Stindbergian gravity

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Mikala Krogh has been "the serious one" ever since she was a teenager and hosted radio shows for children and teens. The same gravity permeates her documentaries, Per Juul Carlsen notes. Krogh's new…

New Danish trans-media

13. nov 2012 | TREND. Trans-media and cross-media have been around since the 1960s, but it has never been surrounded by so much attention as now. In this development, the film industry is central. New storytelling forms,…

Condoning crime in the name of mercy

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Director Katrine W. Kjær had always been convinced that adoption was a compassionate act guided by noble institutions. Now that she has finished "Mercy, Mercy" about Masho and Roba, whose parents…

The happiest man in the world

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Brian McGinn, a connoisseur of quirky characters, picked Mette Heide of Denmark to be his producer after seeing a Heide-produced film about the eccentric Japanese inventor Dr Nakamats. "The Record…

My slightly dim-witted friend

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Phie Ambo started filming her family and the world around her when she was 22. She never looked at the footage, but simply used the camera to help her understand the world. Later on, the same social…

The other side

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Janus Metz's groundbreaking "Armadillo" showed us the war in Afghanistan from the point of view of the young soldiers entering combat for the first time. Now journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja…

The world's best film school doc

13. nov 2012 | DOC AWARD. Mira Jargil's graduation film "The Time We Have" has been named best graduation film by the international film school association Cilect.

FILM#76 online now

13. nov 2012 | MAGAZINE. Nine Danish documentaries are on show at this year's IDFA. Read interviews with the directors, portraits of the producers, the latest news, and much more in the Danish Film Institute's festival…

A Hijacking wins two prizes in Thessaloniki

12. nov 2012 | AWARDS. Tobias Lindholm's "A Hijacking" received the Best Feature Film Award and the FIPRESCI award at the 53d Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

The Act of Killing wins DOX AWARD

12. nov 2012 | AWARDS. Copenhagen's International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX has announced the winners of the competition series. Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing" wins the top prize. Other winners include …