Nils Vest: An Oppressed People is Always Right

Danish director Nils Vest offers his controversial Palestine film, shot in a refugee camp in Southern Lebaning in 1974, to be watched online for free, or to be bought at his company. His contact details are mentioned below.

Utrættelige Nils Vest har lagt sin Palæstinafilm fra 1974 på nettet til frit gennemsyn. Han skriver:

Så er der nu mulighed for at se den snart godt brugte, men desværre ikke forældede film om de palæstinensiske flygtninge og Palæstina/Israel-konflikten  –  ET UNDERTRYKT FOLK HAR ALTID RET  –  som streamet video på nettet. I både dansk og engelsk version.
http://www.vestfilm.dk/etundertryktfolk/filmen.html

Filmen blev optaget i 1974 i Libanon, havde premiere i 1975, modtog Guldmedalje på Palestine Film Festival i 1976 og måtte i 1977, hvor den også modtog PH-Prisen, trækkes tilbage i nogle måneder for mindre justeringer i speakerteksten, efter pres fra Israel-lobbyen.
At denne lobby så senere fik indgået en aftale med først Statens Filmcentral, siden Filminstituttet, om at filmen aldrig skulle over på video (den lå de første år udelukkende som 16-mm kopier), det kom frem under Operation Dagsværk i 1998. Og SÅ kom den i videodistribution!

Hvis man ikke er tilfreds med at se den på nettet  –  hvorfra den både kan ses direkte og downloades, gratis!  –  kan man købe en DVD-kopi med begge sprogversioner, i højere billedkvalitet for 125 kr. + forsendelse. Se http://www.vestfilm.dk/filmsalg.html

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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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