CPH:DOX 2021

At the heart of this absorbing film is the underlying importance of investigative journalism within a world that prefers to suppress whistle-blowers, and favours spin over responsibility.

Who’s that knocking at the door? For the subjects featured in A Man and a Camera, Guido Hendrikx’s playful and provocative new documentary, it’s the director himself, arriving on people’s doorsteps uninvited, waiting to see how they will respond. The Dutch docmaker explains more...

Co-directors Cecilie Debell and Maria Tórgarð rap with Business Doc Europe about Skál, which was supposed to be about Faroe Islands hip hop artist Trygvi Danielsen, until his girlfriend Dania made an even bigger impression on the filmmakers. The film world-premieres April 24 in Copenhagen’s Dox:Award Competition.

A dazzling dive into the deep underbelly of drug-fuelled red light tourism in Thailand and Cambodia, looking for two missing Finnish junkies through the eyes of their former travel companion. A morally ambiguous trip into the heart of darkness.

The Turkish/Norwegian director talks to Business Doc Europe about the force of nature that is Seyran Ateş, lawyer, author, feminist, female imam and social campaigner and now the subject of a feature doc competing in Nordic:Dox Award Competition, Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution & Islam.

Belgian filmmaker Volkan Üce talks to Business Doc Europe about his feature doc that places centre stage the staff of a vast, all-inclusive hotel complex on the Turkish Riviera, in particular the brooding philosopher Hakan and the shy, young Ismael.

A remarkable and provocative film, Children of the Enemy is the moving and powerful story of one man’s lonely fight to try and free his seven grandchildren from a refugee camp in Syria.

Award-winning Danish director Pernille Rose Grønkjær is promising that her new feature doc Solutions will “spike debate.” The film is based around a rendezvous in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at which leading scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs came together to discuss no less than the survival of the planet. Grønkjær explains more to BDE.

Ask CEO Mario Adamson, who co-runs Swedish doc production company Sisyfos, just why the company has established its new Scottish outpost, and he explains it is not just because of the heather and the whisky. The producer points to “shared sensibilities” between the Scots and the Swedes. He shares even more with BDE.

Phie Ambo’s powerful new documentary on Danish climate politics follows a period of action and change as seen from the viewpoint of both politicians and activists.