Holding a Mirror to Horror

11. nov 2014. "The Look of Silence" sees Joshua Oppenheimer back in uncharted territory. While "The Act of Killing" took a surreal look at Indonesia's genocide through the imagination of the killers, his follow-up…

The Human Aspect of Violence

11. nov 2014. "Warriors from the North" is the product of a close collaboration between Somali-Danish journalist Nasib Farah and journalist and documentary filmmaker Søren Steen Jespersen.

Young Lives in Motion

11. nov 2014. Fencing is not all they have in common. Two films, Simon Lereng Wilmont's "The Fencing Champion" and Lea Hjort Mathiesen's "Malek Means Angel", record with great sensitivity the intimate world of two…

Human Beauty in a Russian Garbage Dump

11. nov 2014. For 14 years Hanna Polak has been tracking homeless children in Moscow. Now the Polish director is presenting the fruit of her labour, "Something Better to Come", a Danish-produced documentary…

A Circus Love Story

11. nov 2014. "The Circus Dynasty" is a love drama set in a circus. Over a whole season, director Anders Riis-Hansen travelled in a caravan with Denmark's Cirkus Arena, plumbing his fascination with the circus…

On the Road to Democracy

11. nov 2014. A unique chemistry emerged between filmmaker Camilla Nielsson and the protagonists of "Democrats", Paul Mangwana and Douglas Mwonzora, former political opponents united by their efforts to write a…

War-Raped Women Break the Taboo

11. nov 2014. In "Mission Rape – A Tool of War", Annette Mari Olsen and Katia Forbert Petersen shine a light on the thousands of women who were raped during the Bosnian War but failed to get adequate redress for…

Meeting the Audience: Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer

11. nov 2014. "The reception has been far beyond what I could have hoped for." Talking to FILM about the reactions to "The Look of Silence", Joshua Oppenheimer recalls the powerful experience of watching his film…

IDFA Magazine Out Now

11. nov 2014 | IDFA MAGAZINE. Smiling out from the cover of FILM, in print and online, are the protagonists of Hanna Polak's feature documentary "Something Better to Come." Read an interview with the director and more background…

Vinterberg Bringing The Commune to the Big Screen

11. nov 2014 | UPCOMING. Thomas Vinterberg is shooting "The Commune," a dramatic feature starring Ulrich Thomsen and Trine Dyrholm.