British documentary maker Louis Theroux will make his first trip to the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, to screen his film The Settlers and participate in a Q&A following the screening at the 2026 edition of CPH:DOX.
“Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank,” a synopsis of the doc reads.
“Louis Theroux is a genre‑defining documentary filmmaker and presenter, best known for his deeply immersive and empathetic programs that explore the intricate and often contentious facets of human existence,” the Copenhagen fest highlighted. “These include his BAFTA‑winning series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends and When Louis Met…, alongside a string of acclaimed and award‑winning documentaries. Louis Theroux immerses himself in challenging environments, allowing his audience a glimpse into the often-unseen corners of our world.”
And they added: “His gentle and charming approach to interviewing and documentary filmmaking is uniquely his own, as is his ability to offer rounded portraits of his subjects while always resisting easy judgements.”
CPH:DOX 2026 will dedicate an evening to the documentarist on March 18, screening his latest film about Israeli settlers on the West Bank, followed by a conversation with Politiken journalist Lotte Folke Kaarsholm about the making of the film and his approach to documentary filmmaking.
The Copenhagen fest previously said it would pay tribute to Belgian cycling legend “The Cannibal” Eddy Merckx with the Danish premiere of Christophe Hermans and Boris Tilquin’s doc Merckx – Race of a Champion, as well as screen A World Gone Mad – The War Diaries of Astrid Lindgren.
CPH:DOX 2026 runs March 11-22. With DOX:DANMARK, CPH:DOX also offers mini-festivals in municipalities across Denmark, where the audience can enjoy “special events featuring new Danish and international documentary films,” organizers note. After the festival, audiences will be able to watch a curated selection of the 2026 lineup on CPH:DOX’s streaming platform PARA:DOX.
