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Jens Pedersen
DK 2017 22'
⚬ Kids & Youth
A 12-year-old boy Daniar from Kyrgyzstan who succeeds in taming a wild horse, but his father is ultimately forced to put it down. We follow his fight for the horse and his way of dealing with his loss when the horse is put down.
Director | Jens Pedersen |
Producer | Maria Stevnbak Westergren |
Executive Producer | Jakob Gottschau |
Production Company | Pedersen & Co |
Co-Production Company | Toolbox Film |
Cinematographer | Jens Pedersen |
Editor | Jesper Osmund |
Music | Halfdan E. |
Sound | Hans Møller |
CPH:DOX 2017 |
Dok Leipzig 2017 |
Docs Against Gravity 2017 |
TIFF Junior 2017 |
Runtime | 22' |
Spoken Languages | Kyrgyz |
Production Countries | Denmark |
Jens Pedersen is educated from Roskilde University and San Francisco State University. Pedersen has directed a number of documentary films, among others the series FAITH HOPE AFGHANISTAN (2013) and KIDS ON THE SILK ROAD (2017). An episode from FAITH HOPE AFGHANISTAN won the Audience Award and the Award for Best Documentary at BUSTER Film Festival in 2014, and both series have had several episodes selected for a number of festivals such as IDFA.