'TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER' AT THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

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

LANDSFORENINGEN SPOR INVITES TO SCREENINGS OF WONDERFULLY RECEIVED ‘A SILENT STORY’

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.

'A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS' WINS POLITIKEN: DOX AWARD

We are very happy and proud to announce that ‘A House Made of Splinters’ by Simon Lereng Wilmont and produced by Monica Hellström has receives the Politiken: DOX Award! The prize is awarded by Politiken's film critics, who choose a winner among the nominated films from this year's festival programme and the ceremony was held on April 1st 2022.

‘A House Made of Splinters’ follows three children at a temporary shelter, as war-torn Ukraine leaves devastating and enduring marks on the population. Through the eyes of kids, the movie depicts a personal, tender, and simultaneously tragic and hopeful story about lives in limbo.

To read more about the other winners and nominees of this year’s CPH: DOX click here.

'OUR MEMORY BELONGS TO US' & 'HE'S MY BROTHER' WIN SPECIAL MENTION AT CPH:DOX

We are so proud and happy to announce that ‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’ and ‘He’s My Brother’, both recieved Special Mentions at CPH:DOX 2021.

‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’ is directed by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen, and ‘He’s My Brother’ is directed by Cille Hannibal and co-director Christine Hanberg.

The statement of DOX:AWARD jury, when announcing the Special Mention to ‘Our Memory Belongs to Us’, was as follows:

“We have decided to award a special mention to a film that both challenged and haunted us – a work that expands on a painful tradition of documentaries we have all watched over the last decade. In a space created between viewer and images; in a process which is both performative and therapeutic, trauma is deconstructed and transformed, before our eyes, into camaraderie; intimacy; guilt, failure and despair. As the film progresses it exposes the impossible dichotomy faced by its protagonists – they want to remember, and at the same time they yearn to move beyond the past. Yadan, Rani and Odai’s engagement with the videos they filmed years ago, in their hometown of Dar’ah, reminds us that the images from the Syrian revolution, beyond being testimony, and evidence, are first and foremost people’s memories. The CPH:DOX Award Special Mention goes to ‘Our Memory Belongs To Us’ by Rami Farah and Signe Byrge Sørensen.”

The statement of the NORDIC:DOX jury, when announcing the Special Mention to ‘He’s My Brother’, was as follows:

“The best documentary films are always a window into other lives, other realities than our own. Always under-represented, people with disabilities have therefore often been the subject of documentaries. This moving film distinguishes itself by its very personal nature and its capacity to make us aware of the daily struggles a family can face in such a situation. It is both a love letter from a sister to a brother who cannot but live in his own world, and a very honest portrayal of the people who dedicate their lives for him. For its deeply humanistic approach, the jury would like to give a special mention to ‘He’s my Brother’.”

Both films have cinema premieres this upcoming weekend.

‘He’s My Brother’ is screened on Saturday, May 8th, at 19.15. Find tickets here.
’Our Memory Belongs to Us’ is screened on Monday, May 10th, at 18:45. Find tickets here.

Click here to see the full list of award winners at CPH:DOX 2021