Applause for a funnyman

10. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. After a spin around the festival circuit with "Applause", Martin Pieter Zandvliet set his sights on directing a warts-and-all biopic about Denmark's greatest comedian, Dirch Passer. Three decades…

Cannes magazine online

10. maj 2011 | MAGAZINE. Lars von Trier seems to be in fine form as he greets FILM in his personal Fuhrer bunker for a talk about his latest creation, the apocalyptic "Melancholia". Meet the director and read more Cannes…

A meek giant

09. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. "Teddy Bear" is about a Danish bodybuilder who goes to Thailand looking for love. Mads Matthiesen's debut feature is a sign of a new trend in Danish cinema that finds directors of narrative films…

DFI = Danish Film International

09. maj 2011 | EDITORIAL. We'll admit it. We Danes can get a little smug sometimes. Maybe it's part of being from a small country. We're so proud when someone does well. It rubs off on everyone. We all feel a little bigger, a…

Eruption

09. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. Complex emotions are played out in Rúnar Rúnarsson's first feature film "Volcano", a Danish production selected for Directors' Fortnight. The Icelandic director's uniquely condensed style attracted…

Facts & Figures 2011

09. maj 2011 | PUBLICATION. Find key statistics for Danish films and cinema in our latest issue of Facts & Figures.

Boe and the beast

06. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. As Christoffer Boe's new feature "Beast" shows, making a film doesn't have to be complicated. With the right idea and the necessary determination, you can start shooting tomorrow. Nicolas Bro, Boe's…

If walls could talk

06. maj 2011 | NEW FEATURE. Birgitte Stærmose's feature film debut "Room 304" is a multi-plot drama in which the visual style and the exploration of the wordless intimacy between characters carry as much weight as the elegantly…

Restoring masculine dignity

06. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. After his tense WW 2 blockbuster "Flame & Citron", Ole Christian Madsen is back with a light love story about the passion for women, football, tango and wine. Shooting in Argentina, the first…

The man with the yellow hat gone bad

06. maj 2011 | INTERVIEW. In his Sundance winner "The Red Chapel", media prankster Mads Brügger travelled to North Korea as a communist theatre director. Now, in "The Ambassador", he has abandoned his role-playing. Or has he?…