DFI-FILMCategory IDFA ISSUE 2013 FILM is published by the Danish Film Institute Sepideh Jon Bang Carlsen Ai Weiwei A young girl dreams of becoming an Hybrid before there was hybrid astronaut in Berit Madsen’s look at The Fake Case another Iran. Joshua Oppenheimer The Act of Killing comes home Andreas Johnsen got access to Carl & Niels Ai Weiwei when the Chinese dissident Alexander Lind’s graduation film Jesper Jargil artistDFI-FILM was freed | IDFA on Issueparole 2013 in 2011. c aptures the melancholy of breakups. Lars von Trier stripped bare 1 Category FILM is the Danish Film Institute’s international AN INSIDE VIEW Andreas Johnsen is the one-man army who got access to Ai Weiwei. Even as the festival magazine, issued prior to the festivals in Berlin, 08 world-famous Chinese artist and dissident had been banned from talking to the media, Cannes and Amsterdam. FILM includes a comprehensive the Danish documentarian had an inside view of his constant battle with the authorities. catalogue in the reverse section. The resulting film, Ai Weiwei The Fake Case, is intimate, thought-provoking and packed DFI-FILM with action. IDFA ISSUE 2013 Published by the Danish Film Institute FILM Digital Issue is the Danish Film Institute’s web release for your smartphone, tablet or computer. Editors FILM Digital Issue brings articles on new films, Susanna Neimann (SN) Annemarie Hørsman (AH) a catalogue section and useful information about people and companies. Editorial team Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) Anders Budtz-Jørgensen (ABJ) FILM Digital Issue: www.dfi .dk/fi lm Support: Nynne Østergaard (NØ) DFI Festival team The Danish Film Institute is the national agency Anne Marie Kürstein that supports and encourages Danish film and REACHING FOR THE STARS TO LET GO OF SOMEONE YOU LOVE i’M NOT OUT TO JUDGE Translations cinema culture. Can a young Iranian woman become In his graduation film Carl & Niels, Jon Bang Carlsen’s Just the Right Amount Glen Garner 14 18 20 an astronaut? Berit Madsen’s first Alexander Lind creates a series of symbolic of Violence, about the difficult relationships feature documentary Sepideh is about a spaces to visualise the painful recognition between parents and children, ended up Design remarkable teenager stubbornly working by two twins that their childhood symbiosis as one of the most hybrid works of the Rasmus Koch Studio towards making her dream come true. is irretrievably lost. 63-year-old filmmaker’s long career. Type Holton, Swift Paper MultiDesign White Printed by ADAM NIELSEN, EDITOR CARBON TRAdiNG 04 EdiTORIAL Centertryk 13 Director Andreas Johnsen singles out the 36 Tom Heinemann takes a close look at Circulation editor as his most important sparring partner. a lucrative market in Carbon Crooks. 2,000 GIFTED IDIOCY WEIRD WORldS 04 NEWS & NOTES ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) 24 Jesper Jargil’s 1998 film The Humiliated 38 Taming the Quantum World zooms in on ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) strips Lars von Trier bare. the smallest building blocks of the universe. Cover Ai Weiwei The Fake Case DANDEliON CHildREN Q&A: Co-pRODUCING 41 IDFA FORUM / FOUR PROJECTS Photo: Andreas Johnsen 26 Five Afghan children are the heroes of the 40 What kind of funding is available in kids series Faith Hope Afghanistan. Denmark? A few straight answers. Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 BOY IN THE DOHYO EXPOSING THE PAST DK-1123 Copenhagen K + CATALOGUE Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son is The Act of Killing has now been released T +45 3374 3400 28 42 above all a narrative about fathers and sons. for free download by all Indonesians. REVERSE SECTION www.dfi .dk/english SOMEONE TO BELONG WITH KASPAR GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 30 A girl’s relationship to her best friend is at 44 Kaspar Astrup Schröder, director of Rent a the heart of Shanne and Her Friends. Family Inc., recounts his tour of Tinseltown. CHildREN GIVE ME NEW HOPE NEW DANISH SCREEN 10 YEARS 32 Erlend E. Mo, director of Four Letters Apart, 46 The Danish Film Institute’s talent scheme deals with tough subjects. celebrates its 10th anniversary. KNOWING YOUR HISTORY A NEW WORLD OF diSTRIBUTION 34 A single dad tries to get his little family back 48 New digital distribution options have spurred together in Dreaming of a Family. filmmakers to distribute their own films. 2 DFI-FILM | IDFA Issue 2013 DFI-FILM | IDFA Issue 2013 EditorialCategory news & notes and how the decisions of individuals Wide Access can have big political consequences. News & Notes Bringing Framegrab What specific devices did you use Indonesians recently got the opportunity to download in your film to bring the past back Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking documentary the Past to life? The Act of Killing for free. As the filmmaker stresses, the DR story of the 1965 genocide belongs to the Indonesian Among other things, we take archival Photo: Back to footage from the time – shots of people. He wants his film to create a space where the decision-makers, for instance Farmer and the Universe. The Indonesians can process their collective trauma to help 7-9-13 Life – and place them in new contexts. them in the fight for justice and reconciliation. We overdub the footage with new UPCOMING. On the phone from dialogue based on old meeting This autumn, scenes from The Act of Killing were Budapest, Burma VJ director protocols and interviews with Anders Østergaard discusses his Németh and others. I have spent the used in a multi-screen installation at Copenhagen’s new project, 1989, an investigative last three months in Budapest mainly Cinematheque. Juxtaposing clips from Oppenheimer’s look at the year the Wall fell. researching and recording the voices film with Danish WWII archival footage, the exhibition of the people who were at the centre investigated ways to activate the cultural heritage of What is 1989 about? of events back then. That way we can cinema for new generations. go behind closed doors and get an It’s about events that took place in experience of what really went on. different married couples from the Hungary as a prelude to the fall of the New digital distribution platforms open up a wealth Till Death moment they say “I do” and over a Berlin Wall, why Hungarian politicians How do the events of 1989 impact of opportunities for bringing both new films and period of several years in their lives decided to open the border to the world we live in today? the documentary film heritage to audiences. In this Do Us Part together for better or for worse. Austria and the battles they had to issue, Danish filmmakers discuss their approaches to Behind the films are such creative fight along the way. 1989 is also When I think back at my early youth, UPCOMING. A new ambitious forces as Janus Metz (Armadillo, The about a married couple, who try to I think about how much that time was the new digital opportunities and the solutions they series of documentaries takes Expedition to the End of the World), escape over the Wall one night. The marked by the fact that we were cut have found for tailoring international distribution to a fresh look at marriage. Kaspar Astrup Schröder (Rent a man is shot and his death directly off from a large part of our European individual films. Family Inc.) and Brian McGinn (The influences the Hungarian politicians’ consciousness, and how we were A record number of Danes chose Record Breaker). decision. That story has not really always living in fear of the bomb. Naturally, the Danish Film Institute is focused on to be married on 7 September, Photography for the first season been told before. We are rid of a lot of that today, and hoping for a sprinkle of the good has wrapped, and the first episode that’s worth celebrating. The mere digital distribution and communication these days. The fortune associated with the number will have its on-air premiere on DR How did you get the information fact that I’m here in Budapest making Film Institute recently established a streaming service combination 7-9-13 in Denmark. in early 2014. 7-9-13 is produced about that story? a film without having to ask anyone giving teachers and students at Danish schools easy 7-9-13 is the title of a new series by Mette Heide (The Queen of for permission is a minor miracle. access to films and materials to inspire them to work of documentaries from national Versailles, Rent a Family Inc., The I have read a pile of literature about Sometimes we need to stop and analytically and creatively with living pictures in the broadcaster DR, supported by Record Breaker) for Plus Pictures. what happened back then, and I think about that. NØ the Danish Film Institute. With the NØ have been to Hungary a lot and classroom. In the spring, the service will expand with a ambition to craft a contemporary encountered the story there, too. 1989 is planned to be released new section that opens the documentary film vaults to portrait of Danes and Denmark in the During the research, when we in September 2014 on the 25th all Danes, while respecting copyright holders’ revenue new millennium, the series tracks five talked with the former Hungarian anniversary of the removal of opportunities on other platforms. Prime Minister Miklós Németh, we Hungary’s border fence with Austria. are threatening to revoke his licence were suddenly able to put two and 1989 is produced by Lise Lense- to keep livestock. His buildings are two together. Sure enough, the Møller for Magic Hour Films.