Three co-productions receive DFI support

19. sep 2013. CO-PRODUCTION SUPPORTS. Henrik Ruben Genz is directing James Franco in "Good People", one of three projects in the latest round of co-production supports from the Danish Film Institute.

Like a gap. Media in "Paris, Texas"

13. sep 2013. The status of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas as a film classic is built on its sensitive rendition of American landscapes – including the interior landscapes of people who are unable to live with each…

Buster and the rest

10. sep 2013 | DANISH FESTIVALS. Last Thursday, BUSTER invited Copenhagen's young audiences to enjoy nearly two weeks of film events. From 12 September the Bornshorts film festival celebrates the short format over three days on the…

Production supports since May

10. sep 2013 | PRODUCTION SUPPORTS. Niels Arden Oplev directs his first Danish film in several years, Mikkel Nørgaard is making his second thriller, and there are also a few first-time feature directors on the list. These new feature…

Who gets to define the past?

06. sep 2013 | EXHIBITION. War crimes are defined by the winners, says one of the characters in "The Act of Killing". Joshua Oppenheimer's groundbreaking film about Indonesia's 1965-66 genocide is juxtaposed with Danish WWII…

Copenhagen Film Fund opens shop

06. sep 2013 | FILM FUND. SBS TV and Fridthjof Film's vampire series "Heartless" is the first project to be approved by Copenhagen Film Fund. The Fund is also in talks to have an episode of "Midsomer Murders" shot in Greater…

The Hunt to compete for Nordic award

03. sep 2013 | NOMINATION. Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt" is one of five films nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize 2013. The winner will be announced on 30 October.

Chasing the Fragments of a New Ideology

01. sep 2013. They were larger than life. One chased freedom in an anti-authoritarian perpetual motion machine, while the other also wanted to just enjoy a meatball and chase young girls. In "Sex, Drugs &…

Pilou Asbæk, 31, Actor

01. sep 2013. Pilou Asbæk had his first major role in Niels Arden Oplev's "World's Apart" and cemented his name playing a spin doctor in "Borgen" and the cook aboard an Indian Ocean freighter in Tobias Lindholm's …

Financing European Arthouse

01. sep 2013. Phoenix Film of Denmark used to produce films outside the country but relocated its film production operations to Denmark to co-produce Opus Film and Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's post-war…