SXSW Film Preview: In A Better World

Sony Pictures Classics

Suzanne Bier is no stranger to awards season. Her 2006 film After The Wedding was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. This year, she had a pretty amazing one-two punch when In A Better World won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film a few weeks before it took home the same prize at the Oscars (After The Wedding had previously lost out to The Lives Of Others). It was only the third Danish film to take home the award, following Babette's Feast and Pelle The Conqueror, both late 80's winners of the Foreign Film Oscar.

This film follows Anton, a man who lives in a small Danish town and works at a camp for African refugees. That environment is contrasted with his own life, where he is dealing with a separation from his wife and the struggles in raising their own two children in a fractured family. When one of their sons is the victim of serious bullying at school, Anton's own moral compass and belief in nonviolence is challenged.

Sony Pictures Classics picked up domestic rights to the film and is preparing to release it starting April 1 in New York and Los Angeles. You have two chances to view it during SXSW. Check out the trailer and screening information below.

In A Better World plays Friday, March 11 at 6pm at the State Theatre and Saturday, March 12 at 6pm at Alamo South Lamar. For the full schedule, go to SXSW.com.