CPH:DOX 2024-2025

2026-07-22

CPH:DOX was founded in 2003 and is one of the largest cultural events in Denmark as well as one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world with 108,800 admissions for its most recent edition in 2022, and almost 2,000 accredited guests for the festival, market and industry activities. The festival screens more than 200 new films over the course of 12 days, of which more than 70% are European and more than half are premieres. Parallel with the film programme, the festival continues to rethink the contemporary festival experience through a wide variety of activities: From Q&As to panels, from education to industry, and from high-profile live events to nationwide and year-round activities. CPH:DOX is internationally recognized for a programme profile with a strong European focus that insists on documentary as an art form, while remaining dedicated to the political, social and cultural urgency of the genre. As the first major festival dedicated exclusively to documentaries in the spring, CPH:DOX provides European talent with an attractive platform to launch new work to a diverse and generally young audience.  Since the pandemic, the festival has been in a process of developing a sustainable hybrid festival model of parallel cinema and online screenings by establishing a year-round online platform (launched November 2022), as well as expanding its nationwide festival activities with local partners. Both fields are essential to the development of CPH:DOX in the coming years, and includes our already successful educational activities. Parallel with the popular audience festival, CPH:DOX presents the international industry platforms CPH:Forum (financing, co-production), CPH:Market, and CPH:LAB (training), and educational initiatives Dox:Academy and UNG:DOX.  CPH:DOX plans to reach at least 130,000 admissions in 2024 and 140,000 in 2025 - plus 50,000 for year-round events, reaching 180,000-190,000 admissions in total per year and 370,000 for the total project

Denmark

2025-12-01