About MIX CPH

Denmark’s oldest active film festival, 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 October. We are made by and for the LGBTQ+ 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 24.10 to 02.11.2025

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.

2025 Theme:
Ukrudt — or Bad Herbs.

Ukrudt are wild plants that grow through cracks in concrete — stubborn, unruly, and impossible to erase. Much like these, our community has always found ways to survive, resist, and bloom in harsh conditions. LGBTQIA+ rights are increasingly under threat all around the world, and the world feels heavier every day; yet we refuse to stop surviving and thriving. Our existence, our art, our gatherings, our joy remain both radical and necessary. Like weeds in the cracks of a broken system, we will continue to rise.

There can be no true liberation until there is freedom for all. And until we can arrive at such a place, we will be rising out of every crack like Ukrudt, thriving even when there are no conditions for our identities to exist. Here’s to 40 years of growing through the concrete — and to all the beauty, resistance, and possibilities still ahead.

2025 Programs

This year’s program includes 31 brilliant feature films and documentaries with some special themes. With the theme Birds of a Feather, we celebrate communal support — a pillar of queer existence. Under Our Roof explores the tensions and hopes in the relationships between children and their families. Knock, Knock, Who’s There? creates space for us to laugh together and seek joy in difficult times. And with Still We Rise, we bring light to global collective struggles for justice and liberation. 

Serving the community is at the heart of MIX CPH. This year, we celebrate five years of our community screenings for the Trans* & Non-binary and QTIBIPOC-focused short film programs. Sunrise, Sunset invites you to slow down and witness trans lives in their everyday fullness: soft, grounded, glowing. There Are No White People In Paradise takes you on a journey across parallel worlds that explore the absurdity of the reality we live in. Continuing to build more accessible spaces, Crip Your Heart Out brings you shorts that focus on the different aspects of longing to belong in the world as queer people with disabilities and neurodivergence. Of course, our audience favorites Nordic Lights and This Is How We Do It 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. ’Love Bound’ will be followed by a discussion about the challenges of displacement and the emotional and political weight of migration. ’Queens of Joy’ will feature a panel on how diverse forms of resistance are vital in the fight for freedom and LGBTQIA+ rights. ’Fatherhood’ will be followed by a panel discussion on trans rights within the healthcare system and on what it means to be a trans parent in today's society. Finally, ’Sebastian’ will showcase a panel on the evolving intersection of sex work, cinema, and societal change.