Denmark
2010/digital cinema/105mins
WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 8:30 PM – BUY!
SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER 4.00 PM – BUY!
Two filmmakers spend six months in Afghanistan with a group of young soldiers and capture the complex psychological and moral realities of war.
Opening with the soldiers’ departure from their regimental depot and farewells from family and friends at the airport, we are transported with the hopeful, youthful group of men to a NATO base called Armadillo in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. It’s a dusty, mostly monotonous job that involves trekking into the ‘green zone’ where the Taliban operate amongst mud-walled villages – danger always present. Filmed with breathtaking clarity by cameraman Lars Skree, the film’s observations of what happens in war raise inevitable and eternal questions about the morality of sending young men into battle with instructions to kill the enemy.
Followed by a panel discussion at the screening on Wednesday 2 November 8.15 PM.
Screenings at Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, London and Hong Kong International Film Festivals
Grand Prix – Cannes Film Festival Critics Week,
Best Documentary – European Film Awards
“The moral uncertainty of war is conveyed with devastating effect” Philip French, The Observer
“The gap between political ambitions and battleground reality is brought into sharp focus” Allan Hunter, SCREEN DAILY
Director Janus Metz Pedersen Producers Ronnie Fridthjof, Sara Stockman
Print Source Danish Film Institute
