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the government
the man with the golden ears
PhotoS: Mike Kollöffel, DR
Directors Simon
Bonde & Mike
Spooner
Producers Tomas
Radoor & René Ezra
Produced by Nordisk
Film Production A/S
Duration 8 x 27 min. &
210 min.
Year of production
2009
Original title Manden
med de gyldne ører
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 20 x 58 min.
Year of production
2010
Original title Borgen
The 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
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.
The Government has a large gallery
of characters and deals with many
different aspects in the political, the
journalistic, and the private spheres.
Jakob is an Artist & Repertory man
at a record company. He leads a
rock’n’roll lifestyle in the jungle of
self-conscious artists and fallen
stars
Jakob has been living this way since
the gold-rimmed nineties, the heydays
of the music industry. Presently he
needs to fight for his existence on
all levels, if he wants to maintain his
extravagant lifestyle and reputation.
Jakob has to juggle his new strict female boss, his omnipresent rival ”The
Butt”, his ex-wife and his teenage
daughter, Julie, who just moved in with
him. As Jakob is about to discover, it
is not always easy to raise a teenager
– especially not if the parent is also
behaving like one.
Jakob’s golden egg – the rock band
”Konsumer” – is back in the studio for
the first time in two years, and that
might just be the salvation he needs.
It could help take away some of the
hard pressure that he faces at the
company, where sales are down and
costs increasing.
Unluckily for Jakob, but partially
due to his own lack of focus, he loses
”Konsumer” to his manipulative com-
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petitor. They will use all means at their
disposal to contribute to Jakob’s
downfall. Jakob needs to discover a
new artist, who can put an end to the
company’s declining results. Someone
who can help him retain his nickname
”The Man with the Golden Ears”.
The Man with the Golden Ears is a
fast paced, upbeat dramedy about
4 TV-Awards 2010 incl.
’Best Script’ & ’Best
Short Drama Series’
the fortunes and misfortunes in an
industry which seems so polished to
the spectator, yet at 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
15 minutes of fame, often putting
themselves in situations, which are
completely and utterly hillarious.
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– the movie
A king lives in a beautiful castle with
his eleven sons and a daughter named
Elisa. Sadly, their mother passed
away and the father meets a beautiful woman and falls in love. She is a
witch and blinds him with her beauty.
She sends Elisa away and turns
Elisa’s brothers into wild swans
With help from an old woman in the
forest Elisa finds her brothers. They
are swans by day, but transforms
into humans at sunset. Elisa will do
whatever it takes to break the spell.
A fairy shows her in a dream, how she
must collect stinging nettles from
a graveyard and knit eleven shirts
from their soft flax. Until the day she
finishes, she must not speak. In the new land, where they now live,
a young king reigns, and he falls in love
with Elisa. They marry even though the
archbishop is horrified – convinced
she is a witch. The archbishop sees
Elisa one day, picking nettles at the
Directors Steen
Koerner & Emil Bernild
Ferslev
Producer Emil Bernild
Ferslev
Produced by Bern
Film
Duration 20 x 10 min.
Year of production
2009
Original titel Højspændingsmanden og
Robotdrengene
cemetery at night and the people in
the town sentence her to death. She
is taken to the market square to be
burnt at the stake.
The sky grows dark as eleven swans
swoop down beside her. She throws
the shirts over them. The crowd
gasps as the great swans turn into
princes again. She breaks the spell
and they all live happily ever after.
The Wild Swans is made in close
collaboration with Her Majesty Queen
Margrethe II. The film transforms
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy
tale into a spectacular universe and
transports the viewer into an artistically dark and magic world populated
by princes, princesses, evil stepmothers, body eaters and toads.
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our yellow house
Directors Catherine
Kunze & Jacob Wellendorf
Producer Louise
Køster
Produced by Pausefilm for DR
Duration 5 x 10 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title Det
Gule Hus
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The Highvoltageman and the Robotboys have arrived from a distant
galaxy, far, far away, hell-bent on
their mission: ’electric boogie for
everyone’!
In a futuristic, virtual universe where
electronic pop is king, the three characters, The Highvoltageman and The
Robotboys, perform electric boogie
as a way of life. Each episode sees the
unlikely ensemble enthuse their way
through a new set of dance routines
and styles, hell-bent on accomplishing their mission: ’electric boogie for
everyone’! Impossible to resist, the
viewer is captivated by the repetition and enjoyment, and fascinated
children are inspired to get up from
the couch and get dancing.
The episodes are interspersed by
fantastically fanciful animations,
handdrawn in high-speed.
Children love dancing, children love
laughing, children love drawing.
Children love The Highvoltageman and
The Robotboys.
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Directors Malene
Rykær & Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Monday
Media
Duration 6 x 25 min.
Year of production
2010
Original title Fodboldpigerne
Winner ’Rockie Award’ BANFF
World Television Festival
The yellow house is our house and it
is almost magical. It is a place where
people from all over the world live
Two girls Thea (five) and her sister
Chloé (seven) welcome you to their
house, where they live together with
all kinds of interesting people. There is
an adventure around every corner and
a new friend behind every door in our
Yellow House.
In five short films presented in a
mix of magical-realism, we visit Thea
and Chloé’s friends and neighbours
– exploring their building in search of
adventure behind their neighbours’
doors – right around the next corner
– what and who is living there?
All the people we meet, each have
their own fascinating story to tell.
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the highvoltageman
and the robotboys
the wild swans
Directors Peter
Flinth & Ghita Nørby
Producer Jacob
Jørgensen
Produced by JJ Film
Duration 60 min.
Year of production
2009
Original title De Vilde
Svaner
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This series takes a closer look at a
girls’ soccer team – their last season
together, before they split up and
move on to the next level within their
discipline. This season is the final
test. Can the girls make it into the
top league?
Individually the girls are skilled and
ambitious, but in this final and crucial
season the team spirit suffers. All of
the girls struggle with their own per-
sonal issues. Amina battles with her
excessive weight, Molly G. is forced to
replace her push-up bra with a sports
bra, and while Ranya fights to get
her five minutes in the game, Harboe
needs to decide whether she wants to
stay on the team at all.
Finding your place on a girls’ soccer
team is not easy. Naturally it is about
talent, but like in any other group of
girls popularity is the key to happiness. The competition inside and out-
side of the soccer field is demanding
on the girls – discipline and internal
relationships are tested.
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Presented by the two charming
sisters we follow everyday life in a
Copenhagen housing block in a funny
and poetic way.
Episode titles: Ella & her Papa – The
Flower Queen – Kevin the Superhero –
Old Johanne and Dream Creatures
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Director Jesper W
Nielsen
Producer Katrine
Vogelsang
Author Maya Illsøe
Produced by DR
Duration 24 x 25 min.
Year of production
2009
Original Title Pagten
An ice witch who threatens the existence of all pixie life, a secret pact
and a dangerous quest of magical trials – these are the fairytale elements
that make up this Christmas series
for the whole family
The Pact is an adventure story about
a schoolboy, Malte, and a pixie girl,
Lyda. The two are united in their battle to find the magical pact – the only
thing that can save the pixies from
being wiped out entirely by the evil ice
witch Iselin.
The Pact is a story concerned with
themes of community and embracing
each other despite differences. It is
about the responsibility we have to
the communities we are a part of and
about the difficulties that can arise if
we are not open to individual differences and don’t treat each other with
respect.
With a thrilling plot and myster-
ies The Pact stimulates imagination
and curiosity. At times it is scary, but
never frightening.
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When operations gets dangerous,
adrenaline addiction and cynicism
kicks in for the young soldiers on
the front line in Afghanistan. This
contributes to a widening of the gap
between themselves and the Afghan
civilians. Armadillo is a journey into
the minds of the soldiers and their
experiences of modern warfare
Armadillo is the story of Mads and
Daniel, two young soldiers losing their
innocence in Afghanistan. Adventurous and open-minded they leave their
home country departing on their
first tour of duty. The adventure is
not what they expected. After seven
months, they return with blood on
their hands – disillusioned about the
mission they have been a part of.
The film is a journey into the young
soldiers’ minds and an examination of
what it means to be at war. They develop anxiety, paranoia and a dependence on the adrenaline kicks they feel
when in combat. They lose their sense
of empathy and feeling of fellowship
with the Afghan civilians, they were
sent out to help in the first place. The
locals now all become potential enemies. Politics and idealism are seen as
the inside story of how europe go
preside
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the presidency
Director Christoffer
Guldbrandsen
Producer Ane Mandrup Pedersen
Produced by Everest
Pictures APS for DR
in association with
ZDF/ARTE, VPRO,
SVT, NRK, YLE, RTE,
Czech TV, TV Ontario,
TV 3 Catalunya & ERR
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title The
Presidency
Director Janus Metz
Producers Ronnie
Fridthjof & Sara
Stockmann
Produced by Fridthjof
Film for TV 2, VPRO,
YLE, NRK, SVT, Channel 4, ZDF/ARTE, TV
Ontario & Knowledge
Network
Duration Feature &
1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title Armadillo
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The story about power and the lack
of it facing European leaders when
they meet their voters to sell the
idea of a strong and unified Europe
In January 2009 a historical moment
was planned to take place in the history
of the European Union – the 27 member states were to elect the first permanent President of the EU. Except,
the Irish voters said no in a referendum
in June 2008, which threw the EU into
perhaps its biggest crisis ever.
The 27 Heads of State were now
required to find a solution. A historical
political power play began, all confidential and far away from the public
eye. This is a complex process taking
place in meetings and corridors,
where compromises must be found
and national interests looked after.
This film will explore the core of
European political power, with cultures dating back centuries, which
includes drama, intrigues, vanity and
greed. Mostly it is the story about
the decisive clash between those who
wish for a united Europe and those
who oppose it.
From the director of the award winning film On the Road to Europe – an
observational account of the tense
political negotiations peaking during
a two day summit with all European
Heads of State present. Christof-
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fer Guldbrandsen and his camera
were present during negotiations,
whether they took place in meeting
rooms or corridors, during dinners or
private conversations. Through this
extraordinary access we get firsthand
account of how Heads of State make
political compromises while looking out
for national interests in light of the
enlargement.
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blood in the mobile
abstract ideals and one attempts to
understand how Mads, Daniel and their
fellow soldiers – bit by bit – are shaped
by their violent experiences and the
tremendous pressure they act under.
For the first time ever a film crew
has gained unforeseen access to follow a division of Danish soldiers at war.
This has resulted in unique material,
giving the director the opportunity to
examine the myth of man at war and
to explore the barbarism and socialisation taking place among soldiers.
Camp Armadillo is located in the
remnants of an old Afghan farmhouse
– now “Forward Operation Base Ar-
madillo”. Together with 120 Danish and
British soldiers, Mads, Daniel and their
unit are guarding the last outpost
against the Taleban, in the Helmand
Province of Afghanistan.
Armadillo is a visually and emotionally
profound portrayal of war, set in the
contemporary scene of Afghanistan –
and a film rightfully questioning if it is
possible to achieve peace through war.
Armadillo is directed by Janus Metz,
who has won numerous awards for his
documentary films; Ticket to Paradise
and Love on Delivery – films about people who go on life changing journeys.
Ever wondered where the minerals in
Director Frank Piasecki Poulsen
your mobile come from?
Producer Ole Tornbjerg,
We all love our mobile phones. It conProduced by Koncern
nects us with our family and friends.
TV & Film for DR TV
in association with
But it also connects us with the
Gebrueder Beetz,
Democratic Republic of Congo. Inside
WDR, ARTE, NRK, YLE,
mobile phones are illegal minerals
VPRO, DUNA TV, ERT
Precidency_237x151.indd
13 for years have fuelled conflicts,
that
& DBS
Duration 1 hour &
created child slavery and other severe
90 min.
human rights abuses in the Congo.
Year of Production
Congo is one of the world’s rich2010
est countries in terms of natural
Original Title Blod i
mobilen
resources: diamonds, gold, copper, tin,
coltan, cassiterite and other minerals.
Except these resources have been a
curse for the country.
During the brutal reign of King
Leopold, the Belgians robbed Congo
of rubber, killing millions of people. The
story has repeated itself ever since
– different resources but the same
greed and brutality. Until a few years
ago, the exploitation of the minerals
fuelled a horrific civil war in Congo, a
conflict that resulted in almost four
million deaths.
The minerals are still mined and
exported illegally out of Congo, where
they are used in the production of
electronic devices. Now filmmaker
Frank Poulsen starts his quest to find
out if his mobile phone is filled with
illegal minerals.
Blood in the Mobile is a film about
one of the most dangerous places
on earth; it is about human courage
and above all it is about hope and the
search for solutions.
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my cousin – the pirate
Director Christian
Sønderby Jepsen
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Monday
Media
Duration 40 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title Min
Fætter er Pirat
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What do you do when your own family
member becomes a pirate?
When civil war broke out in Somalia,
Nasib Farab’s family could only afford
a one-way ticket, so Nasib was sent
off alone to grow up in an asylum centre in Europe. Today he leads a life resembling that of any other European
citizen. The region where he grew up,
however, is now the very centre of the
large-scale Somali piracy and some of
the toughest pirates are from Nasib’s
own clan and family. So when Nasib
learns that his cousin Abdi plans to
join the pirates as well, he decides to
go home to make him change his mind.
Nasib follows his cousin closely,
facing the pirates and their exploits.
While Abdi is trying to become a pirate, Nasib is trying to talk him out of
it. Unfortunately Nasib’s arguments
carry little weight, simply because
Abdi’s alternatives for a better
future are lost in a blur of civil war,
corruption and khat-chewing. As Nasib is experiencing his deeply impoverished country and sees the extreme
contrasts between the rich and the
poor, the time for Abdi’s first raid is
approaching. Nasib, deeply affected
by seeing his home city being run by
criminals, is searching for a meaning and hope for his cousin. They are
hard to find. Even though the pirates
call the hijackings for “help yourself
foreign aid”, there is little to suggest
that the ransom is benefiting other
than the pirates. Along the way, it
becomes clear to Nasib, how lucky he
has been, and that he perhaps would
have done exactly the same as Abdi, if
the roles had been reversed.
In Kenya a white landowner kills
a poacher. The subsequent trial
evolves more around white landownership, the tension between the
rich and the poor, than of the actual
murder
In May 2006, Robert Njoya was shot
and killed by Tom Cholmondeley, heir
to the Delamere Estate. Tom encountered Robert Njoya together with
some fellow poachers and a pack of
dogs, while driving through the countryside of the estate. Tom maintained
that he had shot after the pack of
dogs, accidentally hitting Robert, a
claim later questioned in court.
This resulted in the trial focusing not
so much on the alleged murder, as on
the symbolic contrast between a few
wealthy white Kenyan landowners and
the poor coloured people For many
years, this division has been evident,
shanghai tales #3
Directors Guo Jing &
Ke Dingding
Producer Lawrence
Elman
Produced by Amber
Entertainment for
BBC, DR, NHK & ITVS
Duration 3 x 60 min.
Year of Production
2010
Other Episodes The
War of Growing Up,
All About My Friend,
When My Child is Born
last white man standing
Director Justin
Webster
Producers Mette
Heide & Don Edkins
Produced by Plus Pictures in association
with ITVS, DR & BBC
Duration 1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title Last
White Man Standing
when my child is born
new
becoming ever more apparent with the
rapid growth of the population leading
to a rise in poverty. As a consequence,
land available where the poorer
population live has become immensely
overpopulated, while the land owners
sit on land which they claim their right
to, dating back to colonial times.
This case of severe contrasts
raises the question, if the wealthy
few should have the right to land
when it could provide for many more.
Does the era of colonial rule still hold
the legitimate authority and power,
or ought it to be removed for the
greater good?
Jun and Long are neo-intellectuals
in post-modern China. When Jung
discovers she is pregnant – unintentionally – the world is turned upside
down for the young couple
Jun is a university teacher who
engages her students in sensitive
philosophical debates. Long is trying
to finish his thesis on Kant and Marx,
struggling to refine his scope with his
academic supervisors. Life is confusing enough until they find out that Jun
is pregnant and nothing will ever be
the same.
Fantastic access allows us to
explore the transition in the lives of
the soon-to-be parents. We follow as they navigate the world of
ultrasounds, domineering mothersin-law buying all kinds of gadgets and
preparing the baby’s room. Jun openly
admits how she misses her independence and how having a child will be a
sacrifice to her own life. Jun and Long
freely express their disappointment
upon discovering that the child is a
girl – a telling example of China’s onechild policy.
This film is the last programme in
the Shanghai Tales series. Three films
portraying modern China through the
lives of its people. The films depict the
difficulties of growing up and developing through adolescence, the chal-
dying in dixieland
Director Martin
Sundstrøm
Producers Martin
Sundstrøm, Susanne
Sundstrøm & Martin
Martensen-Larsen
Produced by Mirabelle Film & the Danish
Film Institute
Duration 30 min. &
52 min.
Year of production
2010
Original title Dying in
Dixieland
Official Selection
Toronto International
Film Festival
lenge of balancing work and family and
the problems encountered by tradition, marriage and the expectations
of family and parenting. All moving and
poignant, these stories are offered
in an elegant and understated style,
complimenting one another in an
unpolished yet fascinating portrait of
contemporary China.
Nominated for Grand Prix,
Odense Film Festival 2010
In this life humans can either kill or
be killed. The government can commit
one of the acts. Meet Karl. He will
soon be executed
Each year around 50 people are
executed in the US. The vast majority of executions take place in Texas
by lethal injection. Since 1997 Karl
Chamberlain has been on death row
because he raped and murdered a
30-year-old woman in her apartment
in Dallas in 1991.
Dying in Dixieland follows Karl’s
mother Muina, an old hippie and now
a practising Muslim, who hopes that
her prayers will save her son’s life as
she tries to understand what turned
her once sweet little son into a violent
criminal. She shares her concerns
with a group of women, pen pals
of Karl, who in turn have developed
boyfriend-like relationship with the
condemned man on death row.
For Muina it is not just about Karl’s
life but also her own. Last time she
visited her son on death row, it was so
hard on her that she tried to take her
own life. Her friends now fear that if
Karl is not pardoned, this execution
might lead her to attempt suicide
again. On Mother’s Day in 2008, she
receives notification that an execution date has been set! This film also
introduces the victim’s lawyer and
family in the attempt to understand a
tragic situation where everybody will
lose out, but where love also seems to
overcome even the worst sex crime.
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white slaves – muslim pirates
Director Lisbeth
Jessen
Producer Thomas
Houkjær
Produced by DR in
association with YLE,
NRK, RUV, Czech
TV & The Animation
Workshop
Duration 3 x 40 min. &
1 x 60 min.
Year of Production
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Original title Hvide
Slaver
The story about the dramatic
encounter between Christian and
Muslim cultures
Every sailor had the fear and he knew
the risk; being captured by Muslim pirates, thus becoming a slave in North
Africa. From 1500 to ca. 1830, roughly
a million Europeans were detained.
They were mostly sailors, captured by
Muslim pirates in the Mediterranean
and the Atlantic, men who were forced
into slavery – the victims of war.
This war was waged by Muslim pirates, endowed with state permits to
capture commercial vessels belonging to the enemy. The sailors on board
were, if not killed then forced into slavery, many of them sold at slave markets
in North Africa. They could also serve
as hostages; ransoms were exacted
from their native countries, so a few
lucky ones made it back to Europe.
This is an almost forgotten story
in Europe. However, during the last
twenty years leading scientists have
examined the national archives and
found documents, letters and lists
about seamen, passengers and people
from remote villages taken captive
and enslaved.
White Slaves – Muslim Pirates tells
the story of Hark Olufs, a German
Tracing your origin and finding your
identity have become important issues in a multicultural and globalised
world
Mind the Gap follows a Sikh family, originating from Kenya, living in
London, who emigrates to Australia
and finally travels to India − in search
of their roots. Their story epitomises
the problems confronting thousands
of families struggling with the clash
of cultures, religions and generations
in the 21st century.
Dari is a former pop star and London
underground driver. He wants to show
his daughters India – the country of his
roots; take his family to places which
are important to every Sikh. It is meant
to be a lesson for his daughters, so
they can learn about the country of
their ancestors and see what poverty
is. So that a tube driver’s daughters
can appreciate their place in life. Fate
takes them via Australia to India on a
journey to Punjab which offers a vivid
contrast to their everyday life; through
the crowded streets of Delhi to Amritsar, the holiest place for every Sikh.
Dari’s drive and enthusiasm to show
India is tested when the family is
forced to stay in places that lack the
basics of hygiene and the demand-
ing Himalaya trek puts mollycoddled
Kiran’s life at risk. There is a struggle
to find affinity to the place and their
feelings are mixed.
The scenes of their spiritual journey
through India frame the story of a
family in transition and their struggle to find their roots and common
ground.
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maasai on the move
How a country fell in love with its
therapist
Directors Morten
Vest & Robin Schmidt
Producer Robin
Schmidt
Produced by Filmselskabet
Duration 50 min
Year of Production
2010
Original title Masaier
På Vej
the film shows us both the potential
of modern Argentina and the frustration of living in a country that seems
to suffer a cyclical pattern of failure.
“We are an extreme people”, says Prof.
Eduardo Keegan,” the problem with
being extreme is that after a crisis it
appears very logical to go to the other
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seaman from Waddenzee and Dr.
Antonio de Sosa from Spain; who
spent several years in Algiers. There
is Gudridur Simonadottir – named
Gudda the Turk – who was among
the 242 Icelanders captured when a
fleet of twelve pirate ships attacked
Heimaey in the Vestmanna Islands – all
men who made their way home.
argentina in therapy
Buenos Aires is the psychoanalytic
capital of the world, with twice the
number of therapists per head than
New York. In Argentina the language of
psychoanalysis can be found everywhere, and for millions of Argentineans
a visit to the psicologo is as much part
of their weekly routine as going to the
hairdresser or the gym. Such a demand
for an expensive and time-consuming
exercise suggests a neurosis on a
national scale. Like the analyst this film
puts Argentina on the couch, delving
into the past to reveal the roots of
this unique obsession.
A history of economic crisis, Argentina’s infamous Dirty War, repression
and brutal dictatorship still haunts this
nation. Through the stories of students, historians, analysts and artists,
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Director Maciej
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Producer Monika
Braid
Produced by Braidmade Films
Co-produced by Endboard Productions
Duration 1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title Mind
the Gap
new
Directors & producers Adam Barnett &
Simon Deeley
Produced by Jericho
TV
Duration 52 min. &
79 min.
Year of Production
2009
Original Title Argentina in Therapy
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extreme. So you keep going from black
to white, from white to black − that
is what personality disorders are all
about.” The hope of the Argentineans
is that just as an individual in psychoanalysis can change by understanding his
or her past, so can a society by learning
from its history.
Over the course of one year, this
documentary film follows four
Maasai living in one of the world’s
most beautiful natural resorts: the
Ngorongoro Safari Park in Tanzania
At once sharp and poetic, this film
explores issues such as globalisation,
development, wealth and love in the
Maasai culture. Leaving stereotypes
behind, this documentary shows us
people greatly aware of the world we
inhabit and invites us to recognise the
need to change our lifestyles in order
to survive. It will confront us with our
habitual conceptions and pre-justices
about indigenous people and about
the actual meaning of development.
The Ngorongoro district, home
to the Maasai people, is one of the
world’s most popular safari-locations.
The Maasai have maintained their traditional way of life for centuries, and
still they are fully aware of both global
warming and the financial crisis. They
are very much influenced by both. The
access to land is fundamental, but it
is a daily struggle with the authorities to maintain the right to land that
has been their home for centuries.
This conflict is a bit of a paradox, as
the Maasai have always been living in
harmony with wildlife – the primary
reason why wildlife is found to such
abundance in Maasai areas. The problem is the huge income from tourism,
an income which the authorities would
like to keep to themselves.
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Now also available as 1 hour documentary, Bringing Life to Space
takes the viewer on a journey around
the world – to document man’s desire
to conquer space
For decades man have prepared for
long voyages into space and explored
the possibility of settling on other
planets. Many people feel confined
by this galactic province and see
colonization of space as a possible
alternative to their fragile, rather
worn planet. But to make their dream
come true they will not only have to
challenge their knowledge and technological skills – they will also have to
challenge their own fears and psychological limitations. The challenge of
bringing life to space is enormous, and
to secure survival on a long journey
into space, we follow scientists who
try to copy Earth’s delicate ecological balances in small, sealed cycles, to
secure sufficient and vital supplies of
water, oxygen and food.
They were the first “born-free” generation of South Africa. A generation
whose lives were formed after the
brutal apartheid regime was abolished
and Mandela had come to power.
Children of Mandela profiles four of
these students, two white and two
blacks, who attended the original
Rainbow Camp nearly 10 years ago.
Back then they were united in their
concern for a national reconciliation
between races but since then their
lives have taken different turns. Are
they still committed to a common fu-
ture? The Rainbow Camp reunion gives
this first “born-free” generation an
opportunity to discuss how the new
South Africa is really getting along.
behind the scenes of the world’s number one restaurant
Director Christian
Vorting
Producer Steen
Jensen
Produced by DR
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production
2008-2010
Original title Noma på
kogepunktet
Noma at Boiling Point delves into the
restaurant’s kitchen to reveal a harsh
and relentless atmosphere. This flyon-the-wall documentary follows the
daily drama in the kitchen over six
busy and turbulent months, where
head chef René Redzepi pursues
Prelude To a Fight is the story of two
ambitious women, an African-American boxer and a Korean-American
classical pianist; both pursue the
same dream of succeeding.
In Brooklyn ’Fire’ McLeod fights to
become a successful professional
female boxer. Relying on her talent
she struggles to make a better life,
overcoming a childhood that has left
her wounded, hurt and lonely.
Soyeon, a brilliantly talented classical pianist, has all the means required
to pursue her dream of success in
classical music. From her carefree
childhood in Korea to the rural United
States she never loses sight of the
goal of becoming the best.
Though coming from two differ-
ent worlds, seemingly far apart, their
personal aspirations, their biggest
dreams and their greatest fears are
surprisingly similar.
Directors Boris
Bertram & Karoline
Kamya
Producer Emil Bernild
Ferslev
Produced by Dead
People’s Choice Film &
Ivad Production
Duration 29 min.
Year of production
2010
Original title Chips
and Liver Girls
Sex, sugar daddies and modern love
in Kampala, Uganda
Some girls in Kampala do not want to
get married; instead they go out with
men who can pay them for sex and
for their company. In Kampala, this is
not seen as prostitution but as a way
to climb the social ladder, and a way
to obtain a comfortable and modern
lifestyle. It is called ‘transactional sex’,
and is common in East Africa.
Sonia is a young actress. She takes
full advantage of the new times and
the sugar daddies who surrounds her,
seeking her company. One older man
who wants to spend time with Sonia is
a minister in the government. He calls
himself “honorable” while she refers
to him as “ATM” (cash machine).
However it takes an effort to keep
the balance between privacy and the
demanding sugar daddies.
Chips and Liver Girls refers to the
preferable junk food eaten by the
modern girls of Uganda.
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noma at boling point
his unique vision and culinary talent
with military precision while exploring
the tastes and flavors of the Nordic
Region.
At Noma, International chefs and
former prison inmates work sideby-side in the pursuit of world-class
cooking. “It’s like in the military, but
this time it’s not some jerk shouting
at me,” says Robert Petersen, a bodybuilder with a violent past. In spite
of this contrast, Noma has climbed
Do we all have a reason to believe
in our own success? If so, what
determines that some succeed while
others do not?
chips and liver girls
new version
Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen has
recently been ranked number one by
world-renowned chefs, food critics
and leading restaurant owners
Directors Andreas
Monies Bøggild & Mikkel Clausen
Producers Steen
Herdel, Andreas
Monies Bøggild & Jens
Bruun Christensen
Produced by DR &
Monies Film
Duration 60 min.
Year of Production
2010 (Re-Cut version)
Original title Prelude
To a Fight
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children of mandela
In 2001, 24 black coloured and white
students from a high school in Cape
Town met on a so-called Rainbow
Camp. They confronted each other
with questions regarding racism and
reconciliation in South Africa. Today
they meet again
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new
Director & producer
Jakob Gottschau
Produced by Express
TV Produktion
Co-produced by DR,
UR & FST
Duration 1 hour & 3 x
28 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title Mandelas Børn
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bringing life to space
Director & Producer
Jakob Gottschau
Produced by Express
TV
Co-produced by DR
Duration 1 hour & 3 x
29 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title Turen
Går Til Mars
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from number three to number one
restaurant in the world, because
nothing less than perfect is accepted
by Redzepi.
cop15
the climate game and the world’s poor
Directors Jesper
Heldgaard & Bo Illum
Jørgensen
Producer Anders
Dencker Christensen
Produced by Dansk
AV Produktion
Duration 42 min.
Year of production
2010
Original title Cop15
COP15 was the most ambitious
climate summit ever held. In spite of
the good intentions, the outcome did
not meet the world’s expectations
COP15, held in Copenhagen, would
have been a success had it not been
for the lack of will to push through
the objectives of the summit. The
outcome left the climate debate in a
status quo, where the industrialized
countries concluded a deal without
the rest of the world.
This documentary takes us through
the days of the summit, following participants from some of the countries
most vulnerable to climate change. It
gives an insight into the complicated
game of climate negotiations and
shows the frustration of the poorer
countries, which were left out, as the
powerful players desperately tried to
seal a deal.
It serves as a reminder when the
world’s countries gather at COP16
in Cancun, Mexico. Are world leaders
willing to make up for past mistakes?
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Welcome to perhaps the most remote army post in the world
Alexiei, a 19 year old Russian recruit, is
being flown in to perform his military
service at a small base in a remote
part of Northern Russia. This base
is one of few such frontier posts on
the Arctic Ocean, guarding the vast,
uninhabited parts of the Russian
country. Besides Alexiei, five other
soldiers are stationed there. All five
have been there for a long time, perhaps too long, each of them carrying
their personal worries and secrets.
It is hard for them to imagine going
back to a life with real people and to
reconnect with their past. It is easier
to continue their absurd service of
guarding this submerged area always
covered in snow, hundreds of miles
away from the nearest human settle-
Winner ‘Magic Hour Award’
Planete Doc Review Warsaw
ment. Alexiei will not only learn how to
survive in extreme winter conditions,
he may just learn the most valuable
lesson of his life.
Director & Producer
Michael Hansen Caleb
Produced by Open
Book Production
Duration 58 min.
Year of Production
2010
Original Title In
Search of Peter Pan
the heretics
The Heretics uncovers the inside
story of the Second Wave of the
Women’s Movement
This documentary is told through the
eyes of Joan Braderman, who arrived
in New York in 1971 to become a filmmaker. Soon after she joined a feminist art collective at the epicenter of
the 70’s artworld in lower Manhattan.
Framed by striking digital graphics, the story is told through archive
material and intimate interviews with
former members, who like thousands
of women at the time believed they
were “smarter together than we were
separately.”
On the road from New Mexico to
Italy, Braderman reconnects with 25
group members, including writer Lucy
Lippard, architect Susanna Torre,
and filmmaker Su Friedrich. Along
the artists’ powerful and expressive
works – some being created in their
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Director Joan Braderman
Producer Crescent
Diamond
Produced by No More
Nice Girls Productions
Duration 95 min. (1
hour version will be
available)
Year of Production
2009
Original title The
Heretics
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at the edge of russia
Director Michal
Marczak
Producer Marianna
Rowiska
Co-produced by TVN,
Aperto Films & Ozumi
Films
Duration 72 min. &
1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title Koniec
Rosji
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studios – the film evokes the extraordinary times they shared, challenging
the terms of gender and power and
re-imagining the lives of generations
to come.
The story behind the origin and the
creation of one of the immortal characters of literature: Peter Pan
The tale of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, and his adventures
is a universal story of the magic of
childhood; an unforgettable portrait
of childhood imagination, with its contrary lures of home and escape, safety and high adventure. As a character
Peter Pan contains a complex pattern
of dark and joyful sides, and it is this
interplay that makes the character
truly interesting and equally popular
with children and adults alike.
Scottish playwright sir James Barrie drew consciously on his private
life, clouded by divorce and a series of
bereavements, when writing the story
of Peter Pan − far more true and
spontaneous than he at first intended. Drawing on his own story-telling
experiences with children during walks
in a London park, he initially created
Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and
secret life with birds and fairies in the
middle of London. The character soon
developed into the boy hero of Neverland, the fantasy island of childhood
dreams and nightmares. Partnered by
the motherly and resourceful Wendy,
Peter fights epic battles with red-
skins and murderous pirates.
In Search of Peter Pan takes off
where reality and dreams blend into
fiction. Through different narrative
layers, the film traces the gradual
evolution of the character of Peter
Pan − and the emptiness, solitude and
jealousy that lies at the heart of him.
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the good life
P R Eof
S E N Thappiness
S
– from the award winning director of enemies
new
choir of young believers
this is for the white in your eyes
Director Benjamin
Hesselholdt
Producer Karl Bjerre
Skibsted
Produced by DR
Duration 1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original Title Choir of
Young Believers – This
Is For the White in
Your Eyes
In June 2009 The Danish National
Chamber Orchestra invited the
acclaimed indie rock band, Choir of
Young Believers, to join forces in an
interpretation of the band’s awardwinning European debut album. Two
sold-out concerts resulted in this
extraordinary concert film
Reviewers were thrilled and called the
concert “...a sensual delight, but also a
masterly and natural interpretation...”
50 musicians take the audience on a
journey into a musical dreamland − no
explanations, no words, no limits...
Listening to the Choir of Young
Believers, Rolling Stone magazine says,
it is “like hearing Radiohead’s Thom
Yorke in the middle of a Sixties Roy
Orbison single”. A young and an ambitious band on the rise, with music “well
worth investigating” (The Guardian).
Directed by Eva
Mulvad
Producer Sigrid
Dyekjær
Produced by Danish
Documentary for TV 2
Duration feature and
1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title The
Good Life
The past was paradise – the present
is hell
How to be poor when one used to be
rich? Two upper class ladies; a mother
and her daughter, find themselves in
a terrible mess now that they have
spent all their money and can not
maintain their wealthy life style. The
mother sends her spoiled daughter
out to earn money, but how will you
find a job when you are 56 years old
and have never done a days’ work in
your life?
This is a humoristic story about
how a mother and her daughter suddenly have to cope with the mother’s
insufficient social benefits, which do
not even pay the rent. Times get even
tougher, there is hardly anything left
to take to the pawnshop and credit
from friends and local stores is running out.
One final rescue attempt fails when
the daughter desperately proposes to
work as a prostitute. But her mother
replies “You’re too old – they don’t
want old meat”. With empty pockets,
a rich kid attitude and a blank CV what
will happen to this poor pair?
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When love conquers your life
Who would not like to be in love all
the time? Who would not want to
enjoy the intoxicative feeling when hit
by Cupid’s arrow and who does not
remember the wonderful sense of
being young, silly and recklessly out of
control? What have we not done in the
name of love? Through times, we have
fought, killed, conquered and slaved
for love. We have written songs,
poems and books trying to express
this ultimate feeling. Love delivers us
a temporary “high”, but what do we
need for this “high” to exist?
Following the personal stories
of love addicts we will discover the
nature of this peculiar disorder. We
will meet the love addicts in different stages of their addiction. With
sensitivity and a touch of humour we
will try to get a better understanding
of the hardship of coping with a life
where you are on a constant hunt for
your next love.
viking destinies
Rape, pillage and plunder are only
part truths about the Vikings.
Experience for the first time the
real story about the Vikings – their
adventurous lives which took these
glorious and gruesome warriors
around the world and left remarkable
traces
For the first time the real and whole
story about the Nordic warriors and
explorers.
This six part series shot in HD with
stunning re-enactments and newest
CGI, will forever change the way we
thought of the Vikings. Each stand
alone episode, will take us on a unique
quest into a moment of their history.
Follow our Vikings on their journeys
to United Kingdom, France and even
to West Asia and learn about their
discovering of North America and
Greenland. Discover that the Vikings
were founders of Dublin in Ireland and
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
It is thought that our personalities
are mainly determined by our genes
together with our upbringing. Prof.
Davidson’s research shows something
different – that the brain is actually plastic and shapes personalities
throughout life. And there are effective ways of taking control.
In order to create a more harmonious
society one must begin with those
who disturb. Teaching American war
veterans Mindfulness meditation,
change the distraught and destructive brains of soldiers and thereby
give them a better chance of surviving life in civil society?
Professor Davidson has instigated
a test with a group of veterans, who
must meditate for eight weeks and a
camera will follow closely during and
after the experiment. The ultimate
An Iraqi officer arrives in Germany
in 1999 and applies for asylum. He
immidiately reveals to the German Intellligence Service, BND, an in depth
account of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction
Codenamed Curveball, his most famed
report is that of seven mobile trucks
that could serve as small factories
and drive around in Iraq. This story
was presented to George W. Bush,
Tony Blair and others statesmen in
favour of a war. Colin Powell’s speech
to the UN Security Council was the
highlight of this untruth – because
Powell actually had a slide show of the
so-called mobile labs.
In reality all of Curveball’s accounts
were false. 40 days before the war
started, UN Inspectors had visited 11
sites in Iraq which had been pointed
out in the officer’s account. However,
the inspectors had concluded that
there was not the faintest possibility that these sites had ever seen a
chemical or biological weapon.
putin’s kiss
get to know about the Viking lives in
Scandinavia through the tale of the
mighty King Harald Bluetooth and
much much more...
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free the mind
Director Poul-Erik
Heilbuth
Producer Steen
Jensen
Produced by DR
Duration 1 hour
Year of Production
2010
Original title Manden
som løj verden i krig
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in production
Director Phie Ambo
Producer Sigrid
Dyekjær
Produced by Danish
Documentary for DR
in association with
VPRO & BOS, SVT,
ERR & Against Gravity
Duration Feature and
1 hour
Year of Production
2011
Original title Free the
Mind
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the man who lied
the world into war?
love addiction
Director Jonas
Krüger
Producer Thomas
Houkjær
Produced by DR
Duration 6 x 30 min. &
3 x 60 min.
Year of Production
2012
Original title Viking
Destinies
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in production
Director Pernille Rose
Grønkjær
Producer Sigrid
Dyekjær
Produced by Danish
Documentary for TV
2, YLE, NRK, ORF, CBC
& Against Gravity
Duration Feature &
1 hour
Year of Production
2011
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Director Lise Birk
Pedersen
Producer Helle Faber
Produced by Monday
Media for DR
Duration 1 hour
Year of Production
2010-2011
Original title Putin’s
Kiss
Masha is 19 years old and an officer
in NASHI. A Russian youth movement,
which grooms the future leaders of
the country. Well, only if they keep on
doing, what is “right” for the nation
Supposedly NASHI is designed by the
Kreml, by Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s
Chief ideologist. Since 2005 the
movement has gathered hundreds
of thousands of Russian teenagers
through an euphoria of propaganda
and promises for the future – all
wrapped in loud techno music. Masha
allows us to get to know the organisation from within and experience the
Russia of today – seen trough the
eyes of the generation to come.
Masha encapsulates the new Russia; she remembers the poverty of
the eighties, but has also witnessed
how privileges and material comforts
have become obtainable during Putin’s
reign. She is influenced by what can
take her further, but begins to realize
that privileges and attention come at
a price.
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PRESENTS
question is: Is it possible through
meditation to free the struggling
minds of war veterans and finally give
them some peace of mind?
- A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS
BY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR PHIE AMBO
ballroom dancer
Directors Andreas
Koefod & Christian
Bonke
Producers Sigrid
Dyekjær & Jakob
Nordenhof Jønck
Produced by Danish
Documentary
Duration Feature,
1 hour
Year of Production
2011
Passion, pain and glory. Slavik, once
the world champion in Latin American
dancing and its fastest rising star,
is making his final comeback attempt with Anna his new and 10 year
younger partner and lover
The dance and the spotlight is the
drug he could not live without. However his aging body is causing him
severe back – and hip pain. Slavik who
is Ukrainian with gypsy blood rolling in
his veins has a hot temper that keeps
putting his relationship with Anna at
stake. The emotional turmoil between
the two does not exactly make the
comeback easy and the question is
what will happen if the couple does
not make it.
This film takes you behind the
scenes of the popular TV reality of
the shiny ballroom floors. Behind the
heavy layer of make-up and the stiffened smiles we meet another reality.
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ticket to paradise
- from the director of armadillo
Director Janus Metz
Produced by Cosmo
Doc
Duration 2 x 58 min.
Two docs about Thai women and their
pursuit of an European husband. The
films are touching, tragic and humorous tales of strong, decisive women
who see themselves as entrepreneurs
in a globalized world rather than vic-
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tims. They make great sacrifices and
take high risks when they leave their
children behind and travel half way
around the world to marry complete
strangers.
dealing with pirates
Director Nils Giversen
Produced by DR
Duration 58 min.
In 2008 Somali pirates hijacked the
Clipper cargo vessel CEC Future and
13 crew members. Assisted by experts
flown in from London, Clipper CEO, Per
Gullestrup, faced a nerve wrecking and
very unusual task: striking a deal with
pirates thousands of kilometres away.
Being under enormous pressure to
free his crew members as quickly as
possible, Gullestrup had to withstand
threats and call bluffs as the crew
slowly succumbed to pressure.
a journey into piracy – meeting the somali pirates
Directors Lasse
Spang Olsen & Rasmus Krath
Produced by The
Compound
Duration 49 min.
Rasmus Krath travels into one of
the most inaccessible places in the
world. Now he wants to meet the
notorious Somali pirates. Somalia
has no functioning government and
Mogadishu, the capital, is the world’s
most dangerous city. Accompanied
by hired mercenaries Rasmus makes
his way from Mogadishu to Eyl, the
pirate capital, and makes contact with
several high-ranking pirates who are
willing to talk about their business.
the dark side of chocolate
Directors Miki
Mistrati & U. Roberto
Romano
Produced by Bastard
Film
Duration 1 hour
Does your favourite chocolate have a
bitter taste? Maybe it will after this
horrifying uncovering of brutal trafficking and illegal child labour in the
chocolate industry
Journalist Miki Mistrati uncovers
illegal child labour in the chocolate
industry. His hunt brings him to Mali,
where kids as young as seven years
are trafficked to dangerous jobs in
the cocoa fields in neighbouring Ivory
Cost.
horizon – a vanishing nation
Director Johan Engbo
Produced by DR
Duration 25 min.
This weekly, international current affairs programme travels to a nation
facing the ultimate threat of global
warming. Far out in the Pacific Ocean,
a President is preparing to close down
his country. The global rise in tem-
peratures poses a very real threat to
the flat islands of Kiribati. If the water continues to rise, the islands will
disappear into the ocean. A country
and a culture faces extinction.
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climaniacs
Directors C. Dreyer,
C. Magid, A. Rieper,
J. Madsen, F. Ahmed,
Eirik Stordahl, N.
Standrup & A. Jepsen
Produced by Express
TV-Produktion
Duration 8 x 3-5 min.
Eight unique and thought provoking
short films on climate change. Overuse, inadequate transport and bioethanol from the rainforest. While world
leaders are planning for the future
of the planet, eight young directors
ponder over issues that affect global
warming. The films take a closer look
at some of the climate problems the
world faces today; problems politicians and policy makers around the
world will have to relate to.
albino killings in africa
Directors Suzanne
Skærbæk Nielsen
& Camilla Folsach
Madsen
Produced by Mani
Film
Duration 52 min.
Once, Albinos only had to fear the
burning sun. Now 54 Albinos have been
murdered and many others mutilated
in Tanzania. Witchdoctors claim that
Albinos are magical creatures and
that possession of their body parts
ensures wealth and success. The
police and the public authorities are
trying to stop these myths and prevent the killings, but they cannot keep
up with the crisis.
birth of a surgeon
Director Karin C.
Falck
Produced by Filmator/Living People
Documentary
Duration 45 & 52 min.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s
deadliest place to give birth. In a region
where over a quarter of a million women die in childbirth each year, Mozambique is combating high maternal death
rates by implementing unconventional
2009 Emmy Award Nominee
programmes. This documentary follows
Emilia Cumbane, one of the first Mozambican midwives-in-training, from
intensive medical classes, through
night shifts in the delivery wards and
into makeshift operating rooms.
the boy who wanted to go to war
Director Anders
Gustafsson
Produced by Fridthjof
Film for TV 2
Duration 40 min.
Michlas’ father is a soldier in Afghanistan. When Michlas grows up,
he wants to be a soldier and save the
world just like his dad. He does everything he can to prepare for becoming
a soldier. Michlas has formed his very
own theories about what a soldier
should do in order to save the world.
With Michlas’ father away, how does
his mother feel about all this? War
seen from a child’s POV.
never ending soldier
Director Mads Ellesøe
Produced by Fridthjof
Film for TV 2
Duration 40 min.
Søren has been stationed around the
world. A divorce, a new girlfriend, and
two daughters suffering from nightmares aren’t enough to keep him from
signing up for a new mission. Never
Ending Soldier portrays a man facing
his life’s greatest dilemma. Should he
continue as a soldier at all costs or
return to civilian life? In the crossfire of love and war, fear sometimes
decides where to draw the line.
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hurry home
Director Laurits
Munch-Petersen
Produced by Fridthjof
Film for TV 2
Duration 40 min.
Gitte and Susie have both sent husbands to war in Afghanistan. While the
battles are fought, the two women follow the drama anxiously from their living rooms, hoping their men will return
unscathed. When Søren left home, he
Fans of football club Boca Juniors
worship their idol Diego Maradona.
Pablo believes Maradona is God and
loves football more than his family.
To 42-year-old intellectual Hernán,
Boca Juniors means more than earthly
not only left his wife, but also his new
born child. Gitte expresses her feelings
through video dairies she sends to her
husband. Susie’s memories of her life
with Anders are illustrated through
reconstructions of the past.
Director Mika Ronkainen
Produced by Klaffi
Productions
Duration 86 min. &
1 hour
At the beginning of the 21st century,
the Age of the Robot is upon us.
With Robots in Mind follows worldrenowned robotic scientist Professor Henrik Hautop Lund. He foresees
robots in every home and senior
values, but doubt is sending him to
therapy. Aged 75, La Tia’s funny and
eccentric personality in the football
world obscures an old woman’s tragic
solitude.
Director Birgitte
Stærmose
Produced by Alphaville Pictures
Duration 29 min.
Chris MacDonald is a former US National Team elite rower and a pioneer
of healthy and active living. When his
dad is diagnosed with cancer and
receives a shocking death sentence,
father and son team up to fight the
centre, and on every playground and
battlefield. An expert in robotics and
play, he guides us from Copenhagen
to Tokyo to Palo Alto, seeking out the
most interesting robots and their
creators.
Directors Bente Milton & Mikkel Stolt
Produced by Milton
Media
Duration 90 min.
An epic documentary about a dance
company in the world’s most radioactively contaminated region, the
Russian city of Chelyabinsk. During
the Cold War it was one of the Soviet
Union’s secret cities and it developed
Mikkel enters the virtual world Second
Life to pursue dreams he cannot
fulfill in real life. He is taken under the
wing of the mysterious and influential
Helena, who turns him into a sophisticated avatar, equipped to interact
disease with a diet and exercise programme designed – in conjunction with
chemotherapy – to be the ultimate
weapon against cancer. This powerful
documentary takes us very close to
their inspirational and intense battle.
Director Anders
Agger
Produced by DR
Duration 7 x 29 min.
Official selection
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the first atomic bomb. Today it is
known for its radioactive contamination – but it also has one of Russia’s
most vibrant dance scenes. The film
follows two young dancers stuck in a
city that makes them sick.
On 16 April 2010, the Queen of
Denmark turned 70. In honor of this
occasion, the Royal Family has given
exclusive access to HM The Queen’s
innermost circle for a year. Through
candid interviews, The Kingdom behind
Berlin International
Film Festival 2010
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Nomination for
the European Film
Awards 2010
street. Through monologues performed by the children against the
eerie backdrops of Pristina, the film
tells their gripping and sad story of
memory, loss, and fear.
with the most advanced users of
Second Life. Mikkel is attracted to
Helena, but she refuses to meet him
in reality. All he can think about is his
virtual career, now more important to
him than real life.
the Scenes gives an up-to-date
insight into the Royal Family’s work, as
well as reflections on maintaining the
popularity of the Royal Family without
them becoming tabloid celebrities on
the red carpet.
queen of denmark
Directors Jacob Jørgensen & Ulrik Wivel
Produced by JJ Film
Duration 60 min.
In this poetic documentary HM Queen
Margrethe II of Denmark takes us
on a journey of her native country:
through its history and her own recollections. The film is shot on location
with HM the Queen as guide. She
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to encourage these northern rugby
novices and sole southern female.
Friendship, stamina, and the team’s
sense of humour are put to the test,
providing an exceptionally candid insight
into the fundamental nature of men.
Festival Cinema
Brivé 2010
Youth Jury’ Award
We are in Kosovo, among the city’s
street children, in 2009. Fusing
documentary and fiction, Out of Love
depicts the lives of these children
trying to survive the aftermath
of war by selling cigarettes on the
Official Selection
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the kingdom behind the scenes
tankograd
Director Boris
Bertram
Produced by Barok
Film A/S
Duration 56 min.
Official Selection
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my avatar and me
cancer knockout
Director Jesper
Markward Olsen
Produced by DR
Duration 39 min.
A comedy about the world’s most
northern – and third lousiest – rugby
team. If they play as badly as last
season, the team in the Finnish town
of Oulu will be relegated to second division. British coach Roger does his best
out of love
with robots in mind
Director & Producer
Robert Fox
Produced by Fox
Media
Duration 55 min.
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freetime machos
football is god
Director Ole Bendtzen
Produced by Final Cut
Film Production
Duration 1 hour
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tells the story herself, revealing her
passion for the country’s history and
culture providing a unique insight into
her own memories of being brought
up in a royal family.
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Film Festival 2010
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