Queen of Hearts and Cold Case Hammarskjöld praised at Sundance

28. jan 2019 | FESTIVAL. 'Queen of Hearts' by May el-Toukhy and 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld' had their world premieres at Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Both films are praised by the international reviewers.

Piecing together a 50-year-old murder mystery

27. jan 2019 | INTERVIEW. Mads Brügger spent seven years working on 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld', where the director and Swedish investigator Göran Björkdahl track the bizarre death in 1961 of UN Secretary-General Dag…

Ulaa Salim: 'I want us to stop and listen to each other'

25. jan 2019 | INTERVIEW. Ulaa Salim’s debut feature, 'Sons of Denmark', grapples with hot-button issues in Denmark and Europe today. The aim was not to make a film about immigrants, but about people of all stripes, the…

Elliott Crosset Hove: 'Professionally, it wouldn't matter if I died tomorrow'

25. jan 2019 | PROFILE. Nothing if not grateful for his skyrocketing acting career, Elliott Crosset Hove is this year's Danish Shooting Star in Berlin.

Navigating a morally complex story

15. jan 2019 | INTERVIEW. May el-Toukhy's second feature film, 'Queen of Hearts', takes a closer look at a powerful woman's fall from grace. Famed actress Trine Dyrholm and rising star Gustav Lindh lead the drama, fuelled by…

The Guilty and The Distant Barking of Dogs land on Oscar shortlists

18. dec 2018 | OSCAR 2019. Gustav Möller's 'The Guilty' moves forward in the Oscar race as one of the nine shortlisted films in the Foreign Language category. Simon Lereng Wilmont's 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' is selected as…

The entire Danish silent film heritage will now be digitised and disseminated

11. dec 2018 | LIVING FILM HERITAGE. A total donation of 30 million kroner from three foundations is making it possible to digitise, study and disseminate more than 400 silent films from the golden age of Danish cinema.

Elliott Crosset Hove is Shooting Star in Berlin

11. dec 2018 | BERLINALE 2019. Elliott Crosset Hove, who had his breakthrough role in 'Winter Brothers', is selected as one of ten European Shooting Stars, a platform for promoting young actors during the Berlinale. From Sweden…

Danish projects win every third prize at the Emile Awards

11. dec 2018 | AWARDS. 'The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe' took home top honours at the European Animation Awards held on Saturday, 8 December, in Lille. Six out of the evening's eighteen Emile trophies went…

Lone Scherfig's The Kindness of Strangers to open the Berlinale

06. dec 2018 | BERLINALE. Lone Scherfig's English-language 'The Kindness of Strangers' will premiere as the opening film of the Berlin Film Festival in February. The New York-set ensemble drama is also selected for the…