Classroom Isolation

24. nov 2009. In every school class there are usually two or three kids who experience social isolation. Sidse Stausholm’s "Invisible Girls" follows three girls struggling with the loneliness that comes with…

Burma VJ on Oscar shortlist

19. nov 2009. The Danish documentary director Anders Østergaard and his film "Burma VJ — Reporting from a Closed Country" has been shortlisted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an Oscar.

Experiments from a true auteur

19. nov 2009. Jørgen Leth, one of Denmark's most versatile and productive artists, delivers his sixth and final DVD in The Jørgen Leth collection.

CPH:DOX Awards 2009

17. nov 2009. At the closing gala of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's international documentary film festival (6-15 November 2009), films and filmmakers were honoured with the following awards:

DFI web magazine — IDFA

17. nov 2009. The Danish Film Institute invites you to feast your eyes on images, trailers and introductions to some of the latest docs and their filmmakers in FILM#Special IDFA 2009.

A life online

16. nov 2009. Miri has isolated herself in the real world, while generously sharing her thoughts and photos on her blog. "Book of Miri", Katrine Philp's graduation film from the National Film School of Denmark,…

Desperately Seeking Space

16. nov 2009. Shanghai Space, directed by Nanna Frank Møller, takes a poetic and contemplative look at the abnormal growth of China's great port city, where a new building is constructed every other day, and where…

Disguised as Communists

16. nov 2009. For 20 days, the reporter Mads Brügger toured North Korea with two Danish-Korean comics and a TV crew. Officially, they were a theatrical troupe on cultural exchange. Unofficially, they were peeking…

Hard Knocks

16. nov 2009. Albert's Winter, Anders Koefoed's graduation film from the National Film School of Denmark, tells the story of an eight-year-old boy who is goes through a tough time after his mother is diagnosed…

Images louder than words

16. nov 2009. In "Northern Lights", Kristoffer Kiørboe's graduation film from the National Film School of Denmark, two brothers go in search of the northern lights, each other and themselves. Samuel is brain…