A stage for culture and commerce

07. feb 2012 | DIALOGUE ACROSS BORDERS. Steffen Andersen Møller, Head of Audience & Promotion, likes to point out that the Danish Film Act is there to support art. In practice, however, the DFI, with its subsidy system and independent…

Sowing the seeds of film culture

07. feb 2012 | DIALOGUE ACROSS BORDERS. Brazil, Canada, South Africa, England, Tanzania and now Uganda. For years the Danish Film Institute has been behind major cultural exchange projects around the world, and Charlotte Giese has been…

Portrait of a woman

07. feb 2012. Bille August is currently putting the finishing touches on his first Danish-produced film in 25 years. And a film based on a real slice of Danish history at that. But "Marie Krøyer" is first and…

Those cheekbones, that cupid’s bow, that wolf smile!

07. feb 2012. Mads Mikkelsen has shown enormous versatility in his 16 years as a screen actor. Running the gamut from Viking warrior to Enlightenment man and World War II resistance fighter, from genius composer…

Emotional extremist

07. feb 2012. Simon Staho asked Danish critics not to review his new film "Love Is in the Air", because he thought they were too old to get it. Now in the youth competition at Berlin, the film is a riotous teen…

Is the Audience Always Right?

07. feb 2012 | EDITORIAL. At the Danish Film Institute from time to time we consider introducing a reverse audience award, that is, an award to the audience. The award would go to the movie audience that has the curiosity,…

Dialogue across borders

07. feb 2012. Seeing a theatre full of Canadians howling with laughter at the Danish comedy "Superclásico" or a crowd of Muslim girls in Zanzibar having a wildly animated discussion about authorities after…

Hype on nordic brands triggers pre-sales

06. feb 2012. Three years after the phenomenal international success of Niels Arden Oplev’s "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Danish and Nordic films are still very much on world buyers’ priority lists. The surge…

Personal voices in a global world

06. feb 2012. Mette Damgaard-Sørensen, principal of the European Film College in Ebeltoft, is visiting the Berlinale with all 115 of her students. Director of Berlin contender "A Royal Affair", Nikolaj Arcel, is…

Robert Awards 2012

06. feb 2012 | AWARDS. "Melancholia" was showered with honours at the Danish Film Academy's awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Sunday 5 February. Lars von Trier's apocalypse drama received 10 awards, including Best Feature…