A SILENT STORY WINS THE CINEFEMME AWARD AT MILLENIUM FILM FESTIVAL IN BRUXELLES

Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s ‘A Silent Story’ won the CinéFemme jury award for the most creative and committed film in the international competition at Millenium Festival in Bruxelles.

The jury's statement: The CinéFemme Jury awarded its prize to a courageous film which, with modesty and sensitivity, evokes an all-too-familiar subject by breaking the silence of shame and guilt. A film that opens the way to healing. 

LANDSFORENINGEN SPOR INVITES TO SCREENINGS OF WONDERFULLY RECEIVED ‘A SILENT STORY’

We are extremely thankful and proud of how Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen's A Silent Story has been received, both since its’ CPH:DOX premiere in March, and after it was broadcasted on Danish TV channel TV2 last month. A nationwide impact campaign has been launched, aimed at both individuals and people working with children and youth, and the mental health sector. The film will continue to inspire people in the years to come.

The film is an encouragement to break the silence, and puts constructive, de-tabooing light on the fact that a large part of sexual abuse of children is committed by other children. “I have missed a story like mine, which I could recognise myself in, which could help me to understand that this kind of abuse between children is actually something that happens,” director Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen says about ‘A Silent Story’.   

If you are in Denmark, you can catch the feature length version of the film when Landsforeningen Spor invites to free screenings and debates five Mondays in a row. The screenings will take place in: Kolding, Aarhus, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Odense between October 30 and November 27, and you can find more info about the events here. You can also see the shorter version of the film on TV2 Play.

'A SILENT STORY' IN COMPETITION AT ZÜRICH FILM FESTIVAL

Last week Zürich Film Festival announced their program for this year. We are thrilled to share, that Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s A Silent Story has been selected for the documentary competition.

The Documentary Film Competition is one of three main categories at Zürich Film Festival, and A Silent Story will be competing for the “Golden Eye” alongside 13 other documentary films.

We are happy for the attention and feedback that A silent Story has been receiving lately and will follow closely as the festival takes place in Zürich from 28. September – 08. October 2023.

'A SILENT STORY' AND 'VINTERSAGA' NOMINATED AT NORDISK PANORAMA

We are excited to announce that Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s A Silent Story is in competition for ‘The New Nordic Voice Award’ at the film festival Nordisk Panorama in Malmö. 

In A Silent Story film director Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen contacts his seven years older childhood friend, who sexually abused him when they were both children. Together they seek to recollect and understand how and why it happened. We are happy and proud of the attention that this important film is receiving, and we will follow it closely at the festival alongside all the other fantastic films that are nominated.

We are also happy to announce that Carl Olsson's Vintersaga, produced by Ginestra Film in co-production with Final Cut for Real, is competing in the ‘Best Nordic Documentary’ category. In Olsson's distinctive visual language, Vintersaga is essentially an ode to the melancholy of Sweden.

At Final Cut for Real we look forward to the 21st of September, when the 34th edition of Nordisk Panorama will start. You can find out more about the festival here.