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…

Antboy hits again

23. feb 2015. Ask Hasselbalch is upping the ambition in the sequel to his hit children's film Antboy from 2013 while sticking to his credo of meeting his audience at eye level. In Antboy – Revenge of the Red Fury,…

United in Death

23. feb 2015. Jeppe Rønde is bringing out his first fiction feature, Bridgend, a story based on a real-life wave of teen suicides in Bridgend County, South Wales. Over six years, the director made frequent visits…

Travelling with a Dead Man

21. feb 2015. It is necessary to get close to death to learn to truly live? Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm asks that question in his lyrical first feature In Your Arms, about a woman accompanying a man on his final…

Revealing the fiction of our reality

21. feb 2015. Joshua Oppenheimer reflects on what the process of making The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence has taught him, and how he sees his role as documentary filmmaker today.

Foods for the Future – and Noma, too

21. feb 2015. What does a cow pie from a healthy cow look like? Do farmer Niels Stokholm's biodynamic steaks really taste better? Phie Ambo's Good Things Await about Stokholm's biodynamic farm Thorshøjgaard,…