Patrick Shen, Brandon Vedder, Andrew Brumme / World Sales Transcendental Media Grand Teatret Absalon

In a modern world where we are constantly (in)voluntarily surrounded by sound, silence is the ultimate experience of sound itself. That silence is also the ultimate avant-garde innovator was proven by the composer John Cage with his now classic, almost four-and-a-halfminute long piece of music, which consisted of nothing else. But do we ever have a ‘pure’ experience of silence? And does silence have an existential dimension? Join us on a trip across the world to discover the quiet and enigmatic nature of silence, from the American wilder-

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ness to Japanese zen monasteries. And back to the modern metropolises, where most people who will end up watching a film such as Patrick Shen’s evocative and paradoxically musical film conceivably live. And here, silence is in short supply to a degree that is approaching the unhealthy – with the fear of the noisy vacuum as the other monopoly of modern existence. ‘In Pursuit of Silence’ is a cinematic listening experience, which will make both audiophiles and everyone else prick up their ears.

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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin Dir. Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange & Klaus Maeck Original Title B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin / Country Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production DEF Media / Producer Christoph Post / World Sales Celsius Entertainment Ltd. Nordisk Film Falkoner Grand Teatret

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What do you do if you are in crisis-torn Manchester in 1979, burnt out and tired of working in a record store, while being infatuated with the kraut rock of Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk? You do like Iggy and Bowie: you pack your bags and head off to Berlin, west of the wall. And this is exactly what the British Mark Reeder decides to do. Packed in his suitcase is a toothbrush, an 8mm camera and the dream of the anarchy that is raging in the German capital. Over the next ten years, Mark films his way through a city in total rebellion, where green tanks are fighting back a youth in revolt and where

random encounters with Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen paints a picture of Berlin as a mecca of controlled chaos and punk. With Mark’s own footage and fascinating reconstructions, ‘B-Movie’ tells the story of a historical time warp framed by a 45 km long wall, cacophonous punk rock, freely available drugs and most of all: total euphoria. A fantastic document from a time, a place and a party you wish you had experienced yourself – and you have a unique chance to do so here.

Janis: Little Girl Blue Dir. Amy Berg Original Title Janis: Little Girl Blue / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 115 mins. / Production Disarming Films, Jigsaw Pictures / Producer Alex Gibney, Amy Berg, Jeff Jampol World Sales ContentFilm International

In the 1960s, Janis Joplin spellbound the entire Western world with her soulful, dark blue rock, her powerful long hair and wide smile – and her incomparably rusty voice. But it is easy to focus on a tragedy, when it is actually everything else that is worth remembering. And the fact that Joplin died of an overdose at the mythical age of 27 has far too long stood in the way for the true Janis. The director Amy Berg focuses wisely on

the person and the talent as opposed to the mainstream myth. The freaky and free-spirited Joplin was also a vulnerable and complex personality, who found an expression for her restless soul in soul rock. A film on the same level of quality as the new wave of films about Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the tragic ‘Club 27’ of young stars who bowed out too soon. Narrated by Joplin’s soul sister Cat Power.

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They Will Have To Kill Us First Dir. Johanna Schwartz Original Title They Will Have To Kill Us First / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 105 mins. / Production Together Films / Producer Sarah Mosses, Johanna Schwartz, Kat Amara Korba / World Sales BBC Worldwide Empire Bio

For musicians in Mali, music is not about money or fame, but survival. When Al-Qaeda occupied northern Mali in 2012, western-inspired music became a mortal sin from one day to the next. Radio stations closed down, instruments were burned and the Malian musicians were exposed to threats that forced people like Khaira Arby, Songhoy Blues and Africa Express to live a life in exile in the south, where the fear of the regime is constantly lurking. But as Arby says in the film, ‘there is no life

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without music.’ To insist on music and freedom is a fight where one’s life is at stake, but it is also the Malian musicians’ only weapon against the invasion that has left Mali in ruins. We are there when they flee, and when they defy danger and return to Timbuktu to play for their people. Through personal stories, fantastic music and a score composed by Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a close-up picture is drawn of the music and the conflict, which leaves Mali with an uncertain future.

Breaking a Monster Dir. Luke Meyer Original Title Breaking a Monster / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 93 mins. / Producer Tom Davis, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill / World Sales SeeThink Productions Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads

Three African-American boys from Brooklyn with a penchant for heavy heavy metal discover that YouTube is much more than cat videos, when one of their improvised concerts in Times Square in New York suddenly goes viral and enjoys millions of views. From one day to the next, the hard-hitting trio with the band name Unlocking the Truth secures itself a record deal, a tour across the United States and the opportunity to play at the coveted industry festival SXSW. A great future is in

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store for the three prepubescent boys. But as we know, the fire of sensation does not burn long, and when the hype has subsided, we have three boys who would rather play Playstation and stand on skateboards than worry about the scheming universe of the music industry. ‘Breaking the Monster’ gets close to the difficult encounter between childhood naivety and the cynical demand for growth of the adult world, while sticking a big middle finger towards conventions.

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Dir. Janus Køster-Rasmuseen Original Title Cool Cats / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 83 mins. / Production Carsten Skjød / Producer Morten Thomsen Højsgaard / Dagmar Teatret Absalon

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There was both a geographic and cultural ocean between New York’s swinging cosmopolitan atmosphere and Copenhagen’s introverted cosiness with crocuses in the garden and beer on the table in the 1960s. It is all the more strange that two of the jazz world’s greatest saxophonists washed up on the Danish coast in the early 60s and over the next several years made Copenhagen their adopted home town. ‘Cool Cats’ is the story of how Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon found a human haven from the racial discrimination and drug problems of their home country. At the same time, the two sax-

ophone magicians started a musical avalanche, which turned Copenhagen, and above all the legendary jazz club Montmartre, into a European capital of jazz. Through skilfully orchestrated archive material, which also includes Ben Webster’s own home footage from his time in Copenhagen, the film shows how our own little city changed and was changed by two of Jazz’s greatest icons, with all that goes with it in terms of female acquaintances, friendships, drinking, drugs and of course plenty of cool jazz.

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Dir. Palle Demant Original Title Born To Lose - en film om Lorenzo Woodrose / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Killit Films / Producer Louise Højgaard Johansen & Kirstine Barfod / World Sales Killit Films Grand Teatret

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When you spend most of your time on beer, weed and rock music, the path to fame is difficult and maybe even undesirable. At least if you are the lead singer of Spids Nøgenhat and your name is Lorenzo ‘Guf’ Woodrose. With his youth behind him, Lorenzo is aiming at the difficult balance between broad recognition and unconventional integrity. For how are you allowed to be firmly anchored in the psychedelic music scene of the 1970s at a time which was over before you were born? ‘Born to Lose’ is a portrait of Denmark’s most stubborn,

yet kind-hearted acid rocker, who would prefer to smoke a joint with his friends than mingle with high society. And it was not only the music industry’s elite whose jaws dropped, but also the band itself when Spids Nøgenhat won the award as the year’s live act at the Danish Music Awards, and five long-haired musicians with a penchant for magic mushrooms and good Moroccan hash stood on stage and asked the audience: “Does anyone know who the hell we are?”

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Hugland Dir. Andreas Haaning Christiansen Original Title Hugland / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 73 mins. / Production Rare Bird Production / World Sales Rare Bird Production Grand Teatret Grand Teatret

It is not easy to have high expectations of oneself. Neither for yourself, nor for those who must help you fulfil them. On the other hand, the result is all the greater when the hard work finally bears fruit. All of this is something the musician Lars H.U.G. and his co-musician and self-appointed bodyguard Povl-Kristian could testify to as the former Kliché frontman’s first album in 21 years, ‘10 sekunders stilhed’ (‘Ten seconds of silence’) was finally ready last year. ‘Hugland’ portrays its chaotic

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and creative genesis in all its ups and downs, in a portrait about the – at times dysfunctional but artistically durable, and ultimately utterly loveable – relationship between the legendary singer and his brave band mate. For even though he has been out of the limelight for a bit more than 10 seconds, Lars H.U.G. still has both the songs, musicality and hard-earned experience to make entire arenas rock.

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Waiting for B Dir. Paulo Cesar Toledo & Abigail Spindel Original Title A Longa Espera / Country Brazil / Year 2015 / Running time 71 mins. / Production Popcorn Filmes / Producer Tatiana Stefani Quintella / World Sales Waiting For B Empire Bio Bremen Teater Nordisk Film Palads

To wait two months in front of a stadium to get front row spots to a Beyoncé concert is something few fans can do (and would do). But if you are a Beyoncé fan in Sao Paulo, this is the only option, if you want to secure a good seat for the superstar’s spectacular show. The Beyoncé phenomenon has given the city’s young and persecuted homosexuals both a voice and a place in the limelight. And two months in an igloo tent can also be quite a party! Beyoncé’s show in the Brasilian meg-

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apolis quickly becomes a meeting place for youths who in all other walks of life encounter a wall of discrimination, but who can here finally revel in full bloom – and in full drag, if that’s what you’re into. ‘Waiting for B’ is a compelling portrait of an entire (fan) culture, where pop is political and a twerk is a protesting stinky finger pointed at society’s narrow standards. Queen B is absolutely ‘irreplacable’, but it is her dedicated fans who put the crown on her head.

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9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting Dir. Nathaniel Budzinski & Theo Cook Original Title 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting / Year 2015 / Running time 64 mins. / Producer Auto Italia South East / World Sales Auto Italia South East Dagmar Teatret Vester Vov Vov

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Water on Mars and Donald Trump in the presidential race – it’s hard to predict what the future holds in store. The same is true in the world of music festival, which today offers sound design and production that constantly challenges the boundaries of what both sound and a festival is. In ‘9 Futures: Sound Fragmenting’ the director and The Wire journalist Nathaniel Budzinski travels around to some of Europe’s most innovative sound festivals and films while the experiments run amok. Like an audio-visual explorer, who investigates

and documents from the epicentre of the social-utopian experiments that festivals (also) are. From interactive sound spaces to parrot singing – there are no limits as to what the creation of sound involves or results in. And even though both the format and content differ depending on if you are in Tromsø, Riga or Manchester, there is a clear purpose for all the festivals: to throw their guests into the unknown and to dissolve the idea of what sound and community is and could be.

Blaue Blume Dir. Anja Pil Overbye Original Title Nyt Blod: Blaue Blume / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 43 mins. / Production DR / Producer Anja Pil Overbye / World Sales DR International Sales Absalon

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Blaue Blume plays alternative rock, practices daily, lives together and strives to create the perfect debut album. They are a band – and it doesn’t get more old-school. And yet they feel new at a time when alternative rock has almost disappeared from the airwaves, and where the music industry is defined by downloads and Youtube hits. Blaue Blume wants to conquer the whole world, while at the same time isolating themselves from it. The four young men from Kolding have shared the same

house and haircut for five years. Five years in the house in Kolding where they recorded their first demos. In an estate car in the United States. In a practice room in Copenhagen and in a summer house by the sea, where they live off garbage and look for their sound. This is not the story of personal life crises – but about a band that wants to create something which is bigger than themselves. And is never entirely satisfied. And after five years they are finally ready to release an debut album.

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Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Dir. John Pirozzi Original Title Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 106 mins. / Production The Documentation Center of Cambodia / Producer Bradley Bessire, Youk Chhang, Jonathan Del Gatto / World Sales CAT & DOCS Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

Cambodia had an exuberant rock n’ roll scene in the 1960s, where western grooves met Asian melodies in a colourful and incredibly danceable cocktail. But the party and the freedom ended on 17 April 1975, when the Khmer Rouge with Pol Pot in the lead invaded Phnom Penh, forbade any kind of western culture, and in a short time almost managed to wipe out the music (and many musicians with it) in the small country. And even though Cambodia had broken loose from French

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colonial power in the 1950s and a cultural blossoming was underway, the Vietnam war and communist rebellion put a brutal end to the vibrant music scene. But Cambodian rock continued rolling on in the underground, and it is high time that it is rediscovered. Ten years of research and an attentive eye for the survivors’ own stories have turned ‘Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten’ into an incredibly poignant film about the best music you’ve never heard.

Theory of Obscurity: a Film About The Residents Dir. Don Hardy Original Title Theory of Obscurity: a Film About The Residents / Country USA, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production DoF Media, KTF Films / Producer Barton Bishoff, Don Hardy Jr., Josh Keppel / World Sales KTF Films Cinemateket Vester Vov Vov

Who are The Residents? The San Francisco band that enjoys a cult status was formed all the way back in 1969, and ever since the four members have managed stay anonymous, hidden behind masks and a wall of music that in an innovative and curious way has integrated new technologies into the tonal experiments. Conspiracy theories about the group have claimed that the Beatles are behind the eye-shaped (!) giant masks. But only one thing is certain when one talks about The Residents. They are a genre in themselves. Even if people

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have opinions about them that are so different that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were talking about several different bands – which according to one of the theories about the group is actually the case. Enthusiastic fans from the Simpson creator Matt Groenig to the Devo singer Gerald Casale can not all be wrong: behind the masks hide four unique talents with an ability to renew media and art forms across music, film and the changing media of the times. Residents for presidents!

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Monsterman Dir. Antti Haase Original Title Monsterimies / Country Finland, Norway, Sweden / Year 2014 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Illume Ltd, Common Ground Pictures, JAB Film AS / Producer Jouko Aaltonen, Venla Hellstedt, Jon-Arvid Berger, Jonas Kellagher, Jessika Ask / World Sales Illume Ltd Absalon Nordisk Film Palads

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There was not a single person on the European continent who wasn’t glued to the screen when Finnish Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. Dressed in grotesque costumes that look like they come straight out of a B movie from the 1980s, the five men hit a solid punch in the face of good taste and forever changed the otherwise conservative song competition. Suddenly, poodle rock and monster makeup was acceptable again – albeit for a very short time! Ten years after the shortlived success, Lordi’s lead-singer Tomi Putaansuu (also

known as Mr. Lordi) can hardly afford to feed his pet pythons. Lordi’s themed restaurant is forced to close, record sales have plummeted and Tomi’s dream of international success with a band that for him is a life’s dream and for everyone else a humorous freak show, is a daily struggle. ‘Monsterman’ follows Tomi’s brave battle against Lordi’s dwindling success and his fight to take part in the Finnish version of ‘All Stars’, and not least the battle to come down a spiral staircase wearing boots that are half a meter high.

Danny Says Dir. Brendan Toller Original Title Danny Says / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 105 mins. / Production Outre Films / Producer Pamela Lubell / World Sales Submarine Entertainment Cinemateket Vester Vov Vov

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On speed at the age of 10. Enrolled in university at the age of 15. And as a young man the manager of bands such as Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers, Ramones and Iggy & the Stooges. Danny Fields was a true tornado in the New York of the 1960s and 1970s, where he gathered the city’s best bands (and biggest freaks) around him in a storm of sex, drugs and revolutionary rock n’roll. And he can also tell you stories that will make your ears fall off! If punk is dead today, it is certainly

not Danny Fields’ fault, for without him it would never have been born. Meet the man that made Lou Reed exclaim that ‘this is the best thing I have ever heard,’ after he for the first time played The Ramones to him. The man who saw the sun rise on acid with Patti Smith. And a man who is a true one-man-band and a piece of living music history, who here shares the very best of his thousands of gaudy anecdotes from the days when rock music was still dangerous.

The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead Dir. Wes Orshoski Original Title The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead / Year 2015 / Running time 110 mins. / Production Three Count Films / Producer Wes Orshoski / World Sales VMI Worldwide Vester Vov Vov Vester Vov Vov

They should probably have been dead long ago – The Damned, that is. A life in the service of punk with all that it implies in terms of smashed limbs suffered during frontal collisions with concert audiences, far, far (and we mean far) too many drugs as well as endless amounts of alcohol. They have lived up to the rock star dream, which would normally make any human being over 50 break down. But, amazingly, the 1970s most

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under-appreciated punk band is showing us a) that they’re still going strong, and b) the finger. The director behind ‘Lemmy’ presents the band’s turbulent history, like when they made a punk Goth album with vampire makeup, or the fact that they have always had over 25 members, including Lemmy himself! And who through pure, raw energy kick-started the punk scene in England before The Sex Pistols and The Clash.

Montage of Heck Dir. Brett Morgen Original Title Montage of Heck / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 132 mins. / Producer Sara Berstein / World Sales Universal Pictures International Grand Teatret

Notoriously contrarian against all conventions and the lead singer of an entire musical generation – Nirvana is and will always be a band in the pantheon of music. However, the tragic fact remains that the lead singer and main force behind the band’s songwriting Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in 1995. After his death, countless stories have been created on the back of his posthumous reputation, but now the true story of the musician’s life has finally surfaced. ‘Montage of Heck’ documents the ascent of Nirvana’s lead singer’s from misfit teenager to idolised rock icon. At the peak of his

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career, he checked into the famous 27 Club, where all the prematurely deceased stars are resting. Brett Morgen is the first filmmaker who has been granted free access to the family’s archives, and both the prologue, climax and aftermath are there. We are presented with material from the musician’s childhood and intimate moments with Courtney Love and their daughter Frances, while a touching and honest tribute is crafted for the existentially weighed-down rock star – garnished with plenty of grungy massage for your ear drums.

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It’s more than just dancable, booty-shaking and raunchy. Dancehall and the culture around it has an unfortunate reputation of being notoriously homophobic. But where there is love for the music there is also a deep love and affection for each other, and in England a fraction of young homosexuals of African background has joined forces on the Dancehall scene in an attempt

to send homophibia back where it came from. ‘Out and Bad’ is a close-up portrait of a double minority fighting with music and self confidence as their weapons of choice in a battle against discrimination and violence in British clubs and bars. But poverty, drug abuse and sexual diseases pose a threat as well to the hedonistic subculture.

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TOP DOX is the section for festival hits and front page stories from the world of documentaries. Great films, great stories, and great personalities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and great directors, not least. The fact that this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selection is quite political is a sign that politics and popular appeal do not exclude each other. From historical investigations to turbulent field trips into the line of fire in very contemporary conflicts. However, the selection also leaves room for love and laughs, as well as for a fresh look at the modern culture we happen to live in. In sum, a chance to catch up with a selection of the films that made it grand in 2015 and which prove that you can easily be popular without being bland.

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The Wolfpack Dir. Crystal Moselle Original Title The Wolfpack / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 89 mins. / Producer Izabella Tzenkova, Crystal Moselle, Hunter Gray & Alex Orlovsky / World Sales Edge Entertainment Bremen Teater Bremen Teater Bremen Teater Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret Bremen Teater

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Throughout their childhood, the six Angulo brother have been imprisoned in an apartment in New York. Their only contact with the outside world takes place through video films. Films, which the now semi-adult teenagers have not only seen again and again, but have also recreated scene by scene with their own, homemade props and an old video camera in the cramped apartment. Right up until the day when one of the brothers escapes and experiences the real world in the

street. And that was exactly where the debut director Crystal Moselle met him and discovered the brothers’ story. ‘The Wolfpack’ is one of those unique films where one simply falls off ones chair when confronted with how surreal, entertaining and moving reality suddenly can turn out to be, when the right director is lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time. This year’s Sundance winner and a born cult film.

Cartel Land Dir. Matthew Heineman Original Title Cartel Land / Country USA, Mexico / Year 2015 / Running time 98 mins. / Producer Matthew Heineman, Tom Yellin / World Sales Dogwoof Grand Teatret Grand Teatret Bremen Teater Bremen Teater

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The Mexican drug war is turning into something that resembles a civil war. The police, cartels and recently even paramilitary groups of civilians are fighting a brutal and bloody battle for control. The charismatic Dr. Jose Mireles brings together the citizens to armed vigilantism against the cartels. But can he control his growing troops? For with power comes the temptation of corruption – and more power. ‘Cartel Land’ is a harsh, journalistic reportage from the danger zones of a drug war that is dissolving an entire nation from within.

Right from the first scene, where masked gangsters are boiling crystal meth in the desert in the middle of the night, we are right in the heat of battle, where the only thing that everyone has in common is a ruthless lust for power, unlimited access to weapons and an internal corruption that threatens both the cartels, police forces and community groups. Not many journalistic films are made in a league with the one of Matthew Heineman, who has clearly risked his life to document Mexico’s devastating war with itself.

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Dir. Nicolas Steiner Original Title Above and Below / Country Switzerland, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 120 mins. / Production Maximage, Flying Moon Filmproduktion / Producer Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler, Helge Albers / World Sales Maximage Kayak Bar Bremen Teater Nordisk Film Palads

Two astronauts play table tennis in the red desert sand. But what might resemble the first human colony on Mars is in fact a space station in Utah, where a small group has isolated itself in a shared belief in the coming apocalypse. Under Las Vegas, a parallel society has come into existence in the tunnels, and in the Californian wilderness, a lonely man sends signals to God through a drum solo. American outsiders who have created a new world in the ruins of an invisible collapse. The debut director Nicolas Steiner has created a sense-ex-

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panding, visual film about people who have turned their backs on society and made themselves comfortable in its dilapidated fringes. Below and above ground, and with the eyes fixed on the stars. America (and the rest of the world) is indeed in a deep crisis, but the pioneering spirit lives on in a post-apocalyptic reality. ‘Above and Below’ is a magnificent, cinematic trip to a future that is already here. But where it is still the human being that is at the centre of all things.

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Dir. Alex Gibney Original Title Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 127 mins. / Production CNN Films, Jigsaw Productions / Producer Alex Gibney, Viva Van Loock / World Sales Park Circus Limited Bremen Teater Grand Teatret

The Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s laser-sharp portrait of the myth, the man and the tech legend behind the technological wonders that we are absolutely dependent on today, draws a new, darker picture of Steve Jobs. Through the people who were a part of both his professional and private life, we meet a revolutionary, technological mastermind who was equal parts sceptic, genius and tyrant. For while Apple’s products are written with a small ‘i’, the ego behind it was in

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bold capitals. Jobs’s influence on his contemporaries (and later generations) can hardly be underestimated – nor is it in Gibney’s bold but thoroughly researched film about the dark side of the genius from Silicon Valley. A film that is not content to stay with Jobs himself, but which at the same time asks why innovative technology, which is designed to bring together people, has possibly made us even more isolated than ever before.

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Deep Web Dir. Alex Winter Original Title Deep Web / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Producer Marc Schiller, Alex Winter / World Sales ContentFilm International Cinemateket Empire Bio Empire Bio

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The open part of the Internet is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg which reaches far into a deep, digital underworld, where authorities and hacktivists are fighting a cyberwar. And the most prominent battlefield has been the Silk Road website. A black market for weapons, drugs and pretty much anything your heart may desire. One day a closed underground forum, the next on all the world’s front pages when the suspected mastermind Ross Ulbricht (aka ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’) is arrested for, among other things, ordering a contract killer through his own website to silence a client who threatened him with blackmail. But it is still a mystery how

the authorities found the Silk Road servers, and hacktivists and web anarchists such as Julien Assange and Jacob Appelbaum do not intend to accept either the FBI’s explanation or monitoring of the internet in general. ‘Deep Web’ takes us into the digital depths and charts a war that has totally unpredictable consequences for the international community, no matter how it ends. So take the opportunity to learn more about how the anonymous search engine TOR and the digital Bitcoin currency paved the way not only for Silk Road, but also for the countless other forums in the deep net. And about what the future holds.

A Sinner in Mecca Dir. Parvez Sharma Original Title A Sinner in Mecca / Country Saudi-Arabien, Indien, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production Haram Films / Producer Parvez Sharma, Andrew Herwitz, Alison Amron / World Sales Film Sales Company Theatrical Absalon Cinemateket Grand Teatret Gloria

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Newly married and equipped with an iPhone, two small cameras and an enormous courage to travel, the openly homosexual director Parvez Sharma journeys to Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. The result is a deeply personal pilgrimage, portrayed raw and unfiltered from Mecca’s streets and from the holy Kaaba, which two million faithful move around every year, and which is off limits to non-Muslims. Like a good Muslim, Parvez seeks forgiveness for his sins and tries to reconcile himself with his beloved religion,

which he time and again experiences being interpreted as being hostile against people who are like himself. Although he has experienced contempt for his homosexuality among Muslims, and that his own mother could not accept him, Parvez refuses to give up and stubbornly takes a stand against dogmatism and fundamentalism. But his own crisis of faith turns out to develop into his life’s greatest challenge. Co-presented by MIX Copenhagen.

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The Diplomat Dir. David Holbrooke Original Title The Diplomat / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 103 mins. / Production Stacey Reiss Productions / Producer Stacey Reiss / World Sales Ro*co Films International llc Cinemateket Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads

In the summer of 1995, the war in Bosnia was raging in its third year. Thousands of civilian Bosnians were slaughtered in the largest genocide since the Holocaust, and the hope for a peaceful solution was negligible. Nonetheless, a peace deal could be struck just six months later, and it still stands today. Several of the world’s politicians – from Hillary Clinton to Kofi Annan – agree that the peace is due to one man: the diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Over a long series of interviews and meetings with some of the international political scene’s

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key players, his oldest son David Holbrooke tells the story of a man who could negotiate his way out of the most intractable knots and whose remarkable life and career placed him in the middle of some of our time’s greatest conflicts. From Vietnam to Afghanistan: the United States has been the global policeman for several decades, and in ‘The Diplomat’ we sense some of the many cogs that make up the intricate clockwork behind America’s foreign policy apparatus.

The Amina Profile Dir. Sophie Deraspe Original Title Le profil Amina / Country Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 84 mins. / Production esperamos in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada / Producer Isabelle Couture / World Sales National Film Board of Canada Empire Bio Empire Bio Bremen Teater Absalon Republique What starts out as a hot online chat between two women, the Syrian Amina Arraf and Sandra in Montreal, takes some unexpected turns in a film that is half psychological thriller, half love story – and one hundred percent relevant for anyone who wants to learn about the blind spots in the global media reality we live in. When Canadian Sandra comes across the Syrian blog ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ during the Arab Spring, she is immediately turned on. She starts a long and steamy chat correspondence with the outspoken Amina, who not only seduces her, but also the Western media hungry for spectacular

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political stories with sexy angles from the Arab revolutions. However, their digital romance soon develops into a detective story, as doubt starts to arise as to the online persona of the enigmatic Amina. ‘The Amina Profile’ is as suspenseful as a thriller and a shocking reminder of how much we uncritically take for granted and how far we are willing to go to see the world as we would like it to be. Both online, in the media and in the Western conception of the Arab Spring. Co-presented by MIX Copenhagen.

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The Magic Mountain Dir. Anca Damian Original Title La montagne magique / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Aparte Film / Producer Anca Damian / World Sales Arizona Distribution Nordisk Film Palads Falkoner Biografen

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The Polish photographer and mountaineer Adam Winkler lived a bold and dramatic life, guided by a determination to change the world. This brought him, among other things, into exile in Paris and to the war in Afghanistan, where he voluntarily took part in the ferocious battles against the Soviets in the 1980s. A lust for adventure that also claimed his life, as he died trying to climb yet another mountain in 2002. Through complex animation techniques, Anca Damian’s docudrama brings

Winkler back to life in a conversation with his daughter. In a mixture of acting and graphical adaptations of Winkler’s photographs and drawings, the film brings us close to an idealistic artist figure, for whom life should be lived and used. Damian lets Winkler’s own works create an evocative film space, where we meet him as an artist, human being and father. A number of French actors and artists lend their voices to the dramatic life and help revive the Polish explorer.

The Propaganda Game Dir. Alvaro Longoria Original Title The Propaganda Game / Country Spain / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Morena Films / Producer Alvaro Longoria / World Sales Memento Films Grand Teatret Grand Teatret

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North Korea is the last communist bastion in the world, and the notoriously closed country is an endless source of fascination, wonder and even disgust. For some, the country is simply a joke, with the always well-combed Kim Jong-Un as its standard bearer and father figure, while for others it is a deadly serious human rights disaster. The Spanish director Alva Longoria gives us a new and deeply fascinating look at the country, as he has been given an unprecedented permission to film in the sanitised and beautiful city of Pyongyang, where the only foreigner working for the regime is a Spaniard. Longoria meets him as well as ordinary North Koreans

in their homes, on the streets and in the alleyways, and confronts them with the Western perception of and rumours about their country. Can it really be true that they can only choose between a certain number of hairstyles? It does not take long before one’s own prejudices about the country come crashing down with a bang. The country has both freedom of religion, paid apartments, food and free nursing. Or what? Is the Christian church genuine, or is it all a fake backdrop? ‘The Propaganda Game’ is a roller-coaster ride across confirmed and refuted prejudices, and across propaganda wars on both sides of the East Asian iron curtain.

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Dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand Original Title Human / Country France / Year 2015 / Running time 190 mins. / Production Humankind Production / Producer Florent Gilard / World Sales The Festival Agency Bremen Teater Nordisk Film Palads

Get ready for the world’s largest self-portrait. The French master photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has thrilled and amazed people around the world with his magnificent images of the diversity of human life on our little planet. His latest film follows up on the picture series ‘Earth from Above’ and the film ‘Home’ from 2009, and is an incredibly beautiful and thought-provoking work, which has to be seen on the big screen at all cost. And while Bertrand is known for portraying the world from

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its most sublime angles, this time he has turned his camera on its inhabitants. ‘Human’ is a portrait of human kind all over Earth. Our differences and similarities, who we are and how we can live together. Both as a cinematic masterpiece and a sociological field study, ‘Human’ is in an absolute league of its own, and uses both close-ups and monumental wide angles to give us an overwhelming overall impression of a world that is at once strange and familiar.

Noma - My Perfect Storm Dir. Pierre Deschamps Original Title Noma - My Perfect Storm / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Documentree Films Ltd. / Producer Etta Thompson Deschamps / World Sales Trustnordisk Empire Bio Empire Bio

The story of how René Redzepi went from being an outsider in the gourmet world to running one of the world’s best restaurants is the story of hard work and coincidences. And having both the will, the courage and the resourcefulness to realise one’s own dreams. The Danish-Albanian Redzepi originally had neither the ability nor the desire to be a master chef, a profession and a craft that is traditionally passed on from father to son. But with Noma, he has revolutionised fine

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cuisine and put Scandinavia on the world map. How it happened is a deeply personal story – about an old wooden beam, a trip to Greenland and a perfect blizzard. For as an old Norwegian sailor told him at exactly the right time, you can survive even the worst storm by relying on your inner instinct. And this is what Redzepi greatly needs, when he in 2013 loses a Michelin star and has to fight back to the top of the top.

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Bikes vs Cars Dir. Fredrik Gertten Original Title Bikes vs Cars / Country Sweden / Year 2015 / Running time 91 mins. / Production WG Film / Producer Margarete Jangård, Elin Kamlert / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR

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From Sao Paolo to Los Angeles, and from Toronto to our own mini metropolis Copenhagen. The battle for the cities of the future has begun. It is taking place on both two and four wheels, and is about much more than getting from A to B. How our cities look is determined by how we move around in them, and the auto industry’s effective lobbying work has meant that the framework surrounding the lives of billions of people is determined by cars. But a new, green countermovement is giving car drivers a run for their money – because the bicycle is both a healthy and sustainable alternative

to a future that is about to collapse under the strain of traffic. Fredrik Gertten’s ‘Bikes vs Cars’ is a fun and serious take on a modern activist film, which will not only confront us with the world’s problems but also wants to do something about them. From the irritably but loveable taxi driver, who curses the dictatorship of bicycles, to the places on the planet where the battle between bikes and cars is massive on a different scale, and at times downright life-threatening. It is high time to decide which side you’re on yourself – and which city you would like to live in.

Banksy Does New York Dir. Chris Moukarbel Original Title Banksy Does New York / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Production Matador Content / Producer Jack Turner / World Sales Filmbuff Normann Copenhagen Grand Teatret Empire Bio Bremen Teater Absalon Bremen Teater Empire Bio

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The world’s indisputably most famous and infamous graffiti artist, Banksy, turns New York upside down when he invites graffiti enthusiasts, art connoisseurs and followers on a one month-long treasure hunt in the city’s streets. Every day, Banksy, who against all odds has managed to keep his true identity hidden from the public, sends thousands of New Yorkers on a frantic hunt against time – with a cryptic clue about the location of today’s work – before the work disappears again. The treasure hunters themselves become a part of the

mischievous work, for not everyone shares their reverence for the artist’s embellishment of the city’s doors, walls and spaces. Like all graffiti and street art, the works are left to the parliament of the street, and the treasure hunt quickly turns out to be a social experiment, where the city’s different residents clash over their importance and destiny. The film is made of the treasure hunters’ own footage of the search for the works and invites us to sit in the first row for a multi-voiced reflection on the right to art – and the street.

Chuck Norris vs. Communism Dir. Ilinca Calugareanu Original Title Chuck Norris vs. Communism / Country UK, Rumania, Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 81 mins. / Production Vernon Films in association with Passion Pictures / Producer Mara Adina & Brett Ratner / World Sales Rise and Shine World Sales Vester Vov Vov Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads In the early 1980s, Romania was impoverished by decades of communist rule under the increasingly quixotic and paranoid despot Nicolae Ceausescu. But then came VHS! Suddenly, people could watch films at home, and if not, there was usually a neighbour who could afford one of the expensive machines. And immediately an insatiable black market for forbidden and subversive films sprung up. Everything from ‘Dr. Zhivago’ to ‘Terminator’ was copied again and again. And everything

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was dubbed by one person. An anonymous woman, whose voice everyone knew, but whose face remained a mystery - until now. ‘Chuck Norris vs. Communism’ is a both pitch-black and eye-opening story about how the crudest Western pop culture became a form of political protest, which people risked life and limb to defend. And if you have a soft spot for the old, bulky VHS tapes, this film is just for you.

Oncle Bernard – A Counter - Lesson in Economics Dir. Richard Brouillette Original Title Oncle Bernard – L’anti-leçon d’économie / Country Canada, Spain / Year 2015 / Running time 79 mins. / Production Les films du passeur / Producer Richard Brouillette / World Sales Les films du passeur

Cinemateket Dagmar Teatret The economist Bernard Maris, also known as Uncle Bernard, was among those killed when the offices of Charlie Hebdo were attacked in January this year. An economic mind that was far beyond the ordinary, but also a just as skilled satirist, for whom economics was not a lofty science carried out in skyscrapers made of glass and steel, but a messy and almost carnevalesque affair. And if you belong to those for whom economics is as abstract as particle physics, this ‘anti-lesson’ with the loveable and in many ways immensely French

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Bernard is a both wildly entertaining and deeply instructive session. And it is even shot in one long take at Charlie Hebdo’s main office, only interrupted by the black and white analogue camera’s practical limitations. The distractedly gesticulating Maris speaks himself dizzy, but behind the cheeky exterior is a brilliant mind and a furious political indignation, which was extinguished by fanatics, but which is fortunately preserved and lives on indefatigably in Richard Brouillette’s film.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes Dir. Michael Winterbottom Original Title The Emperor’s New Clothes / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 101 mins. / Production Revolution Films / Producer Melissa Parmenter / World Sales Studio Canal Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket Pressen i Politikens Hus Empire Bio

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Had Michael Moore been a rock star, his name would have been Russell Brand. A man who has an opinion about everything, and who everyone has an opinion about. And if you don’t already have one, you will definitely do so after seeing this! The British comedian, satirist and social activist throws himself into the fight against financial hypocrisy and growing inequality, and there is no doubt about the fact that he is right. And with Michael Winterbottom (‘24 Hour Party People’)

behind the camera, nobody on Wall Street or the City of London should feel safe when the two gentlemen come knocking on their door. ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ is a film that takes the greatest crises of our times seriously enough to know that satire is the most effective weapon to grab people’s attention. And if there is one thing Russell Brand is really good at, it’s doing exactly that.

The Yes Men Are Revolting Dir. Laura Nix, The Yes Men Original Title The Yes Men Are Revolting / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Human Race LLC, Felt Films, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, chili farms, Pieter Van Huystee Film, ZDF, VPRO, YLE, DR In association with ARTE, Motto Pictures, Senorita Films / Producer Laura Nix, Jacques Servin, Igor Vamos / World Sales Cinephil Cinemateket Grand Teatret Empire Bio

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For over 20 years, the satirical activist duo The Yes Men has turned the mainstream media and multinational corporate powers upside down with simple, but always razor-sharp and provocative means, by infiltrating the closed world of the political and financial elite. But after twenty years in action, the two masterminds are now going through their own crisis. Has their work had any impact at all? And how do you reconcile a family life and a future with an anarchistic career as a performance activist? But one thing can get the Yes Men to reunite

for one last time: their shared sense of duty to fight against the smokescreen of greed and bureaucracy that tries to distract from global climate change. The Yes Men last visited CPH:DOX in 2013 with their own curated film programme, and they can also be experienced live at this year’s festival. Their ironic critique of capitalist consumer society continues to unfold on the same foundation: their confidence in people’s ability to think for themselves.

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Monty Python: The Meaning of Live Dir. Roger Graef & James Rogan Original Title Monty Python: The Meaning of Live / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Phil McIntyre TV/Films of Record / Producer Holly Gilliam, Jim Beach, Lindsay Jex / World Sales Eagle Rock Entertainment Inc. Empire Bio Grand Teatret Dagmar Teatret Since the 1960s, the mad Englishmen from Monty Python have sent TV audience’s brains into a tailspin all over the world with their surreal satire shows. Last year, the five remaining members reunited for the first time in 34 years, in a last live show with the gallows-humour title ‘One Down and Five to Go’ – and you can here assure yourself that they have lost neither their legendary black humour nor their self-irony, as we are invited backstage during the whole process leading up

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to the evening, garnished with lots of rare clips from their long stage career. From the very early days to their final, epic performances. Come backstage with John Cleese & co., as they fill the space with subtle linguistic absurdities and intelligent nonsense. British humour at its very best, and comedy at an almost mind-expanding level. New fans can start here, while old swingers can scratch their bowler hat as they ponder the meaning of live.

The Council Dir. Yahya Alabdallah Original Title Al Majlis / Country Jordan / Year 2014 / Running time 80 mins. / Production ME FILMS / Producer Rulla NASSER / World Sales The Imaginarium Films Cinemateket Nordisk Film Palads Cinemateket

New school uniforms, airtime for the mediocre pupils on the school radio and artificial grass in the school yard, so that the students don’t get broken glass under their feet when playing barefoot. These are some of the election promises of the candidates for this year’s student council election at a school for Palestinian refugee children in Jordan. A choice that gives rise to both heated discussions and highly creative campaign strategies. With their speeches and posters, and without any explanatory voiceover, the children address some of the real problems they face in everyday life. A wellgroomed candidate from the fourth grade wants to do something about the violence that we see when the

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children are repeatedly taken to the office for having beaten and bullied each other, but also when the teachers hide the cane from the camera. In a life where violence is commonplace and where girls and boys are segregated and don’t have the same opportunities, we follow the children’s tireless negotiations with teachers, with city contractors and with rich garbage tycoons in marble offices. In this both paradoxical and hopeful democracy, girls want to be allowed to dance at the annual celebration, even though male guests will be present, and the boys want to have the garbage collected and new classrooms built.

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Yallah! Underground Dir. Farid Eslam Original Title Yallah! Underground / Country Tjekkiet, Germany, UK, Egypten, Canada, USA / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Mind Riot Media / Producer Farid Eslam / World Sales Stray Dogs

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In the wake of the Arab Spring, a whole new generation of young artists made their breakthrough. Driven by a common desire for a free and peaceful future – and by the prospect of finally being able to express themselves freely. Rappers, graffiti artists, poets and filmmakers took part in the protests and the rush of freedom. Four years after the first popular uprising, the young artists are still facing a long and tough struggle. But this has not discouraged them - on the contrary. Farid Eslam’s

‘Yallah! Underground’ is an urban and style-conscious visit to the subcultural underground in a modern Middle East undergoing tremendous change. The need for social and political change can no longer be suppressed, now that the lid has first been lifted off the smouldering pot. And if you are yearning to hear some good news and cultural signs of life from a region that is often portrayed in uniquely pessimistic terms, Eslam’s confident and fresh film is just the thing.

He Named Me Malala Dir. Davis Guggenheim Original Title He Named Me Malala / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 87 mins. / Production Parkes-MacDonald, Little Room / Producer Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Davis Guggenheim / World Sales Fox Searchlight Pictures Grand Teatret Cinemateket Bremen Teater Nordisk Film Palads

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The name Malala has become a worldwide synonym for courage, determination and hope. It belongs to the young, Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by Taliban fighters on a bus because of her unrelenting insistence on the right of girls to go to school in the country, and who has since received the Nobel Peace Prize for her stubborn fight. But Malala is also the name of the popular Afghan heroine Malalai of Maiwand, who over one hundred years earlier rebelled against the British colonisers and was executed. As if the name

contained both a curse and a divine strength, her namesake now continues to fight from her exile in Britain for the 66 million girls in the world that do not go to school. This is the story of the now 18-year-old girl with the remarkable mission, and about her father Ziauddin, who named her and insisted on the importance of education. ‘He Named Me Malala’ is the story of a person, who in spite of death threats smiles to the camera, and whose name history will forever carry forward.

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Dir. Jerry Rothwell Original Title How to Change the World / Country UK, Canada / Year 2015 / Running time 112 mins. / Production Met Film Production, Daniel Film / Producer Al Morrow, Bous de Jong / World Sales Dogwoof Empire Bio Kvarterhuset Absalon Cinemateket

In 1971, a group of hippies left Vancouver harbour in a rusty fishing boat to prevent President Nixon’s nuclear tests off the coast of Alaska. The trip was an icebreaker for the modern environmental movement, and led by the radical writer Robert Hunter the boat’s crew of inspired activists laid the ground stone for the global environmental organisation Greenpeace. Told in Hunters own thought-provoking language, ‘How to Change the World’ is the story of a world that wakes up to its

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own vulnerability – seen through the eyes of those who first recognised it. Hunter understood the power of images in an increasingly media-dominated world, and insisted on capturing the iconic moments with the potential to actually change the world. ‘How to Change the World’ is a unique and inspiring opportunity to take a personal look at a landmark organisation, at a time when their controversial methods may be more relevant than ever before.

Falciani’s Tax Bomb The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks Dir. Ben Lewis Original Title Falciani’s Tax Bomb The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks / Country Germany, Spain, Switzerland / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, Polar Star Films / Producer Bettina Walter, Christian Beetz / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR Cinemateket Teltet Empire Bio In 2008, the banker Hervé Falciani left his job at the Swiss branch of HSBC. With him, he had secret and controversial information about over 130,000 bank accounts with owners in 180 different countries. The leak was a bomb that exploded under the financial world at an already critical moment in time, and revealed tax evasions worth billions of euros. Like the banking community’s answer to Edward Snowden, the whis-

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tleblower Falciani revealed how the rich become even richer while the money piles up in Swiss banks. The fact that Falciani is today sought for industrial espionage and is being hunted all over the world is just yet another dark layer of a case that in many ways still remains unsolved. ‘Swiss Leaks’, as it is called, is the largest leak in the country’s notoriously secretive financial world’s history, and is worthy of a docu-thriller. And here it is.

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10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? Dir. Valentin Thurn Original Title 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? / Country Germany / Year 2015 / Running time 102 mins. / Production Celluloid Fabrik / Producer Jürgen Kleinig, Tina Leeb / World Sales Autlook Filmsales GbR Vester Vov Vov Kvarterhuset Nordisk Film Palads

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How do we ensure that the 10 billion people who very soon will share our small planet will get enough to eat? A question that will only become more pressing in the coming decades. Offhand, there are two ways to go: the industrialised and ultra-efficient, and the ecological, which might produce smaller amounts of food, but which protects our already tested environment. But maybe there is a third option. The interest in where food comes from is increasing massively in both polit-

ical, technological and social terms. And if you want to learn more about your own role in the global food chain, ‘10 Billion’ is an instructional appetiser. In his last film the director Valentin Thurn revealed the enormous amounts of food that goes to waste each and every day. This time, he takes one step further, and focuses on agriculture – the basis of the world’s food production. And in a world where one in three people are going to bed hungry every day, there is no time to waste.

Incorruptible Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Original Title Incorruptible / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 94 mins. / Production Truth and Soul Pictures, Little Monster Films / Producer E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Edward Tyler Nahem / World Sales Little Monster Films Vester Vov Vov Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret

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In spite of the fact that Senegal’s incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade wanted a constitutional amendment that would guarantee him a second term in office, the Senegalese elections of 2011 represented something close to the apex of democracy. No less than 14 candidates ran for president, while strong artistic-activist youth movements inspired by the Arab Spring secured 300,000 newly registered voters at the ballot boxes. More people voted in this election than ever before in independent Senegal’s history. While the democratic

ideal has suboptimal circumstances in many places in the world, ‘Incorruptible’ is a hopeful and positive story about a young and committed nation that is working very hard to ensure the stable democracy that it was previously known for. The basic problems of democracy become more evident universally, while the conflicts are smouldering under a culture that has completely different democratic traditions and ideals than those we usually take for granted.

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Dir. Amber Fares Original Title Speed Sisters / Country Palestine, USA, Canada, Qatar, Denmark, UK / Year 2015 / Running time 80 mins. / Production SocDoc Studios LLC / Producer Avi Goldstein, Amber Fares, Jessica Devaney / World Sales Dogwoof Grand Teatret Nordisk Film Palads Empire Bio

With its winning attitude, gasoline in the blood and varnished nails, the first female racing team in the Middle East attracts attention and makes the headlines. The ‘Speed Sisters’ are trying to find their place in both a male-dominated sport and a conservative society, where they are constantly up against both cultural and political obstacles in their struggle to pursue their sport. And when one of the young women casually remarks that the smell of tear gas reminds her of her childhood, it quickly becomes clear to us that we are in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The fact that the young women

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and their families are living in economic instability – for the same reason – is inhibiting the young racing drivers to further enjoy their costly sport, where the choice can sometimes stand between having a new house for the family or having a new car for the daughter. ‘Speed Sisters’ uses both warmth and a serious tone to portray how the crisis between Israel and Palestine is limiting the lives of its citizens in the most unpredictable ways. And how a team of cool women is defying all odds in the fight for freedom – and for being the first to reach the finish line.

Our Last Tango Dir. German Kral Original Title Un Tango Más / Country Germany, Argentina / Year 2015 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Lailaps Pictures / Producer Nils Dünker, Dieter Horres, German Kral / World Sales Wide House Grand Teatret Empire Bio

María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met when they were 14 and 17. Today, they are 80 and 83, and in the meantime they have not only achieved the status of being the most legendary tango couple in the history of the dance, but have also lived, loved and not least hated each other passionately. Now, they are ready to tell their own story, and a young dance company in Buenos Aires is ready to stage it – through tango. María and Juan man-

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aged to be divorced several times, and even though Juan managed to have two children with another woman in the meantime, the dramatic attraction between them could not be held back in the end. ‘Our Last Tango’ is both beautifully choreographed and told in hot blood, as is fitting when one talks about the biggest tango couple through the ages. A film for everyone with a passion for tango and an arch-romantic love story.

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Unbranded Dir. Phillip Baribeau Original Title Unbranded / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 105 mins. / Production Fin & Fur Films LLC / Producer Dennis Aig / World Sales Dogwoof Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads Falkoner Biografen

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Today’s wild west has changed a lot since the first cowboys and pioneers travelled on horseback through desolate prairies and bushy mountains. But not only the terrain has changed. The West, which was previously the site of quiet and decisive action, is not the West that the four young cowboys encounter during a journey that can best be described as a test of manhood. But they must cooperate as best they can during their five thousand kilometre long journey, as they move through the unforgiving wasteland without access to water, over cactus-strewn terrain, on steep hillsides and even

through the Grand Canyon. They live and breathe horses, and even though we first meet the young cowboys on a dusty plain, where one of the horses balks and kicks one of the cowboys in the face, after which another horse stands on its hind legs and throws off its rider, the young boys continue fighting for the big animals and proving their many strengths. ‘Unbranded’ is a magnificent experience of America’s majestic and endless landscapes – from Yellowstone to the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Meru Dir. Jimmy Chin & E. Chai Vasarhelyi Original Title Meru / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Meru Films LCC / Producer E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Shannon Ethridge / World Sales Little Monster Films Empire Bio Empire Bio Grand Teatret

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In 2008, the three friends and professional climbers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set off to the cold and unforgiving Himalayas. Their mission was to climb the fabled and steep Mount Meru, which is said to be the centre of the universe. The mission went almost as wrong as it could. Due to a four-day snowstorm, the three climbers were trapped in their tent, where they exhausted most of their food supplies, got frostbite and had to turn back just a hundred meters from the top. The experienced Conrad Anker could not

let go of his desire to climb the unruly mountain, so three years and one accident later, the three determined climbers returned to Mount Meru. The prelude to the tour was surrounded by towering expectations and an unspoken fear of failure. We are there first hand in fascinating images, as the three friends try to move up the steep, iced-up mountainsides a second time. A tense and thrilling film, told with an astute sense of teamwork and solidarity.

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Dir. Cosima Spender Original Title Palio / Country UK, Italy / Year 2015 / Running time 92 mins. / Production Palio Pictures / Producer James Gay-Rees, John Hunt / World Sales Altitude Film Entertainment Nordisk Film Palads Dagmar Teatret Grand Teatret

Twice a year, the Italian medieval city Siena hosts the world’s oldest horse race, The Palio. The city is immediately transformed into a boiling cauldron of steaming stallions, swaggering testosterone-lads and a toxic game of intrigue behind the scenes. Victory at The Palio takes more than just the fastest horse. Bribery, slander and clandestine agreements are crucial to reach the top of the podium. The already legendary jockey Gigi Bruschelli has dominated the race for a long time, with 13 trophies in his cabinet, and he needs just two victories to crown

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himself as the jockey with most wins ever. But his former apprentice, the poster boy Giovanni Atzeni, has smelled the sweet taste of victory and is threatening to torpedo his former master’s ambitions. Like ‘The Fast and the Furious’ with horses, ‘Palio’ is a both humorous and fast-paced documentary about an age-old tradition with a shot of corrosive scheming added into the mix, which makes it all worthy of a Greek epic. A film driven by horsepower – in the most literal sense of the word.

Gored Dir. Ido Mizrahy Original Title Gored / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 76 mins. / Production Motherlode Films / Producer Geoffrey Gray, Selena Roberts, Valda Witt, Meghan Wurtz, Andrew Mer / World Sales Motherlode Films Gloria Empire Bio Nordisk Film Palads

He is the bullfighter who has survived being gored most times throughout his career. After 23 violent clashes with the furious oxen in the arena, Spanish matador Antoni Barrera takes his life’s most important decision when he must choose between being a stable breadwinner and a fearless daredevil. The director Ido Mizrahy captures bullfighting’s tragic dance with beauty and brutality when Barrera enters the arena for is very last

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fight. Without glorifying the controversial tradition, ‘Gored’ becomes a fascinating portrait of one man’s passion for his profession and his willingness to look death in the eyes. ‘Gored’ premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year and is a passionate portrait of an uncompromising man at a turning point in his long and adventurous life.

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Fresh Dressed Dir. Sacha Jenkins Original Title Fresh Dressed / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 85 mins. / Production Mass Appeal / Producer Peter Bittenbender, Nasir Jones, Marcus A. Clarke / World Sales Dogwoof

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It starts in 1970s Harlem and the Bronx among the rootless youths of the street. What they lack in money they have in attitude and style. Colours, stripes and thick laces – it’s all about being fresh! Hip hop is born, and for many having a fresh style becomes the most important (and for some: the only!) goal in life, when one’s social status can suddenly be measured by the thickness of one’s shoelaces. See the wild story about how the fresh style from the ghetto took over the big

fashion shows and a new, black self-awareness conquered the pop industry. And be inspired to make your own swaggin’ wardrobe! In a mixture of iconic archive footage and in-depth interviews with rappers, designers, old acquaintances from the street and other insiders from the hip hop scene, we among others meet Pharell Williams, Damon Dash, Karl Kani, Kanye West, Nas Jones, Andre Leon Talley and some of the other kings (and queens) of money-makin’ Manhattan.

Finders Keepers Dir. Bryan Carberry & Clay Tweel Original Title Finders Keepers / Country USA / Year 2014 / Running time 82 mins. / Production A World Record Headquarters, Exhibit A / Producer Ed Cunningham, Seth Gordon, Adam Gibbs, Bryan Carberry / World Sales Journeyman Pictures Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads Teltet

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Even if ‘Finders Keepers’ had been a fiction film, it would have been so far out that you would hardly have believed your own ears. But everything in the crazy and tragicomic story is the pure, bitter truth! The chaotic chain of coincidences is set into action when the notoriously unlucky John Wood loses a leg in a plane crash, which also claims his father’s life. He has his leg mummified and stores it in a barbecue grill (!) in his garage, but after a foreclosure it ends up in the hands of Shannon Wishnant, a local haggler, who is hungry for his 15 minutes of reality fame and earns a few dollars by

exhibiting the leg as a macabre tourist attraction. Two real characters in a legal and moral duel of words, played out in full public view in bizarre TV shows and in a south state environment where everyone has an opinion about who owns the leg. The incredible story unfolds with a warm and rarely seen feeling for both the grotesquely amusing and the tragic in the story of John vs. Shannon. The film is the latest work from the team behind the phenomenal documentary ‘The King of Kong’, which took the world by storm in 2007.

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Dir. Jakob Gottschau Original Title Facebookistan / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 59 mins. / Production Express Tv-Produciton / Producer Felicity Willets / World Sales DR International Sales KUA Teltet Nordisk Film Palads

1.4 billion people are on Facebook. But even though we voluntarily share our otherwise completely private information on the social network – and even if we just as voluntarily give Facebook permission to use our information and make money on them – very little is known about the secretive business itself. For how is the world’s largest public space controlled and monitored? Why are pages and posts censored? And why does Facebook keep data, even after the user has deleted

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it? ‘Like’ it or not – here is a film that will make you think twice before leaving your next digital footprint in Facebook’s eternal memory. Meet, among others, the author Peter Øvig Knudsen, whose book ‘Hippie’ was too much for Facebook with its historical pictures of bare breasts and 1970s permissiveness. Facebook is the most visible symptom of an increasingly closed and centralised internet, but is also a social revolution with a great democratic potential.

The Nightmare Dir. Rodney Ascher Original Title The Nightmare / Country USA / Year 2015 / Running time 90 mins. / Production Zipper Bros Films, Campfire / Producer Ross M. Dinerstein, Glen Zipper / World Sales ContentFilm International Absalon

Imagine waking up in your bed, and your entire body – legs, arms, head, tongue – is paralysed. Betrayed by your own bodily shell, you are abandoned to the horror scenarios of your dreams. This real phenomenon is called sleep paralysis, which about 6% of all people experience in their lives – a state of half-dream, half-reality. ‘The Nightmare’ tells the story of eight people’s horrific experiences in the grip of sleep paralysis, and is an extremely terrifying encounter, which is in the

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no-man’s land between documentary and hair-raising horror. Rodney Ascher digs deep into the shadowy darkness of the dreams, and through personal interviews and recreations of terrible semi-awake experiences, the audience is drawn into the immobilising universe of sleep paralysis. This year’s most frightening experience – and we promise that you will find it hard to sleep afterwards. And whatever you do, don’t watch it on your own!

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Danish documentaries with the courage to grasp life in all its aspects – and the talent to make good films out of it. Experience the latest from both established filmmakers and young directors on the big screen. This year’s films look beyond the borders of our small country to the global scene in international films that are relevant to audiences everywhere, all the while insisting on a personal touch and a directorical vision. We have included a collection of short work by and about Danish artists young and old(er). Films that celebrate life, the imagination and the will to create without losing their critical edge. Which is exactly what we are here for. For a full overview of this year’s national output, see also the Danish films nominated in the DOX:AWARD, NORDIC:DOX and F:ACT AWARD competitions.

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Flotel Europa Dir. Vladimir Tomic Original Title Flotel Europa / Country Denmark, Serbien / Year 2015 / Running time 70 mins. / Production Uzrok / Producer Selma Jusufbegovic, Srdjan Keca (Co-producer) / World Sales Vladimir Tomic Absalon Cinemateket Skuespilhuset - lille scene Nordisk Film Palads

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For 12-year-old Vladimir Tomic it seems like the beginning of an adventure when he one morning in 1992 stands in front of a massive container ship in Copenhagen’s harbour. Over two decades later, the Danish-Bosnian director and artist takes us back to the refugee ship Flotel Europa, where he and his mother and brother waited to be granted asylum for two years, just like thousands of other refugees from the wars in Bosnia and Hercegovina whom the Red Cross could not house in the country’s refugee centres. Through footage that Tomic and his little family shot themselves

on the boat as a VHS postcard to those who stayed behind, the film gives us a unique and deeply personal look at the limbo-like life in the windowless cabins, the vibrant communal kitchen, the crowded TV room and its despondent mood, and at how difficult it is to flee from the conflicts of war. But the grainy videos also tell us the story about a boy turning into a young man, and about something as common as starting to do folk dance in order to get a bit closer to his first great love - Melissa with the beautiful eyes.

What He Did

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Dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen Original Title Det Han Gjorde / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 62 mins. / Production House Of Real / Producer Jesper Jack / World Sales House of Real Dagmar Teatret Mungo Park Mungo Park

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In 1988, the psychologist and author Jens Michael Schau murdered his boyfriend, the author Christian Kampmann. A tragic event with a long prelude, and a terrible crime that became a public cause célèbre. Today, Jens is struggling with the social dilemma of being a convicted felon who has served his term, but is still weighed down by guilt and the judging looks of the world around him. And now the time has finally come to face the past: the story of the murder is being staged at the Mungo Park

theatre, and he will even participate in the creative process of producing the play. Jonah Poher Rasmussen, who in 2012 won the Nordic:Dox Award at CPH:DOX for his film ‘Searching for Bill’, has documented the complex process in its finest detail. From Jens’s apartment to the wooden floorboards of Mungo Park, in a film about guilt, shame and self-discovery. Co-presented by MIX Copenhagen.

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Dir. Christian Holten Bonke Original Title Ejersbo / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 75 mins. / Production Christianbonke.com, Basmati Film / Producer Katrine Sahlstrøm / World Sales Christian Bonke Bella Center - Bogforum Bremen Teater

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With his self-proclaimed ‘dirty realism’, the author Jakob Ejersbo wrote about young people who lose their footing and discover that their parents don’t understand a damn thing. In 2003, he was awarded the highest literature award in Denmark, De Gyldne Laurbær for his debut novel ‘Nordkraft’, by a committee who stated: ‘Your talent is so big and undeniable, that there is no reason to wait for several novels before giving you this award.’ Five years later, Ejersbo was dead. In Christian Bonke’s brand new film, the author’s two best friends defy plenty of common sense to fulfil his last wish: to have his ashes spread from the peak of Kilimanjaro.

Jakob Ejersbo spent his early childhood in Africa, which shaped him and followed him throughout his life. Along the way, his friends, family and colleagues talk about the reckless and stubborn lone wolf’s otherwise fairly private life. The characters from Ejersbo’s books are brought to life in the story about what an artist’s life can cost if one – as Jakob did – throws oneself into it without compromising. Jakob Ejersbo was writing with death at his heels, and sacrificed everything else to complete the work he had always wanted to write: the Africa trilogy.

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Dir. Kristoffer Hegnsvad Original Title Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 60 mins. / Production Empty Chairs / Producer Cecilie C. Caspersen / World Sales Empty Chairs Empire Bio Empire Bio Nordisk Film Palads When Ellen Brennan throws herself from a mountain peak above the clouds in a flight suit and falls towards the ground at 240 km/h wearing a small GoPro camera on her helmet, you have to be made of steel not to become dizzy by her audacity and defiance of death. Ellen is a solitary woman in the male-dominated world of base jumpers. An extreme sport where one’s career typically lasts a maximum of 5 to 6 years. But Ellen is more than just an exceptional athlete with nerves of

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steel on the lookout for an adrenaline boost. ‘Looking for Exits’ is a portrait of a woman for whom the dizzying flights in the mountains is an entirely practical manifestation of a larger outlook on life, which the journalist and director Kristoffer Hegnsvad gives a cinematic form in his latest film. ‘Exits’ is not just the base jumpers’ professional term for the places to jump off. It is also a way to approach the world on your own terms, and it takes place in free fall.

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Future Road

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Dir. Ulrik E. E. Gutt-Nielsen Original Title Fremtidsvej / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 59 mins. / Production Good Company Pictures / Producer Katrine A. Sahlstrøm / World Sales Good Company Pictures Absalon Nordisk Film Palads

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Ulrik has grown up in a Danish nuclear family, where his mother was the backbone of the deep red townhouse on Fremtidsvej - Danish for ‘Future Road’. His father was a busy engineer, and his older brother played brass in the local scouts’ orchestra, which their father directed. From a safe distance, Ulrik filmed everything he could get close to. But now he is an adult, and when his mother suddenly and unexpectedly dies, the family starts to fall apart. The father’s growing confusion, new desire

for freedom and breakneck adventures with Filipino prostitutes, racketeering and online dating make everything around him crash to pieces. And now, Ulrik is left as the reluctant adult and responsible party. Should he take control of his frail father’s life? Can he? And who is it that Ulrik is really trying to protect? ‘Future Road’ is an unsentimental and almost tragicomically honest film told by Ulrik himself.

The Invention and My Dad Dir. Benjamin Hesselholdt Original Title Opfindelsen - og min far / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 58 mins. / Production MicroCosmos / Producer Camilla Paula Andersen / World Sales Microcosmos Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

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Danish-Ghanaian Senna Odooms has invented a shower that can save both water and money. And given that water is in short supply in many parts of Africa, the entrepreneur Senna plans to start a business in Ghana. But his road to Africa is not entirely accidental. Under his project lurks a desire to get closer to his 82-year-old father, who left the family twenty years ago to move back to Ghana. Senna’s charismatic and busy father captivates everyone with his charm and jokes. An unstop-

pable entrepreneur, who can barely sit still, and whose latest idea is to open a bank! But it turns out to be just as difficult for Senna to get his attention as when he was a child. And now that Senna himself is an adult with a small family back in Denmark, he is soon facing a new dilemma. Should he focus on his invention and on reestablishing contact with his father, in spite of facing foreign business cultures and unstable exchange rates?

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Nielsen Dir. Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen Original Title Nielsen / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 45 mins. / Production KILLIT FILMS / Producer Kirstine Barfod / World Sales Killit Films Absalon Vester Vov Vov

Meet a man who has declared himself dead, taken over another person’s identity, buried his own doppelganger with great fanfare and generally distinguished himself as the country’s most radical performance artist with a comprehensive opus covering film, text, music and – not least – his mere presence in the midst of the limited/limiting normality of reality. ‘Nielsen’ is a serial portrait, of which the first two episodes can be seen here for the first time. And which now and again lets us sense a glimpse of the deeply unusual man behind it all. The first episode documents his carefully planned ‘burial’, where a funeral procession of several hundred

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people follow the coffin with Nielsen’s replica to Assistens cemetery in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro district. And in the second episode we are seated in the first row of the courtroom gallery and are taken behind the scenes of the bizarre trial, where his former co-artist and companion Thomas Altheimer took Nielsen to court for having written an immensely detailed book about his private life, without him being aware of it. Artistic freedom, media stunt, or a serious assault on privacy? Everybody was in doubt about what the answer was, and that alone meant that the mission succeeded. Screening with ‘I Gave My Body to the Revolution’.

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I Gave My Body to The Revolution Dir. Nielsen Original Title I Gave My Body to The Revolution / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 47 mins. / Production The Nielsen Movement / Producer Sirid Laursen / World Sales The Nielsen Movement Absalon Vester Vov Vov

In 2010, Nielsen, the former head of the arts project Das Beckwerk, let a copy of his body be buried in Copenhagen. Copies of the body were sent to galleries all over the world to be exhibited as a symbol of the citizen’s death in a globalised world. But in Cairo, Nielsen’s plaster cast was detained by the authorities, who suspected it to be a Mohammed caricature. That was before the Arab Spring. During his first trip to Cairo to free his statue, Nielsen himself was arrested, but now he travels back to the Egyptian capital to donate his (second) body

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to the people’s revolution in a symbolic sacrifice on Tahrir Square. An interventionist and pacifist project, that does not end up going according to plan. For in the heated months after the revolution, not everyone understands the noble intentions behind his visit, and everyone is busy with their own interests. ‘I Gave My Body to the Revolution’ is a documentation of a project that builds a bridge over the gap between noble idealism and political realism. Screening with ‘Nielsen’.

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Børge Mogensen Designs for Life

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Dir. Casper Høyberg, Co-Dir. Thomas Mogensen & Malene Vilstrup Original Title Møbler til tiden - en film om Børge Mogensen / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 58 mins. / Production Copenhagen Film Company Short & Doc. / Producer Ulrik Gutkin / World Sales Copenhagen Film Company Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Falkoner

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Børge Mogensen’s furniture is not just furniture. It is furniture as an artform with refined and timeless details that have provided Mogensen with an international following of dedicated admirers and collectors. The story of the man behind the design classics is the story of both the designer, the craftsman and the private person – and about a country which in the decades following World War II saw an unprecedented economic recovery reflected in its culture and lifestyle. Times

change, but Børge Mogensen remains as one of the names that has secured the reputation of Scandinavian aesthetics, and continues to inspire. His life story is told by his son, Thomas Mogensen, who brings us close to the stories that have never been told before, and which add new facets of Børge Mogensen’s life through unique access to the entirety of his extensive archive of pictures, drawings and – not least – furniture.

Josefine’s Farm Dir. Emil Langballe, co-instruktører Andrea Storm Henriksen & Fredrik Bondesen Original Title Josefines Bondegård / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 15 mins. / Production made in copenhagen / Producer Helle Faber & Mathilde Hvid Lippmann / World Sales Made in Copenhagen Den Grønne Friskole Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon Absalon

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7-year-old Josefine is an energetic and resourceful girl with ants in her pants. Josefine lives on a farm in Ryslinge on the Danish island of Funen together with her family:

mother, father, big brothers, big sisters, grandfather and grandmother. The family would like to be one hundred percent self-sufficient, and therefore Josefine experiences much that other children do not experience. Muddy puddles must be made for the new piglets, the newly born goat should have a baby bottle, and the rabbits have to be slaughtered. Life among the animals on the farm is full of exciting experiences, and Josephine approaches everyday life (and death) with an open and bright mind. Together with Josefine, the audience is let into a world where they can see where our food comes from and where every day brings a new adventure.

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We Chose The Milky Way Dir. Eva Marie Rødbro Original Title Os der valgte Mælkevejen / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 26 mins. / Production The NAtional Film School of Denmark / Producer Rikke Lassen / World Sales The National Film School of Denmark Nordisk Film Palads Nordisk Film Palads

Scenes from life on another planet, where a hedonistic civilisation of young women decorate themselves with artificial nails, white clothes and a fake tan before taking the limo to the city. But Eva Marie Rødbro’s film is from the suburbs of Copenhagen, and is shaped by its environment. In other words, an unplacable, anthropological mutation of a bling hip hop video, social-realist science fiction and a documentary version of ‘Spring Breakers’, whose surreal shock cuts place us as participants, rather than mere spectators, in a world where

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everything is artificial – except the friendships. In a number of films, Rødbro has documented the restlessness, fragility and self-destructive feeling of invincibility of youth and early adulthood. Her film school graduation film lives up to all the promises that her previous work of photographs and short films has made, and is an extremely style-conscious and intelligent study of a lifestyle and an environment, where pure excess is elevated to an existential principle. Screening with ‘Field Niggas’ (see Artists & Auteurs).

Pebbles at Your Door Dir. Vibeke Bryld Original Title Pebbles at Your Door / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 19 mins. / Production Final Cut for Real / Producer Heidi Elise Christensen og Signe Byrge / World Sales Final Cut for Real Dagmar Teatret Nordisk Film Palads

In evocative animations, pieced together by photographs and postcards, Vibeke Bryld opens the door ajar to the otherwise closed-off upper class in North Korea. Bryld tells about Harmonia, who lives in happy political ignorance, but for whom reality is slowly making itself felt. The regime’s censorship can no longer hide the pervasive poverty, and flyers are talking about the free life outside the North Korean borders. Her mother and sister fled the country when Harmonia was a child, and she now embarks on a trip away from her home coun-

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try to find them in South Korea. ‘Pebbles at Your Door’ is the story of a gradual political awakening and liberation. But it is also the story of how the heightened awareness of a heavy-handed regime can make the entire basis of ones life collapse. As Harmonia is forced to come to face up to the political realities, she also challenges her entire past life. Bryld’s meticulous animations, which slide in and out of focus, reenact exactly this slow maturing process, which oscillates between clarity and repression.

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When You’re Watching This Film, I’m Already Another

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Dir. Jeppe Lange Original Title Når du ser denne her film er jeg allerede en anden / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 24 mins. / Production tombola productions / Producer Jeppe Lange / World Sales Tombola Productions Cinemateket Absalon

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He stands against a wall of green vegetation and drums gently on a handful of cymbals. Suddenly, he takes them off the stand and throws them into the bushes. The metal cutting through the leaves makes a soft sound. The impulsive act is characteristic for the young sound artist Kristoffer Raasted, for whom the most timid sounds should not be overheard. In five playful chapters, the film draws a portrait of Kristoffer, which unfurls between art, sound, life and adventure. It is a story about constantly finding ones future self - and consigning

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ones former selves to the past. Kristoffer’s considerations extend from thoughts on aesthetic materiality to everyday annoyances, but they are all in a strange way intertwined in a world view where the attentive aural sense is important, and where you have to approach the world naively and considerately. Jeppe Lange’s film adopts the same perspective as its protagonist, with a fresh and exploring film portrait that buzzes with enthusiasm and a youthful mind. Screening with ‘Time Passes’ (see Nordic:Dox Award).

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Dir. Jon Bang Carlsen Original Title Cats in Riga - Director’s Cut / Country Denmark, Latvia / Year 2015 / Running time 30 mins. / Production C&C Productions aps Blomstervaenget 52, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark & Mistrus Media Ltd. / Producer Antra Gaile, Jon Bang Carlsen / World Sales C&C Productions ApS

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Cats have taken over the entire city - and perhaps the entire world - in seasoned filmmaker Jon Bang Carlsen’s most recent short film which is shot in the Latvian capital of Riga. They are everywhere and Carlsen’s camera is everywhere with them. Experience the world as our furry friends see and hear it. Which is, like an epic human comedy where we ourselves play a comical supporting part. While the unrest in Ukraine is raging on TV screens and over the radio, and while the inhab-

itants of Riga follow the trivial duties of everyday life, cats are watching from a distance in a curious and mysterious film which in true feline fashion never reveals what it thinks. In a time where the internet is flooded with corny cat videos, here is an elegant and charming film that suggests more than it explains. Showing here in a new director’s cut and screening with ‘Life According to Anton’.

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Life According to Anton Dir. Iben Haahr Andersen Original Title Livet ifølge Anton / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 58 mins. / Production klassefilm aps / Producer Lise Saxtrup / World Sales Klassefilm Absalon Cinemateket

It all started at Spånbjerggård in 1924, on the day that Anton was born. Now we are at the family farm 87 years later, and Anton still lives here together with his nine cows and two cats. The cows live as long as Anton does. It’s a pact they have entered. Outside on the fields, life is moving along its cyclical time with new beginnings, the dark and light hours of the day, and the passing of seasons, while the interior is gathering dust and things are only going one way – towards old age and decay.

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But Anton is a lively gentleman, who quotes Walt Whitman when he has to find words for his gratitude for the pleasures of (country) life while the ivy is pushing through the tired windows of his home and winds its way around the furniture that nobody has used for years. ‘Life according to Anton’ is a fascinating film about sunrises and sunsets, beginnings and ends, joys and sorrows. Screening with ‘Cats in Riga - Director’s Cut’.

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Now only the eye can catch Dir. Jakob Ohrt Nielsen Original Title First Day (Now only the eye can catch) / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 13 mins. / Production Jakob Ohrt Nielsen studio / Producer Jakob Ohrt Nielsen / World Sales Jakob Ohrt Nielsen Normann Copenhagen Cinemateket

In mid-January, the inhabitants of the Greenlandic town of Ilulissat can feel the sun for the first time in nearly two months. The winter has robbed them of any form of sunlight and left everything in the dark. Even if the day of the sun’s return only offers thirteen minutes of light, the residents celebrate it with ritual singing and fireworks. During these thirteen, luminous minutes, the Inuit hunter Malik retells a sun myth, where he unwittingly ends up beating light to death. A story about

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the human relationship to and dependence on natural forces, and about Inuit myths as a mirror that let them understand themselves and their world. Ohrt Nielsen juxtaposes images of the sun that slowly comes into view over the mountains, with animations of shamanistic Greenlandic statuettes. It thus unites Malik’s mythological voice with his own myth in living images. And gives us a fresh creation of an ancient legend using a modern medium. Screening as a part of the Danish Artists Film/Video compilation with ‘Anóme’, ‘Mother of Monsters’, ‘Breaker of Horses’, and ‘It Runs About Like Ants’.

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Dir. Lena Ditte Nissen Original Title Anóme / Country Tyskland, Kina, Panama / Year 2015 / Running time 13 mins. / Production Academy of Media Art Cologne / Producer Ute Dilger / World Sales Lena Ditte Nissen Normann Copenhagen Cinemateket

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‘Anóme’ unites two matriarchal cultures from each corner of the world in a common, cinematic sisterhood. The Chinese Moshu tribe and the Kuna tribe from Panama are interwoven in Lena Ditte Nissen’s ethnographic journey – both inner and outer. It is a journey to remote geographical areas and to the extreme, darkened rooms of the mind. Using surreal, trance-like black and white images and an evocative soundtrack, ‘Anóme’ performs an optical, matriarchal ritual. In a film language that approaches Ben Rivers’ enigmatic anthropology, Lena Ditte Nissen examines the sensory experience of

being immersed in the women’s tribes. But as an accesspoint to ethnographic research, the film must ask itself and the audience a number of fundamental questions about the encounter with the Other and about the right to make cultural definitions. ‘Anóme’ mixes its interpersonal, inter-female project with reflections on ethnographic filmmaking and methods. Screening as a part of the Danish Artists Film/Video compilation with ‘Now Only the Eye Can Catch’, ‘Mother of Monsters’, ‘Breaker of Horses’, and ‘It Runs About Like Ants’.

Mother of Monsters

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Dir. Anne Haaning Original Title Mother of Monsters / Country UK / Year 2015 / Running time 6 mins. / Production Anne Haaning / Producer Anne Haaning / World Sales Anne Haaning Normann Copenhagen Cinemateket

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Anne Haaning’s computer-animated ‘Mother of Monsters’ conjures up a digital myth, and is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is interpreted in subtle hints while it discreetly satirises the contemporary technological and image-fetishistic media landscape. Since 2009, Haaning, who graduated from Goldsmiths in London in 2014, has been exhibiting her work internationally and has worked in the crossover between video production and installation, with a continuous interest in the coincidence between the

physical and the digital, the tactile and the abstract. In her latest work, a rain of computer eyes focuses on a digital culture where the face is equal to a selfie and where our relationship with our body and the world is undergoing significant changes. ‘Mother of Monsters’ is a neon-lit crystal ball, which gives technology a past – and possibly catches a glimpse of its future. Screening as a part of the Danish Artists Film/Video compilation with ‘Now Only the Eye Can Catch’, ‘Anóme’, ‘Breaker of Horses’, and ‘It Runs About Like Ants’.

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Breaker of Horses Dir. Nanna Rebekka & Pernille Lystlund Matzen Original Title Hestebetvinger / Country Denmark / Year 2015 / Running time 14 mins. / Producer Marta Mleczek / World Sales Pernille Lystlund Matzen Normann Copenhagen Cinemateket

An easily overlooked T-junction in Copenhagen’s south district is the location of a dramatic statue. In the midst of everyday urban space rises a bronze sculpture of a young man who is about to tame two unruly horses. The equally unruly essay film ‘The Horse Breaker’ blows the sculpture into pieces cinematically and follows the hidden stories that are contained in the cast. This leads us to a Belgian museum and deep into Europe’s colonial past. With formal nods to contemporary video artists such as Camille Henrot and Hito Steyerl, ‘The Horse Breaker’ is an overheated information flow of images,

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digital productions, sounds and lyrics sung by Aske Zidore (Gooms, Oh No Ono). Computer-generated bronze lumps are floating around in empty space, while archive material is projected on top of the cool pictures of the unruly sculpture. The entire visual abundance is coloured by a soundtrack that alternately seethes with synthetic sound effects and detached bits of songs about the statue and its history. Solidly placed in the era of today, ‘The Horse Breaker’ is a video work that turns to the past. Screening as a part of the Danish Artists Film/ Video compilation with ‘Now Only the Eye Can Catch’, ‘Anóme’, ‘Mother of Monsters’ and ‘It Runs About Like Ants’.

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It Runs About Like Ants Dir. Gitte Villesen Original Title It Runs About Like Ants / Country Denmark, Latvia / Year 2014 / Running time 34 mins. / Production Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, a productione.V and Gitte Villesen, / Producer Gitte Villesen / World Sales Gitte Villesen Normann Copenhagen Cinemateket

A lush, flowering garden forms the intimate backdrop for ‘It Runs Around Like Ants’. Under juicy-green foliage, the Latvian herb expert Skaidrite Knapse gives us an inspired lesson on the healing and almost cosmic power of the plant kingdom. Skaidrite’s accolade of natural healing re-enchants the garden around her. Villesen has revealed unique human beings from the most common and ordinary appearances. But Skaidrite expresses a self-evidently distinct ideology and intensity, her vegetative world view is diametrically opposed to mod-

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ern man’s alienated experience of nature. Through her connection to the plant world, however, we also manage to approach her family history, which is marked by Latvia’s social and political past. ‘It Runs Around Like Ants’ is a cinematic meeting between humans and an accurately drawn film portrait of an existence with nature literally under ones skin. Screening as a part of the Danish Artists Film/Video compilation with ‘Now Only the Eye Can Catch’, ‘Anóme’, ‘Mother of Monsters’ and ‘Breaker of Horses’.

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We are very happy to present the film and video exhibition ‘Embodied’, curated by the London-based curator and producer Jacqui Davies. ‘Embodied’ is exhibited at Nikolaj Kunsthal in the center of Copenhagen, and presents a series of encounters between documentary and performance. Seeking to go beyond the question of authenticity that is initially raised by this intersection, ‘Embodied’ considers performance a process of re-enactment, re-presentation, mediation, and of staging reality. We are collaborating with Kunsthal Charlottenborg on an exhibition of photographer and traveler Jacob Holdt’s acclaimed photo series ‘American Pictures’, and with Den Frie on an exhibition of the Iranian artists collective Rokni & Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, whose installation ‘Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair’ is an immersive cabinet of curiosities. And at Fotografisk Center located in the meatpacking district, curators Lasse Lau (DK) and Benj Gerdes (US) are exploring the archive as a site of artistic practices in ‘Rewriting Histories’, an international film and video exhibition. The meatpacking district is also the home of our own VR:LAB, an open workshop where new ways of storytelling are explored.

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Embodied CPH:DOX, Nikolaj Kunsthal and curator Jacqui Davies present ‘Embodied’, a film and video exhibition of artists’ moving image that presents a series of encounters between documentary and performance. Seeking to go beyond the question of authenticity that is initially raised by this intersection, ‘Embodied’ considers performance a process of re-enactment, re-presentation, mediation, and of staging reality. The exhibition considers ideas such as the individual subject as a discursive (documentary) practice, counter-performances, exhibitionism, and unconscious performance. Linking these various ideas together is an intimated questioning of the tension between fiction and reality within documented performance and performative documentary. Rather than permitting the illusory ability of this genre to present a concrete reality, the works in the exhibition take viewers beyond the here and now of the document and into an alternative temporality, one that is accessed via various performative and filmic devices. The works in the exhibition therefore present the documented body as both a subject and an object; in action and acted upon. Participating artists Katarzyna Badach & Alfredo Ramos Fernández, Yael Bartana, Jérôme Bel, Richard Billingham, Chim Pom, Tacita Dean, Coco Fusco, Louis Henderson, Samson Kambalu, Martha Rosler, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Friday November 13 at 14:30 Cinemateket / Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 Talk: Meet the artists Yael Bartana, Samson Kambalu and Louis Henderson in a talk moderated by curator Jacqui Davies about the intersection between performance art and non-fiction cinema.

Thursday November 5 at 17:00 Nikolaj Kunsthal Opening / Private view with Jacqui Davies and artists in attendance.

Wednesday November 11 at 17:30 Nikolaj Kunsthal Open reception for all CPH:DOX industry guests with Jacqui Davies and artists in attendance.

Nikolaj Kunsthal Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12:00-17:00 Thursday: 12:00-21:00 Nikolaj Kunsthal Nikolaj Plads 10 1067 Copenhagen K. Free entrance with CPH:DOX accreditation www.nikolajkunsthal.dk

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Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair The Iranian artist collective Rokni & Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are visiting Denmark for the first time. ‘Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair’ is a total installation in the form of a cabinet of curiosities, where you choose your own path through the work and which includes a number of the trio’s films, in which they often appear themselves. Like in their other works, the films are created in collaboration with friends, designers, DJs, sound artists and other fellow artists. The three artists have their own individual practice, and as a collective they create joint projects, where their various artistic expressions merge together and are expanded. Through materials such as dolls, furniture, animal skulls, colourful carpets and ceramics, their works is a satirical and humorous way deal with political and social topics that are often controversial in their native Iran.

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November 7, 2015 - March 6, 2016

Den Frie Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday: 12:00-18:00 Thursday: 12:00-21:00 Saturday - Sunday: 12:00-18:00 (closed on Mondays) Admission: 60 kr (students/pensioners: 40 kr) Den Frie Oslo Plads 1 2100 Copenhagen Ø. www.denfrie.dk

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American Pictures Who Owns the Truth? To show Jacob Holdt’s ‘American Pictures’ from the 1970s does not require a special occasion, as the society that Holdt describes in his photographs is still relevant today. Nonetheless, there is a direct occasion to show ‘American Pictures’ again, which is that the work has been under attack. Holdt is accused of not telling the truth. But who owns the truth? The exhibition of ‘American Pictures’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg leads the work back to its starting point, as Jacob Holdt described it in the preface to his book, namely ‘an attack on parts of Danish politics, where I used the American scare story to point out what certain trends in Denmark (privatisation, cuts) can lead to.’ The exhibition asks what we have learned from Holdt’s “what if” since the book was first published in 1977? What trends have since then influenced development in Denmark?

Friday, 5 November 17:00 to 20:00 Opening and speech with Michael Thouber, director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Sunday, 8 November 12:00 to 15:00 ‘American Pictures’, presentation by Jacob Holdt. Admission: 100 kr. including access to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Wednesday, 11 November at 17:00 ‘Who owns the truth?’. Panel debate (in Danish) with Jacob Holdt, Adam Holm (journalist) and Michael Thouber (director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg). Moderator: Sune Buch Andersen (DR2 host, Detector). Admission: 100 kr. including access to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

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November 6, 2015 - January 3, 2016

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 11:00-17:00 Wednesday 11:00-21:00 Admission: 60 kr. Kunsthal Charlottenborg Nyhavn 2 1051 Copenhagen K. www.charlottenborg.dk

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Rewriting Histories When is it appropriate to revisit historic events, and what does the interpretation of the past mean for our perception of the present? The exhibition ‘Rewriting Histories’ examines how history can be retold from a contemporary perspective and thus focuses on a theme in the visual arts, which has been given a new twist and renewed relevance with recent political events.

Fotografisk Center Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00-17:00 Saturday & Sunday 12:00-16:00 Admission: 25 kr.

27 internationally recognised Danish as well as foreign artists focus on archiving and storytelling through photography, slide installations, film and video works. The key questions in many of the works on display are: how is history told, and can history be told in different or new ways? What role does an archive play the understanding of the present? And why does history continue to be worth revisiting? ‘Rewriting Histories’ is curated by Kran Film Collective in a collaboration with the artists Lasse Lau (DK) and Benj Gerdes (USA) and they invite us with their words to consider how culture produces meaning and knowledge. They challenge us to not just be passive recipients of history, but active in the creation of future historical narratives. In the installation of ‘Rewriting Histories’ at Fotografisk Center, the exhibition space is conceived as a part of the overall staging.

Participating artists Akram Zaatari, Andrea Geyer, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Benjamin Tiven, Inuk Silis Høegh, Katya Sander, Kajsa Dahlberg, Lasse Lau, Lin + Lam, Matthew Buckingham, Michelle Dizon, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nanna Debois Buhl, Pia Arke & Anders Jørgensen, Raed Yassin, Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei, Regina José Galindo, Robert Ochshorn, Sergio De La Torre, Stéphane Gérard, Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire, William E Jones.

Sunday, 8 November at 14:00 Collective Practices - Beaver 16, CUDI, Camel Collective, Kran Film Artist Talk: Lasse Lau & Benj Gerdes (DK, US)

Tuesday, 10 November at 17:00 Screens - Control and illusion for the video interface Artist Talk: Robert Ochshorn (US)

Fotografisk Center Staldgade 16 (Kødbyen) 1799 Copenhagen V. www.photography.dk

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By Which We Live Our Lives ‘By which we live our lives’ is an audio-visual installation portrait in which changes in social status are explored. The work highlights aspects of traversing class seldom acknowledged by those who become upwardly mobile. Kurt Kirkedal Jensen grew up in a fishing community, he knows the job of a fisherman well, and is prepared to fight for the working rights of his comrades. Growing up in difficult circumstances, Lisbeth Zorning is unafraid of hard work. Her fearlessness has allowed her to excel despite her situation. Svend Aage Rasmussen owns an impressive wine collection and loves jazz. His mother has always had high hopes for him. Born into under or working class families, the diligence and resourcefulness of Kurt, Lisbeth and Svend Aage has enabled them to lead a different life. All three now reluctantly identify as middle class and are sensitive to this change in position, especially in Denmark, a country in debate as to whether class divisions still exist. A collaborative work-in-progress between Esther Johnson (UK) and Sonja Lillebæk Christensen (DK), developed as a part of CPH:LAB 2014.

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November 7 - 15, 2015

Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station Exhibition opening: Saturday November 7, 17:00-20:00 Opening hours: Thursday - Sunday: 13:00-17:00 Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station Ernst Kapersvej 1 2450 Copenhagen SV www.blanchepictures.com www.sonjalillebaek.dk

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Together with VR:LAB, CPH:DOX focuses on virtual reality. 10 directors and 10 producers from Scandinavia meet during 10 days during the festival and create 10 new film works for VR, which are shown during the festival’s last days. With this initiative, CPH:DOX is putting Scandinavian narrative voices on the world map of virtual reality. VR:LAB is developed and curated by the director Johan Knattrup Jensen and the producer Mads Damsbo, who with their VR work ‘The Doghouse’ have toured around Europe and North America, most recently to the New York Film Festival. VR:LAB is produced by Makropol in collaboration with CPH:DOX and is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund and Bikubefonden. VR:LAB takes place at Space10 in Kødbyen (the Meatpacking District) and is open at selected times for curious reality-escapists and future-critical cineasts.

Space10, Kødbyen (Meatpacking District)

Open workshop every day: November 6 - 11: 16:00-19:00 VR premiere: Saturday, 14 November: 10:00-16:00 Space10 (Kødbyen) 1799 Copenhagen. V.

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AUDIO:VISUALS is an exclusive concert series curated and produced by CPH:DOX, held around Copenhagen before and during the festival, in an ambitious attempt to explore the field between visual art, and live music in new and challenging ways. The idea is to combine live concerts, stage acts and installations in unique events where sound, light and performance take part on an equal basis. And â&#x20AC;&#x2122;uniqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is to be taken literally. Many of the events in the series will only be presented this once. Musically the series covers a wide field. From ghetto-tech to indie rock, and from prog to pop. Genres that will all have a visual counterpart in the work of like-minded artists, both young and the more established. We would travel far to experience the twelve events in AUDIO:VISUALS ourselves. So take the opportunity to see them while you have the chance!

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The Thurston Moore Band vs. ‘Detonation’ (curated film programme)

Thurston Moore forever. The concert is both the first on Danish soil with Moore and his band since 2012, and the first since being appointed adjunct professor at the Rythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Moore will be performing songs that span his entire career, and not least from his latest album ‘The Best Day’ from 2014, which won much acclaim all world-

wide and put him in a league of his own. Especially for this AUDIO:VISUALS concert, Moore has agreed to curating an exclusive short film programme inspired by his activist rallying cry of a song ‘Detonation’ from the aforementioned album. A political programme that addresses modern activism, the whistleblower Chelsea Manning and London-based ‘The Angry Brigade’. Store Vega

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Deerhunter + Atlas Sound

The last evening in CPH:DOX’s concert series Audio:Visuals offers a double whammy with the merely 33-yearold legend and eccentric Bradford Cox, when he performs a concert with both Deerhunter and as a solo project as Atlas Sound. Cox has been called everything from a musical genius to indie rock’s uncrowned king. The music is dreamy without having lost touch with reality, and possesses a nerve that lives in both the quirky lyrics and in his experimental-pop melodic

cobwebs. In connection with the release of his latest album ‘Fading Frontier’, Cox has himself said that it feels to him like the first day of spring after a brutal winter, where you suddenly realise that the darkness and misery will not last. A feeling that he, without elaborating, describes as ‘very special’. What he exactly means by this can be experienced first hand when he closes this year’s festival with his new live show. Store Vega

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

What do a black and white Japanese cult documentary from 1976 and a world-renowned Canadian post-rock band from the present have in common? The name - and the attitude! Godspeed You! Black Emperor is post-rock in its purest form, with intense scratching noises on the one hand and delicate, spherical sounds on the other. Live, the band will perform with updated visuals on

analogue 16mm film by the film artist Karl Lemieux, so this GY!BE night will also be a tribute to both the film’s sound and its raw material. As an (extra) warmup for the concert, the Bhutanese artist Tashi Dorji will perform a brief concert. The event is organised in collaboration with Gearbox and Den Grå Hal. Den Grå Hal

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Bianca Casady (CocoRosie) & the C.i.A.

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Bowler hats, feathered fans and sad clowns are all part of the scenery when Bianca Casady performs with the backing band The C.i.A. Bianca Casady, better known as one half of the sibling duo CocoRosie, has during August toured with her new performance project at a number of major European festivals with a riot of a show. And you should not be worried that there is less madness without Bianca’s sister – quite the opposite.

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Let’s just put it this way: none other than David Byrne invited Casady to his Meltdown festival in London, before he had even heard or seen what was going to happen. We accept that as a very valid stamp of approval. At the concert at DR Concert Hall Studio 2, Casady will perform music from her upcoming debut album. Organised in collaboration with Copenhagen Jazz Festival and DR Concert Hall. Koncerthuset (Studie 2)

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Jonathan Johansson vs. Erik Gandini

Jonathan Johansson is a brave man. At least if you consider it brave to name his latest album ‘Lebensraum!’ – one of Hitler’s fundamental concepts. There is thus no doubt that Johansson wants to stir up a debate. But his sharp criticism of Europe’s current state is superbly wrapped in danceable pop which goes straight to your dance shoes. Johansson has shaken off his previous musical melancholy and goes wholeheartedly for the ultimate pop experience where funky bass lines,

well-produced vocal harmonies and drum machines are the musical pillars, with his universe of political lyrics providing a contrasting frame. For this special occasion we have invited the documentarist Erik Gandini, who is attending CPH:DOX with his new and appropriatedly titled film ‘The Swedish Theory of Love’, to create a spectacular and political visual show. Organised in collaboration with Beatbox Entertainment. Bremen Teater

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Khaira Arby vs. ‘They Will Have To Kill Us First’

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Den Sorte Skole vs. Dark Matters

On Den Sorte Skole’s latest release, ‘Indians & Cowboys’, the battle is not fought with bows, arrows and pistols, but with samples, complex compositions and wild energy. From aggressive tribal bangers and tough industrial, via high jazz psychosis to atmospheric and celestial instrumental ballads there are no limits to where the two sound magicians Simon Dokkedal and Martin Højland dare to tread. ‘Indians & Cowboys’ has a reputation to live up to, as the predecessor ‘Lektion III’ not

only secured them the prestigious Steppeulv award as ‘Composers of the Year’ in 2014, but also gave them a top 5 rank in The New Yorker’s list of the best overlooked albums of 2013. Armed with turntables, a mixer and boundless curiosity and imagination, Den Sorte Skole performs together with the visual artist Dark Matters, who has dug in the Eastern bloc’s treasure trove of stop-motion, puppet and regular animation from the 1960s and 1970s. Store Vega Voxhall

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Perfume Genius vs. Sort Støj

Wearing a gold glitter top and copious amounts of hair gel, Perfume Genius, otherwise known as Mike Hadreas, sits enthroned on the album cover of last year’s release ‘Too Bright’. In spite of his festive and flamboyant appearance, Hadreas makes far from easily accessible dance music, but complex, groundbreaking and introverted art pop, which clearly separates him from other similar music. His repertoire offers everything from simple piano ballads to kitsch and grandiose pop compositions, which are united without exception by nutritious intensity, which does not compromise with its own existence.

‘Too Bright’ is about Hadreas’s encounter with prejudice because of his androgynous appearance, and the product of this realisation is a Hadreas who is completely turned inside out, and who leaves nothing unsaid. Sort Støj will accompany Perfume Genius with its visuals at Aveny-T in Frederiksberg, a setting that fits perfectly with the theatrical performer. All in all a seamless, sensual experience, which with both its sound, images and venue provides a deeply authentic soulfulness. Organised in collaboration with Smash!Bang!Pow! and Aveny-T. Aveny-T

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Matana Roberts + support: Simon James Philips

The multi-instrumentalist Matana Roberts is a composer, saxophone player, sound experimentalist and mixed media practitioner. Her latest work ‘Coin Coin’ is no less than 12 releases of which she has so far reached chapter three, entitled ‘River Run Thee’. The work is an experimental study of African-American history and identity, expressed through everything from the saxophone and improvised singing to field recordings and the spoken word. Roberts’ musical and artistic opus

can always be traced to a deeper social consciousness, historical reflection and political activism, and her personal and musical narratives are expressed in tightly woven soundscapes. We can not renounce the voices of history, and Roberts has managed to lend a body and sound in the present to that which for many of us is a thing of the past. Organised in collaboration with Jazzhouse. Jazzhouse

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Lower vs. The Contemporary

Five songs. Five videos. Five directors. This was the short and sweet and no bullshit way in which Lower presented its new EP ‘I’m a Lazy Son... but I’m the Only Son’, when it was released in mid-September. Here, people such as the cult icon Dean Blunt have been behind the camera, resulting in a handheld look with a grainy resolution in a dark backstage room. In addition, there is a mash-up of Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar music videos, home video footage from a college graduation, and a shopping

trip with the band in Copenhagen. A schizophrenic mix of images that both supports and distances itself from Lower’s sound, which booms powerfully in the background of the subtle videos. The music, as usual, is heavy on drums, bass and plaintive singing, which form the basic framework for the haunting melodies. This evening, Lower will perform live, while the music videos are shown simultaneously.

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EXEC vs. Obscura

Just under two years ago, the Veto front man Troels Abrahamsen sat down in front of his piano instead of the computer. EXEC was conceived that very moment. Abrahamsen has taken his point of departure in the harmonies and structures of the psalm tradition, but without the religious element. By contrast, the lyrics are deeply personal stories from a life fully lived, and Abrahamsen reveals a voice that displays entirely new and uncompromising facets of his musical talent. The

result is a graceful and moving fusion of sonic perfection and enhanced humanity, which sends shivers down your spine. Abrahamsen will perform his live debut with EXEC during CPH:DOX, and we have paired him with the visual arts group Obscura, whose previous collaborations include den Sorte Skole, Giana Factory and Oh Land. This night they will visually enhance the piano with a sea of lights and pixels. Bremen Teater

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Hôn vs. Harmonic Mind + support

A versatile expression is merged with the sensibility of pop melodies when The Rumour Said Fire frontman, Jesper Lidang takes to the stage of Solbjerg Church’s high-vaulted room with his latest project, Hôn. With a quirky look at pop conventions, Lidang serves a cornucopia of insanely catchy tunes, which elegantly combine the proud songwriting tradition of classic pop with a clumsy and charming take on r’n’b, dance and 80s melancholic nostalgia. For tonight’s unique concert,

we will enshroud Jesper’s songs in a sumptuous visual rush with fluid and changing holograms from a high, diamond-shaped installation, which like the music will change and reshape in all three dimensions. To adorn the voluminous church space, the visual team behind the concert, the artist Elanor Bock Lund and the set designer Anne Sofie Vermund, have also created their own LED figures, which will light up like a sea of luminous jellyfish. Solbjerg Kirke

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Darkstar

Electronica with a political conscience. When the British dubstep duo Darkstar chastise the state of affairs in today’s British society in their latest album ‘Foam Island’, the criticism is not pulled out of thin air. It is based on interviews with youths from James Young’s home town - and it is clear what they mean. Using a base of heavy beats, the band’s other half, Aiden Whalley, has taken

over the vocals since the last album, which has made their joint expression all the more personal and collective. Live, Darkstar is an audiovisual tour de force, which is only emphasised by the fact that they perform with their own visuals. Organised in collaboration with Vega and Smash!Bang!Pow!. Lille Vega

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CTM + First Flush

Cæcilie Trier, or CTM as she calls herself when she performs, has since 2012 allowed her piercing and enigmatic voice take control alongside the cello, which has resulted in a melancholy and modern pop and disco. On her upcoming release, she is playing a more haunting piano-borne art-pop, which is reminiscent of both Laurie Anderson and Dean Blunt. CTM is in the company of First Flush, a group of boys best known for a colour-

ful collage of sounds that contain everything from vocoder hiphop to football chants – expressed tenderly and freshly in their mother tongue. Three different languages and soundscapes with catchy playfulness as their common denominator, which are tonight accompanied by visuals to complete the experience in Absalon’s modern church space. Absalon

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Eerie Glue + GENTS

Armed with his baby blue electric guitar, Bünyamin Eroglu spearheads the slacker rockers Eerie Glue, where the good tune is the starting point, time is endless and the music is somewhere between 50s beat and 80s shoegaze – a genre the band itself calls ‘horror fuzz / love pop’. Sprawled on the couch with friends or swaying on the dance floor – Eerie Glue works for both. Eerie Glue is accompanied by the Copenhagen duo GENTS. With their kitschy pastel universe, synth sounds and turtlenecks, the two gentlemen behind the duo, Niels

and Theis, are slowly gaining a considerable and dedicated fan base. GENTS is simple and makes use of two components: quivering keyboards and soft crooner vocals. A combination that evokes the feeling of youth, wistful dreams and pounding teenage infatuations. The two bands themselves take care of the visuals in a night dedicated to love. Both of the young and dreamy, and unrequited and hard-hitting kind. Arranged in collaboration with Concert Club. Osramhuset

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Born To Lose vs. Lorenzo ‘Guf’ Woodrose

‘Is there anyone who knows who the hell we are?’ is what Spids Nøgenhat shouted from the stage when they won the award for the live act of the year at the Danish Music Awards. Now you have the chance to become a little bit wiser about the main force behind the band, Lorenzo Woodrose, when we present two solo intimate concerts in the outskirts of Copenhagen with the man who friends just call Guf. Forbrændingen in Albertslund and Viften in Rødovre will host, as we show the film ‘Born to Lose’ which takes a close look

at the man and the phenomenon. After the screenings, the man himself will appear with his acoustic guitar and raw vocals to deliver a solo set with the best numbers from his entire psychedelic backlist. ‘Born to Lose’ is a portrait of Denmark’s most stubborn, yet kindhearted acid rockers, who would rather smoke a joint with his friends than mingle with high society. Expect two double-exposed evenings that in all possible ways will bring you closer to an exceptionally unique musician and personality. Forbrændingen Viften

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Montmartre Allstars vs. ‘Cool Cats’

The Copenhagen jazz venue Montmartre played a major part in the lives and careers of the saxophonists Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon who both spent formative years in Copenhagen. And in collaboration with Montmartre we are presenting an evening dedicated to jazz, when a screening of the brand new documentary ‘Cool Cats’ at Jazzhus Montmartre is followed by an evening with a group of Denmark’s undisputedly most talented jazz musicians who will interpret a selection of Gordon’s and Webster’s arrangements. ‘Cool Cats’ is the story of how Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon found a human

haven in our own mini metropolis, away from the racial discrimination and drug problems of their home country. Here, the two saxophone virtuosos started a musical avalanche in the 1960s, which turned Copenhagen and above all the Montmartre venue into a European capital of jazz. The film portrays how our own little city changed and was changed by two of jazz’s greatest icons. Now, the two giants are returning to the venue - on film that is. Welcome to an evening dedicated to jazz music and history. Jazzhus Montmartre

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Dox:Jazz Tower

This year, CPH:DOX will get its fair share of jazz. In collaboration with JazzDanmark and Unseen Recordings, we are transforming the iconic, verdigris green tower bridge Knippelsbro into a music film gallery dedicated to jazz music. Some of Denmark’s most prominent jazz musicians are portrayed in a series of mini documentaries by the Danish web channel Unseen Recordings which brings the listener closer to the music and the artist through unfiltered live sessions and mini portraits. Discover the pop-up live concerts in the unique Copenhagen tower, where artists from the Danish jazz

scene play against the tower’s special acoustics. There will be an opening reception on 9 November at 16:00 hrs, and subsequently doors will open every day from 14:00 to 17:30 hrs, up to and including 13 November. Venue: Knippelsbro Tower on the Amager side of the bridge. Free admission. Lineup: 9 November, 16:00 hrs: The Cabin Project, 10 November, 16:00 hrs: Simon Toldam, 11 November, 16:00 hrs: Horse Orchestra: Tower LOL designs, 12 November, 16:00 hrs: Lotte Anker, 13 November, 16:00 hrs: Snorre Kirk.

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EVENTS & PARTIES

The films continue out in real life with a series of offbeat events for those who dare - and you are invited for all of it! In between the opening gala in the beautiful surroundings of DR’s Concert Hall to the Final Party at our brand new venue Absalon, we invite you to participate in a wide range of events, parties and field trips into the reality that surrounds the festival. Three marathon events stand out in length alone: Our screenings of the epic (and widely different) films ‘Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)’ and ‘Muhammed: The Messenger of God’ at a newly opened mosque in the north of Copenhagen. The Portuguese triple feature ‘Arabian Nights’ with food and snacks in the break. And a marathon reading of John Williams rediscovered success novel ‘Stoner’ as a warm-up before the premiere of the brand new documentary about the book, ‘The Act of Becoming’.

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Opening Gala

This year’s opening gala is a tribute to Per Kirkeby. The festival director Tine Fischer and the director of Louisiana, Poul Erik Tøjner, will welcome you to a night which will feature the world premiere of Anne Wivel’s new film ‘Man Falling’. After the screening, Per Kirkeby’s colleagues, the geologist Minik Rossing and the artist

Tal R will talk about their special relationship with Kirkeby. The evening is interpreted and presented in the framework of a specially commissioned audio visual show, composed by the Danish musician Snölepoarden and the design and art collective Dark Matters. DR koncerthuset

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CPH:DOX Final Party with Vice

We are closing this year’s festival with a knock-out party - and you are invited! In collaboration with Vice we are hosting our final party at the finest dive bar in the meatpacking district - Bakken - with heavy beats until the break of dawn. The star of the night and next year’s hottest new name in music: the British Warp artists

GAIKA whose vocoder infused and dark hip hop is backing up a new take on the protest song. Update yourself on further live acts, DJ’s and other surprises on our website and see you at this year’s last - but certainly not least - party! Bakken

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SMK Fridays x CPH:DOX

2016 will be the year when virtual reality is no longer a thing of the future. CPH:DOX and SMK Fridays takes a closer look at the parallel realities and at what they mean for our perception of reality. Start your festival weekend on Friday afternoon and evening with a film,

artist talks, a VR experience and a very special, Google Cardboard-assisted, audio-visual virtual reality DJ set with Nikolaj Vonsild from When Saints Go Machine, which you can experience with your own (new) smartphone. And all of it in the historical setting at SMK. Statens Museum for Kunst

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Berlin in Bremen

‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin’ is the party starter of the year and tells the story of young Mark Reeder who does like Iggy and Bowie and goes to Berlin in the 1980s where he instantly hooks up with residents such as Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. A historic time warp framed by a 45 km long wall, cacophonous punk rock, freely flowing drugs and, most of all, total euphoria. After the screen-

ing of ‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin’, CPH:DOX and Natbar Live invite you to a concert with Secret Life who keeps the new wave Berlin sound alive in true style. In spite of their young age, Secret Life is already known for their energetic live shows which forces even the most fearful charophobe (read: fear of dancing!) onto the dance floor. DJs: Lasse Dearman, Christian d’Or and T.O.M. Bremen Teater

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Fresh Dressed Party

Are you fresh? CPH:DOX, Bitchslap Magazine and CPH Fashion Festival invite you to this year’s freshest and most funkadelic party at Bremen Theatre, where we start the night with a screening of the street style film ‘Fresh Dressed’, about how the 1970s street style of the

Bronx and Harlem revolutionised the fashion industry and laid the foundation for an entirely new way of life: hip hop! After the screening, the party continues with two DJ sets by Fergus Murphy and the legendary DJ and producer Phase 5. Dress code: Your mama! Bremen Teater

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DOX & Shine

Set your alarm clock and polish your dancing shoes for a morning party on an ordinary Monday in November! The Rise & Shine concept will pop up during CPH:DOX, and we will kick off your blood circulation with danceable vibes, before you have to get on your bike and start the day. Rise & Shine will look after sweaty beats and

Bremen will be selling coffee, some breakfast bread and whatever else it takes to get a new week off to a good start. Bring your good morning mood and your sharpest dance moves. Admission is free for Copenhagen’s freshest and most festive citizens. Bremen Teater

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The Yes Men & Floating City

Discover the activist duo The Yes Men in action, when they as a part of a very special screening of ‘The Yes Men are Revolting’ will arrive by boat on Floating City’s boat made of recyclable materials, to proclaim the end of the world! The Yes Men will dock at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge where the film is shown, and will answer ques-

tions from the audience (= you!) together with their co-director Laura Nix. Afterwards, you have the opportunity to board the boat yourself, where Floating City will hold a talk about using sustainable and recyclable materials. Kulturhuset Islands Brygge

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Infinite Happiness on location

Hop on the metro towards Vestamager on Sunday November 8 as we invite you to a special screening of ‘The Infinite Happiness’ in the building where it was shot and among the people who live there. ‘The Infinite Happiness’ is a film about the star architect Bjarke Ingels’s unique ‘8’ building, told through the daily lives

of its residents. How do you design such a tightly integrated building? And what is it like to live in it? You will have a unique chance to have these questions answered by both the film and the inhabitants themselves. Meeting point: Cafe 8Tallet, Richard Mortensens Vej 81 at 16:00 hrs. 8tallet

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Film Marathon in the Mosque

On October 1 this year, Copenhagen’s brand new mosque, Imam Ali Mosque, opened its doors. And on November 8 you can experience the mosque from the inside in all its colourful glory when we show both the five and a half hour long film about Iraq before and after the war, ‘Homeland: Iraq Year Zero’ and the spectacular Iranian film adaptation of the Prophet Muhammad’s

childhood and youth , ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ with both directors in attendance. The ticket for ‘Homeland: Iraq Year Zero’ includes a delicious meal from Café N’s people’s kitchen, which is specialised in vegetarian delights. Colourful, delicious and entirely home-made. Imam Ali Moské

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Friday the 13th: The Nightmare!

Friday the 13th asks to be celebrated! And this we will at Absalon where the church doors will open up for an evening with the docu-horror film ‘The Nightmare’ and a DJ set with the performance group Vinyl Terror and Horror. ‘The Nightmare’ (see Top Dox) is a film about the phenomenon of sleep paralysis whose victims often wake up at night without being able to move and with

the feeling of being haunted by evil spirits – a conditation that is known to be infectious simply from hearing about it! The director Rodney Ascher (‘Room 237’) confronts eight people with reconstructions of the nightmares they have experienced – and it is not suitable for children! Dress code: The horror!

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CPH:DOX x iBYEN: The Future of Eco-Eating

CPH:DOX and IBYEN invite you to an organic communal meal at Absalon after the screening of the film ‘10 billion - What’s on Your Plate?’ The Spanish-English food artist Francisco Gallardo will serve and introduce a few culinary forms of environmentally embedded interventions in the field between ecology, technology

and society. Gallardo examines numerous scales of biopower, government opportunities and everyday life that flows through the North Sea – and all with the tongue as a critical tool! Does it sound abstract? It isn’t, and you are invited to come and taste for yourself! Absalon

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Arabian Nights + Portugese food

There is noting like a real movie marathon, especially not when it offers a Portuguese masterpiece and food from the same part of the world! We are showing Miguel Gomes’s six and a half hour long trilogy ‘Arabian Nights’, with added breaks and delicious Portuguese snacks. The three films are based on real-life Portugal, and inspired by the classic story ‘A Thousand and One Nights’ they present an alternative take on contemporary,

Portuguese reality. Between the first and the second film, we offer a Portuguese coffee break with Arabic coffee and goodies, and between the second and third film you can really feed your hunger for Portuguese cuisine as we offer Portuguese ham with dates, chorizo with goat cheese cream, stirred crab with beer, sardines with marinated peppers and hummus. The all-inclusive ticket can be bought until 2 November. Não há de quê! Cinemateket Asta

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Marathon reading of ‘Stoner’

John Williams’ novel ‘Stoner’ was first forgotten and then rediscovered with a vengeance. Not least in Denmark, where its fan base is tremendous and diverse. Together with Bogforum, we are presenting a marathon reading of the ENTIRE novel in Grand Teatret’s café from 09:00 to 19:00 hrs. Former police director Hanne Bech Hansen, literary theorist and radio host Klaus

Rothstein, clinical professor Dr. med. Bente Klarlund Petersen, associate professor of English Marlene Ruth Edelstein, screenwriter Dunja Gry Jensen, film critic Kim Skotte from Politiken and many others will pay tribute to the masterpiece that was discovered late – by reading it out loud! Listen to a chapter or two, or fourteen. Grand Teatret

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Again this year, CPH:DOX presents a broad lineup of seminars, offering audiences as well as international industry professionals a chance to meet filmmakers, artists, and others with ideas to share. Meet some of the most innovative business insiders from Kickstarter to Field of Vision, the new project launched by Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook. Here is also where you can meet some of the most outstanding filmmakers and artists in conversation about their profession. From Roberto Minervini and Lucien CastainTaylor & Véréna Paravel to sound genius Bernie Krause and some of the artists who take part in our exhibition ’Embodied’ at Nikolaj Kunsthal. As always the seminar lineup reflects the core activities of CPH:DOX and its parallel activities. This year with seminars on films shot over a very long duration of time, films that go undercover to investigate closed communities, and the curious return of the so-called ’True Crime’ genre. Participation is key – and there is plenty to learn, plenty to take home!

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Masterclass: Roberto Minervini

The Italian Roberto Minervini has unassumingly, and with films such as ‘Stop the Pounding Heart’ and the current ‘The Other Side’, developed into a lyrical, anthropological talent among contemporary documentary filmmakers. Based in Texas and specialising in the portrayals of the American South, he creates films that take their time to immerse themselves in both their envi-

ronment and their characters, and which surround us with their present and evocative stream of images. Meet Minervini for a talk about his poetic method and special, independent work form, which has brought him from Italy and Texas to Cannes. Cinemateket

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Masterclass: Bernie Krause - A Natural Sound Genius

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Sighs, buzzes, tones, grunts, clicks. Who has ever thought about how a sea anemone sounds? The musician and ‘eco-acoustician’ Bernie Krause has, and since the late 1960s he has travelled around the world to capture the sounds of nature. The sounds of 15,000 species are gathered in his gigantic archive ‘Wild Sanctuary’, with over 4’500 hours of footage of life in the rain forests, oceans and the skies. It provides us with a remarkable

new insight into the environment we live in, but also bears witness to its catastrophic change. For while human noises become louder, a disturbing silence is befalling nature. Tonight, Bernie Krause will open the audience’s ears to an unheard and poetic dimension of nature. Cinemateket

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With films such as the CPH:DOX 2012 winner ‘Leviathan’, the Harvard department Sensory Ethnography Lab has revolutionised modern documentary filmmaking. Meet the masterminds of new ethnographic documentary for a talk about the field between film, art and scientific research. And about making films where the road to knowledge about the rapidly changing, man-made world around us goes through both senses and intellect, images and (not least) sound. The highly different films that Sensory Ethnography Lab has produced so far have

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a possible common denominator in the study of the anthropocene era – an age in which man has shaped our global environment more than nature. Castaing-Taylor and Paravel are attending this year’s festival with their brand new short film ‘Ah Humanity!’ (New:Vision Competition) as well as with the earlier works ‘Leviathan’ and ‘Foreign Parts’. Moderated by Jeppe Carstensen.

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ART:FILM: artist talk / Joachim Koester

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The internationally acclaimed Danish artist Joachim Koester is currently developing his first feature film project, ‘In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From Spirits by Portraying Them’. Koester’s work takes place at the crossroads between fiction and documentation, performance and production, reality and imagination. The borderland or passage between the conscious and the unconscious, between dream and reality has been a recurring theme in many of Koester’s works, including his latest. We have invited Koester to a conversation with the curator and film

producer Jacqui Davis to talk about his artistic method. How does he work during the development and writing phase? What is the transition from working with short loops to longer narrative formats like? What significance does the final exhibition and screening context have for the process, and is there a difference in developing films for the film and art worlds respectively?

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ART:FILM / From Conceptual Idea to Script-based Narrative

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Over the past ten years, a new type of film has emerged, which is being developed at the crossroads between film and the visual arts. Seen from an artistic point of view, it is one of the most interesting crossovers. It is also an intersection that gives rise to creative challenges. How do you, as a visual artist, develop a long feature film, if you have never worked with a screenplay or writing processes? How do you move from a conceptual idea to time-based narrative formats? And do you always have to write a ‘traditional’ screenplay? We have invited one of Europe’s leading script consultants, Franz Rodenkirchen, who will be joined by two internationally

recognised artists, Marine Huggonier and Redmond Entwistle. Both artists are preparing for their first feature, and both have experienced the challenges associated with having to work their way into a classic screenwriting process. They have all agreed to participate in an open ‘consultation session’, where Franz will show them a process that can lead through the screenwriting phase in a way that fits their projects and working methods. Cinemateket

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ART:FILM / The Intersection Between Performance Art and Non-Fiction Cinema

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CPH:DOX and Nikolaj Kunsthal, in collaboration with the British curator Jacqui Davies, are presenting the film and video exhibition ‘Embodied’ based on the exchange between documentary and performance. In an attempt to go beyond the question of authenticity, which the meeting between documentarism and performance raises, ‘Embodied’ reconsiders the relationship between the two methods and approaches. Meet three of the

participating artists, Yael Bartana, Louis Henderson and Samson Kambalu, for a talk with curator Jacqui Davies on how performance and documentary relates to their differing artistic practices. ‘Embodied’ takes place at Nikolaj Kunsthal from November 5-29 (see Exhibitions).

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Field of Vision is a new, filmmaker-driven documentary unit created by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, filmmaker AJ Schnack, and curator and producer Charlotte Cook. Launched in September, it has developed in collaboration with The Intercept and First Look Media. Field of Vision commissions a broad range of original nonfiction work: Episodic series, thematic approaches to a single topic by multiple filmmakers, deep-dive investigations, fast-responding filmmaker assignments and collaborations with artists

from different fields. Their goal is to give filmmakers and artists the ability to experiment with form, craft and storytelling in the context of visual journalism to create alternative perspectives in both journalistic storytelling and the news. Join AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook as they present a selection of their short-form episodic works and discuss the future of Field of Vision..

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Thu. 12/11 16:30

Positioning the Creative Documentary in a Changed Media Landscape / 60 mins.

In collaboration with several European universities, The European Documentary Network (EDN) is currently mapping how the creative European documentary sector can better position itself in a changed media landscape and in the political policymaking. With a PhD study of the public broadcasters’ role in Flanders and the Netherlands, Eline Livémont has taken the first

steps towards an analysis of the sector at European level. Eline and EDN present the first results and invite the industry to identify the main issues to be discussed at the conference ‘Documentary in a Changed Media Landscape’ in 2017. Join the discussion! Cinemateket

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When Doc Films Reign: Outliers and Independence on Kickstarter

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Documentaries are thriving on Kickstarter. More than $100 million has been pledged to more than 5,000 films from more than 1 million backers. Kickstarter’s Documentary Outreach Lead, Liz Cook, explores the lifespan of the living, breathing and ever-changing ecosystem of Kickstarter through key moments in the trajectory of documentary film on the world’s biggest and most influental crowdfunding site, and will outline how

Kickstarter as a company continues to further the spirit of creative independence. Come prepared to learn about key projects that have shifted the landscape of documentary film on Kickstarter and bring your ideas for new and inventive ways to use the site.

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Animation + Documentary = AniDox

For the third year running AniDox:Lab is joining CPH:DOX. ANIDOX:LAB is The Animation Workshop’s laboratory for European film professionals, a series of seminars and hands-on creative workshops, where documentary filmmakers and animation directors come together to develop new approaches. The lab, which is supported by Creative Europe and run in partnership with the Danish Film Institute, aims to foster and develop collaborations between animation and documentary filmmakers. A selection of outstanding animated doc-

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umentary projects, at various phases of development and production, will be presented by The Animation Workshop. ANIDOX:LAB instructor and producer Michelle Kranot will talk about this unique development process and about the results and challenges of combining the two genres. She will present the ANIDOX:LAB and the upcoming ANIDOX:RESIDENCY.

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True Crime is back! The ultimate tabloid genre has undergone a true comeback in the wake of successful phenomena such as ‘The Jinx’ and ‘Serial’. CPH:DOX is focusing on the new wave in the ‘Crime Wave’ series, which is discussed here. Is True Crime journalism a genre that is as unambiguous as it is often made out to be? Meet the podcast creator Phoebe Judge (‘Criminal’)

and the director Gabriel London (‘The Mind of Mark Defriest’) for a talk about working seriously with a genre that is often more about psychology and time-consuming detective work, than it is about sensationalism and shock effects. Cinemateket

Thu. 12/11 14:30

Undercover: The Theory and Practice of Infiltration / 90 mins.

How does a documentary filmmaker get access a closed community? And what do you do once you are inside? Do you risk influencing your subjects to do or say things they would otherwise not have done? Or do you actually influence your subjects less when you work as an a outsider? There are both ethical and methodological problems associated with working accessing a closed environment and - in various degrees - going undercover. And it is not entirely without risk either, neither for

yourself or for your subjects. Meet four film directors who are present at CPH:DOX with their new films and have documented closed communities from the inside through different angles and approaches: David F. Sutcliffe (‘(T)error’), Parvez Sharma (‘A Sinner in Mecca’) and Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi (‘Among the Believers’). Cinemateket

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Loooong Take: How to Make a Film Over 10 Years

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‘Boyhood’ is not the only film that documents the lives and fates of its subjects over a long time, while the world around them physically changes and they change with it. Meet two women who have challenged the conventional limitations of film production with their most recent cinematic achievements for an inspiring conversation about how to make a film over many years. What happens between the director and the subjects when a film is shot over the course of up to 8 or 10 years? How

does one plan such a film in practice, what are the dangers of the ‘long take’ and how do you keep a film project going for so long? Meet the Norwegian Aslaug Holm (‘Brothers’) and Swedish Jessica Nettelbladt (‘Mona Lisa Story’). Moderated by the journalist and film critic Nanna Frank Rasmussen (WIFT). Arranged in collaboration with WIFT. Cinemateket

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DR, DFI Filmworkshop & CPH:DOX Talent Award 2015 / 180 mins.

Young filmmakers will have a unique opportunity to present an idea for a film project to the professional documentary film industry. 25,000 DKK is at stake in development and production funding from the Danish public broadcaster DR, with equipment provided by the Danish Film Institute’s Film Workshop. The Talent Award will focus on the development of young, creative and ambitious directing talents. The 10 selected final-

ists will compete on Friday November 6 at a talent pitch at the Danish Film Institute. Here, a professional panel will announce the final winner of the talent award 2015. The jury consists of Mette Hoffmann Meyer (DR), Prami Larsen (DFI Filmworkshop), and producer Lise LenseMøller (Magic Hour Films). Cinemateket

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CPH:FORUM

CPH:FORUM is our two day international financing and coproduction event, dedicated to facilitate the development and financing of creative and visually strong film projects. The event brings together key European and international financiers, industry professionals and producers, intent on discovering the latest innovative works in development from independent documentary filmmakers, fiction filmmakers and visual artists. CPH:FORUM explores new, untested ways of breaking down conventional notions of genre and connects people from the worlds of nonfiction, fiction and visual arts. Our aim is to initiate new dialogues, open up new windows and enable new production and financing models. An exclusive selection of 32 international film projects will be presented on November 11 and 12 and this year we are extremely proud to include prominent names such as Jehane Noujaim, Peter Mettler, Lucy Walker and Leonard Retel Helmrich among the presenting filmmakers. Reflecting CPH:DOX’s profile, the Forum has 4 main focus areas:

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FICTIONONFICTION: challenging works in the hybrid landscape between fiction and nonfiction CINEMA: highend, theatrical featurelength documentaries with international distribution potential F:ACT: projects bridging the fields of filmmaking, investigative journalism and activism ART: film projects to be screened both within the institution of cinema and that of visual arts

For the third consecutive year, we are proud to announce the Eurimages CoProduction Development Award of €15,000 for the event’s best pitch. The Eurimages jury consist of Pierre Drouot, Director of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund and representing Eurimages, Alessandro Raja, CEO of Festival Scope and Noemi Ferrer Schwenk, Head of International at The Danish Film Institute. Besides project presentations CPH:FORUM offers tailored oneonone meetings with financiers and coproduction partners, a range of engaging seminars, master classes and case studies, industry networking, social events and great fun! CPH:FORUM is for CPH:FORUM accredited guests only. CPH:FORUM is kindly cofunded by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Københavns Kommune, DR and The Danish Film Institute and supported by Eurimages.

CPH:CHANGE

Stories and their Impact In a wired world storytelling can create ripples like never before. In this context the social impact potential of documentary film is yet to be untapped. CPH:DOX 2015 launches CPH:CHANGE to create new bridges for storytelling to bring about social transformation. The event is created to support innovative projects at the intersection between art, technology and social entrepreneurship by connecting them with likeminded companies and organisations that can apply their power and marketing reach to inspire and accelerate social change. CPH:CHANGE presents 5 handpicked projects to a curated group of forwardlooking CSR professionals, foundations, NGOs, marketing and social storytelling experts. Beyond concrete partnerships, the event aims to create a space where artists, companies and non-profit stakeholders can meet and explore the possibilities of collaboration and catalyse meaningful social change. How far can a universal message reach with the right means of communication? What happens when you empower the crowd to participate? These are some of the questions and calls to action that CPH:CHANGE is setting on the agenda. Who will engage and sincerely make a difference? When and where: CPH:CHANGE takes place in TELTET on Tuesday 10 at 16:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 18:30. The event is open to CPH:DOX, CPH:FORUM and CPH:LAB accredited guests. CPH:CHANGE is realised in cooperation with Thomas Kolster, founder of The Goodvertising Agency & WhereGoodGrows and a leading International expert in sustainable communication and nonprofit marketing.

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CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision is to connect the film and art scene by providing a space for two institutions to meet in order to exchange knowledge and ideas and to develop new ways of working that can support the growing community between film and visual art. ART:FILM explores the borderland between film and contemporary art through film screenings, project presentations, seminars and performances. ART:FILM has two clear focus points: 1) Financing, production and distribution of feature-length films which attract professionals from both the film and art industries. 2) Reflecting the current state of the international scene of art cinema and the processes by which it can be developed and supported in the future. This year CPH:FORUM is proud to present a full day of talks and case studies on Friday November 13 at the Danish Film Institute / Cinematheque. Here you can meet a wide range of contemporary artists and specialists in the field in conversation. The full programme is available under Seminars.

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CPH CONFERENCE

Tuesday 08:15 - 15:03

ART, TECHNOLOGY & CHANGE

F:ACT CONFERENCE puts art, creativity and technology on the agenda, exploring the interdisciplinary field as a catalysing power to create meaningful changes in today’s society.

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We will explore: How art and technology can unlock innovation and catalyse change. The challenges artistic and creative industries are facing due to new technologies. Pioneers who dare to challenge status quo with visionary ideas about a new future.

Moderated by Lærke Ullerup.

Tickets Price 500 dkk. 50% discount if you are a student or have an accreditation to the festival. The ticket includes lunch and drinks and cannot be refunded. Buy your ticket at: www.cphdox.dk/cphconference

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Liam Young

Jesse Kriss

Tomorrows Thoughts Today Founder

NASA JPL’s Human Interfaces Group Senior Design Lead

Liam Young is a speculative architect and futurist, and the producer of the first-ever drone orchestra performance in collaboration with the Velvet Underground.

Jesse Kriss currently works in the Human Interfaces Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, designing and developing tools for space mission operations.

Andreas Johnsen

Roberto Flore

Rosforth Films Filmmaker

Nordic Food Lab Head Chef

Andreas Johnsen got access to Ai Weiwei when the Chinese artist was freed on parole in 2011. Since then, he has been working on his new project Bugs.

Roberto Flore is head chef at Nordic Food Lab, founded by Noma head-chef Rene Redzepi & entrepreneur Claus Meyer, to drive forward culinary experimentation.

Christian Stephen

Tim Pool

RYOT News Global Editor

Fusion Director of Media Innovation

Christian Stephen is behind the first-ever virtual reality film from a warzone ‘Welcome to Aleppo’, capturing a 360-degree-view from the most dangerous city in Syria.

Tim Pool is director of media innovation at Fusion. He is acknowledged for using cutting-edge reporting technologies and his marathon live-stream reporting.

Alex Kelly

BeAnotherLab

’This Changes Everything’ Impact Producer

International Art Collective

Alex Kelly is an award-winning filmmaker and the impact producer on Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein’s project ’This Changes Everything’.

BeAnotherLab is with their innovative use of virtual reality pioneering the medium to build empathy between people by letting them swap identity with each other.

Felix Hallwachs

Julia Kaganskiy

Little Sun Managing Director

NEW INC, New Museum Director

Felix Hallwachs is managing director for artist Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun, a solar-powered LED lamp and social business addressing the need for sustainable light.

Julia Kaganskiy is a curator and cultural producer focused on art and technology. She is currently director of New Museum’s art, technology and design incubator.

Ingrid Burrington

Peter Sunde

Artist / Writer

ex The Pirate Bay Co-founder

Ingrid Burrington is currently a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute and a member of Deep Lab. She has a strong interest in drones and has been investigating surveillance technologies.

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is a computer expert and an artist. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay and founder of Flattr.

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F:ACT CONFERENCE NEW MEDIA, NEW REALITIES

F:ACT CONFERENCE explores the interdisciplinary field of journalism and documentary filmmaking, acknowledging those actors who not only aim to document the world, but who actively participate in shaping it. Organised by CPH:DOX in collaboration with Føljeton and International Media Support.

Friday 08:15 - 15:00

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We will explore: The interdisciplinary field of journalism and documentary and the distinct stories evolving from the area. New media platforms supporting independent media and democratic participation. Where the increasingly digital media landscape is heading and the business models sustaining it. Moderated by Føljeton / Nikolai Thyssen

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Andy Carvin

Austen Allred

Reported.ly Founder / Editor-in-chief

Grasswire Co-founder

Andy Carvin is founder and editor-in-chief at First Look Media’s reported.ly. Before that he was National Public Radio’s senior product manager for online communities.

Austen Allred founded Grasswire, a grassroot newswire, after he almost died in a train-wreck that was covered up by the Chinese government.

Ezra Eeman

Charlotte Cook

VRT Start-up / Journalism Tools Head of / Founder

The Intercept - Field of Vision Director

Ezra Eeman is head of VRT Start-Up, a digital innovation lab at the Flemish public broadcast company VRT. He is also the founder of Journalism Tools.

Charlotte Cook is co-creator of The Intercept’s new filmmaker-driven visual journalism unit Field of Vision, together with Laura Poitras and AJ Schnack.

Joe Posner

Nora Younis

Vox Media Video Director

Al-Masry Al-Youm Daily Independent Managing Editor

Joe Posner is video director and a founding member of Vox.com, a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission is simple: Explain the news.

Human rights activist, journalist and blogger, she has won awards for her work using new media tools to expose human rights violations and police brutality.

Hala Galal

Martin Johnson

Filmmaker

Ljudbang Radio Producer

Hala Galal is a filmmaker, director and producer from Egypt. She created SEMAT an organisation for supporting Independent Cinema in Egypt and the Arab World.

Martin Johnson is an award-winning radio producer currently working as creative director at Ljudbang. He is the co-creator of the podcast Spår, described as Sweden’s Serial.

Eleanor McDowall

Phoebe Judge

Falling Tree Productions Senior Producer

Criminal Host

Eleanor McDowall is a senior producer at Falling Tree Productions and the series producer on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts.

Phoebe Judge is the host of Criminal, a podcast about crime, and was a host at WUNC North Carolina Public Radio.

Tim Hinman

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Tim Hinman currently owns and runs Third Ear, producing audio for radio, film and art installations.

Ryan Gallagher is an award-winning Scottish journalist whose work at The Intercept is focused on government surveillance, technology, and civil liberties.

Peter Kofod

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Peter Kofod is a writer & whistleblower-advocate. He was a human shield activist in Iraq prior to the 2003-war and the first Dane to interview Edward Snowden.

Bryn Mooser is the co-founder of RYOT News. He was named one of Esquire Magazine’s ”2012 Americans of the Year” for his work in Haiti.

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& present REALITY:CHECK A three-day forum that investigates our democracy through talks, debates, workshops, events and film screenings. REALITY:CHECK combines the live format of Danish newspaper Politiken and the debate programme of CPH:DOX. REALITY:CHECK takes place in our new festival center - TELTET - in the King’s Gardens in Gothersgade, just across the Danish Film Institute. In a time where many feel disconnected from the political process, REALITY:CHECK offers a programme focusing on exchange, engagement and dialogue. Democratic participation is about more than voting every fourth year, and by probing current tendencies we will unfold the dialogue live - on stage as well as with the audience. Come join us for three days of do-it-yourself democracy with both national and international guests!

Welcome to REALITY:CHECK!

Day pass, free events and democracy documentaries in Cinemateket Free events: To celebrate the opening of REALITY:CHECK in a festival manner, all events Friday have a free entrance! Day pass: A full day of democracy for one movie ticket’s price! Saturday or Sunday: 85 DKK. A day pass gives you free access to TELTET BIO. Note that you must be at the venue 30 minutes before the start, if you want to secure a seat. All events in TELTET BAR is free with admission on a first come basis. Film discount: With a day or weekend pass to REALITY:CHECK you’ll receive a 20 percent discount on all CPH:DOX screenings from the 6th - 8th November in Cinemateket. CPH:DOX has organized a special film programme during REALITY:CHECK, and several of the screenings are followed up by debates and presentations. See more in the film programme.

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TELTET BIO ASTA BAR TELTET BAR

14:30 - 19:30

Renegade Runners Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Only 13% of the Wikipedia’s contributors are women. And within the field of art, culture and research only 10% of the articles are about women. If women and their achievements are not mentioned, they disappear from our collective memory. This is a serious democratic problem! Experienced Wikipedia editors will help you change this, so bring your laptop and help us right the wrong. NB: The event is free! 11:30 - 13:00

X and Beyond There is no going back The interdisciplinary research project Changing Disasters invites you to a discussion with a competent panel of scientists about paradigm shift related to disasters like Katrina and Fukushima. Meet, among others, Rune Graulund, Lone Simonsen, Benedikte Alkjærsig Bjerge and Isak Winkel Holm. Moderated by Jacob Lillemose, curator at Changing Disasters.

15:15 - 16:00

Game Changers: Quinn Norton I samtale med Henrik Chulu Quinn Norton is a security journalist and has among other things been published in Wired Magazine. She writes and speaks about hackers and digital security, self-organised movements such as Anonymous and Occupy and about the internet’s impact on social development – and she is a former stand-up comedian to boot. Experience Quinn Norton in a conversation with Henrik Chulu from Bitbureauet.

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19:40 - 20:20

The Future of Climate Activism The Yes Men, Alternativet, NOAH og Greenpeace The global environmental movement is undergoing rapid changes. After the screening of their latest film ’The Yes Men Are Revolting’, the two Yes Men, Mike and Andy, invite you to a debate about climate activism of the future, together with Niko Grünfeld from Alternativet, Sune Scheller from Greenpeace, Maja Andersen from ActionAid Denmark and Nanna Clifforth from NOAH, Friends of The Earth.

20:30 - 02:00

The Political Party Presented by CPH:DOX & Turning Tables REALITY:CHECK will blow the roof off the TELTET, when we together with Turning Tables welcome you to four of Denmark’s greatest DJs – for free! Ras Money (aka Raske Penge), Phase5, Ladybox and DJ Hvad. While they provide the beats, Jameson and Havana Club will provide complementary free drinks.

20:45 - 22:15

Turning Tables If No One Speaks, No One Is Heard Turning Tables is a global organisation trying to give voice to young refugees, and activists around the world. Michael Munyore from Kenya, Khin Thethar Latt from Myanmar and the Danes Thomas Papapetros and Martin Fernando will guide you through Palestinian refugee camps via failed Arab revolutions to Southeast Asian activism – all through films, music and cock-and-bull stories.

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14:45 - 15:45

Højskolebladet Live: Syrian Voices The Danish Folk High Schools’ periodical magazine hands over the microphone to voices from Syria. We nuance the image of war and the influx of refugees through musical performances, interviews, readings, attitudes and visuals in an aesthetic and topical image of Syrian culture today.

11:45 - 12:15

Cryptoparty: Digital Self-Defense Together with the security journalist Quinn Norton, the documentary director Friedrich Moser and the NSA whistle blower Bill Binney, you will learn how you are being watched and what tools you can use to regain control of your digital life.

12:30 - 14:00

Cryptoparty: Digital Self-Defense Cryptoparty continues

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Film and Debate: Facebookistan Meet Peter Øvig Knudsen and Max Schrems Facebook’s mission is to create an open and more strongly connected world. But how open is Facebook itself? Jakob Gottschau’s new documentary ’Facebookistan’ takes a close look at the social medium and tells the story of both the author Peter Øvig Knudsen, who was subjected to Facebook’s harsh censorship, and of how the activist Max Schrems has single-handedly taken up the battle against Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. After the film there will be a debate with Peter Øvig Knudsen and Max Schrems themselves, as well as the film’s director Jakob Gottschau. The debate will be moderated by Bitbureauet’s Henrik Chulu.

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18:30 - 19:15

Game Changers: David van Reybrouck David van Reybrouck in conversation with Bo Lidegaard Elections and democracy are linked almost inseparably. But what if the act of voting is actually the source of some of modern democracy’s greatest challenges? What if we through voting neglect a democracy, calling for an active civil society as opposed to more ballot boxes. Everything is turned upside down when David Van Reybrouck in his landmark book ’Against Election’ focuses on modern democracy’s biggest challenges – and opportunities. Politiken’s editor in chief Bo Lidegaard is the interviewer.

19:30 - 20:30

10 Years After the Drawings Flemming Rose, Daniel & Emmanuel Leconte & Nazila Kivi A lot of pain has been caused in the fight for freedom of expression. But where are we today? Meet the directors of the film ’Je suis Charlie’, the father and son Daniel and Emmanuel Leconte, the former cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten Flemming Rose, and Magasinet Friktion’s editor Nazila Kivi for a debate about what we can say, and who can say what. The debate wil be moderated by journalist, Søren K. Villemoes.

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A Crowdsourced Construction Salvör Nordal in conversation with Rasmus Nordqvist The whole world looked on in horror when a small group of bank bosses brought an entire nation to its knees in 2008. But the people of Iceland took the reconstruction of their society into their own hands, and a ’crowdsourced’ constitution helped them establish a new and powerful national community. Over three years, the Icelandic people helped write the country’s new constitution via social media. Meet the chairman of the constitutional council, Salvör Nordal, in a conversation with the Danish political party Alternativet’s cultural spokesman Rasmus Nordqvist.

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CPH:LAB

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CPH:LAB is CPH:DOX’s very own pioneering talent development, training and production program. Since 2009 the LAB has established itself as a highly ambitious, yet playful laboratory-style talent scheme for international film directors, focusing on:

Exploring new, innovative creative processes in development and production. Supporting alternative collaborative partnerships between filmmakers across borders. Encouraging new financing methods and production processes with focus on low-budget, cross-sector partnerships and market access.

CPH:LAB encourages creative risk-taking, celebrates raw talent, facilitates collaboration across borders and business sectors and supports frontrunners within the film industry to push the existing boundaries of filmmaking as we know it. The results from previous years have been great. Highly innovative low-budget films have premiered in major A-festivals, won prestigious awards, had successful theatrical releases and been broadcasted on television and VOD platforms around the world. With such a track record CPH:LAB has already proven that you can build an innovative production culture, encourage an entrepreneurial attitude, create a stimulating and free environment for creative talents - and deliver results at the same time. Needless to say: we have great hopes for this year’s new teams of curious and bold filmmakers! Stay tuned on www.cphlab.dk

The teams 2015 Khalik Allah (USA) Eva Marie Rødbro (Denmark) Gábor Hörlicher (Hungary) Igor Bezinovic (Croatia) Johannes Gierlinger (Austria) Ola Jankowska (Poland) Petri Luukkainen (Finland) Thomas Daneskov (Denmark) Laura Hermanides (Holland) Laurin Federlein (Germany) Malik Vitthal (USA) Elvira Lind (Denmark) Dane Komljen (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Eva Küpper (Belgium) Tomas Smulkis (Lithuania) Ellen Fiske (Sweden) Jéro Yun (South Korea) Marte Vold (Norway) Johan Knattrup Jensen (Denmark) www.metanarrative.co.uk (England)

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CPH:MARKET is our Video on Demand film market, hosted by CPH:DOX. This year the market will be open from the 5th to 15th November from 10am to 8pm. All festival delegates have access to the digital screening facility, with priority given to buyers, festival programmers and curators. The market is located at The Danish Film Institute on the 4th floor and offers professionals easy access to an extensive lineup of more than 200 contemporary documentary titles. 20 ondemand viewing stations will be available. CPH:MARKET is a curated market that reflects CPH:DOXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall commitment to visually and artistically strong documentary films. All films selected for an official festival screening at CPH:DOX are automatically included. In addition to these titles, the market also includes exclusively curated series. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curators are Loop Barcelona and The Why Foundation. CPH:MARKET is kindly cofunded by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union, established in close cooperation with ioGates and sponsored by Normann Copenhagen and AiAiAi headphones.

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LOOP

LOOP is a Barcelonabased platform dedicated to fostering artist films, video art and gallerybased moving image productions. Founded in 2003, the platform is – since its creation a pioneer experimental space, working mainly (but not exclusively) for a yearly event taking place in Barcelona in spring. LOOP Barcelona, is a threefold event – Fair, Festival & Studies that brings together an accurate selection of contemporary video art works, premieres new productions, features exhibitions, specific projects and screenings, invites filmrelated galleries, private collectors and curators, and programs several sessions of talks and professional meetings dealing with current discussions and positions of this field. Throughout the year, LOOP also closely collaborates with an international community of gallerists, artists, curators, collectors and institution directors to develop projects worldwide which aim to explore critically the capacities of video and film in today’s contemporary art discourses and contribute to the exchange of ideas that drive the art world forward. Collaborations materialize in different formats and locations: from commissioned projects to touring exhibitions in leading venues, coproduction of films, programs of talks and screenings, among others.

Loop has curated the following films: Nefandus Dir.: Carlos Motta (Colombia) XVille Dir.: Jordi Colomer (Spain) Los desnudos Dir.: Clarisse Hahn (France) The end of the Black Mamba Dir.: Cyrus Kabiru (Kenya) Corda Dir.: Pablo Lobato (Brazil) Zurich Dir.: Rebekka Reich and Marcus Vila Richter (Germany) World’s significant moments I, II, III La HavanaBerlin, Primavera Sound, The East is Red Dir.: Adrián Melis (Spain) Return to Adriaport Dir.: Adela Bobanova (Czech Republic) The Story of Milk and Honey Dir.: Basma Alsharif (France) Redemption Dir.: Miguel Gomes (Portugal)

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THE WHY FOUNDATION

The Why Foundation is a non profit media organization producing, commissioning and distributing high quality factual films to a global audience, collaborating with major organizations in outreach and events related to the films. Behind WHY is an international group of acclaimed and experienced commissioning editors, filmmakers, distributors and funders.

The Why Foundation has curated the following films: The Condemned Dir.: Nick Read (Russia/England) The Reluctant Revolutionary Dir.: Sean McAllister (England/Ireland) I Will Be Murdered Dir.: Justin Webster (Spain/England/Denmark)

WHY is created in the belief that the world can become a better place through a globally shared set of virtues supporting especially equality and freedom of speech. It is also believed that documentary films play a significant role in getting there and all WHY projects are founded on that ambition. Current projects include:

The Undocumented Dir.: Marco Williams (USA)

World Stories: A globally distributed strand of important contemporary documentary films selected by The Why. Season two starts in January 2016. Why Slavery? A series of six one hour films offering new insights and stories of slavery in the 21st century for a global broadcast event aiming at setting the agenda both for people and decision makers. A number of other films in development and production.

The Good Son Dir.: Shirly Berkovitz (Israel)

First to Fall Dir.: Rachel Beth Anderson (England/USA)

Silvered Water Dir.: Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan (France/Syria)

WHY productions include the two award winning series ‘Why Democracy?’ (10 documentary films released in 2007) shown by 43 major public broadcasters around the world, and ‘Why Poverty?’ (8 documentary films released in 2012), shown by over 70 major broadcasters to an estimated 500 million viewers. The films are made by some of the most acclaimed directors/producers around the world and have reaped more than 30 awards including Emmy, Academy Award, Grierson and Peabody.

Miners Shot Down Dir.: Rehad Desai (South Africa)

Bastards Dir.: Deborah Perkin (England)

The Disappeared Dir.: Alison Millar (Ireland)

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Your Online Documentary Cinema The online distribution platform www.dafilms.com is the main project of the Doc Alliance festival network, formed in 2006 by the following key European documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, Planete Doc Film Festival, Visions du Réel and Doclisboa. DOC ALLIANCE advances the documentary genre, supports its diversity and continuously promotes high-quality creative documentary films. The platform is focused on European documentary and experimental cinema and now offers more than 1000 films accessible across the globe for streaming or download. Regularly, DAFilms.com presents film programmes of diverse character ranging from archive historical films through retrospectives of leading filmmakers from around the world to new premiere formats such as the day-anddate release. Since 2008, Doc Alliance has presented the annual DOC ALLIANCE Selection Award. The award goes to one of the best European documentary films selected independently by each of the Doc Alliance members. The members also nominate jurors, recruited among film critics from the respective member countries. Each of the Doc Alliance festivals also screens at least three of the nominated films in the given year. The award ceremony is held during the Cannes Film Festival. Watch documentaries anytime and anywhere. Watch www.dafilms.com! Free event online: Do not miss the unique opportunity to watch a part of CPH:DOX ́s programme online. In collaboration with dafilms.com, we offer you a special online event. For 48 hours only on November 15th and 16th you can stream 5 exclusive films from this year’s programme for free. Be ready, make sure to log on and watch all the films before it is too late!

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L Laura Heberton United States lheberton@gmail.com Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains 22 Rue Fresnoy, BP 179 59200 Tourcoing France +33 320 283800 com-fresnoy@lefresnoy.net Lena Ditte Nissen Denmark lenaditte@gmail.com Les Films du Losange 22, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75116 Paris France +33 1 4443 8710 info@filmsdulosange.fr Light Cone 157, rue de Crimée, atelier 105 75019 Paris France +33 (0)1 46 59 01 53 jeanne.vellard@lightcone.org Lily Benson United States lilybenson@gmail.com Little Monster Films United States info@littlemonsterfilms.com Living on One United States team@livingonone.org LodeDetlof Sweden lode.kuylenstierna@gmail.com Los films de Orfeo Spain losfilmsdeorfeo@gmail.com LUX 3rd Floor London NW1 9NX E8 2EZ United Kingdom +44 207 503 3980 info@lux.org.uk

Maximage Neugasse 6 8005 Zürich Switzerland +41 1 274 8866 / 60 info@maximage.ch Memento Films 40, rue de Paradis 75010 Paris France +33 1 4800 0948 sales@memento-films.com Microcosmos Denmark Camilla@plasma.dk Milestone Film and Video P.O. Box 128, Harrington Park 07640-0128 New Jersey United States 00 1 800 603 1104 milefilms@gmail.com Minerva Pictures Group Via Domenico Cimarosa 18 00198 Rome Italy +39 068 543 841 minerva@minervapictures.com Morris Hill Pictures 1220 10th Street ID 83501 Lewiston United States +1 208 413 13 37 Motherlode Films 226 East 2nd Stree 10009 New York United States wurtzmeghan@gmail.com Moving Documentary Højbro Plads 7, 4th floor 1200 Copenhagen K Denmark info@movingdoc.dk

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Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio United Kingdom hello@nellyben.com Nordpolaris GbR Siegfriedstr. 19 80803 Munich Germany mail@nordpolaris.com Norwegian Film Institute Filmens Hus, Dronningens gate 16, Box 482 Sentrum 0105 Oslo Norway +47 2247 4575 Toril.Simonsen@nfi.no NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Norway liv.berit.gilberg@nrk.no

O Oceanic Preservation Society 063 E Sterling Circle #7, Boulder, CO 80301 United States info@opsociety.org

Protagonist Pictures 42 - 48 Great Portland Street W1W 7NB London United Kingdom +44 20 7734 9000 info@protagonistpictures.com Providences 8, rue Sainte Marthe 75010 Paris France contact@providences.fr Pyramide International 5, rue du Chevalier de Saint George 75008 Paris France +33 1 4296 0220 sales@pyramidefilms.com

R Red Box Films 33-34 Rathbone Place, 2nd Floor W1T IJN London United Kingdom +44 (0) 207 323 9933 info@redboxfilms.co.uk Ring Film Italy carlogabrieletribbioli@hotmail.it

P Pablo ChavarrĂa GutiĂŠrrez Mexico pchavarriagtz@gmail.com Pace Gallery 6 Burlington Garden W1S 3ET London United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3206 7600 taber@pacegallery.com Park Circus Limited 1 Park Terrace G3 6BY Glasgow United Kingdom +44(0) 141 332 2175 info@parkcircus.com

Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Strasse 29 / 30 10997 Berlin Germany +49 30 47372980 info@kloosundco.de Ro*co Films International llc 80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5 94965 Sausalito United States 4153326471 info@rocofilms.com Roast Beef Productions United States mike@roastbeeftv.com

Pernille Lystlund Matzen Denmark matzenpernille@gmail.com

Roots Films Taiwan alexanderhuang1004@gmail.com

Peter Bo Rappmund United States peterborappmund@gmail.com

Ross Sutherland United Kingdom RossGSutherland@Yahoo.com

Pica Pica Media Ltd. Hong Kong jenny.suen.hk@gmail.com

S Sean McAllister Films sean@seanmcallister.com SeeThink Productions 16 Broadway #1 11211 Brooklyn, NY United States (1-917)690 5146 ethan@seethink.com Shady Lane Productions United Kingdom +49 30 609 239 76 info@shadylaneproductions.co.uk Sixpackfilms Neubaugasse 45 / 13 1071 Vienna Austria +43 1 526 09 90 office@sixpackfilm.com Sonntag Pictures Kronprinsessegade 46D, 4. 1306 Copenhagen K Denmark +45 28 96 44 14 contact@sonntagpictures.com Soul Rebel Films United Kingdom info@soulrebelfilms.com Spectre Productions France lou.jomaron@lafabrique-phantom.org Sprueth Magers Berlin Oranienburger Strasse 18 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 288 84 030 en@spruethmagers.com Stalker Production France abbas-fahdel@wanadoo.fr Stray Dogs 15 rue Chevert 75007 Paris France 0033 (0)1 4322 5640 Studio Canal 5-13 Bouldevard de la Republique 92514 Paris France +33 1 171 75 89 65 jkochman@studiocanal.com Studio Rosa Barba Germany studio@rosabarba.com

CONTACTS The Match Factory Sudermanplatz 2 50670 Cologne Germany +4922 1292 1020 info@matchfactory.de

Swedish Film Institute Box 271 26 10252 Stockholm Sweden +46 8 665 1100 info@sfi.se

The National Film School of Denmark Denmark lgi@filmskolen.dk

T T&C Edition AG Seestr. 41a CH-8002 Zürich Switzerland +41 442089955 edition@tcfilm.ch Tadhg O’Sullivan Ireland tadhgosullivan@gmail.com Tamasa Distribution 63 rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris France +33 (0) 1 43 59 01 01 contact@tamasadiffusion.com Taskovski Films Ltd. 7 Granard Business Centre, Bunns Lane NW7 2DQ London United Kingdom 00387 65 652 046 info@taskovskifilms.com Terra Jean Long United States terrajean@gmail.com The Cinema Guild 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800 NY 10001 New York United States (212) 685-6242 info@cinemaguild.com The Festival Agency France info@thefestivalagency.fr The Imaginarium Films abal Al-Weibdeh, Sharieaa Street, Building no. 5 PO Box 910579 Amman 11191 Jordan (+962) 799 000 407 info@theimaginariumfilms.com

The Nielsen Movement Denmark salaucsj@icloud.com Tombola Productions Denmark jeppe.lange@gmail.com

U Unity New York United States +1 20 38248519 theunityofallthings@gmail.com Universal Pictures International 4th floor, Oxford House, 76 Oxford Street W1D 1BS London United Kingdom +4420 7307 1300 Uri Rosenwaks Israel urirose@bezeqint.net

V Video Data Bank 112 S. Michigan Avenue IL 60603 Chigago United States +1 312 345 3550 info@vdb.org Vidéographe 4550 rue Garnier Montréal H2J 3S7 Montreal, PQ Canada +1 (514) 521-2116 festival@videographe.qc.ca Vladimir Tomic Amerikavej 1, 3. TV. 1756 København V. Denmark 25215939 vladimirtomic@hotmail.com

W Werner Herzog Film GMBH Türkenstrasse 91 80799 München Germany +49 89 330 40 767 worldsales@wernerherzog.com Wide House 9, rue Bleue 75009 Paris France +33 1 53 95 04 64 infos@widemanagement.com Wild Bunch 99 rue de la Verrerie 75004 Paris France +33 1 5301 5020 distribution@wildbunch.eu

Z ZAK | BRANICKA Lindenstr. 35 D-10969 Berlin Germany +49 30 61107375 mail@zak-branicka.com Zeitgeist Films 247 Center Street, 2nd floor NY 10013 New York United States mail@zeitgeistfilms.com Zipporah Films One Richdale Ave., Unit #4 MA 02140 Cambridge United States +1 (617) 576-3603 info@zipporah.com

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(P&I) In the peak days of CPH:MARKET between November 9 and 13, we arrange Press & Industry screenings (marked P&I) in the earlier hours of the day. These screenings will have a number of seats allocated for accredited guests, while a minor part of the seats will still be open for sale to the general public.

> > > > Den Grønne Friskole > Empire Bio > > > > Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > Kayak Bar > > Dagmar Teatret

Monday

02/11

Den Grå Hal 18:00

Tuesday

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

03/11

DR koncerthuset 19:00

Wednesday

Opening Gala

04/11

> Empire Bio > Grand Teatret >

Dagmar Teatret

14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

Yallah! Underground They Will Have To Kill Us First At Home In The World Børge Mogensen - Designs for life

17:00

Josefine’s Farm

17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30

The Academy of Muses How to Change the World Meru Waiting for B

17:00

Behemoth

17:00 19:00 19:15 21:30

Speed Sisters New World Towers The Propaganda Game Hugland

19:00 19:00

Film + Afterparty at Kayak Bar Walking Under Water

21:30

Motley’s Law

12:30

In Utero

19:00

Bikes vs Cars

18:30

Rabin, the Last Day

10:00 16:30 21:45

Natural Disorder Alice Cares Ghost Rockets

11:30 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

The Emperor’s New Clothes Haunted The Visit Palio The Magic Mountain Dream/Killer Soaked in Bleach

19:15

Banksy Does New York

21:00

Eerie Glue + GENTS

20:00

Den Sorte Skole vs. Dark Matters

17:00 21:15

10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? Innocence of Memories

Thursday

05/11

> > > > Bremen Teater > > Absalon

09:00 17:30 19:00 21:30

A Sinner in Mecca Communal Dining in Absalon A Place Called Lloyd Dreaming of Denmark

18:30 21:30

This Changes Everything The Accidental Rock Star

> > > > > > > >

Cinemateket 16:30 16:45 18:30 19:00 19:15 21:15 21:30 21:45

Falciani’s Tax Bomb - The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks A Sinner in Mecca The Diplomat A Young Patriot Pelota + Pelota II Disaster Playground Quay + Dark Star: HR Giger’s World Fata Morgana

> Nordisk Film Falkoner > > > Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > Normann Copenhagen > Osramhuset > Store Vega > Vester Vov > > Kvarterhuset

06/11

Friday

> > > > Bella Center - Bogforum > Bremen Teater > > > > > Absalon

17:00 17:30 19:00 21:30

Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Lower vs. The Contemporary Flotel Europa

16:00

Ejersbo

09:30 12:00 16:40 19:15 21:00

Brothers The Wolfpack Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Ejersbo Berlin at Bremen

> > > > > > > > >

Cinemateket 13:00 16:30 16:45 18:30 19:00 19:15 21:15 21:30 21:45

DR, Filmworkshop / DFI & CPH:DOX Talent Award 2015 Darwin’s Nightmare (T)error Turumba The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers The Event Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Danny Says Za’N’Zi vs. Werner Herzogs ‘Fata Morgana’

> > > > Empire Bio > > > >

Dagmar Teatret 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

The Pearl Button The Other Side By Our Selves What He Did

17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30

Bolshoi Babylon Brothers Fresh Dressed Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist

> Grand Teatret > > > Kayak Bar > > Gloria 17:00

Gored

16:40 18:30 21:30

Banksy Does New York Our Last Tango Born To Lose

21:00 21:00

Above and Below Film + Afterparty at Kayak Bar

> Nordisk Film Falkoner > > Kvarterhuset 16:30

How to Change the World

16:30 21:45

(Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies The Mind of Mark Defriest

> > > > > > > Statens Museum for Kunst > Teltet > > > > Nordisk Film Palads 14:15 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

Nice People Among the Believers The Dream of Europe Finders Keepers Unbranded Yallah! Underground Iron Grandpa

16:00

SMK Fridays x CPH:DOX

17:00

The Hour of Revenge: The Political Interview 2.0 Varieté: Friends of the Unhuman SCENARIO Drinks & Talks: Blindspots Political DJ set feat. DJ Noize

18:00 19:00 22:00

> > Voxhall >

Vester Vov Vov 17:00 21:15

Chuck Norris vs. Communism Nightfall on Gaia

21:00

Den Sorte Skole vs. Dark Matters

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Saturday

07/11

> > > > Bremen Teater > > > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > Absalon

14:30 17:00 17:30 21:00

Cats in Riga + Life According to Anton Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon

16:30 18:30 21:00

London Road Hitchcock/Truffaut Jonathan Johansson vs. Erik Gandini

11:00 12:00 12:30 14:15 14:30 14:30

20:15 21:15 21:45 22:30

Everyday P!TCH Sugar Coated He Named Me Malala The Emperor’s New Clothes Arabian Nights vol. 1 - The Restless One Renegade Runners: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Arabian Nights + Portugese food Arabian Nights vol. 2 - The Desolate One The Yes Men Are Revolting Of the North Foreign Parts Arabian Nights vol. 3 - The Enchanted One GROW: Demokratic Impro Theater The Council The Russian Woodpecker Quay + Dark Star: HR Giger’s World

12:00 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:00

A German Youth Dreams Rewired Behemoth I Remember When I Die Over the Years

14:30 17:00 17:15 18:30 19:30 20:00

> > > > > > Gloria > Gl. Strand > Grand Teatret > > > > > > Empire Bio

> Kvarterhuset > Mungo Park > >

Koncerthuset (Studie 2) 20:00

Bianca Casady (CocoRosie) & the C.i.A.

15:00

10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate?

16:00 20:00

What He Did What He Did

> Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > > > Teltet > > > > > > > > > > >

Nordisk Film Falkoner 21:45

The Confessions of Thomas Quick

12:00 14:15 16:00 16:30 19:00 19:15 19:30 21:30 21:30

CodeGirl A Syrian Love Story In Jackson Heights Speed Sisters Lampedusa In Winter Those Who Feel the Fire Burning time / OUT OF JOINT Thought Crimes Uncertain

10:00 11:30 13:20

Everyday P!TCH X & Beyond: There Is No Going Back Roald Als Crossing the Line: What are We Voting for in December? New Kid on the Block: Yahya Hassan in conversation with Michael Jarlner Game Changers: Quinn Norton in conversion with Henrik Chulu Power Points: The Power Elite Upside Down Everyday Remix: Lau Lindqvist & 2d Visuals Zetland: Because You Can’t Shout and Think at the Same Time... Fremtidens klimaaktivisme: The Yes Men, Alternativet, NOAH & Greenpeace Turning Tables: If No One Speaks, No One Is Heard The Political Party: Presented by CPH:DOX & Turning Tables

14:20 15:15 16:20 17:30

18:15

19:40

12:30 15:00 17:00 17:30 20:00 22:15

The Amina Profile Anthropocene Salam Neighbor Monty Python: The Meaning of Live God Bless the Child Soaked in Bleach

17:00

The Thoughts That Once We Had

21:00

Life on Mars

14:00

Thursday

17:00 21:15

Incorruptible Deprogrammed

09:00 12:00 14:20 16:40 19:30 21:30

Marathon reading of ‘Stoner’ Man Falling Pelota + Pelota II The Infinite Happiness The Act of Becoming The Fear of 13

20:45 22:30

> Vester Vov Vov > >

Tycho Brahe Planetarium

Sunday

08/11

‘The Infinite Happiness’ on location: A Field Trip to 8Tallet

> > > > >

C:NTACT presents: Stories Untold Future Road Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Nielsen: I Gave My Body to The Revolution

8tallet 16:00

Absalon 13:00 15:00 17:00 17:30 19:00

> > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > Cinemateket

12:00 12:30

19:15 21:15 21:15 21:30

Dreaming of Denmark Cryptoparty: Digitalt Self-Defense: Workshop Oncle Bernard – A Counter-Lesson in Economics Deep Web Je suis Charlie Disaster Playground The Corporation A Tour of the Self Cleaning House (shorts) The Reviews The Visit The Take Flotel Europa

12:00 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

God Bless the Child Star Men The Pearl Button 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting UIP27

12:30

14:15 16:45 17:00 18:30 19:00

> > > > > > > Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > > Empire Bio

12:30 15:00 17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30 22:30

Gored Bikes vs Cars In Utero Dream/Killer Noma - My Perfect Storm Banksy Does New York Fresh Dressed

17:00

Leviathan

12:00 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

The Yes Men Are Revolting Bolshoi Babylon Listen to Me Marlon Innocence of Memories Cartel Land

> > >

Imam Ali Moské 14:00 14:00 20:30

> Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > >

Nordisk Film Falkoner

Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Film Marathon in the Mosque Muhammad: The Messenger of God

21:45

Natural Disorder

12:00 14:15 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

Of the North Haunted Unbranded Chuck Norris vs. Communism Field Niggas + We Chose The Milky Way The Event A Young Patriot Finders Keepers

Store Vega 20:00

Teltet 11:00

11:45 12:30 14:45 16:15 17:15 18:30 19:30 20:45

> > > > > > > > >

The Thurston Moore Band vs. ‘Detonation’ (curated short-film program)

Democracy in the Rear View Mirror: Mogens Herman Hansen in conversation with Rune Lykkeberg Cryptoparty: Digital Self-Defense Everyday P!TCH: Presentation Højskolebladet Live: Syrian Voices Facebookistan Film and Debate: Facebookistan Game Changers: David van Reybrouck in conversation with Bo Lidegaard 10 Years After the Drawings A Crowdsourced Constitution: Salvör Nordal in conversation with Rasmus Nordqvist

> Vester Vov Vov > >

Tycho Brahe Planetarium 20:00

Third Ear Presents: The Double

17:00 21:15

The Academy of Muses The Other Side

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Monday

> > > > > Aveny-T > Bremen Teater > > > > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > Absalon

09:30 12:00

17:00 17:30 19:00

Josefine’s Farm Turning Tables: If No One Speaks, No One Is Heard Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Monsterman

21:00

Perfume Genius vs. Sort Støj

07:00 14:30 16:45 19:15

DOX & Shine Uncertain Above and Below Muhammad: The Messenger of God

16:30 16:45 18:30 18:30 19:15 21:15

Everyday Evening 2015 The Diplomat Return of the Atom The Intruder Among the Believers Theory of Obscurity: a Film About The Residents The Meaning of Style (shorts) Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

21:30 21:45

> Dagmar Teatret > > > > >

> Kulturhuset Islands Brygge > Knippelsbrotårnet 16:00

DOX:JAZZTOWER

16:30

The Yes Men & Floating City: Film, talk and boat trip!

> > Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > >

Nordisk Film Falkoner 16:30 21:45

Børge Mogensen - Designs for life B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

12:00 14:15 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

Incorruptible (P&I) Dreaming of Denmark (P&I) Deprogrammed Ghost Rockets The Mind of Mark Defriest The Dark Gene The Fear of 13 London Road

> Teltet > >

Pressen i Politikens Hus 18:30

Salam Neighbor

17:00 19:00

Syriatype Falciani’s Tax Bomb - The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks

> Vester Vov Vov > >

CinemaxX

Tycho Brahe Planetarium

20:00

Ronaldo

20:00

An Evening with Scott Carrier

12:00 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

Palio Iron Grandpa (P&I) Lost and Beautiful Cool Cats Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared

17:00 21:15

The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead

> Empire Bio > > > > > Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > > >

Den Blå Planet 18:30

Racing Extinction

17:00 17:30 19:45 22:30 22:30

The Amina Profile (T)error My Friend Rockefeller Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist Noma - My Perfect Storm

17:00

Nice People

12:00 15:20 16:40 19:00 19:15 21:30

Man Falling (P&I) At Home In The World Monty Python: The Meaning of Live Ice and the Sky Mallory A Syrian Love Story (P&I) = Press & Industry screenings

10/11

Tuesday

> > > > > > Bremen Teater > > > > > > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > > >

Nordisk Film Falkoner

19:15 21:00 21:15 21:30

The Death Of J.P. Cuenca (P&I) Anthropocene (P&I) Harlan County U.S.A. Animation + Documentary = AniDox UIP27 (P&I) The Fear of 13 (P&I) The Dream of Europe Kwassa Kwassa + The Digger + Faux Départ In Utero Nightlife + Untitled (Human Mask) + Bending to Earth + Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record Je suis Charlie The Moulin The Corporation Trouble the Water

21:15

12:00 14:20 16:40 19:00 21:30

Thought Crimes (P&I) A Place Called Lloyd Yallah! Underground Arabian Nights vol. 1 - The Restless One The Great Wall

Absalon 09:30 11:45 17:00 17:30 19:00 21:00

The Amina Profile Banksy Does New York Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Blaue Blume Star Men

09:05 11:20 14:00 16:30 19:00 21:30

The Amina Profile Banksy Does New York He Named Me Malala (T)error The Wolfpack A Good American

09:30 10:00 11:30 12:30 13:30 14:00 16:45 17:00

18:30 19:00

> > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > > > > > >

> > Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > Pressen i Politikens Hus > Skuespilhuset - lille scene > Teltet > > 16:30 21:45

The Act of Becoming Unbranded

12:00 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

Natural Disorder (P&I) (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies He Named Me Malala The Russian Woodpecker Walking Under Water Breaking a Monster The Confessions of Thomas Quick

18:30

Bikes vs Cars

19:00

Those Who Feel the Fire Burning

08:15 19:00

CPH:CONFERENCE Meet Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Tim Morton

> Vester Vov Vov > >

Tycho Brahe Planetarium 20:00

True Crime Stories

17:00

Nielsen: I Gave My Body to The Revolution Danny Says

Empire Bio 17:00 17:30 19:45 22:30 22:30

Nightfall on Gaia Monalisa Story CodeGirl Meru Speed Sisters

> Grand Teatret > > > > Knippelsbrotårnet > Gloria 17:00

A German Youth

13:00 16:40 19:00 21:30

Over the Years (P&I) Cartel Land The Swedish Theory of Love Unseen: The Lives of Looking

14:00

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Wednesday

> > > > >

11/11

Absalon 14:00 17:00 17:30 19:00 21:00

> > > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > Den Sorte Diamant >

09:00 11:00 13:00 16:30 19:00 19:15

Bremen Teater 13:30 18:00 21:45

10:00

The Wolfpack Human Waiting for B

21:45

Undercover: The Theory and Practice of Infiltration A Good American (P&I) Unseen: The Lives of Looking (P&I) At Home In The World When Doc Films Reign: Outliers and Independence on Kickstarter I Remember When I Die (P&I) Positioning the Creative Documentary in a Changed Media Landscape Dreaming of Denmark The Letters By Our Selves Eyelid + Simulation Beach Time Passes + When You’re Watching This Film... Soaked in Bleach Spectrographies + Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars time / OUT OF JOINT

14:20 16:40 19:00 21:45

The Thoughts That Once We Had Grace of God + Pebbles at Your Door Birobidjan The Wolfpack

10:00 12:00 12:15 14:00 14:45 15:30

16:45 17:15 18:30 19:15 19:30 21:15 21:30

17:00

A Syrian Love Story

Det Multietniske Kulturcenter Gellerupparken

> Empire Bio > > > > > > Gloria > Godsbanen i Aarhus > 20:00

> > > > > > > >

Grand Teatret Bikes vs Cars Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Stand by for Tape Back-Up How to Change the World

A Syrian Love Story

12:00 17:00 17:30 19:45 22:15 22:30

The Swedish Theory of Love Fragment 53 Citizen Khodorkovsky Town on a Wire Deep Web The Accidental Rock Star

17:00

Lost and Beautiful

20:00

A Syrian Love Story

21:30 21:30

A German Youth Citizen Khodorkovsky Rabin, the Last Day (P&I) Alice Cares Man Falling A Crackup at the Race Riots + Black Code/Code Noir In Limbo In Pursuit of Silence

> Knippelsbrotårnet > Lille Vega > Nordisk Film Falkoner > > Jazzhus Montmartre 20:00

Montmartre All Stars vs. Cool Cats

14:00

DOX:JAZZTOWER

20:00

YouTube Battle

16:30 21:45

The Magic Mountain Italian Gangsters

> > > > > > > > > Pressen i Politikens Hus > Skuespilhuset - lille scene > Teltet > > Nordisk Film Palads

12:00 14:00 14:15 16:30 17:00 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

They Will Have To Kill Us First (P&I) The Wolfpack The Infinite Happiness (P&I) Arabian Nights vol. 2 - The Desolate One Dreams Rewired Among the Believers The Council My Friend Rockefeller Return of the Atom

18:30

The Emperor’s New Clothes

19:00

At Home In The World

19:00 21:30

Finders Keepers New World Towers

> Vester Vov Vov > >

Tycho Brahe Planetarium 20:00

Short Cuts

17:00 21:15

Bolshoi Babylon 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting

> Vollsmose kulturhus >

Videomøllen i Ravnsborggade 20:00

A Syrian Love Story

20:00

A Syrian Love Story

(P&I) = Press & Industry screenings

Thursday

12/11

> > > > Bremen Teater > > > > >

Nordisk Film Falkoner

Cinemateket

19:00 21:30 21:30

Absalon 17:00 17:30 19:00 21:30

Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon CTM + First Flush In Pursuit of Silence

09:00 11:30 17:00 19:15 21:30

Fresh Dressed Banksy Does New York Cartel Land Listen to Me Marlon Fresh Dressed Party

> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > >

09:30 10:00 11:45 12:00 14:15 14:30

16:30 16:45 18:30 19:00 19:15 21:00 21:15 21:30 22:45

13:00 16:40

19:00 21:30

At Home In The World (P&I) In Limbo (P&I) The Letters (P&I) Loooong Take: How to Make a Film Over 10 Years Hitchcock/Truffaut (P&I) Based on a True Story: The Return of True Crime Field of Vision - New Visual Journalism A Girl of Her Age How to Change the World Ah Humanity! + Event Horizon + No No Sleep The Death Of J.P. Cuenca Notes from the Anthropocene Haunted Déjà vu Turumba

> Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > > > 10:00

Brothers

12:00 12:00 14:15

Sugar Coated (P&I) Human (P&I) Field Niggas + We Chose The Milky Way (P&I) Arabian Nights vol. 3 - The Enchanted One 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll The Dark Gene Above and Below Gored

16:30

16:30 19:00

> Skuespilhuset - lille scene > Teltet > > Normann Copenhagen 19:15

Danish Artists Film/Video

19:00

Flotel Europa

19:00 19:00

i-D Presents: Documentary in Style Dazed / NOWNESS

> >

Vester Vov Vov 17:00 21:15

The Event The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead

In Jackson Heights (P&I) Homo Sacer: The Sacred Man or the Accursed Man Incorruptible The Pearl Button

> > > > > Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > Knippelsbrotårnet > Empire Bio 17:00

17:30 20:00 22:30 22:30

Falciani’s Tax Bomb - The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks The Swedish Theory of Love Uncertain Banksy Does New York London Road

17:00

Racing Extinction

14:20 16:40 19:15 21:30

Motley’s Law (P&I) This Changes Everything Brothers A Sinner in Mecca

14:00

DOX:JAZZTOWER

(P&I) = Press & Industry screenings

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Friday

13/11

> > > > > Bremen Teater > > > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > Empire Bio > > > > Gloria > Absalon

10:30 17:00 17:30 19:00

> > > > > Knippelsbrotårnet > Nordisk Film Palads > > > > > > > > > > > Grand Teatret

12:00 14:20

21:30

Josefine’s Farm Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Spectrographies + Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars Friday 13th: The Nightmare!

16:40 19:15 21:30

Mallory (P&I) Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous A Good American Meru The Confessions of Thomas Quick

13:30 18:00 21:00

Cartel Land The Wolfpack EXEC vs. Obscura

14:00

DOX:JAZZTOWER

10:00 12:00 12:00 14:15 14:15 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

This Changes Everything Racing Extinction (P&I) Town on a Wire (P&I) Lampedusa In Winter (P&I) The Visit (P&I) The Diplomat Monalisa Story Italian Gangsters The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson Dream/Killer Thought Crimes

09:30 10:30 11:00 12:30

13:00 14:30

16:30 16:45

18:15 18:30 18:45 20:15 21:15

21:15 21:45 22:45

12:00 14:20 16:40

ART:FILM: artist talk / Joachim Koester Masterclass: Roberto Minervini ART:FILM / From Conceptual Idea to Script-based Narrative Muhammad: The Messenger of God (P&I) ART:FILM / Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel ART:FILM / The Intersection Between Performance Art and Non-Fiction Cinema Those Who Feel the Fire Burning Masterclass: Bernie Krause - A Natural Sound Genius The Meaning of Style (shorts) They Will Have To Kill Us First The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers Kwassa Kwassa + The Digger + Faux Départ Nightlife + Untitled (Human Mask) + Bending to Earth + Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record Pelota + Pelota II The Intruder Fata Morgana

19:00 21:30

CodeGirl (P&I) Innocence of Memories Oncle Bernard – A Counter-Lesson in Economics In Limbo The invention - and my dad

17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30

Deprogrammed The Yes Men Are Revolting The Mind of Mark Defriest Deep Web

17:00

Disaster Playground

> Teltet > Tycho Brahe Planetarium > Vester Vov Vov > >

Skuespilhuset - lille scene 19:00

A Syrian Love Story

08:15

FACT:CONFERENCE

20:00

Third Ear Presents: The Double

17:00 21:15

Of the North Over the Years

(P&I) = Press & Industry screenings

Saturday

14/11

> > > > > Bakken > Cinemateket > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > > Empire Bio > > > > > > Absalon 14:00

17:00 17:30 19:00 21:30

Time Passes + When You’re Watching This Film... Josefine’s Farm Communal Dining in Absalon Cool Cats New World Towers

19:00

CPH:DOX Final Party with Vice

09:45 12:00 12:30 14:00 14:30 16:00 16:45 18:30 19:15 19:30 21:15 21:30 21:45

Harlan County U.S.A. Trouble the Water Citizen Khodorkovsky Fragment 53 The Swedish Theory of Love The Moulin Topophilia + Blow Debris The Act of Becoming The Take Foreign Parts The Dark Gene Leviathan Quay + Dark Star: HR Giger’s World

12:00 14:20 16:30 16:30 19:00 21:30

The Letters Anthropocene Birobidjan This Changes Everything Monty Python: The Meaning of Live Behemoth

12:30 15:00 17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30

The Dream of Europe Unseen: The Lives of Looking Ghost Rockets Brothers The Other Side A Crackup at the Race Riots + Black Code/Code Noir

> Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > > > > > >

Forbrændingen 20:00

Born To Lose vs. Lorenzo ‘Guf’ Woodrose

17:00

A Sinner in Mecca

09:00 11:30 13:30 15:20 16:30 19:15 21:30 21:30 23:30

Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Hugland Rabin, the Last Day Hitchcock/Truffaut This Changes Everything Town on a Wire Soaked in Bleach Kurt Cobain x 2 Montage of Heck

Nordisk Film Palads

> > > > > > > > > > Solbjerg Kirke > Teltet > > 12:00 12:00 14:15

14:15 16:30 16:30 19:00 19:00 21:00 21:30

Salam Neighbor Nice People Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist Chuck Norris vs. Communism Je suis Charlie Mallory Breaking a Monster A Syrian Love Story Muhammad: The Messenger of God Monsterman

20:00

Hôn vs. Harmonic Mind + support

16:30 19:00

This Changes Everything (T)error

> >

Vester Vov Vov 17:00 21:15

Star Men Walking Under Water

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Sunday

> > > >

15/11

Absalon 12:00 15:30 17:30 19:00

> > > > > > > > > > > CPH:DOX, Tagensvej 85F > Dagmar Teatret > > > > > Empire Bio > > > > > > > Gloria > Grand Teatret > > > > > > Cinemateket

10:00 12:00 12:30 16:15 17:00 18:30 19:00 19:15 21:15 21:30

> > > > > > > > > > > > Republique > Under Bispeengbuen > Vester Vov Vov > > Nordisk Film Palads

CPH:DOX x IBYEN: The future of eco-eating Pelota + Pelota II Communal Dining in Absalon Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared

21:45

Cats in Riga + Life According to Anton Hour of the Furnaces Celine and Julie Go Boating Notfilm Worldly Desires A Young Patriot Utopia Danish Artists Film/Video The Council Ah Humanity! + Event Horizon + No No Sleep Lost and Beautiful

10:00

West of the Tracks

12:00 14:20

16:40 19:00 21:30

The Infinite Happiness Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous The Fear of 13 A Girl of Her Age I Remember When I Die

12:30 15:00 17:00 17:30 20:00 22:30 22:30

Alice Cares Ice and the Sky Sugar Coated Our Last Tango Racing Extinction The Emperor’s New Clothes Iron Grandpa

17:00

The Death Of J.P. Cuenca

12:00 14:20 17:00 19:00 19:00 21:30

The Propaganda Game Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Palio The Accidental Rock Star Déjà vu B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin

12:00 12:00 14:00 14:00 15:30 16:00 17:00

17:30 19:00 19:00 21:30 21:30

The Great Wall Flotel Europa My Friend Rockefeller Future Road Facebookistan Grace of God + Pebbles at Your Door Homo Sacer: The Sacred Man or the Accursed Man Waiting for B God Bless the Child The Russian Woodpecker (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies The invention - and my dad

15:00

The Amina Profile

20:00

A Syrian Love Story

17:00 21:15

Eyelid + Simulation Beach Theory of Obscurity: a Film About The Residents

1 9 Futures: Sounds Fragmenting 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate?

A A Crackup at the Race Riots A Distant Episode A Film, Reclaimed A German Youth A Girl of Her Age A Good American A Journey That Wasn’t A Place Called Lloyd A Sinner in Mecca A Syrian Love Story A Tour of the Self Cleaning House A Young Patriot Above and Below Ah Humanity! Alice Cares Among the Believers Anóme Anthropocene Arabian Nights vol. 1 - The Restless One Arabian Nights vol. 2 - The Desolate One Arabian Nights vol. 3 - The Enchanted One At Home In The World

B B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin Banksy Does New York Behemoth Bending to Earth Bikes vs Cars Birobidjan Black Code/Code Noir Blaue Blume Blow Debris Blur: New World Towers Bolshoi Babylon Born To Lose Borne on Men’s Backs Breaker of Horses Breaking a Monster Brothers By Our Selves Børge Mogensen - Designs for Life

C C:NTACT presents: Stories Untold Cartel Land Cats in Riga - Director’s Cut Celine and Julie Go Boating Chuck Norris vs. Communism Citizen Khodorkovsky CodeGirl Cool Cats Cosmopolitanism

D Danny Says Dark Star: HR Giger’s World Darwin’s Nightmare Deep Sleep Deep Web Déjà vu

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238 258

58 219 124 225 38 30 126 72 248 144 183 225 247 54 155 84 274 154 168 169 170 71

234 252 117 52 252 34 57 238 118 232 102 236 182 275 235 39 219 270

212 246 272 174 253 81 104 236 229

240 224 136 123 248

107 Deprogrammed (Dis)Honesty - The Truth About Lies Disaster Playground Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Dream/Killer Dreaming of Denmark Dreams Rewired Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project

E Ejersbo Event Horizon Everyday Evening 2015 Eyelid

F Facebookistan Falciani’s Tax Bomb - The Man Behind the Swiss Leaks Fata Morgana Faux Départ Field Niggas Film Finders Keepers Flotel Europa Flying Phosphorus and Shooting Stars Foreign Parts Fragment 53 Fresh Dressed Future Road

G Ghost Rockets God Bless the Child Gored Grace of God

H Harlan County U.S.A. Haunted He Named Me Malala Hitchcock/Truffaut Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Homo Sacer: The Sacred Man or the Accursed Man Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous Hour of the Furnaces How to Change the World Hugland Human

I I Gave My Body to The Revolution I Remember When I Die i-D Presents: Documentary in Style Ice and the Sky Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared In Jackson Heights In Limbo In Pursuit of Silence In Utero Incorruptible

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85 164 160 239 192 79 226 184

267 55 210 156

263 257 115 61 227 227 262 266 175 113 48 262 268

69 41 261 74

138 91 256 228 90 70 100 139 257 237 251

269 65 209 159 232 221 33 233 162 258

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Innocence of Memories Iron Grandpa It Runs About Like Ants Italian Gangsters

J Janis: Little Girl Blue Je suis Charlie Josef - My Fathers Criminal Record Josefine’s Farm

K Kwassa Kwassa

L Lampedusa In Winter Leviathan Life According to Anton Listen to Me Marlon London Road Looking for Exits - Conversations with a Wingsuit Artist Lost and Beautiful

M Mallory Man Falling Meru Monalisa Story Monsterman Montage of Heck Monty Python: The Meaning of Live Mother of Monsters Motley’s Law Muhammad: The Messenger of God My Friend Rockefeller

N Natural Disorder Nice People Nielsen Nightfall on Gaia Nightlife No No Sleep No One Is Heard Noma - My Perfect Storm Notes from the Anthropocene Notfilm Now only the eye can catch

O Of the North Off The Grid Oncle Bernard - A Counter - Lesson in Economics Our Last Tango Out and Bad Over the Years

P Palio Pebbles at Your Door Pelota Pelota II

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220 75 275 195

234 82 53 270

147 134 273 222 188 267 44

43 45 260 66 240 241 255 274 83 108 189

64 150 269 173 50 56 208 251 120 228 273

226 122 253 259 242 224

261 271 105 106

Quay

R Rabin, the Last Day Racing Extinction Reign of Silence Return of the Atom Ronaldo

S Salam Neighbor Simulation Beach Soaked in Bleach Spacy Spectrographies Speed Sisters Stand by for Tape Back-Up Star Men Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Sugar Coated Syriatype Launch Event

T Talking Mountain (T)error The Academy of Muses The Accidental Rock Star The Act of Becoming The Amina Profile The Confessions of Thomas Quick The Corporation The Council The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead The Dark Gene The Death Of J.P. Cuenca The Digger The Diplomat The Dream of Europe The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson The Emperor’s New Clothes The Event The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys The Fear of 13 The Great Wall The Infinite Happiness The Intruder The Invention - and My Dad The Island is Enchanted with You The Letters The Magic Mountain the meaning of style The Mind of Mark DeFriest The Moulin The Nightmare The Other Side The Pearl Button The Propaganda Game The Reviews The Russian Woodpecker The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers The Swedish Theory of Love The Take The Thoughts That Once We Had

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218 165 125 67 109

149 157 193 127 176 259 206 158 247 86 211

180 87 220 68 103 249 191 135 255 241 163 37 60 249 145 233 254 221 178 36 146 101 114 268 181 35 250 177 190 42 263 222 132 250 205 194 218 32 137 223

INDEX

U UIP27 Unbranded Uncertain Unseen: The Lives of Looking Untitled (Human Mask) Utopia

W Waiting for B Walking Under Water Wayward Fronds We Chose The Milky Way West of the Tracks What He Did When You’re Watching This Film, I’m Already Another Worldly Desires

Y Yallah! Underground YouTube Battle

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161 246 254 239 235 121 200 204 202 203 201 78 148 196 229 172 73 119 80 133 171

49 260 40 31 51 116

237 92 179 271 140 266 272 128

256 207

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The Visit The Wolfpack The Yes Men Are Revolting Theory of Obscurity: a Film About The Residents They Will Have To Kill Us First Thing Third Ear Presents: An Evening with Scott Carrier Third Ear Presents: Life on Mars Third Ear Presents: Short Cuts Third Ear Presents: The Double Third Ear Presents: True Crime Stories This Changes Everything Those Who Feel the Fire Burning Thought Crimes Thursday time / OUT OF JOINT Time Passes Topophilia Town on a Wire Trouble the Water Turning Tables: If No One Speaks, Turumba

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