Deming Chen’s debut documentary At all times gained the highest DOX:Award prize at Copenhagen Worldwide Documentary Movie Competition (CPH:DOX) 2025.
Set within the mountains of China’s Hunan province, At all times follows an eight-year-old boy dwelling together with his poor household, who discovers poetry as a means of describing his emotions and place on the planet.
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The US-France-China co-production is produced by Hansen Lin for US firm Timelight Movie, in co-production with France’s SaNoSi Manufacturing and Taiwan’s Rustic Photos.
At all times receives the €10,000 in the primary competitors, from a jury of Rikke Tambo Andersen, Max Kestner, Nicolas Rapold, Adele Tulli and Raul Nino Zambrano.
The jury stated “this exquisitely shot chronicle of a rural farming household is alive with compassion and poetry.”
The pageant recorded a 20% attendance improve on final 12 months, breaking its all-time document on Monday 24 after simply 5 days of the 2025 version (last figures nonetheless to come back).
Monica Stromdahl’s Flophouse America obtained a particular point out within the DOX:Award competitors. It centres on a 12-year-old boy who finds glimmers of hope in an sudden tragedy, whereas dwelling with the ramifications of his mother and father’ alcohol abuse. Beathe Hofseth and Siri Natvik produced the movie, with Lightdox dealing with gross sales.
Ukrainian documentary 2000 Meters To Andriivka took the F:Act award prize, having its worldwide premiere at CPH:DOX after a launch at Sundance. The newest movie from 20 Days In Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov, it follows the efforts of a Ukrainian platoon to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces throughout the ongoing conflict.
The jury credited “a masterpiece in filmmaking: a haunting, multi layered portrayal of conflict similar to All Quiet on the Western Entrance”; Dogwoof handles gross sales.
The Human:Rights award went to Ketevan Vashagashvili’s 9-Month Contract, a couple of girl who bears repeated surrogate kids. “By way of its visible poetry the movie balances delicately between the harshness of their state of affairs and the humanity of Zhana and her intense love for her daughter,” famous the jury.
Additional prizes went to Kristina Shtubert’s Abode Of Daybreak within the Subsequent:Wave competitors; Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg and Sofie Rordam’s Greenlandic title Partitions – Akinni Inuk within the Nordic:Dox competitors; and Juliette Le Monnyer’s single-take Ramallah, Palestine, December 2018 within the New:Imaginative and prescient strand.
Voting for the viewers award will proceed till the tip of the net pageant, with the winner unveiled on April 4.
The 2025 CPH:DOX featured 71 movies in competitors throughout six classes, together with 56 world premieres.
CPH:DOX 2025 winners
DOX:Award – At all times (US-Fr-China) dir. Deming Chen
Particular point out – Flophouse America (Nor-Neth-US) dir. Monica Stromdahl
F:Act Award – 2000 Meters To Andriivka (Ukr) dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Particular point out – The Good Neighbor (US) dir. Geeta Gandbhir
Human:Rights award – 9-Month Contract (Geo-Bul-Ger) dir. Ketevan Vashagashvili
Particular point out – The Encampments (US) dirs. Michael T. Workman, Kei Pritsker
Nordic:Dox award – Partitions – Akinni Inuk (Inexperienced) dirs. Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg, Sofie Rordam
Particular point out – The Nicest Males On Earth (Den) dir. Josefine Exner, Sebastian Gerdes
Subsequent:Wave award – Abode Of Daybreak (Ger) dir. Kristina Shtubert
Particular point out – Who Witnessed The Temples Fall (Sp) dir. Lucia Selva
New:Imaginative and prescient award – Ramallah, Palestine, December 2018 (Bel) dir. Juliette Le Monniyer
Particular point out – Scrap (Fr) dir. Noemie Lobry
Inter:Lively award – Constantinopoliad (UK) dirs. Sister Sylvester, Nadah El Shazly
Particular point out – The Backyard Says (Den) dirs. Uri Kranot, Michelle Kranot, Sara Topsoe Jensen, Sarah John, Marieke Breyne