Dogma 95 was a joke in Danish film – until it became the most successful marketing tool the Danish film industry had ever seen. But it was also a reaction to a film business with a technology fetish and a dream of a freespirited and borderless films. The Dogme 95 selection presents 8 of the best and influential dogma films, including Thomas Vinterberg’s The Celebration, Lars von Trier's The Idiots, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s Mifune, Harmony Korine’s Julien Donkey-Boy and Lone Scherfig’s Italian for Beginners.
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Per Juul Carlsen has been a film journalist and critic for the last 30 years, mainly on TV, radio and internet at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. In 2023 he published the book The Miracle 1996–2006: Ten years which changed danish film. These days he hosts his own film website Lights!Cameras!Words! www.lyskameraord.dk).
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