Mads Brügger
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IDFA announces 62 selected projects for 2021 IDFA Forum co financing/co production market
IDFA has announced the 62 documentary projects selected for IDFA Forum 2021. Celebrating its 29th edition this year from 20 to 26 November, the co-production and co-financing market welcomes some of the world’s leading filmmakers, artists, and emerging talents back to Amsterdam to present a dynamic slate of points of view to the international documentary…
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Sarajevo Film Festival announces full CineLink Industry Days 2021 online lineup
From 14 – 19, August, several hour long #CineLink Talks will be presented as part of the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival CineLink Industry Days. All will run via Zoom and feature a live Q&A in which audience members will be able to ask questions of the panellists. Topics include filmmaking during the pandemic, working with…
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CPH:DOX announces climate-changed focused opening film: CPH:FORUM selections
Taking place 21 April through 2 May 2021, #CPH:DOX has announced its opening film, as well as CPH:FORUM projects. Kicking things off for the Copenhagen Documentary Festival will be Danish director Phie Ambo’s climate-change focused 70/30. The film asks profound and important questions: How do we fight climate change? At what cost? And are politicians…
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A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
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The obstacle of a self-appreciative personality
In attempting to break down stereotypical images of Africa, Mads Brügger’s latest documentary The Ambassador creates just another stereotypical image.
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The Red Chapel
Brügger and his travel companions deliver a ballsy theatrical spectacle in a regime of terror. In the opening scene of his latest documentary, "The Red Chapel", director Mads Brügger lies in bed in his North Korean hotel, dressed in robe and slippers and buried in a book by the Dear Leader, Dictator Kim Jung II.