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…

Benjamin Christensen’s Wonderful Adventure: Film History and Practitioner’s Agency

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. In 1923, Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film in Germany, 'Seine Frau, die Unbekannte', a comedy about a blinded war veteran who regains his sight, but fails to recognize…

World Agents and Mighty Filmmakers – The Transnational Business Relations of Palladium

15. jan 2020. PEER REVIEWED. The film company Palladium was highly successful throughout the 1920s, an exception in an otherwise troubled period for the Danish film industry. Films featuring Fyrtårnet and Bivognen…

Web series 'Sex' selected for Berlinale Series

14. jan 2020 | BERLIN 2020. Amalie Næsby Fick and Clara Mendes' six-episode web series 'Sex', which follows 22-year-old Cathrine's vulnerable search for desire and love, will be celebrating its international premiere in…

Anders Thomas Jensen prepares new comedy with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas

14. jan 2020 | IN PRODUCTION. The beginning of the new year sees the shooting of 'Riders of Justice', Anders Thomas Jensen and Zentropa's new comedy starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro. Local release is set…

Oscar nomination to The Cave

13. jan 2020 | OSCAR 2020. Feras Fayyad's Toronto winner 'The Cave' is nominated in the Documentary Feature category at the Academy Awards, taking place 9 February.

Nominations for the Danish Critics' Bodil Awards 2020 announced

13. jan 2020 | BODIL AWARDS. Claustrophobic disaster film 'Cutterhead', Sundance-winner 'Queen of Hearts' and Tokyo-winner 'Uncle' are among the nominees for Best Danish Film at this year's Bodil Awards, held by the Danish film…