Waltz for Monica
The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship. Set in the glamour and free spirit of the early sixties. Monica, a young Swedish small town girl is dreaming of the vibrant city jazz clubs of Stockholm. She embarks on an intense journey in the limelight as a celebrated singer and…
Funny Man
Biography of famous actor and entertainer Dirch Passer." Dirch Passer was second-to-none on the Danish scene, in revue theatre and on film. He was in the league of Dean Martin, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman. But he was also blinded by his own success, and he let down his family, his children, his best friend and not least himself in his efforts to be…
Gloria!
Pop and freedom In singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario’s beautiful and rousing musical film, a group of confined young women in 18th century Venice use their musical talents to break free. Tradition and the nouveau clash in this poppy feminist romp about a quartet of renegade musicians. It is the late 18th century in a deteriorating Catholic…
Perfect Strangers
A comedy about secrets hidden in personal mobile phones. Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles. How well do we really know those close to us? During a dinner party,…
Oxana
Charlène Favier follows her César-nominated debut, Slalom, with a hard-hitting portrait of Oxana Chatchko, a modern revolutionary who paved the way for feminist resistance like the #MeToo movement. A biopic about Oksana Chatchko, a rebel artist, Ukrainian refugee, and one of the founders of the FEMEN movement. A contemporary, feminist plunge into…
The Apparition
Jacques is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an impartial and talented investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican who recruits him for a special task; taking part of a committee to investigate the veracity of a saintly apparition in a small French village – a true canonical investigation. Upon his…
Video Kings
Documentary dealing with the phenomenon of the import, copying, and dubbing of films from the west in socialist Czechoslovakia, and marginally also in Poland and Hungary. In the times when it was impossible to officially get films produced in the western countries, there were groups of people who smuggled these films, dubbed them at home, and…
Bolero
Ravel's Eternal Melody. In 1928 Paris, choreographer Ida Rubinstein commissions Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Facing a crisis of inspiration, the composer revisits his life and dedicates himself to create a universal masterpiece, Bolero. Paris, the Roaring Twenties. Choreographer Ida Rubinstein chooses Maurice Ravel to…
Lumière! The Adventure Continues
A collection of 114 early films by the Lumière brothers is restored and compiled by director of the Cannes Film Festival and the institut lumière Thierry Frémaux. The sequel to LUMIÈRE! THE ADVENTURE BEGINS reveals another hundred Lumière films, all immaculately restored, and aims above all to explore more deeply the history of the invention and…
Sex, Drugs & Taxation
Two eccentric individuals changed ‘Old School’ manners of Danish society. Sex, Drugs & Taxation deals with the spectacular historical friendship between two of the most notorious and provocative figures of modern Danish history: the radical right-wing lawyer-turned-politician, Mogens Glistrup, and the “travel king”, millionaire, womanizer and…