Copenhagen International Documentary Festival
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2003 |
| Number of films | 200 |
| Website | www.cphdox.dk |
CPH:DOX is the official name for the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, 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 91.400 admissions in 2015.[1]
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 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 also 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.
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.
In 2013, CPH:DOX launched the transmedia initiative SWIM - Scandinavian World of Innovative Media - to stimulate innovation and new ways of thinking within media in the Region of Øresund. The project is a collaboration between CPH:DOX, New Danish Screen, Film i Skåne and BoostHbg and is co-financed by Interreg IVA.
Following the 2015 edition of CPH:DOX, the festival announced that it will change its dates from November to March. The next edition of CPH:DOX will be held from March 16 - 26. [2]
Awards
Juries hand out prizes in six international competition programmes:
- The CPH:DOX Award for international documentary features.
- The NEW:VISION Award for experimental and artists' film.
- The NORDIC:DOX Award for Nordic documentaries and artists' films.
- The F:ACT Award for films in the field between investigative journalism and documentary.
- The Politiken Audience Award awarded by the audience.
- 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
- (Award winners highlighted in light yellow.)
2003 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
(Dans, Grozny dans) |
 Jos de Putter | |
Special Mention |
(Huutajat - Screaming Men) |
 Mika Ronkainen |
(Ônibus 174) |
 José Padilha | |
Special Mention |
(Balseros) |
 Carlos Bosch & Josep Maria Domènech |
2004 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 huonetta) |
 Hubert Sauper Pirjo Honkasalo | |
(Justiça) |
Maria Ramos | |
Special Mention |
(Nedoverie) |
 Andrei Nekrasov |
(Aus Liebe zum Volk) |
 Audrey Maurion & Eyal Sivan | |
Special Mention |
(Rejsen på ophavet) Gunnar Goes Comfortable |
 Max Kestner Gunnar Hall Jensen |
2005 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
The White Diamond |
Michael Glawogger Werner Herzog | |
Special Mention |
Michale Boganim | |
 Sabina Guzzanti | ||
Special Mention |
The Journey of Roméo Dallaire |
 Peter Raymont |
| Clive Holden | ||
Special Mention |
 Mike Stubbs | |
2006 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Gary Tarn | ||
Special Mention |
Mr. Vig and the Nun |
Pernille Rose Grønkjær |
| Staffan Julén | ||
Special Mention |
(Stemmen van Bam) Maquilapolis - City of Factories (Maquilápolis) |
Maasja Ooms & Aliona van der Horst Vicky Funari & Sergio de la Torre |
(short) |
sagt mein Grossvater |
Gabriele Mathes |
(long) |
(Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle) Tarachime birth/mother (Tarachime) |
 Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno Naomi Kawase |
| Michel Gondry | ||
2007 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
(Calle Santa Fe) |
 Carmen Castillo | |
Special Mention |
Michael Noer | |
 Charles Ferguson | ||
Special Mention |
Umbrella (San) |
Brian Hill Du Haibin |
(short) |
Gee-Jung Jun | |
(long) |
(Staub) A Crime Against Art |
Hartmut Bitomsky Hila Peleg |
| Grant Gee | ||
Special Mention |
Luke Fowler | |
2008 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Anders Østergaard | ||
Special Mention |
 Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie Andersson | |
| Anders Østergaard | ||
Special Mention |
Joseph Bullman | |
| Michel Auder, Andrew Neel | ||
Special Mention |
 Apichatpong Weerasethakul | |
| Sacha Gervasi | ||
Special Mention |
Margarita Jimeno | |
2009 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Harmony Korine | ||
Special Mention |
Måns Månsson | |
| Geoffrey Smith, Roberto Hernández | ||
Special Mention |
Yoav Shamir | |
| Deborah Stratment / Ben Russell | ||
| Vincent Moon | ||
Special Mention |
Kara Blake | |
2010 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Michelangelo Frammartino | ||
Special Mention |
 Andrei Ujica | |
| Ada Bligaard Søby / Jakob Boeskov | ||
Special Mention |
Jacob Schulsinger | |
| Kim Longinotto | ||
| Hito Steyerl | ||
Special Mention |
Roee Rosen | |
| Dylan Goch, Gruff Rhys | ||
Special Mention |
 Árni Sveinsson | |
| Charles Fairbanks | ||
| Theis Molin | ||
2011 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Rivers | ||
| Philippe Grandrieux | ||
| Anca Damian | ||
| Thomas Østbye | ||
| Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Orri Jónsson & Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir | ||
| Wim Wenders | ||
2012 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Oppenheimer | ||
| Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel | ||
| Jonas Poher Rasmussen | ||
| Andrey Gryazev | ||
| Jay Bulger | ||
| Mikala Krogh | ||
2013 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
 Narimane Mari | ||
| Ben Rivers & Ben Russell | ||
Special Mention |
 Wilhelm Sasnal & Anka Sasnal | |
| Marius Dybwad Brandrud | ||
| Richard Rowley | ||
| Arash & Arman Riahi | ||
2014 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Joshua Oppenheimer | ||
Special Mention |
Camilla Nilsson | |
 Basim Magdy | ||
| Lea Glob & Petra Costa | ||
| Katy Chevigny & Ross Kauffman | ||
| Grant Baldwin | ||
2015 CPH:DOX
| Award | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck | ||
Special Mention |
Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands | |
| Ali Cherri | ||
| Rosa Barba | ||
| Mika Taanila & Jussi Eerola | ||
Special Mention |
Ane Hjort Guttu | |
 Hemal Trivedi & Mohammed Ali Naqvi | ||
Special Mention |
Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe | |
| David Sington | ||