When Fiction Points the Finger – Metafiction in Films and TV Series

11. mar 2015. Self-reflexive concepts are common in newer films and TV series, which invite the audience to examine their texture or criticise our media-voyeuristic demands. With examples from House of Cards,…

Strategies in Danish Film Culture – and the Case of Susanne Bier

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. Dialogues between national and transnational film cultures take place incessantly. The question is: which kinds of dialogue? The principal lines in the history of encounters and…

'Kunst og kino': The art of early Danish Cinema

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing historiographical inquiry into, and reevaluation of, the European silent film, by questioning specifically what the “artistic” nature of…

Forget About Love - Sex and Detachment in Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

11. mar 2015. PEER REVIEWED. In Lars von Trier’s cinematic universe, sexuality only rarely appears as a shared passion between partners who embrace feelings of intimacy and bonding. Trier’s characters wear…

Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl to shoot in Copenhagen

10. mar 2015 | PRODUCTION. Thanks to funding from Copenhagen Film Fund the two Academy Award winners, director Tom Hooper and actor Eddie Redmayne, will be shooting "The Danish Girl" in Copenhagen later this month.

Democrats and Bridgend to Tribeca

05. mar 2015 | FESTIVAL. Jeppe Rønde's "Bridgend" is selected for the World Narrative Competition and Camilla Nielsson's "Democrats for the World Documentary Competition at Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Five Danish films to SXSW

04. mar 2015 | FESTIVAL. Three Danish documentaries, a short and an animated short are heading for South by Southwest, opening on 13 March in Austin, Texas.

Winding Refn off to shoot his Neon Demon

04. mar 2015 | IN PRODUCTION. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves are announced as part of the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming "The Neon Demon," to begin shooting on 30 March in Los Angeles.

Best Film to Bille August

02. mar 2015 | BODIL AWARDS. "Silent Heart" by Bille August cashed in four of its five nominations at the Danish film critics' Bodil Awards on Saturday in Copenhagen. American-Danish actor Viggo Mortensen was also among the…

Congratulations to Ida

25. feb 2015 | OSCARS. "A remarkable film that insists on silence in a noisy culture," CEO of the Danish Film Institute comments on Pawel Pawlikowski's Polish-Danish co-production "Ida" triumphing as Best Foreign Language…