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…

Rewarding Swedish Partnerships

01. sep 2013. Nimbus Film is increasing its focus on co-productions within the Swedish-Danish Oresund region and the up-and-coming Swedish director Lisa Langseth's second feature "Hotel", starring Alicia Vikander,…

To Go Against the Stream

01. sep 2013. Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo's "Concrete Night" is a tough coming-of-age-drama about a 14-year-old boy tagging along for the last 24 hours before his older brother has to go to prison. To the…

What Do People Dream About in Pine Ridge?

01. sep 2013. Bert Lee, Cassandra Warrior and Lance Red Cloud, who live on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, are some of the central characters in Anna Eborn's "Pine Ridge", which has its world premiere at…

Friendship Is the Greatest Superpower

01. sep 2013. Antboy, Ask Hasselbalch's feature debut, is Denmark's first superhero movie ever. How do you pull off working in a genre that's so completely dominated by American super budgets? By using irony? No…

New FILM edition for your laptop

29. aug 2013 | ONLINE ISSUE. Read about a Danish superhero and two capitalist eccentrics who are off to the Toronto film festival and find out more about feature films to be released this fall in FILM Digital Issue for your…