DANISH Feature Documentary CATALOGUE Fall 2016 Catalogue Feature Films
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DANISH Feature DOCUMeNTARY CATALOGUE Fall 2016 Catalogue Feature Films The film is inspired by a true story set in 1964, Genre / Drama New York, where several neighbours witness the brutal murder and rape of Kitty Genovese and do Status / Completed not intervene. The film peeks into the lives of three Danish Release / 17.11.2016 disparate families, the lonely neighbour and the Running Time / 82 min. doorman. We connect with the neighbours and Director / Puk Grasten understand their decisions not to act by following Appearances / Samira Wiley, their day-to-day struggles. Inside their apartments Michael Potts, Adrian Martinez, the neighbours are dealing with their personal Maria Dizzia lives and conflicts the same way as they deal with Producer / Asger Hussain, witnessing a murder; if we don’t see, hear or talk Yaron Schwartzman about it, then it didn’t happen. Production Company / Regner Feature Debut Grasten Filmproduktion 37 is Puk Grasten’s feature film debut, based on International Sales / LevelK her 2015 NYU Tisch graduation film of the same / t +45 4844 3072 name. World premiere at Göteborg Film Festival / [email protected] 37 and winner of the Best Director award at Moscow / www.levelk.dk / 37 Film Festival. The film centres in and around a hotel where Genre / Drama the police is negotiating the terms of a witness protection deal with Mikael, the prime suspect Status / Post-production of a big money deposit robbery and an expert on Danish Release / 18.05.2017 explosives. In order to agree on the deal Mikael Running Time / 90 min. demands three things from the police: that his Director / Jens Dahl former girlfriend is brought to him, that the police Appearances / Nikolaj Coster- bring the contents of a box he has stored, and that Waldau, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, he is served butter chicken from his favourite Lærke Winther, Jacob Ulrik Lohmann restaurant. The police, under heavy time pressure Producer / Caroline Schlüter to get him to witness the following day, agree. Bingestam, Jacob Jarek Production Company / Profile FeatureFeature DebutDebut 3 Things is Jens Dahl's feature debut, with Game of Pictures Thrones actors Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Birgitte International Sales / Profile Pictures Hjort Sørensen. An experienced writer, Dahl co- / t +45 2873 2680 wrote Nicolas Winding Refn's acclaimed debut film / [email protected] 3 Things Pusher, and further writing credits include Carlos / www.profilepictures.dk Augusto de Oliveira's Rosa Morena (2011) and several / 3 Ting TV dramas such as The Summers (2008) and Lulu & Leon (2009). His short fiction 2 Girls, 1 Cake (2013) won Best Short Film at the Robert Awards and screened at Sundance. The year is 1943. Arne Itkin is a famous Jewish Genre / Drama jazz musician living in Copenhagen with his wife Miriam and their son Jakob. Rumours are starting Status / Completed to spread that the Germans are planning to deport Danish Release / 27.10.2016 all Danish Jews, and as the raid on the Jewish Running Time / 90 min. community begins, the family barely manages to Director / Nicolo Donato escape from their central Copenhagen apartment. Appearances / Danica Curcic, They are told they could be sailed across the strait David Dencik, Laura Bro, to Sweden by local fishermen, but collaborators and Jakob Cedergren the Gestapo are soon on their track. Now it is all Producer / Peter Bech, about survival for the small family. Can they rely Tristan Orpen Lynch on the people who would actually be able to help Production Company / SF Film Second Feature them? Production International Sales / TrustNordisk Nicolo Donato’s feature film debut Brotherhood / t +45 3686 8788 (2010) with Thure Lindhardt, David Dencik and / [email protected] Across the Waters Nicolas Bro won Best Film at Rome Film Fest. / www.trustnordisk.com / Fuglene over sundet 2 DANISH FILMS | Fall 2016 Catalogue Feature Films Yusif, who is half-Danish, half Arab, travels to Genre / Drama the Middle Eastern city of Medina along with his pregnant Danish wife, Sarah. Yusif wants to start Status / Released a new life with his wife in his father’s hometown. Danish Release / 19.05.2016 He is convinced that this is where he belongs and Running Time / 90 min. happiness lies ahead. However, shortly after their Director / Omar Shargawi arrival, Yusif is unintentionally responsible for a Appearances / Omar Shargawi, beggar boy’s death. The people of the street beat Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Ashraf Farah, up Sarah and Yusif. She miscarries. He is put in Hassan Shaer prison for murder. The only thing that keeps Yusif’s Producer / René Ezra, Tomas Radoor, spirit up in the Arab prison is the thought of seeing Rula Nasser Sarah again and his faith in God. However, when Production Company / Nordisk Film Second Feature he realises that he has to sit in a prison hole for the Production rest of his life, he loses his patience, faith and hope. International Sales / Nordisk Film All that is left is anger towards the Creator he used Production to love. / t +45 3618 8200 Al Medina / [email protected] Al Medina is Omar Shargawi’s second feature fiction / www.nordiskfilm.com / Al Medina film, after his debut Go with Peace Jamil (2008), winner of the VPRO Tiger Award in Rotterdam. He is also behind the two documentaries My Father from Haifa (2009), awarded at Dubai Film Festival, and ½ Revolution (2011), selected for Sundance. Ralf and Nikolai are petty-criminal siblings. The Genre / Comedy third brother, Timo, has become a law-abiding citizen and has found a job as a nursery teacher. Status / Post-production Nikolai has got a divorce and is about to lose Danish Release / 02.02.2017 visitation rights for his son if he doesn't come up Director / Rasmus Heide with the five years of child support he is behind Running Time / 90 min. with. Now their father Arno has died, and when Appearances / Rasmus Bjerg, they learn that his most valuable possession – an Mick Øgendahl, Sonja Richter, old motorcycle – has been left to an unknown Jonatan Spang fourth brother, Timo and Ralf take off for Italy. Producer / Ronnie Fridthjof, However, the brother turns out to be a sister, Kim, Mille Bjørke and since the bike has been confiscated by a local Production Company / Fridthjof Film fur manufacturer and Mafioso, the three siblings International Sales / Fridthjof Film have to prepare for a major coup. / +45 3618 0880 / [email protected] The third installment in the trilogy about the three / www.f-film.com All For Three brothers Timo, Ralf and Nikolai. / Alle for tre When Janus is released from a secure psychiatric Genre / Drama hospital, he has only one thing in mind – to find a girl named Amina. She means everything to him, Status / Completed and her letters have saved him from committing Danish Release / 23.02.2017 suicide while confined in the institution. Janus Running Time / 90 min. fears that Amina has come to grief and embarks on Director / Jacob Bitsch a detective-style journey through the streets of the Appearances / Esben Smed, Lisa big city to find her. His journey takes him into a Carlehed, Siir Tilif, Omar Shargawi paranoid and violent world, and it nearly costs him Producer / Birgitte Skov his life. He becomes increasingly convinced that Production Company / Toolbox Film Amina is living in a violent marriage, from which International Sales / Toolbox Film he must save her. He becomes so obsessed by the / t +45 2077 9047 Second Feature notion of Amina’s tragic fate that only when it is / [email protected] too late does he realise that the person who needs / www.toolboxfilm.dk saving is himself. Amina’s Letters Jacob Bitsch made his debut as a feature film director with Camping (2009). Amina’s Letters, his / Aminas breve second feature film, is based on a book by Jonas T. Bengtsson, who also wrote the novel behind Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino. DANISH FILMS | Fall 2016 3 Catalogue Feature Films It’s summer time and Pelle is enjoying life with his Genre / Adventure girlfriend Ida. Crime in Middellund is at an all-time low, and life is actually pretty sweet. But Pelle has Status / Released started to tire of being Antboy, and perhaps the Danish Release / 11.02.2016 town doesn’t even need a superhero anymore? Running Time / 90 min. Besides, Pelle and Ida are going to continuation Director / Ask Hasselbalch school together after the summer vacation, and Appearances / Oscar Dietz, he will consequently have to give up being Antboy Samuel Ting Graf, Amalie Kruse Jensen, – which actually suits him fine. Suddenly strange Nicolas Bro things start happening. A new superhero appears Producer / Lea Løbger and completely humiliates Antboy. Pelle’s summer Production Company / Nimbus Film vacation, which up to this point had been quite International Sales / Attraction relaxing, suddenly takes an unexpected turn, and Distribution Pelle will face his biggest and perhaps final battle / t +1 514 846 1222 as Antboy. / [email protected] / www.attractiondistribution.ca Antboy 3 The third and last film about the superhero Antboy, based on a popular book series by Kenneth Bøgh / Antboy 3 Andersen. Ask Hasselbalch made his feature film debut with Antboy (2013), which world premiered at Toronto, and screened the sequel, Antboy – Revenge of the Red Fury (2014), in Berlin’s Generation Kplus. The year is 1991. Simon and his best friend Genre / Drama Frede are both 16 years old and very busy doing absolutely nothing in a tiny suburban town outside Status / Completed Copenhagen. Simon has always loved to draw Danish Release / 2017 but never quite had an outlet for his talent, but Running Time / 90 min. experiences a jolting realisation when he learns Director / Morten BH about the graffiti culture.