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- A fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
- A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.
- A documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.
- The political drama of the fall of the Iron Curtain as told by one of its power brokers and the widow of one of its casualties.
- This documentary-style film shows how government agencies try to cope with human mankind's first contact with alien life.
- Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
- Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
- AFTERWAR is filmed over 15 years. Director Birgitte Stærmose originally met the cast in 2008 when they were children selling cigarettes and peanuts on the streets of postwar Pristina and returned again in 2018 and to film another 5 years with them as adults. The film builds on the lived experience of the cast and is based on extensive interviews and a co-creation process with them. They tell their collective story through monologues spoken directly to the camera as well as staged, scripted scenes, sometimes together with professional actors and sometimes with amateurs. This is not a documentary; nor a true fiction film, but a performative testament to the war that lives on in people, when the fighting is over.
- In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand married a Jutland native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to marry and share life with. Acclaimed filmmaker Janus Metz and his anthropologist wife, Sine Plambech, follow four of these Thai-Danish couples over ten years in an intimate chronicle that explores universal questions of love and romance, dreams and everyday hardship, life and death, and the very nature of family.
- Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
- Two 15-year old cousins, Iben and Sanne, are invited to spend their summer holiday with their aunt, the owner of a dilapidated spa in Eastern Europe. The aunt is an eccentric woman whose life is sustained by memories of a time long past; Iben and Sanne are eager and hungry for life. Soon after their arrival, they discover Felix, a young man who has pitched his tent in the aunt's large, overgrown park. All three women are drawn to Felix. Yet, while the aunt continues in her reveries and Sanne begins to play with the idea of a romance, Iben casts herself into a secretive, new world of longing and intimacy, love and separation.
- In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the cur Baatar is shot by a hunter hired by the authorities to get rid off the dogs in the city. Its soul recalls its life, when it was a shepherd dog of a family and was abandoned in the field and walked to the city. Then it recalls when it meets a young woman that is near to have a baby.
- Gustav and Oskar are twins. Oskar has Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Both have blue eyes and blonde hair. They approach life in different ways. The director, Axel Danielson, have filmed Oskar and Gustav over a ten year period - from nine to nineteen - as they grow up together in an old farmhouse in the country-side, in the very South of Sweden. In 53 scenes in chronological order we follow the brothers through their journey of childhood, adolescence and struggle for identity.
- The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan.He is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts by giving her drugs against her will. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her father, Mats, is trying to figure out how to get her back before it's too late.
- In many Western democracies, trust between the people and the politicians are at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In Italy, Movimento vows to send all politicians home and bring the people to power. They win a stunning 25% of the vote, but what happens when political ideals meet parliamentary reality? Can you be uncompromising and democratic at the same time? Are internet referendums direct democracy or faceless mob rule? The film follows this democratic experiment.
- What happens when a suburban family gives up all fossil fuel-based products, including plastic, for a whole year?
- A comfortable family leaves Norway to join a Danish community committed to reducing the contribution of individuals to climate change.
- Oliver's father and mother are as parents most, the busiest people. They hire tight Mrs Brusse as a babysitter for six-year-old Oliver and two-year-old baby sister Louise. Mrs Bruce's prehistoric view of child rearing irritates Oliver, however. He would much rather be cared for by raunchy 16-year-old Josephine. Using an emergency lie, he gets Mrs. Brusse canceled. He is then alone at home with little sister Louise, and it works just fine. That is until Oliver locks himself out with Louise inside the house. Now what to do?
- A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.
- Nagieb Khaja is a Danish journalist of Afghan origin and he believes that the West makes decisions on Afghanistan based on an uninformed view of the country and its people. Nagieb a man with a mission. A few years ago Nagieb traveled to Afghanistan in order to refine the simplistic media image of the country, but he ended up as a prisoner of the Taliban and barely escaped. On the next trip, Nagieb brought 30 mobile cameras and asked Afghan civilians to film themselves. For the first time, we are invited into life in the forbidden zone with all the joys and sorrows, victories and defeats associated with living in the shadow of war.
- A sequel to the acclaimed documentary The Punk Syndrome (2012).
- 40 people meet. 20 pairs. Each pair is a total of 100 years old. A one-year-old and a ninety-nine-year-old; a two-year-old and a ninety-eight-year-old; and so on and so forth. 2000 years of life.
- Exploring the world of physics and the beginning of the Universe through the eyes of the Standard Model. This takes us to phenomenoms like wormholes and baby universes and way back to the first second of Big Bang. The key focus is on the High Energy Physician Holger Bech Nielsen, known for his theories on the Super Strings. He tells about his dream, his hunt for the united theory which binds together all known great physical laws, the so-called Theory of Everything.
- Documentary about the 400 liquidations that the resistance movement made in Denmark during the occupation.