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DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY
THE SECRET LIVES A GIFT FROM GOD

OF PIGS

A hard-hitting and shocking exposé following the young
schoolteacher, Norun Haugen, as she goes undercover in the
industrialised pig industry for five years.

Commercials romanticise farm life while politicians brag about the high ethical standards of national
farming. People dream of leaving the city to live on a peaceful farm and children’s school books depict cosy
family-run farms.
But this is all far from reality. The animals we eat in modern societies are rarely visible to the public.
Most of our pigs, for instance, live their lives far away from us, yet we consume them like there’s no
tomorrow.
Young Norwegian schoolteacher Norun Haugen is skeptical about the romanticised narrative of the
industrial pig farming which is also present in the educational material that she must teach her pupils.
Haugen decides that she wants to see the pigs herself. But the industry is not interested in visitors.
Haugen changes strategy and instead makes phone calls, giving the impression she wants to become a pig
farmer but needs some training. Her plan works as she is allowed to go experience the life on the farms.
From here, a shocking and brutal reality unfolds that sends shock waves through the pig
industry.

DIRECTORS: OLA WAAGEN
PRODUCERS: BJARTE MØRNER TVEIT AND
TORSTEIN GRUDE
PRODUCED BY: PIRAYA FILMS FOR NRK
RELEASE: 2019
FORMAT: 52 MIN.

Was the failed coup in Turkey in fact staged by the powerful
President Erdogan himself? Or was it just an unbelievable luck
for him to use the moment to clean up the country?

Journalist Jørgen Lorentzen was in Turkey when the coup attempt happened in 2016 and followed the
event the whole evening. In the middle of the night one neighbour said: “This is not a real coup, I have
experienced many coups and know what a coup is”. From that moment Lorentzen started the investigation
of the event and its aftermath.
This documentary is a critically analysis of the coup attempt in Turkey throughout the night of the 15th
of July 2016. It differs from the story told by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Turkish
authorities. Brand new documents and film documentations that have never been seen before are revealed.
Through first-hand witnesses, the film meticulously takes the audience through the events of what
really happened during that fatal night. Among these are high-ranking officers, journalists, refugees and
experts as well as the exiled opposition leader Fethullah Gülen. The film shows Turkey’s difficult relationship
with NATO and Europe and how the country has changed dramatically since the coup attempt.

DIRECTORS: JØRGEN LORENTZEN AND
NEFISE ØZKAL LORENTZEN
PRODUCER: JØRGEN LORENTZEN
PRODUCED BY: INTEGRAL FILM FOR
AFTENPOSTEN TV, DR, SVT
DURATION: 52 MIN.
RELEASE: 2019
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