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name: "Niels Pagh Andersen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nils-pagh-andersen"
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imdb_id: "nm0026226"
tmdb_id: 124865
wikidata_id: "Q31085760"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "11 October 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:42:12.910529+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Niels Pagh Andersen

## Identity

Niels Pagh Andersen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nils-pagh-andersen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nils-pagh-andersen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0026226
- **TMDB ID:** 124865
- **Wikidata ID:** Q31085760
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31085760, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026226/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124865

Editor. Born 11 October 1958 in Gladsaxe, Denmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 11 October 1958, Gladsaxe, Denmark
- **Active:** 2012–2014
- **Also known as:** Nils Pagh Andersen
- **Frequently works with:** [Joshua Oppenheimer](https://film.one/person/joshua-oppenheimer.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31085760, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026226/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124865

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Act of Killing*](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nils Pagh Andersen (also credited as Niels Pagh Andersen) is a Danish film editor. He began working as an assistant editor in the mid-1970s and has edited several hundred films since 1979, working in both fiction and documentary.

His breakthrough came as editor of *Pathfinder* (1987), directed by Nils Gaup. He has collaborated extensively with directors including Joshua Oppenheimer on *The Act of Killing* (2012) and *The Look of Silence* (2014), Pirjo Honkasalo on *The 3 Rooms of Melancholia* (2004), and Ai Weiwei on *Human Flow* (2017). Other credits include *Everlasting Moments* (2008) and *The End* (2024).

Andersen is the author of the book *Order in Chaos: Storytelling and Editing in Documentary Film* (2021). He has taught at film schools and festivals, served as professor of editing at the Norwegian Film School, and received the Danish Roos Prize in 2005.

*Sources: variety.com, dfi.dk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Look of Silence* (2014), Fi1m 87, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-look-of-silence.md)
- *The Act of Killing* (2012), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lessons in Fire* (2025), Editor
- *The End* (2024), Editor
- *Rohingya* (2022), Editor
- *Taming the Garden* (2022), Editorial Consultant
- *Songs of Repression* (2021), Editor
- *Vivos* (2020), Editor
- *The Tale* (2018), Editorial Consultant
- *Human Flow* (2017), Editor
- *Bikes vs Cars* (2015), Editorial Consultant
- *Leaving Africa* (2015), Editor
- *The Look of Silence* (2014), Editor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-look-of-silence.md)
- *Concrete Night* (2013), Editor
- *The Act of Killing* (2012), Editor — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-act-of-killing.md)
- *Palme* (2012), Editor
- *Twin Brothers: 53 Scenes in Chronological Order* (2011), Editor
- *Football is God* (2010), Editor
- *Last Cowboy Standing* (2009), Editor
- *Everlasting Moments* (2008), Editor
- *Recipes For Disaster* (2008), Editor
- *Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman* (2008), series, Editor
- *The German Secret* (2005), Editor
- *Prostitution: Behind the Veil* (2004), Editor
- *The 3 Rooms of Melancholia* (2004), Editor
- *Lighthouse* (2000), Editor
- *The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf* (1995), Music, Sound Editor
- *Betrayal* (1994), Editor
- *Shipwrecked* (1990), Editor
- *Dying - A Part Of Living* (1989), Editor
- *Pathfinder* (1987), Editor
- *The Boy Who Disappeared* (1984), Editor
- *Otto Is a Rhino* (1983), Editor
- *Da Svante forsvandt* (1975), Assistant Editor
- *Odins øje*, Editor

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