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Ready to Rumble

11. may 2009. Growing up with Spielberg films, Christian Potalivo has a passion for good stories. This year’s Danish Producer on the Move recently spent three months in the Australian outback shooting his last…

Four Danish Films Pitching at IDFA Forum

04. nov 2010 | IDFA FORUM. "The Invention of Dr. Nakamats" attracted attention at last year's Mid-length competition – now Kaspar Astrup Schröder explores yet another Japanese phenomenon in "I Want to Cheer Up Ltd.", pitching…

Raging Emotions

11. may 2009. What happens to someone whose whole world suddenly collapses? Morten Giese’s directorial debut "Love and Rage" explores that question in the story of a young conservatory student struggling with love…

Viden om

01. dec 2007. Hvor mange film har Jørgen Leth lavet? Eller Theodor Christensen, dansk dokumentarfilms 'grand old man'? Var der ikke noget med, at Dreyer også instruerede dokumentarfilm? Hvilke emner tog man…

Crossing Boundaries

01. may 2008. The ThinkTank on Film and Film Policy was formally set up in June 2007 with the support of the Danish Film Institute. One focus of the initial work that it has kicked off with a three-day workshop in…

Sowing the seeds of film culture

07. feb 2012 | DIALOGUE ACROSS BORDERS. Brazil, Canada, South Africa, England, Tanzania and now Uganda. For years the Danish Film Institute has been behind major cultural exchange projects around the world, and Charlotte Giese has been…

Inventing a portrait

16. nov 2009. A profound interest in Japanese culture led the director Kaspar Astrup Schröder by coincidence to Dr. Nakamats, an eccentric inventor who by his own count holds more than 3400 patents and is planning…

Mikkelsen's European Year

02. feb 2009. Following his international breakthrough as a villain crying tears of blood in "Casino Royale", Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is starring in three European films opening this year: Anno Saul’s "Die Tür…

Light at the End of the Tunnel

04. feb 2011 | EDITORIAL. As a good friend of mine never fails to point out when I enthusiastically announce a light at the end of the tunnel, from a distance you can never tell whether it’s actually an oncoming train…

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.

Debat: 1001 spørgsmål om distribution af dokumentarfilm

01. dec 2007. Der er ikke mange dage, hvor jeg ikke tænker på et emblem, jeg så i 70'erne: Technology is the answer. But what was the question? Jeg tænker på det, når der går kludder i off-line og on-line, HD og…

Essential Voices

08. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. There is a common thread in
all of Helle Hansen's work. The Danish Film Institute's new commissioner for documentaries has years of experience as a journalist and filmmaker. A driving force in every…