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I Never Went to a Funeral Where No One Laughed

15. may 2013. The last 10-15 years have seen a steady stream of divorced police detectives and psycho killers coming out of Scandinavia. Now, Mikkel Nørgaard has adapted "The Keeper of Lost Causes" by the…

Give Kids a Break!

03. nov 2010 | INTERVIEW. It comes as a surprise to Dorte Høeg Brask that one out of three Danish children go through a divorce. That 3,000 children lose a parent every year. That children at Danish asylum centres don't have…

'Quotas Are For Fish'

04. may 2010. Winning awards, making headlines, gaining international recognition – Danish women directors are doing exceptionally well right now. But is gender really still an issue?

I don't think I'll ever get tired of monkeys in movies

10. may 2012 | NEW ANIMATION. It's been almost four years since Jan Rahbek won the Nordisk Film & TV Fund's Nordic Talent Pitch. Now he has transformed his winning idea into the animated action-comedy "Marco Macaco". Though a…

Letting Go of Someone You Love

13. nov 2013. In "Carl & Niels", director Alexander Lind creates symbolic spaces to visualise the painful recognition by two twins that their childhood symbiosis is irretrievably lost. Lind is a recent…

Ready to Rumble

11. may 2009. Growing up with Spielberg films, Christian Potalivo has a passion for good stories. This year’s Danish Producer on the Move recently spent three months in the Australian outback shooting his last…

Four Danish Films Pitching at IDFA Forum

04. nov 2010 | IDFA FORUM. "The Invention of Dr. Nakamats" attracted attention at last year's Mid-length competition – now Kaspar Astrup Schröder explores yet another Japanese phenomenon in "I Want to Cheer Up Ltd.", pitching…

Raging Emotions

11. may 2009. What happens to someone whose whole world suddenly collapses? Morten Giese’s directorial debut "Love and Rage" explores that question in the story of a young conservatory student struggling with love…

Viden om

01. dec 2007. Hvor mange film har Jørgen Leth lavet? Eller Theodor Christensen, dansk dokumentarfilms 'grand old man'? Var der ikke noget med, at Dreyer også instruerede dokumentarfilm? Hvilke emner tog man…

Crossing Boundaries

01. may 2008. The ThinkTank on Film and Film Policy was formally set up in June 2007 with the support of the Danish Film Institute. One focus of the initial work that it has kicked off with a three-day workshop in…

Sowing the seeds of film culture

07. feb 2012 | DIALOGUE ACROSS BORDERS. Brazil, Canada, South Africa, England, Tanzania and now Uganda. For years the Danish Film Institute has been behind major cultural exchange projects around the world, and Charlotte Giese has been…

Inventing a portrait

16. nov 2009. A profound interest in Japanese culture led the director Kaspar Astrup Schröder by coincidence to Dr. Nakamats, an eccentric inventor who by his own count holds more than 3400 patents and is planning…