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…

Childhood Memories in Grim and Green

04. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Though he won't be graduating from the National Film School’s editing programme until summer, Thor Ochsner's directorial debut, "1989 (When I Was 5 Years Old)", has already been selected for two…

Spotlight on Lindholm & Noer

04. feb 2011 | AWARD. Director duo Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer receive the annual Dreyer award for cinematic excellence. Carl Theodor Dreyer, too, made a prison drama of standing.

Henning Carlsen adapts Márquez novel

04. feb 2011 | NEW FILM. What happens when a person near the end of his life finds a reason to live? Veteran filmmaker Henning Carlsen embarks in his new film on finding some answers. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is…

In the Dark Green Pine Forest

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Unleashing primordial Nordic forces, Esben Toft Jacobsen's first feature "The Great Bear" is an animated fantasy inspired by Scandinavian nature and indigenous storytelling. Selected for Generation…

You Don't Have to Love Kids

03. feb 2011. … to make great movies for them. Maybe the opposite is true. Maybe you have to be totally self-obsessed and egomaniacal to push your vision through, Rasmus Horskjær says. The new DFI commissioner for…

When Mom is a Dangerous Role Model

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Director Heidi Maria Faisst remembers clearly what it was like changing almost overnight from a horse-loving girl to an unruly teenager. The chaos of the first titillating steps into adult life is…

Son of a Castrated Alpha Male

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. An insecure young man, his bizarre, embittered father and a randy blind girl inhabit the weird small town of "Skyscraper", the directorial debut of screenwriter Rune Schjøtt. In a unique blend of the…

Berlin magazine out now

03. feb 2011 | MAGAZINE. Read about the five Danish films at the Berlinale in our festival magazine FILM#71.