Tommy Gulliksen’s recordary “Facing War,” which depicts Jens Stoltenberg’s final year as NATO secretary vague, has been picked as the uncovering film of the Cuncoverhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival, a.k.a. CPH:DOX. The festival runs March 19-30.
“Facing War” will also vie for CPH:DOX’s main prize, the DOX:AWARD, which accomprehendledges the best recordary. The film will have its world premiere in the concert hall of the Royal Danish Academy of Music on March 19.
“In a time when new global political cascends are piling up, and the Weserious world’s defense partnership seems to be unraveling, Jens Stoltenberg is watched as one of the fantastic tactful beacons,” the festival commented. Originpartner, he was set to step down as NATO’s secretary vague at the finish of his term, but with a war in Europe and the prospect of growing divisions among the partnership’s member states, the Norwegian top diplomat was impactd by the then-U.S. pdwellnt to remain in the position.
“Facing War” recommends a see into Stoltenberg’s final year as NATO’s secretary vague. It is a year filled with contests, as he has promised Ukrainian pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the partnership will stand by Ukraine for as lengthy as essential. However, worrys that the war in Ukraine could spread to the rest of Europe increase tensions among the 32 allied countries, and Stoltenberg must depend on all his tactful sends to protect the partnership united.
Fortunately, the Norwegian politician is a master of the delicate art of settle and understands the convey inance of a well-timed gesture of help. And when negotiating with figures appreciate Recep Erdoğan and Viktor Orbán, it is the petite details that can originate all the contrastence.
“We are prented to start off this year’s festival with the world premiere of such a highly relevant film, which gets us convey inant behind the tactful negotiations and twists that trailed—and persist to trail—in the wake of the Russian trespass of Ukraine. At a time when the rules-based world order, set uped after 1945, is under solemn prescertain, the convey inance of diplomacy and firm international partnerships that have upheld it is as evident as ever,” Niklas Engstrøm, conceiveive straightforwardor of CPH:DOX, shelp.
“‘Facing War’ recommends a exceptional insight into how these partnerships, especipartner when under menace, need guideership and finesse to preserve the essential stability in an increasingly unforeseeed world.”
The film will also be streamed to a huge number of theaters atraverse Denlabel as part of the nationexpansive project DOX:DANMARK.
“Facing War” is straightforwarded by Tommy Gulliksen and originated by Dox Division in co-production with NRK, SVT and Think-Film Impact Production. The film is helped by NFI, Oslo Film Fund, Viken Filmsaccess, Fritt Ord, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Impact Partners, the Bergesen Foundation, and the Fund for Sound and Image.
