Aage Rais-Nordentoft

Born 1969, Åarhus (Denmark). He is a self-taught film director. A drop-out from Åarhus University (Comparative Literature), he used his student grants and loans to hang out at the Danish Film Workshop and Åarhus Film Workshop in order to make documentary and underground films, among others the award-winning THE GLASSWALL (GLASMUREN). His feature debut came in 1996 with the film THE FLYER (ANTON), presented at the GFF 1996. In the following years he made documentaries - including TEENS (TØSER OG DRENGERØVE), WONDERKIDS and OPERATION BILKA - and the feature film FOREIGN FIELDS (PÅ FREMMED MARK, 2000).

Director’s statement

“With KICK’N RUSH I wanted to create a true and emotional film about being sixteen years old and thinking that everyone else know more about sex and love than you. Your only chance is to ‘Kick’n Rush’. I have made the film I would have liked to see myself when I was that age. The films I saw back then were really awful. They blamed society for everything and made being a teenager look really horrible. They were never about real things, like the fact that you have to choose between friends and girlfriends. I wanted to be truthful and celebrate the energy you have at that age, but don’t realise. Everything is new and fresh and you haven’t hardened inside yet. You are really vulnerable and in a storming emotional state”.