'Mr. Nobody Against Putin's' 'Insane' Oscars: Artificial Rainbows, Toilet Interviews and Speaking Truth to Trump’s Government

Mar 20, 2026 12:41pm PT

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’s’ ‘Insane’ Oscars: Artificial Rainbows, Toilet Interviews and Speaking Truth to Trump’s Government

Director David Borenstein and producer Helle Faber returned to Copenhagen during CPH:DOX, where they spoke about their political Oscar speech and how 'Hollywood has silenced itself'

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Courtesy of Helle Faber

On a beautiful spring morning in Copenhagen, a newly minted superstar walked into the courtyard of the imposing Kunsthal Charlottenborg museum: Danish producer Helle Faber, whose “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” pulled what many called an upset to win the Best Documentary Oscar just five days before. Unbeknownst to some of the many people stopping to congratulate her on the short walk we take together across the city’s famous canal, the veteran is carrying the famed golden statuette inside a raggedly discrete moss green tote bag.

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