We are very happy to announce that What Walaa Wants by Christy Garland and Angels Are Made of Light by James Longley are selected for IDFA's Best of Fests programme.
Read MorePHOTO FROM 'THE HUMAN SCALE' PART OF EXHIBITION AT BEIJING DESIGN WEEK /
A still from Andreas Møl Dalsgaard’s The Human Scale has been part of an exhibition by Copenhagen Film Fund and The Danish Centre for Culture at the Beijing Design Week in China.
Read More'DISTANT BARKING' WINS AUDIENCE AWARD AT NORDISK PANORAMA /
We are very proud to annonce Simon Lereng Wilmont’s Distant Barking of Dogs has won Audience Award at this year’s Nordisk Panorama in Malmö.
Read MoreDOLBY ATMOS PREMIERE OF 'ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT' AT TIFF /
Behind the scenes - James Longley and Henrik Garnov making sound magic
We’re very excited to announce that James Longley’s Angles Are Made of Light , our first film mixed in Dolby Atmos, premiered at TIFF’s Dolby Atmos-equipped Bell Lightbox center on September 11th.
Filmed over a period of several years, Angles Are Made of Light reveals daily struggles and inner lives of students and teachers at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the closing years of America’s longest war.
After Telluride and TIFF, the film will next be shown at the New York Film Festival in October.
'STRONG ISLAND' RECIEVES NOMINATION FOR A GRIERSON AWARD /
We are happy to announce that Yance Ford’s Netflix documentary Strong Island is nominated for a Grierson Award in the category Best Single Documentary - International.
Read MoreDANISH PREMIERE OF 'GOOD FAVOUR' AT CPH:PIX 2018 /
Rebecca Daly’s Good Favour has its Danish premiere on the 7th of October at 16:30 in Grand Teatret, Copenhagen.
Read MoreYANCE FORD’S ‘STRONG ISLAND’ WINS AN EXCEPTIONAL MERIT IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING AT THE EMMYS /
We are proud to announce Yance Ford’s Strong Island has received an Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Emmys 2018 which was announced on the 9th of September in Los Angeles.
Read More‘THAT SUMMER’ PREMIERE IN THE DANISH FILM INSTITUTE FOLLOWED BY DIRECTOR GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON IN CONVERSATION WITH LARS MOVIN /
The Danish premiere of Göran Hugo Olsson’s That Summer, edited by Per K. Kirkegaard, sound design by Henrick Garnov and co-produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen, was shown as part of the Grey Gardens Revisited series.
Read More'THAT SUMMER' TO PREMIERE ON DANISH TELEVISION ON SEPTEMBER 16TH /
That Summer directed by Göran Hugo Olsson premieres on Danish television on the 19th of September at 10 pm on DR K.
Read More'ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT' AT TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL /
The secret is finally out - James Longely’s Angels Are Made of Light will have its world premiere at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival this Saturday!
Read More'ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT' SELECTED FOR TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL /
We are proud to annonce James Longley’s Angles Are Made of Light premieres at the TIFF festival on September 9th.
Read More'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' WINS GRAND PRIX IN SEOUL /
We are proud to annonce that The Distant Barking of Dogs won the Grand Prix at the 2018 EBS International Documentary Festival in Seoul, where the film also had its Korean premiere.
Read More'DISTANT BARKING' SELECTED AS 1 OF 15 EFA DOCS /
Simon Lereng Wilmont's The Distant Barking of Dogs has been named as 1 of the 15 European Film Award (EFA) documentaries of 2018, the most prestigious awarding body in Europe.
Read MoreTOP PRIZE FOR 'DISTANT BARKING' AT DOK.FEST /
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS wins yet another prize, this time in Munich at the 33rd International Documentary Film Festival. Director Simon Lereng Wilmont was awarded Saturday night with the VIKTOR Main Competition DOK.international Award and its 10,000 EUR prize.
Read MoreMORE LOVE FOR 'DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' AND 'DREAMING MURAKAMI' /
We're happy to announce that Simon Lereng Wilmont’s engrossing work ‘The Distant Barking of Dogs’ won yet another award. This time for Best Film in the International Competition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival in Georgia.
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'WHAT WALAA WANTS' WINS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE AT HOT DOCS /
We're so proud that What Walaa Wants, directed by Christy Garland, won the Special Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2018.
The jury said the following about the film: “We award the DGC Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary to What Walaa Wants for displaying an extraordinary bond between filmmaker and subject which then carries over to the audience. Christy Garland creates an exceptional emotional arc by focusing on Walaa’s growth and transformation.”
Read MoreTHREE FILMS SCREENING AT HOT DOCS 2018 /
We are proud to announce that we are presenting no less than three films at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto this year: The Distant Barking of Dogs, What Walaa Wants and Dreaming Murakami.
Following the lives of a 10-year old Ukrainian boy caught in a raging conflict, a young girl fighting for her right to train as a policewoman in Palestine, and a 60-year old Danish translator immersing herself in the surreal world of Haruki Murakami, the films speak to the heterogeneity of our output, and in each their own way, offer gripping and poetic stories about personal struggle and perseverance.
Read More'THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS' WINS TOP HONOURS IN SAN FRANCISCO /
Simon Lereng Wilmont's film The Distant Barking of Dogs has won the McBaine Documentary Feature Award at San Francisco's SFFILM Festival, along with a $10,000 prize.
Read More‘DREAMING MURAKAMI’ MOST SEEN FILM AT CPH:DOX 2018 /
More than 2000 people were watching when Nitesh Anjaan’s second feature documentary Dreaming Murakami had its Danish premiere during this year’s CPH:DOX festival: Close to 600 people attended the gala event at The Royal Danish Library, and around 1600 people across the country were tuned in as well, following the event via live-transmission.
Read MoreLAND OF THE FREE - SPECIAL SCREENING WITH SPECIAL GUESTS /
Tuesday 17 April at 19:15 we are having a special screening of Land of the Free at Cinemateket in Copenhagen. The film portrays Brian, Juan, and Gianni from South Central L.A. and shows the psychological impact of an American prison system that focuses on punishment rather than prevention and rehabilitation.
The screening will be followed by a debate focusing on the many obstacles formerly incarcerated face upon release. How do you reconnect with your family? And how do you become a welcome member of society again?
We are very happy to announce that one of the film’s characters, Cezanne, will be attending the debate. Cezanne has been to prison, and is mother to the 7-year-old boy Gianni. In the film, we see how she struggles to reconnect with her son, while trying to keep him off the streets and away from the gangs outside. Together with her, the panel will consist of the film’s director Camilla Magid, the family therapist Rikke Betak from the Danish Probation Service, and the sociologist and author Aydin Soei.
The session will be moderated by Simon Kratholm Ankjærgaard.
Tickets: https://www.dfi.dk/cinemateket/biograf/events/event/land-free-med-debatTrailer: https://vimeo.com/208304007