Jørgen Leth's film portraits — fifth DVD

28. nov 2008. Dancers, poets and sports icons take centre stage in eight films presented in the fifth DVD set of the Jørgen Leth Collection. Whether it is dance, literature or sport, Leth strives to portray…

CPH:DOX Awards 2008

17. nov 2008. At the closing gala of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's international documentary film festival (7-16 November 2008), films and filmmakers were honoured with the following awards:

Arranged Marriages Thais & Danes

10. nov 2008. The films take us to a windblown corner of North Jutland, where 575 Thai women live with their Danish husbands. Fifteen years ago there was only Sommai, a former sex worker from Pattaya. Opening with…

Barefoot Reporter in Burma

10. nov 2008. Following a string of successful documentaries, Anders Høgsbro Østergaard plunged into deep water with a film about video activism in Burma. Initially conceived as a small story about personal…

Film Me! Film Me!

10. nov 2008. The network of independent video reporters operating in Burma today, coordinated by, among others, the Democratic Voice of Burma, is far from unique. The phenomenon of video activism has been around…

Thank You, Google Earth

10. nov 2008. Janus Billeskov Jansen has done a bit of everything in his long career as a film editor. Even so, "Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country" was a challenge out of the ordinary, not least owing to…

Barefoot Reporter In Burma

01. nov 2008. Following a string of successful documentaries, Anders Høgsbro Østergaard plunged into deep water with a film about video activism in Burma. Initially conceived as a small story about personal…

Beautiful Moments

01. nov 2008. In his final year of television at the National Film School of Denmark, Andreas Koefoed has already two films selected for IDFA. "12 Notes Down", partly biographical, is about a gifted choir boy…

Bridgebuilding

01. nov 2008. "My Iranian Paradise" is a personal film about Iranian history and Persian culture by a Danish filmmaker who spent most of her childhood and youth in Tehran. Annette Mari Olsen relates the grand…

Daring to Stick Out

01. nov 2008. Nanna Frank Møller’s "Let’s Be Together" is an identity story about a boy grappling for a foothold between genders and nationalities.