'A Song Without Home' Courtesy of CPH:DOX Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, has unveiled the competition lineups for its 2026 edition. The fest's 23rd edition will take place March 11-22. The lineup for its six juried competition sections features 74 titles, "hand-picked from thousands of submissions from around the world," including 53 world premieres, 17 international premieres, and four European premieres. The 2026 edition introduces the FIPRESCI Award, presented by the International Federation of Film Critics, for which 12 films in the DOX:AWARD Competition are nominated. Related Stories Movies 'Jojo Rabbit' Star Davis Joins 'Wonderland' Animated Feature (Exclusive) Movies Berlin Rising Star Luna Wedler on Discovering Acting: "It Became My Great Love, Almost an Addiction" "We are living through a period in which the frameworks that once felt stable - political, moral, even cognitive - are shifting beneath our feet. Institutions are tested, conflicts intensify, and new technologies challenge our understanding of perception and agency," said Niklas Engstrøm, artistic director of CPH:DOX. "In such a moment, documentary cinema becomes more than observation; it becomes a space for sustained attention. The films in this year's competition lineup resist simplification and speed. They insist on complexity, on ambiguity, and on the dignity of lived experience." Added Mads K. Mikkelsen, head of program at CPH:DOX: "Documentary is an art form, and we are immensely excited to present a competition lineup of highly contemporary films that critically and creatively reflect the troubled times we live in. The selection explores the possibilities of 21st-century cinema in a spirit of humanism, solidarity and poetry, with great trust in their audience." The world premiere of Mariinka, a doc directed by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue (The Land of the Enlightened) that traces Ukrainian lives shaped by war, will open this year's CPH:DOX. Check out the lineups for the six competition sections of CPH:DOX 2026, listed in alphabetical order, below. DOX:AWARD A Song Without Home (Director: Rati Tsiteladze, Producer: Rati Tsiteladze, Olga Slusareva / Georgia, United States / World Premiere) Amazomania (Director: Nathan Grossman, Producer: Cecilia Nessen / Sweden, Denmark, France / World Premiere) Arctic Link (Director: Ian Purnell, Producer: Franziska Sonder / Switzerland / World Premiere) Christiania (Director: Karl Friis Forchhammer, Producer: Rikke Tambo / Denmark / World Premiere) Daughters of the Forest: Mycelium Chronicles (Director: Otilia Portillo, Producer: Paula Arroio, Elena Fortes / Mexico, United States / World Premiere) Little Sinner (Director: Daro Hansen, Thomas Papapetros, Producer: Thor Hampus Bank / Denmark / World Premiere) MARIINKA (Director: Pieter-Jan De Pue, Producer: Bart Van Langendonck / Belgium / World Premiere) Petrolheads (Director: Emil Langballe, Producer: Julie Walenciak, Claes Hedlund / Denmark / World Premiere) Something Familiar (Director: Rachel Taparjan, Producer: Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin / Romania, United Kingdom / World Premiere) The Cord (Director: Nolwenn Hervé, Producer: Estelle Robin You / France / World Premiere) The Sandbox (Director: Kenya-Jade Pinto, Producer: Shasha Nakhai, Kenya-Jade Pinto / Canada / World Premiere) Whispers in May (Director: Dongnan Chen, Producer: Jia Zhao / China, Netherlands, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Sweden / World Premiere) F:ACT AWARD All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea (Director: Jeanie Finlay, Producer: Charlie Phillips, Jeanie Finlay / United Kingdom / World Premiere) Atlas of Disappearance (Director: Manuel Correa, Producer: Anna Giralt Gris, Jorge Caballero Ramos, Emil Olsen / Spain / World Premiere) Cambodian Beer Dreams (Director: Laurits Nansen, Producer: Malene Flindt Pedersen, Signe Skov Thomsen, Ove Rishøj Jensen, Valérie Montmartin / Denmark, Sweden, France / World Premiere) Hell's Army (Director: Richard Rowley, Producer: Atanas Georgiev, Richard Butler / Ukraine, Syria, Central African Republic, Lithuania, United States / World Premiere) In Full Agreement (Director: Panu Suuronen, Producer: Susanna Lasarov / Finland / International Premiere) Intelligence Rising (Director: Elena Andreicheva, Producer: Elena Andreicheva, Sean Richard, Mandy Chang / United Kingdom / World Premiere) Just Look Up (Director: Emma Wall, Betsy Hershey, Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen, Natja Rosner / United States, Denmark / World Premiere) Kikuyu Land (Director: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu, Producer: Andrew H. Brown, Moses Bwayo, Joseph Njenga, Bea Wangondu, Mike Morrisroe / United States, Kenya / International Premiere) Materia Prima (Director: Jens Schanze, Producer: Jens Schanze