Denmark

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Escaping from the terrorists who kidnapped her was only the beginning.

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One man?s misery is another man?s art.

Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen had a great idea - go around the world collecting people?s complaints, transforming them into a song and having the complainers perform it. And that?s exactly what they did. The result is often hilarious, both in the wide range of whines and grumbles and in the creative way these often trivial cavils are made into music.

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?Even though you can?t tell, I am a good mother.?

The reason for the emotional impact achieved in Applause can be summed up in two words: Paprika Steen. One of the world?s most vibrant actresses (having starred in such films as Adam?s Apples, The Substitute and Open Hearts), Steen has the innate ability to make us laugh, cry and, yes, even to fear her with just a glance.

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Start the twentieth anniversary celebration of Cinequest in its tradition of discovering electrifying cinema. Cinequest kicks off with a powerhouse, starring Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Brian Cox (Match Point, Troy, The Bourne Identity) and emerging master Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, Gigantic). Dagur Kári (Noi the Albino) directs, nurturing flawless performances from Cox and Dano while delivering a spectacular cinematic experience. And at its core, its story, The Good Heart resonates with quirks and jabs that pack the considerable punch.

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Philip is a successful architect, a single dad having a difficult time with his 16-year-old son. When he learns of his fatherÕs death, a father who abandoned him years ago, Philip makes an obligatory journey to the funeral, only to find that he has a burning need to discover who this man was that he had resented for his entire life. At the funeral, Philip meets Karl, his fatherÕs friend at the nursing home, and Karl sees an opportunity he canÕt pass up. As Karl moves out of the nursing home and in with Philip, both father and son use Karl as the surrogate dad they had always hoped for.

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Great stories are timeless. Great people are inspirational. Sometimes, on a rare occasion, we are lucky enough to discover both. A Polish Jew, Moritz Rabinowitz, was an astute businessman who built his clothing empire from scratch, after years of selling textiles and watches from village to village. Before the war, he was an outspoken fighter against Nazism and was the first person the Germans wanted to arrest after the occupation.

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Nete is a 35-year-old woman who has never really been able to relate to her father, a bitter and introverted man, who has not only alienated himself from his daughter, but also disowned his son. When her father falls ill and Nete is told he has three weeks to live, she has no other choice-over his objections, she tells him that he is moving in with her. Nete's father moves in, which strains an already tenuous relationship among Nete, her professor husband, and their teenager daughter. Three weeks pass; then a month; then six months, and Nete feels that her father is never going to die.

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Morten Korch's much-loved novel, The Lady of Hamre, translates beautifully into a sun-drenched, idyll and fiery drama. Set in the late nineteenth century, long before women's liberation, it is the visually bold and stylized portrayal of a woman's life and fate as the heiress to the family farm. Bente makes a promise to her father, on his deathbed, to marry a neighbor's son and to carry on the family farm. Unfortunately for Bente, her husband, Gorme, is loutish and cruel and tries to take over the farm on his own terms.

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A remote part of the country, an isolated farm, a woman with an unrequited passion, and a man on the verge of insanityÉ Torben Skjodt Jensen's debut black & white feature is a rare visual experience. One breathtakingly beautiful suite of images succeeds another in a hypnotic rhythm reminiscent of Terence Malick's Days of Heaven. The man of the title, Adrian Palmberg, lives to be a hundred, and the film follows him to his miraculous end.

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Sometimes, the most difficult moves to master are outside the ballroom.