Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Göteborg FF 2019 – Nominee: Dragon Award: Best Nordic Documentary
Sundance FF 2019 – World Cinema: Documentary (Best Director)
Sundance FF 2019 – Nominee: Grand Jury Prize
The Hague Movies that Matter Fest 2019 – Golden Butterfly
It's All True - Int'l Doc FF 2019 – Best Feature or Medium-Length Documentary
Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2019 – Nominee: Grand Prix Bank Millenium Award
Human Int'l Doc FF 2019 – Nominee: The Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Award
One World Int'l Human Rights Doc FF 2019 – Best Director
Danish investigative journalist, filmmaker and TV host, Mads Brügger is infamous for his ironic and incisive trawling of the dirtiest of the tainted and the corrupt. In 2011, his documentary The Ambassador was about the trading of diplomatic titles in Africa. Brügger impersonated a Liberian ambassador by purchasing his new identity on the black market. Now he is back in Africa with guns blazing on the trail of the plotters and murderers of UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961. The dirt he uncovers should be creating a stench from London to South Africa via Belgium. In January this year Brügger reported on the Hammarskjöld assassination and the skein of intrigue among the highest organs of government in The Guardian in London. A film of great importance. Miss it at your peril.
Guests
Mads Brügger Director
Mads Brügger is a Danish journalist, television host, author and filmmaker. He has written several books, worked for magazines and newspapers, produced award-winning radio programs, and hosted the critically acclaimed late-night television show The 11th Hour, as well as the daily news program Deadline. Brügger also created the satirical docuseries…Cape Town
- Labia4
- Fri 7 June / 6.30pm
- Tshis
- Sat 8 June / 10am + PANEL
- Labia1
- Mon 10 June / 6.15pm
Johannesburg
- R’bank
- Fri 7 June / 9pm + Q&A
- R’bank
- Fri 14 June / 9pm