We are huge fans of documentaries and always enjoy catching them at festivals such as CPH:DOX – it’s just a shame that hardly any of these documentaries are then accessible to see in the UK, after all of the festival … Continue reading Top 10 Nordic Documentaries of 2022
Denmark-based filmmaker Sanne This decided to make her and her husband, Albert, the subjects of her debut documentary film ‘An Eternity of You and Me’. The film showed at Copenhagen Dox earlier this year, where we saw it online, and … Continue reading A quirky love story about a treehouse, chickens and infertility – ‘An Eternity of You and Me’ director talks about filming her own personal struggle
Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) is back for 2022, starting on 23rd March and finishing this coming weekend. This year sees the return of in-person events and screenings all over Copenhagen city, and we flew out there to check it … Continue reading Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival 2022: Four films in the Nordic award that examine electro-sensitivity, burnout, karaoke, and the Swedish pandemic strategy
Mads Hedegaard’s Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest is, without doubt, our feel-good documentary of the year. Up there with the brilliant and also Danish documentary, Dark Blossom. Where Frigge Fi’s Dark Blossom introduced us to the tight-knit friendship of … Continue reading ‘Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest’ is the feel-good documentary of the year. We meet Danish director Mads Hedegaard
We saw Raise the Bar at the 2021 Canadian Hot Docs documentary festival and were really moved by the powerful film following a young girls basketball team in Iceland. Their male coach teaches them to be strong physically, mentally and … Continue reading Director Guðjón Ragnarsson’s Raise The Bar lifts the lid on gender inequality in Iceland
One of the great films we caught at Hot Docs was ‘Help, I’ve Gone Viral!’, a Norwegian entry at the festival. The film follows the aftermath when one man’s song about his favourite dish in Indonesia goes viral overnight, and … Continue reading Nordic Watchlist Meets: The two Audun’s behind ‘Help, I’ve Gone Viral!’ documentary
Hot Docs festival in Canada seemed to fly by – we managed to catch only a handful of films from the Nordic region, but they were, without doubt, some really interesting pieces of work. We picked out our favourites and … Continue reading Our hot Nordic takes from the Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival
One of our favourite films shown at Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX in the Nordic Dox award category was The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole. An absolutely beautiful, moving, and musical piece from directors Andri Magnason and Anní Ólafsdóttir … Continue reading SPOTLIGHT: ‘The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole’ documentary- Icelandic directors discuss their film about mental health
I stumbled across these stories having caught an article on IMDB discussing the release of Joonas Neuvonen’s Lost Boys – a follow up to his previous documentary Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland which was released 11 years ago. His first feature … Continue reading Finnish documentary ‘Lost Boys’ (the follow-up to ‘Reindeerspotting’) released at CPH:DOX festival
It has been a busy week here as we work through the 12 fantastic films in the NORDIC:DOX Award category at this years Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival! Following on from Part One, here we give our synopsis of the other … Continue reading Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX – NORDIC:DOX award nominees part two