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Jo, det var herligt – efter at have set “Ghosts” og “The Devil Came on Horseback” – at møde en gruppe blinde tibetanske børn, der skal bestige Mount Everest i selskab med hinanden og en gruppe professionelle bestigere, anført af den ligeledes blinde Erik Weihenhayer. De var søde at se og høre på, instruktøren havde fanget fine situationer og byggede pænt en spænding op – klarer de det eller ej? Svagere var det, når filmen ville tage os tilbage i tid for at præsentere børnenes sociale baggrund. Det virker som en show-stopper selvom f.eks. Tashi, drengen som træder frem som den mest interessante, den kinesiske dreng, kunne være en hel film værd.

Det er en projekt-film, korrekt, man kan ikke være uenig med den, den er flot at se på, proff i alle ender og kanter, men også lidt for korrekt og pæn og dermed undervejs en smule kedelig.

Se i øvrigt hvad hjemmesiden skriver om Lucy Walker, filmens instruktør:

“Lucy is blind in one eye and has been a patient at Moorfields Eye Hospital since birth – one of the initial reasons she was drawn to BLINDSIGHT. Prior to the shoot Lucy had never climbed mountains before, and during the course of the shoot she suffered a broken ankle, amoebic dysentery, giardiasis, headlice in her eyelashes, and altitude illness – and loved every minute of it.”

UK, 2006, 104 mins.

www.blindsightthemovie.com

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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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