What Is the Soul of Architecture?

30. jan 2014. Six acclaimed directors, among them Wim Wenders, Robert Redford and Michael Madsen, present their takes on architectural space in the grand-scale 3D documentary project "Cathedrals of Culture". FILM…

Different But Best Friends

30. jan 2014. Sawsan is a Danish-Turkish girl in a multicultural inner-city neighbourhood. Karl was raised as a Christian in a fishing hamlet far from the big city. Children see differences as natural and have an…

Down the Rabbit Hole

30. jan 2014. "The Great Bear" got a warm reception in Berlin 2011. Now director Esben Toft Jacobsen and screenwriter Jannik Tai Mosholt are bringing us an enchanting animal fable about fortitude and loss. "Beyond…

Lars von Trier and Cultural Liberalism

30. jan 2014. "Nymphomaniac", like all of Lars von Trier's work, is created within a freedom of expression that has a long tradition in Danish social and cultural life.

My Films Grow Out of My Characters

30. jan 2014. Since winning a Silver Bear in 2006 for her first feature "A Soap", Pernille Fischer Christensen has kept refining the intimate interpersonal story. So too in her new film, "Someone You Love", which…

Mornings with von Trier

30. jan 2014. Vinca Wiedemann combined the roles of scribe, inspiration and editor when she and Lars von Trier collaborated on the director's 298-page script for "Nymphomaniac", von Trier's stab at a novel in film…

Of Puppies and Men

30. jan 2014. Kristoffer Kiørboe has made a low-key rites-of-passage story about self-absorbed grownups and a boy who is saddled with more responsibility than he can bear. "Son" draws on the director's own…

Berlin Issue for your laptop

30. jan 2014 | BERLIN ISSUE. Read about Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" and its transgressive themes, and find out more about the Danish films at the Berlinale 2014 in FILM Digital Issue for your smartphone, tablet or laptop.

The Girl Who Sees Shame

29. jan 2014 | PRODUCTION SUPPORT. Kenneth Kainz is directing an adaptation of Danish author Lene Kaaberbøl's best-selling fantasy novel "The Shamer's Daughter", adapted for the big screen by Anders Thomas Jensen. Shooting starts end…

New Danish Screen 10 years

20. jan 2014 | SPECIAL EDITION. The talent development scheme New Danish Screen has been in existence for 10 years. The Danish Film Institute celebrates the anniversary with a special edition of DFI-FILM which includes more than 50…