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FORMATS
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Cinderella Story
Pimp my School Picture
Live from DR3
DRAMA
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Follow the Money
Broke
The Legacy I & II
The Legacy III
Norskov
Rita
Misfits
Heartless
Government
The Eagle
Lulu - The Bankrobbers Wife
Unit One
The Killing II & III
Nikolaj & Julie
Happy Life
The Man With The Golden Ears
Album
Better Times
The Spider
DID YOU SEE
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CINDERELLA STORY
Cinderella story are about strong and
courageous women
India’s Daughter
Snowden’s Great Escape
Pervert Park
The Tsunami Generation
Skin & Bones
Me & Dad - No Expectations Of Applause
The Coolest Memory Team Ever
The Experiment
Disportrait
Sumé – The Sound of a Revolution
Women who have survived life battles,
such as alcoholism, abuse, child death,
progressive illness, breakdown of career
dreams, fraudulent love, faith, and shame.
Women have come a long way having
gone through intense therapy, spiritual
transformation or equivalent. In addition to
internal changes, they now want to find their
own strengths and gain more external selfconfidence.
IN PRODUCTION
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The Golden Dawn Case
Transformation
Unknown Male Number 1
Deported
Child Soldier’s New Job
The Greatest Party On Earth
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Venus - Naked Female Confessions
The Quatraro Mystery
There Will Be Water
Killing Pills
A program where cows can fly and
students can turn into Monsters
Year after year school pictures have
stayed the same: boring and dull. But
not anymore! Pimp My School Picture
realityshow brings the dreams of sixth
graders alive and helps them make the
school picture of their dreams.
Some wish to be candies and others in the
space, finding a new planet. How can a
small town school turn to the battle of the
good and bad?
A professional photographer and a large
number of other professionals from
different fields will help the kids make their
dream photo come true.
Time Travel
Kid Detectives & the Secret of the White Lady
Sofus
Wild Friends Rescue Team
DOCUMENTARY
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Genre
Life Style
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Producer
YLE/ Tiina Klemettilä
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Broadcaster
YLE TV2
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Duration
48 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original Title
Tuhkimotarinoita
PIMP MY SCHOOL PICTURE
KIDS + YOUTH
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Credits
Credits
Genre
Family Entertainment
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Producer
YLE Youth / Producer Elsa
Tolonen/ Executive Producer Hyppe Salmi
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Broadcaster
YLE TV2
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Duration
22 min.
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Year of Production
2014 (season 1)
2015 (season 2)
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Episodes
7 eps on Season 1, 10 eps
on Season 2
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Original Title
Unelmien koulukuva
LIVE FROM DR3
Ramstein
Natural Disorder
15 minutes - The Dvor Massacre
Ebola’s Children
Winter Buoy
Monalisa Story
At Home In The World
My Hottest Year On Earth
Bonnie And The Thousand Men
Cool Cats
Democrats
NEW
TV event and social media activity
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DR3 wrote TV history on a Monday night in
January when they broadcast live for four
hours from a hospital showing two men
going through labour – “Male Birth”.
Genre
Events
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Producer
DR3
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Broadcaster
DR TV
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Year of Production
2015
Two famous Danish TV-hosts allowed their
stomachs to be exposed
The hosts were also examined with various
endoscopic cameras. One for a rectal study,
and one for a nasal study. A Game of rockpaper-scissors decides which camera that
goes to which host – “Live from the Colon”.
Published
DR Sales, ©2015
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Design
DR Design
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Printed
Rosendahls Schultz Grafisk A/S
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Cover photo
Benny Box
3 hours live-tv and family gambling
In this version of banco, the numbers are
not provided by a person who randomly
selects a ball with a number, but nature
itself selects the numbers. Every time an
egg hatches, the given number of the egg
is part of the game – “Egg Banco”.
04 — DRAMA
05 —DRAMA
FOLLOW THE MONEY
BROKE
PHOTO / BENNY BOX
IN PRODUCTION
PHOTO / DR
Concept Developing
Director
Per Fly
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Episode Directors
Jannik Johansen, Søren
Balle & Søren
Kragh-Jacobsen
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Producer
Anders Toft Andersen
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Creative Writer
Jeppe Gjervig Gram
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Episode Writers
Anders August & Jannik Tai
Mosholt
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Produced by
DR TV in association with
Nordisk Film &
TV Fond, SVT, NRK, Yle5,
RUV
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Duration
Season I: 10 x 58
Season II: 10 x 58
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Year of Production
2014 - 2016
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Ready for broadcast
Season I: Feb. 2016
Season II: Late 2016
Sixteen episodes will take us from ruin to
restaurant. Thomas and Dion have always
wanted to be their own bosses, a very
bumpy road, to put it mildly
PHOTO / DR
It is a story of our world that the economic crisis almost overturned five years
ago, and which is still holding its breath
as it waits for the next bubble to burst
and for the next economic tsunami to
strike. And of course it is the story of us
human beings, the rich, the poor, the
greedy, the fraudulent, the robbers who’ll
go to any lengths to build the lives of our
dreams. Follow the Money is the story of
greed: Theirs and ours….
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Selected for
Berlinale Special 2015
Also available as scripted
format
PHOTO / DR
PHOTO / CHRISTIAN GEISNÆS
PHOTO / CHRISTIAN GEISNÆS
Follow the Money is a series that takes
us into the world of economic crime
in the banks, on the stock exchanges,
and in the board rooms. It is the story
of speculators, swindlers, corporate
moguls and the crimes they commit in
their hunt for wealth. It is the story of
ambition that corrupts, and of the way
organized criminals launder their illgotten gains
And then there is the past. Not easy
to escape from, whether it involved
unhealthy relations with a dad or a mum,
an unbroken chain of disappointments,
old debts, sorrows, or traumatic,
unsolved road deaths. Everyone drags
around the kind of baggage that makes it
difficult to negotiate the present, not to
mention the future. Thomas has to deal
with his emotionally frigid father, a son of
eight who has not spoken for two years,
child protection officers contemplating a
care order, Hannah from the grief therapy
group who is as pushy as she is needy.
Dion has old debts to the local gangster,
the Tooth Fairy, and has to put up the
restaurant as collateral. He has turned the
head of a prison warder and if that were
not enough, her dad is after the Tooth
Fairy and is leaning on Dion to turn snout.
This is no series for anyone off his food or
with skeletons in their cupboards. There are
flying fists, blanching, braising and coke
sniffing. Everyone owes everyone else,
money and favours, and they eat, shag,
swindle, prevaricate, love and betray.
Credits
Director
Henrik Ruben Genz
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Producer
Malene Blenkov
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Writer
Kim Fupz Aakeson
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
16 x 28 min. &
8 x 48 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original title
Bankerot
Also available as scripted
format
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07 —DRAMA
THE LEGACY I & II
THE LEGACY III
PHOTO / PER ARNESEN
PHOTO / MARTIN LEHMANN
IN PRODUCTION
In season 1 the serial follows Veronika’s four grown-up children whose free and chaotic
child-hood at Grønnegaard has left its mark on them in very different ways. They live
scattered to the four winds until Veronika dies and they gather to wind up the estate.
Just before she dies, Veronika leaves the manor to her daughter Signe, who was given
up for adoption. Signe lives with her partner in a quiet residential area in the local town
and has never known the truth about her parentage.
What was meant to be a quick and painless estate division becomes the start of a
journey into secrets and lies that turn their lives upside down and force them to see
each other and themselves with new eyes.
In season 2 the lives and destinies of the four siblings continue to intertwine, often
confounding their plans for the future. The estate has been wound up and material
terms the legacy apportioned; Signe has taken up residence at Grønnegård, where she
has allowed Gro’s father Thomas to stay on.
Frederik is struggling to prevent his own little family from falling apart. Emil is in big
trouble in Thailand. Gro will stop at nothing to rescue him.
The emotional legacy is far from closure, however: it is laden with expectations, sorrows
and betrayal. The four siblings are all indebted to one another every which way in their
efforts to be acknowledged and to find togetherness.
Is there any chance at all that they will ever slip the shackles of their legacy?
Conceptualising director
Pernilla August
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Other Directors
Jesper Christensen
Heidi Faisst
Louise N. D. Friedberg
Mads Kamp Thulstrup
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Producer
Karoline Leth
Christian Rank
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Creator & Head Writer
Maya Ilsøe
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Episode Writers
Per Daumiller
Anders August
Lasse Kyed Rasmussen
Karina Dam
Lolita Bellstar
Maja Jul Larsen
Lars K. Andersen
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
Legacy I
10 x 58
Legacy II
7 x 58 min.
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Year of Production
2014 & 2015
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Original Title
Arvingerne I+II
Season 3 is marked by a landmark event,
which forces the four siblings to consider
what they want with their lives, and
whether they want to do good for the
world
Awards
FIPA d’Or
For best tv series
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FIPA d’Or
For best original
screenplay
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CPH TV Festival
Best Drama
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CPH TV Festival
Audience Award
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Selected for
Prix Italia 2014
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Best Female Actor 2014
The Danish Film Academy
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Best Male Actor 2014
The Danish Film Academy
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Best Female Supporting
Actor 2014
The Danish Film Academy
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Best Male Supporting
Actor 2014
The Danish Film Academy
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Best Danish TV-series 2014
The Danish Film Academy
PHOTO / PER ARNESEN
TheLegacy plays out at the legendary manor Grønnegaard, southern Funen, where
the internationally renowned artist Veronika Grønnegaard has lived an eccentric and
colourful life since the wild sixties.
Credits
In this season, Signe has big visions
and plans to expand her farm with a
neighboring farmer. Emil has moved
into Grønnegaard where he among
other things takes care of Melody. Gro
challenges the Art Center’s conventional
thinking and discovers new sides of
herself. Frederik is a success abroad and
is hardly ever home, until he has to dive
into a complicated investigation.
Credits
Creator & Head Writer
Maya Ilsøe
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Producer
Karoline Leth
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Production design
Mia Stensgaard
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
9 x 58 min.
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Original Title
Arvingerne
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Ready for Broadcast
Spring 2017
As usual the plot asks more questions
than it provides answers: Can the four
siblings forgive each other? How do they
move on? Will the group survive?
PHOTO / THOMAS MAROTT
The Legacy is a character-driven drama serial about what it means to be a family in a
time when classical family patterns have radically changed. The serial is a modern family
portrait. A description of the ‘68 generation and their children. A narrative about the
sharp traces and consequences left by an intense time of upheaval upon modern family
life – whether it takes place in a seemingly liberated and progressive artist’s home or in a
more traditional and community-oriented, provincial and handball-minded environment
Also available as scripted
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Also available as scripted
format
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09 —DRAMA
NORSKOV
RITA
Rita is a caustically honest and
unpredictable school teacher, who
wrestle with problems in the public
school system, with students and
teachers – and the conflicts in her
own rather chaotic life. She is the
coolest school teacher with a burning
determination to fight tooth and nail
for her students and to rush fearlessly
into conflicts with bureaucratic but
somewhat too well-meaning colleagues
at a public school filled with everyday
dramas
NEW
PHOTO / ADAM WALLENSTEN
The first season of Rita basically deals
with the personal: Rita’s relationship with
her children – in particular, her clashes
with them and her role as a mother, a role
she had a hard time with, since she is
essentially a child herself. In the second
season, the focus was primarily on Rita’s
problems with intimacy: Her desire to
test herself in a close relationship with
a man (Rasmus) and her self-imposed
domestication of herself. To say the least,
it only partially succeeded, and Rita is
alone again at the start of the new season.
But Tom soon discovers that it is not
easy to return home as a cop, when
you left town as “The Lassie”. Tom must
navigate between his brother-in-law
Martin, his sister Jackie, director of the
family business Noack Furniture, and
his childhood friend Bondy, a major
contractor and the brother of Tom’s
teenage sweetheart Diana. Before long,
Tom is caught up in the town’s struggles
and intrigues. At the same time, his job
gets bigger when he happens on the trail
of an international drug ring based in
Norskov.
Gradually, as Tom digs deeper in his
investigation, he finds clues that lead to
the local community, close to his family
and friends. When Diana dies in tragic
circumstances, she leaves behind her
son Oliver, the town’s young hockey
hope; and when Tom takes responsibility
for Oliver’s fate, it becomes more and
more difficult for him to keep a balance
between the professional and the
personal.
Directors
Louise N.D. Friedberg,
Birgitte Stærmose &
Søren Balle
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Producer
Senia Dremstrup
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Executive Producer
Birdie Bjerregaard &
Christian Rank
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Creator & Writer
Dunja Gry Jensen
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Produced by
SF FILM PRODUCTION
for TV 2 Danmark A/S
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Duration
10 x 42 min.
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Year of Production
2015
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Original title
Norskov
Also available as scripted
format
PHOTO / MARTIN JUUL
Credits
Directors
Lars Kaalund,
Jannik Johansen,
Kathrine Windfeldt &
Mogens Hagedorn
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Producers
Jesper Morthorst &
Karoline Leth
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Writer
Christian Torpe
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Produced by
SF FILM PRODUCTION for
TV 2 Danmark A/S
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Duration
Season 1: 8 x 42 min.
Season 2: 8 x 42 min.
Season 3: 8 x 42 min.
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Year of Production
2011 - 2015
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Original Title
RITA, RITA 2 & RITA 3
In the third season, as an interim
principal, Rita is given the rest of
the year to get the pupils and the
school back on track, much to Alice’s
annoyance. Rasmus, having witnessed
the effect of Rita’s work, finally comes
through for her. He shows her a
loophole: If her pupils rank among the
bottom 5% in a nationwide test, the
city council is mandated to redirect
funds to the school. So Rita persuades
her pupils to deliberately flunk the
nationwide test, knowing full well that it
will get herself fired.
In her private life, too, Rita’s story is a
struggle for responsibility. For the first
time in her life she finds herself alone,
and suddenly she is faced with her
loneliness and her own mortality. Rita
begins an affair with 28 year-old Said,
who is not only the older brother of one
of her pupils but also the leader of a
local gang.
PHOTO / MARTIN JUUL
PHOTO / MARTIN DAM KRISTENSEN
PHOTO / ADAM WALLENSTEN
NORSKOV is a modern Scandinavian
Western set in a rough provincial town
in northern Jutland. Mayor Martin
Kierkegaard has big plans for the town’s
future, but struggles with a growing drug
use among the young people. Martin
sends for his brother-in-law, police
investigator Tom Noack, who returns
home to clean up the city
Credits
Also available as scripted
format
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11 —DRAMA
MISFITS
HEARTLESS
MIPJUNIOR
PHOTO / SF FILM
PHOTO / ROLF KONOW
MIPJUNIOR
The series Misfits is about being different. About
the wonderful, freeing and fantastic in being the
odd one out. But it is also about the hardship and
the bullying that often go hand in hand with it.
About the long journey that every child has to
make: A journey that they are led to believe, both
by the media and at school, is about whom or
what they want to be. A journey that really should
be about how you can become yourself. It is a
complicated journey that is not just relevant but
absolutely essential to portray
A theme week on bullying is planed at Islevgård’s
School. Hjørdis and the spineless music teacher,
Gert, are appointed to arrange a theatre concert.
A small group of socially awkward pupils sign up
for the theatre troupe. Together they are going to
set up a fine, small and cosy performance about
bullying. But when the protector of an anti-bullying
foundation, the Crown Princess Mary, announces her
participation, Helle’s ambition increases significantly.
Helle ”borrows” a couple of pupils from the local and
more privileged music school, and what should have
been an anti-bullying project ends up as a prime
arena for bullying. Hjørdis has to step up and risks
everything, including her own job, to see the project
through with her own awkward and nerdy pupils.
However, Hjørdis’ pupils are not as talented - at least
not in a traditional way - and Hjørdis has to learn that
instead of turning them into something they are not
- superstars - she has to bring out the best in them
and to inspire them to use their own stories in order
to create the theatre concert. She persuades the
pupils to share and talk about their fears and their
dreams, to show who they really are.
But to “show who you really are” can be both very
sensitive and socially dangerous and ultimately it
can make the lives of the awkward and nerdy kids
even more difficult than they initially were. And as
both their classmates and their parents are getting
increasingly sceptical about Hjørdis’ project, Hjørdis
and the kids have to find a strength and a courage
that they did not know they had and finally - as a
group - show the whole school, who they are and
what a princess also can look like.
Credits
Director
Lars Kaalund
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Producer
Jesper Morthorst
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Writer
Christian Torpe
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Produced by
SF Film Production
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Duration
4 x 25 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original Title
Hjørdis
Also available as scripted
format
The unusual sibling couple of Sebastian and Sofie have a mysterious, dark and fatal
secret: In order to stay alive they are forced to suck life force from people around
them, just as a vampire sucks blood
Sometimes they cannot control this instinct desire to suck and the victim may go up
in flames! Where Sofie is the outgoing and somewhat cynical of the two who does
whatever’s necessary to keep herself and her brother alive, Sebastian is burdened with
guilt over the consequences and costs of the curse afflicting them.
In their search of answers to their mysterious curse, they are led to the dark, traditional
boarding school, Ottmannsgård, where they suddenly find themselves juggling
everyday teen life with their instinctive urges.
Heartless is a fantasy series the content of which is variations on the themes of ‘original
sin’ and ‘young love’.
Review:
‘Heartless works because it is beautifully put together and because it arouses our
curiosity. Cunningly we never know more than Sebastian and Sofie; we want to solve
their mystery as desperately as they do. Meanwhile the series explores the classic
teenage issues of first love, sex, family ties, and those utterly existential questions: who
am I? Where do I come from? What will become of me? All these things are enriched by
the mysterious, supernatural setting in which anything is possible…’. Berlingske Tidende
Credits
Director
Natasha Arthy
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Producer
Ronnie Fridthjof
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Writers
Nikolaj Scherfig &
Morten Dragsted
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Produced by
Fridthjof Film A/S in coproduction with
SBS Discovery, in
association with Torden
Film, NRK, CMore, VRT,
and with support from
The Danish Film Institute/
Public Service Fund,
Copenhagen Film
Fund.
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Duration
8 x 42 min.
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Year of Production
2014 & 2015
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Original title
Heartless
Awards
Berlin Film Festival
Official Selection
Also available as scripted
format
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13 —DRAMA
GOVERNMENT AKA BORGEN 1-3
DRAMA
THE EAGLE
Also available as scripted format
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
special unit is set up to fight crossborder crime across Scandinavia and to
establish operational links with similar
teams around the world.
PHOTO / MIKE KOLLÖFFEL
LULU
- THE BANKROBBER’S WIFE
PHOTO / MIKE KOLLÖFFEL
This multi-award-winning drama series
is about the fight for political power –
and about the personal sacrifices and
consequences of this fight for those
involved
The central figure is the 40-year-old
political leader Birgitte Nyborg, whose
idealism and sheer hard work secures
her party a landslide victory, thus
presenting her 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
much influence as possible. Privately,
Birgitte leads a happy family life with
her husband and two children. She is
a woman with blazing commitment,
a big heart and little time. Can she
be a successful, professional political
leader and stay true to herself at the
same time?
PHOTO / MIKE KOLLÖFFEL
The series has a large gallery of
characters and addresses many
different aspects from the political, the
journalistic, and the private spheres.
Washington Post
‘The best television show about politics
ever’.
The New York Times
‘A bleaker, Nordic version of ‘The West
Wing,’ ‘Borgen’ finds a remarkable
amount of drama and suspense’.
The Financial Times
‘It’s intriguing from the start, deftly
paced and retain interest throughout’
Credits
Directors
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen a.o.
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Producer
Camilla Hammerich
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Writers
Adam Price,
Tobias Lindholm
& Jeppe Gjervig Gram
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
30 x 58 min.
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Original title
Borgen
Also available as scripted format
Prix Italia 2010
Best Drama
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BAFTA 2012
Best International Drama
Series
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Monte Carlo TV Festival
2011
Outstanding Actress
Sidse Babett Knudsen
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FIPA D’OR Grand Prize
Best original soundtrack
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FIPA D’OR Grand Prize
Best series
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Peabody Award 2014
Scandinavian rights only
Also available as scripted format
Also available as scripted
format
UNIT ONE
Credits
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.
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 consequences. The second
series saw Lund caught up in a web of
top-level cover-ups, betrayals and lies
set in a time of fear – that of Islamic
terrorism. Now Sara Lund is about to
embark on her third investigation…
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
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.
Awards
Emmy winner
2005
Credits
Directors
Jannik Johansen, a.o.
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Producer
Janni Helleskov
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Produced by
Fine & Mellow for TV3
Denmark
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Duration
12 x 43 min.
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Year of Production
2009
NIKOLAJ & JULIE
Also available as scripted format
Directors
Niels Arden Oplev, Søren
Kragh-Jacobsen, a.o.
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Script
Peter Thorboe a.o.
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Producers
Michael Bille Frandsen &
Sven Clausen
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Produced by DR
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Duration
24 x 58 min.
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 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.
THE KILLING II & III
Awards
Credits
Director
Niels Arden Oplev, a.o.
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Script
Peter Thorsboe a.o.
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Producer
Sven Clausen
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
30 x 60 & 2 x 90 min.
Credits
Directors
Kristoffer Nyholm,
Charlotte Sieling a.o.
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Script
Søren Sveistrup
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Producer
Piv Bernth
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
40 x 58 min.
Credits
Directors
Charlotte Sachs Bostrup,
Birger Larsen, Kristoffer
Nyholm, a.o.
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Script
Søren Sveistrup
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Producer
Piv Bernth
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Duration
24 x 45 min.
Awards
Multi-award
winning series
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Emmy winner
Best International
Drama Series 2002.
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Emmy winner 2005
Awards
BAFTA winner
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BAFTA awarded
Season 1
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Emmy nominated
Season 1 & 2
Awards
Emmy winner
Best International
Drama Series
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15 —KIDS+YOUTH
DRAMA
TIME TRAVEL
Also available as scripted format
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN
EARS
A fast paced, upbeat dramedy about
fortunes and misfortunes in the music
industry which seems so polished to
the spectator. A closer look 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.
ALBUM
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.
BETTER TIMES
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.
THE SPIDER
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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Directors
Kasper Gaardsøe & Jesper
W. Nielsen
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Script
Stig Thorsboe &
Hanna Lundblad
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Producers
Katrine Vogelsang &
Christian Rank
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Duration
18 x 58 min.
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Directors & Script
Simon Bonde &
Mike Spooner
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Producers
Tomas Radoor & René Ezra
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Duration
8 x 27 & 210 min.
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Year of Production
2009
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Director & Script
Hella Joof
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Producer
Thomas Gammeltoft
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
5 x 58 min.
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Year of Production
2008
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Director
Charlotte Sieling
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Script
Stig Thorsboe
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Producer
Sven Clausen
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Duration
24 x 1 hour
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Year of Production
2004-2007
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Director
Ole Christian Madsen
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Script
Lars Kjeldgaard
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Producer
Christel Jakobsen
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Duration
6 x 60 min.
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Year of Production
2000
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MIPJUNIOR
Director
Kaspar Munk
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Producer
Bo Mortensen
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Author
Paul Berg
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
24 x 25 min. & 12 x 42 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original title
Tidsrejsen
Monte-Carlo TV-Festival
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Festival de Fiction de la
Rochelle France
European Jury’s
Favorite Award
Awards
Tv-series of the Year,
Mediawatch
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Best New Danish Fiction
Series 2009, TVtid.dk
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4 TV-Awards 2010 incl.
’Best Script’ & Best Short
Drama Series’.
Awards
Winner of Reflet d’Or
Cinéma Tous Ecrans
PHOTO / TINE HARDEN
HAPPY LIFE
A multi-plot dramedy about ambitions
and suppressed emotions, about the
hazy order between dreams and reality
and about the pursuit of happiness and
the organized life, where you can plan for
everything − except chance. The twins,
Lykke and Thomas, share a tragic past,
but have dealt with their situation in very
different ways…
Time travel, divorce, love and secret
agents from the future
Time Travel is an action-packed
adventure about a teenage girl, Sofie,
whose biggest wish is for her divorced
parents to get back together again
In an effort to reunite them before
Christmas, she and her friend from the
future go back in time and into the future
in order to alter events in the past. But
she soon learns that tinkering with one’s
fate can have disastrous consequences.
Time Travel is about 13-year-old sciencegeek Sofie, whose one wish for the
holidays is to reunite her divorced
parents by December 24, in time to
celebrate Christmas together again as a
family.
With the help of her grandfather, Sofie
gets the ability to time-travel and thereby
change what happened to her parents’
marriage.
But upon her return to the present (2014),
after a trip back in time to 1984, she
discovers that the changes have had
disastrous consequences, not only for
her younger brother and parents, but for
the entire provincial town in which she
lives.
Sofie, along with her antithesis and
companion in time-travel, the rebel
and punk Dixie, must now put right the
problems they have created, which will
take our two protagonists thirty years into
the future.
KID DETECTIVE & THE SECRET OF THE WHITE LADY
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MIPJUNIOR
Director
Rene Vilbre
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Producer
Raive Suviste
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Author
Mihkel Ulman
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Produced by
Balti Video OU Bec, ERR
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Duration
6x28 min. & Feature 85 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original title
Väikelinna detektiivid ja
Valge Daami saladus
Awards
Emmy nominated
The summer holidays have just begun.
Markus and Rosanna arrive in a little
town where they are to spend their
summer and expect three months of
arguments and bullying. Markus and
Teele who lives in there, are sure they
will be as boring as ever…
But then a series of seemingly unrelated
events suddenly take place in the little
town and the four children are dragged
into events that originated in the 15th
century in the local Bishop’s stronghold.
Herman Krookus, the well-known
antiques collector suffers a robbery and
his many precious clocks are stolen. In
the forest a Bernese Cattle Dog is found,
tied up and left to die and the famous
photographer Stig Velson has come
ostensibly to create a photo series of
the old bishop’s castle and the ruins in
the town.
One night when Karl and Markus go to
the photographer’s hotel room to play
a prank on him, they discover that the
Awards
Vittorio Veneto Film
Festival 2014
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Santa Augusta
Category 1st prize
photographer is not at all intrigued by the
ruins of the bishop’s castle but in Herman
Krookus, the local antiques dealer.
All these events: the tied down dog in the
forest, the arrival of the photographer
and the stolen clocks are somehow
related and together the children must
solve the mystery of the clock robbery
and find a treasure that has been lost for
centuries.
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17 —DOCUMENTARY
SOFUS
RAMSTEIN
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MIPJUNIOR
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Director
Björn Cederberg
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Producer
Jan Röed, Jonas Kellagher
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Produced by
Charon Film for SVT in ass.
with DR TV
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Year of Production
2015
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Original Title
Ramstein
PHOTO / DR
Directors
Ulla Søe og Judy Wium
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Producer
Mette Mailand
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Produced by
+Plus Pictures for DR TV,
NRK, SVT, YLE and KNR
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Duration
11 x 15 min.
More episodes in production
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Year of Production
2014
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Original Title
Sofus
Sofus the dog, understands all children’s
languages and travels around the world
to meet them. In every episode he lands
his parachute in a new and unknown
place to meet the child he is going to
spend the rest of the day with. And it is
going to be a great day
Sofus is curious and takes part in
everything. He plays, goes shopping,
and eats dinner with the children. He
sides with the child in the little everyday
dramas. He bonds with his new friend,
and after a long day they fall asleep
together. Every child in the world has a
relationship to a stuffed toy, and the way
in which the children bond with Sofus,
play with him and let him comfort them,
is universal. In the series we learn how
children in countries around the world
live in many different ways, share feelings
and similar dreams. This could be the
feeling of sadness, when you have no
one to play with, anger when someone
takes your things, pride when you solve
a challenge, or fear of the dark. Sofus
relates and takes part, but the focus is
on the children Sofus meets and the
little dramas that take place. The world is
full of differences, but the documentary
sequences and scenes we experience
tell emotionally universal stories that all
children can relate to.
WILD FRIENDS RESCUE TEAM
The filming inside the Ramstein Airbase,
the world’s largest military airbase, has
taken more than seven years. The base is
not built for any specific war, but for all
possible wars, anywhere on this planet
and all US troops whether going to Iraq
of Afghanistan enter Ramstein before
continuing to their final destination.
Ramstein Air Base is a piece of America
located in a medieval German landscape.
It is a world completely isolated - a neat
American small town with some 50.000
people and where everyone is smiling,
shopping, playing golf, bowling and
going to the cinema.
Half a million military personnel fly to or
from Ramstein every year. We meet some
of the people when coming and going
or permanently staying. The best known
American soldier entering Ramstein
was Elvis, and though Elvis never went
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NEW
Genre
Prime time Children
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Creator
Pilot Film
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Broadcaster
DR TV
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Year of Production
2013
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Duration
25 x 28min
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Original Title
Vilde Venner
Kids are good with animals – animals are
good with kids, which is precisely what
we want to cultivate in Wild Friends
Rescue Team, a series that primarily
caters to younger kids
For each program, two best friends
between the ages of 7-9 have been
chosen to run the “Rescue Station” for
a day. The station is the kids’ own
clubhouse complete with lookout tower,
feed storage, status charts, examination
table, etc. This is where the kids build
their cages, take care of the animals and
receive emergency calls about animals
in need. For the more difficult
assignments, professional adult “helpers”
are called in. The Rescue Station is
attached to a pre-existing animal shelter.
Each program starts with a presentation
of the two friends. This is followed by a
set of nature and/or shelter preservation
assignments, which in turn is followed
by a strategically placed sounding of the
Rescue Station alarm.
to combat, he is an icon for the base
that has been strategically crucial to
American foreign policy and warfare for
more than 60 years.
The film crew has had unprecedented
access for coming and going in this
American community, located almost in
the center of Europe – and although the
American troops presence are not always
in the interest of local politics the base
stays on through yet another military
conflict.
NATURAL DISORDER
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MIPJUNIOR
A film about the consumer society at war
When the alarm goes off, the kids get
a call from the emergency switchboard
asking the Wild Friend Rescue Team for
help. The two friends then bring the
animal back to the Rescue Station and
examine it with an adult professional.
Together, they decide how best to help
the animal.
Director
Christian Sønderby Jepsen
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Producer
Malene Flindt Pedersen,
Sidsel Lønvig Siersted
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Produced by
Moving Documentary for
DR TV in association with
IKON, SVT, RUV & Against
Gravity & ERR
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Year of Production
2015
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Original Title
Naturens Orden
Science brings us ever closer to the
perfect human being. But what if you
are not perfect at all?
The stand-up comedian Jacob Nossell is
spastic. He could have been ‘deselected’
by scientists and his parents before he
even was born. And realistically, he is
now a burden on society and at best
an interesting case for scientists to
study. When the world looks at Jacob,
they see the physically handicapped
spastic body and not the person trapped
inside the body. With an intact intellect
in a damaged body, Jacob is a living
demonstration of the dilemma of defining
‘normality’ – he is too handicapped to be
accepted as normal - and too normal to
accept himself as handicapped.
On a quest to understand his own lot in
life, he decides to challenge what being
normal means, as well as challenging his
own lack of skills. He wants to play an
active part in his own life and puts on one
nerve-racking sold-out show at The Royal
Theatre.
The film follows Jacob on his quest among
family, scientists and the audience, trying
to figure out what the meaning of life is for
him and others like him. But he is forced to
face his own limits, when he gets knocked
down by his own intangible fate as well as
by a real-life number 1A bus.
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19 —DOCUMENTARY
15 MINUTES - THE DVOR MASSACRE
WINTER BUOY
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NEW
Directors
Georg Larsen & Kasper
Vedsmand
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Producers
Monica Hellström & Anne
Köhncke
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Produced by
Final Cut for Real for TV 2
in association with Nukleus
film
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Year of production
2015
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Duration
58’
Only a few meters from the UN Camp
in Dvor, Croatia, nine disabled people,
both Serbs and Croats, were executed
in cold blood by a group of unidentified
men on August the 8th 1995
The Danish soldiers in Camp Dannevirke
were assigned by the United Nations
to monitor the ceasefire between the
Serbs and the Croats. They were only
allowed to use weapons in self-defense.
In the summer of 1995, the Croatian
Army ceasefire broke and about 250,000
Serbs were forced to flee during
”Operation Storm.” Once there was
no longer a ceasefire to monitor, the
soldiers were ordered to stay inside their
camp and not interfere in the war. It was
therefore up to one high ranking officer,
to make the crucial decision: to give
orders to shoot or follow the UN mandate
and not intervene.
15 Minutes - The Dvor Massacre follows
the former company commander Kold
on his journey back to Croatia, to the
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Sarajevo Film Festival
Official Selection
place where he 20 years earlier had to
make the most difficult decision in his
life. Here he confronts his past and his
decision, meets the commanders from
the warring parties, and the relatives of
the victims. He is forced to face difficult
questions: Could he have stopped the
massacre? Did he have a choice? Or was
he, the soldiers and the civilians actually
let down by the United Nations?
EBOLA’S CHILDREN
Director
Jakob Krogh
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Producer
Jakob Krogh
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
42 min.
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Year of production
2015
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Original title
Ebolas børn
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the
deadliest in history leaving thousands
of children orphaned across West
Africa. Under terrifyingly chaotic
circumstances children were left at
hospitals without ID or any trace of their
origin
is to find a new home for the children.
When 10-year-old Kadiatu nursed her
Ebola-infected mother she too became
infected but recovered after weeks in
hospital – only to discover that both of
her parents had died. Now, she is hoping
to reunite with her grandmother.
Ever since, orphanages in Sierra Leone
have been faced with incredible
challenges as social workers go
searching for family members who may
have survived the epidemic. The mission
The Ebola epidemic is a major setback
for Sierra Leone – a country that had
recently recovered from a decade of
civil war is now facing a grim outlook.
Economic growth instantly wiped away
Director
Frida Kempf
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Producer
David Herdies
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Produced by
Momento Film
in association with
Adomeit Film, Les films du
balibari, Film i Väst
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Duration
58 min. & 86 min.
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Year of Production
2014-2015
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Original Title
Vinterboj
Winter Buoy is a poetic and intimate
story about the guardian angels behind
addicts who want to start a new life
In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of
pregnant women desperately strive
to regain control of their lives. They
have insurmountable forces against
them: homelessness, drug addiction,
violent relationships. But following
these particular individuals are the
attentive eyes of their guardian angels,
Awards
Gothenburg International
Film Festival
Dragon Award Best Nordic
Documentary 2015
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Cinéma du Réel
First Films International
Competition 2015
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Tempo Documentary
Festival
Tempo Documentary
Award 2015
Supported by Sundance
#ArtistServices
the social workers of a unique public
health initiative. If these expectant
mothers can only manage to break
free of the vicious cycles dogging their
steps, they have a chance to keep their
newborns.
Winter Buoy is a documentary that
portrays life in all its fragility. It is a film
about trust and the courage to never
stop hoping.
MONALISA STORY
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Director
Jessica Nettelbladt
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Producer
Jessica Nettelbladt
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Produced by
Lejoni Production AB in ass.
with Magic Hour Film & True
Fiction in collaboration with
SVT, DR TV & NRK
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Duration
58 min. & 90 min.
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Year of Production
2015
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Original title
MonaLisa Story – En film om
kamp, kärlek och heroin
by regression; a health care system
in meltdown unable to withstand the
immense pressure of the virus epidemic.
A film about love, struggles and heroin.
Eight dramatic years in the life of a drug
addict
heroin. Her world falls apart. She loses
everything she holds dear, including her
children.
In this deeply touching documentary,
we go back to Sierra Leone to follow the
work at one of many orphanages trying to
make a difference. Will the social workers
manage to find a new home for Kadiatu?
MonaLisa’s days were like most people’s:
She would take care of her kids, cook
meals for her family and spend time at
the playground with them. She would go
to work as a teacher and she loves music.
But one day all that changes. She sinks
into a deep depression, loses the will
to live and starts self-medicating… with
How could things deteriorate like this?
Why? Early memories churn and burn
inside her. MonaLisa was born high. She
was taken away from her parents and put
into an institution. Her only option is to
break free from the past once and for all,
but the pull of the drug that takes away all
her pain is too strong.
After years of drug abuse, she meets
Fredrik, another soul marked by his
background. They decide to put their
faith in love, to fight their addiction and
to make their dreams come true.
We closely follow the ups and downs in
MonaLisa’s life over the course of eight
years. The result is a poignant and unique
tale of a different kind of reality in our
midst. It is an ode to love, a mournful
blues and an honest portrait that will
draw you in and deeply touch your heart.
20 —DOCUMENTARY
21 —DOCUMENTARY
AT HOME IN THE WORLD
BONNIE AND THE THOUSAND MEN
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Director
Andreas Koefoed
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Producer
Sara Stockmann
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Produced by
Sonntag Pictures
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Duration
58 min.
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Year of production
2015
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Original Title
Et Hjem I Verden
Growing up in a refugee shelter
At Home in the World is a vivid insight into
the life of refugee children in a Red Cross
School following a group of children the
first year they are in Denmark while they
wait for a possible residence permit and
trying to cope with their troubled past and
the challenges in the present.
Magomed (10) is a thoughtful and quiet
boy from Chechnya who is undergoing
an existential transformation. In the
beginning Magomed does not participate
much in the social life in the class room
but Dorte, his teacher sees him as a
very clever and bright student. Slowly
Magomed gains confidence and starts
making friends and after months of
waiting he and his family gets a residence
permit to stay in Denmark. The joy
though soon comes to an end when it
becomes clear that his father, as the
only person in the family, can not stay
in Denmark and risks being sent back to
Chechnya. Magomed now embarks on a
mission to understand what happened to
his father back in Chechnya and with the
fact that he might lose his father.
Renowned director Andreas Koefoed
has followed the children extensively
over a period of more than 3 years and
has gained access to an intimate and
normally closed environment.
COOL CATS
NEW
MY HOTTEST YEAR ON EARTH
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Director
Halfdan Muurholm
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Producer
Anders Roholt
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Produced by
DR TV
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Duration
58 min.
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Year of Production
2015
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Original title
Jagten på det vilde vejr
A weather man leaves his job to travel
around the globe to meet some of the
people, whose lives have been turned
upside down due to extreme weather
events. The journey depicts record
drought and flooding. Furthermore,
2014 proved to be the hottest year in
history
He begins in the Philippines right after
Hayan, the worst typhoon ever to hit the
islands. Here he meets the amazing 12
year old boy, Ramses, who in the middle
of the catastrophe speaks words of
wisdom. The journey continues to the
UK where the worst flooding in centuries
has been experienced. In California he
faces a never ending drought, the worst
in 500 years, in Sweden he experiences
a record breaking forest fire, and after
that, in the German Spitzkoppe, a
glazier is melting at alarming speed.
DEMOCRATS
NEW
Next stop is Bangladesh with millions
of climate refugees. He meets a family
who has been forced to move seven
times due to flooding. Last stop on the
journey is Florida where sea level rise
poses a serious threat to one of the
richest countries in the world. How will
Americans deal with losing everything
they own? This is a very likely scenario.
Awards
New York, Tribeca Film festival 2015
Best Documentary Award
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Prague, One World Human Rights Festival
2015 - Best Director
Ouagadougo, Festival Ciné Droit Libre 2015
Grand Prix du Documentaire 2015
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IDFA 2014 Competition - For Feature Length
Documentary
A life of prostitution
Bonnie was 18 when she began working as
a prostitute. After her first client she cried
endlessly, but a few days later it became
easier and she could use the money
for a vacation to the Caribbean. Today,
twenty years later, Bonnie still works as
a prostitute. She is proud of her job, she
works hard, and the men are waiting in
line in their cars outside the brothel. But
Bonnie is sick and her body is weak. She
knows that her job is wearing her out. Still,
she continues her self-destructive course –
she can not stop.
Bonnie and the Thousand Men is an
extreme close up and an honest portrait of
the very hard and vulnerable life working
as a prostitute for more than 2 decades – a
life that is only bearable with the strong
support of family and friends and where
the dream of a new beginning is never far
away.
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The story of two jazz giants who are
forced to relocate to a musical small town
In the mid-1960s, tenor saxophone stars
Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon leave
behind America and its fierce political
climate – as well as a long trail of heavy
alcohol and heroin abuse.
They are in desperate need of help as
they travel to Europe. When they reach
Copenhagen, they find what they need: A
caring jazz-loving population who greets
the two tenor sax players as musical saviors.
They are getting paid after jobs and the
Danish women are more than happy to
make the musicians feel at home. They are
even given free rehab sessions.
The film’s visual backbone consists
of Ben Webster’s own 8MM footage
which resurfaces here for the first time.
Furthermore, the film contains numerous
rare clips with the two jazz greats.
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A political drama about the future of a
dictatorship
Two political enemies are compelled
to undertake a joint mission to write
Zimbabwe’s new constitution that will
take the country a decisive step closer
to democracy and away from President
Mugabe’s dictatorship, or push it into
renewed repression. In a country with little
respect for human rights, impeded by
economic sanctions and hyperinflation,
failure is not an option. Democrats offers
a unique insight into the Zimbabwean
government at a critical, history-changing
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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Director
Mette Korsgaard
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Producer
Malene Flindt Pedersen
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Produced by
Hansen & Pedersen film &
fjernsyn in collaboration
with Kragefilm for DR TV
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Duration:
58 min.
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Year of Production
2015
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Original Title
Bonnie og de tusind
mænd
Director
Janus Køster-Rasmussen
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Produced by
Morten Thomsen Højsgaard / DR Historie for
DR TV
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Duration
83 min. & 1 hour
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Year of Production
2015
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Original Title
Cool Cats
Directed by
Camilla Nielsson
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Producer
Henrik Veileborg
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Produced by
Upfront Pictures for DR TV
in association with BBC,
NHK, VPRO, SVT, YLE, NRK,
ITVS & HRT
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Year of Production
2014
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Original Title
Democrats
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23 —DID YOU SEE
DID YOU SEE
DID YOU SEE
INDIA’S DAUGHTER
The rape case that shocked india and
the world. On 16th December 2012, Jyoti
went to see ‘Life of Pi’ with a male friend.
At 9pm, they boarded a public bus to
reach home. On the bus were 6 men- a
driver, conductor, and 4 male passengers.
The men beat her friend unconscious and
gang-raped her for an hour as the bus rode
round the highways. After raping her, the
men shoved an iron rod into her vagina.
SNOWDEN’S GREAT ESCAPE
The story of an extraordinary summer
when the world’s most wanted man
Edward Snowden landed at Terminal F of
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
While sitting in a drab hotel room,
Snowden was surprised and
overwhelmed by the cynicism that his
moral quest would reveal on the world
scene. He was also devastated by the
betrayal he experienced by players who
claimed publicly to be his friends.
PERVERT PARK
Florida Justice Transitions is home to
120 convicted sex offenders – also
known as Pervert Park. Like in many
other U.S. states, sex offenders are not
allowed to live within 1000 feet of places
frequented by children. The characters
in Pervert Park are all fighting their own
very different battles and demons. In this
film they tell us their stories as they have
never told them before.
THE TSUNAMI GENERATION
In the Aceh Province, the 2004 tsunami
left 170.000 people dead and some
500.000 homeless.
In 2005, the internationally awarded
documentary The Tsunami Generation
profiled children and teens like Ebul and
Desi struggling to get life back to normal.
The Tsunami Generation – Ten Years Later
follows the same main characters, telling
their story since the catastrophy.
SKIN AND BONES
A story about friendship based on humor
and irony and as all other young men they
take a great interest in film, sport, girls,
sex and partying.
However the three friends also share
some seriously challenging living
terms as all three of them suffer from
Progressive Muscular Dystrophy. They
live their lives strapped to wheelchairs
where various equipments are attached.
ME AND DAD - NO
EXPECTATIONS OF APPLAUSE
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Directed & Produced by
Leslee Udwin
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Produced by
Assassin Films for BBC in
ass. with DR TV, SVT, IKON,
SFR, RTS, CBC & RAI
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Duration
59 min.
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Year of Production
2014
A film about getting a second chance
Kathrine has been avoiding her father
Palle for years. The constant drinking, the
immense mess, the human decay of her
father simply was too much for her. Now
an adult, Kathrine decides to return to her
childhood home. She quickly discovers
the little human cracks in the massive
wall of alcohol which her father has build
around him.
THE COOLEST MEMORY
TEAM EVER
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Directed by
Poul-Erik Heilbuth & John
Goetz
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Producer
Sidsel Marie Jacobsen
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Produced by
DR TV & ARD /NDR in ass.
with WDR, RTS, SVT, NRK,
Planete+ & VG TV
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Duration
1 hour
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Directors
Frida & Lasse Barkfors
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Producers
F. Barkfors & A. Köhncke
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Produced by
De Andrav in ass. with Final
Cut for Real for DR TV, SVT,
NRK, & VG TV
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Duration
52 min. / 75 min.
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Director
Folke Rydén
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Produced by
Folke Rydén Productions
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Duration
52 min.
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Year of Production
2014
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Original title
The Tsunami Generation –
10 Years Later
Credits
Directed by
Michael Stahl Dinesen
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Producer
Ellen Riis
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Produced by
Basmati Film for DR TV
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Duration
58 min.
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Year of Production
2015
The World Memory Championship is
a mental decathlon – the participants
warriors of the mind. The competitors are
challenged to quickly memorize incredible
amounts of information about playing
cards, words, images and numbers. In The
Coolest Memory Team Ever this strange
world unfolds in a competitive drama
between reigning masters and highly
capable newcomers challenging the
hierarchy.
Awards
Winner - Special Jury
Award - IMPACT
Sundance Film Festival
2015
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Dragon Award Nominee
Göteborg Film Festival
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In competition
CPH:DOX - NORDIC:DOX
2014
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TEMPO
Official Selection
Awards
Film Festival Finalist 2015
– Human Interests
THE EXPERIMENT
What if doctors suddenly discovered a
mechanism within the human immune
system that made it possible to cure
cancer?
The Experiment is a documentary that
follows doctors and patients through an
experiment with new, ground-breaking
cancer treatment which uses the patients’
own immune cells to kill the cancer. This
new method is being tested on patients at
Herlev Hospital in Denmark.
DISPORTRAIT
After his controversial dismissal from
the Madrid-based dance company
he directed for 20 years, Spanish
choreographer Nacho Duato takes on the
directorship of the Mikhailovsky Ballet in
St. Petersburg, seeing it as a chance to
redeem himself. Great artistic challenges
lie ahead as the classical dancers of the
traditional ballet troupe struggle with his
contemporary vision for a new Russian
ballet.
SUMÉ – THE SOUND OF A
REVOLUTION
They took a nation’s heart and gave it a
beat.
In the nineteen seventies the Greenlandic
rock band Sumé released three albums
that changed Greenland’s history.
Sumé’s political songs were the first to be
recorded in the Greenlandic language - a
language that prior to Sumé did not have
words for “oppression” or “revolution”.
Credits
Director
Kathrine Ravn Kruse
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Producers
Mathilde Hvid Lippmann &
Mille Haynes
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Produced by
Made in Copenhagen for
DR TV
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Duration
59 min.
Awards
CPH:DOX 2014
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Best Mid length documentary – Danish Film
Academy 2015
Credits
Director & Producer
Per-Eric Malm
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Produced by
Pistolero media for SVT
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Duration
58 min.
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Year of production
2014
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Original title
Sveriges coolaste landslag
Credits
Directed by
Louise Detlefsen & Louise
Unmack Kjeldsen
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Producer
Mette Heide
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Produced by Plus Pictures for
TV 2/Denmark
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Duration
55 min.
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Year of production
2015
Credits
Directors
Ulrik Wivel & Alejandro
Alvarez
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Producers
Talal Al-Muhanna & Katrin
Pors
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Produced by
Barok Film for ZDF in ass.
with ARTE, NTR,NRK, DR TV,
YLE, ERR and Ceska Televize
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Duration
52 min.
Credits
Director
Inuk Silis Høegh
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Producer
Emile Hertling Péronard
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Produced by
Anorak Film for DR TV in
association with Bullitt Film
and Jabfilm
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Duration
52 & 73 min.
Awards
The Czezch Television
Prize 2014
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The Golden Prague Grand
Prix 2014
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CPH:DOX - Official
Selection
Awards
Berlin Film Festival 2015
Panorama
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CPH:DOX 2014
Official Selection
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The Cynthia Lickers Award
ImagineNative 2014
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The Jane Galssco Award
for an emerging filmmaker
ImagineNative 2014
24—IN PRODUCTION
25—IN PRODUCTION
THE GOLDEN DAWN CASE
UNKNOWN MALE NUMBER 1
In November 2010 Yara Gambirasio
disappeared without a trace and Police
officer Letizia Ruggeri was tasked
with finding the culprit. Following the
discovery of Yara’s body three months
later, Letiza came under intense scrutiny
from the public who felt she had been
ineffectual in her investigation
Credits
Director
Håvard Bustnes
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Producer
Christian Falch
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Produced by
Faction Film for DR TV and
VG TV in ass. with VPRO &
the Guardian
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Release
2016
When representatives of Greece’s third
largest political party get thrown in jail
for allegedly leading a neo-Nazi criminal
organization, what happens to their
family members, and to the party itself?
The Golden Dawn Case is a political thriller
shot from inside of Greece’s right wing
party Golden Dawn. After the detainment
of several Golden Dawn MPs, we follow
their family members including the Party
leader Nikos Michaloliakos’ daughter
Ourania, through the trial proceedings
and the chaotic situation in Greece, as
they struggle to save their fathers, sons,
and husbands from a maximum possible
jail sentence of 20 years for accusations of
racist violence and conspiracy of murder.
They claim that the accusations are false
– and that the unfair imprisonment is part
of a wider Jewish conspiracy. Do they
really believe this? Are they lying to the
public or to themselves?
While party leaders are behind bars the
women engage actively in the political
work of keeping Golden Dawn alive. But
will the neo-Nazi party survive its lack of
leadership as prosecutors attempt to put
an end to Golden Dawn, or will the hype
surrounding the court case generate
even more public support for the party?
TRANSFORMATION
Credits
PHOTO / TINE HARDEN
Director
Camilla Magid
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Producers
Signe Byrge Sørensen &
Heidi E. Christensen
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Produced by
Final Cut for Real for DR TV
in ass. with VPRO, UR, NRK
& VG TV, YLE, Czech TV,
Against Gravity & YES/DBS
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Release
2016
Transformation is a film about three
persons who have made a conscious
decision about never to return to jail or
prison and what it takes for people who
are incarcerated to transform their lives
when living in a gangster world
In California 70% will end up in jail again
within three years after their release.
What does it take to beat the statistics?
How do you transform yourself and
what can the system do to facilitate this
transformation?
The film will show an intimate portrait of
the characters’ lives in South Central LA
from the end of their sentences to after
they are released and the challenges they
will encounter on the outside.
One of the main characters is Brian who
has spent the last 24 years in prison.
He was released in 2014. Having been
a member of the “Crips”, one of the
most brutal gangs in L.A., he used and
dealt drugs, stole cars, robbed innocent
people, and ultimately killed a man.
After four long years and thanks to
advancement in DNA research, especially in
the area of familial DNA where you are able
to detect someone’s ethnicity, facial features
or even family relations, Latizia has now
managed to track down the killer and her
personal journey is soon to be completed.
DEPORTED
Director
Hugo Berkeley
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Producers
Lawrence Elman, Alessandro De Rita.
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Produced by
Amber Television
Broadcasters Involved
BBC, RAI
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour versions
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Release
2016
This is the story of one women’s
extraordinary investigation through
DNA research while in the midst of the
extraordinary attention from the tabloid
press in a tragic murder case that went
media frenzy.
A film about an Afghan girl and her
family, who were denied asylum and now
await deportation
Rokhsar Sediqi is 14 years old and in
the 7th grade. She lives with her mom,
dad and five siblings in a small village in
Denmark. In her spare time she plays for
the local soccer team.
It has been almost five years since Rokhsar
and her family fled Afghanistan. After six
months of illegal border crossing through
Europe, they ended up in Denmark where
they applied for asylum. But the Danish
Immigration Service questions whether
they are in fact being persecuted by the
Taliban in Afghanistan and denied the
family asylum several times. Now Rokhsar
and her family will be deported. This
means that they are currently staying in
Denmark illegally and will be sent back any
day now.
Credits
Director
Emil Langballe
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Producer
Helle Faber
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Produced by
Made in Copenhagen
for TV 2
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Duration
Feature and 1 hour
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Relaese
2016
CHILD SOLDIER’S NEW JOB
Credits
Now, he wants to contribute to society,
yearning for acceptance and belonging.
Shot over several years the film shows
the difficult journey of people who want
to change path and become recognized
as valued members of society, but where
barriers are plentiful and help is scarce
in a country that relies on the concept of
the American Dream.
Credits
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Director
Mads Ellesøe
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Producer
Mette Heide
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Produced by
Plus Pictures for DR TV in
association with SVT, YLE,
VPRO, CH8, WDR/ARTE,
SRF &ERR
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Expected Release
2016
26—IN PRODUCTION
27—IN PRODUCTION
THE GREATEST PARTY ON EARTH
THE QUATRARO MYSTERY
Every good party leaves a few hangovers.
This one left a country reeling, never to
recover
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the selfproclaimed “King of Kings”, celebrated
2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by
throwing the greatest party known in
history.
Money was no object; an international
airport and 80 km of motorway were built
to reach the desert venue at the ancient
ruins of Persepolis where a lavish oasis
was created, herein including 50,000
songbirds imported from Europe.
But it was more than just a party. For
the Shah, it affirmed his absolutist glory.
Internationally, it aimed to win Iran a place
at the top of nations. Internally and fatally,
its pre-Islamic theme was a blatant twofingers to Iran’s Muslim hierarchy, the only
group with the power to challenge the Shah
Credits
Director
Hassan Amini
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Producer
Lawrence Elman
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Produced by
Amber Television for BBC,
SVT in association with DR
TV, TVO, YES/DBS & VPRO
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Duration
1 hour & Feature
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Year of production
2015
COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
“Dag Hammarskjöld was on the point
of getting something done when they
killed him. Notice that I said, `when they
killed him’.” Harry S. Truman, former U.S.
President
In 1961, Secretary General of the UN, Dag
Hammarskjöld, died in a plane crash
in Northern Rhodesia. He was en route
to ceasefire negotiations between non
combatant UN forces and troops from the
breakaway state of Katanga. He was both
popular and controversial, taking a stance
in the fight against colonialism in times of
instability and the Cold War. What started as
conspiracy theories involving conglomerates
fighting for minerals and metal resources
has evolved into a growing consensus that
Hammarskjöld and 15 other people were shot
down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on
the suspicion of assassination.
Credits
Supplying the driest part of the earth
with fresh water
Engineer Bill Watts wants to create a water
infrastructure in the Arabic desert, thus
being able to supply fresh water, food,
energy and jobs to a region desperate
for any viable new solutions. The idea is
simple – take saltwater into the desert,
evaporate it by means of the sun, and
create fresh water. But it is 50 degrees in
the sun and it seems that every drop of
fresh water requires a drop of sweat.
Global demand for water is growing while
at the same time the world’s available
freshwater levels are dropping at alarming
rates. More than a 1.5 billion people live
in water-stressed areas. And the Middle
East is drying up. Water scarcity is causing
severe political and regional tensions, and
some even think that the next war in the
region will be a war for water.
Credits
Fighting the world´s fastest growing
criminal business
Fake drugs kill more than half a million
people every year. Falsifying medicine
has become a huge, internationallyorchestrated, highly profitable criminal
business. As a result, fake drugs are also
a growing threat to public health. There
are no easy ways to fight this menace, as
it pervades so many layers of society and
bureaucracy.
Cecilia Fant, Intelligence officer and
head of the Interpol Operation Pangea,
has a mission: to stem the vast flow of
illegal drugs. She has abandoned her
family life and works around the clock
with her colleagues from different
parts of the world, trying to create the
momentum for change.
Credits
Directors
Mads Brügger &
Jeppe Rønde
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Producer
Sara Stockmann
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Produced by
Sonntag Pictures Aps for
DR & VPRO in ass. with
BBC, SVT, NRK, CH88,
RTVS & Against Gravity
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Duration
1 hour & Feature
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Expected Release
2015
THERE WILL BE WATER
Credits
Director
Mads Brügger
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Producers
Peter Engel &
Nadja Nørgaard Kristensen
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Produced by
Electric park for DR TV in
association with SVT, NRK
& VPRO
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Release
2016
KILLING PILLS
VENUS - NAKED FEMALE CONFESSIONS
A film on the sexual frustration of growing
up in what is purported to be a sexually
liberated society
Female sexuality is too often portrayed in
stereotypes, leaving women with a scant
vocabulary. Venus offers an authentic
alternative perspective on how modern
females perceive themselves.
Venus is a candid bedroom portrait of fifteen
young women who record their own erotic
diaries. Finally the five most exciting, off-beat
and brave of them will re-enact and re-live
their most memorable sexual experiences.
Denmark is celebrated for being the first
country in the world to legalize porn and
continues to enjoy a widespread reputation
for sexual open-mindedness. This film
will reveal if this still holds good for new
generations.
A documentary film about the dark side
of the EU
Two journalists set out to investigate why
the Maltese EU Commissioner of Health,
John Dalli, recently had to leave the
Commission in disgrace amidst a storm of
accusations of being in the pockets of Big
Tobacco.
Faced with closed doors at the
Commission and disturbing news about
how Brussels NGOs fighting the tsunami
of lobbyism by tobacco corporations had
their offices burgled by unknown, almost
ninja-like perpetrators, the two reporters
decide instead to investigate an old, long
forgotten possible fraud case involving EU
Commission civil servant Antonio Quatraro,
who died under mysterious circumstances
while facing similar accusations.
Credits
Directed by
Mette Carla Albrechtsen &
Lea Glob
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Producers
Jesper Jack
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Produced by
House of Real for DR TV in
association with UR, RUV,
NRK and CH8
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Duration
Feature & 1 hour
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Expected Release
2016
Director
Per Liebeck
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Producer
Ulrik Gutkin
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Produced by
Copenhagen Film
Company for DR in ass.
with SVT, NRK, ERR
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Duration
1 hour
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Year of Production
2015
Directed by
Morten Krøgholt
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Producer
Vibeke Vogel
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Produced by
Bullitt Film for DR in association with SVT, VRT, CH8,
ERR, LTV, TVP & RTS
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Duration
1 hour
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Expected Release
2015
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