23/12/2002

It is not every day that a young film director turns down an invitation to one of America’s most prestigious film festivals. Anders Morgenthaler, hardly out of film school, decided not to accept an invitation to present his animated short entitled, Araki – The Killing of a Japanese Photographer at Sundance, 6-16 January 2003. He made the film while a student at the Danish Film School. The reason for his decision is that the film is the first Danish production to be selected to take part in the short film competition at the Berlin Film Festival (6-16 February 2003) for a decade.
Two Danish films were selected to compete in the best children’s film category at the American festival: Kald mig bare Aksel (Just Call Me Aksel) by Pia Bovins amd En som Hodder (Alone Like Hodder) by Henrik Ruben Genz.