Ready to Rumble

11. may 2009. Growing up with Spielberg films, Christian Potalivo has a passion for good stories. This year’s Danish Producer on the Move recently spent three months in the Australian outback shooting his last…

New Pixel Politics

11. may 2009. One of the first memorable Danish video games had players fighting naval battles in five colours using two keys. Today, Danish politicians are backing a national game-design education as well as a…

Dante's Inferno in West Jutland

11. may 2009. “It all started with the idea of inside and outside. Some people are on the inside, and some are on the outside and would like to get in. That structure is as simple as it gets.” Ole Bornedal’s…

To All the Sylpphids of the World

11. may 2009. In her animated short "The Sylpphid", the Danish animation director Dorte Bengtson makes her mark as one of the most original and promising new talents to emerge from the animation programme at…

Struggling to Deal with Life

11. may 2009. Selected for the short film competition, Daniel Borgman’s "Lars and Peter" captures the difficult emotions of a young boy and his relationship to his father in the face of great loss.

We Need to Ensure Adventurousness & Flexibility

11. may 2009. Henrik Bo Nielsen has headed the Danish Film Institute for almost two years now. Although Danish films had a terrific 2008, he remains concerned about the future. Lacklustre earnings for some films…

Cheeky on the Outside Moral at the Core

11. may 2009. Anders Morgenthaler has a very laidback approach to animation. The latest film by the Danish director, writer and cartoonist, "The Apple and the Worm", is a 2D-animated comedy for children about a…

Kindred Spirits

11. may 2009. Anthony Dod Mantle, the director of photography on Lars von Trier’s "Antichrist", recently won an Oscar for "Slumdog Millionaire". He and von Trier are kindred spirits.

Raging Emotions

11. may 2009. What happens to someone whose whole world suddenly collapses? Morten Giese’s directorial debut "Love and Rage" explores that question in the story of a young conservatory student struggling with love…

Crossroad Stories

11. may 2009. Rúnar Rúnarsson was in Cannes last year with his short "2Birds". Now the director, who will be graduating from the National Film School in June, is back with his graduation film "Anna", a story of…