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 25.10 to 03.11.2024

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.

2024 Theme:
RAGE

Our theme — Rage — captures a powerful and deeply felt collective emotion echoing through our times. Rage is an emotion most queer people recognize, whether it’s already part of our experience or lies ahead. The rage that rises when we confront a world where, systematically, our rights are revoked, our voices ignored and our very existence put in question. This year, we dedicate our theme to that burning desire to dismantle the structures that confine us, to turn the world upside down, and to reclaim the space that has been denied to so many.

But Rage is more than just an outcry—it’s a shared experience that can connect us. Alone, rage can be consuming and destructive, but together, we can transform it into a force for change, resilience, and hope. This year’s theme therefore also honors the need for community, for a sense of belonging as we confront the injustices that fuel our anger. In a time where our unity is more important than ever, we hope that this year’s festival will once again bring us together, filled with love and rage.

2024 Programs

The program Echoes in Time invites you to dive into a rich tapestry of queer history with films illuminating the lives of queer individuals across time while Voices of Resistance explores the intersectionality of being a queer Arab, and is followed by a panel discussion where we will talk about why the Palestinian liberation is a queer issue.

Some of our 2024 themes encourage you to rethink straight-normative ideas of relationship and family, make sure to check out Mamma Mia, let me go, with films addressing the complex relationships between queer kids and their parents, How Much Love Can a Heart Hold with films about poly and alternative relationships, and The Ties We Choose, our program about chosen families and the resilience queer people find in their community.

We are happy to continue with some of our favorite: Nordic Lights showcases the best and freshest of Nordic queer shorts; Trans-formania delves into the transtastical, sci-fi, and camp, where we are free to imagine and reimagine our trans* existence as we wish; and What happens to a dream deferred? explores the different forms of love, chosen families, and community that support us in becoming who we are and stand with us in resisting the norms.For the fourth year, we are also proud to bring back the special screenings for the trans* and non-binary community and the QTIBIPOC community, creating a space where cinema-goers can see themselves represented on screen and in the audience.

This year, we are also introducing Crip Your Heart Out, showcasing seven tales of requited queer love where disability is present not as a tragedy, but as a fact of life comparable to being LGBTQIA+. For this program, we are also adding an online and physical screening dedicated to the community within the neurodivergence spectrum and/or with any kind of visible or invisible disabilities.

In an effort to bring the discussions out of the screen, some of our favorite documentaries will feature a panel discussion after specific screenings. ‘If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy’ will be followed by a panel about sex, activism and community for/as an aging queer person; ‘Superhero Intersex’ features a panel with Istanbul-based intersex activist and writer Belgin Günay; and ‘Your Fat Friend’will include a panel diving into the intersections between fatness and queerness and what it means to be both in today’s society.

2024 also marks a special milestone: the 10th anniversary of our spiciest program, ‘This Is How We Do It’. This retrospective highlights the crème-de-la-crème of past years, showcasing the best of the queer porn of the past decade.