I morgen aften, den 23. april, vises Carl Olssons dokumentar ‘Vintersaga’ på DR2 kl. 23.10.
‘Vintersaga’ er en hyldest til den svenske melankoli, og som Bo Green Jensen skrev i Weekendavisen: “Her er intet problem at belyse. Bare følelsen af liv, der bliver ved.”
Car Olssons dokumentar vil ligeledes blive tilgængelig på DRTV, hvor den kan streames, lige når det passer dig.
Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s ‘A Silent Story’ won the CinéFemme jury award for the most creative and committed film in the international competition at Millenium Festival in Bruxelles.
The jury's statement: The CinéFemme Jury awarded its prize to a courageous film which, with modesty and sensitivity, evokes an all-too-familiar subject by breaking the silence of shame and guilt. A film that opens the way to healing.
We are so proud that Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet's beautiful debut film ‘Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other’ has received a Special Mention from the jury in the DOX:AWARD competition!
Here is the jury’s statement: “To fall in love is a magical thing, but to stay in love is a miracle. Two people find each other in middle age, and build a beautiful later life together that is documented here with grace, humor and honesty. For a film that is so immaculately crafted that right from its stunning opening frame, it is like being cradled in the familiar but electric embrace of a longtime lover, the jury awards a dazzled special mention to the wonderful, warm and wise TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER directed by Jacob Perlmutter & Manon Ouimet.”
It has been absolutely wonderful to see how the film has met its audience at CPH:DOX in the most amazing way - with sold out screenings, standing ovations, and touching and generous Q&As. And now CPH:DOX is making it possible for even more people to see the film - there will be an extra screening on Monday March 25, at Cinemateket, at 16:30. Tickets available here.
Last week 's wonderful new doc FIGHTING DEMONS WITH DRAGONS took home the Silver Alexander in the Newcomers Competition at Thessaloniki Int. Documentary Film Festival, where it celebrated its world premiere - we are so delighted and can't wait for the film to meet even more lovely audiences all over the world!
Here is the jury's statement: "We would like to award a director for taking the hard challenge of telling a multi character story, creating with tenderness a both emotional and complex universe of teenagers in such a fragile turning point of their lives. With the talent and skills of a documentarian she is voicing from a very intimate perspective her protagonists with empathy and respect."
You can see the full list of award winners here.
DEADLINE has shared an exclusive clip from the documentary ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet.
The documentary will have its world premiere this Saturday, March 16th during CPH:DOX.
From the article: It may not sound like it from the title, but the documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other is, in fact, a love story. A love story not without complications.
The film directed by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet explores the bond between artists Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz who have been together for decades. Their relationship takes a significant turn when septuagenarian Barrett breaks her leg, and her husband Meyerowitz, an octogenarian, becomes her caregiver.
Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other is making its world premiere in main competition this Saturday at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. The same day, the documentary will screen at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, technically considered the “international premiere” of Two Strangers. We have your first look at the film in the clip above.
Book your tickets for the premiere or for one of the other screenings during CPH:DOX here.
We are excited to announce that our film ‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ has been selected for the Feature-Length International Competition at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
If you are at Thessaloniki please join one of the following screenings:
Saturday March 16th at 17.00 at Olympian
Sunday March 17th at 13.00 at Frida Liappa
Congratulations to the directors Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet and the whole team!
About the film:
Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very witty film about an aging couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.
The documentary will have its world premiere Saturday March 16th at 16.30 in Grand Theatre, Copenhagen, during CPH:DOX.
’Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ is selected for the main competition DOX:AWARD.
Other screenings during CPH:DOX:
Monday March 18th at 19.00 at Grand Theatre
Wednesday March 20th at 21.45 at Dagmar
Thursday March 21st at 14.30 at the DFI/Cinemateket
This weekend the documentary ‘Fighting Demons with Dragons’ by Camilla Magid has been shown at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival as a part of the Newcomers International Competition.
‘Fighting Demons with Dragons’ is a coming-of-age documentary about feeling excluded - and for the first time finding a community.
Congratulations to Director Camilla Magid and Producer Heidi Elise Christensen who was in Greece for the International premiere.
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival runs until March 17th 2024.
If you are in Denmark the documentary series can be streamed on DRTV.
‘Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’ by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter is nominated for the DOX:AWARD at the 21st edition of CPH:DOX.
Besides being nominated for the main competition, the documentary will also have its world premiere at this year’s edition of CPH:DOX.
CPH:DOX will take place in Copenhagen from March 13th to 24th. The full festival programme will be announced on February 21st, and here you will be able to see more about when and where to watch ‘To Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other’.
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Matt Sarnecki has been awarded a Jury Award: Power of the Powerless by The Czech Film and Television Association FITES for his 2022 The Killing of a Journalist. The award acknowledges Sarnecki’s contribution to civil society, and he receives it for his writing and directing.
‘The Killing of a Journalist’ is a film about how the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová has inspired protests and influenced politics in Slovakia.
The jury note that “Sarnecki from a distance has deciphered the story of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová, placing the act in previously unknown societal context of the intersection between the mafia and Slovak politics.” They further notice that “The use of unique materials from the villa of the main suspect, businessman Marian Kočner, adds significant value to the documentary.”
Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary ‘A House Made of Splinters’ is nominated for TVPRISEN 2024 in the category ‘Best Documentary’.
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We’re thrilled that Vintersaga, directed by Carl Olsson, has received a Guldbagge Award nomination (The Golden Scarab) for Best Documentary Film.
The Guldbagge Awards, Sweden's equivalent of the Academy Awards, have recognized achievements in the country's film industry since 1964. The awards gala ceremony is set to take place in Stockholm on January 15, 2024.
Vintersaga is a song-structured ode to the melancholy of Sweden. It was produced in 2023 by Cinestra Film in co-production with Final Cut for Real.
We are extremely thankful and proud of how Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen's A Silent Story has been received, both since its’ CPH:DOX premiere in March, and after it was broadcasted on Danish TV channel TV2 last month. A nationwide impact campaign has been launched, aimed at both individuals and people working with children and youth, and the mental health sector. The film will continue to inspire people in the years to come.
The film is an encouragement to break the silence, and puts constructive, de-tabooing light on the fact that a large part of sexual abuse of children is committed by other children. “I have missed a story like mine, which I could recognise myself in, which could help me to understand that this kind of abuse between children is actually something that happens,” director Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen says about ‘A Silent Story’.
If you are in Denmark, you can catch the feature length version of the film when Landsforeningen Spor invites to free screenings and debates five Mondays in a row. The screenings will take place in: Kolding, Aarhus, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Odense between October 30 and November 27, and you can find more info about the events here. You can also see the shorter version of the film on TV2 Play.
More news from Japan! Last week we could announce that Olha Zhurba’s ‘Outside’ has won a Japan Prize of Honor. This time we are thrilled to share that Camilla Nielsson’s 2021 film President has now been released in Japan. Several cinemas are taking up the film, and still counting.
In ‘President’ Zimbabwe is facing the 2018 election which will be an ultimate test for the two opposing sides, and which will determine the future of the country in a post Mugabe era. Nelson Chamisa, new leader of the opposition party, MDC, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by acting president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
’President’ premiered on Sundance Festival in January 2021. We are happy that more countries are releasing the film – most recently Japan.
Exciting news! Olha Zhurba’s Outside (2022) wins the Award of Honor in the Lifelong Learning Division of the 2023 Japan Prize. The goal of the prize is to contribute to the quality of educational content worldwide, and it honors works that inspire people to learn.
‘Outside’ is a documentary film about 13-year-old Roma, a street kid turned poster boy for the Ukranian Revolution in 2014. At age 18 he struggles with the challenges of facing a future that might already have been decided for him. The film is produced by Moon Man and co-produced by Tangerine Tree and Final Cut for Real.
All award winners are invited to Tokyo to present their works on The Japan Prize Festival that will run this November 20th-23rd.
If you haven’t watched the film yet, you’ll get the chance on Wednesday when Danish TV channel DR2 is broadcasting it.
Last week Zürich Film Festival announced their program for this year. We are thrilled to share, that Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s A Silent Story has been selected for the documentary competition.
The Documentary Film Competition is one of three main categories at Zürich Film Festival, and A Silent Story will be competing for the “Golden Eye” alongside 13 other documentary films.
We are happy for the attention and feedback that A silent Story has been receiving lately and will follow closely as the festival takes place in Zürich from 28. September – 08. October 2023.
Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary film A House Made of Splinters has been nominated for a Grierson Award in the category ‘Best Single Documentary – International’.
This years’ Grierson Awards is the 51st of its’ kind, and it will take place in London on the 9th of November. The awards, also known as British Documentary Awards, commemorate Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson (1898 – 1972) and are given to documentaries that “have made a significant contribution to the genre and that demonstrate quality, integrity, creativity, originality and overall excellence.”
Director Simon Lereng Wilmont explains, that “On the surface it (A House Made of Splinters, red.) is a story about neglect, but on a deeper level it is just as much an uplifting and universal story about hope and about children’s ability to survive and find the magic in life despite tragic circumstances.”
We are excited that A House Made of Splinters has been nominated, and we will follow the British Documentary Awards closely, as winners are revealed on November 9th. You can find out more about the awards and all the films that have been nominated here.
We are excited to announce that Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen’s A Silent Story is in competition for ‘The New Nordic Voice Award’ at the film festival Nordisk Panorama in Malmö.
In A Silent Story film director Anders Skovbjerg Jepsen contacts his seven years older childhood friend, who sexually abused him when they were both children. Together they seek to recollect and understand how and why it happened. We are happy and proud of the attention that this important film is receiving, and we will follow it closely at the festival alongside all the other fantastic films that are nominated.
We are also happy to announce that Carl Olsson's Vintersaga, produced by Ginestra Film in co-production with Final Cut for Real, is competing in the ‘Best Nordic Documentary’ category. In Olsson's distinctive visual language, Vintersaga is essentially an ode to the melancholy of Sweden.
At Final Cut for Real we look forward to the 21st of September, when the 34th edition of Nordisk Panorama will start. You can find out more about the festival here.
Two Final Cut for Real productions have been selected for this year’s MakeDox film festival: Patrimonium and Dreaming Murakami.
This year Denmark has been chosen as the “country in focus” for the festival. As MakeDox explain on their Instagram, the Danish focus is meant as a way to “cool down in the hot Skopje evenings”. At Final Cut for Real we are thrilled that two of our movies are being represented there.
Starting today the 14th MakeDox festival is taking place in Skopje, North Macedonia. MakeDox is a platform of creativity and documentary films, and their weeklong festival is showing a broad selection of exactly that.
On Saturday evening Carl Olsson’s 2019 Patrimonium will be shown at the festival. The movie examines time by questioning the borders between history and modern world.
The second of our movies selected, Nitesh Anjaan’s 2017 Dreaming Murakami, will be shown on Monday evening. It explores the world of Japanese author Haruki Murakami through the life and works of translator Mette Holm. Anjaan is going to Skopje to experience the festival himself.
You can read more about The MakeDox Festival on their website. We look forward to following the festival from Denmark.
The DocuDays Film Festival in Kyiv runs 2-8 June and we’re proud to announce that A Silent Story made it into two of this year's festival’s competitions.
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