CPH:DOX under Fonden De Københavnske Filmfestivaler

CPH:DOX is part of the non-profit foundation Fonden De Københavnske Filmfestivaler (Copenhagen Film Festivals), established in 2008 as a hub for the major film festivals in the Danish capital: CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the childrens' film festival BUSTER. Since its first edition in 2003, CPH:DOX has rapidly grown to become one of the leading documentary film festivals in the world, annually attracting approx. 110.000+ audiences and 1.900 professionals. The festival is known and respected for radically changing the documentary landscape with a focus on innovation of the genre and special engagement of the audiences. CPH:DOX also runs a wide array of projects besides the audience festival, stimulating audience development and media literacy as well as the documentary film industry. CPH:DOX is founded on the belief that a film festival should not only be for the film buffs. It shall be a cultural manifestation that focus attention on the big questions and issues of our time that need our attention – from the individual and existential to the structurally global. We believe that film as a collective art form can create new communities and inspire democratic dialogue, and we work with an understanding of documentary film as a tool for change that can create substantial awareness and, in some instances, bring forward suggestions for solutions. As such, we are working with an ambition to contribute to social, political, or cultural transformation, to establish a space for reflection, dialogue, and opinion across populations, communicating complicated topics and questions in an intimate, reflective and profound manner. No matter whether topics are political, philosophical, experimental or focused on narrow sections of the world, documentary films should expand and, in some cases, challenge the viewer’s conception of the world.