CPH:DOX 2022
Two Swiss documentaries selected for the main competition
18.03.2022
Two Swiss documentary films have been selected for screening in the International Competition at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX: GIRL GANG by Susanne Regina Meures and HOLIDAYS by Antoine Cattin. CPH:DOX is one of the world’s largest documentary film festivals and will be held in local venues again this year from March 23 to April 3.
A total of 12 films screened in the International Competition are in the running for the prestigious Dox:Award. Susanne Regina Meures presents her latest documentary film GIRL GANG (Christian Frei Filmproduktion), which portrays the life of a teenage Berlin-based influencer and social-media megastar with millions of followers. This is the director’s third feature-length documents, for which she accompanied her protagonists for over four years. Meures’ last film SAUDI RUNAWAY premiered at the 2020 Sundance Festival.
HOLIDAYS (JOURS DE FÊTE) by Antoine Cattin (Les Films Hors-Champ) is a cinematic mosaic shot in St. Petersburg that tells of a divided society, xenophobia, class differences and gender relations, and foreshadows a next war. Cattin has already dealt with Russian society in his previous films.
CPH:DOX has responded to the current war with a Ukrainian film series as well as a selection of films that – like HOLIDAYS – take a critical look at Putin’s Russia.
Dox:Award is our international main competition.
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12 films are nominated for the main prize – our selection of the best and most important new films.
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Swiss docs in other programmes
HEALERS (LES GUÉRISSEURS) by Marie-Eve Hildebrand (Bande à part Films) celebrates its international premiere in the CPH:Science section. The film was screened at Visions du Réel last year and is a homage to today’s healthcare system and its protagonists.
Three coproductions with Swiss participation will be screened in the Artists & Auteurs section: A THOUSAND FIRES by Saeed Taji Farouky, coproduced by Akka Films; SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON by Mitra Farahani, coproduced by Casa Azul Films; as well as the Bolivian film EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO by Kiro Russo, coproduced by Dan Wechsler’s Bord Cadre films in Geneva.
Two projects in the CPH:Forum
CPH:DOX also organises various events for the film industry. Presented in the CPH:FORUM, the festival’s international financing and coproduction event, will be the Swiss-Polish production by First Hand Films, SO CALLED SISTERHOOD (working title) by Hanka Nobis, as well as WOMEN OF MY LIFE by Zahraa Ghandour, an Iraqi-Swiss project by Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion.