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A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in...

12-year-old Martin finds the going tough. Manhood is approaching, but so far mostly as aches and pain. His mother's men friends are definitely nothing...

An existential pictorial poem about human life. "Can they stand it? Do they never feel?" (DFI)

It is time for the written examination. Everybody is waiting for the exact time to come where they can turn the paper and start the examination. All t...

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 fa...

A take it or leave it auteur-experimental fiction exercise: two women are monitoring their dreams, dreams that may of course also be stark naked reali...

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

What happens when Adam and Eve have borrowed money for everything they own and have? Then they end up in the hamster wheel, like everyone else, who co...

Collage-inspired cartoon and trick film about a man who wakes up to a world where everything is sticky: the alarm clock, the telephone, the kettle, et...

This film was shot at a factory. A factory making shirts in the town of Herning i Jutland, decorated by Paul Gadegaard. Formerly art was confined to c...

A cinematic experiment that moves in several planes. Four people act out a human course, seen with white silhouettes on a black background. 'Inside' t...

A film about the Nordic countries and the possibilities for cooperating. Based on an idea by Danish film auteur Carl Th. Dreyer. (DFI)

An interview with Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev.

A satirical presentation of the public school debate, exhibiting three different teaching methods. First, the authoritarian education system of old; S...

In a culture where cremation is unusual, cemeteries fill up rapidly. In Latin America and in some other places, to solve the problem, remains are freq...

Starring Reuter Christiansen herself and shot in the lush landscape of Møn, the Danish island where she has lived since 1970, THE EXECUTIONER uses a f...

An art film by Per Arnoldi about a wide range of things with redundant, non-functional ornamentation and banal beauty: Cakes, candies, lollipops, mech...

The race against time ... Water, blooming life/suffocating death. Fighting back to life despite an irreversible loss is the greatest victory over deat...

Report from life at a campsite on Samsø. The campsite is seen as an introduction to Denmark, as a Danish microcosm.

The boy Kim moves with his family from the countryside to a ghetto in a big city. He does not do too well in school, and that makes him an easy victim...