Danish Documentary Productions
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- DirectorMikala KroghStarsPoul MadsenNasib FarahSøren LyngbjørnA year in the newsroom of Denmark's leading tabloid newspaper, struggling to survive in a changing media climate.
- DirectorMikala KroghA Year of Hope is about life on the streets of Manila. You will hear the horrible stories of Pablo, Justin, and some of the other boys. Thankfully their lives change during their year in Stairway Foundation. It's an NGO located on an island in the Philippines far away from Manila. They're there to get a proper education, eat nutritious food, have fun, and be introduced to new things. But sadly even in a place like Stairway, the gruesome streets of Manila are still lurking in the backs of the children's minds.
- DirectorPernille Rose GrønkjærStarsAnders MatthesenA documentary about the popular Danish comedian Anders Matthesen, shot between 2012 and 2016.
- DirectorEva MulvadStarsCharlie SiemThe Norwegian-English elite violinist Charlie Siem is also a model working for the biggest fashion houses. After all measurements Siem has more success than most can dream about. He's also a perfectionist down to every little detail.
- DirectorEva MulvadStarsAnnemette BeckmannMette BeckmannThe lives of a mother and daughter who used to have it all, but now only have each other.
- DirectorMax KestnerStarsKristian von BengtsonPeter MadsenSteen AndersenOver a period of 6 years award winning director Max Kester follows two best friends and top engineers as they follow their dream to build a "DIY" rocket to travel into space. If they succeed, Denmark will be only the fourth nation in history to launch people beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Against their families odd's and technical challenges they build the cheapest rocket.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWater and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
- DirectorAndreas JohnsenStarsJosh EvansRoberto FloreBen ReadeIn an effort to determine their sustainability as a food source, two chefs travel throughout the world tasting insects.
- DirectorAnne WivelStarsMari-Anne DuusPer KirkebyIb MichaelPer Kirkeby's struggle to return to art after an accident. An honest and personal portrait of a headstrong artist.
- DirectorHanna PolakStarsYulaHanna PolakTen-year-old Yula has but one dream: to lead a normal life. For 14 years, Hanna Polak follows Yula as she grows up in the forbidden territory of Svalka, the garbage dump located 13 miles from the Kremlin in Putin's Russia.
- DirectorPhie AmboStarsNiels StokholmA farmer's determined battle for the soil we share.
- DirectorAndreas JohnsenStarsAi WeiweiAndreas JohnsenLao AiA documentary reflects on artist Ai Weiwei's battle against the lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him.
- DirectorMikala Krogh
- DirectorMikala KroghThe film examines how a mother keeps herself and her family going even though everything around her is an almost unbearable chaos with a daughter seriously ill of cancer. How she tries to displace the brutal realities, because she so much wants to live a normal life with her three girls. The mother wants to distribute her love and care equally among her girls, but suffers from living in a constant state of emergency. Her greatest fear is that if she starts crying everything around her will collapse.
- DirectorPernille Rose GrønkjærStarsEliza BichmannSarah AgorNicole BrooksAre you addicted to love? Through personal stories of love addicts and the people around them this documentary explores the nature of love addiction. It will seek to understand what happens when "love" takes over your life. If you are addicted to love, love becomes more of a struggle than something great and joyful. Love addiction can rule your life in a destructive way. As someone addicted to love, you ignore your own boundaries and needs, and your attempts to loving someone are seldom returned. Love addiction can lead to obsessive thinking, anxiety, despair and loneliness.
- DirectorMikala KroghOnce upon a time there was a city that was neat and tidy, and which was home to only 12 million people. Today, however, Cairo has a population estimated at 20 million. Garbage is piling up in the streets and the piles are growing. Everyone in Cairo has his or her views on garbage but nobody knows what to do about it. Italian garbage disposal operators are brought in to tackle the city's waste problems and to teach the city dwellers rational garbage habits. »Cairo Garbage« is a portrait of the city community seen through its garbage.
- DirectorPhie AmboStarsHiroshi Ishiguro"Mechanical Love" is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high temple of robot technology, Tokyo, Japan, to Braunschweig, Germany, to Italy and back to Copenhagen, Denmark. By this world tour director Phie Ambo seeks to highlight the human need for love and our craving to be loved by others - perhaps the two most important aspects of life. Through the main characters, she examines the cultural differences in how we accept emotional robots in the East and the West.
- DirectorEmma DavieMorag McKinnonStarsNeil PlattA documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease (MND).
- DirectorAnne WivelStarsSvend AukenFor two years, director Anne Wivel and her camera followed her husband, the prominent Danish politician Svend Auken. The initial aim was to portray a modern, idealistic politician with great visions for the future. But during shooting, Auken contracted cancer, and the film became a portrayal of the politician, husband and father who feels his life is fading away, even if his work here is not yet finished.
- DirectorPernille Rose GrønkjærStarsSister AmbrosijaMr. VigThe story about the 82-year-old bachelor Mr. Vig, who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who by chance, or destiny, becomes part of his life.
- DirectorChristian BonkeAndreas KoefoedStarsVyacheslav 'Slavik' KryklyvyySlavik (34) from Ukraine, former world champion in Latin American dancing is making a last and final comeback with Anna, his new dance partner and girlfriend. Slavik is addicted to the limelight and the dance and misses the rush. However, his aging body is causing him severe pains these days, and his flaring temper puts his relationship with Anna at risk. The road to reclaiming the championships is a long, tough struggle. Slavik literally puts everything on the line in his ultimate push for the throne. Failure is not an option, yet failure is so difficult to avoid.
- DirectorPhie AmboStarsRichard DavidsonEmma SeppalaJohn OsborneIn 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in Free the Mind as they are applied to treating PTSD in returning Iraqi vets and children with ADHD. The film poses two fundamental questions: What really is consciousness, and how does it manifest in the brain and body? And is it possible to physically change the brain solely through mental practices?
- DirectorEva MulvadStarsMalalai JoyaThe first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.
- DirectorPhie AmboStarsLiv CorfixenSøren HøyNicolas Winding RefnA documentary about director Nicolas Winding Refn and his efforts to pay a 5.5 million crowns debt from his film Fear X (2003).
- DirectorPhie AmboStarsRichard DavidsonEmma SeppalaJohn OsborneIn 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson's studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in Free the Mind as they are applied to treating PTSD in returning Iraqi vets and children with ADHD. The film poses two fundamental questions: What really is consciousness, and how does it manifest in the brain and body? And is it possible to physically change the brain solely through mental practices?
- DirectorPhie AmboFever guides us into the incredibly detailed universe of illustrator Julie Nord, where small girls in pretty dresses have houses in their bellies, and where chimney smoke turns into phantasmagoric patterns of mouths and hands, cats and bones. A work is created, and doubt is sewn. When is a work complete? Julie Nord is sharing her creative reflections with us through the unobtrusive presence of Ambo's camera. A small bird ends up making all the difference as yet a beautiful, new work is finished. Nord's perfectionism is impressive in its minute detail and vast scope, and 'Fever' is a guided tour through the mind of a uniquely gifted artist.
- DirectorPhie AmboAll over the world neighbours are at war with each other. In Denmark the government employs an army of officials to break up the backyard slagging matches and this doc joins them for the hilarious ride.
- DirectorPhie AmboSami SaifStarsPhie AmboSami SaifWalid Khalil Kaid SaifThe directors, who are also partners, take a journey in pursuit of Sami's father, who abandoned his Danish family when Sami was very young. Before this ambitious film project started, Sami's beloved brother committed suicide, then his mother died, leaving Sami alone and grief-stricken. This film is a personal and compelling drama filled with humour and strong emotions.