Overwhelmed Silver Bear-winners

21. feb 2012. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard stole the spotlight in Berlin, when he received a Silver Bear for his first film role as the deranged King Christian in Arcel's period drama "A Royal Affair".

Two Silver Bears to A Royal Affair

18. feb 2012 | BERLIN 2012. Mikkel Boe Følgsgaard received a Silver Bear for his role as the deranged King Christian and co-writers Nickolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg for Best Script for Arcel's period drama "A Royal Affair"…

FILM-Y opens for Belgian school children

17. feb 2012. FILM-Y. The Danish Film Institute's mobile film studio has landed in the Bozar art centre in Brussels, where school classes and families are invited to make their own films.

A Royal Affair world premiere

14. feb 2012 | BERLIN 2012. Nikolaj Arcel's historical drama "A Royal Affair" enjoys its world premiere on Thursday 16 February in the Berlinale Palast. Mads Mikkelsen stars as King Christian VII's physician Struensee in his…

August in Berlin

14. feb 2012 | BERLIN 2012. "Marie Krøyer", Bille August's first Danish film in 25 years, met with positive feedback from international buyers at the promo screening in Berlin.

Berlin magazine out now

08. feb 2012. FILM#74. Mads Mikkelsen is cover star of our Berlin magazine. Read about Mikkelsen's first Danish role in years as Struensee in Nikolaj Arcel's Berlin competitor "A Royal Affair" and discover the…

"Brash, abrasive and raunchy"

08. feb 2012. ... writes Screen about Simon Staho's colourful teen musical "Love Is in the Air" running in the Generation 14plus competition in Berlin. FILM#74 brings a portrait of the director.

The responsibility to tell a good story

07. feb 2012. It’s one of the most defining moments in Danish history, a drama that has everything. Many filmmakers have dreamed of putting it on screen, but as Nikolaj Arcel found out, telling the story of mad…

Professionalising

07. feb 2012 | DIALOGUE ACROSS BORDERS. "It’s not enough that Denmark has a strong storytelling tradition and loads of creative filmmakers," Noemi Ferrer Schwenk says. "We also have to make sure that filmmakers can always stay up to speed…

Danish-film-culture-in-the-EU

07. feb 2012. "We aim to show some of the aspects of Danish cinema that we are most proud of," Christian Juhl Lemche, project leader of the film activities during the EU presidency, says.