SUITABLE / DE UDVALGTE
One-off creative documentary, 56 min., 2013
The journey of four refugee families through the Danish immigration system.
Every year Denmark agrees to resettle 500 refugees from the UNHCR resettlement camps. We follow the Danish Immigration Service and the Danish Refugee Council during one of their selecting-missions in Myanmar and the selected refugees during their first year in Denmark, in their first time trying to adapt to the new life with all its ups and downs.
Director Katrine Philp
Producer Rasmus Abrahamsen, Elise Lund Larsen
Photographer Niels Thastum, Talib Rasmusseeen
Editor Signe Kaufmann
With the support of The Danish Film Institute , DR TV, Nordisk Film- & TV Fond, DANIDA, UR/SVT
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Katrine Philp
Kathrine Philp initially studied film production design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and later graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a documentary film director in 2009.
Philp started her career in 2009 with her graduation film Book of Miri. The film was selected for the IDFA Student Competition and won the European Young CIVIS Media award in Germany.
Philp is a former dancer. After being invited to a ballroom training session, she met with dancers who would become the protagonists of her first feature documentary Dance For Me in 2013. The film was nominated at the 2015 Emmy Awards in the category ‘Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming’.