The Great Bear to Berlin

12. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. A 1000-year-old bear is the towering eye-catcher in Esben Toft Jacobsen's animated feature "The Great Bear" which is selected for Berlinale's Generation Kplus. This makes for the third Danish film in…

Filmhouse in January

07. jan 2011 | FILMHOUSE. Get a good start to the new year with Sam Peckinpah, Béla Tarr, Russian cinema, Michael Douglas and Martin Scorsese. We present some 50 films with English dialogue or subtitles every month.

Danish releases January-February

07. jan 2011 | NEW RELEASES. January sees the release of the Peter Gantzler's feature film debut, the drama "Boy", February brings three features: Esben Toft Jacobsen's "The Great Bear", "All for One" and "A Family".

Fleeting meetings in Palm Springs

06. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Mikkel Munch-Fals' darkly life-affirming debut "Nothing's All Bad" is in competition at Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Film hit of the year

04. jan 2011 | STATISTICS. "Clown", a film version of a highly popular TV comedy series, was the Danish title to attract the largest audience in 2010.

Sundance winner opens in New York

03. jan 2011 | INTERNATIONAL RELEASE. "They help me, they smile at me and they speak to me, but I can feel the contempt they have for me. It makes me paranoid," Jacob says in "The Red Chapel", Mads Brügger's ironic farce about the absurd…

Berlin picks two Danish films

17. dec 2010 | FESTIVAL. The Berlinale has selected two Danish films for the Generation 14plus programme: Heidi Maria Faisst's "Rebounce" and Rune Schjøtt's feature film debut "Skyscraper".

Dreyer, Trier, women and phobias

16. dec 2010 | DREYER. Women suffer, are tortured and burned at the stake! This parallel – and many more – links Danish cinema's two great directors, Carl Theodor Dreyer and Lars von Trier. Read the whole story in a new…

From Dreyer to von Trier

The two great Danish filmmakers, Carl Th. Dreyer and Lars von Trier, share an artistic kinship. Women suffer, are tortured and burned at the stake, but even down to individual shots, some of von…

Pilou Asbæk Danish Shooting Star

15. dec 2010 | NOMINATION. Pilou Asbæk is selected as one of ten young acting talents to be showcased at the Berlin Film Festival 2011. His latest performance was the lead in the hard-hitting prison drama "R", one of this year…