DANISH film Institute dfi.dk DANISH film CATALOGUE spring 2019 DANISH dfi.dk/english FILM CATALOGUE danishfilminstitute SPRING 2019 danishfilm Issued by detdanskefilminstitut Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 danishfilm 1123 Copenhagen K Denmark T +45 3374 3400 The Danish Film Institute is the national agency supporting and encouraging Danish film and cinema culture. Noemi Ferrer Anne Marie Kürstein Danish film Schwenk Festival Consultant institute Head of International Documentary Films [email protected] [email protected] Festival Contacts Cell +45 5096 7411 Cell +45 4041 4697 Lizette Gram Mygind Christian Juhl Lemche Festival Consultant Festival Consultant Feature Films Feature Films [email protected] [email protected] Cell +45 2482 3758 Cell +45 2148 8522 Catalogue Feature Films Way up north in Greenland, 12-year-old Lucia Director Christian Dyekjær lives with her mother Claudia and her father Screenplay Uffe Rørbæk Madsen Julius, the famous Father Christmas. Lucia goes to Producer David C.H. Østerbøg, International Santa School and wants to be the next Morten Rasmussen Father Christmas in Denmark. But it is not allowed, Production Deluca Film only boys go to Santa school. When Lucia continues Appearances Martin Buch, Mia Lyhne, to protest, the headmaster gives her one chance Ella Testa Kusk, Peter Sejer Winther to prove she can be as good as the boys. She must fulfil the boy Albert's greatest Christmas wish: Genre Adventure that his father, who is suffering from a mysterious Status Released disease, gets well. Albert's father has been infected Running time 96 min. by the horrible Krampus. Lucia realizes that it is an Danish Release 2018-11-08 almost impossible task; she has to catch Krampus to cure Albert's father. Lucia goes to Denmark International sales with her father in tow to track down Krampus, Attraction Distribution and this is the beginning of an amazing Christmas t +1 514 846 1222 All I Want For Christmas adventure as they discover that someone else is also [email protected] / Julemandens datter chasing Krampus. attractiondistribution.ca Christian Dyekjær's most recent film is the drama 'All In' (2017). He made his feature debut with 'Moving Up' (2008). As winter approaches in rural 1850s Denmark, an Director Michael Noer old farmer, Jens, and his family face starvation. Screenplay Jesper Fink, With the harsh circumstances and the prospect of Michael Noer yet another tough winter, Jens agrees to ally with Producer Matilda Appelin, René Ezra, the neighbour family in a marriage between his Tomas Radoor daughter and their son. However, when the rich Production Nordisk Film Production farmer at a nearby farm wants to buy Jens's land, Appearances Jesper Christensen, he sees a chance to provide him and his family with Clara Rosager, Ghita Nørby, an even better life. Elliott Crosset Hove World premiere at Toronto Film Festival. Jesper Genre Drama Christensen won for best actor at the festivals in Status Released Chicago and Tokyo for his lead performance. In Running time 104 min. Tokyo, the film also took home the Special Jury Danish Release 2019-01-10 Prize. Michael Noer's films include 'Papillon' (2017), 'Key House Mirror' (2015), 'Northwest' (2013) and International sales Before the Frost 'R' (2010). TrustNordisk t +45 3686 8788 / Før frosten [email protected] trustnordisk.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. Sidse Babett Knudsen Johnson in tow, Anna embarks on a magical rescue mission with Captain Bimse and Goggeletten to Genre Adventure save Sophie. Status Post production Running time 75 min. Aimed at children aged three to seven, the film Danish Release 2019-06-27 is an adaptation of a children's book by Bjarne Reuter, mixing live action, puppets and animated International sales Captain Bimse backgrounds. The two co-directors both have a 41Shadows Productions background in animation and visual effects. Their [email protected] / Kaptajn Bimse credits include 'Jewel of the Desert' (2001) and 41shadows.dk 'Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms' (2008), both of which Nielsen directed. DANISH FILMS | SPRING 2019 3 Catalogue Feature Films Aske's uncle gives him a Ninja doll after a trip to Director Anders Matthesen, Thailand. 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, wants revenge. Trine Heidegaard Production A. Film, Sudoku, The animation film, premiering in domestic Pop Up Production theatres in December 2018, has proven a big hit, reaching more than 700,000 tickets after five Genre Animation weeks in release. Creator and co-director Anders Status Released Matthesen was also behind the 2004 animation hit Running time 82 min. 'Terkel in Trouble'. Danish Release 2018-12-25 International sales LevelK t +45 4844 3072 Checkered Ninja [email protected] / Ternet Ninja levelk.dk 16-year-old Gustav is caught between his father's Director Mehdi Avaz ambitions for him to become an engineer and his Screenplay Milad Avaz own dreams of becoming an artist. The day after Producer Misam Avaz he graduates he suddenly collapses from what Production Rocket Road Pictures turns out to be heart failure. At the hospital, his Appearances Nikolaj Lie Kaas, dad Leo allows the doctors to operate on Gustav. A Cecilie Stenspil decision he makes without Gustav's mom Olivia. Unfortunately, the worst thing imaginable happens Genre Drama and Gustav passes away during the operation Status Post production leaving the family in sorrow. Affected by the Running time 90 min. tragedy the seemingly perfect family starts to crumble. International sales Second Feature TrustNordisk The three Avaz brothers Mehdi, Milad and Misam t +45 3686 8788 made their debut in 2017 with 'While We Live', [email protected] a drama made on a limited budget that was seen trustnordisk.com Collision by high numbers in Danish cinemas and received a string of nominations at Denmark's two most / Kollision distinguished prize events, the Bodil and Robert Awards. 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 Mikić, 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 Danish Release 2019-03-21 psychological drama opened at Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival and has also screened in Busan, International sales Montreal, Tallinn (Black Nights Film Festival), LevelK Cutterhead Göteborg and Angers (Premiers Plans). It was t +45 4844 3072 nominated for the Politiken Talent Prize at [email protected] / Cutterhead CPH PIX. levelk.dk 4 DANISH FILMS | SPRING 2019 Catalogue Feature Films The young Danish freelance photographer Daniel Director Niels Arden Oplev Rye is held hostage for 398 days by Islamic State Screenplay Anders Thomas Jensen in Syria along with 23 other foreign nationals, Producer Morten Kaufmann, including the American journalist James Foley, who Signe Leick Jensen was subsequently executed before the eyes of the Production Toolbox Film world. Daniel is ever more desperate to come back Appearances Esben Smed, to his family back home in Denmark. Anders W. Berthelsen, Sofie Torp, Sarah Hjort The film is based on a bestselling book by Danish journalist Puk Damgård and tells the true story Genre Drama of one of the most spectacular hostage-takings Status In production in recent times. Oplev directed the 2009 original Running time 135 min. Swedish version of 'The Girl with the Dragon Anders W. Berthelsen, Niels Arden Oplev and Esben Smed Danish Release 2019-09-19 Tattoo.' He has worked on US TV series such as 'Under the Dome' and 'Mr. Robot' and has directed International sales the Hollywood feature films 'Dead Man Down' and TrustNordisk Daniel 'Flatliners.' t +45 3686 8788 [email protected] / Ser du månen, Daniel trustnordisk.com Ditte and Louise are two middle-aged actresses Director Niclas Bendixen who realize that the only thing the industry has Screenplay Ditte Hansen, left to offer them is roles like mothers or as elderly Louise 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, role in a film and gets tons of attention. And she Louise Mieritz, Anders W. Berthelsen, becomes best friends with movie star Anders W. Adam Brix 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 Released Louise throws herself into a headless affair with Running time 105 min.