Portraits

Carl Th. Dreyer: Portraits, at home, at work and meets colleagues in Denmark and abroad.

The Guilty wins Audience Award at Sundance

28. jan 2018 | FESTIVAL. Gustav Möller's debut feature 'The Guilty' wins the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

Low Budget Fosters Artistic Courage

25. jan 2018 | TALENT. What are the results of the DFI’s recent low-budget film efforts? We asked New Danish Screen artistic director Mette Damgaard-Sørensen and four filmmakers who have received funding through the…

Oscar nomination to Last Men in Aleppo

23. jan 2018 | OSCARS 2018. 'Last Men in Aleppo' directed by Feras Fayyad is nominated in the Documentary Feature category at the Academy Awards, taking place on 4 March. Danish film professionals among the other nominees…

Zentropa's The Purity of Vengeance Starts Shooting

19. jan 2018 | IN PRODUCTION. An infamous women's hospital on a remote Danish island is the real-life premise of Zentropa’s fourth and final Department Q film. 'The Purity of Vengeance' just started shooting, starring Nikolaj Lie…

Two Films by New Talents Hit 100,000 Admissions

18. jan 2018 | ADMISSIONS. Christian Tafdrup’s 'A Horrible Woman' and Mehdi Avaz's 'While We Live' each passed 100,000 admissions, the latest numbers show. Both have been nominated for Bodil and Robert Awards for Best Danish…

Pint-Sized Adventurer Goes to Berlin

18. jan 2018 | BERLINALE. Jannik Hastrup’s animated feature 'Circleen, Coco and the Wild Rhinoceros' is world premiering in the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation Kplus competition. This is the veteran filmmaker’s eleventh…

A Short Peep at Nudes

EFG THEME. The Erotic is the subject of twenty silent films which constitute the earliest Austrian cinema. These shorts demonstrate how the moving images in many ways are superior to photography and…

Feminist Film Hits Home without Raising a Fist

15. jan 2018 | INTERVIEW. Channelling the #MeToo spirit in her feature debut 'Holiday,' Isabella Eklöf explores the fraught power dynamic between a young woman and her criminal lover. We tend to lay too much blame on…

17 Danish films in Göteborg Line-up

10. jan 2018 | FESTIVAL. 'The Return,' 'The Charmer' and 'Holiday' will compete for the lucrative Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg Film Festival, starting 26 January. A total of 17 Danish feature films,…