Trades applaud Armadillo

17. may 2010 | CANNES 2010. On Sunday May 16 Janus Metz' documentary feature Armadillo premiered before the festival press corps, and screened yesterday and today to Cannes audiences at the Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique…

An Unequal Bargain

12. may 2010 | INTERVIEW / FIRST FEATURE. What's really at issue when Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow or Madonna adopt a baby from a Third World country? Are they helping children or just exploiting them all over again? Carlos Oliveira's debut…

No Monkey Business

12. may 2010. Shortly after graduating from the National Film School of Denmark in 2008, animation director Jan Rahbek pitched an idea at the Nordisk Film & TV Fond's Talent Pitch and won. Suddenly, Rahbek was…

Growth Spurt

12. may 2010. Danish animation studios are on fire these days. Never before have so many Danish animated features been in production at one time.

Teaming Up with Beijing

12. may 2010. Veteran producer Nina Crone is making Freddy Frogface, a stereoscopic 3Danimated feature from the children's book classic by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, in partnership with animation studios in Beijing.

Make it Again Sam

12. may 2010. Hollywood in recent years has acquired the rights to remake a number of Danish films. Is Hollywood running out of stories? And how do the Danish filmmakers relate to the American versions of the film?

Was Dreyer a Sadist?

12. may 2010 | DREYER. On more than one occasion, Dreyer was labeled a sadistic director, because he caused his female leads to suffer in his tireless search of the sublime. One of the gems from the Dreyer archives is an…

Finding Love in Unlikely Places

12. may 2010. Mikkel Munch-Fals, known to Danes as a two-fisted film critic from TV, is making his debut as a feature film director with the ensemble drama Nothing's All Bad, a warts-and-all look at engulfing…

Facts & Figures 2010 out now

12. may 2010 | STATISTICS. Get the full picture of Danish film production, distribution and sales 2009 in the latest edition of Facts & Figures.

Danish films to Cannes

07. may 2010 | CANNES 2010. Competing in Semaine de la Critique this year is Janus Metz' documentary drama Armadillo and Daniel Joseph Borgman's short fiction Berik. Moreover the Swedish-Danish coproduction Sound of Noise, by…