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Black Comedy / Duration: 100 min / / 2014 Men & Chicken revolves around two special-natured brothers. Upon their father’s passing, they discover that they are adopted. Elias and Gabriel decide to seek out their natural father and set out to the island where he lives.

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Comedy / Duration: 95 min / Australia / 2014 The story of Lawrence, an 18 year old Chinese Australian, who cheats in his high school final year exams and fails to get into Medicine. Banished to stay with his uncle for the summer, Lawrence meets the Professor, a colourful, ageing conman. And so begins a road-trip..

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Political Thriller / Duration: 109 min / Denmark / 2015 The Idealist is set during the cold war and exposes a nuclear disaster, an International cover-up and the fight by one man to break the silence.

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Family Entertainment / Duration: 83 min / Denmark / 2014 The follow up to the 2012 hit My African Adventure! The kids find an old photo of a gold prospector with a beard who turns out to be their great-grandfather who had emigrated to Canada many years prior.

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JOHN LUC LI LY SULLIVAN TIMOTHY Check out all completed titles in the LevelK VIP Lounge at www.levelk.dk SPALL Completed Films Completed Films MEN & CHICKEN Mads David Nikolaj Søren Nicolas Mikkelsen Dencik Lie Kaas Malling Bro

I want to make a sterilized narrative, where you can move in and out between genres, build on the “no time – no place” Universe I’ve been telling my stories in before. It is a luxury to have this, but it helps me to make the movie I want – it helps tell the story of family tragedies, family love, family values – the story about 5 brothers – 5 brothers who have to find each other – it’s that simple – that’s the story I want to tell.

Director Anders Thomas Jensen

en & Chicken revolves around two special-natured brothers, Elias () and Gabriel (David Dencik). Upon their father’s passing, the two brothers, who are not very fond of each other, find out through the father’s will, that they are adopted. Despite their disagreements, Elias and Gabriel decide to seek out their natural father and set out to the island where their father lives. Meanwhile, a surprise awaits Elias and Gabriel there. Surrounded by the island’s many odd personalities Elias and Gabriel discover a most paralysing, yet liberating truth about themselves and their family.

MEN & CHICKEN/ Black Comedy / Duration: 100 min. / Denmark / 2014 Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Produced by Kim Magnusson and Tivi Magnusson for M&M Productions A/S. Co-produced by DCM/Germany, Studio Babelsberg/Germany. Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik, , Søren Malling, Nicolas Bro. Domestic MRelease: February 5th 2015, Walt Disney Company Nordic page  page 

Completed Films Completed Films SUCKER Life’s a game - some people just play it better.

“Sucker combines the warmth of Lawrence Leung, the fresh comedy of John Luc, the charm of Lily Sullivan and the sheer class of Timothy Spall to weave a tale of pure delight. It’s a true story about things that never quite happened.” Director Ben Chessell

UCKER is the story of Lawrence, an 18 year old Chinese Australian who cheats in his high school final year exams and fails to get into Medicine. Banished to stay with his uncle for the summer, Lawrence meets the Professor, a colourful, ageing conman. And so begins a road-trip with the Professor and his daughter Sarah. The Professor teaches Lawrence the art of swindling and cheating, and from Sarah, Lawrence learns a hard lesson in unrequited love. As Lawrence and the Professor work towards their biggest scam, and Sarah and Lawrence plan a swindle of their own, Lawrence is forced to make a S choice between love, life and lies.

SUCKER / Comedy / Duration: 95 minutes / Australia / 2014 Directed by Ben Chessell. Produced by Robyn Kershaw and Jason Byrne for Robyn Kershaw Productions and Jason Byrne Productions. Cast: John Luc, Lily Sullivan and Timothy Spall. Australian Distribution: Madman Entertainment 2015 TBC

page  page  Completed Films Completed Films THE IDEALIST For a whole decade one man never stopped hunting the truth about the worst nuclear cover-up during the Cold War.

anuary 21st 1968 – An American workers are set to work, helping in classified archives in the US. B-52 bomber carrying nuclear the gigantic clean-up operation. The ambitious reporter launches warheads has just crashed on the After eight months, all traces an uncompromising investigation. polar ice near the US military Air of the crashed aircraft and the The deeper he goes the further Base in Danish controlled Thule, plutonium-contaminated snow are he finds himself in the heart of an Greenland. gone. The case is closed. International cover-up so immense A few days later, responsible 18 years on, while covering a in size that it holds 2 nations across governments classify the crash as local workers compensation story, the Atlantic culpable. Soon those a Broken Arrow scenario (nuclear reporter Poul Brink, suddenly runs in charge are finding it hard to accident) but proclaims the situation into suspicious circumstance linking keep the truth about tragic accident being under control. No cause for back to the concealed 68’ nuclear under wraps, and will take any concern in relation to radioactive accident. Apparently the full and measure to suppress Brink. contamination or violation of true story about the crash lays well- foreign power’s sovereignty, protected deep under the Thule J nuclear policy. Hundreds of Thule Bay’s ice cap and deep down the “I wish to examine a basic human and democratic dilemma: Must the truth always be made known? Can a country or a society withstand revealing all of its secrets to its population? Is it even possible to sustain a community if there is no such thing as diplomacy? What are the advantages of the lie and how far can you go before a lie becomes an offence?”

Director Christina Rosendahl

THE IDEALIST / Political thriller / Duration: 109 min / Denmark /2015. Directed by Christina Rosendahl. Produced by Jonas Frederiksen & Signe Leick Jensen for Toolbox Film. Cast: Peter Plaugborg, Søren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen, Arly Jover, Jens Albinus. Domestic release: April 9th 2015, SF Film A/S

page  page  Completed Films Completed Films MY CANADIAN ADVENTURE he follow up to the 2012 hit My an old gold mine, and a treasure African Adventure! The kids map. The kids catch gold fever and - QUEST FOR THE LOST GOLD find an old photo of a man with a go on a quest in search for the lost beard and gold digging equipment gold, which may still be hidden in who turns out to be their great- a mine that’s been untouched for grandfather. This bearded man had over fifty years. On their way to find immigrated to Canada many years the mine, the Canadian wilderness, “I’m born in 1973 and grew up with the broad appealing and excellent American family ago to become a gold prospector. the nature and the animals surprise The thought of this excites the the kids, not too mention the adventure films as the “Indiana Jones-trilogy”, “Gremlins”, and “Back to the Future- children and they manage to get in two suspicious gold prospectors, trilogy”. I think the answer behind their success lies in that these people themselves touch with their aunt Anna, who who also want their hands on the invites them to Canada for a visit. treasure. wanted to watch the films they made! None of them took the easy way out just because It turns out that there is a story of the films had to be understood by children. These film makers wanted to laugh and bite their nails themselves. This is also my success criteria with the new My Sister’s Kids – I have to want to see it in the cinema myself.

In this film we don’t want to present the children as flawless or as heroes. Like the adults, the children also get struck by the gold fever, which leads to troubles, discord, T challenges and finally self-knowledge. With this film we tell the story of how gold and mammon can blind even the purest hearts – the children’s and how they at the end realize that family is more important than anything else.”

Director Niels Nørløv

MY CANADIAN ADVENTURE / Family Adventure / Duration: 83 min. / Denmark / 2014 Directed by Niels Nørløv. Produced by Michael Obel for Obel Film A/S. Cast: Lærke Winther, Rasmus Botoft, Lone Hertz, Zlatko Buric, Troels Malling, Signe Skov. Domestic Release: February 5th 2015, All Right Film

page  page  Comedy Comedy Focus on... THE LITTLE DEATH A romantic comedy about the extra ordinary ALL FOR ONE ALMOST PERFECT SUBDIVISION Comedy / 83 min / Denmark / 2010 Comedy / 98 min / Denmark / Comedy / 95 min / Comedy / 104 min / Australia / 2012 Denmark / 2002 2009 sex lives of To reveal a wealthy big smuggler, the policeman Martin benefits Anne feels compelled to find the Bjarne & Svend open a butcher Love plus loyalty, mulitplied by ordinary from his connections to his three sperm donor and ensure that he is shop. They come up with a special pride, divided by money, equals… childhood friends, who also happen as perfect as she imagines. dish that has crowds flocking to Cast: Asley Bradnam, people to be petty criminals. Cast: Lene Maria Christensen, their shop. But people start asking Gary Sweet Cast: Mick Øgendahl, Nikolaj Lie Kaas about the ‘special ingredients’. Jonatan Spang Director: Hella Joof Director: Anders Thomas Jensen Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Line Kruse

HE LITTLE DEATH, which ONCE UPON A TIME IN PHUKET TAKE THE TRASH marks the arrival of Australian ALL FOR TWO writer-director Josh Lawson, is Comedy / 89 min / Danish / 2013 Comedy / 105 min / Sweden / 2012 Action Comedy / 109 min / Comedy / 80 min / Denmark / 2008 T Denmark / 2000 both an edgy sex comedy and a Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Carrier coach Sven has gotten sick Sometimes you’ve got to take warm-hearted depiction of the Ralf and Timo are planning a heist of helping everyone else changing 4 gangsters trick a mob boss: they the trash. secret lives of five suburban couples involving the unlikely combination their lifes. He quits his job and goes steal 4 million kroner. Escaping, Cast: Thure Lindhardt, living in Sydney. Lawson’s searing of unsalted butter, a strickt diet and to Thailand to find himself and they stop at an old house and realize and sometimes shocking screenplay a helicopter. to realize his dream to become a they would like to start a new life. weaves together a story that Cast: Mick Øgendahl, writer. But their past catches up with them. explores a range of sexual fetishes Rasmus Bjerg Cast: Peter Magnusson, Director: Anders Thomas Jensen and the repercussions that come David Hellenius Cast: Søren Pilmark, Mads with sharing them. Featuring an Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich ensemble of breakthrough talent, Thomsen, Sofie Gråbøl Iben Hjejle the film was produced by Jamie Hilton, Michael Petroni and Matt Reeder; and executive produced by Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Josh Pomeranz, Viv Scanu and Stephen Boyle.

BODY FAT INDEX OF LOVE PARK ROAD – THE MOVIE NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING THE CHRISTMAS PARTY Comedy / 98 min / Finland / 2012 Comedy / 90 min / Denmark / 2012 Romantic Comedy / 99 min / Comedy / 86 min / Denmark / 2009 United Kingdom / 2013 Body Fat Index of Love is a An astounding ensemble of lies, When Anders Bo begins his new romantic comedy that puts love and suburban gravel mixed A struggling publisher has to free job as a car salesman, he is given relationships on scale. with a solid dose of black humour. his only successful author from the special task of infiltrating the Cast: Miina Maasola, Based on the dramedy series ”Park writer’s block or he’s finished. She’s small competing car shop, Holger’s Mikko Nousiainen, Jarkko Niemi Road” from 2010. too happy and can’t write when she’s Auto during their annual Christmas THE LITTLE DEATH / Comedy / Duration: 97 min. / Australia / 2014 Cast: Soes Egelind, happy. The worse he makes her feel, party and steal their customer file. Written & Directed by Josh Lawson. Produced by Jamie Hilton, Michael Petroni, Matt Reeder for See Pictures Soeren Spanning the more he falls in love with her. Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Cast: Josh Lawson, Bojana Novakovic, Damon Herriman, Kate Mulvany, Kate Box, Patrick Brammall, Alan Director: John McKay Mick Øgendahl Dukes, Lisa McCune, Erin James, T.J. Power, Kim Gyngell, Lachy Hulme. Cast: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber & Domestic Release September 25th 2014,eOne Films Australia. Iain de Caestecker.

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hree generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother´s decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old HAIL OFF BEAT conflicts come to the surface. Drama / 104 min / Australia / 2012 Drama / 95 min / Switzerland / 2011 Soon after being released from T prison Dan’s love is suddenly torn Lukas’ music career is waning. away from him. Suffocating and His producer Mischa no longer “An intense filled with violence, Dan goes on a wants him or their turbulent affair journey to take back what is his. and shifts his attention to Lukas’ Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson younger brother Sami. family drama Cast: Daniel P Jones, Leanne Letch Director: Jan Gassmann Cast: Hans-Jakob Mühlethaler, in which Manuel Neuburger every conflict and aspect of love finds its voice in

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redemptive Tania thinks she’s Maori. She works As a gunshot fires in a the graveyard shift at Horizon to hotel, disparate lives intersect. weekend a save money to take her brother Pi Secrets, once held in the intimacy to Surfers. But one night a cheeky of hotel rooms, are revealed in a little bird ruins everything and dramatic tale of love and longing. family spends Tania pays the ultimate price for Director: Birgitte Staermose being a hero. Cast: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik together.” Directed by Curtis Vowell Cast: Sophie Henderson, Jarod Rawiri, Stephen Lovatt Director Bille August

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What starts as a beautiful and Four young filmmakers travel deep Facing competition from larger A series of humiliating events 100 strangely innocent affair between into the woods to shoot a horror fishing enterprises, Kesse is days before graduation pushes a vulnerable teenage romantic and film. While trying to find their struggling to survive and is forced privileged Dominik into a virtual a French S&M mistress soon desired location, they get lost. to find more notorious ways to world, soon enough his online becomes more dangerous in My Directed by Anders J. Bukh. make ends meet. experiences bleed dangerously into SILENT HEART / Drama / Duration: 98 min. / Denmark / 2014. Mistress, an unconventional and Cast: Jacob Guldager, Kristian This leads him to meet his polar- reality. Directed by Bille August. Produced by Jesper Morthorst for SF Film Production. provocative love story. Fjord, Signe Sørensen, Casper Sloth. opposite, female marine biologist Director: Jan Komasa Cast: Ghita Nørby, Pilou Asbæk, Paprika Steen, Morten Grunwald, Danica Curcic. Directed by Steven Lance. Gerd. Cast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Domestic Release Nov 13th 2014, SF Film A/S (250.000 Admissions in DK) Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Harrison Director: Søren Balle Gasiorowska Gilbertson and Rachael Blake. Cast: Henrik Birch, Susanne Storm, Lars Topp Thomsen

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A former pageant queen turned ichael Haas has played war video lawyer, Kimberley Motley left her games since he was 5. At 19 he is husband and three kids in the US in employed by the US Air Force as a order to work as a defence lawyer in Mdrone pilot. A Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the first and only foreign lawyer who litigates This is the new warfare: Young in Afghanistan’s courts. gamers are recruited to operate drones through their computers Kimberley is first to admit she came to kill real people 7000 miles to Afghanistan for the money. But away. This is not science fiction it has become about something else; but today’s reality and the big Kimberley – who had never before investment of the future: Robot left the US – saw how poorly the war. According to NATO we will legal system in Afghanistan was run soon fight with tens of thousands of and how this part of the Afghan robots, and we are now developing society had been totally neglected by unmanned drones from the size the international community. of bees to airships. These new developments are compared For over five years now, human to the invention of the atom rights cases and troubled expats have bomb. As technology expands at an motivated her to stay, but personal unprecedented rate we are part of an threats, including grenades thrown experiment that changes our wars into the front of her offices, and and possibly our world. general conditions in the country, make it harder and harder for The armed drone, developed by Kimberly to continue her work. the CIA, is hailed as the defining weapon of the war on terror. It Time is running out. Nobody knows revolutionizes the ability to find, fix what will happen in Afghanistan and finish a person or a group in far when the international troops leave. away hard to reach places. Nowhere Or, when the risk becomes too high, has been more bombed than will Kimberley be able to stay and Waziristan. Who are they killing? continue her work for justice? DRONE investigates the human consequences of the covert CIA drone war in Waziristan. Through unique access to voices on both sides “I grew up in a of this new technology DRONE gives crucial context and new bad neighbourhood, perspectives that reveal crucial secrets of the CIA drone war and and Kabul is just asks urgent questions about where we are headed. that; another bad neighbourhood.”

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DRONE / Documentary / Duration: 79 & 58 min / Norway / 2014 MOTLEY’S LAW / Documentary / Duration: 90 min / Denmark / 2015. Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei. Produced by Lars Løge for Flimmer Film. Directed by Nicole Horanyi. Produced by Helle Faber Broadcast Partners: ARTE, TV2 Norway, SVT, DR for Made in Copenhagen Cast: Kimberly Motley. Domestic release: TBC

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ANNA PIHL PARK ROAD THE BEGINNING OF THE END NORWEGIAN COZY TV Drama / 30 x 42 min / TV Dramedy / 22 x 42min / TV Mini Series / 2 x 55 min / TV Drama / 6 x 58 min / Denmark / 2006-2008 Denmark / 2010 Finland / 2009 Norway / 2010

In this award-winning series Anna In this popular series Katrine, Sune & Nella, a Finnish MEP’s assistant in Emmy-nominated series about Phil, an officer fresh out of the Mathilde flee the city and seek refuge Brussels, is assigned to report on a Georg, who finds himself back home Documentary / 88/52 min / Denmark / 2013 academy, must learn the rules of the in a suburban community but the dispute over the old Lapland forests. living with his paranoid father. SEPIDEH street if she is to survive and bring residents have their secrets. No simple truths exist, especially Directors: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, down the criminal establishment. Directors: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, when all the parties are lying. Daniel Voldheim, Anne Sewitsky Directors: Carsten Myllerup, Daniel Voldheim, Anne Sewitsky Directors: Heikki Kujanpaa Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Morten Arnfred Cast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Cast: Saana Hyvaarinen, Kai Anders Danielsen Lie Cast: Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle Anders Danielsen Lie Lehtinen

Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of Focus on... the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations to a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s ambitions, and her plans to go TALE 1/2 REVOLUTION PLANET RE:THINK to university are in danger. But Documentary / 72min / Denmark, Documentary / 89min / Denmark Sepideh holds on to her dream! Egypt / 2011 / 2012 She takes up the fight and teams up with the world’s first female Egypt’s protests come alive in the Planet RE:think breaks new space tourist, Anousheh Ansari. most courageous and compelling ground in unravelling the web OF A documentary to come out of the that intricately disguises the Directed by Berit Madsen Arab Spring. links between new technology Directors: Omar Shargawi consumption and the worsening of & Karim El Hakim the global financial crisis. Director: Eskil Hardt FOREST

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life of a young championship women in a city in Iran and what Finnish forest and its colourful and Focus on... cyclist. they must do to stay alive. diverse life. Directors: Ville Suhonen follows the animals that live in the unique forests of Finland: the bears and Director: Daniel Dencik Director: Nahid Persson & Kim Saarniluoto. the elk, the snakes and the owls, the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and many, many more. The series contains information about nature and different animal species, and it also offers hints on how nature can be protected. Directors: Ville Suhonen and Kim Saarniluoto. Production Company: MRP Matila Röhr Productions.

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COMING HOME ME & MY UMBRELLA STORM THE SECRET ADVENTURE Family Drama / 81 min / Norway Family Fantasy / 78 min / Brazil Family / 87 min / Denmark / 2009 Family / 96 min / Denmark / 2011 / 2011 / 2010 Freddy saves Storm, the dog, from When their mother dies three Family Entertainment / Duration: 83 min. / Denmark / 2014 15-year old Ida is a fashionblogger With his childhood sweetheart its volatile owner. The owner children keep up appearances to and a city girl, and unhappy about kidnapped by the cruel Baron demands payment, and so to avoid being split-up. As they try The follow up to the 2012 hit My African Adventure! her mother’s decision to move to a before their first day of school, raise money Freddy trains Storm to cover-up, more secrets unravel The kids find an old photo of a man with a beard and gold digging small farm in Northern Norway. Eugenio embarks on a rescue for the highly prized dog-racing including tickets to Barbados with equipment who turns out to be their great-grandfather. This bearded man Until she meets Kehilan, the wild adventure, armed with his championships. their names on it. had immigrated to Canada many years ago to become a gold prospector. horse. Grandfather’s magic umbrella. Director: Giacomo Campeotto Director: Morten Koehlert The thought of this excites the children and they manage to get in touch Director: Anders Oevergaard Director: Toni Vanzolini Cast: Kirsten Lehfeldt, Troels Lyby with their aunt Anna, who invites them to Canada for a visit. Cast: Julie Nordhuus, Elise S. Maerlie Cast: Victor Froiman, Rafaela Victor It turns out that there is a story of an old gold mine, and a treasure map. The kids catch gold fever and go on a quest in search for the lost gold, which may still be hidden in a mine that’s been untouched for over fifty years. On their way to find the mine, the Canadian wilderness, the nature and the animals surprise the kids, not too mention the two suspicious gold prospectors, who also want their hands on the treasure.

Directed by Niels Nørløv. Produced by Michael Obel for Obel Film A/S. Cast: Lærke Winther, Rasmus Botoft, Lone Hertz, Zlatko Buric, Troels Malling, Signe Skov.

JESUS & JOSEFINE MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV THE BLUE TIGER Family TV Series / 24 x 20 min / Family / 88 min / Russia / 2011 Family / 90 min / Czech Republic Focus on... Denmark / 2003 / 2011 Borya, the clumsiest pupil at Josefine does not like Christmas. the Bolshoi Ballet School, is Just as an evil developer is about to However, her opinions are put to convinced he is the son of Mikhail knock down the botanical garden the test when, through a magical Baryshnikov, and sets out to paradise, a blue tiger arrives, nativity play, she is transported to persuade others. threatening his plans. Nazareth and meets a young boy Directors: Dmitry Povolotsky, Mark Director: Petr Oukropec called Jesus. Drugoi Cast: Barbora Hrzanova, Jan Hartl Director: Carsten Myllerup Cast: Dmitry Vyskubenko, Anna THE Cast: Pernille Kaae, Sebastian Mikhakova Aagrad-Williams

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Karl Højby Hansen has lived the first 12 years of his life in a small conservative village in Denmark with his mother, grandmother and grandfather. Thus it comes with a great shock when his mother tells Karl that they will be moving to the capital city, Copenhagen. Nothing can

DITTE HANSEN TROELS MALLING RUMLE DUUS RISOM FRIDA LUNA ROSWALL MATTSSON LASSE GULDBERG KAMPER SEBASTIAN KRONBY MATHILDE HØGH KØLBEN CLARA RUGAARD-LARSEN prepare him for his new surrounds, an ethnically mixed area, where 80% of OBEL FILM Presents ”MY AFRICAN ADVENTURE” Director of Photography LARS REINHOLDT Production Designer CHANTEL CARTER Editor GERD TJUR Sound Mixer MARTIN SAABYE ANDERSEN ARTHUR KOUNDOURIS Composer NEILL SOLOMON Costume Designer JANE MARSHALL Make-up Artist THEOLA BOOYENS Line Producer TINA WINHOLT South African Producer MARLOW DE MARDT Based on story by MARTIN MIEHE-RENARD MICHAEL OBEL IB KASTRUP JØRGEN KASTRUP LARS MERING og ANNE MARIE OLESEN Manuscript by MARTIN MIEHE-RENARD & MICHAEL OBEL Producer MICHAEL OBEL Director MARTIN MIEHE-RENARD

WWF’S PANDACLUB Produced by OBEL FILM AFRICA APS with financial support from THE DANISH FILMINSTITUTE & DANMARKS RADIO ARBEJDER MED NATURBEVARELSE OG FORMIDLING TIL BØRN WWW.MINSØSTERSBØRN.DK the children at his new school are bilingual. Immediately Karl quickly starts to plan his escape back to his grandmother and grandfather. LOST IN AFRICA RONAL THE BARBARIAN THE GREAT BIRD RACE MY AFRICAN ADVENTURE Family Drama / 90 min / 3D Animation (stereoscopic) / 95 Family / 90 min / Denmark / 2012 Family Adventure / 80 min Sawsan, a young Islamic girl in Karl’s class, takes him under her caring Denmark / 2010 min / Denmark / 2011 Denmark / 2012 wings and tries to integrate him into big city life with all its slang and Tensions are high as the defending hipness. When one of Sawsan’s homemade songs are being chosen for Simon travels with his Danish When evil Lord Volcazor kidnaps champion makes a surprise return, The Berg family wins a journey to the biggest song contest in the country, held near Karl’s village, she faces mother to his country of origin, the rest of the Barbarian tribe, threatening Daniel’s chance at Africa. The trip is disrupted when opposition from her family who don’t approve of her dream to sing. But Kenya. After arriving, he loses his Ronal must summon the courage to winning 1st prize at the Annual Mrs Flinth gets kidnapped by Karl has other ideas, and with both of them heading in the same direction soccer ball. Whilst trying to find it save them, and embark on a quest of Bird Spotting Championship. poachers. Uncle Eric and the kids he hatches a plan that will involve the train-ride of their life! he gets lost in the biggest city-slum the most unusual kind. Director: Christian Dyekjaer go after the poachers in an action- in Africa. Director: Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Cast: Oliver Methling Sondergaard, packed adventure. Director: Martin Miehe-Renard. Produced by Marcella Dichmann & Director: Vibeke Muasya Philip Einstein Lipski, Thorbjorn Lars Brygmann Directed by Martin Miehe-Renard Henrik Møller-Sørensen for ASA Film Cast: Connie Nielsen, Simon Larsen Christoffersen Produced by Michael Obel Cast: Sylvester Byder, Malika Sia Graff, Line Kruse Cast: Ben Bledsoe, Dee Snider

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