Niklas Engstrøm on Copenhagen Doc Festival
The 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is chock-full of new docs to discover. Its six juried competition sections alone feature 74 films, including 53 world premieres and 17 international premieres. Meanwhile, the Right Here, Right now program puts a spotlight on human, civil and international rights, while the new Brainwaves lineup goes inside the mysteries of the human mind. Plus, there are such sections as Science, Artists & Authors, Sound & Vision, and Urgent Matters. And Copenhagen’s Highlights program promises to screen “festival hits and front page stories,” including the likes of Miro Remo’s Karlovy Vary winner Better Go Mad in the Wild, Sinéad O’Shea’s capitalism and morality doc All About the Money, and Werner Herzog’s nature film Ghost Elephants. So, local audiences and industry visitors alike have much to choose from during CPH:DOX, which kicks off Wednesday, March 11 and runs through Sunday, March 22. “From the Arctic to the Amazon, Gaza to Greenland and Kyiv to the Kremlin, CPH:DOX 2026 spans the full alphabet of a world in flux,” Niklas Engstrøm, the artistic director of …
