Everybody helps everybody else and gains from it creatively

04. may 2018 | INTERVIEW. Combining Spanish and Latin American directors who think outside the box with the Danish focus on script and the producer role has led to successful co-production partnerships for Danish production…

When partnering up just makes perfect sense

04. may 2018 | INTERVIEW. Ali Abbasi’s mythical love drama 'Border' could only have been set in a Swedish forest and be in Swedish, says Danish producer Nina Bisgaard, who started developing the film four years ago and is now…

Films should stun through images and sound

01. may 2018 | INTERVIEW. Now that TV shows are taking over classical narratives, feature films should provide a different kind of experience, Per Damgaard Hansen says. Going to the Cannes Festival as this year’s Danish…

Winter Brothers producer in Cannes spotlight

26. apr 2018 | CANNES 2018. Per Damgaard Hansen, producer of Hlynur Pálmason's internationally acclaimed 'Winter Brothers,' has been invited as one of 20 young promising European producers to participate in the networking…

Danish-German development agreement expands with animation

25. apr 2018 | AGREEMENT. Kasper Torsting’s World War I-drama ‘In Love & War’ is the first film to be completed with funding from the German-Danish development agreement, which was launched in 2014. Now the cooperation…

Political thriller by first-time feature director

20. apr 2018 | IN PRODUCTION. Ulaa Salim is making his debut as feature film director with 'Sons of Denmark,' a film about two young men caught in a web of fear and powerlessness in a modern democratic society.

Spanish-Danish Connections in Cannes

20. apr 2018 | CANNES 2018. Danish producer Katrin Pors has solid film experience from Latin America and has overseen several Spanish-language productions. Now she and her colleagues from Snowglobe are off to the Cannes…

Danish imprint on Swedish Cannes contestant Border

13. apr 2018 | CANNES 2018. Meta Film plays a prominent role in the production of the Swedish drama 'Border,' selected for Un certain regard at the Cannes Festival. Director Ali Abbasi, a graduate of Denmark's film school,…

Lone Scherfig filming ensemble drama in Toronto, New York and Copenhagen

06. apr 2018. IN PRODUCTION. Lone Scherfig and production company Creative Alliance have commenced shooting for the director's next drama, which is Scherfig's first Danish-produced film in ten years. A Russian…

From Rio to Dreyer's archive

RESEARCH. The relationship between body and words in the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer has long been the subject of interest for the Brazilian researcher Laura Erber. For the past three months she has…