CPH:DOX 2020

iHuman, which was screened and discussed by Edward Snowden at CPH:DOX, offers a sobering assessment of AI and its seemingly inevitable trajectory towards a state of self-sufficiency.

David Teboul’s Mon Amour is a paean to both love and grief, one which he journeys to Siberia to try and make sense of the death of his lover Frédéric Luzy.

Edward Snowden skyped into Denmark March 23 to comment on a range of matters, from coronavirus to Tonje Hessen Schei’s iHuman to the dangers of granting news publisher status to the likes of Facebook.

In her debut feature documentary Ecstasy Moara Passoni tells the story of her teenage anorexia, her joyous immersion into delirium and the supreme sense of power and control it gave her.

Four days is, CPH:DOX Head of Industry Katrine Kiilgaard is so far delighted following the event’s forced conversion to digital this year.

Lotta Petronella’s Själö – Island of Souls, world-premiering in NORDIC:DOX seeks to re-interpret the history of a former leper asylum off the Finnish coast, now a centre for scientific research.

Valued at €15,000, the prize is awarded by CPH:FORUM and Eurimages for the best pitch at CPH:FORUM 2020, which this year was conducted in virtual space.

Danish docfest CPH:DOX has launched its first digital festival following the March 11 announcement to cancel the original event due to concerns over coronavirus.

In his Bitter Love Jurek Sladkowski tells us that while the rest of the world takes to the road to deal their problems, Russians take to the river. In this instance on a Volga cruise ship, full of lonely hearts.

Songs of Repression picked up the coveted DOX:AWARD, as winners are announced for the Nordic:Dox, F:act, New:Vision, Next:Wave and newly founded Politiken:Danish:Dox Awards.