Adam Nielsen, Editor

13. nov 2013 | PROFILE. Director Andreas Johnsen singles out the skilled editor as his most important sparring partner in his efforts to come up with a hook for "Ai Weiwei The Fake Case".

Afghanistan's Dandelion Children

13. nov 2013. Five Afghan children are the heroes of director Jens Pedersen and producer Jakob Gottschau's series "Faith Hope Afghanistan", which follows the determined struggle of Asadagha, Faridullah, Layla,…

An Inside View

13. nov 2013. Andreas Johnsen is the one-man army who got access to Ai Weiwei. Even as the world-famous Chinese artist and dissident had been banned from talking to the media, the Danish documentarian had an…

Boy in the Dohyo

13. nov 2013. At first glance, the children's film "Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler's Son" is the story of a small boy in a tough sport, but to director Simon Lereng Wilmont it is above all a universal narrative about…

Four Danish Titles at IDFA Forum

13. nov 2013 | IDFA FORUM 2013. Eva Mulvad, Nicole Nielsen Horanyi, Lise Birk Pedersen and Trine Laier are bringing their new projects to IDFA Forum, the essential breeding ground for new documentaries at the IDFA film festival in…

Gifted Idiocy

13. nov 2013. In its transgressive aesthetics and upfront awkwardness, Lars von Trier's Dogme film "The Idiots" (1998) hits like a fist in the gut. Jesper Jargil's making-of film "The Humiliated" (1998) peels back…

I'm Not Out to Judge

13. nov 2013. Jon Bang Carlsen originally planned his new film, "Just the Right Amount of Violence", as a relatively straight documentary, but the project ended up as one of the most genre-blending works of the 63…

IDFA Issue for your laptop

13. nov 2013 | ONLINE ISSUE. Read about Andreas Johnsen's "Ai Weiwei The Fake Case" and Berit Madsen's "Sepideh" plus the other Danish films at IDFA 2013 in FILM Digital Issue for your smartphone, tablet or laptop.

Letting Go of Someone You Love

13. nov 2013. In "Carl & Niels", director Alexander Lind creates symbolic spaces to visualise the painful recognition by two twins that their childhood symbiosis is irretrievably lost. Lind is a recent…

Reaching for the Stars

13. nov 2013. Can a young Iranian woman become an astronaut? Berit Madsen's "Sepideh" is about a remarkable teenage girl cleverly and stubbornly working towards making her dream come true.