Power Game in An Ice-cold World

01. may 2008. Civilisation is a wonderful thing, Kristian Levring says. But we need to keep in mind that people are animals who need a certain freedom. That's the subject of all his films, including his latest, …

Networking Producers under Shady Palms

01. may 2008. Louise Vesth of Zentropa will be representing Danish cinema as Producer on the Move in Cannes.

Expressionist Genre Film

01. may 2008. Danish cinema is no longer all dogmas. It's genres, too. Among the new style-conscious genre films is Kasper Barfoed's thriller, "The Candidate". Cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro was in charge of…

Crossing Boundaries

01. may 2008. The ThinkTank on Film and Film Policy was formally set up in June 2007 with the support of the Danish Film Institute. One focus of the initial work that it has kicked off with a three-day workshop in…

Low-Budget Danish Films Set The Pace

01. may 2008. Tougher earnings opportunities in the market, along with a need for innovation and reinvention, are putting the brakes on medium-budget Danish films. Now, many film companies are focusing on…

Reality Bores Me

01. may 2008. Henrik Ruben Genz brings the grotesque tale in "Terribly Happy" to life in stark, carefully composed images, recalling the American provinces of Edward Hopper's lonesome tableaux or classic westerns…

Fiction in the Service of Truth

01. may 2008. Ole Christian Madsen's "Flame & Citron" merges history-writing with psychological portraits, adding new facets to the story of the Danish resistance. With more than half a million tickets sold…

Trouble Turns Me On

01. may 2008. Meta Louise Foldager, Lars von Trier's producer, is busy preparing his new thriller "Antichrist" – and she has other projects in the works.

Troell's Moments

01. may 2008. You rarely see two countries acting as equal partners on a film. The Danish-Swedish coproduction "Everlasting Moments" by Swedish veteran auteur Jan Troell is the happy exception. Thomas Stenderup,…

Danish documentaries at Hot Docs

16. apr 2008. When the international documentary festival Hot Docs is launched April 17 in Toronto, six Danish films will be participating.