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#1 for Audience Award at Rotterdam Intl Film Festival

Our latest documentary Back to the Square is currently in the lead for the Audience Award at Rotterdam Intl Film Festival. Martin Scorsese’s new film “Hugo” is closing in, but fingers crossed the doc on the Egyptian revolution will pull …

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Brugger awarded Carl Th. Dreyer prize

Director of The Ambassador, Mads Brügger has been awarded the Carl Th. Dreyer Award 2012 for his outstanding artistic contributions. Carl Th. Dreyer is recognised as one of the greatest Danish filmmakers of all time. The memorial fund in his …

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Back to the Square Opening Film in Prague

Back to the Square has been selected Opening Film at the 2012 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which runs in Prague in the Czech Republic from March 6th to 15th. One World is currently the largest human …

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Back to the Square selected for Rotterdam

Our new documentary from Egypt, Back to the Square, will have its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 25 – February 5, 2012), where it will be screening in the Signals: Power Cut Middle East section. IFFR SCREENINGS: …

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The Ambassador to Sundance

The Ambassador is in competition at the Sundance Film Festival: “Mads Brügger returns to the Sundance Film Festival (The Red Chapel [Det røde kapel] won the World Cinema documentary Jury Prize in 2010) with yet another brilliant example of gonzo …

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My Beloved beats blockbusters

Incredible news from Northern Norway; our documentary My Beloved is attracting more audiences than Hollywood heavyweights such as Sherlock Holmes, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alvin and the Chipmunks 3 etc. Here’s an article from local paper Harstad Tidende: …

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My Beloved in theatres across Norway

Our honest and brave documentary film about Alzheimer’s disease has been released in cinemas across Norway. My Beloved premiered in the film’s and main characters’ home town of Tromsø on December 9. Check out filmweb.no to find a screening at …

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The Ambassador is coming to Norway

We are proud to announce the arrival of The Ambassador! A Zentropa production, The Ambassador is a wonderful political satire about the hidden world of diplomacy in Africa with reckless diamand hunts and power misuse directed by Mads Brügger. As …

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My Beloved wins top prize at Nordische Filmtage!

My Beloved has won the prize for best documentary at Nordische Filmtage in Lübeck, Germany. The jury stated that “With a great sense of empathy and highly sensitive camerawork, the director has succeeded in presenting the audience with an impression …

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My Beloved to Nordische Filmtage

My Beloved will be screened at the Nordische Filmtage in Lübeck Germany in early November. The first screenings is in Stadthalle on November 3rd, a few days later on November 6th German audiences can once again have the pleasure of …

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