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- A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.
- Documentary about one of Europe's major music festivals, the Roskilde Festival.
- World-renowned Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato is forced to redeem himself artistically after being fired from the dance company he led for 20 years.
- The life of Danish freedom fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun. From the frozen tundra landscapes of Kims childhood in Canada, through the meeting with his great love, his involvement in the Second World War and finally his life on death row.
- Conflict and conflict resolution in Cairo in the aftermath of the Danish Mohammed cartoons As a part of the Danish government's "The Arab Initiative", one of Europe's leading experts on Islam, the Danish scholar, Dr. Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, is sent to Cairo with his family. His mission is to create a dialogue between the Middle East and Denmark. Complicated by the crisis following the Danish Mohammad cartoons, his brief is to mediate between differing political attitudes and cultural perceptions. In a visually engaging style, The Arab Initiative, invites us into a number of dialogues discussing related themes on religion and politics. Lotte Mik-Meyer's perceptive documentary never lapses into prejudice and simplification. Her film follows Skovgaard-Petersen in his private and professional activities, presenting poignant moments with his family as a complement to his work as a troubleshooter. It offers an intriguing insight into a highly topical conflict in which wise, innovative approaches like Skovgaard-Petersen's seem absolutely essential.
- Ayin is a talented line dancer in the new circus Cirque. For years she has been living and working with her sister Sky and the rest of the troupe. Together they have created a performance that mixes circus and theatre. After an intensive tour in Chile Ayin decides to break up from her sister and the rest of the troupe. Ayin is aware of the need to move on but Sky is afraid that the change will make her loose her sister. Both share the painful experience of their parent's divorce. As the time is moving closer toward their final performance the memory of the pain begins to appear again.
- "What We See" is about seeing and learning to see. We follow 4 women in a class at The Glyptotek's School of Classical Drawing. At the Glyptotek there are no windows that open out onto the world. The world we enter is one of myths and marble. Archetypal tales of love carved in stone.
- Two generations meet. Former royal ballet-dancer Alexander Kølpin sets up a meeting with his father-in-law, the former assurance director Peter Zobel. They have both tried to stand up front-stage. Both of them had to stop a remarkable career. We know them from the media, but who are the actually? What are their dreams? How is it to retire? The director Alexander Kølpin makes a warm and personal portrait of his father-in-law. A man who hides charm, humor and self-knowledge under the apparently hard surface.
- Documentary about the barrister and perhaps the most controversal Danish politician ever Mogens Glistrup who claimed on national television in 1971 that he didn't pay a cent in taxes. This document portrays the daily life of him and his wife Lene which is a fairly normal life. Only, he spends most of his time working on his political crusade, collecting articles and notes on Muslim culture. His goal is a published work about the future of Denmark, so far 8,600 pages and still counting.. He refers to his work as The Case.
- Michael Schmidt's film is made in close collaboration with one of Denmarks most important poets, Peter Laugesen. It is a film that investigates the language of different art forms in a very direct way; Theatre, poetry, visual arts and music.
- A third generation pig farmer in Denmark struggles during the economic crisis whether to refinance or give up his family business and pastoral way of life.
- This film describes H.C.Andersen and his primary tool, - language. H.C. Andersen was a traveler. He set out on his many travels, returning home with an enriched Danish language. Through discussion, Kathrine Lilleør, Johannes Møllehave and Niels Birger Wamberg unveil the works of Andersen's vibrant language.
- This is the story of Max, the director's own story, playfully animated within the realms of documentary. Max's story goes back several generations to sailors, industrialists and Summer of Love hippies, all of whom are depicted with whole-hearted love and equal amounts of irony.
- Poetry Slam, a subcultural entertainment, first appeared in Chicago in the 1980s, and has since been a stimulus to poetry the world over. Judges are chosen from the audience to rate the poems. Each poet has a time limit of three minutes. One of the stars of the genre is Staceyann Chin, born in Jamaica and living in New York. The film captures her high tempo performance and situations from her personal life. Chin talks of the pain she has experienced from her parents' desertion. In her Poetry Slam performances she finds an outlet for her anxieties and discontents
- One of the most outstanding personalities in the Danish film industry is Mogens Rukov, co-writer of Thomas Vinterberg's dogma-film The Celebration (Cannes, 1998, winner of the Jury Price) and head of the Department for Scriptwriting at the Danish Filmschool. Flemming Lyngse has made a film with rather than about Mogens Rukov. This is a film with a moving man - professionally as well as personally.
- A portrait of an autistic young man who has faced a challenge transitioning from childhood to adulthood. He embarks on a new chapter of his life while reestablishing ties with his elder brother, with whom he has a distanced relationship.
- Michael Noer's film is a story about fate. We meet the retired doctor Finn Bojesen-Møller and his wife Merete and her caring and ongoing work with their foster children Dan and David on Slettebjerggård. They all represents the themes of the film; care, neglect and love and those themes will all unfold itself in a complex structure of scenes where the participants will fight to find a solid ground to stand on. The film is build on the principle of telling a story about the anatomy of the foster parents with a visual focus on the social dimension of neglected children and their everyday life.
- Interviews about the future for Greenland seen from different views among these are politicians, artist and people who have been moved to Denmark by the government.
- For two years, director Anne Wivel and her camera followed her husband, the prominent Danish politician Svend Auken. The initial aim was to portray a modern, idealistic politician with great visions for the future. But during shooting, Auken contracted cancer, and the film became a portrayal of the politician, husband and father who feels his life is fading away, even if his work here is not yet finished.
- Harris lives in Manhattan. He is working in the real estate business, trying to recover from the love he just lost and struggling to move closer to becoming the stage performer he wants to be. The film moves intensely between something very fictitious and something very real.
- Tale of a young Dane, Nicolas Pettas, who wins Japan Open in martial arts K1.