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How to Get Rid of the Others

Anders Ronnow KLARLUND

Denmark2007 94min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

In broad daylight, a drunken woman in a wheelchair calls 911. Soon, a helicopter arrives carrying soldiers, not paramedics, who transport her to a school. There she finds specimens of "the Others," the so-called undesirable: drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, bums, cripples, you name it. Christian screens and, on occasion, eliminates them, declaring "they" burden their country and neighbors. To him, artists are the first ones to go. Bellinda, one of the hostages and a resistance member, offers her fate-mates a strategy to survive New Copenhagen Criterias, the on-screen cleanup project reminiscent of Platonic propaganda. Challenging audience with the serious traditional Western philosophical quest for what to do with the Others, the plot races towards an eerie ending where survivors head for Africa, as if fleeing is the ultimate answer. (SHIN Eun Shil)

Diretor

Anders Ronnow KLARLUND

Born 1971, Denmark. Prior to filmmaking he worked within radio and produced for television. Directed four episodes of the popular television series Taxi for the national broadcaster DR TV. While his feature film debut, The Eighteenth[1996] was a winner at the several festivals.