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- A fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
- This documentary-style film shows how government agencies try to cope with human mankind's first contact with alien life.
- The political drama of the fall of the Iron Curtain as told by one of its power brokers and the widow of one of its casualties.
- In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.
- A documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.
- Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
- Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- AFTERWAR is filmed over 15 years. Director Birgitte Stærmose originally met the cast in 2008 when they were children selling cigarettes and peanuts on the streets of postwar Pristina and returned again in 2018 and to film another 5 years with them as adults. The film builds on the lived experience of the cast and is based on extensive interviews and a co-creation process with them. They tell their collective story through monologues spoken directly to the camera as well as staged, scripted scenes, sometimes together with professional actors and sometimes with amateurs. This is not a documentary; nor a true fiction film, but a performative testament to the war that lives on in people, when the fighting is over.
- Two 15-year old cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix. Yet, while the aunt continues in her reveries and Sanne begins to play with the idea of a romance, Iben casts herself into a secretive, new world of longing and intimacy, love and separation.
- The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan.He is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts by giving her drugs against her will. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her father, Mats, is trying to figure out how to get her back before it's too late.
- Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
- A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.
- In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city. Its soul recalls its life, when it was a shepherd dog of a family and was abandoned in the field and walked to the city. Then it recalls when it meets a young woman that is near to have a baby.
- In many Western democracies, trust between the people and the politicians are at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In Italy, Movimento vows to send all politicians home and bring the people to power. They win a stunning 25% of the vote, but what happens when political ideals meet parliamentary reality? Can you be uncompromising and democratic at the same time? Are internet referendums direct democracy or faceless mob rule? The film follows this democratic experiment.
- It takes place in the borderland between fiction and documentary. A fiction in which the screenwriter Henrik Nordbrandt plays one of the film's leading roles, a figure who in many ways resembles himself. The game with the audience as to whether it is the film's Norbrandt who is the real Nordbrandt, or whether it is Nordbrandt playing a character from the world of his own story. It is this mixing of the fictional and the documentary that excites me. Nordbrandt in one role and Claus Nissen in the other, just the right cast. One is the restlessness and the other the epitome of laid back. All in all, a film that is a laid-back restlessness. In short, "På Ama'r" is about two idiots who fool around in Amager. They try to invent things to keep the boredom from life and kill time, to avoid the irrefutable question: to travel or not to travel.
- Scrawny, awkward, unlucky Tifanfaya gets a queer start to her life as a orphan. Uncle Brutus and aunt Mathilde agree to look after her, but for devious reasons: Tifanfaya lives in a castle which Aunt Mathilde would like for her very own. But clumsy Tifanfaya becomes Queen of the Mountain Bandits and with her gang she rebels against her wicked stepmother and wins back her castle and her country.
- Nagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man with a mission. A few years ago Nagieb traveled to Afghanistan in order to refine the simplistic media image of the country, but he ended up as a prisoner of the Taliban and barely escaped. On the next trip, Nagieb brought 30 mobile cameras and asked Afghan civilians to film themselves. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.
- Using Goethe's Theory of Colours (Zur Farbenlehre) as point of departure, Light Darkness and Colours takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colours. In 1704, Sir Isaac Newton published *Light and Refraction*, his study of the interactions between sunlight and prisms. Newton was, as a good scientist, intent on achieving objectivity, which meant studying sunlight in isolation. He thought colours were contained solely in light, and found the spectrum he was looking for. When he reproduced this experiment, Goethe found another, hidden set of colours missed by Newton. Goethe found the hidden colours in the boundaries between light and darkness. He felt, as an artist, that one could not talk about light without including darkness. Calling it 'the light-darkness polarity', Goethe made this new scientific discovery using artistic methods in conjunction with science. As far as scientists were concerned, Goethe was a layman, which meant that his research went largely ignored. Not until many years later was it recognized how revolutionary his scientific discoveries really were. Goethe spent more than 40 years of his life on *Zur Farbenlehre*, which in its own way summarizes the whole of his thinking and connects his poetry with science. Goethe himself viewed his work as so stunningly radical that he prophesied that it would only be understood generations after his death. In keeping with Goethe's method, the three directors work from a personal curiosity as they explore the natural laws and phenomena surrounding human sensory perception. Using strikingly beautiful time-lapse cinematography, and duplicating Goethe's and Newton's experiments on camera, they have crafted a visually stunning and intellectually rewarding film.
- A comfortable family leaves Norway to join a Danish community committed to reducing the contribution of individuals to climate change.
- What happens when a suburban family gives up all fossil fuel-based products, including plastic, for a whole year?
- Gustav and Oskar are twins. Oskar has Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Both have blue eyes and blonde hair. They approach life in different ways. The director, Axel Danielson, have filmed Oskar and Gustav over a ten year period - from nine to nineteen - as they grow up together in an old farmhouse in the country-side, in the very South of Sweden. In 53 scenes in chronological order we follow the brothers through their journey of childhood, adolescence and struggle for identity.
- The real-life story of Steven, a former child soldier from Uganda, who after a terrible sequence of events - including imprisonment, torture, escape, and the death of his wife and son - reached Denmark as a UNHCR refugee. The film is also a portrait of contemporary Uganda, Pearl of Africa and darling of the West, a country attempting to make the transition from military dictatorship to democracy.
- A sequel to the acclaimed documentary The Punk Syndrome (2012).
- Katja aged 16 and Cathrine aged 8 both have a unique relationship to music, to nature and to sensation in general. Katja and Cathrine are blind, but the girls have developed their other senses and use them much more keenly than most people around them. The director, Erlend E. Mo, depicts the two girls; interpreting their sense-based, subjective experience of the world, which is as rich as a world observed by a seeing person, just different. The film represents the intimacy and intensity of the girls' environment in few words, and in doing so allows the viewer to partake in a poetic subjective experience and perceive an old world afresh.
- Documentary about the 400 liquidations that the resistance movement made in Denmark during the occupation.
- Linda is 12 and she is bored until she meets an older man.
- A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.
- Portrait of Jonathan whose father committed suicide when he was only 8 years old. Now Jonathan is 11 and fights cancer.
- Oliver's father and mother are as parents most, the busiest people. They hire tight Mrs Brusse as a babysitter for six-year-old Oliver and two-year-old baby sister Louise. Mrs Bruce's prehistoric view of child rearing irritates Oliver, however. He would much rather be cared for by raunchy 16-year-old Josephine. Using an emergency lie, he gets Mrs. Brusse canceled. He is then alone at home with little sister Louise, and it works just fine. That is until Oliver locks himself out with Louise inside the house. Now what to do?
- Daddy is not paying attention, and Marie decides to do something about it.
- Documentary about a dark chapter in the history of Danish colonial administration in Greenland. 30 Inuit families were deported from their home in Thule, because USA wanted to turn the area into an air base. Fifty years later the whole story can finally be told.
- Misse the cat is searching for the country of the many mice. He meets five green-eyed cats. They think that Misse is strange with his blue eyes.
- 40 people meet. 20 pairs. Each pair is a total of 100 years old. A one-year-old and a ninety-nine-year-old; a two-year-old and a ninety-eight-year-old; and so on and so forth. 2000 years of life.
- Jørgen Haugen Sørensen belongs to the most noteworthy Danish sculptors. Free of the restrictions of styles, rules, or schools, he gives unstintingly of his experience and impressions of life, of everything he perceives, thinks, and sees.
- Our brains have always been a subject for human investigation, but scientists have had to perform their analysis on dead tissue. Recently neuroscience has developed new imaging technology to watch the living brain while it performs its functions, healthy as well as sick. Every day, new insight into diseases in the brain appear and possibilities for treatment explored, and the connection between mind and brain can now be explored analytically.
- Exploring the world of physics and the beginning of the Universe through the eyes of the Standard Model. This takes us to phenomenoms like wormholes and baby universes and way back to the first second of Big Bang. The key focus is on the High Energy Physician Holger Bech Nielsen, known for his theories on the Super Strings. He tells about his dream, his hunt for the united theory which binds together all known great physical laws, the so-called Theory of Everything.
- Per is good at soccer but less good at managing his life. He has been homeless for 17 years and now he is going to play for Denmark in the Homeless World Cup. With the rest of the team (ten men and a woman) he swaps his beer and cigarettes for Cola and vitamins as he embarks on a tough training program intended to strengthen body and spirit, self-confidence and togetherness. The team doesn't exactly resemble Manchester United or even the top Danish club, but its goal is the same: to win! This is a film about a different kind of soccer world cup, triumphs and disappointments, shattered hopes and living dreams.
- Fourteen Greenlanders, all of whom have stories to tell, provide a fascinating portrait of a land and its people through their tales of childhood and youth. We hear about a 14-year old orphan boy who catches his first narwhale, about a boy who accidentally kills his puppy, about a woman who hears a qivittoq's (a mountain wanderer) cry of horror, about a shaman who must battle with his spirit when he decides to become a Christian ... All tales from Ammassalik, Thule and Upernavik, narrated vividly and dramatically in the tradition of Greenlandic storytelling which has developed over centuries of long, dark polar winters.