Inside game wins four BAFTAs

07. apr 2017 | AWARDS. Danish video game "Inside" won big at the Bafta Game Awards held on Thursday in London. Playdead studio also made a splash with their previous puzzle game, 2010's "Limbo."

Last Men in Aleppo wins at CPH:DOX

28. mar 2017 | AWARDS. "Last Men in Aleppo," about the daily life and struggle of a group of White Helmet rescue workers in the war-torn city of Aleppo, won the main award at CPH:DOX (16-26 March).

April at the Cinematheque

28. mar 2017 | CINEMATHEQUE. Satisfy your hunger for music films, explore Belgian cinema or immerse yourself in Technicolor classics. In April at the Cinematheque, there is a good number of films with English dialogue or…

Denmark and Canada to Invest in Digital Media Co-development

23. mar 2017 | COLLABORATION. The Danish Film Institute and the Canada Media Fund have announced an agreement to establish an incentive for the co-development of Canadian and Danish digital media projects.

Bodil Awards to First Features

07. mar 2017 | AWARDS. Two debuting feature directors took centre stage at the annual Bodil Awards: Christian Tafdrup's "Parents" received four prizes, while Rasmus Heisterberg's "In the Blood" was named Best Feature…

Valdemar Psilander – A World Star in Danish Film

06. mar 2017. Around the world, thousands of women’s hearts throbbed when Valdemar Psilander lit up the darkness of the silent cinema house. He spent six years at the top of the charts before it all ended suddenly…

Screenwriting for a Star: The Scripts for Valdemar Psilander's Films

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. A star surely needs suitable scripts, but the question of how scripts contributed to creating a star and a star image is seldom raised. This article examines Psilander’s screenwriters…

"Young Apollo, Friend of an old Damsel": Psilander and Finnish Film Culture

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. How was film star adoration understood and how was film publicity constructed in Finland in the 1910s? This article examines how Psilander’s popularity in Finland became visible and…

Psilander, Dreyer, and Lydia

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. Of all the many films that Valdemar Psilander made, Carl Th. Dreyer made a credited contribution only to one: Lydia, a film directed by Holger-Madsen and released in 1918, for which he…

Garrison, Star of the Russian Screen

06. mar 2017. PEER REVIEWED. In Russia, Valdemar Psilander rose to stardom under the name of Garrison. This article details Nordisk Film and Psilander’s rise and fall in Russia prior to and during the First World…