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Danish Film tweets

11. may 2012 | TWEETS. This week, @DanishFilm has tweeted about images and clips from "The Hunt", pre-sales of Nikolaj Arcel and Mikkel Nørgaard's Adler-Olsen adaptation, and new Danish TV hunk Mikael Birkjær. See the…

Save us from niceness

11. may 2012 | INTERVIEW. Looking to bury politically correct children's films, Christian Dyekjær's "The Bird Chase", released domestically 7 June, proves it's possible to spin a cool film around a bevy of bird nerds chasing…

A true romantic

10. may 2012 | INTERVIEW. After a string of intense dramas, Susanne Bier turns to comedy in "Love Is All You Need", set in sunny Sorrento, Italy, and with the romantic pairing up of Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. Mike…

From The Kingdom to The Killing

10. may 2012 | BACKGROUND. TV series like "The Killing" and "Borgen" leave Danish streets deserted, they are regularly nominated for Emmys and they have convinced the British that it's cool to be Danish. A radical change of…

I don't think I'll ever get tired of monkeys in movies

10. may 2012 | NEW ANIMATION. It's been almost four years since Jan Rahbek won the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's Nordic Talent Pitch. Now he has transformed his winning idea into the animated action-comedy "Marco Macaco". Though a…

May-June releases: Bird nerds and jelly biceps

10. may 2012 | NEW RELEASES. May and June offers the psychological thriller "Over the Edge" and two films for children, "Jelly T" and "The Bird Chase".