''Flow'' also known in Danish as ''Ækte vare'' (meaning genuine) is a 2014 film by Danish film director

Fenar Ahmad Fenar Ahmad (in Arabic فنار أحمد) is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in Czechoslovakia to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family emigrated to Denmark. There he studied film in the alternative film school Super16 ...

based on a screenplay by Anders Ølholm.Already known for his short films, this is Fenar Ahmad's debut long film feature.

Synopsis

Mikael (played by Danish rapper Gilli grew up in

Brøndby Strand Brøndby Strand (in English: 'Well Town' Beach) is a suburb in Brøndby Municipality, approximately south-west of central Copenhagen, Denmark Overview Brøndby Strand contains a large housing project, in which 8,000 of the suburb's 11,000 inhabit ...

an impoverished large housing project area with high concentration of immigrants. Together with Tariq, Samir and Eddy, he has a dream of living making music and rapping. They are a cohesive crew that sticks together and the crew members defend each other at all costs. Mikael is the group's talent, and more serious than the others. That's what the older incumbent rapper, Apollo, sees in him. As Apollo needs help in making a comeback, he hires Mikael to write his songs. While Apollo introduces Mikael for the hub and excesses of the music world and partying, tours, abundance of ladies, his earlier friends begin to doubt Mikael's loyalty to them. At the same time, Apollo is beginning to understand that Mikael's talent is far greater than his own - and Apollo is in no way interested in letting Mikael in the foreground. But real talent is hard to hold down and the showdown is inevitable.

Cast

Kian Rosenberg Larsson Kian Rosenberg Larsson (born 27 June 1992), known professionally as Gilli (), is a Danish rapper, singer, and songwriter from Rødovre, Capital Region. After initially growing out of the B.O.C. rap collective and releasing several singles betwe ...

(aka Gilli) as Mikael *

Ali Sivandi Ali Sivandi is a Danish actor in Danish films, television series, on stage and radio. Beginnings Ali Sivandi’s father is an Iranian immigrant who worked as an auto painter and his mother is an Arab Iraqi with additional roots in Kazakhstan and R ...

as Tariq *Lirim Jusufi as Samir *

Benny Jamz Benjamin Jacob Small Heyn-Johnsen (born 22 August 1993), also known as Benny Jamz or at times Höjer Øye is a Danish-Jamaican rapper and record producer. He has been a member of the B.O.C. rap group collective and of the Molotov Movement (also k ...

as Eddie *Rasmus Hammerich as Apollo *Sivas Torbati as S!vas *Hassan El Sayed as Hussein *Hilal Anyabo as Hilal *Marijana Jankovic as Jelana *Frederik Christian Johansen as Jens *Maria Erwolter as Mor *Casper Sloth as Christian *Morten Ruben Sørensen as Klaus *Mikkel Arndt as fitter *Ediz Caliskan as Rapper *Ana Maria Solbjerg as Asra *Songul Aras as Baseema *Reza Sivandi as Tariq's father *Eysar Al-Jadri as Tariq's mother *Adam Al-Jadri as Tariq's small brother *Esat Ünal as a DJ *Reza Forghani as a DJ *Idris Ahmad as Rashid *Kata Jankovic as Jelana's mother

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film was released on 1 April 2014 on

ArtPeople PeopleGroup, 2015-09-20. ArtPeople is a Danish arts and entertainment company specializing in book and music publishing and also acting as a booking agency. ArtPeople runs a music company that, among other things, includes the distribution of rec ...

with rap music by Gilli, and additional music by

MellemFingaMuzik MellemFingaMuzik is a Danish hip-hop group, consisting of rappers Stepz (Ibrahim Kucukavci) and Branco (Benjamin Cimatu). The duo started publishing materials in late 2011, after which they joined the Danish record label HideOut that also had sign ...

, Murro, KESI, Højer Øye (known by stage name

), Reza Forghani and rapper S!vas. It also contains music by music producer Jens Ole McCoy also known as Carmon (part of the Danish hip hop duo Ukendt Kunstner). The soundtrack album charted on the Danish

Hitlisten Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Thursday midnight on the website hitlisten.nu. The weekly Danish singles chart Track Top-40 combines the 40 best-selling tracks from legal music downloads ...

Albums Chart peaking at number 8.

Tracklist

#"Grå Dage" (Gilli feat. Murro) (2.40) #"Knokler Hårdt (Gilli) (4.05) #"Ung Entreprenør" (Gilli feat.

) (5:57) #"Hele Igennem" (Gilli feat. KESI & Højer Øye) (4:21) #"Hårde Tider" (Gilli feat. Højer Øye) (3:50) #"Penge Kommer Går" (Gilli 3:41) #"Trykker Sedler" (Gilli feat. S!vas & MellemFingaMuzik) (5:23) #"Alt Jeg Har Set" (Gilli feat. Murro) (3:59)

Reception

Soundvenues reviewer Jacob Ludvigsen gave the film four out of six possible stars. Ekko Filmmagasinet's Nikolaj Mangurten Rubin also gave it 4 stars.

Award nominations

The film was ''nominated'' for six awards:IMDb: Ækte vare (2014) Awards
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during the 2014 CPH PIX Aiards *Audience Award for the film during the 2015 Danish Film Awards (Robert) *The Robert (award) for "Best Children/Youth Film" for the film during the 2015 Danish Film Awards (Robert) *The Robert (award) for "Best Sound" for Peter Albrechtsen during the 2015 Danish Film Awards (Robert) *The Zulu Award for Best Film for Fenar Ahmad during 2015 Zulu Awards *Best Supporting Actor for Ali Sivandi during the Bodil Awards 2015

References

External links

*{{imdb title, id=3550444 2014 films Danish musical drama films 2010s Danish-language films