"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.

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,…