Sofie Gråbøl, actress

13. feb 2013 | PROFILE. She has become known to the world as idealistic detective in "The Killing" which took its very last breath on BBC in December. What few Sarah Lund aficionados probably suspect is that Sofie Gråbøl,…

Lindholm and Vinterberg teaming up again

12. feb 2013 | FILM PEOPLE. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm are renewing their partnership from "Submarino" and "The Hunt", co-writing "The Commune" based on a stage play by Vinterberg about his childhood in the '70s.

Which film?

06. feb 2013 | FIRST STILL. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Connie Nielsen, Mia Goth, Udo Kier, Jean-Marc Barr, Caroline Goodall,…

FILM Digital Issue

05. feb 2013. The Danish Film Institute's new digital magazine is now online at www.dfi.dk/film

Pulling the Trigger for Democracy

31. jan 2013. "The Shooter" is Annette K. Olesen's first shot at a political thriller. The director is mostly known for her emotional dramas – some have even won awards in Berlin. But the TV series "Borgen" taught…

The Unbearable Heaviness of Childhood

31. jan 2013. Scruffy children with dirty faces. Boys chucking rugby balls at a mentally challenged girl. Playgrounds overgrown with weeds. Infused with a singular poetic beauty, Daniel Joseph Borgman's The Weight…

Scenes of the Crimes

31. jan 2013. Joshua Oppenheimer's widely acclaimed, Danish-produced The Act of Killing draws its power from the director's daring choice of perspective. Rather than make a film about the victims of Indonesia's…

Pow! Right in the Face

31. jan 2013. Having sent a poor young man into a tailspin among hardened criminals in his prison movie "R", Michael Noer is back with a new film about youthful restlessness and manhood. "Northwest" is a film with…

The Joy of Trying Something New

31. jan 2013. Nicolás Pereda of Mexico and Jacob Schulsinger of Denmark met in the DOX:LAB talent programme and made "Killing Strangers" together, a story of three young men who try, and fail, to join the Mexican…

Nikolaj Arcel receives Dreyer Award

31. jan 2013 | DREYER AWARD. Nikolaj Arcel, director of Denmark's Oscar contender "A Royal Affair", receives Danish cinema's distinguished annual award for artistic merit.