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When Mom is a Dangerous Role Model

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Director Heidi Maria Faisst remembers clearly what it was like changing almost overnight from a horse-loving girl to an unruly teenager. The chaos of the first titillating steps into adult life is…

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…

Creative experiments to Rotterdam

26. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Three films from CPH:DOX' cross-cultural matchmaking lab are showing in Rotterdam. Running for a Tiger Award is Thor Ochsner's childhood reconstruction "1989 (When I Was Five Years Old)". In all, six…

Oscar nomination to In a Better World

25. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier receives her second Oscar nomination, this time for the drama In a Better World.

A lab where anything goes

21. jan 2011. CHILDREN & YOUTH. "In theory, the task of making films for children and teens is destined to fail from the beginning," says Rasmus Horskjær, Danish film commissioner for children's films, in his…

From Golden Globes to Park City

20. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Susanne Bier is among the jurors at the Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday 20 January. The director's Golden Globe winner "In a Better World" is one of eleven films on show in the Spotlight…