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Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas JENSEN (1972, Denmark) is a screenwriter and director. In high school he met Tomas Villum Jensen and together they made the short Ernst & the Light (1996), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action. Jensen’s second short film, Wolfgang (1997) was also nominated, and in 1999, he finally won the Academy Award with Election Night. In 2000 he made his first feature film, Flickering Lights. After Adam’s Apples (2005), he took a 10-year break from directing, before returning with Men & Chicken (2015). Riders of Justice (2020) is his fifth feature film. Jensen often collaborates with the actors Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

Filmography

Ernst og lyset/Ernst & the Light (1996, short, co-dir), Wolfgang (1997, short), Valgaften/Election Night (1999, short), Blinkende lygten/Flickering Lights (2000), De grønne slagtere/The Green Butchers (2003), Adams æbler/Adam’s Apples (2005), Mænd & høns/Men & Chicken (2015), Retfærdighedens ryttere/Riders of Justice (2020)

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Anders Thomas Jensen at IFFR

  • Riders of Justice

    Act of revenge devised by grumpy widower (Mads Mikkelsen) gets out of hand – with therapeutic consequences. Bittersweet, absurdist tragicomedy.

    • Limelight
  • Clash of Egos

    Satirical comedy in which a touchy divorced father wants to take his kids to the cinema, but finds himself in the wrong art film. When he wants to tak

    • Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang
  • Men & Chicken

    Two brothers go in search of their father in this mysterious and hilarious, philosophical and absurdist horror comedy. By far the weirdest Danish film

    • Limelight
    • Voices
  • Brothers

    A Danish soldier disappears on a peace mission in Afghanistan. An unmentionable, traumatic event causes shockwaves through his whole family. Moving, h

    • Time & Tide