We Learn So Much by Moving into New Fields

08. nov 2017 | PROFILE. Films by Joshua Oppenheimer, Camilla Nielsson and Christy Garland as well as a pair of VR projects are in the pipeline at Final Cut for Real, where the producers stay sharp by always trying out new…

Pattern of Chance

07. nov 2017 | INTERVIEW. What do you find when you let go of reason and control? That reality is more complex than many would think. Leaving it up to chance and keeping an open mind, director Phie Ambo investigates…

Childhood in the Shadow of War

07. nov 2017 | INTERVIEW. What's it like to be a child in a warzone? Simon Lereng Wilmont's 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' follows a ten-year-old boy, Oleg, who lives in a village near the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine. For…

Jørgen Leth and Danish Documentaries to IDFA

10. oct 2017 | IDFA. Simon Lereng Wilmont's "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is world-premiering at IDFA, which has invited a wide range of Danish films and filmmakers to this 30th anniversary edition, including renowned…

Christina Ramsø Thomsen new commissioning editor

06. oct 2017 | DFI. Christina Ramsø Thomsen replaces Marie Schmidt Olesen as commissioning editor of the Danish Film Institute's talent-development programme New Danish Screen.

A Horrible Woman debuting in Warsaw

05. oct 2017 | FESTIVAL. Christian Tafdrup's drama "A Horrible Woman" is making its world premiere in competition at the Warsaw Film Festival. The film explores the theme of women in modern relationships, as seen through the…

Søren Malling and Danica Curcic to London

04. oct 2017 | FESTIVAL. "Word of God" and "Darling" are making their first international showing at the London Film Festival 4-15 October. Competition films include "Winter Brothers" and "Bobbi Jene," both arriving with…

Film critics commend The Charmer at San Sebastian

02. oct 2017 | AWARD. Milad Alami's "The Charmer" won the European and Mediterranean film critics' Fedeora prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The director deals with "one of the biggest challenges in Europe…

Of Unknown Origin - Identity, Nationality, and Ethnicity in "Gipsy Anne" (1920)

29. sep 2017. This essay will discuss one of the most important feature films in Norwegian film history, Rasmus Breistein’s Fante-Anne (Gipsy Anne) in the context of Norwegian and Scandinavian early silent cinema,…

A Swedish Renaissance: Art and Passion in Victor Sjöström's "Vem dömer" (1922)

29. sep 2017. PEER REVIEWED. A focus on art and mystique, cinematography that channels the Old Masters, and an interesting narrative structure, the 1922 Renaissance period piece Vem dömer (Love’s Crucible/Mortal…