Danish Documentary

Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka....

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in...

In an intriguing cinematic exercise that straddles fiction and documentary, 'Faderhuset' seeks to bare intricate workings of domination and...

From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of...

Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the...

Making film wears down director Lars von Trier, but he is not able to live without them. In the documentary film this Danish auteur’s all-consuming...

Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in...

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the...

Although scientists and agribusiness have started touting edible insects as the future of sustainable food, the notion of eating bugs hasn’t...

Innocence tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service....

Ahmad Jalali Farahani works as a journalist in Iran. On 27 December 2009, he sees an innocent man being killed on the street, but neither Ahmad or...

Over a four-year period, from 2012 to 2016, we follow Anders Matthesen through thick and thin. There are the frustrations leading up to a show and...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard...

You could be forgiven for mistaking Charlie Siem for James Bond. Whether he's driving an orange Porsche to his cliff-top Monaco mansion, ordering...

A poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to start a new life, but stalled in bureaucratic limbo.

In this new documentary you get to follow the life of Ekstra Bladet's editorial staff through one of the papers most turbulent years with...

In 1543 the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the prevailing view of the world: he claimed that the Earth was not the immovable centre of the...