Applause for a funnyman

10. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. After a spin around the festival circuit with "Applause", Martin Pieter Zandvliet set his sights on directing a warts-and-all biopic about Denmark's greatest comedian, Dirch Passer. Three decades…

Cannes magazine online

10. may 2011 | MAGAZINE. Lars von Trier seems to be in fine form as he greets FILM in his personal Fuhrer bunker for a talk about his latest creation, the apocalyptic "Melancholia". Meet the director and read more Cannes…

Eruption

09. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. Complex emotions are played out in Rúnar Rúnarsson's first feature film "Volcano", a Danish production selected for Directors' Fortnight. The Icelandic director's uniquely condensed style attracted…

A meek giant

09. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. "Teddy Bear" is about a Danish bodybuilder who goes to Thailand looking for love. Mads Matthiesen's debut feature is a sign of a new trend in Danish cinema that finds directors of narrative films…

DFI = Danish Film International

09. may 2011 | EDITORIAL. We'll admit it. We Danes can get a little smug sometimes. Maybe it's part of being from a small country. We're so proud when someone does well. It rubs off on everyone. We all feel a little bigger, a…

Facts & Figures 2011

09. may 2011 | PUBLICATION. Find key statistics for Danish films and cinema in our latest issue of Facts & Figures.

Boe and the beast

06. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. As Christoffer Boe's new feature "Beast" shows, making a film doesn't have to be complicated. With the right idea and the necessary determination, you can start shooting tomorrow. Nicolas Bro, Boe's…

Restoring masculine dignity

06. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. After his tense WW 2 blockbuster "Flame & Citron", Ole Christian Madsen is back with a light love story about the passion for women, football, tango and wine. Shooting in Argentina, the first…

If walls could talk

06. may 2011 | NEW FEATURE. Birgitte Stærmose's feature film debut "Room 304" is a multi-plot drama in which the visual style and the exploration of the wordless intimacy between characters carry as much weight as the elegantly…

The man with the yellow hat gone bad

06. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. In his Sundance winner "The Red Chapel", media prankster Mads Brügger travelled to North Korea as a communist theatre director. Now, in "The Ambassador", he has abandoned his role-playing. Or has he?…