{"id":4245,"date":"2021-03-30T03:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2021-04-17T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T03:47:14","slug":"variety-cph-dox-03-30-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/variety-cph-dox-03-30-21\/","title":{"rendered":"CPH:DOX Lineup Features Films By Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Spike Lee, Gianfranco Rosi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CPH:DOX Lineup Features Films By Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Spike Lee, Gianfranco Rosi: <\/h1>\n

Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, better known as CPH:DOX, has unveiled its full program, which includes the screenings of 180 films, interactive art, and 40 live debates and talks with artists, experts and opinion-makers.<\/p>\n

The festival offers new films from a number of leading directors. Werner Herzog, Gianfranco Rosi, Shelly Silver, Errol Morris, Ulrike Ottinger, Spike Lee and Sergei Losnitza all participate in the festival with their films, as does Muppet master Frank Oz, who is back with \u201cIn & Of Itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As previously reported, Marina Abramovic, David Byrne, and Slavoj Zizek will feature in the discussion program \u201cAn Evening With.\u201d<\/p>\n

The digital festival will be available on CPH:DOX\u2019s digital platform from April 21 to May 5. From May 6-12, a selection of films will be screened in movie theaters in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Tine Fischer, CEO of CPH:DOX, said: \u201cThe lineup includes films focusing on new platform economies, the dominance of tech giants, new democratic movements, decolonization and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The digital live events \u201cwill give our audiences a chance to meet and listen to great artists, innovative scientists, politicians, opinion makers and a number of important marginalized voices that normally wouldn\u2019t get a chance to be heard,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Among the films screening in the five official competition categories are 47 world premieres, nine international premieres and six European premieres. Among the films world premiering are controversial titles such as \u201cWhen a City Rises,\u201d about the protests in Hong Kong seen from the inside, and Gorki Glaser-M\u00fcller\u2019s \u201cChildren of the Enemy,\u201d which tells the touching and topical story about the fight of a man to bring back to Sweden his seven orphaned grandchildren trapped in a Syrian camp after their parents died as jihadists.<\/p>\n

As well as forcing the festival to adopt a digital format, the COVID-19 crisis has also inspired the overall theme of this year\u2019s program, \u201cRESET!\u201d<\/p>\n

Fischer said: \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world into a crisis of historical proportions, but it has also made it clear that we \u2013 as a society \u2013 can make a huge difference when needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, we are presenting a special program entitled \u2018RESET!\u2019 that focuses on a number of the most significant structural crises the world is facing today, but also on opportunities that arise and new solutions that present themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme \u201cRESET!\u201d characterizes not only the film program, but also the festival\u2019s international conference, CPH:Conference, presenting a five-day digital program. This will \u201crethink the role of the film and media industry and find new solutions to some of the largest global challenges we face today,\u201d the festival said in a statement.<\/p>\n

With the themes democracy, economy, representation and climate the audience \u2013 both the public and the industry \u2013 would \u201cparticipate in a discussion on the role of the arts in a world post-corona.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speakers will include Taiwan\u2019s digital minister Audrey Tang, fake news expert and Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, founder of Fridays for Future Uganda Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, economic commentator Grace Blakeley and the producer Ted Hope. The conference will run April 26-30.<\/p>\n

The five competition sections, which will all be evaluated by an international jury, are:<\/p>\n