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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…

The Anguish of Looking Back

04. feb 2010. Louise Friedberg's debut feature "The Experiment" (working title) shines a light on a dark chapter of Danish history. Denmark, today a small, relatively peaceful country with an international…

Boy in the Dohyo

13. nov 2013. At first glance, the children's film "Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler's Son" is the story of a small boy in a tough sport, but to director Simon Lereng Wilmont it is above all a universal narrative about…

New Danish trans-media

13. nov 2012 | TREND. Trans-media and cross-media have been around since the 1960s, but it has never been surrounded by so much attention as now. In this development, the film industry is central. New storytelling forms,…

Would You Hold My Baby, Please?

07. may 2013. For producer Mikael Chr. Rieks, trust and honesty are key in working with directors and investors. He only gets involved professionally with people he would leave his kids with.

Save us from niceness

11. may 2012 | INTERVIEW. Looking to bury politically correct children's films, Christian Dyekjær's "The Bird Chase", released domestically 7 June, proves it's possible to spin a cool film around a bevy of bird nerds chasing…

We Are Red We Are White, We Are Danish Dynamite

01. nov 2008. This chant was heard across the land in the 1980s, a decade when the Danish national football team played better than ever before. A new documentary, "Danish Dynamite", is an enthusiastic and…

Driving into Cannes

04. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. Following "Bronson" and "Valhalla Rising", the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, with a cool cast including Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, is kicking in the doors to the Official Competition at…