Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
 | This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (December 2018) |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| No. of films | 200 |
| Website | www |
CPH:DOX is the official name for the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival,[1] an international documentary film festival established in 2003 and held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. CPH:DOX has since grown to become one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe with 114,408 admissions in 2019.
Details[]
CPH:DOX is devoted to supporting independent and innovative film and to present contemporary non-fiction, art cinema and experimental film. The festival has been recognized for its sharp and daring programme profile with a special focus on exploring the hybrid field between documentary practice and various type of staging – sometimes to controversial effect, as when Harmony Korine won the CPH:DOX Award in 2009 for his film Trash Humpers.
Besides its seven international competitions, the festival presents parallel curated and guest curated sections. In recent years, artists and filmmakers such as The xx, Anohni, Harmony Korine, Animal Collective, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Olafur Eliasson and Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis have curated film programmes exclusively for CPH:DOX. Parallel to this the festival has been presenting retrospective programmes with among others Phillippe Grandrieux, Nathalie Djurberg, Vincent Moon, Charles Atlas, and James Benning & Sadie Benning, as well as installations and exhibitions film and video artists, among them Michelangelo Frammartino, Keren Cytter and Charles Atlas.
The festival hosts seminars, debates and events as well as the curated concert series Audio:Visuals, where bands and artists such as Animal Collective, The Knife, John Maus, Nan Goldin & Genesis P-Orridge, Patti Smith, Beach House have been performing to original work created for the occasion by visual artists.
CPH:DOX also presents a number of other initiatives parallel to the festival itself. The industry platform CPH:Forum, with the attached CPH:Market for buyers and programmers, is a financing and co-production forum as well as a networking facility which takes place for three days during the festival. In 2011, the related ART:FILM branch was launched with the aim to facilitate the development and actual production of artists' films in the feature length format. CPH:DOX runs the five-day CPH:Conference as well as the experimental educational course DOX:Academy for students, both of which take place during the festival.
In 2009, the festival launched the international talent development and film production workshop CPH:LAB (formerly known as DOX:LAB) where around 20 filmmakers are invited each year to develop and direct a film in teams of two. CPH:LAB has been a great success with films premiering and winning prizes at film festivals such as Venice, the Berlinale, Rotterdam, and elsewhere.
Following the 2015 edition of CPH:DOX, the festival announced that it would change its dates from November to March, and the first of the new spring editions of the festival was held from March 16–26, 2017, with the centrally located Kunsthal Charlottenborg as the new festival center.[2]
CPH: DOX is part of the Doc Alliance – a creative partnership between 7 key European documentary film festivals.
Awards[]
Juries hand out prizes in seven international competition programmes:
- The CPH:DOX Award for international documentary features
- The NEW:VISION Award for experimental and artists' film
- The F:ACT Award for films in the field between investigative journalism and documentary
- The NORDIC:DOX Award for Nordic documentaries and artists' films
- The NEXT:WAVE Award for emerging filmmakers and artists
- The Politiken:Danish:Dox Award awarded by a jury of film critics from the Danish newspaper Politiken
- The Doc Alliance Award is handed out in collaboration between CPH:DOX and six other European documentary film festivals to one of the seven films nominated by the participating festivals.
Award winners[]
CPH:DOX Award[]
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
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| 2003 (1st) | Jos de Putter |  Netherlands
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| 2004 (2nd) | Darwin's Nightmare (shared) | Hubert Sauper |  Austria
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| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (shared) | Pirjo Honkasalo |  Finland
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| 2005 (3rd) | Workingman's Death (shared) | Michael Glawogger | Austria
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| The White Diamond (shared) | Werner Herzog |  Germany
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| 2006 (4th) | Black Sun | Gary Tarn |  United Kingdom
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| 2007 (5th) | Santa Fe Street | Carmen Castillo |  Chile
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| 2008 (6th) | Burma VJ |  Denmark
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| 2009 (7th) | Trash Humpers | Harmony Korine |  United States
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| 2010 (8th) | Le Quattro Volte | Michelangelo Frammartino |  Italy
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| 2011 (9th) | Two Years at Sea | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom
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| 2012 (10th) | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark
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| 2013 (11th) | Bloody Beans |  Algeria
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| 2014 (12th) | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark
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| 2015 (13th) | God Bless the Child | United States
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| 2017 (14th) | Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad | Denmark
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| 2018 (15th) |  Sweden
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| 2019 (16th) | Sweden
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| 2020 (17th) | Songs of Repression[3][4] | Denmark
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| 2021 (17th) |  Mali
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2003 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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(Dans, Grozny dans) |
Jos de Putter
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Special Mention |
(Huutajat – Screaming Men) |
Mika Ronkainen
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(Ônibus 174) |
 José Padilha
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Special Mention |
(Balseros) |
 Carlos Bosch &
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2004 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta) |
Hubert Sauper Pirjo Honkasalo | |
(Justiça) |
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Special Mention |
(Nedoverie) |
 Andrei Nekrasov
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(Aus Liebe zum Volk) |
 & Eyal Sivan
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Special Mention |
(Rejsen på ophavet) |
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2005 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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The White Diamond |
Michael Glawogger Werner Herzog
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Special Mention |
Michale Boganim
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| Sabina Guzzanti
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Special Mention |
 Peter Raymont
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| Clive Holden
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Special Mention |
Mike Stubbs
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2006 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Gary Tarn
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Special Mention |
Pernille Rose Grønkjær
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Special Mention |
(Stemmen van Bam) Maquilapolis (Maquilápolis) |
&  Vicky Funari & Sergio De La Torre
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(short) |
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(long) |
(Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) Tarachime birth/mother (Tarachime) |
 Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno Naomi Kawase |
| Michel Gondry
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2007 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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(Calle Santa Fe) |
Carmen Castillo
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Special Mention |
Michael Noer
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| Charles Ferguson
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Special Mention |
Umbrella (San) |
Brian Hill Du Haibin |
(short) |
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(long) |
(Staub) |
Hila Peleg
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| Grant Gee
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Special Mention |
Luke Fowler
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2008 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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Special Mention |
Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie Andersson
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| Anders Østergaard
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Special Mention |
Joseph Bullman
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| Michel Auder, Andrew Neel
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Special Mention |
 Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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| Sacha Gervasi
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Special Mention |
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2009 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Harmony Korine
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
Yoav Shamir
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| / Ben Russell
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| Vincent Moon
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Special Mention |
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2010 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Michelangelo Frammartino
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Special Mention |
 Andrei Ujica
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| / Jakob Boeskov
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Special Mention |
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| Kim Longinotto
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| Hito Steyerl
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Special Mention |
Roee Rosen
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Special Mention |
 Árni Sveinsson
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| Charles Fairbanks
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2011 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Ben Rivers
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| Philippe Grandrieux
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| Anca Damian
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| Wim Wenders
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2012 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Joshua Oppenheimer
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| Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel
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| Andrey Gryazev
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| Jay Bulger
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2013 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Ben Rivers & Ben Russell
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Special Mention |
 Wilhelm Sasnal &
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| Richard Rowley
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2014 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Joshua Oppenheimer
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Special Mention |
Camilla Nilsson
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| & Petra Costa
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| Grant Baldwin
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2015 CPH:DOX[]
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Special Mention |
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| Ali Cherri
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| Rosa Barba
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| Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola
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Special Mention |
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 Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi
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Special Mention |
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| David Sington
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2017 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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| Feras Fayyad, co-directed by
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
Jeppe Rønde
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| Chen Zhou
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Special Mention |
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| Camilla Magid
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Special Mention |
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| Reber Dosky
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
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| Matthew Heineman
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2018 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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Special Mention |
Chase Whiteside &
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
Bing Liu
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Special Mention |
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| Katrine Philp
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2019 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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Special Mention |
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 Mania Akbari &
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
Juan Palacios
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| Fredrik Gertten
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2020 CPH:DOX[]
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Special Mention |
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Special Mention |
Lotta Petronella
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| Marc Wiese
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Special Mention |
Jeff Orlowski
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| David Osit
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Special Mention |
Lisa Rovner
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2021 CPH:DOX[]
| Award | Film | Director |
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Special Mention |
 & Signe Byrge Sørensen
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 Haig Aivazian
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Special Mention |
Maxime & Audrey Jean-Baptiste
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Special Mention |
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 Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Evie Cheung, Han Yan Yuen & Jen Lee
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Special Mention |
Theo Anthony
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Special Mention |
 Liesbeth de Ceulaer
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References[]
- ^ "CPH:DOX 2020 – About us". en.cphdox.dk. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
- ^ http://cphdox.dk/en/cphdox-moves-festival-dates-to-march/
- ^ a b c "'Songs Of Repression': CPH:DOX Review". Screen. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Review: Songs of Repression". Cineuropa – the best of european cinema. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
External links[]
- Bodil Special Award recipients
- Documentary film festivals
- Festivals in Copenhagen
- Film festivals in Denmark