Life on a Refugee Ship

25. nov 2015 | BEST OF FESTS. Fleeing Sarajevo with his family in 1992, Vladimir Tomic spent two years on a refugee ship in Denmark. Flotel Europa is the director's personal story about a boy trying to live a normal life in a…

Tackling a Taboo

25. nov 2015 | PARADOCS. Olmo and the Seagull delves into the intimacy of pregnancy in a partly dramatised story of Olivia and Serge, both actors at Paris' famous Théâtre du Soleil, as they are expecting their first child.

When Frailty Arrives

25. nov 2015 | INTERVIEW. In Man Falling Anne Wivel turns her camera on her friend, the world-renowned painter Per Kirkeby, who is struggling to get back to work after he fell down the stairs and hit his head, which cost him…

5 X Mads Mikkelsen

25. nov 2015 | ACTOR PROFILE. Anders Thomas Jensen's new film "Men & Chicken," which screened at the Toronto Film Festival and a host of other festivals this fall, provides the perfect cue to assess the many faces of Mads…

Settling In

23. nov 2015 | INTERVIEW. What does it mean for a child to be on the run? How do you make a home for yourself in a new country? Andreas Koefoed's At Home in the World provides a different perspective on refugees than the one…

Shining a Light on Facebook

23. nov 2015 | NEW FILM. Jakob Gottschau's Facebookistan examines the paradox of our number one social media: encouraging us to share, it doesn’t share back.

Eat a Bug and Save the Planet

23. nov 2015 | NEW FILM. Andreas Johnsen travels the world in Bugs to explore the cultural and environmental aspects of insect-eating.

Jørgen Leth and Pelota II

23. nov 2015 | IDFA 2015. Danish auteur filmmaker Jørgen Leth and Spanish anthropologist Olatz González Abrisketa take us into the world of the Basque ballgame pelota in Pelota II, presented in the Masters section.

Life in a Chinese Orphanage

23. nov 2015 | NEW FILM. Kaspar Astrup Schröder's Learning to Forget captures two years at a Beijing orphanage, where children of convicts are trying to find their feet in the world.

Homegrown Rocket Science

23. nov 2015 | NEW FILM. Max Kestner's Amateurs in Space is the story of one of the greatest dreams of humankind and how to make it come true in your own way.