The Act of Killing makes an impact

14. nov 2013 | AWARD. "Its brave brilliance has already led to tremendous impact, almost single-handedly opening the painful dialogue on Indonesia’s genocide". Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing" wins the PUMA…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Someone to Belong With

13. nov 2013. A 13-year-old girl's relationship to her best friend is at the heart of Ulla Søe and Sussie Weinold's "Shanne and Her Friends". Shanne's story, Ulla Søe tells us, touches on the difficulty of the…

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…

Staged Documentarism

13. nov 2013. At first glance, Jon Bang Carlsen's "Just the Right Amount of Violence" resonates with the recent trend of hybrid films, but his new documentary is a natural extension of methods the Danish filmmaker…