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new releases miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary meet us at stand R. 30.19 DR Sales www.drsales.dk [email protected] drama 03 The Legacy 04 Government aka Borgen 05 Happy Life 06 The Man with The Golden Ears 06 Lulu - The Bankrobber’s Wife 06 The Summers 06 Better Times 06 Nikolaj & Julie 07 Unit One 07 Album 07 Monopoly 07 The Spider 08 Taxi 08 The Killing I, II & III 08 The Protectors 08 The Eagle 08 The Kingdom kids +youth documentary 03 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] in production the legacy 09 Christmas Stars 09 Faith - Hope - Afghanistan in production 19 The Secret Flight 19 Warriors from the North 20 Embracing the Dead 20 Slow Motion Revolution 20 Cooper’s Challenge 21 Democrats 21 Taming the Quantum World 21 The Long Walk - a film about Ai Weiwei did you see 22 23 24 25 Putin’s Kiss 22 My Love 22 I am Breathing 22 Free the Mind 22 The Cod Game The Ship that Changed the World 23 We are here for our Future 23 Pirate Hunt 23 When the Boys Return 23 Dance of Outlaws India: Art Now 24 India on the Catwalk 24 Amazing Azerbaijan! 24 Iceland: Year Zero 24 Conversations with my Aunt Salt & Pepper 25 What Brits Love 25 A Normal Life 25 Solace 25 Talibe - The Least Favored Children of Senegal why poverty 26 Education, Education 26 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream 26 Give Us the Money 26 Welcome to the World 27 Solar Mamas 27 Stealing Africa 27 Land Rush 27 Poor Us Published by DR Sales, ©2013 Design by DR Design Printed by Rosendahls Schultz Grafisk A/S Cover photo The Legacy Photo: martin lehmann, a.o. 10 The Dark Side of a Pill 11 The Face of Happiness 11 The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die 12 Mercy Mercy 12 My Afghanistan 13 The War Campaign 14 The Weather War 14 Outstanding Houses of the North 15 Back to Freedom 15 Wolfman 16 Cyberwar - Behind the Firewall 16 Under the Hood 17North of the Sun 17 The Shady Chocolate Business 17 The Mystery of Tycho Brahe’s Death 18 The Rat Race 18 We Love Weapons Director Pernilla August Producer Christian Rank Author Maya Ilsøe Produced by DR Duration 10 x 58 min. Year of Production 2014 Original Title Arvingerne DR is to follow up on the international success of The Killing and Government aka Borgen with a new ten-part family drama. Swedish star actress, Pernille August, has been appointed principal director. Trine Dyrholm, Jesper Christensen, Kirsten Olesen and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard are among the awardwinning cast who will play the key characters in this family saga The Legacy is set in and around the countryside mansion house, which has been the setting for the life and work of the internationally-renowned artist Veronika Grønnegaard. The series traces the story of Veronika’s four adult children, whose distinctive upbringing has affected their lives in very different ways. They live scattered until Veronika dies, when they come together again to take stock of her legacy. Shortly before her death, Veronika bequeaths the house to her daughter Signe, whom she gave up for adoption. Signe lives with her boyfriend in a quiet residential district in the local town, and has never learned the truth about her origins. This is to have fatal consequences. What for the four siblings should have been a quick and painless division of Veronika’s estate marks the beginning of a journey into secrets and lies which turns their lives upside down and forces them to look at both themselves and each other with new eyes. 04 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary season 3 now ready government aka borgen DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark Berlin Film Festival 2011 Shooting Star Pilou Asbæk BAFTA 2012 Best International Drama Series Monte Carlo TV Festival 2011 Outstanding Actress Sidse Babett Knudsen Best dramaseries Prix Italia 2010 Best series FIPA D’OR Grand Prize 05 tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] Danish TV-Festival Best TV Drama, Best Actress, Best Editor miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] danish drama Best original soundtrack FIPA D’OR Grand Prize Never before has Danish drama travelled so much. We are delighted to present some of our award-winning series featuring the best directors and casts in Scandinavia. The series are among the best ever produced for television. They have been shown on five continents, attracting millions of viewers around the world. Directors Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Rumle Hammerich, Annette K. Olsen & Mikkel Nørgaard Producer Camilla Hammerich Authors Adam Price, Tobias Lindholm & Jeppe Gjervig Gram Produced by DR Duration 30 x 58 min. Year of Production 2010-2013 Original Title Borgen Government is a drama series about the fight for political power – and about the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage The central figure is the 40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg, who through her idealism and huge effort secures her party a landslide victory and thus faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the newly won seats, and how far she is willing to go in order to gain as The New York Times “A bleaker, Nordic version of ‘The West Wing,’ ‘Borgen’ finds a remarkable amount of drama and suspense” much influence as possible. Privately, Birgitte leads a happy family life with her husband and two children. She is a woman with a burning commitment, a big heart and little time. Will she be able to be a successful and professional top politician and stay true to herself at the same time? Among the many important people in Birgitte Nyborg’s professional life is her media adviser, Kasper Juul, who is one of the most talented in the business. However, he is also a cynic with no illusions, who needs to start believing in the messages which is his job to impart. Another significant character is Katrine Fønsmark: a political journalist working for a large public service television station. Her screen charm and her ability to bring the debate to the viewers’ eye level have quickly earned her popularity and clout, but her personal life is rootless and confused. Government has a large gallery of characters and deals with many different aspects in the political, the journalistic, and the private spheres. The Financial Times “It’s intriguing from the start, deftly paced and, despite veering into melodrama midway through the 10 episodes, retain interest throughout” Süddeutsche Zeitung “Rarely has politics been depicted in such a fascinating and well-paced manner... phenomenally well-made European television” Directors Kasper Gaardsøe & Jesper W. Nielsen Producers Katrine Vogelsang & Christian Rank Produced by DR Created by Stig Thorsboe & Hanna Lundblad Duration 18 x 58 min. Year of Production 2011 - 2012 Original Title Lykke Happy Life is a multi-plot dramedy about ambitions and suppressed emotions, about the misty border between dreams and reality, about the dream of happiness and the organized life, where you can plan for everything, except chance The series evolves around the two 25 year-old twins, Lykke and Thomas Leth. They share a tragic past, having lost their parents at an early age, under circumstances they prefer not to talk about. The twins have reacted to their loss in very different ways. While Thomas has been undergoing therapy for depression for several years, Lykke has gained a degree at Copenhagen Business School with top marks and immediately afterwards found a job with the pharmaceutical giant SanaFortis. Here she is looking forward to a meteoric career. SanaFortis specializes in the production of psychopharmacological drugs. The antidepressant medication Forticil, has ensured blockbuster sales but the patent is on the point of expiring and a replacement is urgently needed. This is on its way under hectic circumstances in the form of the anti-stress pill, Fortisol. But the allimportant factor is still not in place: official approval of the drug. SanaFortis struggles with an annoying opponent in this connection, the psychiatrist Anders Assing, who airs his anti-pharmaceutical views at every opportunity. Lykke soon finds further reason to detest Assing as he photo: Franne Voigt Photo: Mike Kollöffel, DR happy life becomes her brother’s new therapist and immediately discontinues Thomas’ anti-depressant medication. But she hates the provocative psychiatrist most of all because he appears more and more frequently in her uncontrollably erotic dreams. Lykke’s struggle for her career and her battle with Assing provide the main story in the series. This is supplemented by Thomas’ efforts to free himself from his role as a loser and SanaFortis’ fight for survival. Over and above this we meet a wide range of characters that each undergo surprising changes when their view of happiness is challenged by chance. In each of these characters stories an animal appears in a peculiar manner. These animals also give title to each episode of the series: The fish, the dog, the mouse, the monkey, the fly, the goat, the spider, the fox, the cat and the horse – to name the first ten. Happy Life is a multiplot dramedy about the pursuit of happiness. The series that consists of 18 one-hour episodes is created by Emmy nominees Stig Thorsboe and Hanna Lundblad, whose previous credits include the hit series Better Times and TAXI. The series stars an impressive cast of some of the biggest names in Danish film and television. Directors & Script Simon Bonde & Mike Spooner Producers Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Produced by Nordisk Film Production A/S Duration 8 x 27 min. Year of Production 2009 A fast paced, upbeat dramedy about fortunes and misfortunes in the music industry which seems so polished to the spectator. At a closer look it is filled with ragged edges, lies and absurdities. It is a world in which people will go to extremes to get their fifteen minutes of fame, often putting themselves in situations, which are completely and utterly hilarious. Directors Niels Arden Oplev, a.o. Producer Sven Clausen Author Peter Thorsboe Duration 30 x 60 min. & 2 x 90 min. Year of Production 2000 the summers better times Director Charlotte Sieling Producer Sven Clausen Author Stig Thorsboe Duration 24 x 1 hour Year of Production 2004 - 2007 The story of four young people determined to conquer the world when events take off in 1949. Their love stories, dreams, hopes, disappointments and victories are the focus of the series. It is also the story of the advent of television from those pioneering visions of culture and public information to the unruly child it became as society changed. A romantic drama series about relationships, about being single and friendship, about the long, winding road of love, about hopes and dreams − shattered as well as new ones – and about that one great love and those A series of snapshots from the histories of three families. It is like leafing through a photo album and seeing the pictures we would like to see, but also those we would prefer to forget about because they contain too much sorrow and pain. The three families do not really know each other. Nevertheless they impacted on each other’s lives over three decades from 1970 to 2000. Director & Producer Erik Balling Authors Lise Nørgaard & Erik Balling Duration 32 x 50 min. Year of Production 1978-81 Mads Skjern arrives in the small provincial town of Korsbæk where he decides to settle. He starts up a draper’s. His business grows in size and popularity and the hostility towards him increases among the towns leading families. They try hard to break him but he gradually climbs the social ladder and eventually succeeds in turning the conservative town around. the spider Emmy winner cherished relations. The series gets up close to six friends and the life that surrounds them – when life is hilarious and when life is hopeless. Director Hella Joof Producer Thomas Gammeltoft Authors Hella Joof & Bo Hr. hansen Duration 5 x 58 min. Year of Production 2008 Winner of Reflet d’Or Cinéma Tous Ecrans monopoly Emmy nominated nikolaj & julie Directors Charlotte Sachs Bostrup, Birger Larsen, Kristoffer Nyholm, a.o. Producer Piv Bernth Authors Søren Sveistrup a.o Duration 24 x 45 min. Year of Production 2003 A thriller series that tells the story of a group of doughty crime experts from the flying squad. We follow their fascinating yet frightening work in the underworld and are thrilled by their commitment and affectionate solidarity and are equally puzzled by the often horrifying, yet true examples of human nature they face in their work. Unit One is based on true criminal cases through the last 10 years. photo: Miklos Szabo and division within and across generations. It is about finding one’s ideals and thereby finding the ‘big picture’ in the ‘smaller picture’ in everyday life. photo: DR design A drama series about a family and its generations – a series that focuses on what happens when the previous balance of power in the family suddenly shifts. It is a story of parents and children, joy and happiness and unity Emmy winner 2002 album Monte Carlo TV-Festival photo: Mike kollöffel Directors C. Myllerup, Kasper Gaardsøe, a.o. Producers Katrine Vogelsang & Camilla Hammerich Duration 20 x 1 hour Year of Production 2007 - 2008 tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] criminal network. She comes face to face with a male dominated underworld and the charming but corrupt criminal detective Patrick Smith, whom Lulu soon develops feelings for. photo: ulla voigt Lulu is a charming and independent mother of two. She lives with Leon, the charismatic father and habitual criminal, who she has been seeing for 10 years. When Leon is thrown in jail Lulu is forced to interact with Leon’s DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark unit one Tv-series of the Year Mediawatch lulu − the bankrobber’s wife Directors Jannik Johansen, a.o. Producer Janni Helleskov Authors Jens Dahl & Lolita Belstar Duration 12 x 43 min. Year of Production 2009 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary photo: dr design the man with the golden ears Best New Danish Fiction Series 2009, TVtid.dk 07 tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] photo: Rolf Konow DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark Director Ole Christian Madsen Producer Christel Jakobsen Author Ole Christian Madsen Duration 6 x 60 min. Year of Production 2000 The Spider takes viewers back to the time just after the occupation—1949 more precisely—and post-war Copenhagen. Denmark was still suffering from shortages and the more or less shady commercial transactions of the occupation, but the country was also preparing to enter the more orderly 1950s. It was an age full of trickery and fraud, lawlessness and corruption. photo: Bjarne B. Hermansen 06 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary 08 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark 09 tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new christmas stars taxi Multi-award winning and internationally acclaimed crime series introducing Chief Inspector Sarah Lund. In the first season, the murder of a young girl prompts a police investigation with personal and political conse- the protectors Directors Mikkel Serup, a.o. Producer Sven Clausen Authors Mai Brostrøm & Peter Thorsboe Duration 20 x 58 min. Year of Production 2008 In today’s violent world, the lives of many politicians, heads of state and other VIPs are endangered. They can all rely on loyal bodyguards. In Copenhagen, Rasmus, Jonas and Jasmina form a dedicated group the eagle Directors Niels Arden Oplev, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, a.o Producers M. B. Frandsen & S. Clausen Author Mai Brostrøm & Peter Thorsboe Duration 24 x 58 min. Year of Production 2004 the kingdom Directors Lars Von Trier & Morten Arnfred Producers Ole Reim & Bo Lindquist Authors Lars von Trier, a.o. Duration 8 x 1 hour Year of Production 1994 & 1997 photo: ulla voigt Emmy winner 2009 Multi-award winning series Emmy winner 2005 special unit is set up to fight crossborder crime across Scandinavia and to establish operational links with similar teams around the world. scandinavian rights only The series by Lars Von Trier is set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, the country’s main hospital, nicknamed Riget – where bizarre phenomena occurs, human as supernatural. It is notable for its Multi-award winning series called The Protectors. This crime series focuses on the lives and missions of the specialists and their superiors, while also portraying the people they protect and those they protect them from. scandinavian rights only As international terrorism and organized crime become more and more intertwined, Western nations find themselves increasingly threatened by violence and lawlessness on an unimaginable scale. In Denmark, a BAFTA winner quences. The second series saw Lund caught up in a web of top-level coverups, betrayals and lies set in a time of fear – that of Islamic terrorism. Now Sara Lund is about to embark on her third investigation… scandinavian rights only wry humor, its muted sepia colour scheme and the appearance of a chorus of dishwashers with Downs Syndrome who discuss in intimate detail the strange occurrences in the hospital. Directors Michael Wikke & Steen Rasmussen Producer Sven Clausen Produced by DR in ass. with SVT & NRK Duration 25 x 25 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Julestjerner photo: Tine Harden Directors Kristoffer Nyholm, a. o. Producer Piv Bernth Authors Søren Sveistrup, Michael W. Horsten & Torleif Hoppe Duration 40 x 58 min. Year of Production 2007 - 2012 scandinavian rights only Multi-award winning series photo: Mike Kollöffel the killing i, ii & iii of Taxi includes development of the recurring characters’ stories as well as the separate one-off customer tales. Taxi is a family viewing – though not for the very young. photo: Mike Kollöffel The fixed anchorpoint for the Taxi series is the dispatcher’s room where the switchboard operators try to maintain an overview of regular runs, difficult customers and the network of taxis around the clock. Each episode Multi-award winning series photo: Henrik Dithmer Directors Anders Refn, a.o. Producer Sven Clausen Author Stig Thorsboe Duration 56 x 40 min. Year of Production 1997 A Christmas Calendar for the whole family The leading characters of Christmas Stars are three children, Sus, Bob and Tom, who is a bit younger than the others. The action starts when Sus reluctantly ends up in Brorfelde, a village deep in the country, because her mum and dad have inherited a poinsettia nursery. Sus soon finds a friend in star-crazy Bob, a boy of her own age whose mother disappeared without trace seven years ago while she was out star-gazing. Bob spends all his time sneaking into the Brorfelde observatory to study stars. The trio is completed by Tom, a rascal who is convinced that pixies are vampires. One day Bob discovers a new star in the sky and when three mysterious astronomers with an overweening interest in the new star suddenly put in an appearance, the plot really takes off. In Christmas Stars we meet a gallery of colourful personalities in addition to the three leads, including Bob’s former rock star dad, Big J, who is struggling to pay the bills at the rarely hired village hall while he tries to put on a Christmas musical. Let the Christmas fun begin! new faith - hope - afghanistan Directors Jens Pedersen & Tai M. Bakhtari Producer Jakob Gottschau Produced by Pedersen & Co. Duration 5 x 15 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Faith - Hope - Afghanistan Tough times : tough kids Five stories of real life drama with unique access to children in conflict ridden Afghanistan − told from their point of view: 01 Orphaned Asadagha is thrown out of his uncle’s house and journeys into the unknown with his two sisters. A friendly man takes them in, but Asadagha battles the memories from the night his family fell apart. 02 At 11 Faridullah is an expert brick maker. After five years it is about time his father fulfilled his promise of letting him go to school. But his father made a contract with the brick boss that Faridullah will work there until a debt is cleared. 03 Layla was put into an orphanage when the Taliban killed her father. She has not seen her mother for five years. Now Layla’s mother is coming to visit! But Layla is 11, the usual age for girls to marry in her village. Is that what brings her mother to Kabul? 04 While Basira is a successful chewing gum vendor, Wali is a disaster as a street worker. Wali has to provide for his mother, but hardly makes a penny. Luckily they live rent free but one day eviction threatens. 05 Machgan works to raise money for her father, who became a drug addict as a soldier. Her brother is bullied because his father is a dope head. One day Machgan and her mother threaten to throw father out unless he quits. 10 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new 11 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new the dark side of a pill the face of happiness MIPDOC Video Library Director Ida Kleppe Producers Magne Sleire & Morten Offerdal Produced by Corax Film & Pandora Film Duration 42 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Lykkens Ansikt Director Poul-Erik Heilbuth Producer Ole Hjortdal Produced by DR in co-production with NDR and in ass. with YLE, UR, ERT, Yes/DBS & HRT Duration 58 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title The Dark Side of a Pill A journey into the dark side of a pill that conquered the world: the antidepressant The Dark Side of a Pill is an exclusive, case driven investigation into the one of the medical success stories of our time. Every 10th grown up in the Western world is on antidepressants. With global sales of app. 20 billion $, the prescription drug is one of the most lucrative products of the medical industry. But the wonder drug has a dark side. In the US, David had never had a record of violence nor problems with the police, until suddenly he committed a terrible crime just days after taking antidepressants: he stabbed and killed his twin daughters. In Canada, a grieving mother is distraught that her son’s killer was released from prison after a short 14-month sentence. The judge ruled that Prozac was to blame for her son’s death. In Germany a wife and loving mother committed suicide, just weeks after taking Prozac. Her husband is convinced that there a link between suicide and antidepressants. Is he right? Antidepressants are sold as a strong tool to create peace and tranquility in the mind of a troubled brain. But is it possible that the same pill can send someone to the darkest regions of the soul? In Holland an extraordinary court case could change the way that Europe sees antidepressants. The trial is considering the possibility that a murderer be acquitted for his crime because he was involuntary intoxicated by antidepressants. Could there actually be a connection between antidepressants and violence? Is it possible that this connection has long been known − even before the pills were approved? This is not at film that is for oragainst antidepressants. It is about informed consent – about openly acknowledging the real problems with medicating 10 – 15% of the population with a drug that changes the chemistry of the brain with an effect that at times can be extremely powerful. His face was brutally mutilated in a car crash - now Hallgeir is grateful for the accident In 2003, Hallgeir was nearly killed in a traffic accident. After weeks in a coma, and a large number of operations Hallgeir slowly returned to life. But what kind of life? Gone are the possibilities for long and complex studies, gone are the trouble-free days of an eighteen-year-old boy with his life ahead of him. The price he paid for survival was his face. Hallgeir was grateful for his survival but struggled with the grief of losing a normal life and almost all his memories of life before the accident. The reactions he encountered made him uncomfortable: the glances and cruel remarks. Hallgeir wanted to get away. He went to Mexico and found a community that was not concerned with his wreck of a face. In Mexico, Hallgeir turned things around: His devastating accident became a golden opportunity that brought new insight to life. Back in Norway, Hallgeir is going through more surgery at hospital. He is having his nose rebuilt and one of his eyes is being adjusted. Surgeons have tried to do this before, but without success. Will the operations be successful this time? And at this point, is it at all of importance to Hallgeir to look normal? new the girl who wouldn’t die MIPDOC Video Library Director Jacob Kragelund Producer Steen Jensen Produced by DR Duration 84 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Pigen der ikke ville dø A nineteen year old girl crashes in her parent’s car and miraculously wakes up in hospital only to learn how close the doctors came to donating her organs Carina Melchior is a young girl not unlike others of her age. She still lives at home. One day she borrows her parents car but she never makes it to her destination. The family learns that Carina has crashed the car into a field and has been severely injured. Her injuries include brain haemorrhages that lead doctors to conclude that she will soon be brain-dead. The family is devastated by the grim prospect and while they try to cope with the news, the doctors face the tough task of asking Carina’s parents to give their consent to her becoming an organ donor. They agree to this, and now all they can do is wait for Carina’s brain to give up. But despite all odds, Carina slowly comes back to life. “This DR Documentary reached a share of 58% and was thus the most watched documentary on Danish television since 1995” 12 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] 13 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new mercy mercy Official Selection Göteborg International Film Festival GIFF 2012 IDFA Competition for first Apperance 2012 the war campaign MIPDOC Video Library Director Katrine W. Kjær Producers Miriam Nørgaard, Sara Stockmann & Vibeke Windeløv Produced by Fridthjof Film in ass. with TV2, VPRO, RTS, UR, YLE, Yes/DBS & HRT Duration 52 & 90 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Mercy Mercy Forced by poverty, an Ethiopian family chooses to give up their children for international adoption International adoption seems like the perfect solution to a heart-breaking imbalance: Poor countries have babies in need of homes, and rich countries have homes in need of babies. Unfortunately, a lot of the adopted orphans are not orphans at all. Forced by poverty, an Ethiopian family chooses to give up their children for international adoption. We follow the adoption process on both sides of the globe, from the biological parents’ last days with their children, through the adoption procedure and the first three years of the adoptive parents’ new life with the children in the West. As the Ethiopian parents gradually get their life back on track, they start to realize that the expectations they had for an extended family in the West were false. Meanwhile, the family in the West begin to understand that they have become parents to children suffering from enormous losses, resulting in terrible consequences for one of the children – my afghanistan and soon their dream of a happy family is merely a faded memory. Mercy Mercy is a character-driven global tale about the catastrophic consequences of a choice made with the best intention and out of love for two children. Official Selection Dubai International Film Festival/DIFF IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Nagieb Khaja Producers Lise LenseMøller & Henrik Grunnet Produced by Magic Hour Films & Grunnet Film in ass. with Piraya Film, NRK, SVT, YLE, ERT & HRT Duration 58 & 88 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title My Afghanistan Life in the forbidden zone Shukrullah, 19, is caught in the line of fire as he tries to get to the storage, where his beloved younger siblings are hiding, while Taliban and the ISAFforces fight in the backyard. Abdul Mohammad, a widower with four children, finds his peace in the lush green fields behind his home, and Fereshta, 16, in the hope of becoming a journalist practises her interviewing skills on an 8 year-old girl herding sheep. Over a period of three years, Afghan civilians have filmed their lives behind the frontier in the war torn Afghan province of Helmand. They invite us into their homes, their hopes, and their heartbreaks and their stories form a rich tapestry of an Afghanistan that never makes it to the news. Danish/Afghan director Nagieb Khaja has provided them with cameras, as international media seldom leaves the relative security of the cities. Shukrullah, Abdul and Fereshta regularly embark on the unsafe journey from their village homes in Helmand. At the checkpoint they turn over their recordings to Nagieb, so the world may see them. They share this goal with Nagieb, but while he returns to the media centre inside the city, they have no choice but to go back and try to survive, living their lives and building their futures. Director Boris B. Bertram Producer Lise Lense-Møller Produced by Magic Hour Films with the support of The Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film and TV-Fund & the European Union’s Media Programme in ass. with DR, UR, ERR, RTV Slovenija, RUV, NRK, VPRO & CT Duration 58 and 75 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title The War Campaign An in-depth account of how the Iraq war campaign was organized, and a case study of ‘how to sell a war of choice’ to the public The War Campaign is a genuine political thriller that investigates the campaign carried out by USA, UK, and Denmark in order to sell the war on Iraq to the international community. When George W. Bush took office in January 2001, regime change in Baghdad was already a top priority, and the sentiment following the 9/11 attacks provided an opportunity to gain support for a pre-emptive war on Iraq, despite the fact that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by a coalition of willing nations. The concept of a pre-emptive war was itself new, and the lead-up to the decision constituted a shift in democratic decision processes. It is time to examine the anatomy of the decision-making process itself in order to understand the art of campaigning for parliamentary and public acceptance of a decision already made. The War Campaign features the individuals, who were given the complicated task of accruing political support for the invasion from the international community. Centrallyplaced witnesses, policy-makers, their close advisors and speech-writers, take us into the very offices where plans were drawn up and followed through, intelligence gathered and tailored, ‘white papers’ or speeches written and revised. Some of these individuals at some point felt that the governments they worked for, crossed a questionable line, and they decided to inform the public of the process. It is their detailed accounts of what exactly took place that now allows us to understand. By piecing together each step of the war campaign we gain insight into the mechanisms behind international coalitions and the semantics of selling policies. We question whether the ‘selling of’ policies carries the risk of undermining normal democratic processes, especially if policies are not based on the information at hand, but the information is tailored to fit political goals instead. 14 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new the weather war 15 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new Official Selection CPH:DOX Official Selection Göteborg International Film Festival GIFF back to freedom MIPDOC Video Library Directors Mats Bigert & Lars Bergström Producer Antonio Russo Merenda Produced by Ginestra Film in ass. with SVT, DR & YLE Duration 58 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title The Weather War A call to arms and prelude to imminent visionary geo-engineering performances, the film tracks the history and contemporary struggle, between man and man-made climate The Weather War is a documentary about man’s attempts to control the weather and harness it for his own purposes. In a blend of land art performance and road movie, artist duo Bigert & Bergström travel to the US tornado belt with the Tornado Diverter, their special machine sculpture. Their goal: to stop a tornado! Along the way, we see historical examples of how the science of meteorology developed in symbiosis with military goals and how these visions evolved into modern ideas of geo-engineering: controversial ideas with socio-political consequences, spotlighting the big Director Anna Katrin Nørgaard Producer Bjarke Ahlstrand Produced by DR Duration 58 min. Year of production 2013 Original Title Kvinden og aberne 2 question of who is really entitled to modified weather. In a larger perspective, we see the problems faced worldwide due to global climate change. How do we behave to meet those challenges? Do we adapt? Or do we wage war on increasingly aggressive weather that threatens to destroy us? Bangladesh is building protective walls against coming floods. China shoots rockets into threatening clouds. And in Italy, anti-hail cannons are fired to protect the year’s wine harvest. My life with orangutans Fighting for the survival of the orangutans for the past 18 years at the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation and rescue center, Lone Dröscher Nielsen is the “mother” and caretaker of more than 600 orangutan orphans on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Lone is about to release her oldest and most skilled rehabilitated “kids” for the first time. They will be released in a piece of primordial rain forest hundreds of miles away from the secure islands where they have spent the last 10 years. Lone is worried. Has she taught the orangutans the skills they need well enough for them to survive, or will they struggle and perhaps die of starvation? It is time for Lone’s hard work to be put to the test. After falling ill in 2010, Lone returned to civilization after many years in the rainforest. Now, while back in Borneo for a short visit to release the orangutans Lone is struggling to come to terms with her new life in Wales and finding her place in the project, since she is no longer Chief of the center in Borneo. Now she must learn to live among human beings and be as comfortable with people as she is with animals. She is trying to adjust to a normal European lifestyle, but it is not easy: She misses her life in the rain forest and the orangutans. new outstanding houses of the north new wolfman Official selection Visions du Réel 2013 MIPDOC Video Library Director Jan Haugaard Producer Lars Rønnow Torp Produced by DR Duration 6 x 28 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Nordens Enestående Huse Experience the splendour of Nordic architecture Outstanding Houses of the North takes a look at some of the most remarkable single-family houses build in the Nordic countries from 1930 to 1960. They all have a beauty able to resist the passage of time. This golden age of produced a number of houses unrivalled to the rest of the world. During this period Nordic architects developed a special vision of modern living that remains a profound source of inspiration for today. The six single-family houses in this series are the most intimate and personal examples of this architecture for people. At one and the same time cosy and open, traditional and futuristic, these houses continue to show us new ways of sustainable living, five and six decades after their completion. MIPDOC Video Library Director Juha Suonpää Producers Timo Vierimaa & Joonas Berghäll Produced by Oktober Oy in ass. with YLE & in co-production with ARTE G.E.I.E. , with support from Finnish Film Foundation & AVEK Duration 52 & 75 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Hukkamies The six episodes provide a condensed overview of modern Nordic architecture. The first examines the summerhouse of Gunnar Asplund, the Swedish architect, who made functionalism mainstream in the North. Build in 1937 south of Stockholm, it is one of the most important houses of the 20th century. And the following episodes take us further on to unique singlefamily houses of architects like Eva and Nils Koppel, Ralph Erskine, Bruno Mathsson, Halldor Gunnløgsson and Inger and Johannes Exner. The story of a man who has taught himself the language and ways of wolves, faced them in the wilderness and witnessed their fates Seppo Ronkainen monitors wildlife for a living and has dedicated his life to the study of wolves in the wild. Wolfman is based on Ronkainen’s video diaries, collected over the course of 13 years. This unique material tells the intertwining stories of man, wolves and dogs. The film follows Ronkainen on his journey as he attempts to understand the life of a predator. Man versus nature is a juxtaposition that greatly challenges the way of the wolves. As the territories of humans grow larger, predators are forced to move theirs and to change their natural habits, resulting in packs of wolves that hunt domestic dogs in order to survive. A war breaks out between the wolves and a group of armed hunters. And not everyone is happy to work together within the framework of the law. The hunters take the law into their own hands; wolves captured for tracking purposes bear gunshot wounds, and a poisoned wolf is discovered in the woods. Wolfman is a portrait of the man and the individual wolves he monitors. But most of all, it is a story of the contradictory relationship between man and an extremely endangered animal. 16 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new cyberwar - behind the firewall 17 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark new north of the sun Best Documentary Viewers Choice London Surf Festival 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director & Producer Jakob Gottschau Produced by Express TV-Production in ass. with DR, FST, SRF & NV Duration 3 x 28 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Cyberwar - Behind the Firewall A series about digital activists fighting for freedom of speech and against repressive regimes in three different countries: Cambodia, Egypt and China We have heard about how the Internet has helped activists in the Arab world to orchestrate their fight against corruption, censorship and for democracy and free speech. Evidence of abuse has been uploaded to YouTube, or spread rapidly and effectively through micro-blogs like Twitter. Also Facebook pages have played a key role in maintaining the rebellion against the dictatorship states several times. Social media have evolved from a free exchange of private thoughts and small talk into a powerful tool for activists who want to spread a political message across the world. They include young people in the Arab world, who to exploit digital media to document the atrocities of land theft. Worldwide the social media have given a whole generation of young people a new way to communicate which breaks with the one-way communication of the traditional media. под колпаком under the hood new Directors Mark Byrne & Rob Dennis Producers Rasa Miškinyte, Jeremiah Cullinane & Bartolomeo Dibenedetto Produced by Planet Korda Pictures & ERA Film in ass. with TG4, TVP, Belsat TV, LRT, LTV, ERR, Czech TV & MDR Duration 75 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Under the Hood/ ПОД КОЛПАКОМ In Belarus, some battle for democracy, social justice and civil rights, while others struggle just to survive Under the Hood brings us on a journey through a country where the secret police are still known as the KGB and assembling in public to do nothing is considered a crime. The film takes us from the protests and secret opposition meetings of the capital, Minsk, to the horse-drawn carts and hand-tilled fields of the countryside. Along the way, we follow the stories of ordinary Belarusians who speak about their lives and aspirations. They include Yuri, an apolitical businessman who finds himself drawn increasingly by the opposition movement. Meanwhile, opposition leader Franak finds that the years he has spent battling the regime have taken their toll. Best Documentary Norwegian Documentary Film Festival MIPDOC Video Library Directors Inge Wegge & Jørn Nyseth Ranum Producer Anne Bergseng Produced by Filmhuset Produksjoner AS Duration 46 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Nordfor Sola live in an extremely repressive regime and have no prospect of either education or jobs, the young educated middle-class in China struggling against corruption and censorship and for free speech, and young human rights activists in Cambodia who are trying tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] A real staycation epic on zero money at zero degrees! Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22) spent nine long, cold, dark, Norwegian winter months in an isolated, uninhabited bay on a remote, arctic island off the coast of Northern Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other discarded materials that washed ashore, and ate nothing but free food, past its expiry date, which the stores would otherwise have thrown out. They went nine months without electricity, mobile phones or the internet. A very different way of life with time to think − and time to do things a busy, urban lifestyle would not usually allow. The boys brought with them stoke, humour and two items of utmost importance: their surfboards − perhaps the greatest motivation for their arctic adventure. Because the remote bay conceals a well-kept secret: some of the world’s finest surfing waves... the shady chocolate business MIPDOC Video Library Director Miki Mistrati Producer Helle Faber Produced by Made in Copenhagen for DR & NDR in ass. with SVT Duration 45 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Lyssky chokolade Reality check for the chocolate industry’s pursuit to do good The Dark Side of Chocolate revealed how trafficking and child slavery was common to the chocolate industry. Since these revelations were shown to consumers all over the world, the chocolate industry is now making statements on its websites and in the press. Spokesperson for the entire industry, Joanna Scott, asserts that the world’s biggest companies spend millions of dollars helping the children on the plantations, and that more than 40 programmes of education, building of schools, hospitals etc. are in operation in the Ivory Coast alone.But is this true? Miki Mistrati travels to the Ivory Coast and Ghana to carry out a reality check − only to discover that the truth is worse than expected. Nothing resembles the description from the international corporate website and kids are still working in the cocoa plantation. new the mystery of tycho brahe’s death MIPDOC Video Library Independent journalists Viktor and Eduard do their work anticipating the fateful knock on the door, the hand on their shoulder. In Belarus, to remain impartial is to take sides. At the other end of the spectrum is Lyudmila, a villager who loves her family and her country. She supports President Alexander Lukashenko, though she cares little for politics. These stories, of normality punctuated by bureaucracy and occasional brutality, remind us how close Belarus is to the rest of Europe – and how very far away. Director Lisbeth Jessen Producer Thomas Houkjær Produced by DR Duration 58 min. Year of Production 2013 Original Title Mysteriet om Tycho Brahes Død A murder mystery among kings and noblemen in the court of renaissance Europe World-known astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a ruptured bladder because he was too polite to go to the bathroom during a dinner in 1601. That is the way the story goes. But is it just a myth? Was he actually poisoned by mercury by a jealous colleague or an envoy from King Christian IV of Denmark? After long negotiations, a group of international experts was finally allowed to reopen the grave in November 2010 and remove samples of Tycho Brahe’s bones, teeth and hair. The samples are now being analyzed to discover the circumstances of Tycho Brahe’s death so that the mystery can finally be solved. Ultimately it may turn out Brahe killed himself! The analysis will likely reveal that he was the victim of mercury poisoning. The question is how long before his death he had ingested the toxin. It will take cutting edge technology to tell us the truth. 18 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] new the rat race 19 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] in production Winner best documentary The International documentary Festival of Kerala Winner of the Mipdoc Co production challenge 2010, Cannes Jury Mention at the Jeevika Asian Livelihood Awards the secret flight MIPDOC Video Library Director Miriam Chandy Menacherry Producers Miriam Chandy Menacherry & Aruna Balkrishna Singh Produced by Filament Pictures & The Jan Vrijman Fund, IDFA Duration 52 min. Year of Production 2011 Original Title The Rat Race A film that winds its way through the grimy underbelly of Mumbai, through dimly lit alleys and crowded markets to tell the story of the city’s rat killers Mumbai is home to 14 million people and 84 million rats competing for the same space and resources. The Rat Race is a moving true life account of the city’s rat killers who set out every night armed with a torch and stick to bring back 30 dead rats before day breaks. Above him loom chrome buildings, the landscape of the future and below him are trails of garbage and refuse. To earn his daily wage and secure a brighter future for his children, he wages the most primitive battle between man and animal with the most basic of implements. Why such gruesome methods? Would not fumigation or poison be more humane? Director Andreas Koefoed Producer Miriam Nørgaard Produced by Fridthjof Film in ass. with DR Duration 1 hour & feature Expected Release 2014 But how does one fumigate spaces swarming with rats and humanity? And how does one use poison where rodents and people forage for food? The rat killer represents the human face of development with all its inherent contradictions. Through their tales of love, sacrifice and survival one gets a glimpse into a world that reveals itself as the rest of the city sleeps... an untold story of the people who work to keep India’s commercial capital ticking. new In 1995 two Europeans enter Indian territory on a plane loaded with weapons, each with their own agenda The two men set out on a mission to drop four tons of weapons from a plane over West Bengal in India. But they have very different agendas. Niels Holck is the idealist; a political activist wanting to supply weapons to a local group to help them defend themselves against the communist regime in the region. The other, Peter Bleach, is an arms dealer, who secretly collaborates with the British intelligence service, MI5. Bleach is on the plane to get Niels arrested. But the mission backfires completely. The weapons drop fails and Niels escapes while Bleach ends up in an Indian prison, tortured and abandoned by his own country for eight years. Years later, when Niels faces ex- tradition to India and a possible death sentence, Bleach decides to forgive his former enemy and help Niels win the case. Now, Bleach and Niels finally have a common mission: to prove that British, Indian and Danish intelligence services were all involved in the mis- sion and that they themselves were just pieces of a much bigger puzzle. The Secret Flight reconstructs the dramatic events in 1995 and follows Bleach and Holck − formerly enemies, now allies − in the search for justice and the truth. in production we love weapons warriors from the north MIPDOC Video Library Director Jakob Thygesen Producer Thomas Houkjær Produced by DR Duration 58 min. Year of Production 2012 Original Title Vi elsker våben Exploring the paradox of trying to create world peace by means of unpeaceful tools such as guns, missiles and drones Like a Scandinavian cross between Louis Theroux and Michael Moore, the director of this film is overtly sceptical about guns. But with his inquisitive and humorous approach to the subject, this documentary gives voice to his own as well as opposing views as he goes out to encounter the industry − and the people who love weapons. He attends an arms exposition held in Washington DC by the Association of the US Army, meets a producer of drones operating on his own small backyard factory grounds, an enthusiastic collector of weapons with more than 200 guns in his store and some of the top players in the global arms industry. Directors Søren Steen Jespersen & Nasib Farah Producer Helle Faber Produced by Made in Copenhagen in ass. with DR & NRK Duration 1 hour Expected Release 2013 We Love Weapons provides a European view on the global arms industry and American gun culture. Sales representatives from the world’s biggest arms companies assure us that they are working to make the world a safer place, and that they only sell their weapons to countries approved by the UN. Similarly in the civilian society only people with no criminal record can purchase a gun. In both cases the problem is that the good guys do not always stay good. How terrorist organisation Al-Shabaab recruits fighters from the West In a marquee in Mogadishu, the newly graduated doctors are being celebrated. Relatives and friends dressed for the occasion are everywhere, and up on stage the young graduates, in full ceremonial dress, are overlooking the crowd. Down below them, in the front row, a young man is taking pictures. He is there as a journalist covering the happy event. No one in the marquee knows that this young journalist is Abdi Rahman from Denmark. Nor that in just a few seconds he will blow himself up and take several young doctors with him in the blast. Warriors from the North is about young Somali-Scandinavian men who leave their comfortable everyday lives in European cities to become fighters, and perhaps even suicide bombers, in Somalia, one of the most dangerous, impoverished places in the world. These young men, the majority of whom were born and raised in Scandinavia, are typically recruited at home and subsequently leave for Somalia, where they are trained by Al-Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist organization, to help impose Islamic rule in Somalia. The film gets close to an otherwise impenetrable milieu: the immigrants at the bottom of the social hierarchy, where Al-Shabaab is always feared, even from so far away. 20 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] in production A psychological detective story Joergen Lange Thomsen is a forensic expert. His job is to examine the dead and determine how they died. But one day he is hired to solve a different type of case: one that involves the living. On behalf of a major human rights organization he is to examine a group of Iraqis to determine whether they have been subjected to torture. The case is of political importance and Joergen’s conclusion may mean that Denmark ends up in court on trial for war crimes committed in Iraq. Suddenly he faces a moral dilemma. He needs to trust his knowledge of human nature and deductive interview methods as well as his own extensive experience in being able to spot a lie rather than relying on his usual scientific approach. But years of pioneering Director Camilla Nielsson Producer Henrik Veileborg Produced by Upfront Pictures in ass. with DR, BBC, NHK, VPRO, SVT, YLE, NRK, ITVS & HRT Duration 1 hour & feature Expected Release 2013 work in the field of human rights cause Joergen to question whether any of it actually matters. And his doubts will soon put him to the test. slow motion revolution ”On a bad day it feels like a slow motion suicide” No one expected pacifist “Salma” to end up as an armed rebel – least of all herself. “Salma” is 35 and a radio presenter in Syria. She is popular with a whole youth generation because she plays progressive new music that is otherwise unavailable and because she dares to talk about sex and identity on the radio. Being no stranger to controversy, she divorced her violent husband years ago and threw away her hijab. When the Syrian revolution began, she quit her job to become one of the leaders of the resistance movement as a natural cultural gathering point for the new rebellious generation. With no turning back, her hopes for a peaceful outcome have vanished. While the international community is paralyzed and pro-Assad death squads and sectarian militias are running ram- tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] democrats in production Director Marie S Producers Jesper Jack & David B. Sørensen Produced by Fridthjof Film & Dharmafilm in ass. with DR, IKON, WDR, UR, TVO & NRK Duration 1 hour Expected Release 2013 DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark in production embracing the dead Director Nanna Frank Møller Producer Helle Faber Produced by Made in Copenhagen in ass. with DR, UR & Knowledge Network Duration 1 hour Expected release 2013 21 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary A political drama about the future of a dictatorship Two political enemies are forced on a joint mission to write Zimbabwe’s new constitution. The ultimate test that will either take the country a decisive step closer to democracy and away from President Mugabe’s dictatorship, or toward renewed repression. In a country with little respect for human rights, impeded by economic sanctions and hyperinflation running rampant, failure is not an option. The two top politicians, MP Paul Mangwana (ZANU-PF) and MP Douglas Mwonzora (MDC) have been appointed to lead Zimbabwe through the process of writing a new constitution. Going behind the scenes of the constitutional process, Democrats offers a unique insight into the Zimbabwean government at a critical and historychanging juncture as the political elite struggles to find a new postcolonial identity − a struggle that may be the harbinger of a new epoch in the development of modern African states. in production taming the quantum world Director Lars Becker-Larsen, Producer Gitte Randløv Produced by Masto Media for DR in ass. with SVT, NRK, YLE & RUV Duration 1 hour Expected Release 2014 pant, she turns from peaceful activism to armed resistance in an all out act of heroic self destruction. A group of European physicists are working on a new generation of computers that will completely revolutionize global information technology By exploiting the paradoxical phenomena of quantum mechanics, Superposition and Entanglement, they are creating the information technology of the future. Quantum computers will possess completely revolutionary capacity and be able to process information quantities that none of the world’s existing computers would ever be able to accomplish – even if they were given the time span of the universe! Experiments have shown that quantum computers will be able to crack any known security system in seconds. And in Munich, scientists are trying to generate an enormous virtual reality on a quantum computer that may well prove to be the tool to solve universal problems, ranging from global warming to determining the final fate of the universe. in production the long walk in production cooper’s challenge Director Karen Stokkendal Poulsen Producer Vibeke Vogel Produced by Bullitt Film for DR in ass. with ZDF/ ARTE, VPRO, SVT, ERR, RTV Slovenija, Knowledge Network & Yes/DBS Duration 1 hour Expected Release 2013 They have not really spoken to each other. Ever This tense political story takes its audience behind the façade right to the core of tense negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo when they engage in dialogue for the first time ever in order to resolve the last territorial conflict in Europe. Stakes are high for each of the parties in the negotiations led by chief negotiator Robert Cooper, who goes about his assignment with a combination of British arrogance and wit. Caught in the middle between Kosovo negotiator Edita Tahiri, a diva who does not turn up until she has finished at the hairdressers, and Borko Stefanovic, a former punk rock musician who represents a new generation of Serbs torn between wanting to rid them- - a film about ai weiwei selves of their “bad guy” reputation but certainly not wanting to recognize Kosovo, Robert Cooper is facing his last, but toughest, challenge. Director Alfred Nymand (incognito) Producer Katrine A. Sahlstrøm Produced by Danish Documentary for DR in ass. with BBC, SVT, NRK, Against Gravity & SBS Australia Duration 1 hour & feature Expected Release 2013 A close, personal portrait of one of the most politically influential artists of today, and the system he challenges Ai Weiwei is renowned for his courage and his resistance to oppression. He uses his art as a political weapon and his fame as a megaphone. In recent years his fight for freedom of speech has intensified, making him the bestknown dissident voice of China, where the authorities consider him subversive. But Ai Weiwei has never allowed the Chinese authorities to silence him. We follow Ai Weiwei closely through a turbulent period of his life. We encounter the ever-fighting artist, who hardly sleeps, seldom laughs, and who works inhumanly hard on his art and his campaigning. When we first meet him, Ai Weiwei is a man with no weak points, a man nobody can break. That is until April 2011, when he is literally kidnapped by the Chinese state. 22 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] did you see 23 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] did you see putin’s kiss World Cinema Documentary Sundance 2012 IDFA Competition For Feature-Length Documenatary IDFA 2011 Nordic Documentary Competition 2012 nominee the ship that changed the world MIPDOC Video Library Director Lise Birk Pedersen Producer Helle Faber Produced by Monday in co-production with Made in Copenhagen, DR & ITVS in ass. with NRK, UR & DBS Duration 58 & 84 min. The inside story of tomorrow’s leaders in contemporary Russia Nashi is an increasingly popular political youth organization with direct ties to Kremlin. Officially, its goal is to support the current political system by creating a future elite among the bright and loyal Russian teenagers. But their agenda is also to keep the political opposition from spreading their views among the Russians. my love Director Michael Schmidt-Olsen Producers Jacob Bendtsen & Anders Dylov Produced by Chroma Film ApS Duration 58 min. Official Selection CPH:DOX The M/S Selandia was a revolution to the international shipping industry and a groundbreaking invention made possible by the perseverance and determination of three visionaries: technical wizard Ivar Knudsen, inventor Rudolf Diesel and business magnate, H.N. Andersen. Their foresight made M/S Selandia a reality that changed the world forever. we are here for our future MIPDOC Video Library Director Iben Haahr Andersen Producer Lise Saxtrup Produced by Klassefilm for DR in ass. with Yes/DBS Duration 58 min. Poul, a 66 year old fisherman, experienced a profound crisis. Either he would come out as gay or take his own life. But Poul found the love of his life. Mai is 20 years younger than Poul and he comes from Thailand. The story of Poul and Mai reminds us that it is never too late to change the course in your life. They live a happy life in picturesque surroundings but there are clouds on the horizon. i am breathing Director & Producer Ebbe Kyrø Produced by Nexus Kommunikation A/S Duration 3 x 29 or 58 min. IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary 2012 This is the incredible story of 71 men from Angola, a country which has suffered from many years of civil war, who begin a journey that would change their lives. Their goal is to become seafarers. They will be given a chance to forge their own future and to do so they will have to force a daunting barrier. 12 weeks of tough training. Night and day. Seven days a week. In all weathers. pirate hunt MIPDOC Video Library Directors Emma Davie & Morag McKinnon Producer Sonja Henrici Produced by SDI Productions Ltd in ass. with Channel 4, DR & YLE Co-produced by Danish Documentary Duration 58 & 73 min. With only five months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral and muses about the meaning of life. He ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son, Oscar. How can Neil anticipate what Oscar might want to know about his father in a future he will not be part of but can only begin to imagine? free the mind MIPDOC Video Library Directors Adam Dyrvig Tatt & Signe Daugbjerg Producers Sune Roland & Ulrik Skotte Produced by Metronome Productions a/s & DocEye for TV3 Duration 6 x 42 min. Official Selection Göteborg International Film Festival GIFF 2012 Official Selection IDFA During three dramatic months we are onboard the high-technology Danish NATO warship Absalon where we get beneath the skin of the 150 crew members. We follow life on board and the intense hunt for pirates along the coast of Somalia, where hostagetaking, trading in human lives, open fire between NATO warships and fishing boats, used by pirates as floating hostage prisons, are the order of the day. when the boys return IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Phie Ambo Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Produced by Danish Documentary for DR in ass. with VPRO & BOS, SVT, ERR & Against Gravity Duration 59 min. & 72 min Professor Davidson is a brain scientist with a mission: he believes the world can become a better place and that change comes through the brain. Professor Davidson has instigated a test with a group of veterans who the cod game must meditate for eight weeks. We follow the experiment closely posing the ultimate question: is it possible to free the struggling minds of war veterans and give them peace of mind? Festival at Pêcheurs du Monde Film Festival 2012 Green-screen Festival 2012 Colorado Environment Film Festival 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Tone Andersen Producers Anita Rehoff Larsen & Tone Grøttjord Produced by Sant & Usant, co-produced by Al-Jazeera Duration 56 min. Nature-Vision Film Festival 2012 Every week Palestinian children on the West Bank are arrested by the Israeli army. This film starts when prison ends. Mohammed Jamil, Hamze and Mahran have returned after months and years in prison. They are hailed as dance of outlaws heroes at their big homecoming party, but getting back to everyday life is more difficult than they could imagine. Soldiers, military raids and demonstrations mark the environment. Premio Zonta Club Locarno-prize at Locarno Film Festival 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Ryzard Solarz Producer Folke Rydén Produced by FRP Duration 52 & 76 min. A cod fishing ban is imposed on Poland by the EU. The fisherman, Marcin, ignores the restrictions. Instead, he catches as much cod as he can. In a portrait of a few fishermen in the Polish port of Darlowko, The Cod Game gives an inside view of the price paid to save the cod in the Baltic Sea. Over two years, we follow the events that brought the Polish cod fishing fleet to the brink of collapse. Official selection: Helsinki International Film Festival & Nordisk Panorama MIPDOC Video Library Director Mohamed El Aboudi Producer Venla Hellstedt Produced by Illume Ltd & Road Movies Ltd Duration 58 & 83 min. When she was only 15, Moroccan Hind was raped and consequently denied an official identity. At the age of 22, she has been to prison several times, has had two children and been forced to give them away − and has no other choice but to work as a prostitute and traditional wedding dancer. But despite the odds, she refuses to give up her dream of dignity, motherhood and love. 24 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] did you see 25 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark did you see india: art now salt & pepper MIPDOC Video Library Director & Producer Peter Thiesen Produced by Casablanca Film Duration 28 & 39 min. Indian contemporary art is currently undergoing a rapid and drastic development. India: Art Now follows four leading Indian contemporary artists in the hectic metropolis of Delhi and portrays the life of the individual artists, their motivation and their relation to the local environment. All have their base in the city, each with their own unique expression on the art scene in India today. MIPDOC Video Library Director Karl Emil Rikardsen Producer Vidar Nordli Mathisen Produced by Relation 04 Media for NRK Duration 8 x 29 min. india on the catwalk As the seasons change, the series follows the different animals in their natural habitats, in the world’s northernmost zoo. In 2009 two bear cubs where born. Salt and Pepper are both brown bears, but while Pepper is a normal brown bear, Salt is a rare albino bear. Both are a handful for the zookeepers, but also a great asset to the park and a huge success with the visitors. what brits love MIPDOC Video Library Director & Producer Peter Thiesen Produced by Casablanca Film Duration 28 min. In India on the Catwalk, the fashion designer Arora takes the audience back to where it all began, telling the personal story about his rise to fame in the international scene of fashion – from the almost accidental application to the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, the first creation to the studio and clothing company in Paris with hundreds of employees. MIPDOC Video Library Director & Producer Ben Lewis Produced by Ben Lewis TV Duration Series 5 x 44 min. amazing azerbaijan! What Brits Love is a five part series about being British, presented by award-winning documentary-filmmaker Ben Lewis; funny, warm, fresh, exciting, but also an insightful and critical view into what defines Britain at the outset of the twenty first century. Hop on board when Ben Lewis travels across the length and breadth of Britain to investigate hats, cars, humour, homes… and the sandwich. a normal life MIPDOC Video Library Director Liz Mermin Producer Aisling Ahmed Produced by Crow Hill Films Duration 56 min. The 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan claimed to be an apolitical celebration of European unity; but when the President declared it a national achievement, the country went under international spotlight. The government wanted the world to see a shiny democratic republic but the truth is a repressive and corrupt land with no respect for freedom of expression. MIPDOC Video Library Director Mikala Krogh Producer Sigrid Dyekjær Produced by Danish Documentary for DR in ass. with UR Duration 1 hour & 73 min. iceland: year zero How do you live a normal life when you never know if there will be a tomorrow? Single mother of three Stine, keeps herself and her family going even though everything around her is chaos with a seriously ill child. She tries to ignore the brutal realities because she wants to live a normal life with her three girls. Her greatest fear is that if she starts crying everything around her will collapse. solace MIPDOC Video Library Director Sigurður Hallmar Magnússon Producers Yves Chanvillart & Nadim Cheikhrouha Produced by Jade Productions & Doc & Doc Duration 52 min. When the three main banks in Iceland collapsed, the nation was driven into bankruptcy; causing thousands of people to lose their jobs, personal savings and hope. While the banks took possession of people’s houses and cars because no one could pay the interests, the state took possession of the banks as they went bankrupt! A capitalist tragicomedy played out. This is the story about the aftermath. MIPDOC Video Library Directors & Producers Karoline Grindaker & Hilde K. Kjøs Produced by Mica Film Duration 58 min. During WWII thousands of European women volunteered to serve as nurses for the German Red Cross. They were known as the Front sisters. On the journey back home after the war had ended, many returned traumatized and would be socially harassed by their community. Now, they finally dare to reveal some of their innermost painful memories, letting us in to their longtime secret rooms for the first time. talibe - the least favored children of senegal conversations with my aunt London International Documentary Film Festival 2012 Africa World Documentary Film Festival 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Janis Pugh Producer Samantha Zarzosa Produced by Crooked Finger Productions Duration 56 min. In 2005 the director received a phone call from her Aunt; she was lost in London on her way to the dentist and was in a state of panic. Shortly afterwards, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and began her descent tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] into the helplessness. Capturing the repetitious routines and unpredictable behaviour, the film gives a sense of the ever-changing continuum of the disease. Bristol International Development Conference Bristol, 2012 MIPDOC Video Library Director Daniela Kon Producers Daniela Kon & Fallckolm Cuenca Produced by Deeda Productions Duration 56 min. In Senegal 50,000 koranic students (Talibes), young boys between 4 and 15 years old, are subjected to exploitation in conditions akin to slavery. They are forced to beg on the streets by their koranic schoolteachers and suffer severe physical abuse and neglect. The documentary sets out on a poetic exploration of the nature and circumstances that breed and prolong the suffering of these children. 26 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] 27 miptv 13 drama kids +youth documentary DR Sales DR Byen Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Copenhagen C Denmark a groundbreaking cross-media event Reaching more than 600 million people around the world education education Director Weijun Chen Producer Don Edkins Produced by Steps International Year of Production 2012 What does an education get you? In ancient times in China, education was the only way out of poverty – in recent times it has been the best way. China’s economic boom and talk of the merits of hard work have created an expectation that to study is to escape poverty. But these days China’s education system only leads to jobs for a few, educating a new generation to unemployment and despair. park avenue – money, power and the american dream Director Alex Gibney Producer Blair Foster Produced by Jigsaw Productions Year of Production 2012 How much inequality is too much? 740 Park Ave, NY is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. 10 minutes to the north, over the Harlem River, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population need food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US – the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill. give us the money Director Bosse Lindquist Producer David Herdies Produced by Momento Film Year of Production 2012 How to do good? From Live Aid to Make Poverty History celebrities, lead by Bob Geldof and Bono, have become activists against poverty. But have their concerts and campaigns really lifted millions out of poverty? Geldof, Bono and Bill Gates speak candidly about the ‘games’ involved in their years of lobbying, and how they played to politicians’ weaknesses for starry glitz and being popular. welcome to the world Director Brian Hill Producer Katie Bailiff Produced by Century Films Year of Production 2012 Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor? 130 million babies are born each year, and not one of them decides where they will be born or how they will live. In Cambodia, you are likely to be born to a family surviving on less than one dollar a day. In Sierra Leone chances of surviving the first year are half those of the worldwide average. Brian Hill takes a worldwide trip to meet the newest generation. In the US Star’s new baby will be one of 1.6m homeless children now living in the streets. solar mamas Directors Mona Eldaief & Jehane Noujaim Producer Mette Heide Produced by Plus Pictures Year of Production 2012 Are women better at getting out of poverty than men? The Barefoot College takes uneducated middle-aged women from poor communities and trains them to become solar engineers and so create power and jobs in their communities. The college’s six-month programme brings together women from all over the world learning them about energy, electrical components and soldering. stealing africa Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen Producer Henrik Veileborg Produced by Guld brandsen Film Year of Production 2012 How much profit is fair? In a sleepy village in Switzerland the wealthy residents are receiving more tax revenue than they can use. Thanks to one resident: Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than one dollar a day and 80% are unemployed. land rush Directors Hugo Berkeley & Osvalde Lewat Producer Eli Cane Produced by Normal Life Pictures Year of Production 2012 How do you feed the world? 75% of Mali’s population are farmers, but rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali’s land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness sugar farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing it as another manifestation of imperialism. As Mali experiences a military coup, the developers are scared off – but can the farmers escape poverty on their own? poor us Director Ben Lewis Producer Femke Volting Produced by Submarine Pictures Year of Production 2012 Do we know what poverty is? The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age Ben Lewis’ film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people, to be sure, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality... tel. +45 3520 3040 www.drsales.dk [email protected] the best programmes from scandinavia’s largest distributor The Sales department of DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, is Scandinavia’s largest international distributor present at all major television markets. The merger of DR International Sales with DR Multimedie to form DR Sales has made us even bigger. 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