Pure Talent

01. feb 2008. Stine Fischer Christensen has a love affair with the camera. It loves her girlish good looks and soulful gaze. At 21, she has already demonstrated robust talent in several directions.

Content And Discontent

01. feb 2008. "The varied nature of Danish Films may seem guaranteed to inspire intellectual vertigo, but in fact there are central overriding motifs which link many of the films," according to Steve Gravestock,…

Controversial Love

01. feb 2008. After his international hit "We Shall Overcome", director Niels Arden Oplev is back with a new drama about youthful rebellion against oppressive mores. Based on a true story, "Worlds Apart" takes an…

Humanity Under A Microscope

01. feb 2008. "Everything Is Relative"is one of those films where you imagine the screenplay calling for "a blind girl, a woman in labour, a soldier going off to war, two Japanese gay guys, a beauty queen from…

Cartooning Buddies

01. feb 2008. Flemming Quist Møller and Jannik Hastrup have put their separate thumbprints all over Danish animation for close to a lifetime now. The two friends haven't worked together professionally since they…

Fit for Fighter

01. feb 2008. A classic coming-of-age story is how the Danish director Natasha Arthy describes her new film "Fighter", though its combination of a young woman of Turkish background and a passionate love for kung…

Sticking Together

01. feb 2008. Nimbus Film, Denmark's third-largest production company, had a major hand in producing the very first Dogme hit, "The Celebration". The company is headquartered in Filmbyen directly across from its…

Democracy Isn't Free

01. feb 2008. With the selection of "What No One Knows" for Panorama Special, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen may look back on a proud Berlin representation – counting an award for "Rubber Tarzan" (1982), a Golden Bear…

FILM #62 Berlin Special Issue out now

01. feb 2008. Cover star Anders W. Berthelsen plays the lead in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's political thriller "What No One Knows", selected for this year's Panorama Special. 

Asger Leth honoured at the DGA Awards

28. jan 2008.