A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
“Turning pain into happiness” is a key sentence in the film that deals with a Gaza, before it was totally destroyed after October 7 2023 and the consequent events. The pain of the director Areeb, Palestinian living in the US,…
Wolski pitched “The Big Chief” in Sarajevo last August. During a workshop at ZagrebDox he told me that the film was to have its premiere at Visions du Réel in Nyon. It had, the other day. He sent me a…
Barcelona, April 8, 2025 · The Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival DocsBarcelona will hold its twenty-eighth edition from May 8 to 18 at the CCCB, the Renoir and Phenomena cinemas, and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the festival’s regular venues, in addition to Casa Montjuïc and Espai Texas.…
I was invited to the premiere by Marie (Schmidt-Olesen), who with her company Northern Soul produced first time long documentary of Camilla Arlien, who has graduated from the film school in Copenhagen. I could not attend and later on in…
6.4.2025. The Big Stamp went to Mr. Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein and Pasha Talankin in International Competition and My Dad’s Lessons by Dalija Dozet in Regional Competition. The Little Stamp for best short film went to Arshia Shakiba…
Best International Film:Mr. Nobody against Putin (Denmark, Czech Republic) (PHOTO)Directed by David Borenstein, Pasha TalankinProduced by made in copenhagenCoproduced by PINK in association with BBC Storyville, DR, ZDF/ARTESupported by the Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, FilmFyn, Fritt…
Second time I saw this film. Same reaction. Emotional reaction. A mother decides to go to war to fight for her country. And first and foremost for the future of her child with whom she video-communicates during the film and…
Foreword to the festival catalogue: With all the explosions, sirens howling, cries andfights pervading our small endangered planet, all Ican hear is – silence.The silence of intelligence, reason, dialogue and –humanity.The world is dominated by bullies, some new ‘gold’defines the…
I still have some films that I would like to watch from the CPH:DOX festival program but I will catch up with some of them. I was in the position that I had seen all films in the main program,…
The juries have deliberated and the winners of the international competitions at CPH:DOX 2025 have been announced this evening at the festival’s Award Show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The international competition lineup included a total of 71 films in competition, in…
Brilliant film, full of life, observing and arranging, lots of music, the end credits invite you to dance, young people, well read the intro from the catalogue to know where we are in the world: “There is a lot of…
Eleanor Mortimer’s debut feature might be the most inspiring science doc of the year. Funny and serious, light and dark, poetic and informative. “Why we called it planet Earth when more than 70% of its surface is water?” says Mortimer’s…
To have a pitching session at The Royal Theatre at CPH:DOX with full house… Amazing! And to have the individual meetings in the afternoon at the Odd Fellow Palæet. Amazing. Atmosphere in both places and all works so well. There…
Look at the photo and the drawing… two filmmakers from Azerbaijan pitching their project “Kura”, the river that flows into the Caspian Sea coming from Turkey and Georgia. In their upcoming film the two will travel on the river and…
I will write about this film again and again. Here just some few notes. The film will travel to all festivals and it will win awards. Happy that it simply has been made. It was not the idea, Alisa told…
Of course there is a film by Nicolas Philibert at CPH:DOX. And of course it is placed in the category “Highlights”. This time the third of the triptych that started with “On The Adamant” followed by “Averos & Rosy Parks”…
Olha Stefanishyna er “The EUkrainian” med formentlig akkurat så mange rejsedage som Jens Stoltenberg havde på sit sidste år som NATO’s generalsekretær i flg. festivalens åbningsfilm “Facing War”. Svenske Nordenskjiöld har været tæt på hende, hun er diplomat, men holder…
Jeg vender tilbage til min afdøde kollega Allan Bergs tekst om “Testamentet”, som han skrev I 2013. Her er i citat det meste af det smukt formulerede oplæg til en visning af filmen I Randers. ”Der er Andreas, Christian og…
It’s looking at you, the bull. From the big screen in the cinema Grand in Copenhagen. Together with an almost full hall on a Wednesday afternoon, the first day of CPH:DOX 2025, I booked a ticket for Catalan Albert Serra’s…
This is not a review. The film is already known and has been shown in Denmark and came home from Sundance with an award. Adrian Horton wrote this (a quote) in Guardian to refresh your memory and for all those…
Unique access to film is what is written in the festival press about the opening film of CPH:DOX 2025. Unique access to former General Secretary of NATO Jens Stoltenberg during his last year in that position. And this is what…
Jeg har sakset lidt i en pressemeddelelse fra cph:dox for at fremhæve festivalens landsdækkende success, hvor mere and halvdelen af Danmarks kommuner er med i festivalen. Sådan skal det være skriver denne tidligere ansatte ved Statens Filmcentral, som netop var…
Multi-award winning director Nicolas Philibert, one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our times and the 27th TIDF’s guest, received the Festival’s honorary Golden Alexander on Friday, March 7th, at Olympion theater, prior to the screening of the film On…
I was invited by Davis Simanis Jr. to come to Riga to teach documentary for a week at the new premises of the Academy of Culture, where Davis, a prominent fiction and documentary director, has signed a contract of four…
Two first names are the directors followed by the producers. I was in the multiplex cinema Palads in Copenhagen last night. The owner Nordisk Film showed the Ukrainian Oscar nominee in the documentary section, “Porcelain War”, in collaboration with Ukraine…
More than 200 new films representing different stories from across the globe: a record number of 94 world premieres, 23 international premieres and 8 European premieres are featured in this year’s festival. The 22nd edition of CPH:DOX comes at a…
Dear Colleagues and Friends!Today, Ukrainians mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. None of us wanted war, and we did not think that in the 21st century the time would come when it would be necessary to defend…
“With love from the front” (eng. My Dear Theo) on CPH:DOX 2025 This is a text that I took from the FB of Alisa Kovalenko, if you go to that you will also notice the many people Alisa is thanking…
Her er Allan Bergs oplæg til en forevisning af Sønderby Jepsens film i 2013: ”Der er Andreas, Christian og mig, Henrik og min far og min mor og min hustru. Alle drikker.” Det siger fortælleren. Det er altså personerne, og…
passed away the other day, 70 years old. A brilliant documentary director who expanded the Danish way of storytelling in that genre through his focus on the essayistic approach. Poetic reflections on human life, philosophical, superb in their visual interpretation…
In a previous post I listed the five nominated documentaries for the Latvian awards: Beigas (The End), rež. Māris Maskalāns, prod. VFS Films (Latvija) Esi uzticīgs līdz nāvei (Be Faithful Until Death) , rež. Ivars Zviedris, prod. Dokumentālists (Latvija) (PHOTO)…
This is a copy-paste of an article in FNE Daily, written by Alexander Gabelia: VILNIUS: Lithuanian director/writer/producer Arūnas Matelis is currently in production with his new long documentary G.H.1 / G.V.1, which he calls “a very, very challenging film”. G.H.1 investigates the bond…
Here are the five films that were nominated to compete for the Documentary Oscar: Black Box Diaries – Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin No Other Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham Porcelain War…
Two documentary film festivals, different in orientation, both with selections of high quality films, many categories, I will with this text focus on some titles from the main competition category of FIPADOC, that starts tomorrow in Biarritz and from ArtDocFest…
I got the following press release today from the international press contact: claudiatomassini+associates, Claudia Tomassini claudia@claudiatomassini.com Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’: New trailer and poster ahead of Special Tribute at Berlinale Ahead of its screening in official selection (Berlinale Special) at the 75th Berlinale,…
Three generations. The protagonist, teenager Roosi, her mum and dad, divorced – and the one who writes this review, a senior citizen and a film blogger who hopes for a better world and believes in change coming from young ones…
“Trains” got the first prize at IDFA 2024. I got a screener from Lithuanian co-producer of the film Rasa Miskinyte, Era Film. I know of Drygas from the Balticum Film&TV Festival on Bornholm. Two of his films were shown there,…
It’s a tradition that I advertise the approaching deadline for project submission to dok.incubator. Simply because the workshop has proved to be of great help for filmmakers from all over the world. To be sure of the project quality also…
Being a fan of Latvian cinema, especially the documentary one, I have noticed the nominations that have been done for the yearly award ceremony, Lielais Kristaps, that will take place in February. Many films and filmmakers are nominated in several…
The never ending discussion of what is a documentary… Do you remember the story about the good old direct cinema icons (Leacock, Maysles, Drew, Pennebaker…) were sitting together on the first row at a festival, where Werner Herzog “attacked” them…
“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…
When I was young and so much younger than today… I spent hours with the Beatles during these holidays. It was great nostalgia, fun, thought provoking, opening for sweet memories from when I was a lad and joined Ove from…
Take a look at the poster photo: A young woman kissing a tree with a bouquet of crocheted flowers. One of the themes of the fine film made by Italian director Francesca Scalisi. Valentina is her name, she lives with…
Iikka Vehkalahti is dead, and I am writing through tears. It’s not so easy, makes the screen blurry as are my thoughts. I was a little afraid of him before I got to know him, he was so big and…
Andreas er født i Berlin, kom til Danmark i 1970, uddannede sig til pædagog…nej, det er for kedeligt. Jeg prøver igen: Jeg har kendt Andreas siden begyndelsen af 1970’erne, hvor vi fandt sammen i Taastrup Filmklub, dengang en af de…
In “Spoon” (2019) and “Homes” (2021) Latvian director Laila Pakalniņa worked with cinematographer Gints Bērziņš, a collaboration that continued with “Termini”, that is as the previous films formally interesting due very much to the work of Bērziņš following the ideas…
Fifteen films will advance in the documentary feature film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category. Members of the documentary branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.
… which was in 1992 in Nepal at Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, that Wanda Rutkiewicz wished to “conquer”, a word she hated as you can read below. The legendary Polish mountaineer, who had “taken” K2 and reached the…
(366 sider. Gennemillustreret. Omfattende noteapparat. Litteraturliste. Navneregister. Filmografier. Forlaget Politisk Revy. 299 kr.) Se, det er en rigtig filmbog! En bedrift simpelthen, researchet og forfattet over en årrække af Ulla Hjorth Nielsen, som skriver om “det mest forgrenede og betydningsfulde…
European FilmEmilia Pérez [+] – Jacques Audiard (France) European DocumentaryNo Other Land [+] – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal (Palestine/Norway) European Animated Feature Film Flow [+] – Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia/France/Belgium) (PHOTO) European Short Film – Prix VimeoThe Man Who…