Awards

Unsensational and strikingly shot by Lars Skree, Armadillo is both absorbing and thought-provoking; qualities that make it a significant addition to the documentaries on the war on terror.”

http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/latest-reviews/armadillo/5014002.article

Best Photographer – Lars Skree It has never happened before that Bodil for Best Photographer is awarded for a documentary. But it has probably not happened many times before that a photographer is set to take pictures under such difficult conditions as Lars Skree in ‘Armadillo’.

With a camera on his shoulder, Skree went into the field and came home with a strip of images from Afghanistan, which at once shows the horrors of war and peace and which at the same time tells an important story. Having one eye on what happened around him and the other eye free to think about the film’s expression is a difficult task performed by a master in total balance.

Photographed with an astonishing mixture of lyricism, acute observation and gut-wrenching immediacy by Lars Skree.”

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/10/armadillo-review-afghanistan-janus-metz

Best Documentary – Armadillo! We are immensely impressed with ‘Armadillo’, and it’s not just because Janus Metz has created a solid, visually breathtaking and entertaining film on harsh terms.

It is also an extremely sober documentary about young Danish men who slowly but surely on the often meaningless patrols in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, become warriors, and may, perhaps not, liquidate wounded Taliban. ‘Armadillo’ is an unusually underplayed war film, and not least because of that, the film becomes an unflinching testimony to Denmark’s national loss of innocence.