Dreaming Arizona

Dreaming Arizona

Where does the dream begin and reality end? In Dreaming Arizona, this is the question both for the central figures and for the viewer. Known for...

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Carmen & Babyface

Carmen & Babyface

Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end...

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Time Out

Time Out

Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a...

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Before the Guests Arrive

Before the Guests Arrive

Two aging ladies are preparing for the new season in the hotel that they manage in the Danish island of Fanø. They share memories of old times...

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Ophelia Comes to Town

Ophelia Comes to Town

During a production of "Hamlet", the withdrawn lead actor and the girl playing Ophelia, who has just escaped a life of drugs and prostitution...

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Baby Doll

Baby Doll

A young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict...

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Just the Right Amount of Violence

Just the Right Amount of Violence

In his new feature film Jon Bang Carlsen inserts the viewer into the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles, a world where families put on a brave face to...

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Blinde engle

Blinde engle

Over the Roads, Over the River

Over the Roads, Over the River

Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old...

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How to Invent Reality

How to Invent Reality

Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish...

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Addicted to Solitude

Addicted to Solitude

I traveled to South Africa to find a white family living on a desolate farm. I wanted to film how they faced the new days of equality after the...

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Jenny

Jenny

The 76 year old Jenny Jespersen lives in Bovbjerg byt the west coast of Jutland in Denmark. She has a sober approach to life and a strong Christian...

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Déjà vu

Déjà vu

To what extent does a director stay objective and anonymously hidden behind the camera? The Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen knows for sure that...

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My African Diary

My African Diary

The film follows Hjalmar and Simon, the director’s sons, on a journey of discovery through a foreign land. The family has moved to South Africa...

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Portrait of God

Portrait of God

Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic...

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The Banality of Grief

The Banality of Grief

Since the 1970s, the travelling and extremely productive film poet Jon Bang Carlsen has created an extensive body of work with a creative and...

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Cats in Riga

Cats in Riga

Phoenix Bird

Phoenix Bird

A staged documentary about an American ex-Vietnam soldier who teaches other Americans - men, women, children - to use weapons to defend themselves...

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Næste stop paradis

Næste stop paradis

It's Now or Never

It's Now or Never

On the windswept planes of the Burren, fifty-something bachelor Jimmy McEvoy spends his days constructing dry stone walls and waiting for a call...

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