A Circus Love Story

11. nov 2014. "The Circus Dynasty" is a love drama set in a circus. Over a whole season, director Anders Riis-Hansen travelled in a caravan with Denmark's Cirkus Arena, plumbing his fascination with the circus…

A Good Place to Be

11. nov 2014. In her new film, Phie Ambo goes to bat for sustainable agriculture. "Good Things Await" is about Niels Stokholm, a farmer fighting with the authorities to run his farm – supplier to Copenhagen's…

A Trans Boy Becomes a Man

11. nov 2014. A love story between a transsexual teen and his girlfriend, Elvira Lind's musical portrait documentary "Songs for Alexis" acts as a magnifying glass on youthful vulnerability and dawning maturity.

Building a True Creative Space

11. nov 2014. Signe Byrge Sørensen has produced both of Joshua Oppenheimer's films bringing to light the human consequences of the Indonesian genocide. Her collaboration with the American-born director has proven…

Double Arms Dealing

11. nov 2014. In 1995 a secret weapons drop was set to take place in India. The principals were a Danish idealist and a British arms dealer. But nothing went according to plan. Andreas Koefoed's real-life thriller…

Holding a Mirror to Horror

11. nov 2014. "The Look of Silence" sees Joshua Oppenheimer back in uncharted territory. While "The Act of Killing" took a surreal look at Indonesia's genocide through the imagination of the killers, his follow-up…

Human Beauty in a Russian Garbage Dump

11. nov 2014. For 14 years Hanna Polak has been tracking homeless children in Moscow. Now the Polish director is presenting the fruit of her labour, "Something Better to Come", a Danish-produced documentary…

IDFA Magazine Out Now

11. nov 2014 | IDFA MAGAZINE. Smiling out from the cover of FILM, in print and online, are the protagonists of Hanna Polak's feature documentary "Something Better to Come." Read an interview with the director and more background…

Meeting the Audience: Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

11. nov 2014. "The reception has been far beyond what I could have hoped for." Talking to FILM about the reactions to "The Look of Silence", Joshua Oppenheimer recalls the powerful experience of watching his film…

On the Road to Democracy

11. nov 2014. A unique chemistry emerged between filmmaker Camilla Nielsson and the protagonists of "Democrats", Paul Mangwana and Douglas Mwonzora, former political opponents united by their efforts to write a…