Four documentaries featuring Scottish filmmakers are the latest Scotland-based films selected for a prestigious international film festival. Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), which is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world, will run from 11-22 March 2026. Read on to find out more about the Screen Scotland-supported productions appearing at the festival.
Conscious
Directed by Suki Chan and produced by Aimara Reques of Glasgow-based production company Aconite Productions, Conscious will have its world premiere at CPH: Dox.
Conscious is a hopeful and cinematic experience, taking us closer to understanding the strength and frailty of the human mind. Through the lens of dementia, the film explores what it means to be conscious. What can a neuroscientist and three people living with dementia tell us about consciousness in a technological age.
Conscious will screen as part of the Science strand: Conscious - CPH:DOX
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
Director Jeanie Finlay’s latest film All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea is co-produced by Edinburgh-based producer Nadja Lepcevic.
The times are not what they used to be. Fisherman Stan Rennie and his family have been fishing in the waters northeast of England for centuries. But now a wave of biblical plagues has hit the small communities on the east coast far from London, where people for generations were either fishermen or factory workers.
Pollution has made the crabs poisonous, and it is virtually impossible to make a living from fishing. Brexit has not exactly made things better, and while the fishermen are sounding the alarm and throwing themselves into defending the sea, enterprising local politicians are nurturing visionary plans for a new industrial golden age.
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea will screen in competition as part of the F:ACT AWARD: All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea - CPH:DOX
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Straight from opening Glasgow Film Festival, Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Everybody to Kenmure Street was produced by Ciara Barry of Glasgow-based production company barry crerar.
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
Everybody To Kenmure Street will screen in the Urgent Matters strand: Everybody to Kenmure Street - CPH:DOX
Molly Vs the Machines
Molly Vs the Machines is the personal story of Ian Russell and his unrelenting battle for safer online environments and accountability from the tech giants that dominate – and too often endanger – our daily lives.
Ian lost his 14-year-old daughter Molly Russell after she was exposed to extensive self-harm content on social media, something the Coroner found had contributed to her death, having been drawn into a world of dangerous online content.
From a teenager’s suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, Molly Vs the Machines is the story of a heartbroken father’s quest to uncover the truth behind his daughter's death and his fightback against how the most powerful corporations of the modern age operate.
Molly vs the Machines was co-produced by Glasgow-based Natalie Humphreys and will screen in the Urgent Matters strand: Molly Vs the Machines - CPH:DOX
CPH:FORUM
barry crerar’s feature documentary Matrescence has been selected in the prestigious CPH:FORUM, which takes place during the Industry Week at CPH:DOX. Matrescence is an adaptation of the bestselling non-fiction book by award-winning science journalist and author Lucy Jones.
Matrescence, currently in development, will be a co-production led by barry crerar’s Rosie Crerar (Girl, Irene’s Ghost) and Tara Films’ Eleanor Emptage (Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story) and directed by Tara Films co-founder and Emmy-nominated director, Kathryn Ferguson, best known for her award-winning documentary, Nothing Compares, about Irish musician Sineád O’Connor.
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Image credits
Conscious still courtesy of Aconite Productions
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea still credit Andy Martin
Everybody to Kenmure Street still courtesy of barry crerar and Scottish Documentary Institute
Molly Vs the Machines still courtesy of Storyboard Studios