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DRONE
MY MISTRESSby Steven Lance
SILENT HEART* by Bille August
THE IDEALISTby Christina Rosendahl
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edition fivespring / summer 2014 line-up
by Tonje Hessen Schei
DRONE PILOTS ARE THE NEW WARRIORS, RECRUITED FROM GAMING CONVENTIONS AND K ILLING THROUGH JOYSTICKS.
(*work ing title)
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ContentsFilms
4 Drone 8 My Mistress 10 Silent Heart12 The Idealist 14 Free Range
16 Sucker
Labels18 Future Classics 22 Documentaries
23 Series24 Children and Family
26 Komedy
29 Rip-Out Index
30 Rip-Out Contacts
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DRONE / Documentary / Feature TBA min / TV 58 min / Norway / 2014Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei. Produced by Lars Løge for Flimmer Film.
Broadcast Partners: ARTE, TV2 Norway, SVT, DR
Completed FilmsCompleted Films
ichael Haas has played war video games since he was 5. At 19 he is employed by the US Air Force as a drone pilot.
This is the new warfare: Young gamers are recruited to operate drones through their computers to kill real people 7000 miles away. This is not science fiction but today’s reality and the big investment of the future: Robot war. According to NATO we will soon fight with tens of thousands of robots, and we are now developing unmanned drones from the size of bees to airships. These new developments are compared to the invention of the atom bomb. As technology expands at an unprecedented rate we are part
of an experiment that changes our wars and possibly our world.The armed drone, developed by the CIA, is hailed as the defining weapon of the war on terror. It revolutionizes the ability to find, fix and finish a person or a group in far away hard to reach places. Nowhere has been more bombed than Waziristan. Who are they killing?DRONE investigates the human consequences of the covert CIA drone war in Waziristan. Through unique access to voices on both sides of this new technology DRONE gives crucial context and new perspectives that reveal crucial secrets of the CIA drone war and asks urgent questions about where we are headed.M
DRONEUsing robots to fight wars are now a reality. Drone pilots are the new warriors, recruited from gaming conventions and killing through joysticks. But who are their targets? DRONE gives context and new perspectives that reveal crucial secrets of the CIA drone war and what lies ahead.
“With DRONE I want to challenge the secrecy of the CIA drone war. I am deeply concerned about
how the war on terror has become a targeted killing program where people are killed with
no due process or justice in an unmanned war without declared battlefields, transparency or accountability. I do not believe the CIA drone war is the best solution to fight terrorism and
I do not believe the drone strikes have made us safer. On the contrary I fear that the US
precedent in the use of drones have devastating consequences.”
Director Tonje Hessen Schei
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MY MISTR ESS / Romance / Australia / 2014Directed by Stephen Lance. Produced by Leanne Tonkes for Mini Studios. Australian Distribution: Transmission Films
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart (Mission Impossible), Harrison Gilbertson (Accidents Happen) & Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty)Domestic Release: Transmission Films Fall 2014
Completed Films
MY MISTRESS
t’s a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He’s sixteen, his hormones are racing and the girl who could be his girlfriend can’t be, because he’s just found out his mother is having an affair with her father. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman down the street who has visitors day and night, and
has just advertised for a gardener. But she is forgotten when Charlie walks in on a family tragedy and he tumbles into a world of pain, a pain so intense Charlie thinks no-one can help him. He’s wrong. Someone can. Maggie, the beautiful French stranger. She’s a professional, and she specialises in pain. Giving
it, exploring it, sharing it, all for money. So Charlie falls in love, and despite herself so does she, drawn to this troubled boy who takes all the pain she can give and uses it to heal himself. And as Charlie heals, he turns that healing back onto her, his Mistress.I
All Photos: Stephen Lance
“It’s important that my first film give audiences an artistic experience that is both visually and emotionally exciting, and I couldn’t be happier with the world-class calibre of cast and crew who are joining us on this amazing journey” Director Stephen Lance
What starts as a beautiful and strangely innocent affair between a vulnerable teenage romantic and a French S&M mistress soon becomes more dangerous in My Mistress, an unconventional and provocative love story.
Completed Films
Closed screening: Olympia 3: Friday, May 16th at 12pm
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SILENT HEART / Drama / Duration TBA / Denmark / 2014.Directed by Bille August. Produced by Jesper Morthorst for SF Film Production.
Cast: Ghita Nørby, Pilou Asbæk, Paprika Steen, Morten Grunwald, Danica Curcic.Domestic Release SF Film Distribution, 2014/2015 TBC
In Post-ProductionIn Post-Production
SILENTHEART hree generations of a family gather
over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother s decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.T
GHITANØRBY
PAPRIK ASTEEN
DANICA CURCIC
MORTENGRUNWALD
PILOUASBÆK
JENSALBINUS
VIGGABRO
“An intense family drama in which every conflict and aspect of love finds its voice in the final, redemptive
weekend a family spends together.”
Director Bille August
Photos: Rolf K
onow
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THE IDEALIST / Thriller / Duration: TBA /Denmark / 2014.Directed by Christina Rosendahl. Produced by Signe Lieck Jensen & Jonas Frederiksen for Toolbox Film.
Cast: Søren Malling (A Hijacking) Peter Plaugborg (Borgen) Thomas Bo Larsen (The Hunt).Domestic Release: SF Film Distribution 2015
In Post-ProductionIn Post-Production
THEIDEALIST
anuary 21st 1968 – An American B-52 bomber carrying nuclear warheads has just crashed on the polar ice near the US military Air Base in Danish controlled Thule, Greenland.
A few days later, responsible governments classify the crash as a Broken Arrow scenario (nuclear accident) but proclaims the situation being under control. No cause for concern in relation to radioactive contamination or violation of foreign power’s sovereignty, nuclear policy. Hundreds of Thule workers are set to work, helping in the gigantic clean-up operation. After eight months, all traces of the crashed aircraft and the plutonium-contaminated snow are
gone. The case is closed.18 years on, while covering a
local workers compensation story, reporter Poul Brink, suddenly runs into suspicious circumstance linking back to the concealed 68’ nuclear accident. Apparently the full and true story about the crash lays well-protected deep under the Thule Bay’s ice cap and deep down the classified archives in the US.
The ambitious reporter launches an uncompromising investigation. The deeper he goes the further he finds himself in the heart of an International cover-up so immense in size that it holds 2 nations across the Atlantic culpable. Soon those in charge are finding it hard to keep the truth about tragic accident
J“The secrecy surrounding the Cold War era has been an almost inexhaustible
source of fascination for storytelling and filmmaking since it’s beginning in 1945. Secrecy plays a crucial role in our story too and actually unfolds with such an
impact we would dare to state; the real frightening and disastrous weapon of the Cold War wasn’t really the A-bomb - but the lies, cover-ups and conspiracies”
Producers Signe Leick Jensen & Jonas Frederiksen
Photos: Christian G
eisnæsdirector C
hristina Rosendahl and actor Peter Plauborg
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Officially Selected Karlovy Vary Film Festival Officially Selected Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Photos: Maxim
Mjodov
FR EE R ANGE - The Ballad on the Approving of the World / Drama / Estonia / 2013Directed by Veiko Ounpuu. Produced by Katrin Kissa for Homeless Bob Production.
Cast: Lauri Lagle, Jaanika Arum, Laura Peterson
“The Innuit have a saying: “Only today the fire burns brightly”, meaning that only the present counts, only the present is important. If one should agree with that, then it follows automatically that “today” should also be important concerning filmmaking...” Director Veiko Ounpuu
FREE R ANGE’m taking a liberty by paraphrasing the saying by asking: is there substance in something called “zeitgeist”? And do we know exactly what bits of past, what dreams of tomorrow make up this “today”? My main question concerning making films is how to depict this complex flow of sensations, associations, impulses, ideas and dreams that we call reality? How to make something out of it that would not find contentment in being merely a “story” but is alive and breathing, free from boredom and predictability, yet comperhensible as a narrative film? A good film is to my mind something that opens up possibilities of thinking and seeing that we were previously not aware. Never mind the subject matter of the film or the quality of analysis. Never mind the morality or violence, or the lies or truth. If I walk away from a cinema feeling that I had gained something experientially, I feel happy. I feel touched by something. The sad thing is that it very seldom happens to me these days. I would say that if filmmakers will not begin to dismiss the ubiquitous requirement to “dumb down” their work, imposed on them since script development until the distribution then we have failed miserably as a species capable of clear cognition. And why such requirement exists at all? The answer is obvious - rationalized greed. This exact rationale behind the “dumb it down” is our current zeitgeist, our present, our “today” and there is no area of contemporary human behaviour that is free from it. We stand with our backs against the wall. I see no other option than to fight it and “Free Range” is just that. A starter: a soft rangefinding jab with a left.
I The story of a promising young man with exciting career opportunities & looming marital bliss.
seattle internationalfilm festival
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SUCK ER / Comedy / Australia / 2014Directed by Ben Chessell. Produced by Robyn Kershaw and Jason Byrne.
Cast: John Luc, Lily Sullivan, Timothy Spall Australian Distribution: Madman Entertainment 2015 TBC
In ProductionIn Production
SUCKER
“Sucker combines the warmth of Lawrence Leung, the fresh comedy of John Luc, the charm of Lily Sullivan and the sheer class of Timothy Spall to weave a tale of pure delight. It’s a true story about things that never quite happened.”Director Ben Chessell
UCKER is the story of Lawrence, an 18 year old Chinese Australian who cheats in his high school final year exams and fails to get into Medicine. Banished to stay with his uncle for the summer, Lawrence meets the Professor, a colourful, ageing conman. And so begins a road-trip with the Professor and his daughter Sarah.
The Professor teaches Lawrence the art of swindling and cheating, and from Sarah, Lawrence learns a hard lesson in unrequited love. As Lawrence and the Professor work towards their biggest scam, and Sarah and Lawrence plan a swindle of their own, Lawrence is forced to make a choice between love, life and lies.S
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Future ClassicsFuture Classics
A F U N N Y M A NDrama / 109 min / Denmark / 2011
Opening in the seductive style of the sixties, A Funny Man uncovers
the perennial loneliness that comedian Dirch Passer has found himself in after a fast-tracked rise
to fame.Director: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Ranthe
A PPL AUSEDrama / 85 min / Denmark / 2009
Steen’s award-winning portrayal of Thea Barfoed, acclaimed actress who must now break with the past, regain control over her life and get
her children back.Director: Martin Zandvliet
Cast: Paprika Steen, Michael Falck
AU T U M N B A L LDrama / 123 min / Estonia / 2007
In Ounpuu’s acclaimed debut six inhabitants of Soviet-era tower
blocks find solace and a possibility for laughter even there, where hope
has long since become a sparse commodity.
Director: Veiko OunpuuCast: Rain Tolk, Taavi Eelmaa
BE ST M A N D OW NDrama / 90 min / USA / 2013
When their obnoxious best man Lumpy dies at their wedding, bride
and groom Kristin and Scott fly home to arrange his funeral. But
getting Lumpy’s body back to Minneapolis is just the start of their
adventure... Director: Ted Koland.
Cast: Justin Long, Jess Weixler, Tylor Labine
C R AC K , B AC K A N D S AC KComedy/Drama / 92 min / Norway
/ 2013
For these pick-up artists in Oslo the key to success is to have a clean slate.
Country-boy Christian shaves his private parts and it feels like a step in the right direction to picking up
girls, but even a small shave can cut.Director: Justin Molotnikov
Cast: Ole Christoffer Ertvaag & Herbert Nordrum
C RY I NG W I T H L AUG H T E RRevenge Thriller / 93 min / UK
/ 2009
Life doesn’t get any funnier for stand-up comedian, Joey Frisk, after he awakes to find himself arrested
for the brutal attack of his landlord, an incident he has no memory of.
Director: Justin MolotnikovCast: Stephen Mccole, Malcolm Shields
H A I LDrama / 104 min / Australia / 2012
Soon after being released from prison Dan’s love is suddenly torn away from him. Suffocating and
filled with violence, Dan goes on a journey to take back what is his.Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Cast: Daniel P Jones, Leanne Letch
FA N TA I LDrama / 83 min / New Zealand / 2013
Tania thinks she’s Maori. She works the graveyard shift at Horizon to save money to take her brother Pi to Surfers. But one night a cheeky
little bird ruins everything andTania pays the ultimate price for
being a hero.Directed by Curtis VowellCast: Sophie Henderson,
Jarod Rawiri, Stephen Lovatt
THE SUNFISHDrama / 100 min / Denmark / 2013
Facing competition from larger fishing enterprises, Kesse is
struggling to survive. But desperate times call for desperate measures and Kesse is forced to find more
notorious ways to make ends meet. This leads him to meet his polar opposite, female marine biologist
Gerd.Director: Søren Balle
OF F BE ATDrama / 95 min / Switzerland /
2011
Lukas’ music career is waning. His producer Mischa no longer
wants him or their turbulent affair and shifts his attention to Lukas’
younger brother Sami.Director: Jan Gassmann
Cast: Hans-Jakob Mühlethaler, Manuel Neuburger
RO OM 3 04Drama / 88 min / Denmark / 2011
As a gunshot fires in a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect.
Secrets, once held in the intimacy of hotel rooms, are revealed in a
dramatic tale of love and longing.Director: Birgitte Staermose
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik
SU IC I DE RO OMDrama / 110 min / Poland / 2011
A series of humiliating events 100 days before graduation pushes
privileged Dominik into a virtual world, soon enough his online
experiences bleed dangerously into reality.
Director: Jan KomasaCast: Jakub Gierszal, Roma
Gasiorowska
Spotlight on...THE WORD
THE WOR D / Drama / 97 min / Poland / 2014.Directed by Anna Kazejak. Produced by Lukasz Dzieciol for Opus Film.
Cast: Eliza Rycembel, Mateusz Więcławek, Magdalena Popławska, Dawid Ogrodnik Domestic Release Kino Swiat, March 2014.
‘How far would you go for love?’
This is the question Lila asks her unfaith-
ful partner Janek. Before she takes him
back he will need to go to the extreme.
hree weeks ago, LILA’s world fell apart when her girlfriends happily reported that they saw Lila’s boyfriend, JANEK, kissing another girl during a party. This comes as a shock since Janek only had eyes for her and what they had felt so real. Lila can’t forgive him; she trusted him more than anyone else is her life. Days before the end of the school year, she gives Janek an ultimatum: Janek has 24 hours to prove his true love. Otherwise, he can forget about ever being with Lila again.T
A FILM BY SØREN BALLE
FILM MAKER PRESENTS
WITH SUPPORT FROM NEW DANISH SCREEN IN COLLABORATION WITH FÆNØ LIGHTHOUSE PROJECTS · THE SUNFISH ·STARRING HENRIK BIRCH · SUSANNE STORM · LARS TOPP THOMSEN · MIKKEL VADSHOLT · JACOB HAUBERG LOHMANN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MARTIN MUNCH DFF EDITOR PETER WINTHER SOUND DESIGNER FRANK MØLGAARD KNUDSENPRODUCTION DESIGNER KNIRKE MADELUNG STYLIST & SPECIAL EFFECTS KATRINE STEIN COMPOSER FLEMMING NORDKROG THEME SONG ALLAN OLSEN
SCREENPLAY SØREN BALLE & LÆRKE SANDERHOFF BASED ON THE PLAYTHE SUNFISH by LÆRKE SANDERHOFFPRODUCER CLAUDIA SIESBYE HALSTED DIRECTOR SØREN BALLE
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Future Classics
T H E A L MO ST M A NDrama / 75 min / Norway / 2012
Lund’s award-winning debut centres on 35 year old Henrik who, in the face of a new baby, is under
pressure to relinquish his own childlike behaviour and become a
responsible adult. Director: Martin Lund
Cast: Henrik Rafaelsen, Janne Heltberg Haarseth
T H E G O OD S ONDrama / 87 min / Finland / 2011
After a scandalous premier, actress Leila flees to a summer villa with her two sons. Craving attention she invites her friends, much to the resentment of her son, and
protector, Ilmari. Director: Zaida Bergroth
Cast: Samuli Niittymäki, Elina Knihtilä
T H E ST R A NG E R I NSI DEThriller / 87 min / Denmark / 2012
Actress Emily is kidnapped & tortured by a masked man. She
fleas New York for an island with her husband. But the seclusion of this paradise now serves as a trap when a girl arrives with bloody
hands.Director: Adam Neutzsky-Wulff
Cast: William Baldwin, Estella Warren
THE TEMPTATION OF ST TONY
Drama / 114 min / Estonia / 2009
Middle-manager Tony finds himself on a journey towards a clearer conscience but an
increasingly complicated reality where compassion incurs capital
loss.Director: Veiko Ounpuu
Cast: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova
T H E VOIC EThriller / 97 min / Turkey
How do you escape from something you cannot see? In
order to pry herself from the grips of a haunting, supernatural voice, Derya must do everything it tells
her.Director: Umit Unal
Cast Selma Ergec, Mehmet Gunsur
W I SH YOU W E R E H E R EDrama (Suspense) / 92 min /
Australia / 2011
Four friends lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian
holiday. Only three come back. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night?
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith Cast: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer
YOU A N D M E FOR E V E RDrama / 82 min / Denmark / 2012
Can you tell the difference between love and intrigue?
Director: Kaspar Munk.Cast: Julie Brochorst Andersen,
Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Emilie Kruse
9 0 M I N U T E SDrama / 92 min / Norway / 2012
With 90 minutes remaining, what goes through the mind of a man
whose heart is set on murder?Director: Morten Koehlert Director:
Eva SoerhaugCast: Aksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord
SEX, DRUGS & TAX ATIONDrama / 110 min / Denmark / 2013
Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie
years was, in fact, the friendship of a radical libertarian and a hedonist
capitalist. It’s a joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and
politics.Director: Christoffer Boe
Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Nicolas Bro
Focus on...THE TURNING
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T H E SL E E P WA L K E RPsycholgical Drama / 92 min /
Norway/USA / 2013A couple are renovating a secluded
estate. Their lives are disrupted with the arrival of Christine.
When 1 of the 4 characters goes missing, the 3 left behind are flung into upheaval filling in the blanks.
Director: Mona FastvoldCast: Gitte Witt, Stephanie Ellis,
Christopher Abbott & Brady Cobart
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THE TUR NING / Drama / 90 min / Australia / 2013.Directed by Robert Connolly, Rhys Graham, Ashlee Page, Claire McCarthy, Stephen Page, Shaun Gladwell,
Mia Wasikowska, David Wenham, Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Ian Meadows, Anthony Lucas, Yaron Lifschitz, Simon Stone, Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton.
Cast: Callan Mulvey, Oscar Redding, Mirrah Foulkes, Susie Porter, Harrison Gilbertson, Rose Byrne, Miranda Otto, Matt Nable, Jakory Blanco, Jarli Blanco, Wayne Blair, Meyne Wyatt, Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Robyn Nevin, Hugo Weaving, Josh McConville, Dean Daley-Jones, Eva Lazzaro, Brenna Harding, Toby Wallace, Dan Wylie, Kate Mulvaney & Circa.
Produced by Robert Connolly & Maggie Miles for Arenamedia. Australian Distribution: Madman Entertainment.
diverse range of Australian directors each create a chapter of this hauntingly beautiful novel by Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives. As characters face second thoughts and mid-life regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.A
seattle internationalfilm festival
1/2 R E VOLU T IONDocumentary / 72min / Denmark,
Egypt / 2011
Egypt’s protests come alive in the most courageous and compelling documentary to come out of the
Arab Spring.Directors: Omar Shargawi
& Karim El Hakim
MO ON R I DE RDocumentary / 81min / Denmark
/ 2012
An honest and heartbreaking picture of the extreme and lonely
life of a young championship cyclist.
Director: Daniel Dencik
PL A N E T R E :T H I N KDocumentary / 89min / Denmark
/ 2012
Planet RE:think breaks new ground in unravelling the web that intricately disguises the
links between new technology consumption and the worsening of
the global financial crisis.Director: Eskil Hardt
PRO ST I T U T ION BE H I N D T H E V E I L
Documentary / 52min / Denmark / 2005
This film unveils the lives of two women in a city in Iran and what
they must do to stay alive.Director: Nahid Persson
SE A RC H I NG FOR BI L LDocumentary / 75min / Denmark
/ 2012
Bob Maser had his car and money stolen by a con man called Bill. The car is found in Detroit. Inside Bob finds Bills old notebook filled with names, phone numbers, addresses and odd drawings. Bob decides to try to track Bill down to see justice
happen.Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
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TA L E OF A FOR E STDocumentary / 88 min / Finland
/ 2013
Tale of a Forest is a film for the whole family about the unique
Finnish forest and its colourful and diverse life. Directors: Ville Suhonen
& Kim Saarniluoto.
THE LAST OCEAN Documentary / 88 min /
New Zealand / 2012
The Last Ocean lifts the lid on commercial fishing in the most
pristine marine ecosystem on Earth, the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and
follows the fight to protect this last untouched ocean from humanity’s
insatiable appetite for fish.Produced & directed by Peter Young.
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A N N A PI H LTV Drama / 30 x 42 min /
Denmark / 2006-2008
In this award-winning series Anna Phil, an officer fresh out of the
academy, must learn the rules of the street if she is to survive and bring down the criminal establishment.Directors: Carsten Myllerup, Morten
ArnfredCast: Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDTV Mini Series / 2 x 55 min /
Finland / 2009
Nella, an assistant of a Finnish MEP in Brussels, is assigned to
report on the dispute over the old Lapland forests. No simple truths
exist, especially when all the parties are lying.
Directors: Heikki KujanpaaCast: Saana Hyvaarinen, Kai
Lehtinen
NORW E G I A N C OZ YTV Drama / 6 x 58 min /
Norway / 2010
Emmy-nominated series about Georg, who finds himself back home
living with his paranoid father.Directors: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen,
Daniel Voldheim, Anne SewitskyCast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen,
Anders Danielsen Lie
PA R K ROA DTV Dramedy / 22 x 42min /
Denmark / 2010
In the popular series siblings Katrine, Sune & Mathilde flee the big city and
seek refuge in the idyllic suburban community of Park Road. But the
residents here have their own secrets.Directors: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen,
Daniel Voldheim, Anne SewitskyCast: Anders Baasmo Christiansen,
Anders Danielsen Lie
R I TATV Drama
series 1: 8 x 42min / Denmark / 2012
series 11: 8 x 42min / Denmark / 2013
The award-winning series is back. In this second season Rita has to face the consequences of all
the havoc she has caused...like a grown up. Embarking on a proper
relationship with the express intention of “domesticating”
herself, she aims to achieve the state of adulthood she has never experienced. But suppressing her vices, her need for casual sex and her unbridled freedom can lead in frustrations being vented in ways that will cause more harm than
good.Directors:
Lars Kaalund & Jannik JohansenCast:
Mille Dinesen, Carsten Bjornlund
SeriesDocumentaries
Focus on...
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her
nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground.
The expectations to a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s
ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her
dream! She takes up the fight and teams up with the world’s
first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.
Directed by Berit Madsen
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SEPIDEHDocumentary / 88/52 min / Denmark / 2013
This new, spectacular 20-episode series, that took over 8 years to film, follows the animals that live in the unique forests of Finland: the bears and the elk, the snakes and the owls, the ants, the frogs and the flying squirrels, the ancient soul birds such as the Siberian Jay, the Lapland Owl and many, many more. The series contains
information about nature and different animal species, and it also offers hints on how nature can be protected.
Directors: Ville Suhonen and Kim Saarniluoto. Production Company: MRP Matila Röhr Productions.
TA L EOF A
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TA L E OF A FOR E STTV Doc Series / 20 x 4 min / Finland / 2014
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Children / Family Films Children / Family Films
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C OM I NG HOM EFamily Drama / 81 min / Norway
/ 2011
15-year old Ida is a fashionblogger and a city girl, and unhappy about her mother’s decision to move to a small farm in Northern Norway. Until she meets Kehilan, the wild
horse.Director: Anders Oevergaard
Cast: Julie Nordhuus, Elise S. Maerlie
J E SUS & JO SE F I N EFamily TV Series / 24 x 20 min /
Denmark / 2003
Josefine does not like Christmas. However, her opinions are put to the test when, through a magical nativity play, she is transported to Nazareth and meets a young boy
called Jesus.Director: Carsten Myllerup
Cast: Pernille Kaae, Sebastian Aagrad-Williams
L O ST I N A F R IC AFamily Drama / 90 min /
Denmark / 2010
Simon travels with his Danish mother to his country of origin,
Kenya. After arriving, he loses his soccer ball. Whilst trying to find it he gets lost in the biggest city-slum
in Africa.Director: Vibeke Muasya
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Simon Larsen
M E & M Y U M BR E L L AFamily Fantasy / 78 min / Brazil
/ 2010
With his childhood sweetheart kidnapped by the cruel Baron before their first day of school, Eugenio embarks on a rescue
adventure, armed with his Grandfather’s magic umbrella.
Director: Toni VanzoliniCast: Victor Froiman, Rafaela Victor
M Y DA D I S B A RYSH N I KOVFamily / 88 min / Russia / 2011
Borya, the clumsiest pupil at the Bolshoi Ballet School, is
convinced he is the son of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and sets out to
persuade others.Directors: Dmitry Povolotsky, Mark
DrugoiCast: Dmitry Vyskubenko, Anna
Mikhakova
RON A L T H E B A R B A R I A N3D Animation (stereoscopic) / 95
min / Denmark / 2011
When evil Lord Volcazor kidnaps the rest of the Barbarian tribe,
Ronal must summon the courage to save them, and embark on a quest of
the most unusual kind.Director: Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen,
Philip Einstein Lipski, Thorbjorn Christoffersen
Cast: Ben Bledsoe, Dee Snider
ST OR MFamily / 87 min / Denmark / 2009
Freddy saves Storm, the dog, from its volatile owner. The owner
demands payment, and so to raise money Freddy trains Storm for the highly prized dog-racing
championships.Director: Giacomo Campeotto
Cast: Kirsten Lehfeldt, Troels Lyby
T H E BLU E T IG E RFamily / 90 min / Czech Republic
/ 2011
Just as an evil developer is about to knock down the botanical garden
paradise, a blue tiger arrives, threatening his plans. Director: Petr Oukropec
Cast: Barbora Hrzanova, Jan Hartl
T H E G R E AT BI R D R AC EFamily / 90 min / Denmark / 2012
Tensions are high as the defending champion makes a surprise return,
threatening Daniel’s chance at winning 1st prize at the Annual Bird Spotting Championship.
Director: Christian DyekjaerCast: Oliver Methling Sondergaard,
Lars Brygmann
T H E SE C R E TFamily / 96 min / Denmark / 2011
When their mother dies three children keep up appearances to avoid being split-up. As they try to cover-up, more secrets unravel
including tickets to Barbados with their names on it.
Director: Morten Koehlert
M Y A F R IC A N A DV E N T U R EFamily Adventure / 80 min
Denmark / 2012
The Berg family wins a journey to Africa. The trip is disrupted when
Mrs Flinth gets kidnapped by poachers. Uncle Eric and the kids go after the poachers in an action-
packed adventure.Directed by Martin Miehe-Renard
Produced by Michael Obel
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Family / 96 min / Denmark / 2013
Karl Højby Hansen has lived the first 12 years of his life in a small conservative village in Denmark with his mother, grandmother and
grandfather. Thus it comes with a great shock when his mother tells Karl that they will be moving to the capital city, Copenhagen. Nothing can
prepare him for his new surrounds, an ethnically mixed area, where 80% of the children at his new school are bilingual. Immediately Karl quickly starts
to plan his escape back to his grandmother and grandfather.
Sawsan, a young Islamic girl in Karl’s class, takes him under her caring wings and tries to integrate him into big city life with all its slang and
hipness. When one of Sawsan’s homemade songs are being chosen for the biggest song contest in the country, held near Karl’s village, she faces opposition
from her family who don’t approve of her dream to sing. But Karl has other ideas, and with both of them heading in the same direction he hatches a
plan that will involve the train-ride of their life!
Director: Martin Miehe-Renard. Produced by Marcella Dichmann & Henrik Møller-Sørensen for ASA Film
A L L FOR ON EComedy / 83 min / Denmark / 2010
To reveal a wealthy big smuggler, the policeman Martin benefits
from his connections to his three childhood friends, who also happen
to be petty criminals.Cast: Mick Øgendahl,
Jonatan Spang
A L L FOR T WOComedy / 89 min / Danish / 2013
Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are planning a heist involving the unlikely combination of unsalted butter, a strickt diet and
a helicopter.Cast: Mick Øgendahl,
Rasmus Bjerg
BODY FAT I N DE X OF L OV EComedy / 98 min / Finland / 2012
Body Fat Index of Love is a romantic comedy that puts
relationships on scale.Cast: Miina Maasola,
Mikko Nousiainen, Jarkko Niemi
ONCE UPON A TIME IN PHUKETComedy / 105 min / Sweden / 2012
Carrier coach Sven has gotten sick of helping everyone else changing
their lifes. He quits his job and goes to Thailand to find himself and to realize his dream to become a
writer.Cast: Peter Magnusson,
David Hellenius
PA R K ROA D – T H E MOV I EComedy / 90 min / Denmark / 2012
An astounding ensemble of lies, love and suburban gravel mixed
with a solid dose of black humour. Based on the dramedy series ”Park
Road” from 2010.Cast: Soes Egelind, Soeren Spanning
NO T A NO T H E R H A PPY E N DI NG
Comedy / 99 min / UK / 2013
A struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he’s
finished. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more
he realises he’s in love with her.Cast: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber
Directed by John McKay
R A PI D R E SP ONSE C OR PSComedy / 91 min / Bulgaria / 2012
A comedy, combining action and humour that occasionally lead to
absurd situations. Cast: Vasko Mavrikov,
Evgeni Budinov, Ivelin Naydenov
S OM E T H I NG I N T H E A I RComedy / 114 min / Denmark / 2011
The clairvoyant who didn’t see it coming
Cast: Line Kruse, Robert Hansen
SU BDI V I SIONComedy / 104 min / Australia /
2009
Love plus loyalty, mulitplied by pride, divided by money, equals…
Cast: Asley Bradnam, Gary Sweet
TA K E T H E T R A SHComedy / 80 min / Denmark / 2008
Sometimes you’ve got to take the trash.
Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Sidse Babett Knudsen
T H E C H R I ST M A S PA RT YComedy / 86 min / Denmark / 2009
When Anders Bo begins his new job as a car salesman, he is given the special task of infiltrating the
small competing car shop, Holger’s Auto during their annual Christmas party and steal their customer file.
Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Mick Øgendahl
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R APID R ESPONSE COR PS: NUCLEAR THR EAT / Action Comedy / 89 min / Bulgaria / 2014Directed by Stanislav Donchev. Produced by Emil Simeonov for Pro Films
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B AC K YA R D A SH E SComedy / 89 min / Australia /
2013
Backyard Ashes is an entertaining family film that uses the famous Australian past time of backyard
cricket as an analogy for the bitter sporting rivalry between England
and Australia. Cast: Andrew S Gilbert
& Rebecca MasseyDirected by Mark Grentell.
A L MO ST PE R F E C TComedy / 98 min / Denmark /
2012
Anne feels compelled to find the sperm donor and ensure that he is
as perfect as she imagines.Cast: Lene Maria Christensen,
Nikolaj Lie KaasDirector: Hella Joofhe “Rapid Response Corps” (a team
of three broke but energetic young men of enterprise, early thirties) runs into an international weapon deal – a nuclear nano-bomb is being invented. The team decides to capture the villains involved and to hand them over to the authorities. Following the track, the RRC gets involved into a bunch of action comic situations, meets the bomb inventor, the queer British multi-millionaire who is the bomb customer, the Arab sheikh – the detonator keeper and the MI 6 undercover agent of gipsy descent, and all this – on the way round Sofia, Istanbul and London…
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DRONEDocumentary / Feature TBA min/TV 58 min / Norway / 2014
The world is heading towards a dangerous place. Drone addresses the past, present and future of warfare and surveillance, and the consequences for civilians and governments.
MY MISTRESSRomance / Australia / 2014
What starts as a beautiful and strangely innocent affair between a vulnerable teenage romantic and a French S&M mistress soon becomes more dangerous in My Mistress, an unconventional and provocative love story.
SILENT HEARTDrama / Denmark / 2014
An intense family drama in which every conflict and aspect of love finds its voice in the final, redemptive weekend a family spends together.
THE IDEALISTThriller / Denmark / 2014
IN PRODUCTION: The Idealist is set during the cold war and exposes a nuclear disaster, an International cover-up and the fight by one man to break the silence.
FREE R ANGEDrama / 104 min / Estonia / 2013
The next in line from acclaimed director Veiko Ounpuu is the story of a promising young man with exciting career opportunities and looming marital bliss...
THE WORDDrama / 97 min / Poland / 2014How far would you go for love?
This is the question Lila asks her unfaithful partner Janek. Before she takes him back he will need to go to the extreme.
THE SLEEPWALKERPsychological Drama / 92 min / Norway / USA / 2013
The lives of young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia’s sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
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