Meet Filmkontakt Nord at MIPDOC/MIP-TV 2008

Check out 13 BRAND NEW documentaries about politics, gender, identity, race, family, filmmaking and daily life.

Screen them all at MIPDOC!

Visit the stand and learn more about Filmkontakt Nord's new online screening service specifically targeted at international tv-buyers, distributors and film festivals. The FkN VIP Screening Room is an expansion of the current services at the Nordic Portal for short films and documentaries exclusively for registered pre-screening purposes. Check it out now using the links to your right or get an introduction and receive your password on the spot!

Set up a meeting with Katrine Kiilgaard at The Marketplace, stand H 4.35 (5th floor).

Gender Me
An animated Shahrazade of 1001 nights is the storyteller in Gender Me. Her 1002nd story is about the world of gay muslims. Through her story we stroll through the sub-cultures of Islam and meet one of the first openly gay imams. The story is full of personal voyages and contradictory images in a world of taboos. The film investigates the question of faith and gender in Islam and it shows us the secret space for those who are different.  ...More info

Harvesting the Wasteland
On a farm in the remote village of Lykkja in Norway a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law govern the traditional household side by side. There is really only room for one of them. At the age of 54, Marit finally finds enough strength to free herself from the traditions and she leaves the farm.  ...More info

Home
In 1969 a pregnant girl flees her country with her married lover. They end up in Norway where their daughter is born. At the height of fortune the beautiful mother decides to send her 14-year-old daughter away. The daughter is searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles for her true home.  ...More info

I Miss Home
Danish Bashir is 10 years old and lives in the village of Purnia in the Indian state of Bihar. He is born in one of the poorest places in India, close to the border of Nepal. In this area thousands of parents every year make the tough decision of sending their children away to work. Even though the money paid to the children isn't more than eight Euro a month, it is enough to pay for school, food, clothes and medicine. A story about child labour, seen through the eyes of the child and its parents.  ...More info

Imprisoned in Peru
A documentary about Tove (38) serving a sentence of 15 years for cocaine smuggling in Lima, Peru. We follow her ups and downs in the crowded female prison St. Monica, her friendship with the Peruvian inmate Milagros and her Norwegian translator Helen (76), and her love affair with the Peruvian businessman Pepe.  ...More info

Milkbar
A stubborn Polish woman manages a restaurant that dates back to the communist past - a milk bar. Danuta is dedicated to serving healthy and cheap meals. There are McDonald's all over the world, so why can't there be milk bars all over the world?  ...More info

Natural Born Star
In 1967, young Fred Robsahm leaves home, hoping to earn money to buy a sailboat as big as a house. His first stop is Italy, where he becomes a film star and meets true love. Life smiles on Fred, but his longing for the sea is strong. His dream slowly turns into a nightmare.  ...More info

Palna's Daughters
About memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. “Then two people with white faces came to play with me, and after three days I understood that they would be my mommy and daddy.” When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi. “I used to live in Palna, too. I wasn’t bought from a store.”  ...More info

Panso and Ellen
About the dreams of everyday life. Two girls. Two different worlds. Panso lives in southern Ethiopia, Ellen in Finland. Although their worlds are different they have common ways to find joy in everyday life: short naps with the family or a pink notebook of mathematics.  ...More info

Sami Daughter Yoik
A road movie into Sameland. With a summer's course in the Sami language, the director intends to take her place among the people she belongs to.  ...More info

Spirits for Sale
When Annika gets a sacred eagle feather from an Indian visiting Sweden, she decides to bring it back to the US. But to whom? Her quest to find the right owner takes her deep into Indian communities, where she learns about the anger and sadness of traditional natives. But will the feather find an owner?  ...More info

The Dream of the Good Life
Why do we go on vacation? Just to get away from everyday hassle? To “simply be”, as one says. Preferably on a paradise beach. Is this the last dream of the good life? After the collapsed utopias? Diary-reflections during a week on the German island of Rügen – a vacation-paradise in the Baltic Sea.  ...More info

Wrath of Gods
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson and his crew chose Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel in 2004, they expected the usual complications of filming a motion picture. But what they encountered made them believe that even the Norse Gods were against them.  ...More info