Copenhagen sets up film fund

20. feb 2013 | FILM FUND. A new regional 4.7 million Euros film fund aims to put the Danish capital on the global map and make Copenhagen a film metropolis. Copenhagen Film Fund will be operating by summer.

Danish films sell in Berlin

19. feb 2013 | BERLIN 2013. "Nymphomaniac" has been sold to the US and Canada, "The Keeper of Lost Causes" to the UK and Australia. TrustNordisk, one of the largest Scandinavian sales agents, report a round of really good sales…

Berlin awards to The Act of Killing

18. feb 2013 | BERLIN 2013. Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing" won an Ecumenical Award and an Audience Award at the Berlin film festival.

Louise Vesth, producer

18. feb 2013 | PROFILE. She is behind this year’s Danish Oscar nomination, and she has signed her name on record-breaking box-office hits and artistic experimentations. We asked the busy Zentropa producer Louise Vesth to…

Danish cinemas now 100% digital

13. feb 2013 | CINEMA MARKET. Each and every one of Denmark's 154 cinemas has now been digitised. The Danish Film Institute is supporting the conversion to the tune of 4 million euros, while the cinemas themselves are raising…

Festival circuit 2012

13. feb 2013 | IN REVIEW. Awards at Sundance, Berlin and Cannes are a few of the highlights in 2012. In broad strokes, here's the year that was, encompassing 272 festivals that saw Danish participation and yielded a crop of…

Sofie Gråbøl, actress

13. feb 2013 | PROFILE. She has become known to the world as idealistic detective in "The Killing" which took its very last breath on BBC in December. What few Sarah Lund aficionados probably suspect is that Sofie Gråbøl,…

Lindholm and Vinterberg teaming up again

12. feb 2013 | FILM PEOPLE. Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm are renewing their partnership from "Submarino" and "The Hunt", co-writing "The Commune" based on a stage play by Vinterberg about his childhood in the '70s.

Which film?

06. feb 2013 | FIRST STILL. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Connie Nielsen, Mia Goth, Udo Kier, Jean-Marc Barr, Caroline Goodall,…

FILM Digital Issue

05. feb 2013. The Danish Film Institute's new digital magazine is now online at www.dfi.dk/film