Film news
SPOT successfully turned to the cinema
This year SPOT Festival offered a fully unfolded film programme to complement the extensive concert line-up. The initiative was well-received by both the SPOT concert goers and the new film crowd – not least on the last day, when SPOT […]
‘A World Not Ours’ wins SPOT Film Award
SPOT Film culminated Sunday evening with an award show in a packed Øst for Paradis. The winner of the main competition was A World Not Ours by the Danish-Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel. Malou Reymann’s Seksten en halv time received a special […]
Slum Challenge: the making of
The interactive documentary Slum Challenge will be launched in august, but the directors Jonas Unmack Larsen (28) and Mikkel Cantzler Christensen (27) offered SPOT Festival a sneak preview as well as the chance to interrogate them – an opportunity that […]
Jutland Station’s live blog on SPOT Festival!
Follow Jutland Station’s live blog on SPOT Festival! Their editors and contributors are roaming around to bring you everything you need to know about the concerts, film exhibitions and much more. If you can’t make it to the festival today, […]
“Knocking on a closed door”- An inside to Ride the Balance
It may come as a shock to many of the visitors to the SPOT festival this year but in a society that is considered one of the most egalitarian worldwide, gender equality in the music industry seems to have fallen […]
Meet up with Uli M. Schueppel, director of among others The Road to God knows where
We meet up with German director Uli M Schueppel who is at SPOT to present two of his best films Elektrokohle – Von Wegen from 2009 about the historic ’Einstürzende Neubauten’ concert in East Berlin shortly after the collapse of […]
En Maler/A Painter- a beautiful story about hopelessness
In En Maler, An old man lives in a house far away from everyone. He’s a famous artist, who has left the mundane world and created a small, carefully designed universe for himself and his art. His house is full […]
Skammekrogen, an interactive movie that makes you feel like a Dane
The Jutland Station reporting team sat down for SPOT at a dinner table to try out the virtual movie sensation Skammekrogen at Godsbanen. They discovered that it was quite literally an out-of-body experience. “If you feel nauseous, just close your eyes for […]
OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL KICK-OFF RECEPTION AT AARHUS CITY HALL
On Friday May 2nd between 11.00 and 12.30 you are invited to a official kick-off reception at Aarhus City Hall’s Trafikhal. Here the Mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard, will welcome you on behalf of the city of Aarhus – followed […]
Film aims to be as important to SPOT festival as the music
By Morten Scriver Andersen This year, for the first time, SPOT festival has introduced a separate film program with documentaties, short films and music videos. But the film program should not be seen as a separate festival. Instead, SPOT festival is […]
