New Releases Miptv 09 Drama Kids +Youth Documentary Music+Arts

new releases miptv 09 drama kids +youth documentary music+arts

meet us at stand R. 30.19 danish broadcasting international www.drsales.dk corporation sales [email protected] Published by DR International Sales, ©2009 Design by DR Design Printed by Saloprint new Cover photo The Face of the Enemy releases miptv 09 drama 04 : lulu - the bankrobber’s wife 05 : black angels 05 : the press

kids +youth 06 : mille 06 : young detectives 07 : isa’s stepz 07 : the royal racket

documentary 08 : the face of the enemy 09 : the man who saved the world 09 : the red chapel - the movie 10 : researching antarctica 10 : bitter taste of tea 11 : the violent legacy of charles darwin 12 : brave new art world 13 : tattooed under fire 13 : living in obscurity 14 : love on delivery 14 : ticket to paradise 15 : the accidental terrorist 15 : lets be together 16 : a son’s sacrifice 16 : bronx princess 17 : roskilde 17 : Youth House 69 - inside the copenhagen riots 18 : the specialists 18 : flying like crazy

in production 19 : blood on the mobile 19 : the presidency 20 : law of the jungle 20 : cities on speed 21 : love addiction 21 : the dark side of chocolate

22 : highlights music+arts drama : long series DR International Sales drama : short series DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 04 fax +45 3520 3969 05 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected]

lulu - the bankrobber’s wife black angels

Director Óscar Jónasson Producer Margrét Jónasdóttir Produced by Sagafilm for RUV Duration 6 x 44 min. or 2 x 90 min. possible Year of Production 2008 Original Title Svartir Englar

The new crime series Black Angels criminal investigation depart- with the increasingly complicated whirls the viewers into a thrilling ment. The oldest of the team, situation is the underlying tone in story about organized crime and Stefan, keeps reminiscing about the series. The inner conflict of the murder. In six exhilarating epi- earlier times, and is certain that main characters, their weaknesses, sodes we follow four detectives Iceland is spiraling out of control. and the feeling that being a cop is in their attempts to solve two In recent years the criminal scene a “shitty job” is well demonstrated. heinous crimes. has seen an evolution from simple That concept mixes nicely with the petty crime into more mature and black humour of Icelanders. The story takes place in modern dangerous crimes, involving intel- day Reykjavik. The main charac- lectual criminals and international Based on best selling crime novels ters, Stefan, Katrin, Gudni and crime organizations. The desper- by acclaimed author Ævar Orn Arni, are all members of the police ate attempt by the police to deal Josepsson

Director Jannik Johansen, a.o. while also trying to help Leon get ployees now that the police have Producer Janni Helleskov out of jail, Lulu is forced to inter- frozen her assets? How will she Produced by Fine & Mellow for TV3 Denmark act with Leon’s criminal network. ensure fixed boundaries for her Duration 12 x 43 min. She comes face to face with a 7-year-old son who suffers from the press Year of Production 2009 male dominated underworld full Asperger’s Syndrome in these Original Title Lulu - bankrøverens kone of gangsters, shady characters, turbulent times? How will she ex- Estonian hookers and of course, plain to her teenage daughter the Director Oscar Jonasson Ready for broadcast summer 2009 the charming but corrupt criminal pitfalls of dating a gangster, when Producer Thor Freysson detective Patrick Smith, whom Lulu she is dating a gangster herself? Produced by Sagafilm for RUV A 12 part series filled with plot, soon develops feelings for. She Duration 6 x 50 min. drama, action and love. starts off with an acute cash flow On top of excitement and action Year of Production 2007 problem and is forced to pick up Lulu finds herself in a situation Original Title The Press Lulu is a charming and independent a little cash from Memeth, a used where she has to choose between mother of two with her own hair- car salesman from the suburbs, two men. On the one hand, there is dressing salon in the suburbs. She and ends up as part of a huge plot Leon; the habitual criminal whom lives with Leon, the charismatic to rob a money transport from the she loves and who does so much father and habitual criminal, who Federal Reserve carrying an un- for her and her children but at You thought Iceland was a safe mysterious circumstances and no politicians, missing people, mur- she has been seeing for 10 years. usually large amount of unmarked whose hand she also feels repeat- place? Well, think again! body is found. Is it murder? This ders, sexual abuse, harassment, But when Leon is thrown in jail Lulu Euros. edly betrayed. On the other, there case is kept alive throughout the suicide — and to top it all off the is forced to deal with a world she is Patrick; the attractive policeman The Press takes place in the tab- six episodes. However, each epi- coffee machine is broken. knows to exist but has no experi- Woven into this fascinating and who seems to be able to give Lulu loid newspaper world. The series sode also presents individual cases. ence with. elaborate plot are a series of easily the comfort and stability she seeks revolves around Lara, who starts The Press has a colourful gallery of identifiable stories. How will she but who also has deep cracks in his as a new reporter at the tabloid The journalists in the newsroom go characters and provides a unique In order to make ends meet, and find the money to pay her em- façade when closely scrutinized. paper. Just after Lara starts, the as far as they can to find out the and entertaining insight into the engineer Mani disappears under truth, stumbling across corrupted modern and exotic Icelandic society. drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth : fiction DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth : fiction DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 06 fax +45 3520 3969 07 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] mille isa’s stepz

Director Poul Berg Director Mariella Harpelunde Producer David C.H. Østerbøg Producer Katrine Vogelsang Produced by DR Produced by DR Duration 10 x 28 min. Duration 7 x 28 min. or 14 x 15 min. (new episodes: 15 x 15 min.) Year of production 2009 Year of production 2009 Original Title Mille Original title Isa’s Stepz

New prime time drama series for Mille’s world crashes when her reappears and Conny receives a A pre-teen drama-comedy series Elliot runs the dance school “Zwim- Isabella and her dad are put out on the whole family best friend, Marie, dies in a car promising marriage proposal? taking place in a dance school mel’s Dance Institute”. This is where the street, and they move into the accident. Eventually, Mille opens up Isabella dances several times a week dance school for the time being. Follow 12-year-old Mille as she and decides to play the duet they The series follows three genera- Isabella is 13 years old and an with the young dance instructor Isabella hopes they can stay there deals with the loss of her best had planned to do together at the tions who believe they can get by extraordinary hip hop dancer. All of Lucas Lee, whom she has a secret and she slowly realises that her friend while her mother, Leila, summer concert. But she needs without the help of others. Start- her life she has lived with her dad crush on. But her grandfather owes efforts are needed if they are to struggles to keep the family’s caf- someone to sing with her. Will ing with Mille they need to learn in a small townhouse, owned by Isa- money left and right, and when the save the dance school. But it’s not eteria from bankruptcy and Mille’s Mille learn to trust and find a new to reach out and accept a helping bella’s grandfather, the infamous debts become too overwhelming as easy as she had anticipated! flamboyant grandmother, Conny, friend? And what happens when hand. dance instructor Elliot Zwimmel. he decides to sell his townhouse to searches for love. Leila’s high school sweetheart save the dance school. young detectives the royal racket

Directed by Nefise Özkal Lorentzen Executive producer Ingelise Rasmussen Producer Jørgen Lorentzen Produced by DR Produced by Integral Films & NRK Duration 16 x 16 min. (new episodes: 10 x 12 min.) Duration 5 x 10 & 46 min. Year of production 2008 Year of production 2008 Original Title Det Kongelige Spektakel Original Title Detektivklubben Available in HD

When magic triumphs The rebellious magic wins over the We follow Carmen as she helps Share the adventures of the Royal breadth of the kingdom and share beautiful young creature from the unfairness. Carmen joins the club, restore peace in the community, Racket Family. A Royal Road Movie whatever adventures await them. faraway Moon, Princess Habibi, A local detective club run by three introduces her granny’s magical fighting the corrupt methods in a fairy tale universe. The story takes place on board King Billy’s foundling child and Beep, kids becomes the center of atten- detective tools: the compass of within the detective club, and see The Royal Racket, a rolling castle a tiresome, little mini-robot. tion by using unfair methods. When love, the writer-sensitive magni- her almost single-handedly solve A wonderful new puppet animation which King Billy from the Wild West Carmen the newcomer discovers fying-glass, the smell catcher gas the strange mysteries among the series for the 3-7 year-olds. The won in a karaoke contest. Included A family on a journey of strange the dirty tricks of the Detective mask and laughter spreading bot- locals. Royal Racket, a randomly thrown- in the price was Aristocratic Leo, adventures that carry them fur- Club, she follows the advice of her tle help the detectives solve the together, yet fantastic family, are part-lion, part-snob, part chef ther and further out into a world legendary grand-grandma, the mysteries. Nobody knows Carmen’s destined to travel the length and de cuisine. And there is Luna, a of even stranger discoveries! first female agent of Argentina. source of magic. drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : society+social Denmark documentary : history+politics Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 08 fax +45 3520 3969 09 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] the face of the enemy the vietnamese who fought in the american war the man who saved the world

Director Peter Anthony Producer Jakob Staberg, Produced by Statement Film Co-produced by WG Film, Zentropa, TV2, ZDF/ARTE, VPRO, NRK, YLE, SVT, CBC, ERR, Al-Arabia & VRT Duration 52 & 75 min. Original Title The Man who Saved the World

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One night the Soviet alarms went formerly of the Soviet Army - a man armed forces that the threat was off alerting the Russians that US who held the fate of the world in a false alarm – hereby saving the missiles were approaching. One his hands for a few crucial minutes world from a nuclear holocaust. Two man acted against orders. He in history one night in 1983. When decades later, the forgotten hero saved the world from a nuclear an alarm went off saying that five goes on a spectacular journey to holocaust American nuclear missiles had been the United States, where his his- launched against the Soviet Union, torical deed is finally recognised and The film tells the amazing story he followed his gut feeling and appreciated, and meets the Ameri- of Lt. Colonel Stanislav E. Petrov, went against orders convincing the cans who were once his enemies. the red chapel Director Erik Pauser ans have the chance, often for the Producers Erik Pause & Dylan Williams first time, to recall the experienc- the movie Produced by Brandklipparen & AMP Film es that changed their lives. Who for DR, SVT & YLE were the Vietnamese who fought in Duration 52 & 85 min. the war? How did they sustain their Director Mads Brügger Year of production 2009 morale in the face of such over- Producer Peter Engel Original Title The Face of the Enemy whelming odds...? Produced by DR & Zentropa Rambuk for NRK & SBS Duration 52 & 80 min. An inspiration has been Peter Year of production 2009 Over four million Vietnamese died very little has been heard from the Davies’ film Hearts and Minds from Original Title Det Røde Kapel in what one side calls the Vietnam other side. Meanwhile the official 1975, whose relevance has been War and the other side calls the Vietnamese line is to continue issu- merely re-strengthened with the American War – this is the story ing purely one-dimensional propa- passage of time. The title of the from the other side ganda. film refers to a speech given by Lyndon B. Johnson in which he pro- A journalist with no scruples, a was given permission to travel to this is their story about the con- It was a war so brutal that it has The Face of the Enemy tells the claimed the escalation of the US handicapped man and a comedian North Korea with the objective of frontation with their biological been described as their ‘own’ story of the Vietnamese that involvement in Vietnam and where travel to North Korea on a mission performing at special events for roots, and their attempt to act Third World War by the Vietnam- fought in “The American” war, in he claimed: “The ultimate vic- to challenge the conditions of the selected audiences. But in real- and perform in a world where hu- ese. In this rare instance , history their own words. Whilst for the tory will depend on the hearts and smile in one of the world’s most ity the small troupe had no such mour and humanity have very poor is written by those who lost the most part following the chronol- minds of the people who actually notorious regimes intentions. conditions. It is also a bizarre story war. Whilst countless stories have ogy of the war, the film focuses live out there”. Whilst Davis’ film about the meeting between the been told from the American point more on the personal stories of looks closer at the Americans, this On the pretext of being a small Two group members, Jacob and free mind and the absolute surveil- of view, most often reducing the these characters than on the main film looks at the other side. theatre troupe on a cultural Simon, were both adopted from lance society. Vietnamese to faceless shadows, events of the war. Here the veter- Mipdoc Video Library exchange visit, ’The Red Chapel’ Korea to Europe as infants, and drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : science : society+social Denmark documentary : society+social Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 10 fax +45 3520 3969 11 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] the violent legacy researching antartica of charles darwin

Director & Producer Martin Breum Director Søren Bruun Produced by DR Producer Jacob Kofler Duration 50 min. Produced byThe Compound for DR Year of Production 2009 Duration 55 min. Original Title Sydpolen Year of production 2009 Original Title The Violent Legacy of Charles Darwin

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Researching Antartica takes us recently groundbreaking scientific climate system. Studies of the on an extraordinary journey to discoveries have scientists believe Adélie penguins and their remains the Australian research station that even the massive, central also provide valuable clues to the Casey on the world’s southern- East-Antartic ice-sheet may be understanding of climate changes. most continent, where scientists affected by climate change and The film portrays the immense look for clues in the ancient ice. begin to melt. But ice core drill- beauties of the remote continent Clues that will teach us new ways ing is not the only way to analyse and analyses the climate changes to decode today’s climate. Most the role of Antarctica in the global that all too soon will affect us all. A 150-year-battle between Sci- vides a fascinating glimpse into the children are taught that the Earth ence and Religion. ongoing battle between Science was created by God in 6 days and and Religion and into the private that modern science is filled with Around the world today, vastly dif- lives of Darwin’s closest allies and malicious lies. ferent religious groups join forces fiercest opponents in the USA, with a bold and common purpose – Turkey, Sweden and the UK. Interestingly, Darwin’s Christian the bitter taste of tea to discredit and destroy a scientif- opponents are not alone. They find ic theory that is threatening their Sweden is home to Scandinavia’s some shocking allies in a group of very existence. Their enemy comes most aggressive Darwin critics. extravagantly wealthy Turkish Mus- Directors & Producers Tom Heinemann & Erling Borgen in the form of a simple, mortal Academics from various fields lims who spend millions of dollars a Produced by Heinemann Media & Borgen Productions man. His name is Charles Darwin. gather in church to deliberate the year sending Anti-Darwin educa- for DR, SVT & NRK And millions of people continue to impossibility of Evolution. They are tional literature around the world. Duration 58 min. believe he was a vicious heretic and treated as social outcasts but Their spiritual leader, Harun Yahay, Year of production 2008 the most dangerous scientist who their goal is to have Creationism speaks to us from his private Original title Den Bitre Smag Af Te ever lived. (a literal translation of the Bible) television studio and explains how taught in public schools through- Darwin is to blame for fascism, Darwin’s publication of the Origin out Sweden and beyond. capitalism, imperialism and terror- of the Species introduced the Bible ism. to a new and extremely danger- The USA fights Darwin’s theories The true story of how Fairtrade is In the beautiful lush tea gardens brand because it guaranties that ous foe: the Theory of Evolution. like no other country on Earth. Nothing suggests that the war not fair at all! in Kenya, India, Bangladesh and the workers in the certified tea This theory, which contends that Pastor Michael Jackson is an Evan- between Science and Religion ends Sri Lanka, millions of tea-workers estates get a little extra money, human’s descended from primates, gelical Christian – one of 30 million here. Quite the contrary: the battle Does new buzz words like Code of struggle every day – fighting to every time the consumer buys his continues to outrage religious in America alone. Pastor Jackson lines have been drawn. Darwin’s Conduct, Good Governance and survive. They are plucking tea for tea. But is this actually the case? leaders as their congregations leads us through a church serv- Violent Legacy marches on… Corporate Social Responsibil- multinational companies such as The Bitter Taste of Tea tells the grow smaller and their worldview is ice, an Anti-Darwin fuelled family ity adopted by the multinational Lipton and Finlay’s. true story of how Fairtrade may dismissed as archaic. This film pro- meal and finally to a school where companies also include the poor not be quite as fair after all. workers producing goods for the Western consumers have turned rich part of the world? to the Fairtrade/Max Havelaar Mipdoc Video Library drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : arts+culture Denmark documentary : society+social Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 12 fax +45 3520 3969 13 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] brave new art world tattooed under fire

Director & Producer Nancy Schiesari Produced by Infocus Preductions & ITVS Duration 56 min. Year of production 2008 Original Title Tattooed Under Fire

Tattooed Under Fire is a grippingly class, and political affinity, reveal- sense of a psychological aftermath intimate, character-driven por- ing the inner lives of young men that will never be erased. Each sol- trait of Iraq-bound and returning and women as they live through the dier’s story is an evocative, poign- US soldiers as they go under the horrors of the Iraq war. ant, and highly personal look at the tattoo needle – openly professing human and cultural cost of war. their pride, sharing their secrets The film’s narrative moves from and confessing their fears. the early expectations and ex- Mipdoc Video Library citement of 18 and 20 year olds The tattoos cross lines of gender, through cynicism and anger to a

Director Ben Lewis Prices for contemporary art in- unregulated activities of hedge- Producer Fiona O’Doherty creased 800% from 2003 till 2008. funders, the asset and commodity living in obscurity Produced by Ben Lewis TV In the peak of this boom a Rothko bubbles of property, oil and miner- Co-produced by BBC, ZDF/ARTE in as- sold for $73 million, a Warhol for als – are just the starting point for sociation with DR, AVRO, SVT, NRK, ABC, $71 million, a Bacon for $86 million. the contemporary art boom. Director & Producer Søs Hoffman SF TV, TG 4, NOGA & YLE Works by Chinese contemporary Produced by DR Duration 52, 58 & 90 min. artists were auctioned for $10 The film uncovers a darker story of Duration 58 min. Original title Brave New Art World million, and works by Damien Hirst speculation, greed and deception - Year of Production 2009 and Jeff Koons for $20 million. the ingredients of a classic bubble, Original Title De kom fra Øst Available in HD Works by others rose in value be- and how skilful operators in the art tween twenty and eighty fold since market – the auction houses and 2003. This was the tulip fever of dealers – persuaded the new rich In a world of bubbles the contem- the early twenty-first century. to part with ludicrously large sums porary art bubble turned out to of money for art, taking advan- be the biggest bubbliest bubble of Now that bubble has burst. Sothe- tage of the unregulated nature of Faced by poverty and lack of family does not have. And never will Europe. Poverty forces families them all - until it burst by’s and Christie’s estimates for the art market to push up prices prospects, people from Eastern have unless Adi gets a job abroad. apart. Adi and Vasile end up in their auctions in February 2009 are through the auction rooms. Europe flock to the West, hop- Vasile is broke and will never be the West, delivering newspapers. The art world said it was a new just 25% of what they were in Feb- ing to make a better future for able to pay off his debts and put There is money to be made if you Golden Age, built on talent that ruary 2008. Prices for leading artists Mipdoc Video Library themselves and their families back his daughter through college. He are fast – and able to put up with could go on forever. Reality told like Hirst are down 50% and falling. home. is reluctant to leave his wife but the humiliation from employers something else. The contemporary there is no other way out. tempted to make fast profits by art bubble blew bigger and lasted The virtually unimaginable amounts In a Romanian hospital Adi bids his taking advantage of cheap labour. longer than the credit bubble, the of money generated by the credit mother farewell. The proper treat- This is the everyday ordeals faced Some make it, others do not. property bubble and the oil bubble. boom of the last ten years – the ment costs money – money the by countless families in Eastern Two films about Thai women and their pursuit of a European husband

drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : society+social Denmark documentary : society+social Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 14 fax +45 3520 3969 15 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] love on delivery & ticket to paradise the accidental terrorist

Two films about Thai women and and take high risks when they leave Director Janus Metz Director Miki Mastrati their pursuit of a European hus- their children behind and travel Producers Henrik Veileborg & Jesper Jack Producers Helle Faber & Mette Heide band half way around the world to marry Produced by Cosmo Doc Produced by Team Productions, Bastard Film & TV2 complete strangers. Duration 2 x 58 min. Duration 40 min. Love on Delivery and Ticket to A different kind of love stories, Year of Production 2008 Year of Production 2009 Paradise are both touching, tragic they give an intimate insight into Origina Title Fra Thailand til Thy & Fra Thy Original Title Terrorist ved et tilfælde and at times humorous tales of the special relationships between til Thailand strong, decisive women who see Western men and their Thai wives themselves as entrepreneurs in who all try to realise the idea of See also Coming of Age, page 24 a globalized world rather than Western happiness and thereby Official Selection IDFA 2008 victims of poverty and prostitu- achieve respect and social status What makes a terrorist? Cem decides to find out what terror act in Bosnia. Cem sets out tion. They make great sacrifices back home in Thailand. makes young Muslims so fanati- on a journey to meet the impris- Cem is a young Turk living in western cal about religion, even when the oned Kadir – and a journey inside Europe. He is sick of being associat- western countries provide both himself to investigate why two ed with terrorism just because other education and the promise of a very similar boys have opted for young Muslims around the world are future. Cem’s investigation con- such different directions in life. To love on delivery blowing themselves and innocent fronts him with his own reflection: Cem’s astonishment he learns that What is the attraction of living in a remote fishing people up in the name of God. a young guy with the same back- it is simply a coincidence. community in northern Europe? Still, this is where ground, Abdul Kadir, who serves a 575 Thai women have settled, all married to local men. long term sentence for planning a Mipdoc Video Library Fifteen years ago, there were almost none. But Som- mai, a former sex worker from Pattaya, was there. Now, she and a group of other industrious and strong Thai women are trying to find a husband for Sommai’s young niece Kaeh, who is in Denmark on a three-month let’s be together tourist visa.

Mipdoc Video Library Director Nanna Frank Møller Producers Helle Faber & Mette Heide Produced by Team Productions, Bastard Film & TV2 Duration 40 or 82 min. ticket to paradise Year of Production 2008 In north east Thailand lies a small village with two Original Title Let’s Be Together types of families: Those who have a daughter married to a Westerner and those who have not. The first live See also Coming of Age, page 24 in concrete mansions the latter in wooden shacks. Sommai was the first to leave the village. Now she is back with her Danish husband wearing gold chains Hairo - A boy like no other everyone. Hairo’s mum takes her the two men find each other – as around her wrists. Girls flock around her, all hoping son on a trip to Brazil to meet his father and son. that she will help them find a husband, as she has done Meet Hairo, a 14-year-old boy who biological father, Marcello, who for many others. Hand in hand with their mothers they is fascinated by women’s clothes. is far from happy by sight of the A strong film about identity across approach her with pictures she can distribute to will- He spends all his time wearing dressed-up boy. The two males borders and across gender. ing men when she goes back home. high heals, make-up and fake nails. have quite a fight, until Hairo’s Living in a small town with his mum, father comes out admitting that he Mipdoc Video Library Mipdoc Video Library his stepfather and three younger himself is gay and has been working brothers, is a daily challenge for for years as a drag queen. Finally drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : society+social Denmark documentary : society+social : arts+culture Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 16 fax +45 3520 3969 17 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected]

youth house 69 a son’s sacrifice - inside the copenhagen riots!

Director & Producer Yoni Brook Director Nikolaj Viborg Produced by Foment Films & ITVS Producer Søren Steen Jespersen Duration 26 min. Produced by Bastard Film for DR & NRK Year of Production 2008 Duration 58 min. Original Title A Son’s Sacrifice Year of Production 2008 Original title 69 - Ungeren indefra

Why leave the corporate world to father’s immigrant community at The story from inside the “Youth the youths. The Youth House had group of flesh-and-blood young BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT become a butcher? the traditional storefront slaugh- AWARD – Tribeca Film House 69” until it was levelled to functioned as an underground people who are concerned for their terhouse. On the holiest day of the Festival, New York, NY the ground - culminating in the scene venue for music and rendez- house and the fond sense of com- A Son’s Sacrifice follows the year, Imran must lead a sacrifice biggest riots in Denmark since vous point for varying autonomen munity it represents to them. journey of Imran, a young American that will define him as a Muslim, as World War II. and leftist groups from all over the Mipdoc Video Library Muslim who struggles to take over an American and as a son. AUDIENCE AWARD world until it was torn down. This Silverdocs 2008 his father’s halal slaughterhouse in Mads is gay and he is left activist award-winning documentary shows New Nordic Voices award New York City. A serious and yet funny look at train the Youth House. Through Mads, sides of the activists that go be- Nordisk Panorama 2008 A first-generation American, Imran dition and religion clashed against we follow the last six months of yond the usual media images. Gone must confront his mixed herit- youth and urban city life. Official Selection IDFA 2008 the dramatic Youth House his- are the black hoods and Molotov Audience Award Official Selection age and gain acceptance from his Mipdoc Video Library tory - seen though the eyes of cocktails. Instead, we follow a CPH:DOX 2008 Hotdocs 2009 bronx princess roskilde

Director & Producer Yoni Brook & Musa Syeed Director Ulrik Wivel Produced by Highbridge Pictures LLC & ITVS Producer Sara Stockman Duration 26 min. Produced by Barok Film A/S for DR Year of Production 2008 Duration 99 min. Original Title Bronx Princess Year of production 2008 Original Title Roskilde

The coolest girl on the block to get used to her father’s way during the tumultuous summer Join the Roskilde Festival, one of ploughed field is transformed into it all possible. It is a portrait of a of living but soon she is to dis- between high-school and college, the biggest and most renowned a musical centre of energy. generation and a festival that have Bronx Princess follows headstrong cover the advantages of being The the film tells Rocky’s coming-of-age music festivals in Europe. grown up together and where the 17-year-old Rocky’s journey. As she Chief’s daughter. story in a life between two cultures. Roskilde tells the colourful story core values are human diversity leaves behind her mother in New Mipdoc Video Library With exclusive access, in front of of the festival in great detail; and individuality. Experience live York to reunite with her father, a By confronting her immigrant and behind the scenes, Roskilde the story of a parallel universe in concerts with Franz Ferdinand, local chief in Ghana, West Africa parents’ ideas of adulthood, Rocky Official selection creates a musical image of the which 130,000 people seek out the Placebo, The Streets, Rufus Wain- things are about to change. Rocky reconciles her African heritage with IDFA 2008 atmosphere experienced through same ecstasy; the story of the wright, Editors, Mew, Sonic Youth Berlinale 2008 is a city girl and it takes some time her dream of independence. Filmed the eyes of the artist, the volun- extraordinary atmosphere which and many others. teer and the guest when a simple saturates the festival and makes Mipdoc Video Library drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : society+social Denmark documentary : society+social : history+politics Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 18 fax +45 3520 3969 19 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected]

In production the specialists blood in the mobile

Director Ulrik Holmstrup Director Frank Piasecki Poulsen Producer Mikael Opstrup Producer Ole Tornbjerg Produced by Final Cut for DR Produced by Koncern TV & Film for DR Duration 58 min. Co-produced by Duna TV & YLE Year of Production 2008 Duration 1 hour & 90 min. Original title Specialisterne Available 2010 Original Title Blod i mobilen

Meet a man whose personal trag- ally limited. So Thorkil quits his job Thorkils employees have work- Ever wondered where the minerals of rubber, killing millions of people. Coltan it is still mined and exported edy initiates a chance for a group and founds the world’s first coming skills such as perseverance, in your mobile come from? And the story has repeated itself illegally out of Congo to end up in of people on the edge of society pany that only hires people with accuracy, regularity and excellent ever since – different resources China and Europe, where it is used autism. Thorkil is met with a lot of memory. One of the employees is The DR Congo is one of the world’s but the same greed and brutality. in the production of components Thorkil is head of a major company good will – but to get contracts on Adam. He is extremely talented richest countries in terms of natural Until a few years ago the exploita- for mobile phones and other elec- when his son is diagnosed with au- board in the commercial industry is at locating errors in the mobile resources. But the valuable minerals tion of the mineral Coltan, used in tronic devices. tism. He realises that although his extremely difficult. The film follows phones. But in order to cope at a have been a curse for the country. mobile phones, fuelled a horrific son has many talents, his future Thorkil’s struggle for his dream, his normal workplace one also needs During the brutal reign of King civil war in Congo. A conflict that Today the fighting in Eastern prospects of getting a job are re- company and his son. social competences. Leopold, the Belgians robbed Congo resulted in millions of deaths. Congo has started again. In production flying like crazy the presidency

Director & Producer Torben Schou Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen Produced by DR Producer Ane Mandrup Pedersen Duration 28 min Produced by Guldbrandsen Film aps for DR Year of production 2008 Co-produced by VPRO, NRK, SVT, YLE & RTE Original title Verdens vildeste passagerfly Duration 58 min. Available 2010 Original Title The Presidency

Airbus’ double-decker jet, the storey building, the plane weighs as Singapore to Sydney, and during Special interests, alliances and taking place in meetings and corri- crisis. It is expected that the other A380, is the largest passenger much as 120 grown up elephants the flight you will meet passengers, rules of the game are on the agen- dors, where compromises must be countries will proceed leaving airliner ever built and dwarfs the 747 jumbo jets, with crew and experience the new era in da when the 27 Heads of State will found and national interests taken Ireland behind, but they could also 50 per cent more floor space. The modern aviation. elect the first President of the EU care of. The film takes its begin- opt for a short reopening of the Lengthwise, it would nearly stretch A380 includes 12 private beyond ning with the prelude to the Euro- delicate negotiations. In any case a from goal line to goal line of a first class suites that are enclosed Also see: Dreaming Like Crazy in A documentary that offers unseen pean Council meeting in Brussels high-level political power struggle football field. In a one-class tour- by sliding doors and fitted with a Dubai (28 min) and Cruising Like insight into the political process in June 2008. The Irish have just is taking off with the 27 Heads of ist class configuration, it could leather seat, flat screen TV and full Crazy (28 min) leading to the election of the first rejected the Treaty of Lisbon and State as the main players. accommodate more than 800 sized double beds. This fascinat- President of the EU — a process thrown the Union into a momentary passengers. As tall as an eight- ing documentary takes off from drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary : society+social : history+politics Denmark documentary : society+social Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 20 fax +45 3520 3969 21 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected]

In production In production cities on speed love addiction

Directors Eva Mulvad, Nanna Frank Møller, Mikela Krogh, Camilla Director Pernille Rose Grønkjær Nielsson & Frederik Jacobi Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Producers Helle Faber, Sigrid Dyekjær, Henrik Veileborg & Jesper Jack Produced by Danish Documentary Production Produced by Bastard Film, Nimbus Film & Cosmo Doc for DR Duration 1 hour & 75 min. Co-produced by NHK, Sundance, SVT & ERR Available 2010 Duration 4 x 58 min. Original Title Love Addiction Available 2009 Original Title Cities On Speed

When someone is sick you call a “exploding” cities. In 2030 80% of social, economic and environmen- Who would not want to be in love us a temporary “high”, but what if ment centers together with other doctor. But who do you call when the world’s population will live in tal pressure. The NEW challenge all the time? we need this “high” to exist? patients and leading therapists a city is on the verge of a collapse? cities. Megacities have traditionally is that cities today are made by when the rush for love goes too been economic and political power citizens rather than city planners. What have we not done in the name Following the personal stories of far. With sensitivity and a touch of Four modern urban tales from centres but today the fastest Cities on Speed shows how four of love? Through time, we have love addicts we will discover the humor we will try to get a better Cairo, Bogota, Shanghai and growing cities are in developing different megacities are dealing fought, killed, conquered and slaved nature of this peculiar disorder. understanding of the hardship of Mumbai take a closer look at one nations. There is an acute need with this new modernity. for love. We have written songs, We will meet the love addicts in coping with a life where you are on of mankind’s great challenges: for new models of city planning to poems and books trying to express different stages of their addiction, a constant hunt for your next love. planning for the future citizens in prevent collapses under such huge this ultimate feeling. Love delivers in their communities and at treat- In production In production law of the jungle the dark side of chocolate

Directors Michael Christoffersen & Hans La Cour Directed by Miki Mastrati Producers Stefan Frost, Henrik Underbjerg & Finn Mathiasen Producer Helle Faber, Produced by Radiator Film & ABCFilm Produced by Bastard Film for DR Duration 1 hour Duration 1 hour Available 2010 Year of production 2010 Original Title Law of the Jungle Original Title Bitter Chokolade

Accusing the abused High noon in Peru, furious villagers this is a clear-cut case of public Keeping the price of chocolate forced to hire the cheapest pos- We will reveal the conditions under in the rain forest have occupied an disturbance and murder, but law- down sible labour force. which the innocuous chocolate bar In a case involving the Government oil company’s private airport. The yer Jorge Tacuri does not think so. is produced, and follow the route and an international Oil Company protesters and their families are Facing a web of opponents Tacuri During the last ten years the price Bitter Chocolate is a film about from plantation to the shops, the Peruvian lawyer Jorge Tacuri un- dying from poverty and pollution. has to find those responsible and of cocoa beans has fallen drasti- modern slavery. As one of the consumer being ignorant of the covers a trail of torture, death and Equipped with bows and arrows, make it clear, what made the villag- cally on the international market main exploiters in the use of child full story of what chocolate actu- deception stretching to the US pellet guns and sticks they stand ers protest in the first place – to whereas the price of the end prod- labour the cocoa industry will lead ally contains. In the process those and Western Europe. In order to face to face with heavily armed po- him the abused have become the uct, chocolate, has risen markedly. us directly to some of the most responsible will be held account- overcome his mighty opponents his lice. The police attack and a police accused. This means that the financially well-known companies which we able. battle becomes personal. officer is killed. To the authorities squeezed plantation owners are assume have their ethics in place. drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 22 fax +45 3520 3969 23 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] highlights here’s johnny saving saddam

Directors & Producers Katrina Mansoor, immobility and frustration, Johnny Director Esteban Uyarra ment to save Saddam Hussein. Adam Lavis & Will Hood escapes the confines of his front Producers Mette Heide & Michael Chri- When Canadian Bill Wiley came to Produced by Animal Monday room through his artwork. Through stoffersen Iraq, he worked for the UN as an Duration 52 min. the expression of his brilliant and Produced by Team Productions observer but he was soon ap- Year of Production 2008 sometimes troubled imagination Duration 53 min. pointed by the American govern- Original Title Here’s Johnny we learn about the disease that Year of Production 2008 ment to advise Saddam Hussein’s he cannot escape from. This two Original Title Saving Saddam defence. But as the judge walks Here’s Johnny enters the surreal times Grierson-award winning Mipdoc Video Library out, defence lawyers are mur- wrong? And will Iraq change Bill’s world of renowned graphic artist documentary presents the disease The exclusive inside account of the dered, and the trial becomes ever belief in the law?

Johnny Hicklenton, who is battling through the eyes, words and im- GRIERSON AWARD 2008 Saddam Hussein trial. The story of more bizarre, how will Bill manage against Multiple Sclerosis (MS). ages of one of the most inspiring Best newcomer a man appointed by the US Govern- to change Iraq’s notion of right and Mipdoc Video Library Living in an increasing state of artists of his generation. Best art documentary diplomacy – the race for peace tracking down the holy war

Directors Boris Bertam & Rasmus Dinesen and the human cost of the delay is Director 6 Producer Jakob Gottschau were challenged: How to respond Producer Ole Tornbjerg 7,000 lives each month. Produced by Express TV Produktion to an invisible enemy driven by a Produced by Easy Film for DFI & TV2 Co-produced by DR mixture of religious fanaticism and Duration 44 min. In 2005, the United Nations Securi- Duration 3 x 28 min. a political ideology, which aims at Year of Production 2008 ty Council adopted a new doctrine, Year of Production 2008 destroying the West and con- Original Title Diplomacy which was meant to protect the Original Title Terrorismens Historie structing a society based on the world’s populations from genocide, Quran and the Sharia. And how had The humanitarian disaster in war crimes and ethnic cleans- resolution passed that will ensure When radical Islamic terrorists it come this far. Tracking Down the modern West and radical Islam Sudan’s Darfur region is still far- ing. This doctrine is put to the peace in the Darfur region. But this attacked World Trade Center and the Holy War traces today’s Al gained momentum. reaching and devastating, despite test in Darfur, which is called the is not as simple as one might think. later train stations in Madrid and Qaeda and goes back to post-WWII great international attention. The worst place on Earth. The Security London, the Western societies Egypt, where the battle between Mipdoc Video Library region is still waiting for the de- Council’s head office in New York Mipdoc Video Library ployment of peacekeeping forces, is working at full throttle to get a the moving earth the word and the bomb

Director Lars Becker-Larsen moving earth. That the sun – not Director Jes Stein Pedersen war? Fight for civilisation? The Producer Gitte Randløv the earth – was the centre of the Producer Ole Hjortdal collective fear of a future that Produced by Danish Doc Production universe. A highly controversial no- Produced by DR looks worse than ever? Through Duration 52 min. tion at the time. The Moving Earth Duration 5 x 30 min. five interviews, this series sets out Year of Production 2008 tells the story of how this new Year of Production 2008 to answer these questions. The Original Title Den Bevægede Jord picture of the universe came into Original Title Ordet og Bomben director talks to five writers who existence. It took centuries and a have all touched upon the issue of Available in HD fierce battle with the Church and tive work of a network of natural What thoughts do some of the terror. Some have even witnessed series features: Jonathan Safran 2009 is the Year of Astronomy its outdated presumptions, often scientists of the Renaissance, greatest writers of our time have terror attacks in their own cities – Foer, Tariq Ali, Daniel Kehlmann, In 1542 Polish astronomer Coper- with tragic consequences for the finally led to a new recognition. on the age of terror? What is their experiences which have resulted in Orhan Pamuk, and Alaa Al Aswany. nicus presented an idea about the scientists involved. But the collec- Mipdoc Video Library take on the world today? Religious whole new perspectives on life. The Mipdoc Video Library drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 24 fax +45 3520 3969 25 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] highlights my iranian paradise traders’ dreams

Directors Katia Forbert Petersen & An- The film focuses on the connec- Directors Marcus Vetter & Stefan Tolz colourful characters in different nette Mari Olsen tions between Iran and the West- Producer Stefan Tolz countries and sharing their eBay Producers Annette Mari Olsen, Karen ern world as seen through the eyes Produced by Filmquadrat experience, this film shows their Hjort & Katia Forbert Petersen of the director who lived in Persia, Co-produced by ZDF, NDR, ARTE, TSR & SBS defeats and successes. It also Produced by Sfinx Film/TV present day Iran, for the first 22 Duration 52 min., 58 min. & 80 min. takes a look behind the scenes of Duration 59 min. & 75 min. years of her life. For her, it was Year of Production 2007 the company’s headquarters in Cal- Year of Production 2008 the happiest place under the sun – Original Title Traders’ Dreams ifornia and talks about the strategy Original Title Mit Iranske Paradis today it is included in Bush’s “Axis ent. My Iranian Paradise depicts a of an ambitious competitor, who sellers” – eager to believe that of Evil”. Compelled to draw a line people’s condition in the shade of Stories from around the globe challenges eBay on the Chinese they too can succeed in a system in from the past to the present, she politics – and in the light of history. about people who change their lives market. Every day, hundreds of in- which everybody can win. travels back to Iran. Understand- in order to seek wealth and happi- dividual entrepreneurs join the race ing past Iran will expose the pres- Mipdoc Video Library ness through the worldwide auction to find their fortune on eBay. Many Official Selection Edinburgh fever on the Internet. By following try to become so-called “power & Miami Int. Film Festivals coming of age hammer and tickle

Directors Nanna Frank Møller, Anders Gu- Seven films about the seven crucial Director Ben Lewis Under the oppressive Communist staffsson, Sidse Stausholm, Miki Mastrati, a.o. teenage years. Coming of Age is Producer Kristine Camdessus regimes of the Soviet Union and Producers Helle Faber & Mette Heide an award-winning series present- Produced by Alegia its satellites, ordinary people told Produced by Bastard Film & Team Production ing seven portraits, Each program Co-produced by BBC & ARTE thousands of jokes about the so- Duration 7 x 40 min. represents one year and facing Duration 90 or 2 x 45 min. ciety they lived in. Using this unique Year of Production 2009 one problem in the crucial teen Year of Production 2006 folkloric archive, this funny and in- Original Title Næsten Voksen years. How to find love, how to find Original title Hammer and Tickle sightful documentary tells the real See also page 15 yourself? How to be young when Combined, the seven films repre- history of Communism. On the way screen. This Monty-Python-esque you want to be grown-up, or how sent a powerful portrait of the What would happen if they in- it tells the story of what happened history of Communism recreates Danish Academy Award Robert 2008 to be grown-up when you want to new generation. troduced Communism to Saudi to the joke-tellers, some of whom the jokes using sketches, tricked Official Selection IDFA 2008 be young? These are some of the Arabia? Nothing at first but soon ended up in the gulags, while oth- archive and special animations. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2008 questions we face in this series. Mipdoc Video Library there would be a shortage of sand. ers became stars of the stage and gender me art safari 1 + 2

Director Nefise Ôzkal Lorenzen Welcome to the secret world of Director & Producer Ben Lewis ries, while his best friend (fortu- Producer Jørgen Lorenzen homosexual Muslims. Through Produced by B.L.T.V. (Ben Lewis Television) nately an award-winning documen- Produced by Integral Film AS unique insight in the daily life in Duration 8 x 29 min. tary cameraman) follows him with Duration 52 min. Istanbul we face the obstacles and Year of Production 2008 his DV camera. The results are arts Year of Production 2008 the difficulties of being gay and Original Title Art Safari 1 + 2 home movies — close, informal and Original Title Gender Me living as a Muslim. At the same time laidback encounters with artists we’re travelling with the world’s Art geek and award-winning direc- unlike anything else on television. first openly gay Imam in Norway on cultures of Islam and is a story full tor, Ben Lewis, presents and works neider, Relational Art, Wim Delvoye, his journey to question faith and of personal voyages and contradic- as sound recordist and occasional Artists featured: Matthew Barney, Takashi Murakami, Sophie Calle, gender. The film unfolds the sub- tory images in a world of taboos. artist’s assistant in this lo-fi se- Mauritzio Cattelan, Gregor Sch- Santiago Sierra drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 26 fax +45 3520 3969 27 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] highlights the biggest chinese restaurant in the world reserved to fight

Director Weijun Chen Central is the restaurant’s unstop- Director Chantelle Squires from Iraq is definitely not an easy Producer Lawrence Elman pable owner, Qin Linzi, a devout Producers Manju Varghese & Coby Broyles task. The young soldiers find them- Produced by Drive Thru Pictures for BBC Buddhist, shrewd businesswoman Executive Producer for ITVS Sally Jo Fifer selves neglected by the Military & DR in association with SVT, NRK, YLE, and Communist Party member. Produced by Mirrorlake Films in associa- and isolated in a society that can- VRT, VPRO & SBS Through the lives of Qin and her tion with ITVS not recognize their distress. Duration 4 x 30, 52 & 80 min. family, the customers and the Duration 57 & 77 min. Year of Production 2008 staff, the film builds a picture of Year of Production 2008 In May 2003, Fox Company of Ma- who is thriving and who is strug- plores the lives of ordinary Chinese, Original Title Reserved to Fight rine Reserve Unit 2/23, returned their postwar minefield of social With a staff of nearly 1000 (includ- gling in this new economic climate. their strong sense of family duty home from front-line combat in and psychological reintegration. ing 300 chefs) and 5000 seats, West Many of life’s most important rites and the relationship between love Every war brings home shell Iraq. For four years we follow four Lake is a combination theme park of passage take place under the and money in contemporary China. shocked veterans. Coming home Marines of Fox Company through and eatery, offering a cross section West Lake’s roof and it is through of the country’s changing society these celebrations that the film ex- Available in HD crossing the line life extended

Director & Producer Daniel Gordon heavily fortified area on earth and Directors Bigert & Bergström — the pursuit of immortality. The Produced by BBC, Dongoong Arts Center defected to the Cold War enemy, Producers Bigert, Bergström & Jonas aspiration to extend human life & VerySoMuch Productions the communist state of North Kellagher has existed as long as humanity Duration 90 min. Korea. He then simply disappeared Produced by Eight Millimetres AB & Bigert itself. Researchers are convinced Year of Production 2006 from the face of the known world. & Bergström for SVT in association with that the life-span of humans will Original Title Crossing the Line DR, NRK & YLE increase radically within a fore- He became a coveted star of the Duration 58 min. seeable future. Some even believe In 1962 a US soldier sent to guard North Korean propaganda ma- Now, after 45 years, the story of Year of Production 2008 that immortality is within reach for lives 150 years? How will the basic the peace in South Korea deserted chine, and found fame acting in Comrade Joe, the last American Original Title Life Extended human beings. But what are the philosophical questions about life, his unit, walked across the most films, typecast as an evil American. defector in North Korea, is told. consequences of this elongated death, and time change? A documentary art film about one life-span? What will our society of our time’s most active utopias look like when the average person the game of their lives cloud mystery

Director & Producer Daniel Gordon from their matches in England. Director & Producer Lars Oxfeldt Mor- mystery of how supernova explo- Produced by Very Much So Productions After four years of negotiations, tensen sions in our Galaxy and variations in Co-produced by BBC a Western film crew was granted Produced by Mortensen Film for TV2 the Sun govern climate changes on Duration 52 or 80 min. unprecedented official access to Duration 52 & 58 min. the Earth. Year of Production 2002 North Korea. The Game of Their Year of Production 2008 Original Title The Game of their Lives Lives is more than a football film. Original Title The Cloud Mystery The film is aimed at a wide audi- It is a tale of struggle and suc- ence. Astonishing pictures from In 1966 North Korea created the cess, the beauty of sport crossing and is not only adopted by the local The Cloud Mystery is a scientific our Galaxy , the Sun and cloud for- convey their sense of adventure, greatest shock in World Cup history. cultural barriers. It is the story townspeople of Middlesbrough but detective story. It tells how a sci- mations are mixed with spectacu- and give scientific weight to the of how an unfancied team from a also ends up winning the hearts of entist, Henrik Svensmark, through lar animations to simplify the sci- discoveries presented. Nothing has been heard from the Communist country arrives in Eng- the football world. pioneering experiments in a base- ence. Comments by astronomers, team since they returned home land at the height of the Cold War ment in Copenhagen, solved the geologists and climate experts will drama DR International Sales drama DR International Sales DR Byen DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 28 fax +45 3520 3969 29 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk www.drsales.dk [email protected] [email protected] highlights alison’s baby kony’s warriors

Director Bente Milton body. Alison was born without arms The story of three children who were all managed to escape their impris- Producer Bente Milton & Peter Bech and a truncated body. Her resolve abducted by the Lord’s Resistance onment and Kony’s Warriors shows Produced by Milton Media & Bech Film to make the most of her life as a Army in warring Uganda. Richard and their difficult and hard struggle Co-produced by HBO USA, Channel 5 UK & self-employed artist is inspiring. Irene were forced to become guer- back to life and the village from TV2 Danmark When Alison finds out that she has rilla soldiers, while Ida was given as a which they were once abducted. Duration 50 min. accidentally become pregnant she ‘wife’ to one of the guerrilla leaders. Despite their horrible stories, the Year of production 2001 decides to have the baby. A deci- She was only 15 years old when she children manage to have hopes and Duration 50 min. sion, which throws up a barrage of remove Alison’s baby if they don’t had her first baby in captivity. They dreams for the future. Mipdoc Video Library A moving portrait of an unusual thorny questions. How does a single think she can cope as a mother… woman. It takes a strong psyche to woman with no arms look after a but she takes everybody by surprise. elect to have a baby when, like Alison helpless child? Will the baby be born karma in exile Lapper, you were born without arms normal, or disabled like its mother? Winner of Prix Italia 2002 and with a very undeveloped lower The authorities have the power to The extraordinary story of one And finally, after many years in the of the greatest living Buddhist Tibetan exile government, Lakha alison & parys Masters. When he was four years Lama landed in Copenhagen with old, the 20th Lakha Lama was taken 70 dollars in his pocket – half of away from his family to be brought which he spent on his first pair of Director & Producer Bente Milton artist Alison Lapper gave birth to up in a monastery. He was 17 when jeans. At 40 he broke his vows and Produced by Milton Media & Donna Pro- a healthy baby boy, Parys. The early the Chinese attack on Lhasa forced married, and today Lakha Lama has Duration 53 min. duction ltd. physical problems: how to change him to escape across the Himalayas. both children and grandchildren. Mipdoc Video Library Co-produced by ZDF, TV4, TVP, YLE, NRK, diapers, how to breast feed, and HOS & VRT how to cope with constant tired- Duration 50 min. ness, have gradually given way to a the golden beach Year of Production 2004 new set of difficulties. Parys has grown up to be a very extrovert and single mother without arms! We assertive boy. He is now a walk- follow Alison in a complicated love From peaceful isolation to tourist Today life in the valley has changed The follow-up to the success story ing and talking toddler, sweet and story and are present when she paradise... In a valley near a beauti- dramatically. There are internet Alison’s Baby. Almost three years funny, but very hard to handle at receives the Royal Medal of Honour ful beach in southern India lies a cafés and hotels and tourists have passed since the disabled times and quite a challenge for a at Buckingham Palace. small village. When the filmmaker sunbathe topless and smoke hash- first came here 20 years ago, the ish in the shade of the palm trees. villagers had little contact with the The tourist business has brought outside world. There was no road wealth to the families – but also Duration 58 min. my son in the jungle to the valley and no electricity. problems. Mipdoc Video Library

Director Lars Ostenfeld a tribe she spent 12 months liv- the terror hunter Producer Mette Heide ing with a long time ago. Now, ten Produced by Team Productions ApS years later she is returning to the Duration 58 min. jungles of Borneo to find and get Manfred Nowak is appointed by member states that are very criti- Year of Production 2008 reacquainted with her lost tribal the UN to fight torture. Nowak’s cal of his work. In the film survivors Original Title Borneos Hjerte family. The woman has no living job is fraught with obstacles. He from China, Zimbabwe and Moldova family in her home country, Norway, must confront representatives of tell their stories about torture A single woman, Kristin, travels and she has set out on this journey and willing to reunite with Kristin some of the world’s most powerful which is used to create fear and into the world’s oldest rain forest to find a new purpose and meaning when she returns? governments and struggles with a obtain confessions - true or false. carrying a deep secret and a photo to her life. But ten years is a long UN system which includes several Duration 52 min. of a little boy. The boy comes from time and will the tribe be as eager Mipdoc Video Library Mipdoc Video Library drama DR International Sales DR Byen kids Emil Holms Kanal 20 +youth DK-0999 Copenhagen C documentary Denmark music+arts tel. +45 3520 3040 30 fax +45 3520 3969 www.drsales.dk [email protected] the best programmes from highlights scandinavia’s largest the moura mysteries distributor

Baroness Moura Budberg was a a dark secret: her betrayal of hun- The sales department of DR, the DR International Sales sells archive double agent, a spy for the Sovi- dreds of people to Stalin in order Danish Broadcasting Corporation, footage and television programmes ets and the West from 1917 till the to ensure her own survival. What is Scandinavia’s largest interna- produced by DR as well as pro- 1960s. A Femme Fatale, Mistress of really happened? This film follows tional distributor present at all grammes produced by independent Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Bruce her story through Moscow, Estonia, major television markets. companies. Lockhart. The KGB and MI5 held Ukraine and Britain to find the real large files on her. A true legend with story of Secret Agent Moura. Duration 52 & 59 min. in the sky on earth meet us at stand R. 30.19

The film tells a story of a young other signs appear. And always man and his great passion. His with him is his family, patiently desire is to solve the mystery tolerating his passion with all its of extraterrestrial civilisations. inconveniences. But sometimes Together with his family, he comes what is really valuable is not in the to Wylatowo, a small place in the sky; it is here on earth. country where crop circles and Duration 57 min. Helene Aurø Charlotte Gry Madsen John Norlin Head of Sales Archive Sales Manager Festival Manager Phone: +45 3520 3957 Phone: +45 3520 3928 Phone: +45 3520 3362 king of calls E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Territories Italy, France and French- Territories World Work starts at 8 p.m. when America his career as a call centre tycoon. speaking: Belgium, Canada and Swit- wakes up. “The American Yellow He has hired 75 fresh sales agents zerland, Australia and New Zealand Pages” — a business directory to sell listings for $459.95 a piece. somewhat similar to the original Equipped with a new American “Yellow Pages” — have outsourced name and rudimentary English they their telemarketing to India. Kabith, are thrown at the customers. Con- their Indian executive, is building fusion is king and no deals are done. Duration 29 min. city of cigars Sanne Arlø Anders Bruus Mette Vorm Kim Christiansen Area Sales Manager Area Sales Manager Area Sales Manager Co-Production Manager City of Cigars investigates the oldest tobacco factories in Estili, Phone: +45 3520 3959 Phone: +45 3520 3938 Phone: +453520 3933 Phone: +45 3520 2299 health risks associated with Nicaragua, workers become sick E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] producing cigars – from the field without really knowing the causes. worker to the cigar roller and even Toxic chemicals, imported from the Territories The Netherlands, Belgium, Territories Asia, Eastern Europe, Territories Nordic countries, Territories World the storage personnel who are ex- United States and Europe, are pol- Greece, USA and Canada (English- Baltic region, Israel, Turkey, The Germany, Switzerland (German- posed to contamination by chemi- luting the town. speaking) Middle East, South America and speaking), Austria, UK, Ireland, Spain cals and nicotine. Within one of the Duration 28 min. Africa and Portugal new releases miptv 09 miptv drama kids +youth documentary music+arts

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