MIX COPENHAGEN

We know you can’t wait to see the @generationfilmfest 2026 program - neither can we! Join us today at @empirebio at 20:00 for the @generationfilmfest program release and a screening of Pete Ohs’ ‘Erupcja’ 🎬✨ In ‘Erupcja’, Bethany (played by Charli XCX) convinces her boyfriend Rob to join her on a romantic trip to Warsaw - but while Rob dreams of proposing, Bethany arrives with motives of her own. After the screening, we continue the celebration in the Empire Bio foyer 🥂

We're back with a late but great adddition to our CPH:DOX collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! Come see Frida Retz in the World Premiere of A Motherfucking Life 🔥 🎬 A Motherfucking Life Frederik Vahle & Astrid Agnes Hald / Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 58 min 🌟 22 Mar · 18:00 · @ Bremen Teater + Live Event: Motherhood and Porn! 🎬 About the film: Through two years of passion, provocation and porn, young artist Frida Retz’s alternative lifestyle collides with the oldest convention of all: becoming a mother. Frida Retz is a young artist who lives her life unapologetically. In this intimate artist portrait, Frida invites us into a limitless world of porn, creativity and courage. Her art and life becomes a manifesto for breaking free from conventions – from open relationships and producing porn to marrying her platonic partner. Frida herself is a celebration of living freely and authentically. But her values and artistic projects are put to the test when she is faced with one of the most traditional milestones of all: motherhood. This debut is a tender and fearless portrait. Capturing Frida’s world of sex, love and art.

Join us tomorrow at 19.15 at @empirebio for a special screening of ʼBouchraʼ in collaboration with @cphdox 🎬 The screening will be followed by a conversation with Maria Nadia Nour (she/her), Danish/Moroccan multidisciplinary artist, Frida Retz (she/her), multidisciplinary artist, and Kir Siegumfeldt (he/him), documentary director, reflecting on what it means to create art and storytelling through a queer lens. The discussion will be moderated by Ebrar Bahçivan (they/she) - organiser and programmer from @mixcph . The panel brings together queer voices from the film world for an open and reflective discussion on visibility, responsibility, and artistic freedom — and on why it still matters who tells the stories, and from which perspective they are told. The panel talk will be held in English.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 The Arctic Circle of Lust / Markku Heikkinen / Finland, Germany & Sweden / 2026 / 97 min 🌟 14 Mar · 19:15 · @ Dagmar Teatret + Q&A in presence of director Markku Heikkinen 🌟 16 Mar · 14:30 · @ Gloria Biograf 🌟 18 Mar · 12:15 · @ Grand Teatret 🌟 22 Mar · 17:00 · @ Bio Bio Nordhavn 🎬 About the film: In Finland, a middle-aged couple of potato farmers must agree on the rules for living together, as the man's bisexuality puts the limits of their love to the test. Petri and Anu are a sweet couple. They love each other, are married, and have the rest of their lives ahead of them together on their farm somewhere in the countryside high up in Finland. But there is just one thing. At the age of 50, Petri has come out as bisexual. And even though Anu understands and loves him, they have to rethink the rules of their relationship. There is a touching honesty and openness in ‘The Arctic Circle of Lust’, where we experience the local cruising and dating culture among farmers who meet in forests and at rest stops, while Petri himself is out on his dates. Markku Heikkinen has created a truly unusual love story that avoids sensationalizing something that indeed should not be a taboo. For while Petri and Anu may struggle to put their thoughts and feelings into words, their love shines through like the light of the sun shining over the potato fields in the far north.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 La Belle Année / Angelica Ruffier / Sweden & Norway / 2026 / 90 min 🌟 15 Mar · 21:00 · @ Gloria Biograf + Q&A in presence of director Angelica Ruffier 🌟 20 Mar · 21:30 · @ Dagmar Teatret 🌟 22 Mar · 21:15 · @ Dagmar Teatret 🎬 About the film: As a teenager, she was in love with her teacher. Now, a French-Swedish filmmaker returns to her youthful obsession in a beautiful diary film about desire, vampires and self-discovery. If you can remember the kind of stormy and unrequited love affairs that are part of growing up and getting to know yourself, then here is a beautiful opportunity to relive that special time in your life. That is exactly what French-Swedish filmmaker Angelica Ruffier does in ‘La belle année’’. As a teenager, she was deeply obsessed with her teacher: a chic and cultured young woman who had modelled her style after Louise Brooks. Now Angelica is an adult and lives in the countryside somewhere in Avignon. When she loses her father and has to clean up his house, old memories come flooding back and mix with impressions from her formative years at the movies. A cinematic aura hangs like a sweet perfume over ‘La belle année’, where the lesbian vampires from the 1970s cult classic ‘Daughters of Darkness’ are the queens of a cinema universe of red velour. The question is whether Angelica should risk everything and seek out the teacher she hasn’t seen since school ended?

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 KitKatClub - Kinks of Berlin / Philipp Fussenegger / Germany & Austria / 2026 / 96 min 🌟 14 Mar · 21:45 · @ Dagmar Teatret 🌟 19 Mar · 21:30 · @ Grand Teatret 🌟 21 Mar · 18:30 · @empirebio + talk after the screening: Safe Space, kinks and chemsex 🎬 About the film: Europe’s largest sex club is located in Berlin. It is called KitKatClub, and it has been around since Austrian porn director Simon Thaur opened it in 1994. Over time, the legendary club has become a second home for people who like it kinky and have a penchant for the more provocative and challenging side of nightlife. And here is the film that invites us inside. We meet a person who dreams of becoming a drag artist. Someone who discovers a new sexuality together with their friends. A guy struggles to overcome his drug addiction, while a BDSM couple loves to express themselves in public and a guest dressed up as a dog arrives on all fours with a chain around their neck. ‘KitKatClub – Kinks of Berlin’ is a story about people, about sex and love, about freedom and about discovering oneself. With its beautiful black-and-white images and unhindered access to the heart of the club when the party peaks, this is a film experience of the most adventurous kind.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 Jaripeo / Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig / USA, Mexico & UK / 2026 / 71 min 🌟 14 Mar · 18:00 · @kunsthalcharlottenborg + Q&A: Meet directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig 🌟 16 Mar · 22:00 · @empirebio + Q&A in presence of directors Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig 🌟 18 Mar · 21:45 · @cinemateket 🌟 22 Mar · 21:00 · @ Grand Teatret 🎬 About the film: Every year, hundreds of Mexicans gather for the annual jaripeo, a traditional rodeo show, to celebrate masculinity. Adrenaline pumps through the blood, and the air is thick with testosterone: we’re talking full throttle with rodeo bulls, cowboy hats, and Levi’s jeans. But beneath the surface of the spectacle lies a queer subculture of hidden glances, fleeting touches, and secret meetings in the cornfields far from the hypermasculine arena. Through Super 8 footage, stylized scenes, and raw vérité, directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig invite us into a world full of contradictions, where queerness and machismo go hand in hand. We meet macho cowboys who have come out of the closet and a flamboyant diva who effortlessly takes the bull by the horns. Jaripeo is a sensual exploration of performative masculinity, secret desires, and the longings that breathe beneath the surface of a rodeo show.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 Desire Lines / Dane Komljen / Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Croatia & Germany / 2025 / 107 min 🌟 13 Mar · 19:00 · @ Gloria Biograf 🌟 20 Mar · 19:00 · @cinemateket 🎬 About the film: An enigmatic and restless queer fable about a sleepless man who follows his brother on a cruise through the dark nights of Belgrade. Bosnian filmmaker Dane Komljen is in his element in the enigmatic twilight, where the boundary between dreamy, erotic fiction and realism is blurred. This is more true than ever in the critically acclaimed ‘Desire Lines’, where a man follows his adult younger brother through the hot summer nights of Belgrade and discovers a parallel world he did not know. Branko follows his brother through forests and bushes, down into the underground train station and out into its toilets. Here, men meet in secret to fulfill their own and others’ needs, and perhaps their dreams. But the journey through the night ends in a completely different place than he – and we – could ever have imagined. ‘Desire Lines’ is an enigmatic and atmospheric fable about sexuality, bodies in motion, changeability, and changing form.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 Boy George & Culture Club / Alison Ellwood / USA & UK / 2025 / 96 min 🌟 12 Mar · 21:00 · @kunsthalcharlottenborg 🌟 13 Mar · 19:00 · @ Falkoner Biograf 🌟 20 Mar · 21:30 · @ Gloria Biograf 🎬 About the film: England, 1981. The Thatcher era, rainy days, and concrete in endless shades of gray. But at the same time, something completely different is sprouting: parties, colors – so many colors! – and the explosive New Romantics wave. Riding the crest of this wave are the four young men in Culture Club with teased hair, extravagant outfits, an instinctive sense for pop hooks, and a frontman like no other: Boy George. The film throws itself with warmth and high tempo into the creative chaos and the close – at times secretly romantic – relationships in the band. The story unfolds through Boy George in particular. All the glitz, glamour, and rebellious flamboyance are accompanied by a raw honesty about hidden homosexuality, years of heroin abuse, and the conflicts and pain that followed Culture Club on their journey to challenge the norms of the time. ‘Do You Really Want To Hurt Me’ has rarely sounded more vulnerable and sincere.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 Bouchra / Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki / Italy, Morocco & United States / 2025 / 82 min 🌟 13 Mar · 19:15 · @empirebio + Panel talk: Through a Queer Lens 🌟 14 Mar · 19:00 · @ Vue Fisketorvet 🌟 17 Mar · 16:30 · @ Falkoner Biograf 🌟 20 Mar · 17:00 · @empirebio 🌟 22 Mar · 19:00 · @ Gloria Biograf 🎬 About the film: An animated autofiction from Morocco, in which a queer filmmaker calls home from NYC to her mother in Casablanca to talk things out. Truly original, and truly cool. Bouchra is a 35-year-old Moroccan expat and filmmaker in New York. Her queerness has affected her relationship with her mother, and now she wants to talk things out. The phone line between New York City and Casablanca is red hot, as a lot that has been left unsaid until now. The mental distance between club nights, dates, and queer life in Brooklyn and a quiet home in Morocco is enormous. At the same time, Bouchra is experiencing writer’s block. She is writing an autobiographical script about a complex mother-daughter relationship. But through long and honest conversations, mother and daughter begin to grow closer. And yes, Bouchra is a coyote! And so is her mother. In fact, all the characters in ‘Bouchra’ are animated to the voices of her real friends and family in a playful docufiction. A humorous and touching story about migration, queerness, and everything we say – and don’t say – to those we love.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 Adam's Apple / Amy Jenkins / USA / 2026 / 97 min 🌟 17 Mar · 21:45 · @cinemateket + Q&A: Meet director Amy Jenkins 🌟 19 Mar · 19:15 · @empirebio + Mini-concert after the screening 🌟 21 Mar · 16:30 · @ Falkoner Biograf 🎬 About the film: At the age of five, Adam began wearing a Superman costume under his clothes when he went to school. He also began expressing discomfort with being perceived as a girl. Over two decades, Adam’s mother, filmmaker Amy Jenkins, has documented her son’s life, following the most significant moments in his transition and search for identity. The camera is present as Adam celebrates birthdays, receives his first testosterone injection, and moves to New York to attend college. ‘Adam’s Apple’ is spliced together from footage shot by Amy and Adam himself, giving us an intimate, loving, and unique insight into growing up and getting used to a world where things are changing – both as a child and as a parent.

CPH:DOX season is here, and you don’t want to miss our collaboration for LGBTQIA+ documentaries! 🔥 🎬 A Very Good Boy / Sébastien Lifshitz / France / 2026 / 87 min 🌟 12 Mar · 16:45 · @empirebio 🌟 15 Mar · 20:00 · @ Park Bio 🌟 19 Mar · 16:30 · @ Falkoner Biograf 🎬 About the film: An aging French gay porn icon recounts a life story worthy of a novel. A beautiful and existential film that also tells the forgotten story of the gay rights movement with erotic power and style. And the award for the most unforgettable opening scene of the year goes to… ‘A Very Good Boy’, which begins where many films end. The family is gathered and a young couple is about to get married. But then they take off all their clothes and put on boxing gloves. The pieces of the story slowly and surely fall into place as an elderly man recounts his unusual life story in detail, from his upbringing in the Pyrenees to a career as a gay star in the heyday of porn in the 1970s. Filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz has an eminent grasp of his story – and so has Claude Loir, who is both the film’s protagonist and narrator. His life is worthy of a novel and is also a tale of a larger gay movement and a compelling struggle for liberation in a conservative era. With fabulous scenes from the Parisian underground clubs of the 1960s and beautiful nature shots from today’s Pyrenees, Lifshitz continues his cinematic unwinding of the overlooked chapters of LGBTQ+ history, where both May ‘68 and the juicy ‘Cinéma X’ of the 1970s are revolutionary turning points. Beautiful and moving, and magnificently told.