Six Documentaries to See at CPH:DOX 2023

CPH:DOX will run from 15 – 26 March this year including over 600 screenings, live events, Q&A sessions, musical events, and even podcast recordings. Founded in 2003, CPH:DOX is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world, showcasing both Danish and international documentaries every year to an enormous audience in the theatres across the city of Copenhagen.

CPH:DOX has always been about “feeing the transformative potential of art and documentary films,” which they do by not only showing documenatries, but also coutextualizing them with live events, talks, panels, Q&A sessions, and more. It’s a festival that’s about leveraging the art form of documentary filmmaking to make the world a better place. For film lovers, documentary lovers, and those interested in improving the world around them, CPH:DOX provides a much-needed platform and meeting space.

Great news: we have an exclusive reader discount for you! For 20% off your tickets, use the code DOX23 at checkout. Please note that some fgilms are available online, but they are geo-blocked to Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands only.

Here are the six documentaries we recommend checking out, as well as the events taking place in parallel during CPH:DOX this year:

Songs of Earth

The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for the cinematic nature experience of the year. A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker’s parents, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock.

The Other Profile

A suspenseful and unpredictable detective story from Kinshasa, where a French film director has to find his own double. This is a film about virtual, post-colonial identities.

Body Parts

Behind the camera during Hollywood’s sex scenes in an eye-opening and engaging film-about-film that sheds light on the rotten sides of the film world, but does so with an acerbic wit.

Total Trust

The first major film about the Chinese surveillance state is a disturbing tale of technology, (self-)censorship and abuse of power in the 21st century. Two families fight for justice from within the digital prison.

Deep Rising

The depths of the world’s oceans are the new Wild West as gold fever rages among mining companies fighting for the right to extract rare metals from the planet’s last untouched environment.

A Tiger in Paradise

A surreal journey into singer José González’s interior world. The film is staged with dark humour in the picturesque Swedish countryside around his home. Ruben Östlund’s regular creative partners are behind the camera.

Remember to use our exclusive reader discount code: DOX23 for 20% off your tickets. See the full program for CPH:DOX here.