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.

Jørgen Leth's travel films — third DVD

14. apr 2008. A compiled DVD of Jørgen Leth's travel films is now available – the third box set in a series of six containing Leth's entire cinematic oeuvre published by the Danish Film Institute.

Danish documentaries honoured at Cinema Eye Awards

19. mar 2008.

Awards 2007

13. mar 2008. In 2007, Danish films brought home 92 international awards, distributed among 18 feature films and 16 short & documentary films.

Danish Bodil Awards 2008

25. feb 2008. "The Art of Crying" by Peter Schønau Fog was honoured with Best Danish Film at the Film Critics' Bodil Awards.