'HE'S MY BROTHER' AND 'PRESIDENT' SELECTED FOR POV LINEUP

We are proud and happy to announce that He’s My Brother directed by Cille Hannibal and co-director Christine Hanberg and produced by Monica Hellström and President directed by Camilla Nielsson and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen and Joslyn Barnes has been selected for the 35th Season Lineup at POV.

POV is the longest-running series for independent documentaries on television and launches on July 11th. As is tradition, the series will program social issues films topics including environmental justice, immigration and systemic inequity.

Read more about the 35th POV lineup here.

3 'BEST DOCUMENTARY' NOMINATIONS FOR TVPRISEN 2022

We are excited to announce that three films from Final Cut for Real have been nominated for Tvprisen 2022 along with five other nominees. 

In the category for Best Documentary, the jury has nominated the following films: He’s My Brother directed Cille Hannibal and co-directed Christine Hanberg; Raising a School Shooter directed by Frida & Lasse Barkfors; and Songs of Repression directed by Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga. 

Tvprisen is an annual event arranged by the Danish Producers’ Association. An award show where the TV-industry acknowledges and celebrates the best Danish TV-programmes of the year.

The 2022 awards will be presented on March 26th at Tivoli Hotel & Congress Center in Copenhagen.

To see the full list of nominees click here.

'OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US' & 'HE'S MY BROTHER' WIN SPECIAL MENTION AT CPH:DOX

We are so proud and happy to announce that ‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’ and ‘He’s My Brother’, both recieved Special Mentions at CPH:DOX 2021.

‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’ is directed by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen, and ‘He’s My Brother’ is directed by Cille Hannibal and co-director Christine Hanberg.

The statement of DOX:AWARD jury, when announcing the Special Mention to ‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’, was as follows:

“We have decided to award a special mention to a film that both challenged and haunted us – a work that expands on a painful tradition of documentaries we have all watched over the last decade. In a space created between viewer and images; in a process which is both performative and therapeutic, trauma is deconstructed and transformed, before our eyes, into camaraderie; intimacy; guilt, failure and despair. As the film progresses it exposes the impossible dichotomy faced by its protagonists – they want to remember, and at the same time they yearn to move beyond the past. Yadan, Rani and Odai’s engagement with the videos they filmed years ago, in their hometown of Dar’ah, reminds us that the images from the Syrian revolution, beyond being testimony, and evidence, are first and foremost people’s memories. The CPH:DOX Award Special Mention goes to ‘Our Memory Belongs To Us’ by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen.”

The statement of the NORDIC:DOX jury, when announcing the Special Mention to ‘He’s My Brother’, was as follows:

“The best documentary films are always a window into other lives, other realities than our own. Always under-represented, people with disabilities have therefore often been the subject of documentaries. This moving film distinguishes itself by its very personal nature and its capacity to make us aware of the daily struggles a family can face in such a situation. It is both a love letter from a sister to a brother who cannot but live in his own world, and a very honest portrayal of the people who dedicate their lives for him. For its deeply humanistic approach, the jury would like to give a special mention to ‘He’s my Brother’.”

Both films have cinema premieres this upcoming weekend.

‘He’s My Brother’ is screened on Saturday, May 8th, at 19.15. Find tickets here.
’Our Memory Belongs to Us’ is screened on Monday, May 10th, at 18:45. Find tickets here.

Click here to see the full list of award winners at CPH:DOX 2021

FINAL CUT FOR REAL AT IDFA 2019

Once again Final Cut for Real will be well represented at IDFA – the following Final Cut for Real productions and co-productions can be found at IDFA 2019:

SCREENINGS
A Comedian in A Syrian Tragedy by Rami Farah will have its world premiere at this year’s IDFA and will have four screenings in total. It is an intimate portrait of the Syrian film and television actor Fares Helou, who is forced into exile after standing by the pro-democracy protestors in Syria, 2011. With his family he starts a new chapter in France full of questions, disappointments and alienation, but also of hope and cultural confusion that calls for laughter. The film is produced by Lyana Saleh for OSOR (France) and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real (Denmark) in co-production with Cindy Le Templier for SHASHAT Multimedia Productions (Jordan) and Anita Rehoff Larsen for Sant & Usant (Norway).

SCREENING TIMES AND LOCATIONS
23/11 – 18:30 – at Munt 13 - w/ Q&A
25/11 – 17:30 – at De Balie - Grote Zaal - w/ Q&A
26/11 – 22:00 – at Brakke Grond Grote Zaal - w/ Q&A
30/11 – 10:00 – at Tuschinski 6

Purchase tickets here.

Furthermore, this year two Final Cut for Real productions are selected for Rough Cut Screenings at IDFA Sunday November 24.

The Art of Repression by Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga focuses on a small German colony in Chile that has transformed a grim, sectarian past into a beautiful tourist resort. The filmmakers explore how the inhabitants have developed different narratives in order to survive 45 years of traumas. The film is produced by Heidi Elise Christensen and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real.

I See for You by Cille Hannibal & co-director Christine Hanberg describes the challenges of being without all of your senses. Most people have five senses, but Peter only has three. Having lost both his sight and hearing as a newborn, his family must see and hear the world for him. The film is produced by Monica Hellström for Final Cut for Real.

ROUGH CUT SCREENINGS TAKE PLACE 24/11 AT TUSCHINSKI 5
The Art of Repression – 11:00-11:45
I See for You – 16:45-17:25

PLEASE NOTE: Only access with IDFA Forum pass

Final Cut for Real will be represented at IDFA by producers Signe Byrge Sørensen, Heidi Elise Christensen and Monica Hellström.