Janus Billeskov Jansen

A romantic drama set in Denmark in 1913, the story follows Anton, a noble and conscientious young man whose top priority is to complete his training as a cavalry officer. During a training session, he orders his platoon to help Baron von Løvenskjold and finds himself invited to a ball at the castle, where he meets the baron’s beautiful daughter Edith who has been in an accident and ended up in a wheelchair.

O documentário animado nos apresenta Amin Nawabi (pseudônimo), um intelectual altamente graduado de 36 anos, luta com um segredo doloroso que manteve escondido por vinte anos e que ameaça desestabilizar a vida que construiu para si e para o futuro marido. Recontada pelo diretor Jonas Poher Rasmussen, seu amigo próximo, a história extraordinária da viagem feita por Amin na infância, como refugiado afegão, vem à luz pela primeira vez. História de autodescoberta, a animação mostra que só quem confronta o passado pode criar um futuro, e só quem para de fugir de si mesmo descobre o verdadeiro significado de ter um lar.

Para alegrar um colega em crise, um grupo de professores de ensino médio decide testar uma ousada teoria de que serão mais felizes e bem sucedidos vivendo com um pouco de álcool no sangue. Parece a solução perfeita para quebrar o marasmo de seus dias. E, assim, começa esta embriagante sátira social de Thomas Vinterberg.

15 years after "Lost in la Mancha", Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam's new (successful) attempt at filming "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote".

O filme dinamarquês de maior bilheteria da história. Dois detetives investigam corpos mumificados encontrados em um apartamento em Copenhaguen. Quarto capítulo da franquia de filmes policiais Departamento Q, baseados no best-seller de Jussi Adler Olsen.

American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.

Um talentoso engenheiro abandona suas raízes austeras por riqueza e sucesso em meio à elite de Copenhague. Mas o mesmo orgulho que o motiva pode representar sua ruína.

A trama acompanha Michael, um jovem idealista que consegue o emprego dos sonhos nas Nações Unidas e logo se envolve com o programa Petróleo por Comida da ONU. Michael aprende o ofício com Pasha, o diplomata experiente que criou o programa, que se torna seu mentor e sua figura paterna. Com Pasha, Michael aprende que certo e errado são conceitos flexíveis, moldados dentro da ONU para suprir as necessidades de uma causa nobre. A verdade não é uma questão de fatos, e sim de consenso. Orientado por Pasha, Michael se destaca no trabalho e consegue verbas para o Petróleo por Comida. Mas suas ações deixam vítimas. Ao longo do caminho, ele começa a perceber a corrupção no projeto do programa. Quando Michael descobre a profundidade da corrupção no programa Petróleo por Comida, também percebe que teve um papel crucial para garantir os subornos pagos a Saddam Hussein. A única saída será expor tudo, arriscando a vida, a carreira do mentor e a vida da mulher que ama.

Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture.

Examinando a morte violenta do irmão do cineasta e o sistema judicial que permitiu que seu assassino ficasse livre, este documentário interroga o medo assassino e a percepção racializada. Além disso, imagina os destroços na esteira da catástrofe, desafiando-nos a mudar.

Em uma remota vila de pescadores na Islândia, os adolescentes Thor e Christian têm um verão turbulento. Enquanto um tenta ganhar o coração de uma garota, o outro descobre novos sentimentos pelo melhor amigo. Quando a estação termina e a natureza hostil da Islândia reassume seu lugar, chega o momento deles enfrentarem a vida adulta.

O casal liberal Erik e Anna são acadêmicos que decidem transformar a herança de Erik, uma casa extensa em Copenhague, em uma comuna. Tudo parece estar indo bem, até que a receptividade de Anna é colocada à prova quando Erik apresenta sua amante Emma à cooperativa.

A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.

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 his colleagues dare write about the murder. The journalists are hard-pressed and struggle daily against censorship and control, and even the otherwise conservative newspaper Tehran Emrooz gets to know the wrath of President Ahmadinejad, when it is ordered closed after the publication of one single critical picture.

Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged daughter Julie suddenly turns up with his 11-year-old grandson, Noa. Soon, Thomas is forced to take care of the boy. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. But disaster strikes, forcing Thomas to realize he has to make a choice that will change his life forever.

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former husband.

An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.

The filmic approach playfully balances on the edge between documentary and fiction, thereby both underlining and adding to the theme of the film. The two directors have filmed Troels for 4 years, capturing all his ups and downs, the defining moments, both the hilarious and the sad. This material will be combined with Troels¿ video diary where we get even closer, and animation that will bring life to Troels¿ text and inner universe in a compelling and humoristic way. The animation is done by the artist Carl Krull whoose very distinctive style matches Troels¿ story and personality, combining darkness and humor, the grotesque and the beautiful. It will be subtly integrated into the filmed material, at times taking over completely. The story of Troels and the visual approach melt together.

Num país onde os assassinos são celebrados como heróis, o realizador e a sua equipa desafiaram os líderes impenitentes dos esquadrões da morte a encenar o seu papel no genocídio. O resultado alucinante é um delirante sonho cinematográfico, um mergulho perturbador nas profundezas da imaginação de assassinos em massa e no chocante regime de corrupção e impunidade banais em que vivem.

Lucas acaba de passar por um divórcio complicado e é professor em um jardim-de-infância de uma pequena cidade dinamarquesa. A filha de seu melhor amigo, Klara, uma garotinha de 6 anos, acusa Lucas de abuso sexual para vingar-se de um beijo que ele recusou; a menina usa como embasamento a foto de um pênis ereto mostrada pelo seu irmão mais velho. A diretora da escola acredita inteiramente na menina e todos os adultos tentam evitar o seu relato, a fim de supostamente preservá-la da lembrança, enquanto começam a hostilizar Lucas, tomando-lhe como culpado e maníaco.

The Collaborator and His Family is a chronicle of family, assimilation and espionage that follows the El-Akels, a Palestinian family whose father, Ibrahim, has been a collaborator out of ideology with the Israeli security services for 20 years.

Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious illness, Ditte is faced with the grueling decision: To pursue her own dreams, or to continue the legacy of her family.

Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.

A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.

There are only 320 Mlabri people left on this planet. They came out of the jungle in Northern Thailand on the border to Laos one generation ago. The Mlabri people used to be hunters and gatherers. Today they scrape out a meagre existence at the bottom of society working as day labourers for the Hmong farmers, and living in shacks on the outskirts of larger Hmong villages. The Mlabri people are currently going through a transformation process, which has taken many other people thousands of years. Now the young people are faced with the choice of staying with their families in the village or adapting to the Thai society. How do they experience the meeting between their own culture and the local, regional and national majority cultures? In this film young Mlabri tell about their past, present and future as they see it; all expressed in their unique and expressive Mlabri language.

We think, we talk, we write. Without language, we wouldn't be human. Out of the 6500 languages in the world, half of them will disappear. Voices of the World discusses the multiplicity of the world's languages. There is the language of violence, the dying language, the minorities' language, the youth's language and new languages. How will globalization affect them all?

No segundo filme da trilogia dinamarquesa, o personagem principal é o traficante Tonny. Ele acaba de sair da prisão e precisa acertar as contas com sua vida pessoal envolvendo mulher e filho. Mas precisa também acertar negócios com o chefão do tráfico, coincidentemente, seu pai.

While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died within the past year, has managed to survive by her own devices in the wild and has hence become quite feral. Larus convinces Tinke to come to his home so that his parents can take care of her

The directors, who are also partners, take a journey in pursuit of Sami's father, who abandoned his Danish family when Sami was very young.

Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Barbara tries to help as much as possible although Martin is often angry and violent towards her.

In the sixteenth film in the series, in 1917, Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new pal, ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway, make plans to crush Indiana's competitor by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.

Jean Valjean rouba um pedaço de pão e é injustamente condenado a prisão e a marginalidade. Mais tarde ele se apaixona por Fantine, cuja morte intempestiva faz com que ele se transforme no pai adotivo de Cosette, filha de sua amada. O tempo passa e a menina Cosette se apaixona profundamente por Marius, um jovem e carismático revolucionário.

Quando um garoto de 6 anos morre ao cair do prédio onde morava, a polícia entende que foi um acidente e decide encerrar o caso. Mas uma mulher de 37 anos de origem groenlandesa por parte da mãe, que é vizinha da vítima e se tornou uma "especialista em neve", e está praticamente certa que o garoto foi vítima de um assassinato. Ela decide fazer uma investigação por conta própria, apesar de ser pressionada para não apurar o fato. A cada instante ela fica mais convencida que está certa, pois sua vida passa a correr perigo e uma grande empresa está disposta a fazer qualquer coisa para alcançar seu objetivo, que lhe dará um lugar de destaque no comércio mundial

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

A história do Chile da década de 20 aos anos 70 é contada através da saga da família Trueba, que começa com a união de um homem simples (Jeremy Irons), que fica rico, com uma jovem (Meryl Streep) de poderes paranormais. A saga se desenvolve até esta família ser atingida pela revolução, que no início da década de 70 derrubou o presidente Salvador Allende.

Em 1909, o estudante de teologia Henrik Bergman se apaixona por Anna Åkerbloom, jovem de uma família rica que é contra o namoro do casal. Anos mais tarde, eles se casam e se mudam para uma cidade onde terão que enfrentar suas diferenças.

A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Katinka and her husband, Bai, the stationmaster. Katinka, childless and in frail health, gradually falls in love with Huus, though her husband does not seem to notice. Based on the work by Herman Bang.

No final do século XIX, dois emigrantes suecos, Lasse Karlsson e seu filho Pelle, chegam à ilha dinamarquesa de Bornholm na esperança de encontrar trabalho em uma fazenda e poupar dinheiro suficiente para viajar para os Estados Unidos da América.

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a girl his own age and a drunken ex-pilot, who offers him some warmth and understanding.

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Alice does not live at home but with friends in an abandoned factory. She sells drugs to enable them to fulfill their dream of a tavern. When the police are after her, she seeks Hour switch. Here she meets Berit and helps Berit mother south on vacation. But simultaneously pursues Alice of a drug kingpin but cheating him.

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

Mads' father’s company is too small for a proper Christmas tree party, so Mads decides to arrange his own for himself and his best friend. But arranging such a party is easier said than done. It involves theft, intrigue and deception. Can Mads overcome the difficulties, or will there be no Christmas tree party?

A boy, as seen through three ages and episodes of his life: as a small boy having a boy cousin as his house guest, as a high-school boy in abject love, and as a young stud trying to bed down a nurse.

Interview-based documentary about the conditions for gays and lesbians in Danish society.