In the Dark Green Pine Forest

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Unleashing primordial Nordic forces, Esben Toft Jacobsen's first feature "The Great Bear" is an animated fantasy inspired by Scandinavian nature and indigenous storytelling. Selected for Generation…

Son of a Castrated Alpha Male

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. An insecure young man, his bizarre, embittered father and a randy blind girl inhabit the weird small town of "Skyscraper", the directorial debut of screenwriter Rune Schjøtt. In a unique blend of the…

When Mom is a Dangerous Role Model

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Director Heidi Maria Faisst remembers clearly what it was like changing almost overnight from a horse-loving girl to an unruly teenager. The chaos of the first titillating steps into adult life is…

You Don't Have to Love Kids

03. feb 2011. … to make great movies for them. Maybe the opposite is true. Maybe you have to be totally self-obsessed and egomaniacal to push your vision through, Rasmus Horskjær says. The new DFI commissioner for…

Creative experiments to Rotterdam

26. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Three films from CPH:DOX' cross-cultural matchmaking lab are showing in Rotterdam. Running for a Tiger Award is Thor Ochsner's childhood reconstruction "1989 (When I Was Five Years Old)". In all, six…

Oscar nomination to In a Better World

25. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier receives her second Oscar nomination, this time for the drama In a Better World.

A lab where anything goes

21. jan 2011. CHILDREN & YOUTH. "In theory, the task of making films for children and teens is destined to fail from the beginning," says Rasmus Horskjær, Danish film commissioner for children's films, in his…

From Golden Globes to Park City

20. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Susanne Bier is among the jurors at the Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday 20 January. The director's Golden Globe winner "In a Better World" is one of eleven films on show in the Spotlight…

Renegades Elmgreen & Dragset to Berlin

20. jan 2011 | BERLIN 2011. A man lying face down in a swimming pool formed one of the disturbing narratives in the Nordic pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Meet the makers, activist artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, in…

In a Better World on Oscar shortlist

19. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. "In a Better World", by Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier, is selected as one of the foreign language films contending for an Academy Award nomination.