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Danish Films IDFA ISSUE 2015 DANISH FILMS / idfa ISSUE 2015 FILMS / idfa DANISH Danish FILMs IDFA ISSUE 2015 FILM is published by the Danish Film Institute FILM is published by the Danish Film Institute Danish FILMs idfa Digital issue 2015 man falling at home in the world natural Anne Wivel captures a famous painter Fly-on-the-wall of refugee children’s lives. struggling to get back to work after he disorder fell down the stairs and hit his head. home sweet home Christian Sønderby Jepsen tracks Finding your feet in a new culture. journalist and comedian Jacob Nossell motley’s law as he searches for the meaning of life Nicole N. Horanyi follows daring defence déjà vu for someone with cerebral palsy. lawyer Kimberley Motley in Kabul. A personal tale from a lifetime of film. FILM is the Danish Film Institute’s international festival magazine, issued prior to the festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Amsterdam, including a comprehensive catalogue. DANISH FILMS FILM Digital Issue is the Danish Film Institute’s IDFA ISSUE 2015 Published by the Danish Film Institute online release bringing articles on films, a catalogue section and useful information about people and Editors companies. Susanna Neimann (SN) Annemarie Hørsman (AH) FILM Digital Issue: dfi.dk/film Editorial team Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) Freja Dam (FD) Lea Mosegaard (LM) The Danish Film Institute is the national agency that supports and encourages Danish film and DFI Festival team cinema culture. Anne Marie Kürstein Translations Glen Garner Design Rasmus Koch Studio Art Direction Pernille Volder Lund Type Holton, Swift, Akzidenz Paper MultiDesign White Printed by Centertryk Circulation 2,000 ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) Cover Natural Disorder Graphic design: Torsten Høgh Rasmussen Photo: Ricky Molly Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 DK-1123 Copenhagen K T +45 3374 3400 www.dfi.dk/english FILM is the Danish Film Institute’s international festival magazine, issued prior to the festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Amsterdam, including a comprehensive catalogue. DANISH FILMS FILM Digital Issue is the Danish Film Institute’s IDFA ISSUE 2015 Published by the Danish Film Institute online release bringing articles on films, a catalogue section and useful information about people and Editors companies. WE ARE ALL Who am I? How do others see me? Is my life worth living? Jacob Nossell has been Susanna Neimann (SN) 8 grappling with these questions his whole life. Christian Sønderby Jepsen’s Natural Annemarie Hørsman (AH) ABNORMAL FILM Digital Issue: dfi.dk/film Disorder tracks the young journalist and comedian as he searches for the meaning of Editorial team life for someone with cerebral palsy. Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) Freja Dam (FD) Lea Mosegaard (LM) The Danish Film Institute is the national agency that supports and encourages Danish film and DFI Festival team cinema culture. Anne Marie Kürstein Translations Glen Garner Design Rasmus Koch Studio Art Direction Pernille Volder Lund Type Holton, Swift, Akzidenz SETTLING IN THE ULTIMATE MODERN WOMAN WHEN FRAILTY ARRIVES Paper How do you make a home for yourself in In Motley’s Law, Nicole N. Horanyi tracks Anne Wivel in Man Falling portrays her old MultiDesign White 12 16 20 a new country? Andreas Koefoed’s At the day-to-day life in Kabul of American friend, the renowned painter Per Kirkeby, who Printed by Home in the World Centertryk provides a different Kimberley Motley – one-time beauty queen, is struggling to get back to work after a fall Circulation perspective on refugees than the one mother of three, and tough-as-nails defence down the stairs left him immobilised and cost 2,000 we usually get from the media. attorney. him the ability to recognise colour and shape. ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) HOME SWEET HOME FLOTEL EUROPA DANISH FILMS AT IDFA FORUM Katrine Philp tells the story of young Fleeing Sarajevo with his family in 1992, Cover Natural Disorder 24 28 32 Salimah from Myanmar and her struggle Vladimir Tomic gives his personal account Graphic design: Torsten Høgh Rasmussen to find her feet in a new culture. of life on a refugee ship in Denmark. DANISH FILM CATALOGUE Photo: Ricky Molly 33 OLMO AND THE SEAGULL DÉJÀ VU Danish Film Institute Petra Costa and Lea Glob delve into the Jon Bang Carlsen mirrors his life story by Gothersgade 55 26 30 DK-1123 Copenhagen K intimacy of pregnancy in their close-up of weaving scenes from his many films into T +45 3374 3400 a couple expecting their first child. a tale about finding your way through life. www.dfi.dk/english FILM | IDFA Issue 2015 Category films at IDFA 2015 News & Notes Welcome to the rich stories explored in the Danish docs at Amsterdam this year. How do you live your basically didn’t communicate with life far away from home? Why are we so scared of him at all. This sparked me to begin the abnormal? How do you pick yourself up when Shining a my research into Facebook, exploring life beats you down? Asking questions like these, how the company handles core zooming in on captivating personalities and probing democratic values like freedom of Light on expression and privacy.” the boundaries of the documentary genre, the nine All the more important because, as Danish films at IDFA 2015 present fresh, impassioned Facebook our number-one social media space, views on art, life and society. Facebook is a de facto monopoly, Gottschau says. Explore the magazine and discover more about the NEW FILM. Jakob Gottschau’s “Facebook has collected and films and filmmakers. For a broader view on Danish Facebookistan examines the saved enormous amounts of paradox of our number one social information about all of us. We have documentaries, these next few pages present the media: encouraging us to share, it voluntarily shared information and we pick of the crop of upcoming titles plus Danish co- doesn’t share back. have voluntarily allowed Facebook, by productions at this year’s big doc fest in Amsterdam. signing their terms of service, to use Read on and enjoy! While making a series of films this information for whatever purpose exploring how social media give the company might find useful.” a democratic voice to people in “And yet we know very little about Henrik Bo Nielsen, CEO, Danish Film Institute repressive countries, director Jakob Facebook – why they censor pages, Gottschau began to question the how they commercialise our personal mechanisms behind some of the data and how and why they keep the DANISH DOCS AT IDFA 2015 social media giants, in particular data, even when we, as users, have Facebook. Around that time, a friend deleted it.” of his had his Facebook account Facebookistan aims to provide FEATURE-LENGTH COMPETITION shut down because he had posted a a new understanding of how Natural Disorder by Christian Sønderby Jepsen 50-year-old picture of some happy, Facebook governs the biggest public Production: Moving Documentary nude hippies. space for discourse in the world. “He had a hard time getting While it promotes openness and transparency, those could be said MID-LENGTH COMPETITION any explanation from Facebook,” Gottschau says. “The company to be the very values missing within At Home in the World by Andreas Koefoed Production: Sonntag Pictures KIDS & DOCS COMPETITION pelota in Pelota II, presented in the Masters section. Jørgen Leth made Home Sweet Home by Katrine Philp JØRGEN a film in 1983 about this centuries- Production: Good Company Pictures old sport, which is similar to squash. Now returning to the subject, Leth PANORAMA LETH shifts his focus to the mysteries of Motley’s Law by Nicole N. Horanyi the balls that undergo a number of IDFA 2015. Danish auteur filmmaker ritualistic selection procedures. Leth Production: Made in Copenhagen Jørgen Leth and Spanish anthropologist has made several films about the Olatz González Abrisketa take us into poetry of sports, his main passion PARADOCS the world of the Basque ballgame being cycling. Olmo and the Seagull by Petra Costa and Lea Glob Pelota II Production: Zentropa Photo: BEST OF FESTS Basque Films Flotel Europa by Vladimir Tomic Production: Uzrok MASTERS Déjà Vu by Jon Bang Carlsen Production: C&C Productions SOUNDS REAL Man Falling by Anne Wivel Production: Danish Documentary Production The Visit by Michael Madsen Production: Magic Hour Films 4 FILM | IDFA Issue 2015 news & notes / danish films Facebookistan Varicella Photo: Photo: Victor Kossakovsky Victor Express TV-Produktion Varicella by Victor Kossakovsky describes the tender bond between Tales two sisters, Polina and Nastia, studying ballet in Saint Petersburg, Ruth by Hanna Heilborn is about a about Swedish cheerleader who loves the Facebook’s own ethos, Gottschau “Facebook has collected sport for its physical demands and says. great team spirit but also struggles “Transparency and accountability and saved enormous Sports with people’s prejudices against it, are key parameters when it comes to amounts of information while Dancing for You by Erlend E. public trust. With my film, I want to about all of us. And yet Kids Mo tells the story of Vilde, who wants show how Facebook performs within to be the first female champion of these parameters.” we know very little about IDFA 2015. Three Scandinavian Halling, a Norwegian folk dance Jakob Gottschau has numerous Facebook.“ production companies have joined traditionally performed only by men. documentary productions under his forces to create Sports Kids, a series Read about Katrine Philp’s Home belt, both as director and producer. Director Jakob Gottschau of six sports-oriented documentaries Sweet Home, also selected for Facebookistan is produced by for children. Final Cut for Real of IDFA’s Kids & Docs Competition, on Felicity Willetts for Gottschau’s own Denmark, Story of Sweden and page 24.
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