Acting Is the Ultimate Freedom

21. feb 2015. Straight out of acting school he landed a starring role in the major Danish feature Itsi Bitsi and a place of honour as Shooting Star in Berlin. Things are moving quickly for Joachim Fjelstrup…

Foods for the Future – and Noma, too

21. feb 2015. What does a cow pie from a healthy cow look like? Do farmer Niels Stokholm's biodynamic steaks really taste better? Phie Ambo's Good Things Await about Stokholm's biodynamic farm Thorshøjgaard,…

Growing up on a refugee ship

21. feb 2015. Fleeing Sarajevo with his family in 1992, Vladimir Tomic spent two years on a refugee ship in Denmark. In Flotel Europa, the director juxtaposes VHS footage shot by the Bosnians living on the ship…

No Age Limit on Desire

21. feb 2015. Michael Noer would like to see more true depictions of old age. Both when it is raw and dark and when it's bubbling over with desire and exuberance, like any other time of life. Noer captures that…

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.

Travelling with a Dead Man

21. feb 2015. It is necessary to get close to death to learn to truly live? Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm asks that question in his lyrical first feature In Your Arms, about a woman accompanying a man on his final…

Adventures of Beetles and Bugs

20. feb 2015. Mini and the Mozzies is a tie-dye bright story of bullying and friendship, brought to life in a simple cutout technique and peppered with jazzy tunes and anarchic humour. Co-directors Jannik Hastrup…

Coming out in the Bible belt

20. feb 2015. Jannik Splidsboel's documentary Misfits follows three LGBT teenagers struggling to be accepted in an extremely conservative community. 

When reality cracks

20. feb 2015. Vibeke Bryld's Pebbles at Your Door tells of a woman's rude awakening from the North Korean puppetry. Old propaganda publications, a blow dryer and incense sticks went into the making of this oddly…

Love is colder than death

19. feb 2015. Fassbinder – To Love without Demands is a portrait of one of the world's most prominent filmmakers, and probably the most productive. Based on interviews Danish director Christian Braad Thomsen…