Winding Refn off to shoot his Neon Demon

04. mar 2015 | IN PRODUCTION. Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves are announced as part of the cast of Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming "The Neon Demon," to begin shooting on 30 March in Los Angeles.

Best Film to Bille August

02. mar 2015 | BODIL AWARDS. "Silent Heart" by Bille August cashed in four of its five nominations at the Danish film critics' Bodil Awards on Saturday in Copenhagen. American-Danish actor Viggo Mortensen was also among the…

Congratulations to Ida

25. feb 2015 | OSCARS. "A remarkable film that insists on silence in a noisy culture," CEO of the Danish Film Institute comments on Pawel Pawlikowski's Polish-Danish co-production "Ida" triumphing as Best Foreign Language…

Antboy hits again

23. feb 2015. Ask Hasselbalch is upping the ambition in the sequel to his hit children's film Antboy from 2013 while sticking to his credo of meeting his audience at eye level. In Antboy – Revenge of the Red Fury,…

United in Death

23. feb 2015. Jeppe Rønde is bringing out his first fiction feature, Bridgend, a story based on a real-life wave of teen suicides in Bridgend County, South Wales. Over six years, the director made frequent visits…

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.