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,…

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The Artist's Touch: Dreyer, Thorvaldsen, Venus

In this essay Claire Thomson from University College London explores how sculpture in Thorvaldsen and in Dreyer’s cinema more generally serves to pose questions about film art, about the nature of…

Paul Auster about 'the word'

22. dec 2017. In his novel Invisible (2009) Paul Auster sends one of his characters to the cinema to watch Dreyer’s Ordet (The Word). He experiences the miracle at the end of the film as a transcendent moment that…

Dreyer goes to Africa

22. dec 2017. In 1934, Dreyer was hired for a film project to be shot in Africa. He wrote, together with the Italian journalist Ernesto Quadrone, a screenplay - "L'Homme ensablé" - and subsequently traveled to…