Nanna Frank Rasmussen

Young Lives in Motion

11. nov 2014. Fencing is not all they have in common. Two films, Simon Lereng Wilmont's "The Fencing Champion" and Lea Hjort Mathiesen's "Malek Means Angel", record with great sensitivity the intimate world of two…

The price of perfection

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Katrine Philp's first feature-length documentary, "Dance for Me", follows a pair of young elite dancers who have a hard time finding their groove outside the dance floor. The film is celebrating its…

An obligation to be curious

16. maj 2012 | CANNES 2012. She got her start in the industry on a fluke, learned the ropes during the Dogme wave and recently struck out on her own as an independent producer, opening her own company, Toolbox Film. Now Signe…

Save us from niceness

11. maj 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…

Shining light on Marie

10. maj 2012 | INTERVIEW. In his first Danish film in 25 years, Bille August takes up a golden piece of Danish history – the Skagen painters and Marie Krøyer, an artist struggling to break free from the shadow of her…

Story Before Ego

10. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. Making "The Kid and the Clown", Ida Grøn was tiptoeing through an ethical minefield. In her documentary about a hospital clown
and Tobias, a boy with cancer, the director
was determined not to reduce…