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…

Three films on Oscar shortlist

15. aug 2013 | OSCAR 2014. "The Hunt", "The Act of Killing" and "Northwest" are shortlisted for the title as Denmark's Foreign Language film. The final candidate is expected to be announced on 26 September.

Superhero to Toronto

13. aug 2013 | FESTIVAL. Denmark's first big-screen superhero is on his way to the Toronto film festival in September. "Antboy" by Ask Hasselbalch is selected as one of only five films in TIFF Kids, joining Christoffer Boe's…

Two gifted eccentrics to Toronto

31. jul 2013 | FESTIVAL. Christoffer Boe's "Sex, Drugs and Taxation" is selected for the Vanguard programme at this year's Toronto Film Festival.

A Hijacking in Nairobi

17. jul 2013 | EVENT. Last year, it was Angelina Jolie's "In the Land of Blood and Honey". Now UN's Refugee Agency in Somalia has invited Tobias Lindholm's piracy film "A Hijacking" to be screened for a World Refugee Day…

Scandi-thrill in Locarno

17. jul 2013 | FESTIVAL. Mikkel Nørgaard's "The Keeper of Lost Causes" will enjoy its world premiere in one of Europe's most beautiful open-air cinemas during the Locarno film festival running from 7 August. This first of…