Niels is one of the last idealistic farmers in the agricultural country of Denmark. He makes some of the world's finest products, praised by the consumers, prized by the world's best restaurant, NOMA in Copenhagen, and nursed in harmony with the universe. But Niels' ways of farming in accordance with the planets and the primal instincts of the animals are not too popular with the authorities. They are threatening to withdraw his license to keep cattle, the buildings are deteriorating, and with no successor to take over, Niels risks seeing his life fall apart.

Direction: Phie Ambo

Script: Phie Ambo

Production: Malene Flindt Pedersen, Malene Flint Pedersen

Cinematography: Phie Ambo, Maggie Olkuska

Editing: Theis Schmidt

Sound: Rasmus Winther Jensen

Original Score: Johann Egill Johannsson

Cast: Niels Stokholm

Original Title: SÅ MEGET GODT I VENTE

Original Language: Danish

Subtitles: English

Film Production Country: Denmark

Website: http://danishdocumentary.com/films/niels/

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Statement of the Director/s
I met Niels one year ago because I was visiting his farm with my children and I immediately fell in love with the warm and sensitive way that Niels and his wife Rita run the farm. The live in a devoted pact with everything in our universe from the smallest microorganisms to the plants that surround us. I also felt that Niels was a great character because behind his cosy Santa-Claus-look there is a stubbern anarchist. Niels wants to respect and preserve the cattles natural instincts which for instance means that they are drinking from big bathtubs instead of running water in cups. This is prohibeted in modern organic farming.
I am looking forward to shooting the film until summer 2013 because I think the farm will go through some big changes in the year to come. Niels is not only fighting against regulations but the buildings are also falling apart and there is no money to fix them. Niels is now 79 years old and he still hasn’t found the right inheritor for the farm.
This is a film about rediscovering the joy that most people experience in their childhood when you´re just being present in nature. I want to give the audience the same profound feeling of being alive that I experienced when I first came to the farm. I want to make a film that reminds us to live our everyday lives with devoutness so that one one day we wont wake up realizing that we never lived.

Biography of the Director/s
Phie Ambo graduated as a documentary film director from The National Film School of Denmark in 2003, at which point she had already achieved international recognition for her film Family by winning the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA in Amsterdam; an award widely recognized as the most prestigious award in documentary filmmaking. She has made films on a variety of subjects – all of which are popular amongst both festival boards and people the world over. She is co-founder of Danish Documentary Production, which is co-owned by directors Eva Mulvad, Pernille Rose Grønkjær and Mikala Krogh, with producer Sigrid Dyekjær as well.
Songs From the Soil, 2014
Free the mind 2012
The Home Front 2010
Fever 2010
Mechanical love 2007
Happy go lucky 2006
The Diver Inside Me 2003
Family 2001

Awards Won
Durham, Full Frame 2015:
Nicholas School Environmental Award
Ile de France, FIFE, Environmental Film Festival 2015:
Grand Prix

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