Team Hurricane honoured in Venice

08. sep 2017 | AWARD. Annika Berg's feature debut "Team Hurricane" was awarded the Verona Film Club Award at the 32. Venice International Film Critics' Week on Friday.

Land of the Free to Telluride Film Festival

01. sep 2017 | FESTIVAL. Camilla Magid's documentary "Land of the Free" has been selected for the prestigious Telluride Film Festival. The film met its first international audience at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in June and…

A Heightened Sense of Presence

26. aug 2017 | BRIEF. The hybrid installation "Separate Silences" combines sensory input and live-action VR to create an experience of slowly waking up after a coma. Venice Virtual Reality Competition 2017.

The Vulnerability of Human Existence

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. Peter Schønau Fog tackles fundamental questions about human existence in his second feature, "You Disappear." Ten years after his highly successful debut, "The Art of Crying," the director once again…

It's All About Our Shared Humanity

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. Life in exile is the main thread in Mahdi Fleifel's films, from "A World Not Ours" to "A Drowning Man." Then as today, it's not politics but raw humanity that interests the Danish-Palestinian…

Exploring the Unknown

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. Director Hlynur Pálmason blends beauty with brutality in his debut feature "Winter Brothers," the result of a highly organic process. The story centres on two brothers working in a limestone quarry,…

The Beauty of Rowdiness

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. Annika Berg's first feature, "Team Hurricane," celebrates teenage girls who are not afraid to be loud, vulgar – and vulnerable. Women of all ages tend to rein themselves in too tightly, the director…

The Riddle of the Stranger

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. "The Charmer" is about an Iranian man struggling to get a residence permit in Denmark. Playing with our notions of "the stranger," director Milad Alami slowly unfolds his protagonist’s secrets like a…

Deep Inside an Artwork

26. aug 2017 | INTERVIEW. "Nothing Happens," a film and virtual-reality project by animation directors Michelle and Uri Kranot produced by Marie Bro, invites you inside a singular universe of snow, black birds, poetry and…

First film The Charmer to San Sebastian

25. aug 2017 | FESTIVAL. Milad Alami's psychological drama "The Charmer" is the opening film of the New Directors competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival (22-30 September).