Refn and Dunst awarded in Cannes

23. may 2011 | CANNES. Nicolas Winding Refn received the best director award for "Drive" and Kirsten Dunst was singled out for her lead in von Trier's "Melancholia" at Sunday's awards ceremony.

Royal drama on film

20. may 2011 | IN PRODUCTION. Mads Mikkelsen and Alicia Vikander star in Zentropa's "A Royal Affair" by Nikolaj Arcel, already sold for distribution in the US.

DFI CEO criticizes von Trier

19. may 2011 | CANNES. Henrik Bo Nielsen, CEO of the Danish Film Institute, criticizes Lars von Trier for his remarks at yesterday's press conference after the screening of "Melancholia".

Henning Carlsen presents Marquez film

19. may 2011 | CANNES. Henning Carlsen's international coproduction of Gabriel García Márquez' novel "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" premiered at the market in Cannes.

Camera and Space

18. may 2011. Throughout his career, Carl Theodor Dreyer was concerned with arranging all of the details in the staging of his films as precisely as possible. This applied to the choice of actors, the physical…

New coproduction agreement

16. may 2011 | CANNES. The Danish Film Institute is preparing to switch gears on its international collaborations. First formal initiative is a new Australian-Danish coproduction agreement launched by the two countries in…

Life is truly a miracle

The theologian Jes Nysten in this essay considers "Day of Wrath", "Ordet" and "Gertrud" as steppingstones of sorts to Dreyer’s ultimate life’s work – his never-realised film about Jesus of Nazareth…

Zentropa enters VoD market

11. may 2011 | DISTRIBUTION. Zentropa on Demand is the latest addition to the Zentropa brand.

Applause for a funnyman

10. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. After a spin around the festival circuit with "Applause", Martin Pieter Zandvliet set his sights on directing a warts-and-all biopic about Denmark's greatest comedian, Dirch Passer. Three decades…

Cannes magazine online

10. may 2011 | MAGAZINE. Lars von Trier seems to be in fine form as he greets FILM in his personal Fuhrer bunker for a talk about his latest creation, the apocalyptic "Melancholia". Meet the director and read more Cannes…