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DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY
LITTLE GERMANS NEWTOPIA

– GROWING UP The adventurous traveler Audun Amundsen is spellbound in

the deep jungle of Mentawai in Indonesia by a people living
IN A NEO-NAZI like they have always done for thousands of years. A shaman,
Aman Paksa, takes Audun under his wing and a lifelong
COMMUNITY friendship evolves.

As the years pass by, the romantic harmony starts to crumble. Audun is in despair, witnessing the slow and
calm way life is interrupted by rapid modernisation, or rather, by the trash of the modern world. Ancient
New 1 hour version. Based on a true story, Little Germans techniques and natural materials are swapped with plastic and cheap power tools, barter is replaced with
capitalism, paddling oars with motors and muddy paths with highways.
Newtopia is filmed over a period of 15 years. In a story filled with humor and brutal honesty, Newtopia
offers astonishing insights into the structures of various disrupts the films we’re used to seeing from indigenous communities. The viewer will be left with a feeling
rightwing extremist families, presented in a unique mix of of hope and a profound sense that our common human nature can change for the better. Newtopia is much
animation and documentary. more than just another film about an ancient exotic culture heading for oblivion, but instead an epic story of
friendship and human nature.

As a child, Elsa played soldier with her beloved grandpa. Full of pride, she used to shout ‘For leader, nation
and fatherland!’ with her arm outstretched in the Nazi salute. Today, she looks back at a childhood based on
hate and lies, trying to understand what her upbringing in a radical right-wing environment has meant for
her and her own children.
From the emotional perspective of the children involved, we experience what it means to grow up in
such an environment and to be taught day by day to hate the ‘foreign’. How does it feel to grow up in a
world where compassion and affection are secondary and pride in ‘the nation’ stands above everything
else? And who do those ‘little Germans’ become once they grow up? The fate of Elsa and her own children DIRECTOR: AUDUN AMUNDSEN
is only one tragic example of many. She herself manages to quit, but her daughter perishes on the ideology PRODUCERS: CHRISTIAN FALCH,
which was forced upon her. TORSTEIN PARELIUS
Little Germans looks beyond the traditional structures of far-right groups at our middle-class society PRODUCED BY: UPNORTH FILM FOR VG TV
which is more and more undermined by right wing populism. AND NHK
RELEASE: 2019
FORMAT: 80 MIN AND 52 MIN.

HOW TO BE MARRIED

– A tribute to love and togetherness.

Sidsel and Christian are both 26 years old and live together on a family farm in the Danish countryside. They
have known each other for ten years, been together for six, and now they are finally getting married. Sidsel,
the hopeless romantic who refers to Christian as ‘my prince’, has had a dream of a big wedding ever since she
met her husband-to-be. She feels that getting married is necessary to keep the magic in the relationship and
to ‘feel something inside’.
Sidsel and Christian have a uniquely straightforward
approach to the world — and to love. They both have
Down’s syndrome and communicate to those around
them - and each other - with complete honesty and no
filter — often looking at things from a surprisingly poetic
and unusual viewpoint, with a philosophical take on life
that we can all learn a lot from.
The most streamed documentary on TV2 play.

Selected
CPH:DOX, NEXT:WAVE
Main Competition Official selection Official selection AWARD
WATCH DOCS CPH:DOX Giffoni Film festival
2019 2019 2019
DIRECTOR: EMIL LANGBALLE
DIRECTORS: FRANK GEIGER, MOHAMMAD PRODUCED BY: LITTLE DREAM FORMAT: FEATURE AND 54 MIN. PRODUCER: HELLE FABER
FAROKHMANESH ENTERTAINMENT AND BRAVE NEW WORK RELEASE: 2019 PRODUCED BY: MADE IN COPENHAGEN
PRODUCERS: ALI SAMADI AHADI, FRANK FOR SWR AND ARTE IN ASSOCIATION ORIGINAL TITLE: KLEINE GERMANEN FOR TV 2
GEIGER, ARMIN HOFMANN, MOHAMMAD WITH DR FORMAT: 3 X 25 MIN
FAROKHMANESH RELEASE: 2019
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