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Fenar Ahmad
Fenar Ahmad (in Arabic فنار أحمد) is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in Czechoslovakia to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family emigrated to Denmark. There he studied film in the alternative film school Super16. Ahmad is known for the award-winning 2010 short film '' Megaheavy'', co-written by Ahmad and Jacob Katz Hansen and directed by Ahmad. It won Robert Award for Best Short Fiction/Animation for 2010 during the 27th Robert Awards in Copenhagen on 7 February 2010. In 2014, Ahmad directed the long feature film '' Flow'' (also known by the Danish title ''Ækte vare'') starring Danish rapper Kian Rosenberg Larsson, better known as Gilli. The film was nominated for New Talent Grand PIX at the CPH PIX festival in 2014. It was also nominated for the Best Children / Youth film and for Audience Award at the Robert Film Awards. The soundtrack for the film with rap music by Gilli, MellemFingaMuzik, Murro, KESI, Højer Øye and S!vas charted peaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Language
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Møller
Roland Møller (; born 28 May 1972) is a Danish actor. He won the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for '' Land of Mine'' (2015), and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ''Nordvest'' (2013). He has appeared in high-profile films like ''A Hijacking,'' '' Darkland, Atomic Blonde, Papillon,'' and ''Skyscraper.'' Early life Møller grew up in a criminal environment in Odense, Denmark. He had 10 assault convictions and had served time for a total of four and a half years before he was released on parole under the condition he leave Odense in 2002. He subsequently attended Den Rytmiske Højskole, a music folk high school, and then moved to Copenhagen, where he began working with the rapper Jokeren as a songwriter. Career Møller made his acting debut in the 2010 prison drama film '' R''. While Møller was originally involved as a consultant in the film set in Horsens State Prison, where he had served time, co-director Tobias Lindholm offered him an acting role in the fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1981 Births
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Danish Film Directors
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk * List of Danes * Languages of Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely Faroese, German, and Greenlandic. A large majority (about 86%) of Danes also s ... {{disambiguation Language and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all titles are World, International, European, UK or Scottish Premieres), in all genres and lengths. It also presents themed retrospectives and other specialized programming strands. The festival is run by the Centre for the Moving Image. History The International Festival of Documentary Films, a programme of documentaries, was presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild alongside the 1947 Edinburgh International Festival. At the time, Cannes and Venice were the most significant annual film festivals. Over the subsequent years, the programme expanded to include fiction films and experimental work in addition to documentaries. Linda Myles was director of the Festival from 1973-80, initiating a number of reappraisals and new viewpoints, notably " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm International Film Festival
The Stockholm International Film Festival ( sv, Stockholms filmfestival, italic=no) is an annual film festival held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was launched in 1990 and has been held every year since then during the second half of November. The winning film in the international competition section is awarded the Bronze Horse (Bronshästen). At 7,3kg (16 lb) the Bronze Horse is the heaviest film award in the world. It is also a paraphrase on a national design icon, the Swedish Dala horse, and was created by artist Fredrik Swärd. Since its start the Stockholm International Film Festival has focused on supporting new talents through competitions and scholarships. As many as a third of the films selected for the competition are made by a debuting director and by directors who have made fewer than three films. In 2011 "The Stockholm Film Festival Feature Film Award" was inaugurated which funds a feature film for an unestablished female director. The aim for Stockholm International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odense International Film Festival
OFF - Odense International Film Festival is an Academy Award-Qualifying, week-long short film festival in Denmark. It takes place every year in the last week of August. The festival made its debut in 1975, making OFF the eldest film festival in Denmark. OFF - Odense International Film Festival is part of the municipality of Odense. Overview OFF - Odense International Film Festival offers a multitude of screenings, talks, workshops, debates, seminars, industry events and parties. The majority of the festival activities take place around BRANDTS, one of the leading art museums in Denmark presenting new and classic art alongside visual culture. All competition screenings are open to the public. Director and revitalization In 2009, Birgitte Weinberger took over the festival and was given a completely new role as both head of festival as well as artistic director of the festival. Prior to this, the festival had not had an actual head of festival, but instead the managerial structu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valhalla (2019 Film)
''Valhalla'' is a 2019 Danish dark fantasy adventure film, directed by Fenar Ahmad, and based on the comic book of the same name ("Cry Wolf") by Peter Madsen, Hans Rancke-Madsen and Henning Kure. The film was released on 10 October 2019, the same date as the original 1986 film. Summary The Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god's barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the gods the two children must fight to save Valhalla from the end of the world - Ragnarok. Cast * Cecilia Loffredo as Røskva * Saxo Molthke-Leth as Tjalfe * Roland Møller as Thor * as Loki * Reza Forghani as Quark * Stine Fischer Christensen as Frigg * as Týr * Asbjørn Krogh Nissen as Odin * Ali Sivandi as Skrymer * Uffe Lorentzen as Útgarða-Loki * as Baldr * Salóme R. Gunnarsdóttir as Freyja * Lára Jóhanna J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukendt Kunstner
Ukendt Kunstner (; English: 'Unknown Artist') is a Danish hip hop group from Copenhagen, founded in 2012 by rapper Hans Philip, producer Jens Ole Wowk McCoy, alongside singers Rollo and King. They were signed to the label Sony Music Denmark. The duo started under the name Skørmand before changing it to Ukendt Kunstner. They released their commercial debut single "København" in 2012, taken from their mixtape ''Hælervarer'', and gained widespread fame through their first album ''Neonlys'' and its title track. In 2013, they were nominated for "Danish Urban Release" during the Danish Music Awards and in 2014 nominations for P3 Guld for "P3 Talent" and "P3 listening hit". In 2014, they released their follow-up album ''Forbandede Ungdom''. At Danish Music Awards 2014, they won the prize as "Årets Danske Gruppe", which translates to "Danish Group of the Year". In December 2016, after the release of their third album, ''Den Anden Side'', they announced that they had decided to stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branco (rapper)
MellemFingaMuzik is a Danish hip-hop group, consisting of rappers Stepz (Ibrahim Kucukavci) and Branco (Benjamin Cimatu). The duo started publishing materials in late 2011, after which they joined the Danish record label HideOut that also had signed up rappers Jooks and Sivas. When HideOut closed, MellemFingaMuzik started a collaboration with the newly formed label Grounded. They also teamed up with Benny Jamz and Gilli, from the B.O.C. collective, and all formed the common front and collective known as the Molotov Movement (now known as Molo). MellemFingaMuzik released a self-titled EP, being a mix of songs previously released on YouTube, as well as two new tracks "Salute" and "Molotov". Members In addition, both Stepz and Branco have released solo materials Branco Benjamin Branco is a Danish musician and rapper. He released his album ''Baba Business'' at the end of June 2019. In 2020, Branco collaborated with Gilli in the duo Branco & Gilli with a chart topping album ''Euro C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
