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• Hot Docs From Up North

Documentary films have in recent years achieved unprecedented glory and success in the United States. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" not only was named best picture at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, but also made big bucks at the box office. "Bowling for Columbine" attracted a large audience to theatres nationwide, and crystallized a lively debate about violence in schools. Similarly, the documentary "Super Size Me" was yet another U.S. documentary that became a global hit: That orgy of on-screen gluttony even gave the world's largest fast-food chain, McDonalds, a severe case of PR-indigestion. In neighbouring Denmark, [Karolina Lidin] observes, new documentaries tend to have an intellectual and poetic edge. This is probably due partly to the influence of demon director Lars von Trie...

... museum of modern art and the Finnish embassy try to prevent the Screaming Men from performing "... leader Petri Sirviö from the northern Finland town of Oulu takes the ban as a challenge: "Perhap...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. XVIII Num. 15, Novembre 2005
• News

• Moving from A to B.

...The evacuation of staff from an embassy under attack has been cited as one design mission.... at 325 plus 86 on option, consisting of Finland 20, France 27, Germany 80 plus 54 on option, Greec...

• Armada International
• Vol. 28 Num. 5, Octobre 2004

• Nordic Unity - Myth or Reality?

The Finns have a very good knowledge of us, but we don't know as much about them," says diplomat Claes Jernaeus, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs international press room. The senior diplomat observes that if one asks a Swedish intellectual to name 20 contemporary American or British novelists, they would have no trouble with the task, "but they could probably only name one or two each from Finland, Norway and Denmark. Our interest in our Nordic neighbors is less than it should be, which may be the result of our strong exposure to Anglo-American influences," observes Jernaeus.

... Berge, cultural attaché at the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm. There is also a greater cultural awa...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. XVIII Num. 15, Novembre 2005
• News