Filmhouse December

01. dec 2009. Disney for the whole family, the best of Steven Soderbergh and highlights from the past year are among this month's treasure chest at the Filmhouse. Watch out for events like Late Night, celebrating…

The city in the world—the world in the city

25. nov 2009. "Cities on Speed", a series of four documentary films about four cities: Shanghai, Mumbai, Cairo and Bogotá, is the background for an article by Jens Kvorning, Professor in Urban Planning at the…

Cities on Speed - What's it to me?

24. nov 2009. How do we make developments in the non-Western world interesting to people in the West? That question brought together two Danish Film Institute film commissioners, Dola Bonfils and Michael Haslund…

Classroom Isolation

24. nov 2009. In every school class there are usually two or three kids who experience social isolation. Sidse Stausholm’s "Invisible Girls" follows three girls struggling with the loneliness that comes with…

Burma VJ on Oscar shortlist

19. nov 2009. The Danish documentary director Anders Østergaard and his film "Burma VJ — Reporting from a Closed Country" has been shortlisted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an Oscar.

Experiments from a true auteur

19. nov 2009. Jørgen Leth, one of Denmark's most versatile and productive artists, delivers his sixth and final DVD in The Jørgen Leth collection.

DFI web magazine — IDFA

17. nov 2009. The Danish Film Institute invites you to feast your eyes on images, trailers and introductions to some of the latest docs and their filmmakers in FILM#Special IDFA 2009.

CPH:DOX Awards 2009

17. nov 2009. At the closing gala of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's international documentary film festival (6-15 November 2009), films and filmmakers were honoured with the following awards:

Hard Knocks

16. nov 2009. Albert's Winter, Anders Koefoed's graduation film from the National Film School of Denmark, tells the story of an eight-year-old boy who is goes through a tough time after his mother is diagnosed…

Disguised as Communists

16. nov 2009. For 20 days, the reporter Mads Brügger toured North Korea with two Danish-Korean comics and a TV crew. Officially, they were a theatrical troupe on cultural exchange. Unofficially, they were peeking…