Creative experiments to Rotterdam

26. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Three films from CPH:DOX' cross-cultural matchmaking lab are showing in Rotterdam. Running for a Tiger Award is Thor Ochsner's childhood reconstruction "1989 (When I Was Five Years Old)". In all, six…

Oscar nomination to In a Better World

25. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier receives her second Oscar nomination, this time for the drama In a Better World.

A lab where anything goes

21. jan 2011. CHILDREN & YOUTH. "In theory, the task of making films for children and teens is destined to fail from the beginning," says Rasmus Horskjær, Danish film commissioner for children's films, in his…

Renegades Elmgreen & Dragset to Berlin

20. jan 2011 | BERLIN 2011. A man lying face down in a swimming pool formed one of the disturbing narratives in the Nordic pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Meet the makers, activist artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, in…

From Golden Globes to Park City

20. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Susanne Bier is among the jurors at the Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday 20 January. The director's Golden Globe winner "In a Better World" is one of eleven films on show in the Spotlight…

In a Better World on Oscar shortlist

19. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. "In a Better World", by Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier, is selected as one of the foreign language films contending for an Academy Award nomination.

Susanne Bier wins Golden Globe

17. jan 2011 | AWARD. "In a Better World" finished first as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe ceremony in Los Angeles.

Graduation film in Berlinale Shorts

17. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Helena Frank's graduation film "Heavy Heads", selected for Berlin Film Festival's Short Competition, is steeped in black humour and set to the sound of a hungry housefly.

Limbo showered with nominations

14. jan 2011 | VIDEO GAMES. Danish black and white "Limbo" steals the spotlight at the digital games industry's major awards event.

A century of Danish Cinema

13. jan 2011 | PUBLICATION. If you are curious about Danish cinema, start perusing Danish film history, now available on dfi.dk. The work guides you through the silent era to the first decade of the new millennium—from escapism…