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About MIX CPH

 

One of Denmark’s oldest film festivals, starting in 1986, MIX CPH is also the leading queer film festival in the Nordics with an international reputation in the LGBTQIA+ film world. We are a voluntary association run by passionate LGBTQIA+ film-lovers who spend our free time making MIX CPH a spectacular 10 day event every Autumn. We are made by and for the LGBTQIA+ community, but also for the whole of Copenhagen and we reach far beyond the city limits.

We explore and challenge mainstream portrayals of gender, sexuality and society. We want to see authentic storylines and real experiences that allow for honest and inclusive representation. This is the powerful vision MIX CPH strives to deliver in our programming. 

When you mention us:

  • MIX COPENHAGEN LGBTQIA+ Film Festival

  • MIX COPENHAGEN 

  • MIX CPH

Festival Dates:

10 days from 30.10 to 08.11.2026

Screening Locations:

Screenings at Cinemateket and Empire Bio. 

Audience:

10.000+ audience watching films.

16.000+ audience annually considering all screenings, events and initiatives.

Logo:

We have a year round design (download) and annual identity designs. Email communication@mixcopenhagen.dk for press stills.

2026 Theme:
Be Queer, Do Crime

 

As we celebrate our 41st year of showcasing queer cinema, we want to draw attention to the queer anarchist slogan, ‘Be gay, do crime’. You may have seen it on stickers, scrawled on bathroom walls or in memes, or perhaps even in its original form, spray-painted across the city.

While humorous, the slogan implies that crime and incivility may be necessary to earn equal rights, given the criminalisation of LGBTQIA+ rights around the world. Bearing this in mind, we want to adapt this well-known saying for this year’s festival theme and use it as a symbol of resistance: Be queer, do crime.

Cinema has always been an influential tool of both control and resistance; it has frequently been used to criminalise queerness and subvert the mainstream. Early depictions of queer stories in cinema denied us happy endings, and all too often, we saw queer people being hurt or targeted in crimes. For generations, queer people have seen themselves in the flamboyant antagonist or the gender-nonconforming villain, because those were the only roles permitted to us. This year, however, we are not the targets, but the ones with the plan. We steal, scheme, hunt, haunt and kill — and maybe even get away with it.

2026 Programs

 

We invite you into the dark to live vicariously through the stories of our 29 feature films and documentaries, highlighting special themes. The films in our theme Kill Your Darlings will keep you on the edge of your seat.At The Crossroads teaches us that regardless of our age or background, we each forge our own paths in our own time. In It Takes A Village, we explore what happens when building a family follows a queer trajectory, rather than a conventional script. Lastly,Blood, Sweat and Queers reminds us of the importance of our community and chosen family.

We also curated seven juicy and beautiful short film programmes for you.Starting with our new animation programme Not for Kids, where the genre is breaking out of kindergarten and into the adult world.WTTF: What The Trans Fuck invites you into the weird, the confusing and the amusing. In Standing Our Ground, our antagonists refuse to run away or back down but instead face their lives bravely. The programme, Trans People Belong in Sports, follows those who have chosen to create the spaces they were denied. Of course, our audience favourites Nordic Lights, This Is How We Do It, and Crip Your Heart Out are also returning to the screen.

As always, we aim to create spaces of discussion beyond the screen, which is why selected films will feature panel discussions after the screenings.After A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot we’ll explore the intersection of food, community, and migration. The Hidden Face of the Earth will be followed by a discussion on queerness, disability, and art. After the Trans People Belong in Sports programme, there will be a discussion on the issues and exclusions trans people face in sports.There will be a panel exploring how historical legacies continue to influence the lives of queer people after Out Laws. Lastly, taking inspiration from this year’s theme, ‘Be Queer, Do Crime’, our Lili Jury Panel will reflect on how LGBTQIA+ stories in film have changed, and explore how the fight to be legal in the real world and the act of committing crime on screen are intertwined.