A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller
Today the full program of the classic documentary film festival in Leipzig was announced. The 67th edition of the festival. 209 films and XR works from 55 countries. An international festival that is also famous for having both documentaries and…
Såvel min kollega Allan Berg som døde i marts i år og jeg har altid sat Nils Vest og hans dokumentariske virke højt, ligesom møderne med ham altid var præget af gensidig respekt. Vii har som filmkonsulenter støttet hans altid…
Af Tue Steen Müller, tidl. filmkonsulent ved Statens Filmcentral Børnelivet På gulvet i børnehaven ved Sankt Hans Torv sidder instruktøren, den pædagoguddannede Lise Roos. ”I de næste to uger fjerner vi legetøjet, men I kan jo stadig tegne og male og…
The ‘Truth & Film’ symposium (June 22-23) will bring together leading international filmmakers from documentary, fiction, and visual arts at the National Film School of Denmark to engage in discussions about cinematic truthfulness, current global challenges, and the possibilities for…
What started in 2008 as a smaller-scale replica of the One World Festival in Prague, eventually turned into a civic and cinematic platform over the last 16 years. At its center lies documentary film as a vehicle for social and…
Jeg skrev hele tiden, siger Cornelis Vreeswijk i et interview optaget på et hospital kort før sin død i efteråret 1987. Hans tekster står klart og tydeligt den dag i dag næsten tyve år senere. Det samme med hans sang.…
Medinstruktør: Sofie Husum Johannesen Local is Global. Han sagde det ikke sådan, Orwa Nyrabia, IDFA’s kunstneriske leder, da han på pressekonferencen præsenterede “Før stormen” (Engelsk titel: “As the Tide Comes In”), men det var tydeligt, at han havde fundet en…
Made in co-creation with lead cast: Shpresim Azemi, Xhevahire Abdullahu, Gëzim Kelmendi, Besnik Hyseni. It’s such a clever film. That stays with you. Touches your heart. Because of the way it is made and the consequent narrative. Birgitte Stærmose made…
Docu Rough Cut Boutique announces projects selected for 2024 edition Docu Rough Cut Boutique reveals its new slate of projects, marking the 14th edition of the programme. Docu Rough Cut Boutique is the leading regional programme for documentaries in post-production coming…
Dutch documentarian Jessica Gorter continues to make films from Russia (“Red Soul” last one I saw, before that one from the Leningrad Blockade) with strong content – and actuality. This one is about Yury Dmitriev, awarded human rights activist, working…
The old woman in the corner of the room, in her bed, keeps shouting out to her relative – and us viewers – that she wants to go back to her house in Abkhazia that she and 250.000 ethnic Georgians…
Last day of a workshop at the Sarajevo Film Festival. A documentary workshop with a concept that has a focus on the creative side of documentaries and not on the financing side. Refreshing! And – as one of the tutors…
It has been around for one and a half year, it has won awards all over at festivals, several audience awards, it was nominated for an Oscar this year, it has been released theatrically in many countries (for our Danish…
Seems to be prestige in documentary film sales in Denmark. Now the independent newspaper Information launches docs on their online shop. I swift to my mother tongue… Det er nu en beskeden begyndelse, som dagbladet Information lancerer via sin online…