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Gifted Idiocy

13. nov 2013. In its transgressive aesthetics and upfront awkwardness, Lars von Trier's Dogme film "The Idiots" (1998) hits like a fist in the gut. Jesper Jargil's making-of film "The Humiliated" (1998) peels back…

I'm Not Out to Judge

13. nov 2013. Jon Bang Carlsen originally planned his new film, "Just the Right Amount of Violence", as a relatively straight documentary, but the project ended up as one of the most genre-blending works of the 63…

IDFA Issue for your laptop

13. nov 2013 | ONLINE ISSUE. Read about Andreas Johnsen's "Ai Weiwei The Fake Case" and Berit Madsen's "Sepideh" plus the other Danish films at IDFA 2013 in FILM Digital Issue for your smartphone, tablet or laptop.

Letting Go of Someone You Love

13. nov 2013. In "Carl & Niels", director Alexander Lind creates symbolic spaces to visualise the painful recognition by two twins that their childhood symbiosis is irretrievably lost. Lind is a recent…

Reaching for the Stars

13. nov 2013. Can a young Iranian woman become an astronaut? Berit Madsen's "Sepideh" is about a remarkable teenage girl cleverly and stubbornly working towards making her dream come true.

Someone to Belong With

13. nov 2013. A 13-year-old girl's relationship to her best friend is at the heart of Ulla Søe and Sussie Weinold's "Shanne and Her Friends". Shanne's story, Ulla Søe tells us, touches on the difficulty of the…