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Harsh circumstances reign in the countryside in the Director Michael Noer middle of the 19th century and with the prospect Screenplay Jesper Fink, of yet another tough winter, the farmer Jens faces Michael Noer an unbearable choice. If the family is to survive the Producer Matilda Appelin, René Ezra, winter, he must make a deal with the rich farmer at Tomas Radoor the nearby farm and forsake his own moral and the Production Nordisk Film Production most precious he owns, in an effort to secure them Appearances , all a better life. Clara Rosager, Magnus Krepper, Elliott Crosset Hove Jesper Christensen plays the lead in this fifth feature by Michael Noer, who world premiered Genre Drama his previous film, the international co-production Status Post-production 'Papillon' (2017), at Toronto. Noer made his feature Running time 100 min. Photo from set with actor Jesper Christensen debut with the prison drama 'R' (2010) and has also Danish release 17.01.19 directed the gangster drama 'Norhtwest' (2013) and 'Key House Mirror' (2015). International sales Before the Frost TrustNordisk t +45 3686 8788 / Før frosten [email protected] trustnordisk.com

Casper is a photographer living in Copenhagen Director Carl Marott with his girlfriend. He makes a living of small Screenplay Carl Marott, commercial jobs but feels unfulfilled and stuck in Hans Frederik Jacobsen life. One day, an old acquaintance introduces him Producer Per Damgaard Hansen to a man who runs a mysterious video business. Production Masterplan Pictures Casper gets hired and is slowly seduced into an Appearances Joachim Fjelstrup, Julie absurd underworld that completely twists his sense Grundtvig Wester, Shelly Levy, Al of reality and leaves his real life in ruins. Agami

Feature debut by Carl Marott, a 2013 graduate Genre Drama of the National Film School of . His Status Post-production graduation film, 'The Oasis,' was nominated for a Running time 78 min. Feature Debut Student Academy Award. Danish release 2019

International sales Masterplan Pictures The Blue Orchid t +45 40 56 29 03 [email protected] / Den blå orkidé masterplanpictures.com

7-year-old Anna is having trouble sleeping at night. Director Kirsten Skytte, She accidentally left her favourite doll, Sophie, Thomas Borch Nielsen at her family's holiday home, and Anna's parents Screenplay Kirsten Skytte, won't drive all the way to the house to retrieve Thomas Borch Nielsen the doll. Just as Anna is wondering if Sophie feels Producer Pernille Munk Skydsgaard lonely, she suddenly hears a strange sound. Anna is Production 41Shadows Productions visited by a small yellow aeroplane named Zanzibar Appearances Nanna Marqvorsen, along with its crew: Captain Bimse and the co-pilot Peter Frödin, Jesper Asholt Goggeletten. With her trusted teddy bear Mr. Johnson in tow, Anna embarks on a magical rescue Genre Adventure mission with Captain Bimse and Goggeletten to Status Post-production save Sophie. Running time 70 min. Danish release 04.10.2018 The film, aimed at children aged three to seven, is an adaptation of a children's book by Danish International sales bestselling author Bjarne Reuter and is a blend of 41Shadows Productions Captain Bimse live action, puppets and animated backgrounds. t +45 3049 0071 The two co-directors both have a background in [email protected] / Kaptajn Bimse animation and visual effects. Their credits include 41shadows.dk 'Jewel of the Desert' (2001) and 'Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms' (2008), both of which Nielsen directed.

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Nearly every night, handsome Esmail dons the Director Milad Alami same suit and heads to the same upscale wine bar, Screenplay Ingeborg Topsøe, looking to meet and hook up with random women. Milad Alami But Esmail isn’t your typical pickup artist. An Producer Stinna Lassen Iranian immigrant living in Denmark, he needs Production Good Company Films to find a Danish partner soon or face deportation. Appearances Ardalan Esmaili, As the clock winds down and pressure mounts, Soho Rezanejad, Susan Taslimi, Lars a captivating young woman enters Esmail’s life, Brygmann threatening to upend his carefully calibrated existence. Genre Drama Status Completed Feature debut by Milad Alami. The film premiered Running time 102 min. Feature Debut at San Sebastian Film Festival in September 2017 Danish release 17.05.2018 and has experienced a warm reception at a dozen of festivals, winning prizes at San Sebastian, Warsaw, International sales Chicago and Lübeck. Alma Cinema The Charmer t +33 1 5528 0316 / Charmøren facebook.com/almacine

The uncle of Aske gives him a Ninja doll after a trip Director Anders Matthesen, to . The doll turns out to be alive and can Thorbjørn Christoffersen help Aske with his problems at school. Aske wants Screenplay Anders Matthesen to return the favour but the ninja is possessed and Producer Anders Mastrup, Trine wants revenge. Heidegaard Production A. Film Production, The story is adapted from Anders Matthesen’s 2016 Sudoko, Pop Up Production debut novel. Matthesen is a popular Danish stand- up comedian and actor as well as a director. A radio Genre Animation series by Matthesen was turned into the animation Status In production film 'Terkel in Trouble' in which he voiced all the Running time 90 min. characters. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2004. Danish release 25.12.2018

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1648. King Christian IV of Denmark is dying. Weak Director Kasper Kalle and feeble, he travels towards Copenhagen by horse Screenplay Trine Appel, Kasper Kalle and carriage to see his beloved capital one last Producer Claudia Saginario time. Along the way, Christian sends for his former Production Good Company Films wife, , whom he has held captive Appearances Baard Owe, Karen-Lise for several years following their violent divorce. Mynster, Rudi Køhnke, Rosalinde Christian wants Kirsten to sign a document that Mynster states her acts of betrayal against him, hoping that it will restore his good name, and in return, he Genre Drama promises to set her free. But once reunited with the Status Completed woman he both loves and loathes, the past is set on Running time 90 min. fire. The film dives into the tempestuous marriage Danish release 2018 Feature Debut between Christian and Kirsten, from their falling in love to bitter hatred, through sin, jealousy and International sales reconciliation. Good Company Films t +45 2388 0717 Christian IV Feature debut by Kasper Kalle, a period piece [email protected] challenging the cinematic language with its tight goodcompanyfilms.com / Christian IV – Den sidste rejse visual concept. The film is made through the Danish Film Institute's talent initiative, The Sketch, which emphasises new ways of developing film projects.

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Cirkeline finds a bestie with the airs of a princess, Director Jannik Hastrup and Ingolf meets a rhinoceros who’s fed up with Screenplay Nanna Westh, always being the little one. They set off together on Kit Goetz, Trine Breum, Jannik Hastrup a journey that teaches them that being in charge Producer Marie Bro isn’t always a piece of cake and that even the Production Dansk Tegnefilm teeniest of rhinos can prove the greatest of heroes. Genre Animation Cirkeline first saw the light of day in 1957. In 1998 Status Released Cirkeline took the leap onto the silver screen in Running time 64 min. 'City Mice', the first of four features by director Danish release 01.03.2018 Jannik Hastrup and producer Marie Bro. Selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus. International sales Attraction Distribution t +1 514 846 1222 [email protected] Circleen, Coco and attractiondistribution.ca The Wild Rhinoceros / Cirkeline, Coco og det vilde næsehorn

Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring Director Rasmus Kloster Bro machine to portray the well-oiled European Screenplay Mikkel Bak Sørensen, cooperation in the Metro construction, when an Rasmus Kloster Bro accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she Producer Amalie Lyngbo Quist takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo Production Beo Starling and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea. They put their Appearances Christine Sønderris, lives and bodies in each other’s hands to survive Samson Semere, Krešimir Mikic, the heat, pressure and mud in the claustrophobic Salvatore Striano cutterhead, exposing their radically different world views and forcing them to reconsider their lives – Genre Thriller before finally being rescued. Status Completed Running time 84 min. Feature Debut Feature debut by Rasmus Kloster Bro. The film is Danish release 2018 one of several films coming out of the Danish Film Institute’s talent funding initiative, The Sketch, International sales which focuses on the development process. LevelK Cutterhead t +45 4844 3072 [email protected] / Cutterhead levelk.dk

Norge is 22 and lives in provincial Denmark. He Director Kasper Rune Larsen has no expectations for his future, and while the Screenplay Kasper Rune Larsen days pass he spends his time in a haze of smoke Producer Henrik Underbjerg, Stefan and hangovers, skating with friends and scouting Frost, Martin Fugl Chabert for girls. This cycle is interrupted when 16-year-old Production Radiator Film, Anti Film Josephine seduces him and tells him that she is Appearances Frederikke Dahl Hansen, pregnant with his child. In the hope that Norge can Jonas Lindegaard Jacobsen, Jacob help her get an abortion, she refrains from telling Skyggebjerg, Jens "JK" Kristian him the truth: that she was already pregnant before they met. Norge falls in love with Josephine, even Genre Drama in the prospect of a different – and meaningful Status Released – life as a father, which makes it only harder for Running time 90 min. Feature Debut Josephine to tell him the truth. Danish release 01.10.2017

Feature debut by Kasper Rune Larsen. Premiered International sales at CPH PIX 2017 and selected for the Berlinale's Wide Management Denmark Generation 14plus. The director created the film t +33 76067 8335 by letting the scenes unfold without any written [email protected] / Danmark dialogue, but as improvisations between the actors. widemanagement.com

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Ditte and Louise are two middle-aged actresses who Director Niclas Bendixen realize that the only thing the industry has left Screenplay Ditte Hansen, Louise to offer them are roles like mothers or as elderly Mieritz prostitutes. That is why Ditte makes a radical Producer Thomas Heinesen decision: She dresses up like a man. Against all Production Nordisk Film Production odds, Ditte is successful as Ditlev. She lands a lead Appearances Ditte Hansen, Louise role in a film and gets tons of attention. And she Mieritz, Anders W. Berthelsen, Henrik becomes best friends with movie star Anders W. Noél Olesen Berthelsen. But at the same time, she fails her best friend Louise and their shared dream of owning Genre Comedy a theatre company. In impotence and frustration, Status Post-production Louise throws herself into a headless affair with Running time 90 min. Feature Debut David, a doctor. But she is full of inner demons and Danish release 30.08.2018 her problems escalate. Eventually, Ditte and Louise are at risk of losing it all. International sales Nordisk Film Production Ditte & Louise Feature debut by Niclas Bendixen. The film is based t +45 3618 8200 on a popular TV comedy series on Danish television. [email protected] / Ditte og Louise nordiskfilm.com

The family has left for a vacation in sunny Gran Director Martin Miehe-Renard Canaria, to enjoy a week of peace, quiet, relaxation Screenplay Gitte Løkkegaard, Martin and family life. The kids and Uncle Anders want to Miehe-Renard participate in the hotels' competition to become Producer Hans Bülow Ungfelt, Henrik "The Sunny Family of The Year". But Father says no, Møller-Sørensen underlining that "We’re good enough as we are!" Production ASA Film Production He changes his mind, though, when he meets the Appearances Elton Rokahaim Møller, competing family and recognise the father as his Laura Lavigne Bie-Olsen, Mingus old schoolmate who bullied him at school for being Hassing Hellemann, Coco Hjardemaal physically inadequate. Consequently Father enters the competition with all his might and heart, and Genre Family what should have been a friendly contest ends up Status Post-production being a fight for honor and redemption, and it’s Running time 80 min. only by the loving and innovative intervention from Danish release 28.06.2018 the kids that Father realises that the family really doesn’t need to go to any of such extremes. They International sales Father of Four are actually good enough as they are. ASA Film t +45 3961 3030 – on the sunny side! Martin Miehe-Renard, an experienced director of [email protected] films and TV shows for young audiences, directs asafilm.dk / Far til fire i solen his second feature in the popular children's series 'Father of Four.'

It is quiet throughout the country. Everybody is Director Søren Juul Petersen glued to the TV watching the finals. Not a single Screenplay Steen Langstrup, sole is seen in the streets. On the outskirts of Søren Juul Petersen Denmark however, a small gas station still needs Producer Jacob Kondrup to be manned. And on this particular evening two Production Frightgeist very different young women are on duty. Agnes, a Appearances Anne Bergfeld, Karin snobbish college student, is trying to work on her Michelsen, Kristoffer Fabricius, Mads thesis, while naïve Belinda is texting away trying to Koudal get the attention of her boyfriend. Unfortunately, the shift is not going to be as uneventful as they Genre Horror think, because no customers also means no Status Completed witnesses. Running time 100 min. Feature Debut Danish release 2019 Horror film written, directed and produced by Søren Juul Petersen based on a novel by Steen International sales Langstrup. 'Finale' is Petersen’s first feature film as Frightgeist Finale a director. He has acted as a producer on a number t+45 2681 2223 / Finale of features.

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On his quest for happiness, Per moves from the Director dark region of and a severe upbringing in Screenplay Bille August, a strictly religious home. He runs away from his Anders Frithiof August family and his patriarch father, a priest, and sets Producer Karin Trolle, Thomas sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer Heinesen and implement a large energy project. In the Production Nordisk Film Production capital, Per throws himself into the big city life Appearances Esben Smed, Katrine and with an appetite for life and joy, he soon Greis-Rosenthal, Benjamin Kitter, Julie finds himself in an unconcerned and vivid social Christiansen environment. Parallel to his studies, he works on a large and visionary energy project based on Genre Historical drama wind and wave energy. As he gets his projects up Status In production and running and marries into a rich Jewish family Running time 162 min. he quickly climbs the social ladder. But Per’s Danish release 2019 childhood keeps haunting him and his dogmatic family cannot accept his new life and Jewish International sales A Fortunate Man fiancée. TrustNordisk t +45 3686 8788 / Lykke-Per Bille August's international breakthrough came [email protected] with 'Pelle the Conqueror', which received the trustnordisk.com Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1988 and an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1989. His most recent Danish film, 'Silent Heart,' won at San Sebastian in 2014.

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Director Gustav Möller Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped Screenplay Gustav Möller, woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, Emil Nygaard Albertsen the search for the woman and her kidnapper Producer Lina Flint begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger Production Nordisk Film / SPRING enters a race against time to save the endangered Appearances Jakob Cedergren, woman. But soon he realises that he is dealing with Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, a crime that is far bigger than he first thought. Johan Olsen

Feature debut by Gustav Möller. Winner of the Genre Drama Audience Award at Sundance 2018. Also selected Status Completed for Rotterdam's Big Screen Competition and Nordic Running time 85 min. Feature Debut Light at Göteborg. The film takes place in real time, Danish release 14.06.2018 over the course of one night, in one location and with one main character. International sales TrustNordisk The Guilty t +45 3686 8788 [email protected] / Den Skyldige trustnordisk.com

13-year-old Benjamin, a smart computer hacker, Director Poul Berg discovers that his mother didn’t die in an accident Screenplay Poul Berg, as he was led to believe. The trail points to high- Rune Kalle Bjerkø ranking officials in the Danish Secret Service. "Trust Producer Signe Leick Jensen, no one!" he is told. Morten Kaufmann Production Toolbox Film Feature debut by Poul Berg, who wrote the script Appearances Rumle Kærså, Josephine with Kalle Bjerkø. The director has written and Chavarria Højbjerg, Signe Egholm directed a number of television series for children Olsen, Esben Dalgaard and teens. He has also scripted episodes for the DR drama series 'Ride Upon the Storm' (2017). Genre Drama Status Post-production Feature Debut Running time 96 min. Danish release 28.03.2019

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Helle has been waiting forever for her workaholic Director Hella Joof husband Peter to retire, so they can enjoy the Screenplay Mette Heeno autumn of their life together. She really wants to Producer Mie Andreasen travel and explore the world with him – but when Production Happy Ending Film & TV Peter comes home from his last day at work, life Appearances Kurt Ravn, Birthe takes a new turn, as he has a big surprise for her; Neumann, Charlotte Sieling he is pursuing a new career as a wine importer and has invested all their savings in an exclusive Genre Comedy vineyard in Austria! Helle and Peter split up and Status Completed they each set out on a blazing journey of discovery, Running time 100 min. filled with new opportunities, problems and Danish release 25.12.2018 dreams. Cast and director Hella Joof International sales After a series of stage, TV and film performances in Happy Ending Film & TV the 90s, Hella Joof made her debut as feature film t +45 2248 1539 director with the highly successful 'Shake It All [email protected] Happy Ending About' in 2001. Her directing credits include 'Oh happyendingfilm.dk Happy Day' (2004), 'All Inclusive' (2014) and the TV / Happy ending series 'Splitting Up Together' (2016).

Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how Director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their Screenplay Samanou Acheche child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Sahlstrøm Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was Producer Jakob Kirstein Høgel, never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it all Sara Namer would have been if the ocean had taken the trouble Production Meta Film Rights to throw up a little-swollen child’s corpse onto the Appearances Dar Salim, Lisa beach. Or if a local with alcohol in his blood and Carlehed, Francesc Garrido blood on his hands had ploughed him down at full speed. An indescribable pain. No more living, Genre Drama no more happiness, but at least no unanswered Status Completed questions. Unfortunately, that is not how it is for Running time 103 min. Second Feature Adam and Louise. Danish release 06.09.2018

Second feature film by Samanou Acheche International sales Sahlstrøm. He had his debut and breakthrough Meta Film HAPPY PEOPLE with 'Into Your Arms', winner of the Dragon Award [email protected] / HAPPY PEOPLE at Göteborg Film Festival (2015). metafilm.dk

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of Director Isabella Eklöf a petty drug lord caught up in a web of luxury Screenplay Johanne Algren, and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in Isabella Eklöf the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Producer David B. Sørensen Riviera. Production Apparatur Appearances Lai Yde, Victoria Carmen Feature debut by Isabella Eklöf. World premiere Sonne, Thijs Römer, Yuval Segal in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2018. Also selected for the Dragon Award Genre Drama competition at Göteborg. The director is a 2011 Status Completed graduate of the National Film School of Denmark. Running time 90 min. Danish release 2018 Feature Debut International sales Heretic Outreach t +30 210 6005260 Holiday [email protected] / Holiday heretic.gr

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When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that he Director Christian Tafdrup has finally met the love of his life. Soon, however, Screenplay Mads Tafdrup, Marie shows herself to be a dominating and Christian Tafdrup demanding creature, intent on cunningly taking Producer Marta Mleczek, Rasmus apart. This is the story about women Thomas Heinesen and their insistence on being dominant within a Production Nordisk Film Production relationship, as seen through the eyes of a man. A Appearances Anders Juul, Amanda truthful portrait of the horrible nature of woman. Collin, Rasmus Hammerich, Carla Mickelborg Second feature film by Christian Tafdrup. World premiere at 2017. The film Genre Drama has had a successful run at the Danish cinemas Status Released Second Feature since its release in December. Tafdrup made his Running time 86 min. feature debut with 'Parents' (2016), which took Danish release 25.12.2017 home the Silver Méliès for Best European Fantastic Film at Neuchatel Fantastic Festival. International sales A Horrible Woman LevelK t +45 4844 3072 / En frygtelig kvinde [email protected] levelk.dk

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Director Lars von Trier Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to Screenplay Lars von Trier the murders that define Jack’s development as a Producer Louise Vesth serial killer. We experience the story from Jack’s Production Zentropa Group point of view, while he postulates each murder Appearances Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the Genre Drama ultimate artwork. Along the way we experience Status Post-production Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, Running time 155 min. problems and thoughts through a recurring Danish release 2018 conversation with the unknown Verge – a grotesque Cannes Official Selection – Out of Competition mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost International sales childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations. TrustNordisk A dark and sinister story, yet presented through a t +45 3686 8788 philosophical and even occasionally humorous tale. [email protected] The House that Jack Built trustnordisk.com The film stars Matt Dillon in the title role and / The House That Jack Built Bruno Ganz as Verge. Lars von Trier is renowned for such films as 'Nymphomaniac' (2013), 'Melancholia' (2011), 'Antichrist' (2009) and Palme d’Or winner 'Dancer in the Dark' (2000).

William's life is anything but easy. His mother is a Director Jonas Elmer nut, so he is staying with uncle Nils, who lives on Screenplay Kim Fupz Aakeson his wits alone. Now that Uncle Nils has racked up Producer Stine Meldgaard Madsen, a sizable gambling debt and gangsters are out to Jakob Kirstein Høgel get him, William has to muster all his moxie and Production Meta Film Rights imagination to save both his uncle and himself, Appearances Alexander Magnússon, while also juggling three class bullies and his crush, Rasmus Bjerg, Stinne Henriksen, Amina Viola. Arrakha

Jonas Elmer, who has a number of feature films Genre Adventure under his belt, is making his first children’s film. Status Released His debut, the 1997 cult hit 'Let’s Get Lost', won Running time 86 min. the national Bodil and Robert awards for Best Film Danish release 21.12.2017 and Best Actress – to Sidse Babett Knudsen in her screen debut. Other films are 'Mona’s World' (2001), International sales again with Babett Knudsen, and the international SF Studios I am William production 'New in Town' (2009) with Renée t +45 7026 7626 Zellweger. [email protected] / Jeg er William sfstudios.dk

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When Esben flees the trenches of WWI, after Director Kasper Torsting three years at the front, it's so he can return to his Screenplay Kasper Torsting, beloved wife Kirstine and son Karl. But everything Ronnie Fridthjof at home has changed. A charming German Producer Ronnie Fridthjof Officer, Gerhard, has done everything he can to Production Fridthjof Film win Kirstine's heart and replace Esben's role as Appearances Sebastian Jessen, Karl's father. As Esben's family tries to adjust to Rosalinde Mynster, Tom Wlaschiha, his return from the front, the bonds of love and Morten Brovn loyalty are stretched to the breaking point. From his hideout, Esben becomes a witness to a horrific Genre Historical drama nightmare watching his family slowly disappear in Status Post-production front of him as he fights for their love and survival Running time 110 min. Feature Debut and as he tries desperately to save his family. Danish release 15.11.2018

Feature debut by Kasper Torsting. The film is International sales the first Danish feature to be set during World Fridthjof Film In Love & War War I. Apart from directing documentaries and t +45 3618 0880 commercials, the director recently created the TV [email protected] / I Krig & Kærlighed series 'Ø' for Canal+ in . f-film.com

Life in Solby is nice and peaceful until one day Director Philip Einstein Lipski, Jørgen Mitcho and Sebastian find a message in a bottle by Lerdam, Amalie Næsby Fick the harbour. The bottle is from the missing mayor Screenplay Bo hr. Hansen, Philip of Solby with a message that he is on a mysterious Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick island and has made a great discovery. Now they Producer Thomas Heinesen, must embark on a perilous journey to help save Trine Heidegaard the mayor and bring him home, and in the process, Production Nordisk Film Production they uncover something that will bring great pleasure to the city of Solby – a giant pear. Genre Adventure Status Released Selected for Berlin's Generation Kplus. The Running time 78 min. animation film, directed by Philip Einstein Lipski Danish release 12.10.2017 ('Ronal the Barbarian'), Jørgen Lerdam ('The Olsen Gang') and first-time feature director Amalie Næsby International sales Fick, is based on a highly popular children’s book LevelK by Jakob Martin Strid. t +45 4844 3072 The Incredible Story of [email protected] the Giant Pear levelk.dk / Den utrolige historie om den kæmpestore pære

Iqbal wakes up one morning to the news of Aunt Director Oliver Zahle Fatwa being announced the Guardian of the Jewel, Screenplay Mikael Olsen, an Indian honorary title. Eager to get out of school, Renée Toft Simonsen Iqbal convinces his father to bring the whole family Producer Christian Steengaard to India to celebrate and take part in the ceremony Potalivo, Mikael Olsen with Aunt Fatwa. When Iqbal, during a church visit Production Miso Film with his class, sets off a chain reaction resulting in Appearances Hircano Soares, Liv the church being ravaged, Iqbal is thrown out of Leman Brandorf, Arien Alexander Takiar, school, and Dad is so thoroughly fed up with Iqbal's Runi Lewerissa shenanigans that Iqbal isn’t allowed to come to India. Instead, he needs to prove that he can take Genre Children’s film responsibility and find a new school which will take Status Post-production Second Feature him in as a student. Determined to prove himself, Running time 90 min. Iqbal reaches out to Aunt Fatwa and convinces her Danish release 20.09.2018 to enrol him in an Indian school. International sales Iqbal & the Jewel of India Second feature film by Oliver Zahle. The film is the Miso Film third feature about Iqbal, based on a book series by t +45 33 337 337 / Iqbal & Den Indiske Juvel Manu Sareen. Zahle also directed the previous film misofilm.dk in the series, 'Iqbal & the Superchip'.

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Iben is on a romantic boat holiday with her Director Josefine Kirkeskov boyfriend. When they rescue a refugee woman, she Screenplay Nanna Westh, orces Iben to confront her past. Josefine Kirkeskov Producer Mikkel Jersin, Eva Jakobsen, Feature debut by Josefine Kirkeskov. Katrin Pors Production Snowglobe Appearances Sofia Helin, Pål Sverre Hagen, Sebnem Hassanisoughi

Genre Psychological drama Status Completed Running time 90 min. Feature Debut Danish release 2018

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A place of drama, romance, mystery and laughter Director Lone Scherfig – a New York restaurant, the opulent Winter Screenplay Lone Scherfig Palace, serves as the crossroads for our four main Producer Malene Blenkov characters: Clara, a mother looking to avoid her Production Creative Alliance A.M.B.A abusive cop husband; Mark, an ex-con now turned Appearances Caleb Landry Jones, manager of the Winter Palace; Alice, a shy ER nurse , Bill Nighy, who has found her calling running the eclectic Jay Baruchel therapy group Forgiveness; and Jeff, a young man in desperate need of a job. In a time of growing Genre Drama insecurity and little mercy, the tiniest coincidences Status Post-production and kindnesses can blossom into the most Running time 100 min. surprising of outcomes. As our characters flow in Danish release 2019 Director Lone Scherfig and out of each other’s lives, they discover that their liberation and hopes lie in each other’s hands. International sales Creative Alliance A.M.B.A The ensemble drama is Lone Scherfig's first t +45 4075 8100 Lone Scherfig Danish-produced film since 'Just like Home' (2007). [email protected] Scherfig is celebrated for her Dogme film, 'Italian creativealliance.dk New York Project for Beginners' (2000). Other notable titles include 'Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself' (2002), the Oscar- / Lone Scherfig nominated '' (2009), '' New York Project (2014) and ' Hour' (2016).

Way up north in , 12-year-old Lucia Director Christian Dyekjær lives with her mother Claudia and her father Screenplay Philip LaZebnik, Julius, the famous Father Christmas. Lucia goes to Uffe Rørbæk Madsen International Santa School and wants to be the next Producer David C.H. Østerbøg, Father Christmas in Denmark. But it is not allowed, Morten Rasmussen only boys go to Santa school. When Lucia continues Production Deluca Film to protest, the headmaster gives her one chance Appearances Martin Buch, Mia Lyhne, to prove she can be as good as the boys. She must Ella Testa Kusk fulfil the boy Albert's greatest Christmas wish: that his father, who is suffering from a mysterious Genre Children’s film disease, gets well. Albert’s father has been infected Status Post-production by the horrible Krampus. Lucia realizes that it is an Running time 90 min. almost impossible task; she has to catch Krampus Danish release 2018 to cure Albert's father. Lucia goes to Denmark with her father in tow to track down Krampus, International sales and this is the beginning of an amazing Christmas Deluca film Lucia’s Christmas adventure as they discover that someone else is also t +45 7021 4050 chasing Krampus. [email protected] / Julemandens datter deluca-film.dk Christian Dyekjær's most recent film is the drama 'All In' (2017). He made his feature debut with 'Moving Up' (2008).

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12-year old Minna’s life is overturned when new Director Kim Hagen step-sister Jenny moves in. Jenny is mean and Minna Screenplay Søren Grinderslev Hansen wants her gone! One night Minna discovers the Producer Nynne Marie Selin Eidnes Dream Builders and that she can change Jenny by Production First Lady Film changing her dreams. But changing dreams has consequences. Minna must save Jenny in the dream Genre Animation world to save her family in the real world. Status In production Running time 80 min. Feature debut by Kim Hagen, who has directed Danish release 2019 animated shorts and has extensive experience in storyboarding and animation on features, short International sales films and TV series. First Lady Film Feature Debut t +45 2028 8620 [email protected] firstladyfilm.dk Minna and The Dream Builders / Minna og drømmebyggerne

A story of three people who love each other but Director Laurits Flensted-Jensen have forgotten how to say it. Laura is on her way to Screenplay Laurits Flensted-Jensen a porn film casting, Niklas is trying to take care of Producer Julie Friis Walenciak two men with Down’s Syndrome, and Frederik has Production Walenciak Film plans for an assault. We meet them over the course Appearances Victoria Carmen Sonne, of one day – in glimpses and moments – chasing life Niklas Herskind, Noah Skovgaard and each other. Skands

Feature debut by Laurits Flensted-Jensen. The Genre Drama director, who graduated as a documentary director Status Completed from the National Film School of Denmark in 2013, Running time 86 min. has directed the shorts 'Snow' (graduation film) Danish release 2019 Feature Debut and 'Melon Rainbow' (2015), the latter selected for SXSW in Austin. Both 'Snow' and 'Melon Rainbow' International sales were selected for Rotterdam Film Festival. Stray Dogs t +33 1 82 28 42 15 Neon Heart [email protected] / Neon Heart

A film about the impulse-controlled, odd and big- Director Hans Fabian Wullenweber hearted character, Ninna, who lives with her son, Screenplay Susanne Juhasz Dennis, in Præstø, Denmark, where she also works Producer Kasper Graversen, at the local diner. When Dennis reaches the age Jonas Koop of 18, Ninna throws a surprise party for him. The Production Milk & Honey one who is most surprised, however, is Ninna, as Appearances Susanne Juhasz, Peter Dennis announces that he got his own apartment Gantzler, Kristian Halken, Jesper Asholt and plans to move out immediately. Ninna is thrown into a major crisis, where December evolves Genre Drama, Comedy into a month in hell. The prospect of seeing her Status Pre-production only son becoming an adult and living his own Running time 90 min. life is unimaginable for her, and she seizes all Danish release 2019 Director Hans Fabian Wullenweber possible and sometimes unthinkable means to save Christmas by bringing her boy home. International sales Milk & Honey Hans Fabian Wullenweber has directed several t +45 2380 3586 Ninna feature films and made his debut with 'Catch That [email protected] Girl' (2002). He is also an experienced director of TV milkhoney.dk / Ninna series, including 'The Killing' and, most recently, the highly popular 'The Seaside Hotel.'

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Celebrity financier and jet-setter Markus Føns has Director Frederikke Aspöck been taken into custody. Following a brutal assault Screenplay Lars Husum by a gang of bikers in connection with some of his Producer Senia Dremstrup more shady dealings, Markus opts for voluntary Production SF Studios Production solitary confinement among the prison’s weakest Appearances Jacob Ulrik Lohmann, inmates. This ward has a prison choir, of which the Anders Matthesen inmate Niels is the unofficial and self-proclaimed leader. Markus decides to join the choir and before Genre Drama, Comedy long has his sight set on reaching the top of its Status Post-production hierarchy. This battle is not fought with muscle, but Running time 90 min. with cunning, tyranny and canonical Danish songs! Danish release 2019

Based on a critically acclaimed play. Frederikke International sales Director Frederikke Aspöck Aspöck directed the two dramas 'Labrador' (2012), SF Studios selected for Cannes, and 'Rosita' (2015). t +45 7026 7626 [email protected] Prison Choir sfstudios.dk / De frivillige

In an older apartment in Copenhagen, some Director Christoffer Boe craftsmen make a scary discovery: behind a fake Screenplay Bo hr. Hansen, Mikkel wall, they find three mummified bodies sitting Nørgaard, Nikolaj Arcel around a dining table with a free space ready. Carl Producer Louise Vesth Mørck and Assad from Department Q now have to Production Zentropa find out who the mummies are and for whom the Appearances Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares fourth place is intended. They soon discover that Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren the previous inhabitants of the apartment trace Pilmark back to an infamous women’s hospital at Sprogø island, where attempts at forced sterilization were Genre Thriller a regular part of the daily lives of the women who Status Post-production were brought to the hospital. The horror at the Running time 100 min. hospital is an overdue chapter in the history of Danish release 04.10.2018 Denmark, but there are people who say that the experiments are still up in our time. Carl and Assad International sales start a race with time to prevent new murders and TrustNordisk The Purity of Vengeance assaults. t +45 3686 8788 [email protected] / Journal 64 The fourth instalment in Zentropa’s Department Q trustnordisk.com franchise based on Jussi Adler-Olsen’s best-selling novels.

The film is the story of a fall from grace. It’s a tale Director May el-Toukhy of a woman who in spite of herself makes a series of Screenplay Maren Louise Käehne, choices with fatal consequences. It is a story about May el-Toukhy the responsibility we all have due to our positions, Producer Caroline Blanco, René Ezra private or professional. And about the impact it Production Nordisk Film Production may have when we do not take that responsibility Appearances Trine Dyrholm, Gustav seriously. Are we as human beings able to carry on Lindh our lives when we have sacrificed someone else's in order to save our own? Genre Drama Status In production May el-Toukhy made her feature debut with the Running time 100 min. ensemble drama 'Long Story Short' (2015), which Danish release 2019 Second Feature travelled to the festivals in Göteborg and Shanghai, among others. International sales Nordisk Film Production t +45 3618 8200 Queen of Hearts [email protected] / Dronningen nordiskfilm.com

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Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first Director Malene Choi Jensen time to the country they were once born in. Screenplay Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen Confronted with the spirit of their motherland and Producer Julie Friis Walenciak, Katja the personal stories of fellow adoptees they meet in Adomeit, Julie Rix Bomholt the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled Production Walenciak Film, Adomeit into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces Film, Cine Everywhere both of them to question and face their own destiny Appearances Thomas Hwan, Karoline and identity. Operating in a hybrid field between Sofie Lee, Seong In Ja fiction and documentary, the film is based partly on the director’s own experiences, partly on stories by Genre Drama other adoptees. Status Completed Running time 84 min. Feature Debut Feature debut by Malene Choi Jensen. World Danish release 2018 premiere in competition at Rotterdam Film Festival and Nordic premiere at Göteborg Film Festival, International sales both 2018. Choi Jensen’s short 'Creature' (2011) won Pluto Film The Return a Danish Robert Award for Best Short Fiction and t +49 030 2191 8220 was honoured with a Special Mention at Nordisk [email protected] / The Return Panorama. plutofilm.de

The film is a comedy about Rasmus and Frederik, Director Mads Brügger two Danish men in their 30s, who head out on Screenplay Lærke Sanderhoff a business venture. They know each other from Producer Emilie Lebech Kaae, Jakob a boarding school back in Denmark and none of Kirstein Høgel them has really been successful in life so far. Now Production Meta Film they meet, 15 years later, both keen to set up a dog Appearances Frederik Cilius, Rasmus breeding centre. The two partners have learned that Bruun, Odessa, Flemming Sørensen so-called luxury dogs are extremely popular among the Chinese upper class and therefore expect this to Genre Comedy be their way into fast and overwhelming wealth in Status Completed China. A 200 plus lb St. Bernard dog by the name of Running time 100 min. Dollar travels with them to Chongqing. Here they Danish release 10.05.2018 meet up with the mysterious Mr. Liu who owns the largest bakery in Western China and who believes International sales that dogs are as powerful as humans. Soon, the TrustNordisk dog business evolves in unexpected ways, while the t +45 3686 8788 The Saint Bernard friendship between the two Danes grows stronger. [email protected] trustnordisk.com Syndicate Winner of two awards at its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Journalist and filmmaker / Sankt Bernhard Syndikatet Mads Brügger is renowned for films such as 'The Red Chapel' (2009) and 'The Ambassador' (2011).

The Shamer’s daughter Dina, with her magical Director Ask Hasselbalch power of compelling people to admit their most Screenplay Philip LaZebnik, Søren shameful secrets, must save her family with her Frellesen, Astrid Øye, Gunnar Järvstad newly found father. But he is a Blackmaster, with Producer Eva Juel Hammerich, the power to make people see and believe things Nina Lyng that aren’t true, and Dina must now deal with Production Nepenthe Film having inherited this horrible power while forging Appearances Rebecca Aisen Sattrup, a relationship with a father she both fears and Jakob Oftebro, Dejan Cukic, Nicolas mistrusts. Bro

Fourth feature film by Ask Hasselbalch, who Genre Fantasy directed the children's trilogy about the superhero Status Completed Antboy (2013, 2014, 2016). Running time 105 min. Danish release 07.02.2019

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We are approaching the one-year anniversary of a Director Ulaa Salim major bomb attack in Copenhagen. The extreme Screenplay Ulaa Salim Right has become dominant. Radicalisation Producer Daniel Mühlendorph around the country has intensified. The next Production Hyæne Film parliamentary election is near, and the highly Appearances Zaki Youssef, nationalist politician Martin Nordahl from the Mohammed Ismail Mohammed, newly established National Movement party is Rasmus Bjerg predicted a landslide victory that will secure him the post of prime minister. Zakaria, 19, is slowly, Genre Drama but surely moving towards a dangerous path of Status In production radicalisation that risks costing him and his family Running time 90 min. everything. On the way, he meets Malik, who fights Danish release 2019 Feature Debut his own battles and carries a highly dangerous secret. While the country is counting down to the International sales most important election in recent times, Zakaria Hyæne Film and Malik are forced to make a crucial decision that t +45 2422 7472 Sons of Denmark will have consequences for all. [email protected] hyaenefilm.dk / Danmarks sønner Feature debut by Ulaa Salim, who graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2017 together with producer Daniel Mühlendorph.

Simon arrives in Vesterby from Copenhagen. He is Director Martin Skovbjerg Jensen an outsider in a brand new place and alone until he Screenplay Christian Gamst meets Bjarke – Vesterby’s alpha male and heir to Miller-Harris the local speaker factory. The two start challenging Producer Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors, each other in intimate and transgressive actions as Mikkel Jersin they forge a friendship. But when embezzlement Production Snowglobe forces Vesterby’s speaker factory to close, the town Appearances Jonas Bjerril, Vilmer is bereaved of its livelihood, and Bjarke’s family is Trier Brøgger, Sophie Andersen blamed. The anger thrust upon him by the locals Martinussen, Patricia Schumann triggers the beast in Bjarke, and Simon is faced with either having to turn away or save his friend from Genre Drama self-destruction. Status Completed Feature Debut Running time 93 min. Feature debut by Martin Skovbjerg Jensen. The Danish release 2019 script is based on an original story by Christian Gamst Miller-Harris ('Follow The Money', Oscar- International sales Sticks & Stones winning short 'Helium'). Snowglobe [email protected] / Brakland snowglobefilm.com

This year at Katrine and Mads' house the family Director Paprika Steen will once again be united around Christmas Eve Screenplay Jakob Weis and on a traditional holiday like this, there has to Producer Mikael Christian Rieks be room for everyone; the divorced parents, the Production Nordisk Film Production youngest sister and her new husband and not least Appearances Sofie Gråbøl, Lars the teenage daughter of the family, struggling to Brygmann, Paprika Steen, Jacob get her mother's attention. Underneath the surface, Lohmann the explosion lurks as flammable as a dry spruce and when the truth starts to appear, the illusion of Genre Drama holiday peace, that we so deeply insist on, shatters. Status Completed Running time 100 min. Third feature film by Paprika Steen, renowned Danish release 08.11.2018 actress who had her breakthrough in the 90s Dogme films and with Susanne Bier's 'The One and International sales Only' (1999). Later acting credits include 'Applause' TrustNordisk (2009), 'Superclásico' (2011) and 'Silent Heart' (2014). t +45 3686 8788 That Time of Year Steen made her directorial debut with 'Aftermath' [email protected] / Med hensyn til julen (2004), a winner at Karlovy Vary, Kiev and Lübeck. trustnordisk.com

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Hodja is a dreamer. He wants to experience the Director Karsten Kiilerich world, but his father insists he stays home and Screenplay Karsten Kiilerich takes over the family's tailor shop. Fortunately, Producer Kim Magnusson, Hodja meets the old rug merchant El Faza, who Anders Mastrup gives him a flying carpet. In exchange, he has to Production M&M Productions bring the old man's little granddaughter, Diamond, back to Pjort. El Faza can’t travel to the Sultan city Genre Adventure himself, as the mighty ruler has imposed a death Status Released sentence on El Faza, on the grounds that he has Running time 81 min. stolen the Sultan's carpet. However, city life isn't Danish release 08.02.2018 quite what Hodja expected, and he only survives because of Emerald, a poor but street smart girl, International sales who teaches him how to manage in the big world. Sola Media t +49 0711 9689 4440 Animation director Karsten Kiilerich made [email protected] his feature debut with 'The Ugly Duckling and sola-media.com/ Up and Away Me' (2006), an animated comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale. His last film / Hodja fra Pjort was 'Albert' (2015), based on a novel by Danish children's book author Ole Lund Kierkegaard.

Vitello is a boy with lots of appetite, energy and Director Dorte Bengtson drive. He lives alone with his mum in a townhouse. Screenplay Dorte Bengtson, Vitello is not the type who gets bored easily. He has Kim Fupz Aakeson friends, the mall and lots of great ideas to be tested Producer Anders Berthelsen, Bob Last and examined – life is okay! But Vitello misses Production Ja Film having a dad in his life. He doesn't know his dad and his mum isn't a great help there. So Vitello goes Genre Animation out to search for one. Status Completed Running time 72 min. Feature debut by Dorte Bengtson, based on a Danish release 01.02.2018 popular children's book series by Kim Fupz Aakeson and Niels Bo Bojesen. Bengtson has International sales Feature Debut directed the animated shorts 'Vitello Digs a Hole' TrustNordisk (2015), 'The Shadow Animal' (2013) and 'The t +45 3686 8788 Sylpphid' (2008), her graduation film selected for [email protected] Vitello Cannes' Cinéfondation. trustnordisk.com / Vitello

The film tells the story of the popular Danish Director singer-songwriter John Mogensen and his turbulent Screenplay Ole Bornedal life as a father and a husband, but first and Producer Jonas Allen, Peter Bose foremost as a musician. We follow John Mogensen Production Miso Film from childhood to manhood and throughout his Appearances Rasmus Bjerg, Helle career which spanned more than twenty years, first Fagralid, Henrik Noél Olesen, Harald with great success in the vocal group Four Jacks and Kaiser Hermann later as a solo artist. John Mogensen died suddenly of a heart attack in 1977. Genre Drama Status Released The film, a local box-office hit, is seen by more than Running time 100 min. 400,000 cinemagoers. Ole Bornedal's 'Small Town Danish release 08.03.2018 Killers' (2017) attracted more than 255,000 Danes to the cinema. Other recent titles include '1864' International sales (2016), a feature about a fateful year in Danish Miso Film history which was also made into a TV series. t +45 33 337 337 The Way to Mandalay Bornedal’s breakthrough came with his feature misofilm.dk debut 'Nightwatch' (1994), and he has won a string / Så længe jeg lever of awards for titles such as the children’s film 'The Substitute' (2007), 'Just Another Love Story' (2007) and 'Deliver Us from Evil' (2009).

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12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl until Director Kaspar Munk one day when she is scratched by a mysterious, Screenplay Bo hr. Hansen, Kaspar black cat. Soon after, Clara discovers that she can Munk, Poul Berg communicate with the cat and that she belongs Producer Stinna Lassen, to a family of wild witches, who have a strong Anni Fernandez connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Production Good Company Films Clara is a particularly special wild witch, whose Appearances Gerda Lie Kaas, Vera Mi blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bachmann, Sonja Richter, May Lifschitz Bravita Bloodyoung. Together with her aunt and mentor, Isa, and her friends, Kahla and Oscar, Clara Genre Fantasy must face her destiny and embark on a dangerous Status Post-production journey in order to save herself and the Wild World Running time 100 min. from the evil forces of Bravita. Danish release 11.10.2018

Third feature film by Kaspar Munk. He has International sales previously directed two youth dramas: his feature TrustNordisk Wildwitch debut 'Hold Me Tight' (2010), which took home the t +45 3686 8788 Marc'Aurelio Award for Best Debuting Feature at [email protected] / Vildheks Rome Film Festival, and 'You & Me Forever' (2012). trustnordisk.com He has also directed series for television and is concept director on 'Rides upon the Storm' (2017).

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A brand new wine has been invented in Denmark. Director Eva Mulvad It is made of sour cherries – a Danish specialty but Screenplay Eva Mulvad produced with the traditional wine knowledge Producer Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær from France and Germany. It is a dark, intense Production Danish Documentary fermented cherry wine. Now the men behind the Production invention are travelling the world to open new markets for what they call the best cherry wine in Genre Documentary the world. The film follows a very local product in Status In produciton its attempt to go global without losing integrity and Running time 75 min. quality on the way. International sales Eva Mulvad's previous film 'Enemies of Happiness' Danish Documentary and 'The Good Life' have been been awarded at [email protected] Sundance, IDFA and Karlovy Vary. danishdocumentary.com Cherry Tale / Kirsebæreventyret

It’s midnight. Rhodesia’s jungle is dressed in a Director Mads Brügger steaming, reeking black. A propeller is heard in Screenplay Mads Brügger, the distance, bearing down upon us. Many years Andreas Rocksén later, jungle drums will still tell about Belgian Producer Peter Engel mercenaries who crept around down in the Production Wingman Media darkness that night. Up in the plane, you see UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and his Genre Documentary entourage of fifteen persons, and in a few moments, Status Completed they will not exist anymore. From this point, if Running time 91 min. you freeze the image, you can drag the dotted lines to the Congolese civil war, Mobutu’s regime, the International sales ongoing and accelerating exploitation of , the DR International Sales total post-colonial nightmare as we know it today – t +45 3520 3040 all this due to the single incident taking place now. [email protected] drsales.dk Mads Brügger's latest film, the comedy 'The Saint Cold Case – Dag Bernard Syndicate,' won two awards at its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Brügger is Hammerskjöld renowned for such films as 'The Red Chapel' (2009) / Cold Case – Dag and 'The Ambassador' (2011). Hammerskjöld

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life Director Simon Lereng Wilmont has been turned upside down by the ongoing Producer Monica Hellström war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved Production Final Cut for Real grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left Genre Documentary the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life Status Completed together there and want to stay on and take care Running time 91 min. of each other. But life is becoming more and more difficult and the war does not seem to end. International sales Cinephil – Philippa Kowarsky Won IDFA's First Appearance Competition 2017 t +972 3566 4129 and Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary [email protected] at Göteborg 2018. The film has also received cinephil.com awards in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Geneva and Thessaloniki. The Distant Barking of Dogs / The Distant Barking of Dogs

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26 people are living in Doel – and they will not be Director Frederik Sølberg moving anywhere. Not even though everyone else Producer Mathilde Hvid Lippmann, is telling them how hopeless their beloved ghost Frederik Sølberg town is. Vandalised, dilapidated and an ironic Production Made in Copenhagen sightseeing spot for urban explorers, car nerds and Dutch techno ravers. Doel is squeezed in between Genre Documentary an industrial port and a nuclear power plant, and Status Completed since the 1960s the government has wanted to shut Running time 70 min. down the city to make room for a container park in the name of globalization. But the citizens will not International sales give up. Made in Copenhagen t +45 2623 6351 Premiered at CPH:DOX. Frederik Sølberg's slow [email protected] cinematic film about the outskirts of Europe is madeincopenhagen.dk a portrait of a ghost town and its 26 inhabitants trying to hold on to the dream that their city is a Doel city and their home is a home. / Doel

More than twenty years ago, Mette Holm read Director Nitesh Anjaan a novel by Haruki Murakami, who had yet to Producer Pernille Tornøe, reach literary stardom. Back then, she had no Signe Byrge Sørensen idea how the Japanese author’s imagined worlds Production Final Cut for Real would steadily shape and transform her own. Since then Mette Holm has spent thousands of Genre Documentary hours translating Murakami’s puzzling and widely Status Completed discussed stories to his Danish readers. Stories Running time 57 min. that continuously spellbind and challenge millions of devoted readers all over the planet. As Mette International sales struggles to find the perfect sentences capable Final Cut for Real of communicating what Murakami’s solitary, t +45 3543 6043 daydreaming characters are trying to tell us, the [email protected] boundary between reality and fiction begins to blur. finalcutforreal.dk

Selected for IDFA's Panorama and Toronto Hot Dreaming Murakami Docs. Nitesh Anjaan made his debut as film director with 'Far from Home' (2014), which premiered at / Dreaming Murakami CPH:DOX. He is currently a student at the National Film School of Denmark, to graduate in 2019.

Would you confess to a crime you did not commit? Director Katrine Philp Each year innumerable American suspects do, Producer Katrine Sahlstrøm and experts say that trained interrogators can get Production Good Company Pictures anybody to confess to anything. Defence attorney Appearances Jane Fischer-Byrialsen, Jane Fisher-Byrialsen is determined to put an end Korey Wise to interrogation techniques that all too often pressure innocent people into false confessions. The Genre Documentary film follows four of her cases, all involving false Status Completed confessions, and examines the psychological aspect Running time 90 min. of how people end up confessing to crimes they have not committed and the consequences of these International sales confessions – for those accused, for their families DR International Sales and for society at large. t +45 3520 3040 [email protected] Premiered at CPH:DOX 2018. Director Katrine Philp drsales.dk premiered her last film, the children's documentary False Confessions 'Home Sweet Home' (2015), at IDFA. Her debut film, 'Dance for Me '(2012), screened at IDFA and was / I det lukkede rum nominated in 2015 for an Emmy Award.

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A man decides to flee from his country. He has Director Eva Mulvad several good reasons. He is under pressure to Producer Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær take part in dangerous operations as a spy for a Production Danish Documentary government he has no faith in. He can't live with Production the woman he loves since they're both married – and not to each other. He can't be a father to his Genre Documentary little son, a love child from his illicit affair, since Status In prodution this child officially has another father. The film is a Running time 80 min. political love story about Abdullah, his secret love Leila, and their escape from Iran. International sales Danish Documentary Production Eva Mulvad's previous film 'Enemies of Happiness' t +45 2616 2535 and 'The Good Life' have been been awarded at [email protected] Sundance, IDFA and Karlovy Vary. danishdocumentary.com Family on The Run / En familie på flugt

For three years we follow the two twin girls Molly Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder and Smilla in a crucial time of their lives from age Producer Sara Stockmann 11 to 15. The girls are diagnosed with autism and Production Sonntag Pictures are not like the other children. They must learn to live with the awareness of being different. The film Genre Documentary follows them in crucial years where they grow from Status Completed belonging to the same safe bubble to stepping out Running time 33 min. into the world as two confident, strong girls. The film ends when Molly takes a big leap and start at a International sales continuation school. Sonntag Pictures [email protected] Director Kaspar Astrup Schröder has directed a sonntagpictures.com number of documentaries about and for children. Other films by Schröder include 'The Invention of Dr. Nakamats' (2009), 'Rent a Family Inc.' (2012), 'Waiting for the Sun' (2017) and 'Big Time' (2017). Fantasy Fantasy / Fantasi Fantasi

Sherin Khankan is a modern Muslim leader and Director Marie Skovgaard imam of Europe’s first mosque run by female Producer Jesper Jack imams. Its members all share one conviction: Production House of Real they want to confront and challenge the fears Appearances Sherin Khankan and concerns that surround Islam and to create an alternative to existing readings of the Quran, Genre Documentary thereby effecting a break with established gender Status In production hierarchies. The group argues for the importance Running time 90 min. of having female imams, stating that a religious society should be led by the wisest and most International sales knowledgeable person available, regardless of that House of Real person’s gender. But the need for female imams is t +45 31407520 not just rooted in concerns about knowledge and [email protected] reforms of how the Quran is read and interpreted. houseofreal.dk It is also connected to the need for strong female role models among Muslims of faith who feel Femimam uprooted and lack a sense of belonging. / Femimam The documentary is Marie Skovgaard's directorial debut.

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An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His Director Andreas Dalsgaard anarchist son wants to connect. They share a Producer Michael Haslund- passion for the Wild East, where grandfather Christensen was a famous explorer among Mongol tribes. He Production Haslund Film died under mysterious circumstances in 1948 in Appearances Michael Afghanistan. Rumours say he was a British agent Haslund-Christensen, and gunrunner. Michael, the grandson, takes his Søren Haslund-Christensen, father Søren out of the nursing home. He wants Henning Haslund-Christensen, him to taste life, and he wants them to spend time Marianne Haslund-Christensen together. The odd couple travel across China. They encounter temples, chiefs and ancestors who reveal Genre Documentary that the grandfather was a true Lawrence of the Status Completed East. A man who fought to unite the Mongol tribes Running time 85 min. and defend them against the Soviet Reds. International sales The film is a road trip full of odd characters and Cinephil – Philippa Kowarsky The Great Game mysterious encounters, told through material t +972 3566 4129 from a unique private archive. Director Andreas [email protected] / Fædre og sønner Dalsgaard received wide acclaim for 'The War cinephil.com Show' (2016), co-directed with Obaidah Zytoon, which won the Venice Days Award and Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg and also screened at Toronto and IDFA, among a string of other festivals.

A journey along the beautiful west coast of Director Lasse Lau Greenland and its proud Inuit culture. We meet Screenplay Lasse Lau a modern Greenland in an ongoing struggle with Producer Rie Hougaard Landgreen, becoming fully independent of Denmark and Rikke Tambo Andersen reckoning the past with the future. 300 years of Production Kran Film Collective colonial history has set an imprint in the faces Appearances Nukâka Coster-Waldau, of two nations. In Greenland we meet a young Vivi Nielsen, Aannguaq René J. Hansen, pregnant woman in the small town of Qeqertarsuaq Angunnguaq Larsen at her last doctor’s appointment communicating in a language she doesn’t understand. In Copenhagen, Genre Art documentary the young hunter is trapped with his kayak in the Status Completed urban water basin in the middle of the city. Running time 75 min.

The film is reflecting on colonial history between International sales Denmark and Greenland. It is the artistic debut of Kran Film Collective Lasse Lau. Kran Film Collective is a Copenhagen- t +45 60 66 62 75 The Happy Native and Brooklyn-based network of international visual [email protected] artists and filmmakers from outside the traditional kranfilm.net / Lykkelænder roam of filmmaking.

In a small, wind-swept fishing community on Director Janus Metz, Sine Plambech the Northern coast of Denmark live 926 Thai- Producer Lise Lense-Møller women. 25 years ago there were none – apart Production Magic Hour Films from Sommai, a former sex-worker from Pattaya. This is a different – and at times awkward – love Genre Documentary story about a group of lonely Danish men in the Status Completed most depopulated area of Denmark and a group of Running time 180 min. industrious Thai women who are willing to go to almost any length to carve out a brighter future for International sales themselves and their children. One person’s story Autlook Filmsales mirrors the next to form an emotional tapestry and t +43 720 34 69 34 an intimate exploration of the needs and desires [email protected] that bring us together and pull us apart in one of autlookfilms.com the most important issues of our time: migration.

The film is a 10-year long collaboration between Heartbound – a different award-winning filmmaker Janus Metz and renowned anthropologist Sine Plambech, built on kind of love story 15 years of her fieldwork. Metz won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes for 'Armadillo' (2010). / Mellem to verdener Recent films include the fiction feature 'Borg vs. McEnroe' (2017).

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What if there was a place deep in the brain that Director Pernille Rose Grønkjær can take you from pain to pleasure? What if tiny Screenplay Lone Frank pulsing electrodes in your head could change your Producer Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, mind? How would we harness such a revolutionary Sidsel Lønvig Siersted tool in our eternal hunt for happiness? This film Production Danish Documentary explores how the burgeoning technology of deep Production brain stimulation will impact human identity and our sense of self. Genre Documentary Status In prodution Pernille Rose Grønkjær made her breakthrough Running time 75 min. with 'The Monastery' (2006), her first long documentary, which won the Joris Ivens top award International sales at IDFA plus several other prizes. Her latest films Danish Documentary Production include 'Love Addict – Stories of Dreams, Obsession t +45 2616 2535 and Longing' (2011) and 'Genetic Me' (2014). [email protected] Hunting for Hedonia danishdocumentary.com / Hunting for Hedonia

Mohammed was three when he was sent away Director Søren Steen Jespersen, from Somalia with his two older sisters to get a Nasib Farah better life in London. When he became a teenager, Producer Helle Faber he was jailed on a drug charge and deported back Production Made in Copenhagen to Somalia. Here he was adopted by the terror organisation Al-Shabaab. One day he meets Fathi, Genre Documentary a young British-Somali girl who visits Mogadishu. Status Completed They get married and when she returns, she is Running time 81 min. pregnant. The young couple believes that one way or another they will be able to live together International sales in London. He tries to flee Somalia in order to DR International Sales get to Europe and be with his family. However, t +45 3520 3040 the journey is not at all turning out the way [email protected] Mohammed expected. drsales.dk

The documentary follows one of the thousands of Lost Warrior young radicalised who wants to go back to living a normal life but is somehow stuck in the world with / Den fortabte kriger no home country, no papers and no future. The directors' previous collaboration, 'Warriors from the North' (2014), was selected for IDFA and won Best Mid-Length Documentary at Toronto Hot Docs.

With St. Petersburg and the era of the post-USSR- Director Alina Rudnitskaya Putin-regime as a backdrop, this documentary Producer Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, comedy invites us into the lives and minds of two Sidsel Lønvig Siersted Russian women on an “all-or-nothing” quest for a Production Danish Documentary well-off man. In three Russian cities a psychologist Production runs the costly, but popular School of Seduction. The film follows Lida and Diana before, during, Genre Documentary and after attending the school’s course “How Status In production to Seduce Rich Men” – the events leading up to Running time 75 min. them attending the course, how they learn the techniques of seduction, and how they put their International sales new knowledge into action. Danish Documentary Production t +45 2616 2535 Among Russian filmmaker Alina Rudnitskaya's [email protected] latest films are 'Catastrophe' (2016), 'Victory Day' danishdocumentary.com (2014), 'Blood' (2013) and 'I Will Forget This Day' The Mercedes Principle (2011). / The Mercedes Principle

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A film about a group of people who are waging Director Carl Olsson a battle against time. A social class for which Producer Anne Köhncke time and modernity has always been seen as an Production Final Cut for Real approaching apocalypse. The landed gentry of Denmark, standing with one foot in the 18th Genre Documentary century and the other in the present. Through Status In production four main characters the film explores the Running time 70 min. contrast between modernity and tradition, hereby examining time itself, and the little human’s International sales struggle against it. Final Cut for Real t +45 3543 6043 Carl Olsson graduated from the National Film [email protected] School of Denmark as documentary director in finalcutforreal.dk 2013. His graduation film 'Blessed be the Place' won many festival prizes and was nominated for the Danish Robert Awards. My Father's Acres / Den Frelste Jord

Iris, 7, travels by car with her dad visiting her Director Laurits Munch-Petersen grandparents’ different places in Denmark. Being Screenplay Laurits Munch-Petersen on the road with dad opens up a special room for Producer Birgitte Fredsby, Ulla philosophical thoughts and great imagination. She Hasselbalch, Katrin Quist-Møller always looks forward to going on the road with Production Made by us dad, especially since she then has him all to herself. Appearances Iris Munch-Petersen, Laurits Munch-Petersen, Erik Hagens, Director Laurits Munch-Petersen, the father of Iris, Ursula Munch-Petersen is trying out new ways of storytelling, allowing his daughter to be the driving force of the series in six Genre Children’s documentary episodes. Status Completed Running time 6 x 12 min.

International sales Made by Us t +45 5164 1910 On the Road with Dad [email protected] / På tur med far madebyus.dk

A story of a friendship – a brotherhood between Director Stig Guldberg grown-up men – for better and for worse. An Producer Lise Saxtrup author, an artist and an anarchist, three creative, Production Klassefilm sensitive and intelligent beings, are united in a Appearances Lars Morell, Anders friendship that provides grounding in their lives. Gantriis, Jens Jørgen Boje But maybe they live in the wrong era? Genre Documentary Premiered at CPH:DOX 2018. Director Stig Status Completed Guldberg has followed the group of friends since Running time 58 min. 2010. Guldberg has directed 'A Saucepan for My Wife – The Designer Jens Quistgaard'. Mads Kamp International sales Thulstrup graduated as director of fiction from Klassefilm the National Film School of Denmark in 2005. The t +45 2026 7440 football documentary 'Danish Dynamite' (2008) was [email protected] his directorial debut. klassefilm.dk The Originals / De originale

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In the heart of Vollsmose Square in the outskirts Director Emil Langballe of Odense, a large town in Denmark lies Q´s Producer Heidi Kim Andersen Barbershop. It is a popular hang out for young Production Made in Copenhagen Somalis in the neighbourhood because Qasim, who Appearances Q everyone just calls Q , makes sure they can get the coolest haircut and style. For just ten quid you can Genre Documentary get yourself a Flat Top, a Will Smith, an Usher or Status In production simply a House Party with high or low side fades. Running time 60 min. But at Q´s Barbershop, you can also get help with bigger and smaller things in life such as love, International sales education, shackles or if you are looking to buy a Made in Copenhagen new car. The thing is – Q is not your typical social t +45 2623 6351 worker, he is the real deal, a ”no bullshit” kind of [email protected] guy. And the majority of his customers leave the madeincopenhagen.dk barbershop better equipped, ready to tackle the challenges of the day – and life itself. Q's Barbershop Emil Langballe’s graduation film 'Beach Boy' (2013) / Q's barbershop from UK’s National Film and Television School was honoured at such film festivals as Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki, Tampere and Toronto’s Hot Docs. 'The Wait' (2016) made its debut at IDFA.

A film about the first-ever female president of the Director Mette-Ann Schepelern, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Lizette Louise Detlefsen Risgaard. The film follows her long, hard road Producer Malene Flindt Pedersen to the top and the power struggles and male Production Hansen & Pedersen chauvinism she had to overcome before assuming Film og Fjernsyn the Presidency in 2015. But it is also a film about Appearances Lizette Risgaard a woman with a political mission. In an age of individualism, when digitisation and globalisation Genre Documentary are new factors in the labour market, her task is to Status Completed unite the trade union movement and restore our Running time 58 min. faith in community. International sales Mette-Ann Schepelern has a long list of films Hansen & Pedersen Film og Fjernsyn accredited to her name as director and producer. t +45 2744 2567 Louise Detlefsen is a journalist and has directed a [email protected] number of children’s films and tv productions. Queen of Hearts / Hjerter Dame

24-year-old Visiline Jepkesho from Kenya is a huge Director Katrine W. Kjær running talent on the brink of her international Producer Ole Tornbjerg breakthrough as a marathon runner. Her biggest Production Chili Film dream is to earn money to buy a house for her little Appearances Visiline Jepkesho family: her husband Abraham and her 3-year old son, and to secure them a life out of poverty. But Genre Documentary to do so she needs to leave her family. She travels Status In production for training and for big races around the world. As Running time 52 min. her running career develops she must live without her son and give up her dream of raising him International sales herself. She must leave him with her mother-in- Chili Film law. What does it do to Visiline and her attitude to [email protected] the traditional gender roles she lives in when she chilifilm.dk comes out and sees the large western world and experience what rights other women have?

Run Like a Girl Katrine W. Kjær's first long documentary, 'Mercy, Mercy' (2012), premiered at IDFA and screened at / Run like a Girl several festivals, including Göteborg, Toronto Hot Docs and Warsaw Against Gravity.

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Amanda meets Casper on facebook. He is sole heir Director Nicole N. Horanyi to the Augustinus Fund. He is divorced and has a Screenplay Krister Moltzen, daughter he is not allowed to see. On top of that Nicole N. Horanyi he has a complicated relationship with his wealthy Producer Helle Faber family. That is why Casper ends up moving in with Production Made in Copenhagen Amanda in her small apartment, where she lives with her young daughter. Three months later Genre Documentary Amanda discovers that none of what Casper has Status Completed told her about himself is true. Casper is not his Running time 82 min. real name, he is on the dole, and he lives in the basement of his grandparents’ house. How could International sales Amanda have been so blind? How could she let LevelK herself be so thoroughly taken in by him? Amanda t +45 4844 3072 decides to find out who Casper really is, and in [email protected] the process she discovers other victims of Casper’s levelk.dk charm. The Stranger Nicole N. Horanyi's last film, 'Motley's Law' (2015), / En fremmed flytter ind premiered at Chicago Film Festival and was selected for IDFA where the director received the Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary.

The documentary is a coming-of-age story about a Director Mikala Krogh group of boys from the streets of the capital of the Producer Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær Philippines, Manila, who get a chance to change Production Danish Documentary their lives. They are offered a one-year stay at the Stairway Project Rehabilitation Centre on an island Genre Documentary far away from the city which, in comparison to Status Completed their past lives, is a true paradise. Many of the Running time 75 min. boys have been sexually abused, are addicted to drugs, have been victims of domestic violence and International sales have witnessed killings. The film’s protagonists CAT&Docs are 13-year-old Tracy, who more than anything t +33 1 4461 7748 else wishes to be a lady boy, and silent 15-year-old [email protected] Joshua, who has forgotten how to smile. The film catndocs.com follows the boys’ development and attempts to escape their pasts, and investigates if it’s possible to change life paths which are already on the wrong A Year of Hope track. / Gadens børn – et år med håb Selected for IDFA’s Masters. Mikala Krogh’s most recent films as director, The Newsroom – Off the Record (2014) and One Day at a Time (2012), were both selected for IDFA. irector

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