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Travelling with a Dead Man

21. feb 2015. It is necessary to get close to death to learn to truly live? Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm asks that question in his lyrical first feature In Your Arms, about a woman accompanying a man on his final…

Adventures of Beetles and Bugs

20. feb 2015. Mini and the Mozzies is a tie-dye bright story of bullying and friendship, brought to life in a simple cutout technique and peppered with jazzy tunes and anarchic humour. Co-directors Jannik Hastrup…

Coming out in the Bible belt

20. feb 2015. Jannik Splidsboel's documentary Misfits follows three LGBT teenagers struggling to be accepted in an extremely conservative community. 

When reality cracks

20. feb 2015. Vibeke Bryld's Pebbles at Your Door tells of a woman's rude awakening from the North Korean puppetry. Old propaganda publications, a blow dryer and incense sticks went into the making of this oddly…

Love is colder than death

19. feb 2015. Fassbinder – To Love without Demands is a portrait of one of the world's most prominent filmmakers, and probably the most productive. Based on interviews Danish director Christian Braad Thomsen…

The Human Journey into Outer and Inner Space

19. feb 2015. There are no little green men but lots of masterminds and mind-boggling questions in Michael Madsen's The Visit, which documents an alien invasion that hasn't taken place – yet.