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DR Sales meet us at stand www.drsales.dk R. 30.19 drsales@.dk mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 C drama 03 documentary 03 The Legacy 04 Heartless 05 Government aka Borgen 06 The Eagle 07 The Man with the Golden Ears 07 Lulu – the Bankrobber’s Wife 07 The Summers 07 Better Times 07 Nikolaj & Julie in production 08 Happy Life 08 Album 08 Monopoly 08 The Spider 08 The Kingdom 09 Taxi 09 The Killing I, II, & III 09 The Protectors 09 Unit One 09 The Kingdom the legacy kids +youth 10 Limbo 1 10 Limbo 2 10 Limbo 3 11 Christmas Stars 12 Ludvig & Santa Claus 12 Faith - Hope - Afghanistan documentary 13 Ai Weiwei The Fake Case 14 The Man Whose Mind Exploded 14 The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers 15 Carbon Crooks 15 The Dark Side of a Pill 16 The Second Wave 16 There Will Be Some Who Will Not Fear Even That Void 17 The Contemplater 17 The Coral Eden 18 Lost and Sound 18 Wonder World of Ice 19 Love in a Straw 19 Blood Ties 20 October 43 - The Rescue of the Danish Jews 20 Taming the Quantum World 20 Behind Borgen PHOTO: MARTIN LEHMANN, A.O. 21 The War Campaign 21 Back to Freedom Director Pernilla August DR is to follow up on the interna- has been the setting for the life and a quiet residential district in the Producer Christian Rank Author Maya Ilsøe tional success of The Killing and work of the internationally-renowned local town, and has never learned in production Produced by DR Government aka Borgen with a new artist Veronika Grønnegaard. the truth about her origins. This is 22 The Quatraro Mystery 22 No Regrets 22 Riis Reset Duration 10 x 58 min. Year of Production 2014 ten-part family drama. Swedish star The series traces the story of to have fatal consequences. 23 The Secret Flight 23 If I Can’t Dance - It’s Not My Revolution 23 Embracing the Dead Original Title Arvingerne 24 Cooper’s Challenge 24 Warriors from the North 24 Democrats actress, Pernille August, has been Veronika’s four adult children, whose What for the four siblings should appointed principal director. Trine distinctive upbringing has affected have been a quick and painless Dyrholm, Jesper Christensen, Kirst- their lives in very different ways. division of Veronika’s estate marks did you see en Olesen and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard They live scattered until Veronika the beginning of a journey into 25 Mercy Mercy 25 The Weather War 25 My Afghanistan 25 Under the Hood 25 The Shady Chocolate Business are among the award-winning cast dies, when they come together again secrets and lies which turns their 26 I am Breathing 26 North of the Sun 26 The Mystery of Thyco Brahe’s Death 26 Outstanding Houses of the North 26 Wolfman who will play the key characters in to take stock of her legacy. Shortly lives upside down and forces them 27 Face of Happiness 27 Cyber War 27 The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die 27 We Love Weapons 27 The Rat Race this family saga before her death, Veronika bequeaths to look at both themselves and each the house to her daughter Signe, other with new eyes. The Legacy is set in and around the whom she gave up for adoption. Sig- countryside mansion house, which ne lives with her boyfriend in Second season now greenlighted

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Berlin Film Festival Monte Carlo TV Festival 2011 Danish TV-Festival 2011 Shooting Star Outstanding Actress Best TV Drama, in production government Pilou Asbæk Sidse Babett Knudsen Best Actress, Best Editor BAFTA 2012 Best Best series Best original Best International dramaseries FIPA D’OR soundtrack FIPA heartless aka borgen Drama Series Prix Italia 2010 Grand Prize D’OR Grand Prize PHOTO: FRIDTHJOF FILM PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL, DR

Director All that you touch must wither, all on campus with his three daughters. profile seems to derail, and Ott- Directors Government is a drama series about much influence as possible. Privately, to start believing in the messages Natasha Arthy Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Producer that you love must burn But the students are also controlled mannsgård turns into a fairy tale of Rumle Hammerich, the fight for political power – and Birgitte leads a happy family life with which is his job to impart. Ronnie Fridthjof by the circle of prefects lead by dark destinies and cruel tales of sins Annette K. Olsen about the personal sacrifices and con- her husband and two children. She is Another significant character is Author Nikolaj Scherfig & Mikkel Nørgaard Produced by Fridthjof The unusual sibling couple of Sebas- Ditlev, ­a handsome alpha male who of the past, life and death, unrequited Producer sequences this has for those involved a woman with a burning commitment, Katrine Fønsmark: a political journalist Film for SBS TV, The tian and Sofie are cursed. In order is immediately threatened by the love and supernatural powers. Camilla Hammerich on and behind the political stage a big heart and little time. Will she be working for a large public service Danish Film Institute, Authors Adam Price, Nordisk Film Distribution to stay alive they are forced to suck newcomers and the ensuing power Sofie and Sebastian are not alone Tobias Lindholm able to be a successful and profes- television station. Her screen charm & MEDIA. life force from people around them. struggle. Despite finding themselves in being different and their horrific & Jeppe Gjervig Gram The central figure is the 40-year old sional top politician and stay true to and her ability to bring the debate Duration 5 x 42 min. Produced by DR Year of Production 2013 If they suck too much or feel genuine at a sort of permanent feast, the adventures at Ottmannsgaard have Duration 30 x 58 min. political leader Birgitte Nyborg, who herself at the same time? to the viewers’ eye level have quickly Original Title Heartless Year of Production love for their victims, the victim may siblings agree on one thing: they must only just begun. 2010-2013 through her idealism and huge effort Among the many important people earned her popularity and clout, but her go up in flames! not under any circumstance suck Heartless is an edgy Scandinavian Original Title Borgen secures her party a landslide victory in Birgitte Nyborg’s professional life personal life is rootless and confused. Where Sofie is the outgoing and from their fellow students – in order fairytale ultimately evolving around and thus faces the biggest challenge is her media adviser, Kasper Juul, Government has a large gallery rather cynical of the two, doing to solve the mystery they will have to the theme of ‘original sin’. It address- of her life: how most effectively to who is one of the most talented in of characters and deals with many whatever is necessary to keep herself stay beneath the radar. es the possibilities of forgiveness use the newly won seats, and how far the business. However, he is also a different aspects in the political, the and her brother alive, Sebastian is As the season unfolds we are and salvation from your own and your she is willing to go in order to gain as cynic with no illusions, who needs journalistic, and the private spheres. burdened with guilt over the curse’s introduced to a tragic 400 year-old­ ancestors’ sins and asks if you are consequences and costs. background story that may hold the sentenced to be a slave of the past Now also available as scripted format In their search for answers about key to the siblings’ mysterious curse. forever. Heartless is also a story The New York Times The Financial Times Süddeutsche Zeitung their mysterious curse, they are lead In their search for salvation, Sebas- of how people use and misuse each “A bleaker, Nordic version of ‘The West “It’s intriguing from the start, deftly “Rarely has politics been depicted in such to Ottmannsgård, the dark, tradition- tian’s romantic view on life turns other, a story of young love, drama, Wing,’ ‘Borgen’ finds a remarkable paced and, despite veering into a fascinating and well-paced manner... al boarding school, where suddenly to cynicism as he is forced to leave passion and lust. It is a story about amount of drama and suspense” melodrama midway through the 10 phenomenally well-made European television” they find themselves juggling between the girl he loves in order to keep her faith and salvation, and how to cope episodes, retain interest throughout” everyday teenage life and their in- safe, whereas Sofie has to deal with with the life you are given or, if you stinct to suck. her emotions for the first time when are willing, do whatever it takes to Ottmannsgård is run by the charis- she falls in love with Just’s daughter change it. matic superintendent Just, who lives Emilie. The siblings’ plan to keep a low

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Best New Tv-series danish drama Danish Fiction Series of the Year the man with the golden ears 2009, TVtid.dk Mediawatch Never before has Danish drama travelled so much. We are delighted to present some of our award-winning series featuring the best directors and casts in Scandinavia. Directors & Authors A fast paced, upbeat dramedy about will go to extremes to get their fif- Simon Bonde & Mike Spooner fortunes and misfortunes in the mu- teen minutes of fame, often putting The series are among the best ever produced for Producers Tomas Radoor sic industry which seems so polished themselves in situations, which are & René Ezra television. They have been shown on five continents, Produced by Nordisk Film to the spectator. At a closer look it is completely and utterly hilarious. Production A/S filled with ragged edges, lies and ab- attracting millions of viewers around the world. Duration 8 x 27 min. Year of Production 2009 surdities. It is a world in which people the eagle lulu − the bankrobber’s wife

Directors Jannik Lulu is a charming and independent criminal network. She comes face Johansen, a.o. Directors Producer Janni mother of two. She lives with Leon, to face with a male dominated under- , Søren Helleskov Kragh-Jacobsen, a.o Authors Jens Dahl the charismatic father and habitual world and the charming but corrupt Producer & Lolita Belstar criminal, who she has been seeing for criminal detective Patrick Smith, Michael Bille Frandsen & Duration 12 x 43 min. Sven Clausen Year of Production 2009 10 years. When Leon is thrown in jail whom Lulu soon develops feelings for. Authors Peter Thorsboe Lulu is forced to interact with Leon’s & Mai Brostrøm Produced by DR Duration 24 x 58 min. Year of Production 2004 Monte Carlo Original Title Ørnen the summers TV-Festival

Directors C. Myllerup, A drama series about a family and its unity and division within and across Kasper Gaardsøe, a.o. Producers Katrine generations – a series that focuses generations. It is about finding one’s Vogelsang & Camilla on what happens when the previous ideals and thereby finding the ‘bigger Hammerich Duration 20 x 1 hour balance of power in the family sud- picture’ in the ‘smaller picture’ in Year of Production denly shifts. It is a story of parents everyday life. 2007 - 2008 and children, joy and happiness and PHOTO: DR DESIGN

better times Emmy nominated PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL, DR Director Charlotte The story of four young people deter- advent of television from those Sieling As international terrorism and or- high-tech weapons. Called ”The Eagle” of a journey that might hold nothing Producer Sven Clausen mined to conquer the world when pioneering visions of culture and ganized crime become more and more for his unerring intuition, Hallgrimsson but emptiness and despair. Author Stig Thorsboe events take off in 1949. Their love stories, public information to the unruly Duration 24 x 1 hour intertwined, Western nations find exudes competence and self-assur- As varied as the cases are the Year of Production dreams, hopes, disappointments child it became as society changed. themselves increasingly threatened ance; but behind the dynamic facade international locations in Denmark, 2004 - 2007 and victories are the focus of the

by violence and lawlessness on an un- is a tormented personality... Iceland, Norway, , Germany, series. It is also the story of the PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL imaginable scale. In Denmark, a spe- Similarly to the mythical figure of France, Russia and the Netherlands, cial unit is set up to fight cross-bor- Odysseus, Hallgrimsson is a seeker. which give the series a truly cosmo- der crime across Scandinavia and His travels throughout Scandinavia politan flair. Moreover, each episode Emmy winner to establish operational links with and continental Europe lead him not is given a special look and feel through nikolaj & julie similar teams around the world only to new dangers and deadly traps, the use of a different film director but also to anguishing confrontations and director of photography. In Copenhagen, charismatic detective with his own past. Like Odysseus, he Directors Charlotte A romantic drama series about cherished relations. The series gets Sachs Bostrup, Hallgrim Hallgrimsson puts together a too makes many detours as he tries Birger Larsen, relationships, about being single and up close to six friends and the life team of crimefighters equipped with to elude his inner demons rather than Kristoffer Nyholm, a.o. friendship, about the long, winding that surrounds them – when life is Producer Piv Bernth the most advanced technology and battle them and to postpone the end Now also available as scripted format Authors Søren road of love, about hopes and dreams hilarious and when life is hopeless. Sveistrup a.o − shattered as well as new ones – and Duration 24 x 45 min. Year of Production 2003 about that one great love and those Now also available as scripted format PHOTO: ULLA VOIGT mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 08 documentary Denmark 09 documentary Denmark happy life taxi

Directors Kasper A multi-plot dramedy about ambitions Directors Anders The fixed anchorpoint for the Taxi of Taxi includes development of the Gaardsøe & Jesper W. Refn, a.o. Nielsen and suppressed emotions, about the Producer Sven Clausen series is the dispatcher’s room where recurring characters’ stories as well Producer Katrine Vogel- hazy order between dreams and reali- Author Stig Thorsboe the switchboard operators try to as the separate one-off customer sang & Christian Rank Duration 56 x 40 min. Authors Stig Thorsboe ty and about the pursuit of happiness Year of Production 1997 maintain an overview of regular runs, tales. Taxi is a family viewing – though & Hanna Lundblad and the organized life, where you can difficult customers and the network of not for the very young. Produced by DR

Duration 18 x 58 min. plan for everything − except chance. taxis around the clock. Each episode PHOTO: ULLA VOIGT Year of Production 2011 - 2012 The twins, Lykke and Thomas, share a tragic past, but have dealt with their Multi-award Emmy winner situation in very different ways… unit one winning series 2005 Now also available as scripted format

Directors Niels A thriller series that tells the story darity and are equally puzzled by the Arden Oplev, a.o. Producer Sven Clausen of a group of doughty crime experts often horrifying, yet true examples of Author Peter Thorsboe from the flying squad. We follow their human nature they face in their work. Duration 30 x 60 min. & 2 x 90 min. fascinating yet frightening work in the Unit One is based on true criminal Year of Production 2000 underworld and are thrilled by their cases through the last 10 years. commitment and affectionate soli- Now also available as scripted format

Multi-award WinnerWinner of Refletof Reflet d’Or d’Or Ciné - BAFTA winner album Cinémama Tous Tous Ecrans Ecrans the killing I, II & III scandinavian rights only winning series

Director Hella Joof A series of snapshots from the they contain too much sorrow and Directors Kristoffer Multi-award winning and internationally second series saw Lund caught up in a Producer Thomas Nyholm, a. o. Gammeltoft histories of three families. It is like pain. The three families do not really Producer Piv Bernth acclaimed crime series introducing web of top-level cover-ups, betrayals Authors Hella Joof leafing through a photo album and know each other. Nevertheless they Authors Søren Sveistrup, Chief Inspector Sarah Lund. In the and lies in a time of Islamic terrorism. & Bo Hr. hansen Michael W. Horsten & Duration 5 x 58 min. seeing the pictures we would like impacted on each other’s lives over Torleif Hoppe first season, the murder of a young girl Now Sara Lund is about to embark on Year of Production 2008 Duration 40 x 58 min. to see, but also those we would three decades from 1970 to 2000. Year of Production prompts a police investigation with per- her third investigation…

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prefer to forget about because PHOTO: DR DESIGN sonal and political consequences. The Now also available as scripted format

Multi-award Emmy winner monopoly the protectors scandinavian rights only winning series 2009

Director & Producer Mads Skjern arrives in the small leading families. They try hard to Directors Mikkel In today’s violent world, the lives of This crime series focuses on the lives Erik Balling Serup, a.o. Authors Lise Nørgaard provincial town of Korsbæk where break him but he gradually climbs the Producer Sven Clausen many politicians, heads of state and and missions of the specialists and & Erik Balling he decides to settle. He starts up social ladder and eventually succeeds Authors Mai Brostrøm other VIPs are endangered. They can all their superiors, while also portraying Duration 32 x 50 min. & Peter Thorsboe Year of Production a draper’s. His business grows in size in turning the conservative town Duration 20 x 58 min. rely on loyal bodyguards. In Copenhagen, the people they protect and those they 1978-81 and popularity and the hostility to- around. Year of Production 2008 Rasmus, Jonas and Jasmina form a protect them from. PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL

wards him increases among the towns PHOTO: ROLF KONOW dedicated group called The Protectors. Now also available as scripted format

Multi-award the spider the kingdom scandinavian rights only winning series

Director Ole The Spider takes viewers back to the time occupation, but the country was also Directors The series by Lars Von Trier is set in for its wry humor, its muted sepia Christian Madsen & Morten Arnfred Producer Christel just after the occupation—1949 more preparing to enter the more orderly Producers Ole Reim the neurosurgical ward of Copenha- colour scheme and the appearance Jakobsen precisely—and post-war Copenhagen. 1950s. It was an age full of trickery & Bo Lindquist gen’s Rigshospitalet, the country’s of a chorus of dishwashers with Author Ole Authors Lars von Trier, Christian Madsen Denmark was still suffering from and fraud, lawlessness and corruption. a.o. main hospital, nicknamed Riget – Downs Syndrome who discuss in inti- Duration 6 x 60 min. shortages and the more or less Duration 8 x 1 hour where bizarre phenomena occurs, mate detail the strange occurrences Year of Production 2000 Year of Production

shady commercial transactions of the 1994 & 1997 human as supernatural. It is notable in the hospital. PHOTO: HENRIK DITHMER PHOTO: BJARNE B. HERMANSEN mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 10 documentary Denmark 11 documentary Denmark limbo 1 christmas stars

MIP junior Video Library MIP junior Video Library Directors Michael Wikke Director Poul Berg This dynamic and colourful contempo- ties and question their backgrounds. & Steen Rasmussen Producer David C.H. Producer Sven Clausen Østerbøg rary drama, based on the lives of four They will face their worst fears and Produced by DR in ass. Co-produced by DR, 12-year-old children, focuses on peo- learn that fear may be unfounded, with SVT & NRK NDR, NRK, SVT & YLE Duration 25 x 25 min. Authors Poul Berg & ple and their relationships. It follows or that fear is founded and can be Year of Production 2012 Karina Dam the four children and their different overcome – sometimes with the Original Title Julestjerner Duration 10 x 28 min. Year of production 2011 families in a multi-plot story. The companionship of others. Limbo uses Original title Limbo children are at a point where they are humour to set off the serious events, moving from innocent childhood to thus emphasizing both. the consciousness of youth. They are beginning to form independent identi- limbo 2

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Director Tilde Harkamp, A tempo-packed series set in a larg- not least, their love. Boye is still in love Christian Grønvall & Poul Berg er-than-life comedy-like high school with Louise, who has begun to outgrow Producer David C.H. universe him. Ask and Naya are secretly in love Østerbøg Authors Poul Berg & but neither has the courage to say so. Mikkel Bak Sørensen In Limbo 2 we concentrate on the rela- Meanwhile the people around them are PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL, DR Produced by DR Duration 16 x 15 min. tions and conflicts between our young urgently trying to grab a share of their Year of Production 2012 characters and the high school staff. togetherness, and failing that, so break A Christmas Calendar for the friend in star-crazy Bob, a boy of her interest in the new star suddenly put Original Title Limbo 2 The main plot revolves around Boye who it apart. Boye, Ask, and Louise meet up whole family own age whose mother disappeared in an appearance, the plot really takes is also the narrator. The series follows on the first day of the autumn term. without trace seven years ago while off. Boye, Ask, Naya and Louise as they try Boye is determined to bring the four The leading characters of Christmas she was out star-gazing. Bob spends In Christmas Stars we meet a to keep their friendship together, and friends back together again. Stars are three children: Sus, Bob all his time sneaking into the Brorfelde gallery of colourful personalities in and Tom, who is a bit younger than observatory to study stars. The trio addition to the three leads, including the others. The action starts when is completed by Tom, a rascal who is Bob’s former rock star dad, Big J, who new Sus reluctantly ends up in Brorfelde, convinced that pixies are vampires. is struggling to pay the bills at the a village deep in the country, because One day Bob discovers a new star in rarely hired village hall while he tries her mum and dad have inherited a the sky and when three mysterious to put on a Christmas musical. poinsettia nursery. Sus soon finds a astronomers with an overweening limbo 3 Let the Christmas fun begin!

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Directors Kaspar Munk Limbo 3 is the third season about four in for the athletics track and healthy & Christian Grønvall Producer David C.H. pre-teens in limbo between childhood living, but there is a price to pay when Østerbøg and youth. Our four friends have now she does not want to join in the fun Authors David San- dreuter & Tone Mygind moved up to seventh grade, the year and games. Ask suddenly realizes that Rostbøll before their confirmation and the he will have to make more of an effort Produced by DR Duration 16 x 15 min. year in which adolescence sets in for if he is to cope with his school work, Year of Production 2013 Original Title Limbo 3 real, with body hair, spots, uncontrol- and meanwhile Viktoria, the little stir- lable erections, periods and identity rer, lies in wait to jump on the friends crises. There is an awful lot to try out at the least sign of weakness in order for the first time and some steps are to break up the group and gain con- easier to take than others. trol over the whole class. Louise is ready for her teens but Boye Our four friends are hurled into a can not keep up. They are like an old hormonal, vulnerable, humorous jour- married couple, where she feels the ney through many rites of passage need for personal development while before they can join the ranks of the he is afraid of change. Naya still goes grown-ups. PHOTO: MIKE KOLLÖFFEL, DR mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 12 documentary Denmark 13 documentary Denmark

new ludvig & santa claus ai weiwei the fake case

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Directors Søren Frelle- Is Santa really who we think he is? A Director Andreas sen & Tilde Harkamp Johnsen Producer Morten Ras- Christmas ghost story for the entire Producer Katrine A. mussen family Sahlstrøm Produced by Deluca Film Produced by Rosforth for TV 2 & Danish Documentary Duration 24 x 30 min. Atop a lonely hill in a windswept for DR in ass. with BBC, Year of Production 2011 SVT, NRK, TSR, Against Original Title Ludvig & countryside, sits Børglum Monastery, Gravity & SBS Australia Julemanden a 500-year-old manor house, awaiting Duration 58 min. & 85 min. the arrival of its new residents, the Year of Production 2013 Original Title Ai Weiwei Glad Family. But Børglum is not empty. The Fake Case It is haunted by four ghosts, led by the legendary Bishop of Børglum, who once ruled this remote part of Denmark like a king. 12-year-old Ludvig Glad has a mission. He wants to find the fabled Crown of the Virgin Mary. When an have a fight that sends Santa off, home, but Christmas itself. It is a ancient inscription prophesising a angrily, in his sleigh. And there is only magical adventure that brings to- Chosen One mysteriously appears one place he can think of going – the gether ghosts, Santa’s elves, secret over the Børglum gate, Ludvig thinks place where he grew up, Børglum passageways, hidden treasure and he has a clue to the treasure. But the Monastery. even an angel. And Ludvig uncovers Bishop has his eyes on the Crown as On his quest to find the elusive a secret so shocking it threatens well... crown, Ludvig uncovers long-hidden Christmas: Santa Claus is not who Meanwhile, far up north in a magical secrets of the manor house that everyone thinks he is. workshop, Santa Claus and his wife threaten not only his family and their An intimate and powerful film about question is if he should continue to his strength and courage, ready to probably the most politically influen- risk his life for the Chinese people or face his opponents even though their tial artist of today – and the system save it for his child. powers are mighty. Ai Weiwei has a he challenges This film follows Ai Weiwei right af- firm belief that China is ready for ter his release from three months in change and the headstrong, caged faith - hope - afghanistan Ai Weiwei, the world’s most famous isolated detention. He is grounded in bear starts to move again. Chinese artist, has always chosen the his house in Beijing, on probation and It becomes a year full of uncer- MIP junior Video Library struggle for human rights over a life under tight surveillance and restric- tainties, personal despair and unfair Directors Jens Pedersen Tough times : tough kids of privilege. tions by the Chinese authorities. He court cases, where Ai Weiwei heads & Tai M. Bakhtari Producer On his way to Hong Kong he is is met with a lawsuit, which he soon into trouble, breaks the rules, pro- Jakob Gottschau Five stories of real life drama with suddenly kidnapped by the Chinese names ‘The Fake Case’ referring to vokes and intimidates secret agents Produced by Pedersen & Co. unique access to children in conflict state, taken away and kept hidden at the name of his company “Fake”, but and makes a fight and a fuss. But Duration 5 x 15 min. ridden Afghanistan − told from their a secret location, not allowed to make more so to the false reasons behind during this period of his life, he finds Year of Production 2013 Original Title point of view: a phone call and refused the right to the accusations. new ways to express himself in his Faith - Hope - Afgha- nistan 01 Orphaned Asadagha is thrown a lawyer. When he is released it is only After his release Ai Weiwei starts art in order to continue to be a free out of his uncle’s house and journeys to a year of house arrest where he is at a zero, marked as he is by the human being and simply staying alive, into the unknown with his two sisters. under constant surveillance, his every pressure, the detention and the giving voice to himself and the Chi- A friendly man takes them in, but move monitored by the state. The Kafkan opacity. But slowly he regains nese people. Asadagha battles the memories from the night his family fell apart. 02 At 11 Faridullah is an expert brick maker. After five years it is about time his father fulfilled his promise of letting him go to school. But his coming to visit! But Layla is 11, penny. Luckily they live rent free but father made a contract with the brick the usual age for girls to marry in one day eviction threatens. boss that Faridullah will work there her village. Is that what brings her 05 Machgan works to raise money for until a debt is cleared. mother to Kabul? her father, who became a drug addict 03 Layla was put into an orphanage 04 While Basira is a successful chew- as a soldier. Her brother is bullied when the Taliban killed her father. ing gum vendor, Wali is a disaster as because his father is a dope head. One She has not seen her mother for a street worker. Wali has to provide day Machgan and her mother threaten five years. Now Layla’s mother is for his mother, but hardly makes a to throw father out unless he quits. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 14 documentary Denmark 15 documentary Denmark

Official Selection Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest East End Film new 2013 Festival 2013 new the man whose mind exploded carbon crooks

Director Toby Amies ”Two attempted suicides. Two nerv- Director Tom Heine- An investigative documentary about Producers Rob Alexan- mann der, Kat Mansoor & Toby ous breakdowns and two comas. I’m Producer Søren Steen Climate, Credits and Crooks Amies in my seventh life now and I love it. I Jespersen Produced by Perfec- Produced by Larm Film & tmotion Ltd & Animal love it all” Drako Oho Zahazar, last Heinemann Media in ass. At the end of 2012, the Kyoto Proto- Monday interview, August 2011 with Britdoc Journalism col expired. All the countries that rat- Duration 58 & 74 min. Fund / Channel 4 & DR Year of Production 2012 Duration 56 min. ifed the protocol had guaranteed that Original Title The Man Year of Production 2013 Whose Mind Exploded As a young and extraordinarily beauti- Original Title Varm Luft they would cut down on their carbon ful man, Drako Zahazar danced at the for Milliarder emissions and curb the greenhouse Folies Bergeres and led a life as exotic gasses. The question is: How did they as his name. A model for Dali & War- do that? One solution has been to buy hol, drug dealer for Keith Richards, carbon credits. If a rich country in the the gay husband of an Italian poet developed world has problems reach- for only one day and actor for Derek ing their goals, they just buy Carbon Jarman. His fantastic voyage ended Credits in the poor countries. in a horrific car accident that robbed It all looks good in the official doc- him of his looks, part of his brain and love, passion and, it has to be said, an standing. A touching, funny and at uments, but how does reality look? In 900,000 water purification filters truth a bit. most of his ability to remember. eye-watering amount of pornography. times tragic film about acceptance Bangladesh, numerous countries have were distributed for free. The idea In addition to dodgy local initiatives, We meet Drako, 74, in a tiny flat. In it Drako’s gloriously dirty mind and total and love, in which the director does bought carbon credits from new brick was to reduce the use of firewood the international carbon trading he has created an extraordinary art- lack of shame in sharing it, is one of his what Drako could not: tell the story factories that the UN call “smoke- and thereby save carbon emissions. industry has been exposed to massive work that is a sculptural autobiogra- most life-affirming characteristics. of his life. less”. But the workers are exposed But what do you do when you want to theft and fraud in a much larger phy. It weaves a unique story full of art, It ends in death and a new under- to extremely hazardous fly-ash and make a profit and only a quarter of scale. According to Europol, fraud are hardly able to breathe due the the population actually use firewood that exceeds more than 5 billion euro. the heavy smoke. And in Kenya some to boil their water? You bend the

new the auction house : a tale of two brothers the dark side of a pill

Director Ed Owles Two brothers struggle to save their Director Poul-Erik A journey into the dark side of a pill Producer Giovanna Heilbuth Stopponi family business – the oldest auction Producer Ole Hjortdal that conquered the world: the anti- Produced by Native house in India Produced by DR in depressant Voice Films co-production with NDR Duration 60 & 85 min. & in ass. with YLE, UR, Year of Production 2013 Elder brother Anwer recently ERT, Yes/DBS & HRT An exclusive, case driven investigation Original Title The Aucti- Duration 58 min. on House: A Tale of Two returned to his homeland after a life- Year of Production 2013 into the one of the medical success Brothers long career in the UK and is desperate Original Tile Pillens stories of our time. Every 10th grown Available November Mørke Side 2013 to revive the fortunes of his beloved up in the Western world is on antide- auction house, The Russell Exchange. pressants. With global sales of app. It was purchased from the British by 20 billion $, the prescription drug is his grandfather in 1940 and has been one of the most lucrative products of in the Saleem family ever since. A the medical industry. But the wonder unique piece of India’s heritage which drug has a dark side. still brings people from across Indian In the US, David had never had a society − rich and poor, high class and record of violence nor problems with low – through its doors today. the 1960s and knows the place, and each other and their future, their the police, until suddenly he commit- was to blame for her son’s death. strong tool to create peace and But the odds are stacked against the world of antiques, inside out. He amusing, argumentative, but ulti- ted a terrible crime just days after In Germany a wife and loving moth- tranquility in the mind of a troubled him – a chaotic, fragmented city; a is steeped in the city’s traditions mately heartfelt relationship opens up taking antidepressants: he stabbed er committed suicide, just weeks brain. But is it possible that the same lazy, half-dead staff and most notably and is sceptical about Anwer’s plans a wider insight on whether old family and killed his twin daughters. In Can- after taking Prozac. Her husband is pill can send someone to the darkest his quarrelsome, cantankerous young- for change. He believes that Kolkata businesses and unique places like the ada, a grieving mother is distraught convinced that there a link between regions of the soul? Could there be a er brother… is a city in terminal decline and the Russell Exchange can still have a place that her son’s killer was released suicide and antidepressants. connection between antidepressants Younger brother Arshad, India’s auction house is destined to die out amidst the economic realities of 21st from prison after a short 14-month Antidepressants are sold as a and violence? longest-standing auctioneer, has along with it… century India. sentence. The judge ruled that Prozac worked at The Russell Exchange since As the brothers come to terms with mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 16 documentary Denmark 17 documentary Denmark new there will be some new who will not fear even that void the contemplater

Director Saeed Taji An ecological film for the 21st century Director & Producer A unique film about the life around Farouky Mattias Klum Producer Marie-Therese Produced by Tierra the Baltic Sea Garvey This is a film about the future of our Grande Films Produced by Tourist Duration 57 min. With A Typewriter in planet that turns the traditional en- Year of Production 2013 The Contemplator is a tribute to one co-production with vironmental documentary on its head. Original Title Betrak- of the world’s most beautiful areas, Jabfilm for NRK taren Duration 52 min. Rather than looking at our influence The Baltic Sea. It celebrates the di- Year of Production 2012 Original Title There Will on the environment, it examines the versity and the richness of the region, Be Some Who Will Not environment’s influence on us. but it also shows how fragile the eco- Fear Even That Void Shot during a 16 day voyage on system of the sea has become. For a tall ship sailing around Norway’s most of us, the ocean is a beautiful remote Arctic islands, the documen- place where we can relax and rest, tary chronicles the bizarre, surreal but the Baltic Sea is also a resource and beautiful work of 20 artists living that we are continuously overusing to aboard. breaking point in order to satisfy our While the footage is real, the plot human needs. − inspired by the other-worldliness decimated by global warming. With no science fiction and surrealism, art, The question is how a sea surround- templator shows that we still have an description of birth, life and death in, of the location and recent events in master plan, maps or blueprints, each ecology and environment. Oddly beau- ed by some of the world’s richest outstandingly beautiful and unique sea on and around the Baltic Sea as we en- the Director’s own life − is fictional. artist recreates the Arctic of his or tiful, deeply confounding, and often countries has been allowed to become that is worth fighting for, but that counter destinies of both animals and The Director imagines the artists as a her own memories, fears, desires (and very funny, the film plays with the one of the most polluted waters in the our everyday actions will play a crucial humans living in the area. In stunning team of specialists sent on a mission flawed) expectations. audience’s expectations with wit and world? role in determining what condition the imagery, the film takes us on a journey in the near future to rebuild the … Even That Void is a cinematic gorgeous imagery. We must very soon realise how Baltic Sea will be in, when we hand it through a region still very much worth Arctic environment after it has been essay that combines elements of serious, paralysed and disheartened on to future generations. exploring. the situation is becoming. The Con- The Contemplator is a delicate

new new the second wave the coral eden

Director & Producer Something worrisome is happening in Director & Producer Do we preserve nature? Folke Rydén Mattias Klum and around the Baltic Sea Produced by Tierra Produced by FRP in ass. with SVT Grande Films The story of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Duration 44 min. Duration 55 min. The Baltic Sea is an important indica- Archipelago with remarkably diverse Year of Production 2013 Year of Production 2011 Original Title Den Andra tor of how chemicals are influencing Original Title En Värld coral reefs, mangroves and lush av Liv Vågen the environment and scientists now groups of small islands brings us to a warn against a new wave of certain moral and ethical crossroad:­ We can pollutants that strikes the sensitive either choose to stay on our course inland sea. Wildlife in and around the and deplete the last of the ocean’s Baltic Sea are suffering or drasti- resources – destroying places like this cally decreasing in numbers. Several in the process. Or we can adopt more species are under threat or have sustainable methods of harvesting the decreased all together. At the same fruits of nature that will ensure the time welfare diseases such as cancer, preservation­ of our oceans indefinitely. infertility and allergies have increased In Raja Ampat­ Islands of West and a new report from the UNEP mental toxins. When she becomes tists have the opportunity to analyse Papua, Indonesia, an area covering 45 territory that is small enough to actu- still live sustainably. The local com- points to a link between the diseases pregnant, Cecilia learns that she has an infant’s blood. And when it turns million acres of marine environment, ally protect and preserve. munities have in their own way been and new endocrine disrupting chemi- 35 different kinds of environmental out that Alfred’s blood contains even researchers have documented more A stone’s throw from the seashore preserving marine biodiversity for cals found in the Baltic Sea. toxins in her body and she wants to higher levels of certain toxins than than 1400 species of fish and 600 lives a 12-year-old boy with his family. centuries. Their fishing techniques Cecilia, an archipelago dweller, has know which of these substances have his mother’s, scientists are both sur- species of reef-building coral, the lat- As we follow the boy and his family in form the visual narrative of the human been told that foetuses and infants been transferred to her newborn son prised and worried. ter equal to 75 percent of the world’s their everyday lives, we observe how impact part of this film, both under are the most exposed to environ- Alfred. This is the first time scien- known total. All of this exists within a the majority of people in Raja Ampat water and on land. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 18 documentary Denmark 19 documentary Denmark

World Premiere Sheffield Doc/Fest SXSW Film Festival Official Selection new 2012 2012 new Open City Docs Fest Official selection 2012 nominee napa valley Emerging Director film festival lost and sound UK 2012 love in a straw

Director Lindsey Dryden What if you became deaf and lost the Director Søs Hoffman In many countries around the world Producers Kat Mansoor Producer Thomas & Lindsey Dryden ability to hear music? Houkjær it is illegal − but not in Denmark. To Produced by Animal Produced by DR be artificially inseminated as a single Monday Ltd Duration 58 min. Co-produced by Little Imagine waking up in the morning to Year of Production 2013 woman by Little Films Ltd find that the world sounds utterly dif- Original Title Kærlighed Duration 58 & 77 min. på Strå Year of Production 2012 ferent and music is suddenly unrec- Family patterns are changing. In Original Title Lost and Sound ognisable. All the songs you loved and Denmark sperm donation can still be all the songs you have yet to discover anonymous and the number of women are suddenly out of reach. Could you from around the world travelling to the find a way to get music back again and country to conceive by artificial insem- could music find you? ination has soared. And more and more One in six of us will experience some single women now go on the internet kind of deafness in our lifetime. So to buy semen and get inseminated by a what would happen to the music you midwife in a clinic. But what motivates love, if your hearing was lost? single women to make this choice − to Made by a partially deaf filmmaker It combines intimate filming with A documentary about loving music, become pregnant without a father to ing a family. About living happily ever the ‘normal’ way they are desperate. after the future of her own hearing original animation, a rich musical losing music and getting music back the child? after. But after years of searching But it is not easy to turn your back was called into doubt, this fascinating soundtrack (often manipulated to again. Signe and Maria do not know each and numerous failed relationships their on a lifelong dream about a man and award-winning documentary follows reveal what deafness actually sounds ”A unique insight into the human other but they are in the same situ- biological clocks are ticking − really the traditional family and take matter music critic Nick Coleman, dancer like) and new insights from the world’s condition ... likely to stay with you long ation. As young girls they played with fast. Close to 40, disillusioned about into your own hand and get pregnant Emily Thornton and pianist Holly Loach top neuroscientists, to tell the story after the credits have rolled.” their dolls and dreamt about finding the way life has turned out and the alone. But if they do not they may over two years, as they journey deep of the great human love affair with - DocGeeks true love, a man, having children, build- lack of possibility of getting pregnant never become mothers. into sound and silence. music.

new new wonder world of ice blood ties

Director Ilkka Rautio A film about Chinese dreams seeking Directors Pernille A strong film about how difficult it Producer Pertti Vei- Bervald Jørgensen & jalainen fulfilment in the middle of the biggest Christian Sønderby can be to break social heritage Produced by ILLUME Ltd ski resort in Finnish Lapland Jepsen in ass. with YLE Producer Helle Faber Duration 52 min. Produced by Made in Blood Ties is about a dysfunctional Year of Production 2013 Wonder World of Ice tells the story of Copenhagen in coopera- family who, despite massive social Original Title Keinolu- tion with Vega Pictures mikylä modern Lapland. The change it is going & TV2Denmark problems, share a sense of unity and Duration 58 & 83 min. through from national scenery to a Year of Production 2013 love for each other. It is a story about global entertainment centre. At the Original Titel Blodets children, who are forcibly removed Bånd ski resort the two different realities from home when they are young, and collide: the world created by tour- who return as teenagers to parents ism and the pure nature only seen in who are still exactly the same as they postcards. always were. A group of Chinese ice sculptors Svend has 16 children, the four arrive to build an exotic experience youngest with Gitte, who he is now park, Wonder World of Ice. To turn ice divorcing after a long turbulent mar- and snow into beautiful works of art. village in his panda outfit, Huang is led native inhabitant of these mountains, riage. This drastic change in the family files on his family. He is determined to journey, that is anything but pretty. Among them is Huang Shen, a young to reflect on the differences between the reindeer. And as the reindeer − raises a series of questions – especial- prove once and for all that the forcible It is a film about the consequences Chinese student, bringing with him his the Finnish and the Chinese society – mascot, memento and amusement de- ly for the youngest daughter Christina, removal of his children was a mistake. of growing up at the very bottom of dreams of a better job and better pay. and about the status of the Chinese in vice of Lapland − listens silently to the who is about to enter adulthood with- Together with Christina and her sister, society, exploring the complex struc- Every day he dresses up as panda to this modern world. growth forecasts of the ski resort, out remembering much from her child- Michelle, Svend digs his way into a past tures of the concept of family, where attract more tourists from the ski This reality of the Finns and the it prepares for the climate change by hood at all. To help his daughter Svend that no one seems to recall much of neglect and violence goes hand in hand resort and as he wanders around the Chinese is also observed by the only learning how to carry a golf bag... requests full access to municipality – and the three of them embark on a with a sense of unity and love. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 20 documentary Denmark 21 documentary Denmark new october 43 - the rescue of the danish jews the war campaign

An in-depth account of how the Iraq Directors & Producers One of the great untold stories of Europe, Jews were systematically de- Director Boris B. Jonatan Jerichow & Carl Bertram war campaign was organized, and a World War II ported to Nazi concentration camps. Otto Dethlefsen Producer Lise Len- case study of ‘how to sell a war of Produced by STV Pro- But Denmark remained an exception se-Møller duction for DR Produced by Magic Hour choice’ to the public Duration 58 min. Six million European Jews lost their … until October 1943. Films with the support Year of Production 2013 lives during the Second World War. What happened during those dark of The Danish Film In- Original Title Jødernes stitute, Nordic Film and Flugt - Vidnernes The Holocaust became the fate of and dramatic days? How did it feel TV-Fund & the European A genuine political thriller that inves- historie Union’s Media Program- two out of three Jews in Europe. to have to flee from your home and me in ass. with DR, UR, tigates the campaign carried out by After the Nazis assumed power in country, not knowing what the future from Denmark in October 1943, tell ERR, RTV Slovenija, RUV, USA, UK, and Denmark in order to sell NRK, VPRO & CT Germany, their propaganda of hate held? their story. Danes whose lives would Duration 58 & 75 min. the war on Iraq to the international developed step by step, culminating in In this new documentary film some be changed forever. Year of Production 2013 community. Original Title The War the worst genocide of the 20th Cen- of the few remaining survivors, who Campaign 2013 marks the 10th anniversary tury. Throughout German-occupied personally experienced the escape of the invasion of Iraq by a coalition

of willing nations. The concept of a pre-emptive war was itself new, and new the lead-up to the decision consti- tuted a shift in democratic decision individuals, who were given the com- of these individuals at some point felt processes. It is time to examine the plicated task of accruing political sup- that the governments they worked anatomy of the decision-making pro- port for the invasion from the inter- for crossed a questionable line, and taming the quantum world cess itself in order to understand the national community. Centrally-placed they decided to inform the public art of campaigning for parliamentary witnesses, policy-makers, their close of the process. It is their detailed and public acceptance of a decision advisors and speech-writers, take us accounts of what exactly took place Director Lars When computers take a quantum could become a vehicle for addressing already made. into the very offices where plans were that now allows us to understand. Becker-Larsen Producer Gitte Randløv leap: the future of global information critical issues such as global warming The War Campaign features the drawn up and followed through. Some Produced by Masto technology and what the ultimate fate of the Media for DR in ass. with SVT, NRK, YLE & RUV universe will be. Duration 45 min. In recent years physicists have been The quantum computer utilizes the Year of Production 2013 Original Title Taming the developing a new type of comput- strange quantum phenomena super- Quantum World Available December er; the quantum computer. It will position and entanglement. These are 2013 revolutionize computer technology by phenomena that Danish physicist Niels grasp – because quantum physics harnessing the mysterious quantum Bohr discussed with Albert Einstein flies in the face of common sense. back to freedom physics. Quantum computers will be with much fervour. But even for those able to generate virtual realities that two these phenomena were hard to Director My Life With Orangutans Anna Katrin Nørgaard Producer Bjarke Ahlstrand Fighting for the survival of the spe- Produced by DR new Duration 58 min. cies for the past 18 years at the Nya- Year of production 2013 ru Menteng orangutan rehabilitation Original Title Lone & Orangutangerne and rescue center. Lone Dröscher – Tilbage til Friheden Nielsen is the “mother” and caretaker behind borgen of more than 600 orangutan orphans on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Lone is about to release her old- Directors Johannes Borgen Behind the Scenes – fact or cast, the directors and writers work est and most skilled rehabilitated Pico Geerdsen & Rikke Tørholm Kofoed fiction? together. We learn about their ideas, ”kids” For the first time. They will be Producer Camilla Ham- thoughts, visions, and the struggles released in a piece of primordial rain merich Produced by DR We have been following Birgitte Ny- they undergo. They tell us about their forest hundreds of miles away from Duration 58 min. borg, Katrine Fønsmark, Kasper Juul work, and politicians compare the the secure islands where they have Year of production 2011 Original title Bag om and the rest of the characters from series to the world they know from spent the last 10 years. Lone is wor- Meanwhile Lone is struggling to Now she must learn to live among Borgen – Fakta eller Fiktion? Borgen for some years now in this Christiansborg: experienced politi- ried. Has she taught the orangutans come to terms with her new life in human beings and be as comfortable award-winning series. cians recognize the way the series develop realistic characters; Katrine the skills they need well enough for Wales and finding her place in the pro- with people as she is with animals. This documentary is about the peo- portrays the difficulties of maintain- Fønsmark drew plenty of inspiration them to survive, or will they struggle ject, now that she is no longer head of This is also a follow up to the ple who have spent almost four years ing normal lives in the face of the from DR TV News, for example. But and perhaps die of starvation? It is the center in Borneo. After falling ill in programme My Life With Orangutans shooting three seasons of Borgen. It divorces, red tops and paparazzi. The how much of Borgen is based on his- time for Lone’s hard work to be put to 2010, Lone has returned to civilization from 2007 where we follow Lone for takes us backstage as we see how the cast served internships to help them torical events from Danish society? the test. after many years in the rainforest. the first time. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 22 documentary Denmark 23 documentary Denmark

in production in production the quatraro mystery the secret flight

Directors Mads Brügger A documentary film about the dark fighting a tsunami of lobbyism from Director Andreas In 1995 two men set out on a mission: but the mission backfires complete- & Jeppe Rønde Koefoed Producer Sara Stock- side of the EU tobacco corporations, had their of- Producer Miriam to drop four tons of weapons from a ly. The weapons drop fails and Holck mann fices burglarized by unknown, almost Nørgaard plane over West Bengal in India. But escapes while Bleach ends up in an Produced by Sonntag Produced by Fridthjof Pictures Aps in ass. Two journalists set out to investigate ninja-like perpetrators − the two re- Film in ass. with DR, SVT, they have very different agendas. Indian prison, tortured and abandoned with DR why The Maltese EU Commissioner porters decide instead to investigate VRT, ERR, LTV & VPRO Niels Holck is the idealist; a political by his own country. Duration 1 hour & Duration 1 hour & feature of Health, John Dalli, recently had to an old and long forgotten possible feature activist wanting to supply weapons Years later, when Holck faces ex- Expected Release 2014 leave The Commission in disgrace, in a fraud case about a EU Commission Expected Release 2014 to a local group to help them defend tradition to India and a possible death storm of accusations about being in civil servant, who died under mys- ”why did Quatraro die”, forms the nar- themselves against the local commu- sentence, Bleach decides to forgive in the mission and that they them- the pockets of Big Tobacco. terious circumstances while facing rative drive of an intriguing and darkly nist regime. The other, Peter Bleach, his former enemy and help him. Now, selves were just pieces of a much Faced with closed doors in The accusations of being in the pocket of funny journalistic muckraking of a long is an arms dealer, who secretly col- they finally have a common mission: to bigger puzzle. Commission and disturbing news Big Tobacco. His name was Antonio- forgotten, unsolved fraud case. laborates with the British MI5. Bleach prove that British, Indian and Danish about how NGO’s in Brussel, who are Quatraro, and the simple question, is on the plane to get Holck arrested, intelligence services were all involved

in production in production no regrets if i can’t dance – it’s not my revolution

Director Sun Hee A film about a woman’s choice such an institution. During their stay Directors Marie Skov- Why we fight and how we survive to power extremists who will condemn Engelstoft gaard & ’Anonymous’ Producer Ditte Milsted the women have to make a cru- Producers Jesper Jack them once again to their former Produced by Profile In South Korea there are many cial choice: the difficult and painful & David B. Sørensen During the Syrian uprising, defiant silenced lives and suppress their per- Pictures ApS Produced by Fridthjof Duration 1 hour institutions for pregnant unmarried decision of whether to keep their Film & Dharmafilm female radio host Salma and her sonal revolutions. Expected Release 2014 women. Here women seek refuge in child or give it up for adoption. A in ass. with DR, IKON, young fan and protégé, Reem, quickly In If I Can’t Dance, through Salma’s WDR, UR, TVO, Know- order to hide their pregnancy and decision strongly influenced by a huge ledge Network, Against become intimate friends and go on eyes and experiences, as well as her they stay there until they have given pressure from the outside world Gravity, NRK, RUV & FFF. the road in search of Syria’s future. close relationship with Reem, the Duration 1 hour & birth to their baby. The women end up where the disgrace of the family, will change their lives forever, will feature Amidst a terrible war their newly director wants to depict the gravity pacifism and violence − the calm of here because abortion is illegal and the reluctance of the boyfriend and always be the women’s own and the Expected Release 2014 found freedoms also ostracize them. and progress of a complex conflict: daytime giving way to the chaos of the strict Korean society does not the disdain of Korean society have consequences will be up to the single Soon they realize their unconditional the controversial and the conserv- the night. The hopes of many and the accept unmarried mothers. a huge impact on the women’s final individual to handle. support of the revolution may bring ative, sensitivity and destruction, overall meaninglessness of war. No Regrets follows the women at decision. Ultimately the decision that

in production in production riis reset embracing the dead

Director Niels Christian The rise and fall of cycling legend surprising turns. Director Nanna Frank A psychological detective story The case is of political importance Jung Møller Producers Anders Bjarne Riis In 1996 Bjarne Riis won Tour de France. Producer Helle Faber and Joergen’s conclusion may mean Thomsen & Tine Bendix 12 years later he admitted to extensive Produced by Made in Joergen Lange Thomsen is a forensic that Denmark ends up in court on Produced by DR Copenhagen in ass. with Duration 58 min. Riis Reset follows former pro-cyclist, use of doping. Now his team is on the DR, UR & Knowledge expert. His job is to examine the dead trial for war crimes committed in Iraq. Expected Release 2013 now owner of the professional cycling verge of a similar fall. Once the best in Network and determine how they died. But one Suddenly he faces a moral dilemma. Duration 1 hour & team Saxo-Tinkoff, Bjarne Riis during the world, financial difficulties and poor feature day he is hired to solve a different He needs to trust his knowledge of one of the most difficult and challenging performances almost forces Riis to Expected release 2014 type of case: one that involves the liv- human nature and deductive interview times of his life. It is an intimate and shut down the team in 2012. And when ment is about to collapse. With unique ing. On behalf of a major human rights methods as well as his own extensive ing work in the field of human rights amazing journey through the world of Tyler Hamilton, former star of the team, and unprecedented access to one of organization he is to examine a group experience in being able to spot a lie cause Joergen to question whether professional cycling and Bjarne Riis’ per- makes new severe allegations against cycling’s most enigmatic key players, this of Iraqis to determine whether they rather than relying on his usual scien- any of it actually matters. And his sonal life with his family – just as it takes his former employee, Riis’ life achieve- film allows Riis to tell his story. have been subjected to torture. tific approach. But years of pioneer- doubts will soon put him to the test. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 24 documentary Denmark 25 documentary Denmark did you see in production Official Selection IDFA Competition Göteborg International for first cooper’s challenge mercy mercy Film Festival GIFF 2012 Apperance 2012

Director Karen Diplomacy in the making! tions, they turn out to be surprisingly Director Katrine W. Kjær Forced by poverty, an Ethiopian family have homes in need of babies. Sadly, Stokkendal Poulsen Producers Miriam Nør- Producer Vibeke Vogel funny and the audience is let into gaard, Sara Stockmann chooses to give up their children for a lot of the adopted orphans are Produced by Bullitt Film A little bit of world history is made an unknown universe of diplomacy − & Vibeke Windeløv international adoption. The perfect not orphans. We follow the adoption for DR in ass. with ZDF/ Produced by Fridthjof ARTE, VPRO, SVT, ERR, when Serbia and Kosovo meet for the behind the scenes. As Cooper tries Film in ass. with TV2, solution to a heart-breaking imbal- process and the catastrophic conse- RTV Slovenija, Knowledge first time ever in chief negotiator to mediate between the Serbian and VPRO, RTS, UR, YLE, Yes/ ance: Poor countries have babies in quences from both sides of the globe. Network & Yes/DBS DBS & HRT Duration 1 hour Robert Cooper’s EU office to reach the Kosovar negotiators, the three Duration 52 & 90 min. need of homes, and rich countries Expected Release 2013 an agreement on peaceful co-exist- fantastic, charismatic characters

ence. Stakes are high and the tension personalize a crucial bit of Europe- conflict of Europe and it is crucial for Official Selection in the room is palpable. But in spite an history in their fight to reach an the EU to prove its ability to make Int. Film Festival, of the seriousness of the negotia- agreement. It is the last territorial peace in its own backyard. the weather war Planete Doc, a.o.

Directors Mats Bigert & The Weather War is about man’s er, their special machine sculpture. Lars Bergström Producer Antonio Russo attempts to control the weather and Their goal: to stop a tornado! We Merenda harness it for his own purposes. Land see historical examples of how the in production Produced by Ginestra Film in association with art and road movie fuse as artist duo science of meteorology developed SVT, DR & YLE Bigert & Bergström travel to the US hand-in-glove with military goals. Duration 58 min. warriors from the north tornado belt with the Tornado Divert- Brussels One World Buenos Aires Festival de International Human Rights Cine Independiente 2013: Director Søren Steen Recruting for Al-Shabaab Mohammed and his friends were my afghanistan Best Documentary Award Special Mention Jespersen Producer Helle Faber recruited in Copenhagen, and spend all Produced by Made in Abukar from Somalia lives a life at the their time in a secret cell, educating Copenhagen in ass. with DR & NRK bottom of the Danish society. His son, themselves, preparing to go to Somalia Director Nagieb Khaja Shukrullah, 19, is caught in the line of filmed their lives behind the frontier Duration 1 hour Mohammed, has joined Al-Shabaab in to fight with al-Shabaab. Another Producers Lise Lense- fire as he tries to get to where his in a war torn province. They invite Expected Release 2014 Møller & Henrik Grunnet Somalia, perhaps to avoid a life like his young man from this cell, “The Shad- Produced by Magic beloved younger siblings are hiding, us into their homes, their hopes and Hour Films & Grunnet father’s, a man who has no real power ow”, got away just in time. He joined Film in ass. with Piraya while Taliban and the ISAF-forces life in the forbidden zone that never over his life. Two of Mohammeds Al-Shabaab to fight the Ethiopian to overthrow the government. Film, NRK, SVT, YLE, ERT fight in the backyard. Over a period makes it to the news. & HRT Danish-Somali friends have already occupation of Somalia but the focus ”The Shadow” is the narrator of this Duration 58 & 88 min. of three years, Afghan civilians have sacrificed their lives and killed dozens of the organization shifted when the film. And while Abukar tries to reach of innocent people for al-Shabaab and Ethiopian troops retreated. He did not his son,”The Shadow” looks back upon Abukar now fears that his son will be support their new mission: the killing of the recruitment process of Somalis in the next suicide bomber. his fellow-countrymen in an attempt the West. под колпаком - under the hood in production Directors M. Byrne & R. In Belarus, some battle for democra- assembling in public to do nothing is Dennis Producers R. Miškinyte, J. cy, social justice and civil rights, while considered a crime. It takes us from Cullinane & B. Dibenedetto others struggle just to survive the protests and secret opposition Produced Planet Korda democrats Pictures & ERA Film in ass. Under the Hood brings us on a journey meetings of the capital, Minsk, to the with TG4, TVP, Belsat TV, through a country where the secret horse-drawn carts and fields. LRT, LTV, ERR, Czech TV & MDR police are still known as the KGB and Director Camilla Nielsson A political drama about the future sanctions and hyperinflation running Duration 75 min. Producer Henrik Veileborg of a dictatorship rampant, failure is not an option. Produced by Upfront The two top politicians, MP Paul Pictures in ass. with DR, BBC, NHK, VPRO, SVT, Two political enemies are forced on a Mangwana (ZANU-PF) and MP Douglas the shady chocolate business YLE, NRK, ITVS & HRT joint mission to write Zimbabwe’s new Mwonzora (MDC) have been appointed Duration 1 hour & feature constitution. The ultimate test that to lead Zimbabwe through the process 2014 Expected Release will either take the country a decisive of writing a new constitution. Going Director Miki Mistrati The Dark Side of Chocolate revealed companies now spend millions of Producer Helle Faber step closer to democracy and away behind the scenes of the constitu- elite struggles to find a new postco- Produced by Made in how trafficking and child slavery was dollars trying to better the situation. from President Mugabe’s dictator- tional process, Democrats offers a lonial identity − a struggle that may Copenhagen for DR & common to the chocolate industry. But is this true? We travel back to NDR in association with ship, or toward renewed repression. unique insight into the Zimbabwean be the harbinger of a new epoch in SVT & YLE Since then, the chocolate industry the plantations to carry out a reality In a country with little respect for government at a critical and histo- the development of modern African Duration 45 min. has been making public statements, check − only to discover that the human rights, impeded by economic ry-changing juncture as the political states. asserting that the world’s biggest truth is worse than expected. mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 mipcom 13 DR Sales tel. +45 3520 3040 drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk drama DR Byen www.drsales.dk kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 [email protected] +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C 26 documentary Denmark 27 documentary Denmark did you see did you see

Official Selection IDFA Competition Official Selection Edinburg Film Festival for Feature-lenght Hot Docs i am breathing 2013 Documentary 2012 2013 the face of happiness

Directors Emma Davie With only five months left to live, and a letter for his baby son, Oscar. How Director Ida Kleppe Hallgeir was nearly killed in a traffic go to Mexico for acceptance. The & Morag McKinnon Producers Magne Sleire Producer Sonja Henrici paralyzed from the neck down by Mo- can Neil anticipate what Oscar might & Morten Offerdal accident that left his face terribly accident became a golden opportunity Produced by SDI Pro- tor Neurone Disease, 34-year-old Neil want to know about his father in a Produced by Corax Film disfigured. Returning to life made him that brought insight. In Norway more ductions Ltd in ass. with & Pandora Film Channel 4, DR & YLE, Platt plans his own funeral and muses future he will not be part of but can Duration 42 min. realise that the trouble-free days surgery is scheduled but is it impor- Co-produced by Danish about the meaning of life. He ponders only begin to imagine? as an eighteen-year-old were gone. tant to him to look normal anymore? Documentary Duration 58 & 73 min. how to communicate about his life in Glances and cruel remarks made him

Official Selection Audience Award The Norwegian Göteborg Int. Film Festival, The Norwegian Film Festival Short Film Festival north of the sun Supersonic Festival, a.o. 2012 Honorary Mention 2012 cyberwar – behind the firewall

Directors Inge Wegge & Inge, 25, and Jørn, 22, spent nine ly brought their surfboards − the Director & Producer Digital activists are using social media through Twitter. This has given a Jørn Nyseth Ranum Jakob Gottschau Producer Anne Berg- winter months in an uninhabited bay greatest motivation of all. Zero money Produced by Express in their fight for freedom of speech whole generation of young people a seng in Northern Norway, away from the at zero degrees on an adventure to TV-Production in as- and against repressive regimes in new communications channel and a Produced by Filmhuset sociation with DR, FST, Produksjoner AS luxuries of urban life. The boys built a reveal the secret of the bay: some of SRF & NV Cambodia, Egypt and China. Evidence powerful tool for spreading political Duration 46 min. cabin of driftwood, ate free food past the world’s finest surfing waves. Duration 3 x 28 min. of abuse gets uploaded to YouTube, messages worldwide. its expiry date, and most important- or spread rapidly and effectively the mystery of tycho brahe’s death the girl who wouldn’t die

Director Lisbeth Jessen The story goes that the world-known colleague or by an envoy sent by King Director Jacob Kra- Carina Melchior, 19, crashes in her donor. As they wait for Carina’s brain Producer Thomas gelund Houkjær astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a Christian IV of Denmark? A group of Producer Steen Jensen parent’s car. Her injuries are so to give up, she miraculously wakes up Produced by DR ruptured bladder because he was too experts reopened his grave in Novem- Produced by DR severe the doctors conclude she in hospital only to learn how close the Duration 58 min. Duration 58. & 84 min. polite to go to the bathroom during a ber 2010 to remove samples of Tycho will soon be brain-dead. The family is doctors came to donating her organs. dinner in 1601. But is this just a myth? Brahe’s corpse. Will the mystery be devastated by the grim prospect but Or was he poisoned with mercury by a unravelled? consents to her becoming an organ outstanding houses of the north we love weapons

Director Jan Haugaard Experience the splendour of Nordic found source of inspiration. Cosy and Director Jakob Thygesen Exploring the paradox of trying to tical about guns. But his curious and Producer Lars Rønnow Producer Thomas Torp architecture by taking a look into the open, traditional and futuristic, these Houkjær create world peace by means of humorous approach to the subject Produced by DR most remarkable single-family houses houses continue to show us new ways Produced by DR “unpeaceful” tools such as guns, gives voice not only to his own but also Duration 6 x 28 min. Duration 58 min. from 1930 to 1960. During this period of sustainable living, five and six dec- missiles and drones. A cross between to conflicting views as he sets out to Nordic architects developed a vision ades after their completion. Louis Theroux and Michael Moore, the face the industry and the people in it of modern living that remains a pro- director of this film is overtly scep- who love weapons. wolfman the rat race

Director Juha Suonpää The story of a man who has taught to the study of wolves in the wild. This Director Miriam Chandy Mumbai is home to 14 million people sticks to bring back 30 dead rats be- Producers Timo Vierimaa Menacherry & Joonas Berghäll himself the language and ways of film is based on Ronkainen’s video Producers Miriam and 84 million rats, all competing for fore day breaks. To earn his daily keep Produced by Oktober wolves, faced them in the wilderness diaries, collected over the course of Chandy Menacherry & the same space and resources. The and secure a brighter future for his Oy in ass. with YLE & in Aruna Balkrishna Singh co-production with ARTE and witnessed their fates 13 years. Its unique material tells the Produced by Filament Rat Race is a moving true-life account children, he wages the most primitive G.E.I.E. Seppo Ronkainen monitors wildlife intertwining stories of man, wolves Pictures & The Jan of the city’s rat killers who set out battle between man and animal. Duration 52 & 75 min. Vrijman Fund, IDFA for a living and has dedicated his life and dogs. Duration 52 min. every night armed with torches and the best programmes from scandinavia’s largest distributor

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