Self-report on gender balance now mandatory

28. feb 2020 | Diversity. What is the gender balance of Danish film crews and casts? From 1 March, production companies are required to file a 'Self-report on gender balance' to qualify for production funding for fiction…

"A lot of people find it hard to talk about sex"

21. feb 2020 | INTERVIEW. 'Sex' is a web series about a young woman torn between desire and security. In six short webisodes, writer and creator Clara Mendes and director Amalie Næsby Fick take an earnest look at the…

"We call it a mafia drama"

21. feb 2020 | INTERVIEW. In 'Wildland', we follow a small family clan where love and violence become dangerously merged. Director Jeanette Nordahl and screenwriter Ingeborg Topsøe talk about how they play with mafia elements…

Edgy comedy duo celebrates hope

20. feb 2020 | INTERVIEW. Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler’s animated feature 'Monty and the Street Party' presents a brighter, more uplifting universe than we are used to seeing from the hard-hitting Danish duo, also…

Tone Mygind Rostbøll is new film commissioner

17. feb 2020 | FILM PEOPLE. Tone Mygind Rostbøll "has a big commitment to and insight into the target group," says CEO Claus Ladegaard about the Danish Film Institute's newly appointed film commissioner, focusing on children…

Danish films at the Berlinale 2020

12. feb 2020 | BERLIN 2020. Jeanette Nordahl's 'Wildland' with Sidse Babett Knudsen is making its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, while Anders Morgenthaler and Mikael Wulff's 'Monty and the Street Party' is meeting…

The Department Q franchise continues with 'The Marco Effect'

06. feb 2020 | IN PRODUCTION. Oscar nominated director Martin Zandvliet has begun principal photography on his adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling crime novel 'The Marco Effect', the fifth installment in the Department…

Berlin Generation invites two Danish films

22. jan 2020 | BERLIN 2020. Anders Morgenthaler and Mikael Wulff's 'Monty and the Street Party' and Tone Ottilie's short film 'Babydyke' are selected for Berlinale's Generation programme.

A Common Film Culture? - Theme issue on Danish-German film relations during the silent era

15. jan 2020. The authors behind this issue of Kosmorama are all part of the three-year Danish-German research project: 'A Common Film Culture? Denmark and Germany in the Silent Movie Era, 1910-1930'. In this…

On the ‘Danishness’ of Danish Films in Germany until 1918

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In Wilhelminian society, Denmark and Danishness were mostly constructed as part of a ‘north’ and a northernness sharing a deeply-rooted kinship with Germany, but at the same time as a…