WRITTEN BY: Annika Pham
More than 30 Nordic films will be showcased across the five competition strands of Copenhagen’s major international festival, celebrating 20 years with panache.
More than 30 Nordic films will be showcased across the five competition strands of Copenhagen’s major international festival, celebrating 20 years with panache.
On top of the seven Nordic docs selected for the main DOX:Award, announced earlier, (see our separate story: CLICK HERE) the festival’s other four competition strands New Vision, F:ACT, Nordic:Dox and Next:Wave are also packed with anticipated new films by seasoned Nordic directors such as Tonje Hessen Schei, Mia Engberg, Göran Hugo Olsson, Fredrik Gertten, Anne Regitze Wivel, and many newcomers.
A total of 200 new films - including 61 in competition - will be screening at CPH:DOX (March 15-26), set under the overarching theme ‘Predicting the past, rewriting the future’.
“At this year’s festival, we examine how history has become a weapon used in the great contemporary social debates about post-colonialism, identity politics and other important agendas. On the other hand, we look at scenarios – utopian as well as dystopian – and explore how our ideas about the future are shaping the way we organise society right now,” said artistic director Niklas Engstrøm.
As part of the festival’s 20th anniversary, an impressive list of celebrities will be on hand, from Wim Wenders, Joan Baez, Asif Kapadia, Susan Matthews to Chai Vasarhelyi.
Here under is the full list of Nordic feature-length documentaries competing in the New: Vision, F:ACT, Nordic:Dox, and Next:Wave strands.
NEW:VISION
F:ACT
NORDIC:DOX
NEXT:WAVE