An obligation to be curious

16. may 2012 | CANNES 2012. She got her start in the industry on a fluke, learned the ropes during the Dogme wave and recently struck out on her own as an independent producer, opening her own company, Toolbox Film. Now Signe…

Sticking with reality

16. may 2012 | CANNES 2012. Thomas Vinterberg has always sought new ways to push his artistic limits. Now, 14 years after his Dogme film "The Celebration" took Cannes by storm, the Danish director is bringing another powerful…

Based on true events

16. may 2012 | CINEFONDATION 2012. Morten Helgeland and eight of his fellow students have made a hilarious animated short about "killer slugs" pitched in battle with an elderly lady. The director got the inspiration for "Slug Invasion…

Danish Film tweets

16. may 2012 | TWEETS. This week, @DanishFilm has tweeted about Little White Lies' Cannes prediction which includes Mads Mikkelsen, the secret behind the success of Danish TV drama, and the first BFI-DFI collaboration…

A pain in the ass, thank heaven!

11. may 2012 | STATEMENT. Dare to fail, Martin Strange-Hansen encourages his fellow directors. FILM asked the chairman of the Association of Danish Film Directors, one of the significant players behind-the-scenes, to give his…

Save us from niceness

11. may 2012 | INTERVIEW. Looking to bury politically correct children's films, Christian Dyekjær's "The Bird Chase", released domestically 7 June, proves it's possible to spin a cool film around a bevy of bird nerds chasing…

Cannes Magazine Out Now

11. may 2012. FILM#75. Thomas Vinterberg is cover star of our Cannes magazine. Read about Vinterberg's return to Cannes with "The Hunt", Susanne Bier's new romantic comedy "Love is All You Need", Bille August's…

Danish Film tweets

11. may 2012 | TWEETS. This week, @DanishFilm has tweeted about images and clips from "The Hunt", pre-sales of Nikolaj Arcel and Mikkel Nørgaard's Adler-Olsen adaptation, and new Danish TV hunk Mikael Birkjær. See the…

The truth hurts

10. may 2012 | INTERVIEW. Is it okay to portray love as a young girl who doesn 't talk and loves sex? This was one of the questions director Katrine Wiedemann and writer Kim Fupz Aakeson grappled with as they worked on "A…

I don't think I'll ever get tired of monkeys in movies

10. may 2012 | NEW ANIMATION. It's been almost four years since Jan Rahbek won the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's Nordic Talent Pitch. Now he has transformed his winning idea into the animated action-comedy "Marco Macaco". Though a…