25/08/2005

A total of seven Danish feature films and documentaries have been selected to participate in the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (8-17 September). As we previously announced in Cineuropa (30/06/05), Lars von Trier’s second film in his US trilogy Manderlay [+see also:
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interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
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film profile] (355,389 admissions since April 2005) in the festival’s Contemporary World Cinema. This section has added another festival favourite: Thomas Vinterberg’s Dear Wendy which won a Best Director Award at the Moscow Film Festival last June, as well as Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher- trilogy. The third instalment, I’m The Angel of Death, Pusher III [+see also:
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Tómas Gislason’s documentary film Overcoming, the most popular title in its genre in Denmark this year with 9,676 admissions since its June release, will also have its world premiere in Toronto in the Real to Reel section. Produced by Nordisk Film with financial support from the Danish Film Institute, TV2 Denmark, YLE TV2 Documentaries in Finland, SVT in Sweden, Overcoming offers a close look at professional cycling with former pro rider and Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis in the lead.
Gislason who started as an editor on Lars von Trier’s Element of Crime in 1984 and co-wrote Trier’s Europa and The Kingdom directs his third documentary film with Overcoming after Heart And Soul (1994) and Maximum Penalty (2000).