Danish documentary pageant CPH:DOX is partnering with Copenhagen’s Kunsthal Charlottenborg artwork establishment on Human:Rights, an initiative aiming to enhance consciousness of human rights.
The three-year initiative will embody an exhibition on the Kunsthal Charlottenborg venue; a thematic movie programme; talks and debates; and an academic programme for faculties.
The initiative has been created to ‘show to audiences that human rights and discussions about them stay essential’, in response to the pageant. It cites a Nordic survey from December 2024, which confirmed that 53% of Danes couldn’t identify a selected human proper.
“Via documentary movies, artwork, dialog, and debate, CPH:DOX and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have each the credibility and the platform to speak human rights by actual individuals and lived experiences,” says Niklas Engstrom, CPH:DOX creative director. “This collaboration ensures that the various nuances behind the authorized articles come to mild: that human rights are usually not solely about defending lives and freedom of speech or stopping torture, but in addition about the correct to meeting, the correct to equal therapy, and the correct to schooling.”
The Kunsthal venue has been a central gathering level for a number of years at CPH:DOX, internet hosting screenings, business discussions and social occasions.
Final yr CPH:DOX offered a Human:Rights award for the primary time, in collaboration with the Danish Institue for Human Rights. The award was received by Shiori Ito’s Black Field Diaries, which had its worldwide premiere on the pageant and has since been nominated for greatest documentary function on the 2025 Oscars.
The CPH:DOX 2025 programme will probably be unveiled over the approaching weeks, forward of the total programme announcement on February 26. This yr’s pageant runs from March 19-30.
