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Linda Wendel is a Danish filmmaker and screenwriter.
What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "Født til Filmen" is about the Danish actress Stine Bierlich's (1967 - 2007) life and career. Through interviews with herself, with her family - Ann Bierlich (mother), Asger Leth (brother), Jørgen Leth (stepfather), friends and people from the film industry it tells us about Stine's life from being a child actress to becoming a celebrated young star of the 80's. The film is a comment on today's worshipping of stars, and how fame has almost become a drug in itself. It’s as if here’s every answer to any doubt. But as Stine's story shows, reality can actually be the opposite.
Sex, drugs and money are the cornerstones in the lives of these rootles young people living in a big city. Leni and Nova are sisters and they both long to find and understand love. But it is not easy when you're impulsive and irrational and don't fit in to the established society. Nova is a bit more boundary pushing than her sister and one day she takes it a step too far.
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile Juliet, and Rolf Hansen is the coach who tries to keep Julie from life. Other actors, Jesper Christensen as ambitious and indebted father, Trine Appel as the coach's disdain fiance and Niels Skousen as a nightclub owner. "Julie" is a modern update of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie".
Webcam stripper Sally travels home to visit her hippie mother. She is determined to have her mother tell who her father is. For good measure, Sally has a gun in her bag.
Seven year old Lotte becomes invisible when she presses her belly button.
A socially realistic drama about the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter in a windswept port town in Jutland. The mother is from Copenhagen and was once a beauty queen. Now she is married to a fisherman, works at the fish filleting factory, and is having an affair with the factory's unsympathetic owner. She has come to terms with her life, but her daughter cannot accept a future cutting up fish. When she wins a local beauty contest, she sees a chance to escape, but things turn out differently.
Live action kiddie entertainment about two tribes of trolls fighting for control of a Magic Ring. The good witch Tikla meanwhile holds on to the Ring. Viktoria, an underground Troll child, is forbidden to visit the above-ground Trolls, but does so anyway. She meets Viktor and together they go through an array of dangers before they chance into Tikla's den. She gives them the Magic Ring so that they can mediate a truce between the tribes.
A film about one fourteen year old girl whose happy life ends when the family's economic status changes at the family firm crashes and her mother who gets in prison because of creative accounting. The girl loses most of her friends, but regains zest for life when she along with a single friend forms a rock band that achieves great success at a school dance
Mimi is in her thirties, has a successful career as a TV presenter, is married, and appears to be happy. Missing her friends from her old punk band, she invites them to a girls' weekend, but things don't quite go as planned.
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Peter, a theatre director, hates being out of work so much it's affecting his relationship with his girlfriend Marie, an actress. As a remedy, she suggests they stage a play by Strindberg together and bring in her famous friend Liza. Not such a good idea, it turns out. Soon, Liza is applying all her skills to steal the leading role and the director away from Maria, who is not backing down without a fight.
Niels Skousen’s music speaks effortlessly to people across generations. He has been with us all the way from the beat generation, through the hippie era, and strolled through the political landscape to today, where he still stands out as a sharp and loving observer. An unmistakably personal voice and music that freely and unpretentiously speaks directly to the audience.
