Almost 50 years on, My Sister’s Kids are still going to film festivals
- Danish international sales boutique Level K is introducing Niels Nørløv’s My Canadian Adventure at the European Film Market
Nearly 50 years after Danish director Annelise Reenberg took My Sister’s Kids on their first thrilling adventure in her 1966 family comedy, Pusle, Blop, Michael, Jan and Amalie are still going to film festivals: this time around it’s the Berlinale, in Danish director Niels Nørløv’s My Canadian Adventure: The Quest for the Lost Gold [+see also:
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But since their last outing, My African Adventure [+see also:
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In their 11th film, the kids join their Uncle Erik (Botoft) in Canada, where their great-great-grandfather emigrated to become a gold digger, and where they go treasure-hunting in the Canadian wilderness. Shot on location around a gold mine near Montreal, and produced by Michael Obel, for Obel Film, My Canadian Adventure: The Quest for the Lost Gold will reach 115 Danish screens today (5 February).
Level K’s Berlinale line-up also includes Oscar-winning Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen’s first directorial effort in ten years, Men & Chicken [+see also:
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Lastly, Christina Rosendahl’s political thriller documentary The Idealist [+see also:
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