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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…