Robert Awards 2025

“The Robert-Prisen (Robert Award) is an annual award given by the Danish Film Academy, launched in 1984. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars, British BAFTAs for films, Australian AACTA Awards or French César.[1] The award—voted only by academy members—is an acknowledgment by Danish industry colleagues of a person’s or film’s outstanding contributions during the previous year.[Wikipedia)

Five films have been nominated in the Documentary category, they have all been to festivals in Denmark or abroad, that’s why I list them by their English titles. I have seen all five except for “The Son and the Moon” – strong films thematically, personal in content and style, 3 of them shot in Denmark, two others in Brazil and Kosovo. Curious to hear where the members of the Academy put their vote. All films have female directors – and then there is Juan Palacios, who has Basque roots. The members are welcome to click at the four titles that have been reviewed on this site – and those non-members of the Academy can see if they agree with what I have written. The result will be revealed on the first of February.

The nominated are:
Roja Pakari: The Son and the Moon, 84 mins.

Zara Zerny: Echo of You, 76 mins. https://filmkommentaren.dk/zara-zerny-echo-of-you/

Sissel Morell Dargis: Balomania, 93 mins. https://filmkommentaren.dk/sissel-morell-dargis-balomania-anmeldelse/

Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen: As the Tide Comes in, 88 mins. https://filmkommentaren.dk/juan-palacios-foer-stormen/

Birgitte Stærmose: Afterwar, 93 mins. https://filmkommentaren.dk/birgitte-staermose-afterwar/

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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