Decay and creation, hand in hand

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Today all is quiet, but there was a time when Piramida, in the Svalbard archipelago, was an industrious mining town, where life blossomed for Alexander and his small family. Andreas Koefoed's music…

Curiosity and wonder

13. nov 2012 | PROFILE. He always brings the same poetry collection, a Navajo silver clip in his right side pocket and a lens cleaning cloth in his left. He says he's autistic about packing his suitcase and car. And he has…

Picking up the slack

13. nov 2012 | PROFILE. Four filmmakers – Eva Mulvad, Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Mikala Krogh and Phie Ambo – each own a fifth of the Danish Documentary production company and keep all the rights to their films. That gives the…

Stindbergian gravity

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Mikala Krogh has been "the serious one" ever since she was a teenager and hosted radio shows for children and teens. The same gravity permeates her documentaries, Per Juul Carlsen notes. Krogh's new…

New Danish trans-media

13. nov 2012 | TREND. Trans-media and cross-media have been around since the 1960s, but it has never been surrounded by so much attention as now. In this development, the film industry is central. New storytelling forms,…

Condoning crime in the name of mercy

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Director Katrine W. Kjær had always been convinced that adoption was a compassionate act guided by noble institutions. Now that she has finished "Mercy, Mercy" about Masho and Roba, whose parents…

The happiest man in the world

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Brian McGinn, a connoisseur of quirky characters, picked Mette Heide of Denmark to be his producer after seeing a Heide-produced film about the eccentric Japanese inventor Dr Nakamats. "The Record…

My slightly dim-witted friend

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Phie Ambo started filming her family and the world around her when she was 22. She never looked at the footage, but simply used the camera to help her understand the world. Later on, the same social…

The other side

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Janus Metz's groundbreaking "Armadillo" showed us the war in Afghanistan from the point of view of the young soldiers entering combat for the first time. Now journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja…

The world's best film school doc

13. nov 2012 | DOC AWARD. Mira Jargil's graduation film "The Time We Have" has been named best graduation film by the international film school association Cilect.