The Crime of Crimes

01. nov 2008. In "Saving Saddam", Bill Wiley, a Canadian lawyer, wants to abolish the death penalty. The film is produced by Mette Heide and Michael Christoffersen for Team Productions, the company that produced…

The Idiots Meets Easy Rider

01. nov 2008. For Adam Nielsen, the main thing in editing "The Wild Hearts" was staying true to the spirit of the material – even if it meant killing a few of his and director Michael Noer’s darlings in the…

Bridgebuilding

01. nov 2008. "My Iranian Paradise" is a personal film about Iranian history and Persian culture by a Danish filmmaker who spent most of her childhood and youth in Tehran. Annette Mari Olsen relates the grand…

Six Danish films to Amsterdam

28. oct 2008. Six Danish documentary films are selected to participate in IDFA, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (20 Nov–30 November).

Hidden treasure discovered at Danish Film Archive

16. oct 2008. Presumed lost, "His Musical Sneeze", the US silent film comedy from 1919, starring Virginia Rappe and Lloyd Hamilton, has been identified among the catalogue of Danish titles at the DFI Film Archive.

BUSTER Awards 2008

29. sep 2008. At the closing gala of BUSTER, the Copenhagen International Festival for Children and Youth, the following awards were presented:

Danish films reap praise and sales at Toronto

12. sep 2008. Admirable mention and enhanced sales were the rewards for the quartet of Danish films entered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF (4-13 September).

Jørgen Leth's fiction films — fourth DVD

09. sep 2008. Available now from The Jørgen Leth Collection is the fourth DVD set containing Leth's three fiction films: "Interference", "Traberg", and "A Midsummer Night's Play".

Roos Award 2008 goes to Tine Fischer

01. sep 2008. The Danish Film Institute's documentary-film award of 25,000 kroner (3,350 euros) has been awarded to Tine Fischer, director of the CPH:DOX international documentary film festival.

Odense International Film Festival Awards 2008

25. aug 2008. Awards presented at the 23rd Odense International Film Festival (19-24 August 2008) are as follows:National Jury