Danish films at Peace gala

07. feb 2011 | NOMINATIONS. Four highly topical documentaries along with Bier's study in human dilemma have been invited to the annual Cinema for Peace Gala on 14 February in Berlin.

Kitchen Sink Absurdity

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Helena Frank's short film "Heavy Heads" merges social issues with distorted animation reality.

Out of Limbo

04. feb 2011 | VIDEO GAMES. Commercially, times may be as hard as ever. But creatively, the Danish game industry is riding a wave of success and inspiring new enthusiasm among policy-makers, embodied by a recently negotiated…

Light at the End of the Tunnel

04. feb 2011 | EDITORIAL. As a good friend of mine never fails to point out when I enthusiastically announce a light at the end of the tunnel, from a distance you can never tell whether it’s actually an oncoming train…

Aged 11, Going on 29

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Pilou Asbæk has made the trip from drama school graduate to leading man in record time. In Berlin for the third year running, he's Danish Shooting Star 2011. Still, radio host Per Juul Carlsen is…

Childhood Memories in Grim and Green

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Though he won't be graduating from the National Film School’s editing programme until summer, Thor Ochsner's directorial debut, "1989 (When I Was 5 Years Old)", has already been selected for two…

Spotlight on Lindholm & Noer

04. feb 2011 | AWARD. Director duo Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer receive the annual Dreyer award for cinematic excellence. Carl Theodor Dreyer, too, made a prison drama of standing.

Henning Carlsen adapts Márquez novel

04. feb 2011 | NEW FILM. What happens when a person near the end of his life finds a reason to live? Veteran filmmaker Henning Carlsen embarks in his new film on finding some answers. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is…

In the Dark Green Pine Forest

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Unleashing primordial Nordic forces, Esben Toft Jacobsen's first feature "The Great Bear" is an animated fantasy inspired by Scandinavian nature and indigenous storytelling. Selected for Generation…

You Don't Have to Love Kids

03. feb 2011. … to make great movies for them. Maybe the opposite is true. Maybe you have to be totally self-obsessed and egomaniacal to push your vision through, Rasmus Horskjær says. The new DFI commissioner for…