Two Danish directors to introduce their respective films: Waiting for the Sun and Tutti a Casa-Power to the People.

Schröder’s Waiting for the Sun produced by Good Company Pictures has its world premiere at the NORDIC DOX competition section while Birk-Pedersen’s Tutti a Casa-Power to the people produced by Magic Hour Films with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond screens at the festival’s Power to the People section dedicated to Europe’s wave of populism. “The two films are made by a team of talented directors and very experienced producers,’ said Autlook Film Sales’ CEO Salma Abdalla.

Waiting for the Sun is a sensitive and nuanced portrait of the Chinese orphanage for children of criminals in Nanzhao, run by a former prison guard nicknamed Grandma Zhang. Through the kids eyes and Grandma Zhang, we learn to understand the climate and the political issues of the Chinese system. The film will have its national release in Denmark on May 8. Autlook holds world rights excluding Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Slovenia, Israel and Canada. (see the trailer: CLICK HERE).

Tutti a casa-Power to the people by the director of Putin´s Kiss, delves into the genesis of the Italian rebel party ‚The 5 Star Movement and their leader and former comedian Bebbe Grillo.

"Tutti a casa is very attractive as Lise Birk-Pedersen  got exclusive entrance to one of the first populist movements that entered Parliament in Europe,” said Abdalla to nordicfilmandtvnews.com. “We boarded the film a few years ago and given the current political situation in Western democracies, the film is more current than ever!” The film co-produced by Finland’s Mouka filmi and Norway’s Piraya Film has screened at six world festivals since January including Göteborg and Thessaloniki and premiered in Danish cinemas early February via Doxbio. See the trailer: CLICK HERE.

Vienna-based Autlook Film Sales is screening six other documentaries during this week’s CPH:DOX including the world premieres of Germany’s Thank you for the Rain by Julia Dahr and Austria’s Free Lunch Society by Christian Tod, as well as the award-winning Machines by India’s Rahul Jain co-produced by Finland’s Iikka Vehkalahti (IV Films).

Other Nordic films in Aulook’s catalogue include Andreas Johnson’s BUGS supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Since Tribeca, the film has played in over 60 festivals outside North America and has been sold to territories including Spain, Norway (NRK), Italy, Spain, Russia, Sweden (UR), Israel, Poland and Canada.

Kino Lorber will release it in September 2017 US wide and it will later go internationally on a major svod platform according to Abdalla.

For the sales agent, SVOD platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime have become key players for documentaries and ‘they can reach new audiences with their feeds as in India’.

“It seems that they are also opening up to cooperate with established structures such as public broadcasters in Europe. Pay per View platforms such as iTunes, Google are also bringing solid revenues, especially if there has been a theatrical release or a clear target audience.”