Thomas Vinterberg in Berlin Competition

11. jan 2016 | BERLIN. Thomas Vinterberg's "The Commune," based on the director's own experiences growing up in a commune in the '70s, is selected for Competition at the 66th Berlin Film Festival starting 11 February.

Memories of Love and Togetherness

11. jan 2016 | INTERVIEW. "Based on a true feeling" is how Thomas Vinterberg describes his ninth feature, inspired by his childhood years in an intellectual commune. Wendy Mitchell talks to the director about "The Commune"…

A War on Oscar shortlist

18. dec 2015 | OSCAR 2016. Tobias Lindholm's "A War" is one of the nine feature films selected for the Oscar shortlist in the Foreign Language Film category. The five final nominees will be selected on 14 January.

Danish Winners at IDFA

26. nov 2015 | IDFA. Andreas Koefoed's "At Home in the World" took home the IDFA Award for Best Mid-length Documentary, while Nicole N. Horanyi's "Motley's Law" won a journalist prize for best female-directed film at the…

A Visual Footprint in Time

25. nov 2015 | MASTERS. In his autobiographical essay film Déjà Vu, Jon Bang Carlsen mirrors his life story in clips from the more than 40 films he has made in a variety of genres since 1973.

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…