DANISH DOCUMENTARIES AT VERZIO FILM FESTIVAL

05/11, Thursday 18.30
C I R K O - G E J Z Í R  CINEMA– Hall 1.
Bp., V. Balassi B. u. 15–17.
Love on Delivery
Janus Metz, Denmark, 2008, 57'
How does a Thai woman marry a Danish man in 3 months? Vocabulary needed: Good morning. Good night. I have a headache. The story of globalization, poverty, survival, and common needs for security, love and “somebody to care about”.

In the northern part of Denmark there live 575 Thai women married to Danish men. 15 years ago there were almost none. But Sommai was there – a former sex-worker from Pattaya. With Sommai as the front woman “From Thailand to Thy”, the film depicts a network of industrious and strong Thai women. Together with a number of compatriots, Sommai now works in a fish factory. She tries to help her niece Kae to find a husband after the girl arrives in Denmark on a three-month tourist visa. With personal ads and female intuition they search for the right man for Kae. Through this rather different love story, we get an intimate insight into the marriages between Danish men and their Thai wives in northern Denmark. An insight that tells the story of globalization, poverty, survival, and our common needs for security, love and “somebody to care about”. Each side has something to offer that the other can't find at home. 

producer: Jesper Jack, Henrik Veileborg
editor: Marion Tuor
camera: Lars Skree, Henrik Bohn Ipsen
sound: Thomas Jaeger
music: Uno Helmersson

06/11, Friday 18.30
C I R K O - G E J Z Í R  CINEMA– Hall 2. 
Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country
Anders Ostergaard / Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, 2008, 52'
Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters take
deadly risks to expose the repressive regime controlling their country.

The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) consists of a group of about 30 Burmese reporters who secretly film the abuses taking place in their country. The footage is then smuggled across the border and broadcast via satellite from the headquarters in Oslo. These are the images that could be seen across the globe when a revolution was about to erupt in the late summer of 2007. Led by Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people took to the streets to march peacefully against the military dictatorship that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years. Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country was compiled almost exclusively from footage shot by DVB reporters. One of them supplies the voice-over. From his hiding place in Thailand, he uses the telephone or Internet to stay in touch with colleagues who report on the uprising: shaky hand-held images of emergency deliberations by protesters, of the crowd being dispersed, of monks and civilians getting knocked down. Their cameras hidden in bags or clenched under their armpits, the DVB reporters risk their lives to take the viewer right into the heat of the turmoil. 

producer: Lise Lense-Moller 
editor: Janus Billeskov Jansen, Thomas Papapetros
camera: Simon Plum, Burmese Video Journalists
sound: Martin Hennel
music: Conny Malmqvist

Related links:
6th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival