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Nominations for the Danish Robert Awards 2020 announced

06. jan 2020 | ROBERT. The hostage drama 'Daniel', Sundance winner 'Queen of Hearts' and Toronto-selected 'Before the Frost' scored big at the nominations for the Danish Robert Award, to be handed out on 26 January.

Filmfest München celebrates doc-provocateur Brügger

24. jun 2019 | FESTIVAL. One of Europe's prominent summer film festivals, Filmfest München, is dedicating a retrospective to filmmaker and journalist Mads Brügger, whose films have turned heads for their performative, genre…

Four Danish films bound for Hot Docs

08. apr 2019 | FESTIVAL. 'On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship' by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen is celebrating its international premiere in competition at Hot Docs. Also in the lineup are 'The Reformist – a Female Imam' by…

Cold Case Hammarskjöld and Queen of Hearts win at Sundance and Göteborg

03. feb 2019 | AWARDS. Mads Brügger's documentary 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld' and May el-Toukhy's drama 'Queen of Hearts' each took home an award at Sundance Film Festival, and el-Toukhy's praised drama scored a triple…

Queen of Hearts and Cold Case Hammarskjöld praised at Sundance

28. jan 2019 | FESTIVAL. 'Queen of Hearts' by May el-Toukhy and 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld' had their world premieres at Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Both films are praised by the international reviewers.

Piecing together a 50-year-old murder mystery

27. jan 2019 | INTERVIEW. Mads Brügger spent seven years working on 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld', where the director and Swedish investigator Göran Björkdahl track the bizarre death in 1961 of UN Secretary-General Dag…