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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
A documentary that opens into a looking glass: a conspiracy that chills you.
“Cold Case Hammerskjöld” is a slow-building documentary mystery that sucks you in like a vortex. It offers several intertwined conspiracy theories, at least one of which, by the sternest reckoning, appears to be grounded in reality.
-VARIETY
Conspiracy Thriller Doc Is a True WTF
A Danish documentarian investigates a decades-old plane crash — and stumbles on to a potential sucker-punch of a revelation that may be too bad to be true.
-ROLLING STONE
An enthralling example of a documentary turning on itself
Editor Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani keeps a steady hand, allowing the film to go off the beaten path without ever getting hopelessly lost.
-THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE
has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting?
Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great da Vinci controversy
-THE GUARDIAN
Art, Money and Oligarchy
This documentary about the painting “Salvator Mundi” packs the fascination and wallop of an expertly executed fictional thriller.
-THE NEW YORK TIMES
'Every boy’s dream is to be James Bond': Inside North Korea with 'Mr James' and 'the Mole'
Danish film-maker Mads Brügger’s latest documentary is an absurdly brave look at Kim Jong-un’s regime that has all the intrigue of a spy thriller.
- THE GUARDIAN
“Even by Mads Brügger's standard, it's an insane story, with characters so colourful that if the mole had been fiction, you would probably say it was too unrealistic”
If you have enough money, you can buy both drugs and weapons from the North Korean government, it is documented in an incomparably entertaining documentary series.
-BERLINSKE
"AS AN INTELLIGENCE OPERATION, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE SEEN."
- Ola Kaldager, former leader of the Intelligence Service of Norway's group E 14