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Launched in 1992, the production company Zentropa was created by Lars von Trier and the group was at the forefront of the Dogme 95 movement which saw films like the celebrated Festen. The group went on to produce new films from von Trier, Susanne Bier, Thomas Vinterberg, Niels Arden Oplev and more, and we are getting a new project from the company at Sundance this year.

Titled The Ambassador, this film could easy be mistaken as a documentary but that is not the case. Directed by Mads Brügger, it follows a European man heading to Africa for diplomatic purposes. I get a more off-kilter Borat vibe from this one, but check out the first trailer below from the official page (via Bleeding Cool), along with the first images.

Synopsis:

A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa, looking like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld.He has...

#03. The Ambasador - Mads Brügger Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance back in 2010 for The Red Chapel, Mads Brügger pointed his Gps towards Central African Republic - where according to the filmmaker, poses as "the Man with the Yellow Hat gone bad" - the Curious George character but in the diamond trading mode. The Ambassador receives it world premiere by opening the Idfa later this month and it would logically make sense for him to continue the festival circuit showings by landing in Park City 8 weeks later with a slot opening in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Gist: A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa, looking like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld. He has recently bought an ambassadorship and claims to be a do-good rich business man, who has come to spearhead a diplomatic mission. Officially he is there to start...