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Pow! Right in the Face

31. jan 2013. Having sent a poor young man into a tailspin among hardened criminals in his prison movie "R", Michael Noer is back with a new film about youthful restlessness and manhood. "Northwest" is a film with…

Pulling the Trigger for Democracy

31. jan 2013. "The Shooter" is Annette K. Olesen's first shot at a political thriller. The director is mostly known for her emotional dramas – some have even won awards in Berlin. But the TV series "Borgen" taught…

Scenes of the Crimes

31. jan 2013. Joshua Oppenheimer's widely acclaimed, Danish-produced The Act of Killing draws its power from the director's daring choice of perspective. Rather than make a film about the victims of Indonesia's…

The Joy of Trying Something New

31. jan 2013. Nicolás Pereda of Mexico and Jacob Schulsinger of Denmark met in the DOX:LAB talent programme and made "Killing Strangers" together, a story of three young men who try, and fail, to join the Mexican…

The Unbearable Heaviness of Childhood

31. jan 2013. Scruffy children with dirty faces. Boys chucking rugby balls at a mentally challenged girl. Playgrounds overgrown with weeds. Infused with a singular poetic beauty, Daniel Joseph Borgman's The Weight…

Prominent directors in new alliance

29. jan 2013 | BERLIN. A new development outfit will see six Nordic filmmakers develop and direct films set in the US.