THE END COMING TO THEATERS IN GERMANY AND THE UK!

Exciting news for cinema lovers in Germany and the UK -  Joshua Oppenheimer's THE END, is coming to theaters soon! 

Directed by Academy Award® Nominated Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) , this Golden Age musical explores the complex dynamics of one of the last families on Earth. Featuring a stellar cast including Academy Award® Winner Tilda Swinton as MOTHER and Academy Award® Nominee Michael Shannon as FATHER, with Moses Ingram as GIRL and George MacKay as SON, THE END promises to captivate audiences with its profound narrative and stunning visuals.

Since its premiere at prestigious film festivals, THE END has received critical acclaim for its artistic direction and powerful performances. Set against the backdrop of a luxurious underground compound, the film unfolds as the arrival of a mysterious stranger forces each family member to confront their realities and question their perfect existence.

Check out the information for release dates:

• Germany Release Date: March 27th

• UK Release Date: March 28th

TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER arrives in UK cinemas on March 21st!

TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER arrives in UK cinemas on March 21st!

This intimate documentary follows 75-year-old artist Maggie Barrett and  her husband, 84-year-old world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz as they navigate the challenges of aging and mortality. Their long, complex history resurfaces, forcing them to confront hard truths about their life together and with time slipping away, Maggie and Joel embark on a deeply personal journey to rediscover harmony before it’s too late.

DISTRIBUTION: Modern Films

DIRECTORS: Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet

FEATURING: Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett

PRODUCER: Signe Byrge Sørensen,  Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mandy Chang, Joslyn Barnes, Melissa O'Shaughnessy, James O'Shaughnessy and Janus Billeskov Jansen

COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION: UK, Denmark, USA

You can book you tickets for screenings + events in the UK here:
https://www.modernfilms.com/twostrangers

'SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH' PLAYING IN "BEST OF FESTS" AT IDFA 2024

Songs of Slow Burning Earth, a haunting and powerful record of the war in Ukraine directed by Olha Zhurba, will be shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam from 15 to 23 November 2024. This will also mark its Dutch premiere.

Our Anne Köhncke co-produced alongside Kerstin Überlacker at the Swedish production company We Have a Plan. Songs of Slow Burning Earth was produced by Darya Bassel at the Ukraine-based company Moon Man, who also produced Outside, the first of Olha’s films that we co-produced.

Having had its world premiere at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, this is only a continuation of Songs of Slow Burning Earth’s amazing impact, and we can’t wait for you to see it!

The film is screening in the prestigious Best of Fests programme, which also features another FCFR title, Manon Ouimet & Jacob Perlmutter’s Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other.

Read more about the screenings at IDFA and book your tickets here.

'TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER' NOMINATED FOR BIFA 2024

We are so proud and excited to announce that ‘Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other’ has been nominated for two British Independent Film Awards.

Not only has the film been nominated for Best Feature Documentary, but directors Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter are up for the Best Debut Director award for the genre.

Winners will be revealed at London’s Roundhouse on the 8th of December.

Watch the nomination announcement from BIFA here, and read more about all the nominees here.

US PREMIERE OF 'TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER' AT CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

We were so proud to see the US premiere of Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet's debut film Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other take place at Camden International Film Festival on September 15th.

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, which has received the Special Mention Award at CPH:DOX 2024 and the Best International Documentary Award at Ortigia Film Festival 2024, follows the artist couple Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz as they grapple with significance and mortality together.

From Camden International Film Festival: Life, death and making meaning are the heart of a beautiful and often very funny film about Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz, an ageing artist couple who, after an accident, face the inevitability of impermanence and seek a deep peace in their relationship while they still can.

The screening was followed by a Q&A with Jacob Perlmutter.

Click here to learn more and watch a snippet of the film!

'VINTERSAGA' PÅ DR2

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.

A SILENT STORY WINS THE CINEFEMME AWARD AT MILLENIUM FILM FESTIVAL IN BRUXELLES

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. 

WATCH CLIP FROM ‘TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER’

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.

'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

'FIGHTING DEMONS WITH DRAGONS' AT THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

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' NOMINATED FOR DOX:AWARD

‘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’.

'THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST' WINS CZECH AWARD

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.”

'VINTERSAGA' NOMINATED FOR GULDBAGGE AWARD

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.

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.

’PRESIDENT’ RELEASED IN JAPAN

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.

'OUTSIDE' WINS THE JAPAN PRIZE AWARD OF HONOR

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.

'A SILENT STORY' IN COMPETITION AT ZÜRICH FILM FESTIVAL

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.