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"Though only in its 14th year, Danish documentary festival CPH:DOX’s profile has continually grown, so much so that the festival now proudly calls itself “the third largest documentary film festival in the world”. Despite being a festival known for the idiosyncrasy of it’s selected material – documentaries that hybridise, challenge or disrupt expected forms – the festival has continued to increase its visitor figures, both on the industry (1,784 guests) and public (just under 100,000 admissions) sides. Taking a year’s hiatus and moving the festival dates from November to March for this new edition, the festival has distanced itself from competition with IDFA, one of those two “larger” doc-festivals and a competitor both in mission and proximity. With this, room for more world premieres, more attention spent on their seminars, labs and market initiatives, a new “propeller” lab for projects involving a tech-film crossover, and all manner of other metrics and innovations deemed merit-worthy within the cultural capital currency system of international film festivals."