PRESS
An Alarming Documentary on the Power of Far-Right Social Media Influencers
Swedish director Simon Klose's latest feature follows investigative journalist My Vingren as she tracks an elusive online agitator stirring up hate across the globe.
The Hollywood Reporter
Documentary, Politics, Journalism.
Hacking Hate’s no-holds-barred approach soberingly uncovers the epidemic of hate that manifests itself online (as well as in plain sight) and starkly highlights the vulnerability of democracy.
Tribeca
A Voyeuristic Documentary Infiltrates Online White Supremacy
A tense documentary that winds its way through online right-wing politics, Simon Klose‘s “Hacking Hate” is a detailed (if occasionally disconnected) exposé of contemporary extremism.
Variety
Juan Palacios on ‘As the Tide Comes In,’ a Metaphor of Where We Are as Human Beings
“It is a metaphor for where we are as human beings and the challenges that we’re facing with climate change,” says Palacios about his observational pic, sparkled with humorous touches, such as in the main character’ introductory scene, where we see him trying to enter TV2 Denmark’s reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
Variety
The mudflats in their countless shades of brown and grey; the water in which endless skies are reflected; the birds which also provide the soundtrack together with the ever-blowing wind.
Gregers is a wonderful, tragic protagonist whose history is told in a subtle and highly distinctive way. In the car he listens to the radio programme Farmer Seeks Love, for which he has signed up. He gets a call about his possible participation, asking what he has to offer women. Gregers gets no further than a stammering: “um … nature…”
Business Doc Europe
Thrusts the viewer directly into this isolated community
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
Screen Daily
Fire danske dokumentarfilm udtaget til IDFA
IDFA 2023. Dansk dokumentarfilm er flot repræsenteret på verdens største dokumentarfestival. ’Før Stormen’, instrueret af Juan Palacios og ko-instrueret af Sofie Husum Johannesen, får verdenspremiere i hovedkonkurrencen.
The Danish Film Institute
Carpet Cowboys Review:
Finding Melancholy in the Dashed Hopes of the American Dream
-THE FILM STAGE
With Help From John Wilson
New Documentary Unravels the Colorful Personalities in the World’s Carpet Capital.
-COMIC BOOK
The story of the year’s wildest, most surprising movie
If Dalton, Georgia, did not exist, Christopher Guest would have to invent it.
-THE GUARDIAN
The American Dream
What begins as an offbeat look at a changing industry unfurls into a poignant story about the allure and elusiveness of the American dream and the perennial adaptability and exportability of American identity.
-VOGUE
IDFA Int’l Comp interview: Dreaming Arizona by Jon Bang Carlsen
The process of making Dreaming Arizona helped him come to terms with his past, and understanding his own parents more. “One centre-piece in humanity is our fight to be able to love the people around us,” he says.
-BUSINESS DOC EUROPE
‘Human Scale’ sleepwalks through pro-pedestrian cities topic
The documentary “The Human Scale” explores and celebrates the successful pedestrianization of various cities around the globe, particularly those that have been modified under the visionary eye of Danish architect and urban planner Jan Gehl.
-LOS ANGELES TIMES
Making Cities Work for People
“It seems like you’re at a tipping point between becoming L.A. or becoming Copenhagen,”
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
Andreas M. Dalsgaard's excellent urban-planning documentary should enthuse pedestrians, bike riders and public-space proponents everywhere.
“The Human Scale” makes an excellent case for designing cities around people instead of automobiles, traffic flow having dominated city planning since the 1960s.
-VARIETY
Miami International Film Festival features a Human Rights Watch favorite
'Super Citizen' Antanas Mockus is star of 'Life is Sacred' documentary
-LOCAL10
Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory
A documentary examining the 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld included a provocative claim about AIDS.
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fastest-selling documentary ever
Mads Brügger’s latest documentary The Mole has become DR Sales’ fastest-selling documentary ever, closing new deals with dozens of countries in the past eight weeks.
-SCREEN DAILY
Documentary claims to expose North Korea for trying to evade sanctions
A wild new documentary with an eclectic cast claims to show North Korea trying to dodge international sanctions as members of Kim Jong Un’s rogue regime are tricked into signing bogus arms deals, according to a report.
-NEW YORK POST
A funny, gripping, crazed take on the mystery investigation drama.
Danish provocateur Mads Brugger's latest documentary, 'Cold Case Hammarskjold,' takes him to Africa as he investigates the death of Dag Hammarskjold and nothing less than colonialism itself.
-HOLLYWOOD REPORTER