Exclusive premieres at CPH PIX

30. mar 2015 | CPH PIX. Denmark's largest feature film festival, running 9-22 April, offers a wide range of events, talks, concerts and, of course, new films from around the globe. For now, these are some of the local…

Dogme Actors – 20 Years Later

20. mar 2015 | DOGME 95. Twenty years ago, on March 20 1995, director Lars von Trier stood on stage at the Odéon Theatre in Paris, while copies of the Dogme manifesto were thrown to the audience. We celebrate the anniversary…

Sofie Gråbøl and Lars Mikkelsen in The Day Will Come

18. mar 2015 | IN PRODUCTION. Director Jesper W. Nielsen has started shooting "The Day Will Come," a drama inspired by true events starring Lars Mikkelsen and Sofie Gråbøl.

Kosmorama #259 – spring 2015

18. mar 2015 | RESEARCH. The newest edition of the Danish film journal Kosmorama #259 zooms in on Lars von Trier's demonic and detached sex, what "artistic" nature the Danish silent films entail, Frank Underwood's…

Forthcoming Danish Features

17. mar 2015 | UPCOMING. Productivity is high in Danish filmmaking at the moment. To help out, here is a selection of some of the important films that have either just premiered or will so in the coming months.

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.