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03 The Legacy
04 Government aka Borgen
05 Happy Life
06 The Man with The Golden Ears 06 Lulu - The Bankrobber’s Wife 06 The Summers 06 Better Times 06 Nikolaj & Julie
07 Unit One 07 Album 07 Monopoly 07 The Spider
08 Taxi 08 The Killing I, II & III 08 The Protectors 08 The Eagle 08 The Kingdom
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the legacy
09 Christmas Stars 09 Faith - Hope - Afghanistan
in production
19 The Secret Flight 19 Warriors from the North
20 Embracing the Dead 20 Slow Motion Revolution 20 Cooper’s Challenge
21 Democrats 21 Taming the Quantum World 21 The Long Walk - a film about Ai Weiwei
did you see
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Putin’s Kiss 22 My Love 22 I am Breathing 22 Free the Mind 22 The Cod Game
The Ship that Changed the World 23 We are here for our Future 23 Pirate Hunt 23 When the Boys Return 23 Dance of Outlaws
India: Art Now 24 India on the Catwalk 24 Amazing Azerbaijan! 24 Iceland: Year Zero 24 Conversations with my Aunt
Salt & Pepper 25 What Brits Love 25 A Normal Life 25 Solace 25 Talibe - The Least Favored Children of Senegal
why poverty
26 Education, Education 26 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream 26 Give Us the Money 26 Welcome to the World
27 Solar Mamas 27 Stealing Africa 27 Land Rush 27 Poor Us
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Cover photo The Legacy
Photo: martin lehmann, a.o.
10 The Dark Side of a Pill
11 The Face of Happiness 11 The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die
12 Mercy Mercy 12 My Afghanistan
13 The War Campaign
14 The Weather War 14 Outstanding Houses of the North
15 Back to Freedom 15 Wolfman
16 Cyberwar - Behind the Firewall 16 Under the Hood
17North of the Sun 17 The Shady Chocolate Business 17 The Mystery of Tycho Brahe’s Death
18 The Rat Race 18 We Love Weapons
Director Pernilla August
Producer Christian Rank
Author Maya Ilsøe
Produced by DR
Duration 10 x 58 min.
Year of Production 2014
Original Title Arvingerne
DR is to follow up on the international success of The Killing and
Government aka Borgen with a new
ten-part family drama. Swedish
star actress, Pernille August, has
been appointed principal director.
Trine Dyrholm, Jesper Christensen,
Kirsten Olesen and Mikkel Boe
Følsgaard are among the awardwinning cast who will play the key
characters in this family saga
The Legacy is set in and around the
countryside mansion house, which has
been the setting for the life and work
of the internationally-renowned
artist Veronika Grønnegaard.
The series traces the story of
Veronika’s four adult children, whose
distinctive upbringing has affected
their lives in very different ways.
They live scattered until Veronika
dies, when they come together again
to take stock of her legacy. Shortly
before her death, Veronika bequeaths
the house to her daughter Signe,
whom she gave up for adoption.
Signe lives with her boyfriend in
a quiet residential district in the
local town, and has never learned
the truth about her origins. This is
to have fatal consequences.
What for the four siblings should
have been a quick and painless
division of Veronika’s estate marks
the beginning of a journey into
secrets and lies which turns their
lives upside down and forces them
to look at both themselves and each
other with new eyes.
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Berlin Film Festival
2011 Shooting Star
Pilou Asbæk
BAFTA 2012
Best International
Drama Series
Monte Carlo TV Festival 2011
Outstanding Actress
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Best
dramaseries
Prix Italia 2010
Best series
FIPA D’OR
Grand Prize
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danish drama
Best original
soundtrack FIPA
D’OR Grand Prize
Never before has Danish drama travelled so much. We are
delighted to present some of our award-winning series
featuring the best directors and casts in Scandinavia.
The series are among the best ever produced for
television. They have been shown on five continents,
attracting millions of viewers around the world.
Directors
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,
Rumle Hammerich,
Annette K. Olsen
& Mikkel Nørgaard
Producer
Camilla Hammerich
Authors Adam Price,
Tobias Lindholm
& Jeppe Gjervig Gram
Produced by DR
Duration 30 x 58 min.
Year of Production
2010-2013
Original Title Borgen
Government is a drama series about
the fight for political power – and
about the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved
on and behind the political stage
The central figure is the 40-year old
political leader Birgitte Nyborg, who
through her idealism and huge effort
secures her party a landslide victory
and thus faces the biggest challenge
of her life: how most effectively to
use the newly won seats, and how far
she is willing to go in order to gain as
The New York Times
“A bleaker, Nordic version of ‘The West
Wing,’ ‘Borgen’ finds a remarkable
amount of drama and suspense”
much influence as possible. Privately,
Birgitte leads a happy family life with
her husband and two children. She is
a woman with a burning commitment,
a big heart and little time. Will she be
able to be a successful and professional top politician and stay true to
herself at the same time?
Among the many important people
in Birgitte Nyborg’s professional life
is her media adviser, Kasper Juul,
who is one of the most talented in
the business. However, he is also a
cynic with no illusions, who needs
to start believing in the messages
which is his job to impart.
Another significant character is
Katrine Fønsmark: a political journalist
working for a large public service
television station. Her screen charm
and her ability to bring the debate
to the viewers’ eye level have quickly
earned her popularity and clout, but her
personal life is rootless and confused.
Government has a large gallery
of characters and deals with many
different aspects in the political, the
journalistic, and the private spheres.
The Financial Times
“It’s intriguing from the start, deftly
paced and, despite veering into
melodrama midway through the 10
episodes, retain interest throughout”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“Rarely has politics been depicted in such
a fascinating and well-paced manner...
phenomenally well-made European television”
Directors Kasper
Gaardsøe &
Jesper W. Nielsen
Producers
Katrine Vogelsang
& Christian Rank
Produced by DR
Created by Stig
Thorsboe &
Hanna Lundblad
Duration 18 x 58 min.
Year of Production
2011 - 2012
Original Title Lykke
Happy Life is a multi-plot dramedy
about ambitions and suppressed
emotions, about the misty border
between dreams and reality, about
the dream of happiness and the
organized life, where you can plan
for everything, except chance
The series evolves around the two
25 year-old twins, Lykke and Thomas
Leth. They share a tragic past, having
lost their parents at an early age,
under circumstances they prefer not
to talk about.
The twins have reacted to their loss
in very different ways. While Thomas
has been undergoing therapy for
depression for several years, Lykke
has gained a degree at Copenhagen
Business School with top marks and
immediately afterwards found a job
with the pharmaceutical giant SanaFortis. Here she is looking forward to
a meteoric career.
SanaFortis specializes in the production of psychopharmacological
drugs. The antidepressant medication
Forticil, has ensured blockbuster
sales but the patent is on the point of
expiring and a replacement is urgently
needed. This is on its way under hectic
circumstances in the form of the
anti-stress pill, Fortisol. But the allimportant factor is still not in place:
official approval of the drug.
SanaFortis struggles with an annoying opponent in this connection,
the psychiatrist Anders Assing, who
airs his anti-pharmaceutical views at
every opportunity. Lykke soon finds
further reason to detest Assing as he
photo: Franne Voigt
Photo: Mike Kollöffel, DR
happy life
becomes her brother’s new therapist
and immediately discontinues Thomas’
anti-depressant medication. But she
hates the provocative psychiatrist
most of all because he appears more
and more frequently in her uncontrollably erotic dreams.
Lykke’s struggle for her career
and her battle with Assing provide
the main story in the series. This is
supplemented by Thomas’ efforts to
free himself from his role as a loser
and SanaFortis’ fight for survival.
Over and above this we meet a wide
range of characters that each undergo
surprising changes when their view of
happiness is challenged by chance. In
each of these characters stories an
animal appears in a peculiar manner.
These animals also give title to each
episode of the series: The fish, the
dog, the mouse, the monkey, the fly,
the goat, the spider, the fox, the cat
and the horse – to name the first ten.
Happy Life is a multiplot dramedy about
the pursuit of happiness. The series that
consists of 18 one-hour episodes is created
by Emmy nominees Stig Thorsboe and
Hanna Lundblad, whose previous credits
include the hit series Better Times and
TAXI. The series stars an impressive cast
of some of the biggest names in Danish
film and television.
Directors & Script Simon
Bonde & Mike Spooner
Producers Tomas Radoor
& René Ezra
Produced by Nordisk Film
Production A/S
Duration 8 x 27 min.
Year of Production 2009
A fast paced, upbeat dramedy about
fortunes and misfortunes in the music
industry which seems so polished to
the spectator. At a closer look it is filled
with ragged edges, lies and absurdities.
It is a world in which people will go to
extremes to get their fifteen minutes
of fame, often putting themselves in
situations, which are completely and
utterly hilarious.
Directors Niels
Arden Oplev, a.o.
Producer Sven Clausen
Author Peter Thorsboe
Duration 30 x 60 min. & 2 x 90 min.
Year of Production 2000
the summers
better times
Director Charlotte
Sieling
Producer Sven Clausen
Author Stig Thorsboe
Duration 24 x 1 hour
Year of Production
2004 - 2007
The story of four young people determined to conquer the world when
events take off in 1949. Their love stories,
dreams, hopes, disappointments
and victories are the focus of the
series. It is also the story of the
advent of television from those
pioneering visions of culture and
public information to the unruly
child it became as society changed.
A romantic drama series about
relationships, about being single and
friendship, about the long, winding
road of love, about hopes and dreams
− shattered as well as new ones – and
about that one great love and those
A series of snapshots from the
histories of three families. It is like
leafing through a photo album and
seeing the pictures we would like
to see, but also those we would
prefer to forget about because
they contain too much sorrow and
pain. The three families do not really
know each other. Nevertheless they
impacted on each other’s lives over
three decades from 1970 to 2000.
Director & Producer
Erik Balling
Authors Lise Nørgaard
& Erik Balling
Duration 32 x 50 min.
Year of Production
1978-81
Mads Skjern arrives in the small
provincial town of Korsbæk where
he decides to settle. He starts up
a draper’s. His business grows in size
and popularity and the hostility towards
him increases among the towns
leading families. They try hard to break
him but he gradually climbs the social
ladder and eventually succeeds in
turning the conservative town around.
the spider
Emmy winner
cherished relations. The series gets
up close to six friends and the life
that surrounds them – when life is
hilarious and when life is hopeless.
Director Hella Joof
Producer Thomas
Gammeltoft
Authors Hella Joof
& Bo Hr. hansen
Duration 5 x 58 min.
Year of Production 2008
Winner of Reflet d’Or
Cinéma Tous Ecrans
monopoly
Emmy nominated
nikolaj & julie
Directors Charlotte
Sachs Bostrup,
Birger Larsen,
Kristoffer Nyholm, a.o.
Producer Piv Bernth
Authors Søren
Sveistrup a.o
Duration 24 x 45 min.
Year of Production 2003
A thriller series that tells the story
of a group of doughty crime experts
from the flying squad. We follow their
fascinating yet frightening work in the
underworld and are thrilled by their
commitment and affectionate solidarity
and are equally puzzled by the often
horrifying, yet true examples of human
nature they face in their work. Unit
One is based on true criminal cases
through the last 10 years.
photo: Miklos Szabo
and division within and across generations. It is about finding one’s ideals
and thereby finding the ‘big picture’
in the ‘smaller picture’ in everyday life.
photo: DR design
A drama series about a family and its
generations – a series that focuses
on what happens when the previous
balance of power in the family suddenly
shifts. It is a story of parents and
children, joy and happiness and unity
Emmy winner
2002
album
Monte Carlo
TV-Festival
photo: Mike kollöffel
Directors C. Myllerup,
Kasper Gaardsøe, a.o.
Producers Katrine
Vogelsang & Camilla
Hammerich
Duration 20 x 1 hour
Year of Production
2007 - 2008
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criminal network. She comes face
to face with a male dominated underworld and the charming but corrupt
criminal detective Patrick Smith,
whom Lulu soon develops feelings for.
photo: ulla voigt
Lulu is a charming and independent
mother of two. She lives with Leon,
the charismatic father and habitual
criminal, who she has been seeing for
10 years. When Leon is thrown in jail
Lulu is forced to interact with Leon’s
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Mediawatch
lulu − the bankrobber’s wife
Directors Jannik
Johansen, a.o.
Producer Janni
Helleskov
Authors Jens Dahl
& Lolita Belstar
Duration 12 x 43 min.
Year of Production 2009
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Best New
Danish Fiction Series
2009, TVtid.dk
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Director Ole
Christian Madsen
Producer Christel
Jakobsen
Author Ole
Christian Madsen
Duration 6 x 60 min.
Year of Production 2000
The Spider takes viewers back to the time
just after the occupation—1949 more
precisely—and post-war Copenhagen.
Denmark was still suffering from
shortages and the more or less
shady commercial transactions of the
occupation, but the country was also
preparing to enter the more orderly
1950s. It was an age full of trickery
and fraud, lawlessness and corruption.
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christmas stars
taxi
Multi-award winning and internationally
acclaimed crime series introducing
Chief Inspector Sarah Lund. In the
first season, the murder of a young
girl prompts a police investigation
with personal and political conse-
the protectors
Directors Mikkel
Serup, a.o.
Producer Sven Clausen
Authors Mai Brostrøm
& Peter Thorsboe
Duration 20 x 58 min.
Year of Production 2008
In today’s violent world, the lives
of many politicians, heads of state
and other VIPs are endangered.
They can all rely on loyal bodyguards.
In Copenhagen, Rasmus, Jonas and
Jasmina form a dedicated group
the eagle
Directors Niels
Arden Oplev, Søren
Kragh-Jacobsen, a.o
Producers M. B.
Frandsen & S. Clausen
Author Mai Brostrøm
& Peter Thorsboe
Duration 24 x 58 min.
Year of Production 2004
the kingdom
Directors Lars Von Trier
& Morten Arnfred
Producers Ole Reim
& Bo Lindquist
Authors Lars von Trier,
a.o.
Duration 8 x 1 hour
Year of Production
1994 & 1997
photo: ulla voigt
Emmy winner
2009
Multi-award
winning series
Emmy winner
2005
special unit is set up to fight crossborder crime across Scandinavia
and to establish operational links
with similar teams around the world.
scandinavian rights only
The series by Lars Von Trier is set in the
neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen’s
Rigshospitalet, the country’s main
hospital, nicknamed Riget – where
bizarre phenomena occurs, human
as supernatural. It is notable for its
Multi-award
winning series
called The Protectors. This crime
series focuses on the lives and
missions of the specialists and their
superiors, while also portraying the
people they protect and those they
protect them from.
scandinavian rights only
As international terrorism and organized crime become more and more
intertwined, Western nations find
themselves increasingly threatened
by violence and lawlessness on an
unimaginable scale. In Denmark, a
BAFTA winner
quences. The second series saw Lund
caught up in a web of top-level coverups, betrayals and lies set in a time of
fear – that of Islamic terrorism. Now
Sara Lund is about to embark on her
third investigation…
scandinavian rights only
wry humor, its muted sepia colour
scheme and the appearance of a
chorus of dishwashers with Downs
Syndrome who discuss in intimate
detail the strange occurrences in
the hospital.
Directors Michael Wikke
& Steen Rasmussen
Producer Sven Clausen
Produced by
DR in ass. with
SVT & NRK
Duration 25 x 25 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title Julestjerner
photo: Tine Harden
Directors Kristoffer
Nyholm, a. o.
Producer Piv Bernth
Authors Søren Sveistrup,
Michael W. Horsten &
Torleif Hoppe
Duration 40 x 58 min.
Year of Production
2007 - 2012
scandinavian rights only
Multi-award
winning series
photo: Mike Kollöffel
the killing i, ii & iii
of Taxi includes development of the
recurring characters’ stories as well
as the separate one-off customer
tales. Taxi is a family viewing – though
not for the very young.
photo: Mike Kollöffel
The fixed anchorpoint for the Taxi
series is the dispatcher’s room where
the switchboard operators try to
maintain an overview of regular runs,
difficult customers and the network of
taxis around the clock. Each episode
Multi-award
winning series
photo: Henrik Dithmer
Directors Anders
Refn, a.o.
Producer Sven Clausen
Author Stig Thorsboe
Duration 56 x 40 min.
Year of Production 1997
A Christmas Calendar for the
whole family
The leading characters of Christmas
Stars are three children, Sus, Bob
and Tom, who is a bit younger than
the others. The action starts when
Sus reluctantly ends up in Brorfelde,
a village deep in the country, because
her mum and dad have inherited a
poinsettia nursery. Sus soon finds a
friend in star-crazy Bob, a boy of her
own age whose mother disappeared
without trace seven years ago while
she was out star-gazing. Bob spends
all his time sneaking into the Brorfelde
observatory to study stars. The trio is
completed by Tom, a rascal who is convinced that pixies are vampires. One
day Bob discovers a new star in the sky
and when three mysterious astronomers with an overweening interest
in the new star suddenly put in an appearance, the plot really takes off.
In Christmas Stars we meet a gallery of colourful personalities in addition to the three leads, including Bob’s
former rock star dad, Big J, who is
struggling to pay the bills at the rarely
hired village hall while he tries to put
on a Christmas musical.
Let the Christmas fun begin!
new
faith - hope - afghanistan
Directors Jens Pedersen
& Tai M. Bakhtari
Producer
Jakob Gottschau
Produced by
Pedersen & Co.
Duration 5 x 15 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title
Faith - Hope - Afghanistan
Tough times : tough kids
Five stories of real life drama with
unique access to children in conflict
ridden Afghanistan − told from their
point of view:
01 Orphaned Asadagha is thrown
out of his uncle’s house and journeys
into the unknown with his two sisters.
A friendly man takes them in, but
Asadagha battles the memories from
the night his family fell apart.
02 At 11 Faridullah is an expert brick
maker. After five years it is about time
his father fulfilled his promise of letting him go to school. But his father
made a contract with the brick boss
that Faridullah will work there until a
debt is cleared.
03 Layla was put into an orphanage
when the Taliban killed her father.
She has not seen her mother for
five years. Now Layla’s mother is
coming to visit! But Layla is 11,
the usual age for girls to marry in
her village. Is that what brings her
mother to Kabul?
04 While Basira is a successful chewing gum vendor, Wali is a disaster as a
street worker. Wali has to provide for
his mother, but hardly makes a penny.
Luckily they live rent free but one day
eviction threatens.
05 Machgan works to raise money for
her father, who became a drug addict
as a soldier. Her brother is bullied
because his father is a dope head. One
day Machgan and her mother threaten
to throw father out unless he quits.
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the dark side of a pill
the face of happiness
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Ida Kleppe
Producers Magne Sleire
& Morten Offerdal
Produced by Corax Film
& Pandora Film
Duration 42 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
Lykkens Ansikt
Director
Poul-Erik Heilbuth
Producer Ole Hjortdal
Produced by
DR in co-production with
NDR and in ass. with YLE,
UR, ERT, Yes/DBS & HRT
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title The Dark
Side of a Pill
A journey into the dark side of a pill
that conquered the world: the antidepressant
The Dark Side of a Pill is an exclusive,
case driven investigation into the one
of the medical success stories of
our time. Every 10th grown up in the
Western world is on antidepressants.
With global sales of app. 20 billion $,
the prescription drug is one of the
most lucrative products of the medical
industry. But the wonder drug has
a dark side.
In the US, David had never had a
record of violence nor problems with
the police, until suddenly he committed
a terrible crime just days after taking
antidepressants: he stabbed and killed
his twin daughters. In Canada, a grieving
mother is distraught that her son’s
killer was released from prison after
a short 14-month sentence. The judge
ruled that Prozac was to blame for
her son’s death. In Germany a wife
and loving mother committed suicide,
just weeks after taking Prozac. Her
husband is convinced that there a link
between suicide and antidepressants.
Is he right?
Antidepressants are sold as a
strong tool to create peace and tranquility in the mind of a troubled brain.
But is it possible that the same pill
can send someone to the darkest
regions of the soul?
In Holland an extraordinary court
case could change the way that Europe
sees antidepressants. The trial is
considering the possibility that a murderer be acquitted for his crime because he was involuntary intoxicated by
antidepressants. Could there actually
be a connection between antidepressants and violence? Is it possible that
this connection has long been known
− even before the pills were approved?
This is not at film that is for oragainst antidepressants. It is about
informed consent – about openly
acknowledging the real problems with
medicating 10 – 15% of the population
with a drug that changes the chemistry
of the brain with an effect that at times
can be extremely powerful.
His face was brutally mutilated in a
car crash - now Hallgeir is grateful
for the accident
In 2003, Hallgeir was nearly killed in
a traffic accident. After weeks in a
coma, and a large number of operations Hallgeir slowly returned to life.
But what kind of life? Gone are the
possibilities for long and complex
studies, gone are the trouble-free
days of an eighteen-year-old boy with
his life ahead of him. The price he paid
for survival was his face. Hallgeir was
grateful for his survival but struggled with the grief of losing a normal
life and almost all his memories of life
before the accident. The reactions he
encountered made him uncomfortable: the glances and cruel remarks.
Hallgeir wanted to get away. He went
to Mexico and found a community that
was not concerned with his wreck of a
face. In Mexico, Hallgeir turned things
around: His devastating accident
became a golden opportunity that
brought new insight to life.
Back in Norway, Hallgeir is going
through more surgery at hospital.
He is having his nose rebuilt and
one of his eyes is being adjusted.
Surgeons have tried to do this before,
but without success. Will the operations be successful this time?
And at this point, is it at all of importance to Hallgeir to look normal?
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the girl who wouldn’t die
MIPDOC Video Library
Director
Jacob Kragelund
Producer Steen Jensen
Produced by DR
Duration 84 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
Pigen der ikke ville dø
A nineteen year old girl crashes in
her parent’s car and miraculously
wakes up in hospital only to learn
how close the doctors came to
donating her organs
Carina Melchior is a young girl not
unlike others of her age. She still lives
at home. One day she borrows her
parents car but she never makes it to
her destination. The family learns that
Carina has crashed the car into a field
and has been severely injured. Her
injuries include brain haemorrhages
that lead doctors to conclude that
she will soon be brain-dead. The family
is devastated by the grim prospect
and while they try to cope with the
news, the doctors face the tough
task of asking Carina’s parents to
give their consent to her becoming an
organ donor. They agree to this, and
now all they can do is wait for Carina’s
brain to give up. But despite all odds,
Carina slowly comes back to life.
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mercy mercy
Official Selection
Göteborg International
Film Festival GIFF 2012
IDFA Competition
for first
Apperance 2012
the war campaign
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Katrine W. Kjær
Producers Miriam
Nørgaard, Sara Stockmann & Vibeke Windeløv
Produced by
Fridthjof Film in ass.
with TV2, VPRO, RTS,
UR, YLE, Yes/DBS & HRT
Duration 52 & 90 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
Mercy Mercy
Forced by poverty, an Ethiopian
family chooses to give up their
children for international adoption
International adoption seems like the
perfect solution to a heart-breaking
imbalance: Poor countries have babies
in need of homes, and rich countries
have homes in need of babies. Unfortunately, a lot of the adopted orphans are
not orphans at all.
Forced by poverty, an Ethiopian family
chooses to give up their children for
international adoption. We follow the
adoption process on both sides of the
globe, from the biological parents’ last
days with their children, through the
adoption procedure and the first three
years of the adoptive parents’ new life
with the children in the West. As the
Ethiopian parents gradually get their
life back on track, they start to realize
that the expectations they had for an
extended family in the West were false.
Meanwhile, the family in the West begin
to understand that they have become
parents to children suffering from
enormous losses, resulting in terrible
consequences for one of the children –
my afghanistan
and soon their dream of a happy family
is merely a faded memory.
Mercy Mercy is a character-driven
global tale about the catastrophic
consequences of a choice made with
the best intention and out of love for
two children.
Official Selection
Dubai International Film
Festival/DIFF
IDFA Competition
for Feature-Length
Documentary 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Nagieb Khaja
Producers Lise LenseMøller & Henrik Grunnet
Produced by Magic Hour
Films & Grunnet Film
in ass. with Piraya Film,
NRK, SVT, YLE, ERT & HRT
Duration 58 & 88 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
My Afghanistan
Life in the forbidden zone
Shukrullah, 19, is caught in the line of
fire as he tries to get to the storage,
where his beloved younger siblings are
hiding, while Taliban and the ISAFforces fight in the backyard. Abdul
Mohammad, a widower with four children, finds his peace in the lush green
fields behind his home, and Fereshta,
16, in the hope of becoming a journalist practises her interviewing skills on
an 8 year-old girl herding sheep.
Over a period of three years, Afghan
civilians have filmed their lives behind
the frontier in the war torn Afghan
province of Helmand. They invite us
into their homes, their hopes, and
their heartbreaks and their stories
form a rich tapestry of an Afghanistan that never makes it to the news.
Danish/Afghan director Nagieb Khaja
has provided them with cameras, as
international media seldom leaves the
relative security of the cities.
Shukrullah, Abdul and Fereshta regularly embark on the unsafe journey
from their village homes in Helmand.
At the checkpoint they turn over their
recordings to Nagieb, so the world
may see them. They share this goal
with Nagieb, but while he returns to
the media centre inside the city, they
have no choice but to go back and try
to survive, living their lives and building
their futures.
Director
Boris B. Bertram
Producer
Lise Lense-Møller
Produced by
Magic Hour Films with
the support of The
Danish Film Institute,
Nordic Film and TV-Fund
& the European Union’s
Media Programme in
ass. with DR, UR, ERR,
RTV Slovenija, RUV, NRK,
VPRO & CT
Duration
58 and 75 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title
The War Campaign
An in-depth account of how the
Iraq war campaign was organized,
and a case study of ‘how to sell a war
of choice’ to the public
The War Campaign is a genuine political
thriller that investigates the campaign
carried out by USA, UK, and Denmark
in order to sell the war on Iraq to the
international community.
When George W. Bush took office
in January 2001, regime change in
Baghdad was already a top priority,
and the sentiment following the 9/11
attacks provided an opportunity to
gain support for a pre-emptive war
on Iraq, despite the fact that Saddam
Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11.
2013 marks the 10th anniversary
of the invasion of Iraq by a coalition
of willing nations. The concept of a
pre-emptive war was itself new, and
the lead-up to the decision constituted a shift in democratic decision
processes. It is time to examine the
anatomy of the decision-making process itself in order to understand the
art of campaigning for parliamentary
and public acceptance of a decision
already made.
The War Campaign features the
individuals, who were given the complicated task of accruing political
support for the invasion from the
international community. Centrallyplaced witnesses, policy-makers, their
close advisors and speech-writers,
take us into the very offices where
plans were drawn up and followed
through, intelligence gathered and
tailored, ‘white papers’ or speeches
written and revised. Some of these
individuals at some point felt that the
governments they worked for, crossed
a questionable line, and they decided
to inform the public of the process.
It is their detailed accounts of what
exactly took place that now allows us
to understand.
By piecing together each step of
the war campaign we gain insight into
the mechanisms behind international
coalitions and the semantics of selling
policies. We question whether the
‘selling of’ policies carries the risk
of undermining normal democratic
processes, especially if policies are
not based on the information at hand,
but the information is tailored to fit
political goals instead.
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the weather war
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new
Official Selection
CPH:DOX
Official Selection
Göteborg International
Film Festival GIFF
back to freedom
MIPDOC Video Library
Directors Mats Bigert
& Lars Bergström
Producer Antonio Russo
Merenda
Produced by
Ginestra Film in ass.
with SVT, DR & YLE
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
The Weather War
A call to arms and prelude to imminent visionary geo-engineering
performances, the film tracks the
history and contemporary struggle,
between man and man-made climate
The Weather War is a documentary
about man’s attempts to control the
weather and harness it for his own
purposes. In a blend of land art performance and road movie, artist duo
Bigert & Bergström travel to the US
tornado belt with the Tornado Diverter,
their special machine sculpture.
Their goal: to stop a tornado! Along
the way, we see historical examples
of how the science of meteorology
developed in symbiosis with military
goals and how these visions evolved
into modern ideas of geo-engineering:
controversial ideas with socio-political
consequences, spotlighting the big
Director
Anna Katrin Nørgaard
Producer
Bjarke Ahlstrand
Produced by DR
Duration 58 min.
Year of production 2013
Original Title
Kvinden og aberne 2
question of who is really entitled to
modified weather.
In a larger perspective, we see
the problems faced worldwide due
to global climate change. How do we
behave to meet those challenges?
Do we adapt? Or do we wage war on
increasingly aggressive weather that
threatens to destroy us? Bangladesh
is building protective walls against
coming floods. China shoots rockets
into threatening clouds. And in Italy,
anti-hail cannons are fired to protect
the year’s wine harvest.
My life with orangutans
Fighting for the survival of the
orangutans for the past 18 years at
the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation and
rescue center, Lone Dröscher Nielsen
is the “mother” and caretaker of more
than 600 orangutan orphans on the
island of Borneo in Indonesia.
Lone is about to release her oldest
and most skilled rehabilitated “kids”
for the first time. They will be released
in a piece of primordial rain forest
hundreds of miles away from the
secure islands where they have spent
the last 10 years. Lone is worried. Has
she taught the orangutans the skills
they need well enough for them to
survive, or will they struggle and perhaps die of starvation? It is time for
Lone’s hard work to be put to the test.
After falling ill in 2010, Lone returned
to civilization after many years in the
rainforest. Now, while back in Borneo
for a short visit to release the orangutans Lone is struggling to come
to terms with her new life in Wales
and finding her place in the project,
since she is no longer Chief of the
center in Borneo. Now she must learn
to live among human beings and be as
comfortable with people as she is with
animals. She is trying to adjust to a
normal European lifestyle, but it is not
easy: She misses her life in the rain
forest and the orangutans.
new
outstanding houses
of the north
new
wolfman Official selection
Visions du Réel 2013
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Jan Haugaard
Producer
Lars Rønnow Torp
Produced by DR
Duration 6 x 28 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title Nordens
Enestående Huse
Experience the splendour of Nordic
architecture
Outstanding Houses of the North
takes a look at some of the most
remarkable single-family houses build
in the Nordic countries from 1930
to 1960. They all have a beauty able
to resist the passage of time. This
golden age of produced a number
of houses unrivalled to the rest of
the world. During this period Nordic
architects developed a special vision
of modern living that remains a profound source of inspiration for today.
The six single-family houses in this
series are the most intimate and
personal examples of this architecture
for people. At one and the same time
cosy and open, traditional and futuristic,
these houses continue to show us new
ways of sustainable living, five and six
decades after their completion.
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Juha Suonpää
Producers Timo Vierimaa
& Joonas Berghäll
Produced by
Oktober Oy in ass. with
YLE & in co-production
with ARTE G.E.I.E. , with
support from Finnish
Film Foundation & AVEK
Duration 52 & 75 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title Hukkamies
The six episodes provide a condensed
overview of modern Nordic architecture. The first examines the summerhouse of Gunnar Asplund, the Swedish
architect, who made functionalism
mainstream in the North. Build in 1937
south of Stockholm, it is one of the
most important houses of the 20th
century. And the following episodes
take us further on to unique singlefamily houses of architects like Eva
and Nils Koppel, Ralph Erskine, Bruno
Mathsson, Halldor Gunnløgsson and
Inger and Johannes Exner.
The story of a man who has taught
himself the language and ways of
wolves, faced them in the wilderness
and witnessed their fates
Seppo Ronkainen monitors wildlife
for a living and has dedicated his life
to the study of wolves in the wild.
Wolfman is based on Ronkainen’s video
diaries, collected over the course of
13 years. This unique material tells the
intertwining stories of man, wolves
and dogs. The film follows Ronkainen
on his journey as he attempts to
understand the life of a predator.
Man versus nature is a juxtaposition
that greatly challenges the way of the
wolves. As the territories of humans
grow larger, predators are forced to
move theirs and to change their natural
habits, resulting in packs of wolves
that hunt domestic dogs in order to
survive. A war breaks out between the
wolves and a group of armed hunters.
And not everyone is happy to work
together within the framework of
the law. The hunters take the law into
their own hands; wolves captured
for tracking purposes bear gunshot
wounds, and a poisoned wolf is discovered in the woods.
Wolfman is a portrait of the man
and the individual wolves he monitors.
But most of all, it is a story of the contradictory relationship between man
and an extremely endangered animal.
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cyberwar - behind the firewall
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new
north of the sun
Best Documentary
Viewers Choice
London Surf Festival 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director & Producer
Jakob Gottschau
Produced by Express
TV-Production in ass.
with DR, FST, SRF & NV
Duration 3 x 28 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title Cyberwar
- Behind the Firewall
A series about digital activists fighting
for freedom of speech and against
repressive regimes in three different
countries: Cambodia, Egypt and China
We have heard about how the
Internet has helped activists in the
Arab world to orchestrate their fight
against corruption, censorship and for
democracy and free speech. Evidence
of abuse has been uploaded to YouTube, or spread rapidly and effectively
through micro-blogs like Twitter. Also
Facebook pages have played a key role
in maintaining the rebellion against
the dictatorship states several times.
Social media have evolved from a
free exchange of private thoughts
and small talk into a powerful tool for
activists who want to spread a political
message across the world. They include
young people in the Arab world, who
to exploit digital media to document
the atrocities of land theft. Worldwide
the social media have given a whole
generation of young people a new way
to communicate which breaks with
the one-way communication of the
traditional media.
под колпаком under the hood
new
Directors Mark Byrne
& Rob Dennis
Producers Rasa
Miškinyte, Jeremiah
Cullinane & Bartolomeo
Dibenedetto
Produced by
Planet Korda Pictures &
ERA Film in ass. with TG4,
TVP, Belsat TV, LRT, LTV,
ERR, Czech TV & MDR
Duration 75 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title
Under the Hood/
ПОД КОЛПАКОМ
In Belarus, some battle for democracy,
social justice and civil rights, while
others struggle just to survive
Under the Hood brings us on a journey
through a country where the secret
police are still known as the KGB
and assembling in public to do nothing
is considered a crime. The film takes
us from the protests and secret
opposition meetings of the capital,
Minsk, to the horse-drawn carts and
hand-tilled fields of the countryside.
Along the way, we follow the stories
of ordinary Belarusians who speak
about their lives and aspirations. They
include Yuri, an apolitical businessman
who finds himself drawn increasingly
by the opposition movement. Meanwhile, opposition leader Franak finds
that the years he has spent battling
the regime have taken their toll.
Best Documentary
Norwegian Documentary
Film Festival
MIPDOC Video Library
Directors Inge Wegge
& Jørn Nyseth Ranum
Producer
Anne Bergseng
Produced by Filmhuset
Produksjoner AS
Duration 46 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
Nordfor Sola
live in an extremely repressive regime
and have no prospect of either education or jobs, the young educated
middle-class in China struggling against
corruption and censorship and for
free speech, and young human rights
activists in Cambodia who are trying
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A real staycation epic on zero money
at zero degrees!
Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22)
spent nine long, cold, dark, Norwegian
winter months in an isolated, uninhabited
bay on a remote, arctic island off the
coast of Northern Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There
they built a cabin out of driftwood and
other discarded materials that washed
ashore, and ate nothing but free food,
past its expiry date, which the stores
would otherwise have thrown out. They
went nine months without electricity,
mobile phones or the internet. A very
different way of life with time to think
− and time to do things a busy, urban
lifestyle would not usually allow. The
boys brought with them stoke, humour
and two items of utmost importance:
their surfboards − perhaps the greatest
motivation for their arctic adventure.
Because the remote bay conceals a
well-kept secret: some of the world’s
finest surfing waves...
the shady chocolate business
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Miki Mistrati
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Made in
Copenhagen for DR &
NDR in ass. with SVT
Duration 45 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title Lyssky
chokolade
Reality check for the chocolate
industry’s pursuit to do good
The Dark Side of Chocolate revealed
how trafficking and child slavery was
common to the chocolate industry.
Since these revelations were shown
to consumers all over the world, the
chocolate industry is now making
statements on its websites and in the
press. Spokesperson for the entire
industry, Joanna Scott, asserts that
the world’s biggest companies spend
millions of dollars helping the children
on the plantations, and that more
than 40 programmes of education,
building of schools, hospitals etc.
are in operation in the Ivory Coast
alone.But is this true? Miki Mistrati
travels to the Ivory Coast and Ghana
to carry out a reality check − only to
discover that the truth is worse than
expected. Nothing resembles the
description from the international
corporate website and kids are still
working in the cocoa plantation.
new
the mystery of
tycho brahe’s death
MIPDOC Video Library
Independent journalists Viktor and
Eduard do their work anticipating the
fateful knock on the door, the hand on
their shoulder. In Belarus, to remain
impartial is to take sides. At the other
end of the spectrum is Lyudmila, a
villager who loves her family and her
country. She supports President
Alexander Lukashenko, though she
cares little for politics. These stories,
of normality punctuated by bureaucracy and occasional brutality, remind
us how close Belarus is to the rest
of Europe – and how very far away.
Director Lisbeth Jessen
Producer
Thomas Houkjær
Produced by DR
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production 2013
Original Title Mysteriet
om Tycho Brahes Død
A murder mystery among
kings and noblemen in the court
of renaissance Europe
World-known astronomer Tycho Brahe
died of a ruptured bladder because he
was too polite to go to the bathroom
during a dinner in 1601. That is the way
the story goes. But is it just a myth?
Was he actually poisoned by mercury
by a jealous colleague or an envoy from
King Christian IV of Denmark?
After long negotiations, a group
of international experts was finally
allowed to reopen the grave in November 2010 and remove samples of
Tycho Brahe’s bones, teeth and hair.
The samples are now being analyzed
to discover the circumstances of
Tycho Brahe’s death so that the mystery can finally be solved.
Ultimately it may turn out Brahe
killed himself! The analysis will likely
reveal that he was the victim of mercury
poisoning. The question is how long
before his death he had ingested the
toxin. It will take cutting edge technology
to tell us the truth.
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the rat race
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in production
Winner best documentary
The International documentary
Festival of Kerala
Winner of the Mipdoc
Co production challenge
2010, Cannes
Jury Mention
at the Jeevika Asian
Livelihood Awards
the secret flight
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Miriam Chandy
Menacherry
Producers Miriam
Chandy Menacherry &
Aruna Balkrishna Singh
Produced by Filament
Pictures & The Jan
Vrijman Fund, IDFA
Duration 52 min.
Year of Production 2011
Original Title
The Rat Race
A film that winds its way through the
grimy underbelly of Mumbai, through
dimly lit alleys and crowded markets
to tell the story of the city’s rat killers
Mumbai is home to 14 million people
and 84 million rats competing for the
same space and resources. The Rat
Race is a moving true life account of
the city’s rat killers who set out every
night armed with a torch and stick to
bring back 30 dead rats before day
breaks. Above him loom chrome buildings, the landscape of the future and
below him are trails of garbage and
refuse. To earn his daily wage and secure a brighter future for his children,
he wages the most primitive battle
between man and animal with the
most basic of implements. Why such
gruesome methods? Would not
fumigation or poison be more humane?
Director
Andreas Koefoed
Producer
Miriam Nørgaard
Produced by Fridthjof
Film in ass. with DR
Duration 1 hour
& feature
Expected Release 2014
But how does one fumigate spaces
swarming with rats and humanity?
And how does one use poison where
rodents and people forage for food?
The rat killer represents the human
face of development with all its inherent
contradictions. Through their tales of
love, sacrifice and survival one gets a
glimpse into a world that reveals itself
as the rest of the city sleeps... an untold story of the people who work to
keep India’s commercial capital ticking.
new
In 1995 two Europeans enter Indian
territory on a plane loaded with
weapons, each with their own agenda
The two men set out on a mission to
drop four tons of weapons from a
plane over West Bengal in India. But
they have very different agendas. Niels
Holck is the idealist; a political activist
wanting to supply weapons to a local
group to help them defend themselves
against the communist regime in the
region. The other, Peter Bleach, is an
arms dealer, who secretly collaborates
with the British intelligence service,
MI5. Bleach is on the plane to get Niels
arrested. But the mission backfires
completely. The weapons drop fails
and Niels escapes while Bleach ends up
in an Indian prison, tortured and abandoned by his own country for eight
years. Years later, when Niels faces ex-
tradition to India and a possible death
sentence, Bleach decides to forgive
his former enemy and help Niels win
the case. Now, Bleach and Niels finally
have a common mission: to prove that
British, Indian and Danish intelligence
services were all involved in the mis-
sion and that they themselves were
just pieces of a much bigger puzzle.
The Secret Flight reconstructs the
dramatic events in 1995 and follows
Bleach and Holck − formerly enemies,
now allies − in the search for justice
and the truth.
in production
we love weapons warriors from the north MIPDOC Video Library
Director
Jakob Thygesen
Producer
Thomas Houkjær
Produced by DR
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production 2012
Original Title
Vi elsker våben
Exploring the paradox of trying
to create world peace by means
of unpeaceful tools such as guns,
missiles and drones
Like a Scandinavian cross between
Louis Theroux and Michael Moore, the
director of this film is overtly sceptical
about guns. But with his inquisitive
and humorous approach to the subject,
this documentary gives voice to his
own as well as opposing views as he
goes out to encounter the industry
− and the people who love weapons.
He attends an arms exposition held in
Washington DC by the Association of
the US Army, meets a producer of
drones operating on his own small backyard factory grounds, an enthusiastic
collector of weapons with more than
200 guns in his store and some of the
top players in the global arms industry.
Directors Søren Steen
Jespersen & Nasib Farah
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Made in
Copenhagen in ass.
with DR & NRK
Duration 1 hour
Expected Release 2013
We Love Weapons provides a European view on the global arms industry
and American gun culture. Sales representatives from the world’s biggest
arms companies assure us that they
are working to make the world a safer
place, and that they only sell their
weapons to countries approved by
the UN. Similarly in the civilian society
only people with no criminal record
can purchase a gun. In both cases the
problem is that the good guys do not
always stay good.
How terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab
recruits fighters from the West
In a marquee in Mogadishu, the newly
graduated doctors are being celebrated.
Relatives and friends dressed for the
occasion are everywhere, and up on
stage the young graduates, in full
ceremonial dress, are overlooking the
crowd. Down below them, in the front
row, a young man is taking pictures. He
is there as a journalist covering the
happy event. No one in the marquee
knows that this young journalist is Abdi
Rahman from Denmark. Nor that in just
a few seconds he will blow himself up
and take several young doctors with
him in the blast.
Warriors from the North is about
young Somali-Scandinavian men who
leave their comfortable everyday lives
in European cities to become fighters,
and perhaps even suicide bombers,
in Somalia, one of the most dangerous,
impoverished places in the world. These
young men, the majority of whom were
born and raised in Scandinavia, are
typically recruited at home and subsequently leave for Somalia, where they
are trained by Al-Shabaab, an Islamic
terrorist organization, to help impose
Islamic rule in Somalia. The film gets
close to an otherwise impenetrable
milieu: the immigrants at the bottom of
the social hierarchy, where Al-Shabaab
is always feared, even from so far away.
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in production
A psychological detective story
Joergen Lange Thomsen is a forensic
expert. His job is to examine the dead
and determine how they died. But one
day he is hired to solve a different type
of case: one that involves the living.
On behalf of a major human rights
organization he is to examine a group
of Iraqis to determine whether they
have been subjected to torture.
The case is of political importance
and Joergen’s conclusion may mean
that Denmark ends up in court on
trial for war crimes committed in Iraq.
Suddenly he faces a moral dilemma.
He needs to trust his knowledge of
human nature and deductive interview
methods as well as his own extensive
experience in being able to spot a lie
rather than relying on his usual scientific approach. But years of pioneering
Director Camilla Nielsson
Producer Henrik
Veileborg
Produced by Upfront
Pictures in ass. with DR,
BBC, NHK, VPRO, SVT,
YLE, NRK, ITVS & HRT
Duration 1 hour
& feature
Expected Release 2013
work in the field of human rights cause
Joergen to question whether any of
it actually matters. And his doubts will
soon put him to the test.
slow motion revolution
”On a bad day it feels like a slow
motion suicide”
No one expected pacifist “Salma” to
end up as an armed rebel – least of
all herself. “Salma” is 35 and a radio
presenter in Syria. She is popular with
a whole youth generation because she
plays progressive new music that is
otherwise unavailable and because she
dares to talk about sex and identity
on the radio. Being no stranger to
controversy, she divorced her violent
husband years ago and threw away
her hijab. When the Syrian revolution
began, she quit her job to become one
of the leaders of the resistance movement as a natural cultural gathering
point for the new rebellious generation.
With no turning back, her hopes for
a peaceful outcome have vanished.
While the international community is
paralyzed and pro-Assad death squads
and sectarian militias are running ram-
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democrats
in production
Director Marie S
Producers Jesper Jack
& David B. Sørensen
Produced by Fridthjof
Film & Dharmafilm
in ass. with DR, IKON,
WDR, UR, TVO & NRK
Duration 1 hour
Expected Release 2013
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embracing the dead
Director Nanna
Frank Møller
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Made in
Copenhagen in ass.
with DR, UR &
Knowledge Network
Duration 1 hour
Expected release 2013
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A political drama about the future
of a dictatorship
Two political enemies are forced on a
joint mission to write Zimbabwe’s new
constitution. The ultimate test that
will either take the country a decisive
step closer to democracy and away
from President Mugabe’s dictatorship, or toward renewed repression.
In a country with little respect for
human rights, impeded by economic
sanctions and hyperinflation running
rampant, failure is not an option.
The two top politicians, MP Paul
Mangwana (ZANU-PF) and MP Douglas
Mwonzora (MDC) have been appointed
to lead Zimbabwe through the process
of writing a new constitution. Going
behind the scenes of the constitutional process, Democrats offers a
unique insight into the Zimbabwean
government at a critical and historychanging juncture as the political elite
struggles to find a new postcolonial
identity − a struggle that may be the
harbinger of a new epoch in the development of modern African states.
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taming the quantum world
Director Lars
Becker-Larsen,
Producer Gitte Randløv
Produced by Masto
Media for DR in ass.
with SVT, NRK, YLE & RUV
Duration 1 hour
Expected Release 2014
pant, she turns from peaceful activism
to armed resistance in an all out act
of heroic self destruction.
A group of European physicists are
working on a new generation of computers that will completely revolutionize global information technology
By exploiting the paradoxical phenomena
of quantum mechanics, Superposition
and Entanglement, they are creating
the information technology of the future.
Quantum computers will possess completely revolutionary capacity and be
able to process information quantities
that none of the world’s existing computers would ever be able to accomplish – even if they were given the time
span of the universe!
Experiments have shown that
quantum computers will be able to
crack any known security system in
seconds. And in Munich, scientists
are trying to generate an enormous
virtual reality on a quantum computer
that may well prove to be the tool
to solve universal problems, ranging
from global warming to determining
the final fate of the universe.
in production
the long walk
in production
cooper’s challenge
Director Karen
Stokkendal Poulsen
Producer Vibeke Vogel
Produced by Bullitt Film
for DR in ass. with ZDF/
ARTE, VPRO, SVT, ERR,
RTV Slovenija, Knowledge
Network & Yes/DBS
Duration 1 hour
Expected Release 2013
They have not really spoken to
each other. Ever
This tense political story takes its
audience behind the façade right
to the core of tense negotiations
between Serbia and Kosovo when
they engage in dialogue for the first
time ever in order to resolve the last
territorial conflict in Europe. Stakes
are high for each of the parties in the
negotiations led by chief negotiator
Robert Cooper, who goes about his
assignment with a combination of
British arrogance and wit. Caught
in the middle between Kosovo negotiator Edita Tahiri, a diva who does not
turn up until she has finished at the
hairdressers, and Borko Stefanovic,
a former punk rock musician who
represents a new generation of Serbs
torn between wanting to rid them-
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selves of their “bad guy” reputation
but certainly not wanting to recognize
Kosovo, Robert Cooper is facing his
last, but toughest, challenge.
Director Alfred
Nymand (incognito)
Producer Katrine
A. Sahlstrøm
Produced by Danish
Documentary for DR
in ass. with BBC, SVT,
NRK, Against Gravity
& SBS Australia
Duration 1 hour
& feature
Expected Release 2013
A close, personal portrait of one of
the most politically influential artists
of today, and the system he challenges
Ai Weiwei is renowned for his courage
and his resistance to oppression. He
uses his art as a political weapon and
his fame as a megaphone. In recent
years his fight for freedom of speech
has intensified, making him the bestknown dissident voice of China, where
the authorities consider him subversive. But Ai Weiwei has never allowed
the Chinese authorities to silence him.
We follow Ai Weiwei closely through
a turbulent period of his life. We encounter the ever-fighting artist, who
hardly sleeps, seldom laughs, and who
works inhumanly hard on his art and
his campaigning. When we first meet
him, Ai Weiwei is a man with no weak
points, a man nobody can break. That
is until April 2011, when he is literally
kidnapped by the Chinese state.
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did you see
putin’s kiss
World Cinema Documentary
Sundance 2012
IDFA Competition
For Feature-Length
Documenatary IDFA 2011
Nordic Documentary
Competition
2012 nominee
the ship that changed the world
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Lise Birk
Pedersen
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Monday
in co-production with
Made in Copenhagen,
DR & ITVS in ass. with
NRK, UR & DBS
Duration 58 & 84 min.
The inside story of tomorrow’s
leaders in contemporary Russia
Nashi is an increasingly popular political
youth organization with direct ties to
Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support
the current political system by creating
a future elite among the bright and
loyal Russian teenagers. But their
agenda is also to keep the political
opposition from spreading their views
among the Russians.
my love
Director Michael
Schmidt-Olsen
Producers
Jacob Bendtsen
& Anders Dylov
Produced by
Chroma Film ApS
Duration 58 min.
Official Selection
CPH:DOX
The M/S Selandia was a revolution
to the international shipping industry
and a groundbreaking invention made
possible by the perseverance and
determination of three visionaries:
technical wizard Ivar Knudsen, inventor
Rudolf Diesel and business magnate,
H.N. Andersen. Their foresight made
M/S Selandia a reality that changed
the world forever.
we are here for our future
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Iben
Haahr Andersen
Producer Lise Saxtrup
Produced by
Klassefilm for DR
in ass. with Yes/DBS
Duration 58 min.
Poul, a 66 year old fisherman, experienced a profound crisis. Either he
would come out as gay or take his own
life. But Poul found the love of his life.
Mai is 20 years younger than Poul and
he comes from Thailand.
The story of Poul and Mai reminds
us that it is never too late to change
the course in your life. They live a
happy life in picturesque surroundings
but there are clouds on the horizon.
i am breathing
Director & Producer
Ebbe Kyrø
Produced by Nexus
Kommunikation A/S
Duration
3 x 29 or 58 min.
IDFA Competition
for Feature-Length
Documentary 2012
This is the incredible story of 71 men
from Angola, a country which has
suffered from many years of civil
war, who begin a journey that would
change their lives. Their goal is to
become seafarers. They will be given
a chance to forge their own future
and to do so they will have to force
a daunting barrier. 12 weeks of tough
training. Night and day. Seven days
a week. In all weathers.
pirate hunt
MIPDOC Video Library
Directors Emma Davie
& Morag McKinnon
Producer Sonja Henrici
Produced by SDI
Productions Ltd in ass.
with Channel 4, DR & YLE
Co-produced by
Danish Documentary
Duration 58 & 73 min.
With only five months left to live, and
paralyzed from the neck down by Motor
Neurone Disease, 34-year-old Neil Platt
plans his own funeral and muses about
the meaning of life. He ponders how to
communicate about his life in a letter
for his baby son, Oscar. How can Neil
anticipate what Oscar might want
to know about his father in a future
he will not be part of but can only
begin to imagine?
free the mind
MIPDOC Video Library
Directors Adam Dyrvig
Tatt & Signe Daugbjerg
Producers Sune Roland
& Ulrik Skotte
Produced by
Metronome Productions
a/s & DocEye for TV3
Duration 6 x 42 min.
Official Selection
Göteborg International
Film Festival GIFF 2012
Official Selection
IDFA
During three dramatic months we
are onboard the high-technology
Danish NATO warship Absalon where
we get beneath the skin of the 150
crew members. We follow life on board
and the intense hunt for pirates along
the coast of Somalia, where hostagetaking, trading in human lives, open fire
between NATO warships and fishing
boats, used by pirates as floating hostage prisons, are the order of the day.
when the boys return
IDFA Competition
for Mid-Length
Documentary 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Phie Ambo
Producer Sigrid Dyekjær
Produced by Danish
Documentary for DR
in ass. with VPRO
& BOS, SVT, ERR
& Against Gravity
Duration 59 min. & 72 min
Professor Davidson is a brain scientist
with a mission: he believes the world
can become a better place and that
change comes through the brain.
Professor Davidson has instigated
a test with a group of veterans who
the cod game
must meditate for eight weeks.
We follow the experiment closely
posing the ultimate question: is it
possible to free the struggling minds
of war veterans and give them peace
of mind?
Festival at Pêcheurs du
Monde Film Festival 2012
Green-screen
Festival 2012
Colorado Environment
Film Festival 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Tone Andersen
Producers Anita
Rehoff Larsen
& Tone Grøttjord
Produced by Sant
& Usant, co-produced
by Al-Jazeera
Duration 56 min.
Nature-Vision Film
Festival 2012
Every week Palestinian children on the
West Bank are arrested by the Israeli
army. This film starts when prison
ends. Mohammed Jamil, Hamze and
Mahran have returned after months
and years in prison. They are hailed as
dance of outlaws
heroes at their big homecoming party,
but getting back to everyday life is
more difficult than they could imagine.
Soldiers, military raids and demonstrations mark the environment.
Premio Zonta Club
Locarno-prize at Locarno
Film Festival 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Ryzard Solarz
Producer Folke Rydén
Produced by FRP
Duration 52 & 76 min.
A cod fishing ban is imposed on Poland
by the EU. The fisherman, Marcin,
ignores the restrictions. Instead,
he catches as much cod as he can.
In a portrait of a few fishermen in the
Polish port of Darlowko, The Cod Game
gives an inside view of the price paid
to save the cod in the Baltic Sea.
Over two years, we follow the events
that brought the Polish cod fishing
fleet to the brink of collapse.
Official selection: Helsinki
International Film Festival
& Nordisk Panorama
MIPDOC Video Library
Director
Mohamed El Aboudi
Producer
Venla Hellstedt
Produced by Illume Ltd
& Road Movies Ltd
Duration 58 & 83 min.
When she was only 15, Moroccan Hind
was raped and consequently denied
an official identity. At the age of 22,
she has been to prison several times,
has had two children and been forced
to give them away − and has no other
choice but to work as a prostitute
and traditional wedding dancer.
But despite the odds, she refuses
to give up her dream of dignity,
motherhood and love.
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india: art now
salt & pepper
MIPDOC Video Library
Director & Producer
Peter Thiesen
Produced by
Casablanca Film
Duration 28 & 39 min.
Indian contemporary art is currently
undergoing a rapid and drastic development. India: Art Now follows four
leading Indian contemporary artists
in the hectic metropolis of Delhi and
portrays the life of the individual
artists, their motivation and their
relation to the local environment.
All have their base in the city, each
with their own unique expression on
the art scene in India today.
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Karl
Emil Rikardsen
Producer Vidar
Nordli Mathisen
Produced by Relation
04 Media for NRK
Duration 8 x 29 min.
india on the catwalk
As the seasons change, the series
follows the different animals in their
natural habitats, in the world’s northernmost zoo. In 2009 two bear cubs
where born. Salt and Pepper are
both brown bears, but while Pepper
is a normal brown bear, Salt is a rare
albino bear. Both are a handful for
the zookeepers, but also a great asset
to the park and a huge success with
the visitors.
what brits love
MIPDOC Video Library
Director & Producer
Peter Thiesen
Produced by
Casablanca Film
Duration 28 min.
In India on the Catwalk, the fashion
designer Arora takes the audience
back to where it all began, telling
the personal story about his rise to
fame in the international scene of
fashion – from the almost accidental
application to the National Institute
of Fashion Technology in New Delhi,
the first creation to the studio
and clothing company in Paris with
hundreds of employees.
MIPDOC Video Library
Director & Producer
Ben Lewis
Produced by
Ben Lewis TV
Duration Series
5 x 44 min.
amazing azerbaijan!
What Brits Love is a five part series
about being British, presented by
award-winning documentary-filmmaker Ben Lewis; funny, warm, fresh,
exciting, but also an insightful and
critical view into what defines Britain
at the outset of the twenty first century. Hop on board when Ben Lewis
travels across the length and breadth
of Britain to investigate hats, cars,
humour, homes… and the sandwich.
a normal life
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Liz Mermin
Producer Aisling Ahmed
Produced by Crow
Hill Films
Duration 56 min.
The 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in
Azerbaijan claimed to be an apolitical
celebration of European unity; but
when the President declared it a
national achievement, the country
went under international spotlight.
The government wanted the world
to see a shiny democratic republic
but the truth is a repressive and
corrupt land with no respect for
freedom of expression.
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Mikala Krogh
Producer Sigrid Dyekjær
Produced by Danish
Documentary for DR
in ass. with UR
Duration 1 hour & 73 min.
iceland: year zero
How do you live a normal life when you
never know if there will be a tomorrow?
Single mother of three Stine, keeps
herself and her family going even
though everything around her is chaos
with a seriously ill child. She tries to
ignore the brutal realities because
she wants to live a normal life with her
three girls. Her greatest fear is that
if she starts crying everything around
her will collapse.
solace
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Sigurður
Hallmar Magnússon
Producers
Yves Chanvillart
& Nadim Cheikhrouha
Produced by
Jade Productions
& Doc & Doc
Duration 52 min.
When the three main banks in Iceland
collapsed, the nation was driven into
bankruptcy; causing thousands of
people to lose their jobs, personal
savings and hope. While the banks
took possession of people’s houses
and cars because no one could
pay the interests, the state took
possession of the banks as they
went bankrupt! A capitalist tragicomedy played out. This is the story
about the aftermath.
MIPDOC Video Library
Directors & Producers
Karoline Grindaker
& Hilde K. Kjøs
Produced by Mica Film
Duration 58 min.
During WWII thousands of European
women volunteered to serve as nurses
for the German Red Cross. They were
known as the Front sisters. On the
journey back home after the war had
ended, many returned traumatized
and would be socially harassed by their
community. Now, they finally dare to
reveal some of their innermost painful
memories, letting us in to their longtime secret rooms for the first time.
talibe
- the least favored children of senegal
conversations with my aunt
London International
Documentary
Film Festival 2012
Africa World
Documentary
Film Festival 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Janis Pugh
Producer Samantha
Zarzosa
Produced by Crooked
Finger Productions
Duration 56 min.
In 2005 the director received a phone
call from her Aunt; she was lost in
London on her way to the dentist
and was in a state of panic. Shortly
afterwards, she was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s and began her descent
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into the helplessness. Capturing the
repetitious routines and unpredictable behaviour, the film gives a sense
of the ever-changing continuum of
the disease.
Bristol International
Development Conference
Bristol, 2012
MIPDOC Video Library
Director Daniela Kon
Producers Daniela Kon
& Fallckolm Cuenca
Produced by Deeda
Productions
Duration 56 min.
In Senegal 50,000 koranic students
(Talibes), young boys between 4 and 15
years old, are subjected to exploitation
in conditions akin to slavery. They are
forced to beg on the streets by
their koranic schoolteachers and
suffer severe physical abuse and
neglect. The documentary sets out
on a poetic exploration of the nature
and circumstances that breed and
prolong the suffering of these children.
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a groundbreaking
cross-media event
Reaching more than 600 million people
around the world
education education
Director Weijun Chen
Producer Don Edkins
Produced by Steps
International
Year of Production 2012
What does an education get you?
In ancient times in China, education
was the only way out of poverty – in
recent times it has been the best way.
China’s economic boom and talk of the
merits of hard work have created an
expectation that to study is to escape poverty. But these days China’s
education system only leads to jobs
for a few, educating a new generation
to unemployment and despair.
park avenue – money, power and the american dream
Director Alex Gibney
Producer Blair Foster
Produced by Jigsaw
Productions
Year of Production 2012
How much inequality is too much?
740 Park Ave, NY is home to some of
the wealthiest Americans. 10 minutes
to the north, over the Harlem River, is
the other Park Avenue in South Bronx,
where more than half the population
need food stamps and children are 20
times more likely to be killed. In the last
30 years, inequality has rocketed in the
US – the American Dream only applies
to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.
give us the money
Director Bosse
Lindquist
Producer David Herdies
Produced by Momento
Film
Year of Production 2012
How to do good?
From Live Aid to Make Poverty History
celebrities, lead by Bob Geldof and
Bono, have become activists against
poverty. But have their concerts and
campaigns really lifted millions out of
poverty? Geldof, Bono and Bill Gates
speak candidly about the ‘games’
involved in their years of lobbying,
and how they played to politicians’
weaknesses for starry glitz and
being popular.
welcome to the world
Director Brian Hill
Producer Katie Bailiff
Produced by Century
Films
Year of Production 2012
Is it worse to be born poor than
to die poor?
130 million babies are born each year,
and not one of them decides where
they will be born or how they will live.
In Cambodia, you are likely to be born
to a family surviving on less than one
dollar a day. In Sierra Leone chances
of surviving the first year are half
those of the worldwide average. Brian
Hill takes a worldwide trip to meet the
newest generation. In the US Star’s
new baby will be one of 1.6m homeless
children now living in the streets.
solar mamas
Directors Mona Eldaief
& Jehane Noujaim
Producer Mette Heide
Produced by Plus
Pictures
Year of Production 2012
Are women better at getting out
of poverty than men?
The Barefoot College takes uneducated
middle-aged women from poor communities and trains them to become
solar engineers and so create power
and jobs in their communities. The
college’s six-month programme brings
together women from all over the
world learning them about energy,
electrical components and soldering.
stealing africa
Director Christoffer
Guldbrandsen
Producer Henrik
Veileborg
Produced by Guld­
brandsen Film
Year of Production 2012
How much profit is fair?
In a sleepy village in Switzerland the
wealthy residents are receiving more
tax revenue than they can use. Thanks
to one resident: Ivan Glasenberg, CEO
of Glencore, whose copper mines in
Zambia are not generating a large
bounty tax revenue for the Zambians.
Zambia has the third largest copper
reserves in the world, but 60% of the
population live on less than one dollar
a day and 80% are unemployed.
land rush
Directors Hugo Berkeley
& Osvalde Lewat
Producer Eli Cane
Produced by Normal Life
Pictures
Year of Production 2012
How do you feed the world?
75% of Mali’s population are farmers,
but rich, land-hungry nations like
China and Saudi Arabia are leasing
Mali’s land in order to turn large areas
into agribusiness sugar farms. Many
Malian peasants do not welcome
these efforts, seeing it as another
manifestation of imperialism. As Mali
experiences a military coup, the
developers are scared off – but can the
farmers escape poverty on their own?
poor us
Director Ben Lewis
Producer Femke Volting
Produced by Subma­rine
Pictures
Year of Production 2012
Do we know what poverty is?
The poor may always have been with
us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic
Age Ben Lewis’ film takes us through
the changing world of poverty. You
go to sleep, you dream, you become
poor through the ages. And when you
awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people,
to be sure, but the new poverty has
more to do with inequality...
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