Hype on nordic brands triggers pre-sales

06. feb 2012. Three years after the phenomenal international success of Niels Arden Oplev’s "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", Danish and Nordic films are still very much on world buyers’ priority lists. The surge…

Personal voices in a global world

06. feb 2012. Mette Damgaard-Sørensen, principal of the European Film College in Ebeltoft, is visiting the Berlinale with all 115 of her students. Director of Berlin contender "A Royal Affair", Nikolaj Arcel, is…

Robert Awards 2012

06. feb 2012 | AWARDS. "Melancholia" was showered with honours at the Danish Film Academy's awards ceremony in Copenhagen, Sunday 5 February. Lars von Trier's apocalypse drama received 10 awards, including Best Feature…

"Mads, keep on lying!"

03. feb 2012 | DREYER AWARD. Mads Brügger, director of "The Red Chapel" and "The Ambassador", received Danish cinema's distinguished annual award for artistic merit. Brügger's methods including role-playing and hidden cameras…

Two Sundance awards to Danish films

30. jan 2012 | SUNDANCE. Mads Matthiesen and "Teddy Bear" won for best direction and Lise Birk Pedersen's "Putin's Kiss" received an award for best cinematography (Lars Skree).

Danish day at Göteborg

26. jan 2012 | FESTIVAL. Göteborg International Film Festival highlights Danish cinema on 1 February with film premieres, seminars and a party.

Burma VJs released

20. jan 2012 | WORLD CHANGING. The video journalists from "Burma VJ - reporting from a closed country" were among the 651 released political prisoners in Myanmar.

Mads Mikkelsen on the red carpet in Berlin

20. jan 2012 | BERLIN 2012. Nikolaj Arcel and Zentropa's "A Royal Affair" is selected for Competition in Berlin. Mads Mikkelsen is back in his first Danish role in years as Struensee in a highly dramatic story of Denmark of the…

Danish films in Sundance

18. jan 2012 | SUNDANCE. No less than four Danish films and one co-production are off to Sundance, starting on Thursday the 19 January. These are "Teddy Bear", "The Ambassador", "Putin's Kiss", "1/2 Revolution" and "The…

Superclásico on Oscar shortlist

18. jan 2012 | OSCAR SHORTLIST. Danish divorce comedy "Superclásico" made it to the last round in the nominations run for Best Foreign Language award. Final list will be announced on 24 January.