New Head of DR

11. feb 2011 | INDUSTRY. Maria Rørbye Rønn will be the new managing director of national broadcaster DR.

Filmhouse in February

09. feb 2011 | CINEMATHEQUE. Enjoy a selection of contemporary Japanese movies, the works of cameraman Jack Cardiff, those of director Samuel Fuller and don't miss Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange and O Lucky Man! All at…

Nordic Thoughts on the Digital Future

08. feb 2011 | THINK TANK. Even though Scandinavians speak the same kind of strange languages that no one else understand and share ideals about public support systems, we're terrible at buying tickets to each other's films…

Identifying the High Performers

08. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. For Kim Leona and Steen Bille, both veteran screenwriters, the dramaturgical craft by now is second nature. But the Danish Film Institute's two feature film commissioners agree that attention to…

Robert Awards 2011

07. feb 2011 | AWARDS. R directed by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer was showered with honours at the Danish Film Academy's awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Sunday, 6 February. R shared the spotlight with Submarino, Thomas…

Danish films at Peace gala

07. feb 2011 | NOMINATIONS. Four highly topical documentaries along with Bier's study in human dilemma have been invited to the annual Cinema for Peace Gala on 14 February in Berlin.

Kitchen Sink Absurdity

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Helena Frank's short film "Heavy Heads" merges social issues with distorted animation reality.

Out of Limbo

04. feb 2011 | VIDEO GAMES. Commercially, times may be as hard as ever. But creatively, the Danish game industry is riding a wave of success and inspiring new enthusiasm among policy-makers, embodied by a recently negotiated…

Light at the End of the Tunnel

04. feb 2011 | EDITORIAL. As a good friend of mine never fails to point out when I enthusiastically announce a light at the end of the tunnel, from a distance you can never tell whether it’s actually an oncoming train…

Aged 11, Going on 29

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Pilou Asbæk has made the trip from drama school graduate to leading man in record time. In Berlin for the third year running, he's Danish Shooting Star 2011. Still, radio host Per Juul Carlsen is…