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Bier and Levring at London Fest

LONDON. "If people thought my films were proper and nice and predictable, I would rather open a bakery or write a cookbook. That's not why I make films." Discover more about Susanne Bier's harsh thriller drama "A Second Chance," Kristian Levring's Western "The Salvation" and other Danish titles at BFI London Film Festival.

9. October 2014 Redaktionen

In addition to Susanne Bier's "A Second Chance," which had its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival, audiences at the London Film Festival will get a chance to experience a Danish Western, Kristian Levring's "The Salvation" with Mads Mikkelsen playing a Danish settler in the 1870s in America. The film premiered earlier this year at Cannes Film Festival.

Filmmaking is "brutal and demanding work, and it's fun because you lie awake at night thinking about it. It should satisfy your creative curiosity and provoke you," Susanne Bier says.

Read the full interview What Is a Good Person? where Bier discusses moral issues on film, her work ethos and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Kristian Levring talks about his dream coming true with "The Salvation" in Into the Wild.

On the bill for London Film Festival is also Fenar Ahmad's "Flow," where music plays a vital role. Starring Danish rapper Gilli, Ahmad's debut feature is a story about a young man who grows up in a housing project and dreams of becoming a rapper.

Again, it's music that makes the protagonists dream in Martin Miehe-Renard's "The Contest – To the Stars and Back," in the shape of two unlikely friends, Karl and Sawsan, who embark on a journey that will give Sawsan the chance of her life: to perform her own song at the Young Eurovision Song Contest.

Susanne Bier is also bringing her US production "Serena" to London Film Festival, while Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen stars in Peter Strickland's "The Duke of Burgundy."

BFI London Film Festival / 8-19 October

Watch trailer for "A Second Chance"

A Second Chance

Susanne Bier, 2015

Detectives and best friends, Andreas and Simon, lead vastly different lives. Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son, while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. However, all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs.

The Salvation

Kristian Levring, 2014

1870s, America. When settler Jon kills his family's murderer, he unleashes the fury of the notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town's black heart.

Flow

Fenar Ahmad, 2014

Michael lives in a housing project. He and his friends make music together. Michael is clearly the biggest talent in the group, and one day he is discovered by the established rapper Apollo who makes Michael his ghostwriter.

The Contest - to the Stars and back

Martin Miehe-Renard, 2013

Being a stranger doesn't necessarily mean to be coming from the farthest away. Karl and his mother are about to learn this when they move from the west coast of Denmark to the ethnically, and religiously, mixed area of Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Sawsan, a young Muslim girl in Karl's new class, takes him under her wings and tries to integrate him into the big city, with all its slang and hipness.