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The Anguish of Looking Back

04. feb 2010. Louise Friedberg's debut feature "The Experiment" (working title) shines a light on a dark chapter of Danish history. Denmark, today a small, relatively peaceful country with an international…

Boy in the Dohyo

13. nov 2013. At first glance, the children's film "Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler's Son" is the story of a small boy in a tough sport, but to director Simon Lereng Wilmont it is above all a universal narrative about…

New Danish trans-media

13. nov 2012 | TREND. Trans-media and cross-media have been around since the 1960s, but it has never been surrounded by so much attention as now. In this development, the film industry is central. New storytelling forms,…

Would You Hold My Baby, Please?

07. may 2013. For producer Mikael Chr. Rieks, trust and honesty are key in working with directors and investors. He only gets involved professionally with people he would leave his kids with.

Save us from niceness

11. may 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…

We Are Red We Are White, We Are Danish Dynamite

01. nov 2008. This chant was heard across the land in the 1980s, a decade when the Danish national football team played better than ever before. A new documentary, "Danish Dynamite", is an enthusiastic and…

Driving into Cannes

04. may 2011 | INTERVIEW. Following "Bronson" and "Valhalla Rising", the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, with a cool cast including Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, is kicking in the doors to the Official Competition at…

Happy People?

01. nov 2008. Study after study reports Danes the world’s happiest people and Denmark the world’s best country to live in. It’s sometimes tempting to think of our cosy Scandinavian nook as ‘paradise on earth’…

Physical Presence

02. feb 2009. One of the best faces in Danish children’s and youth film, Shooting Star Cyron Melville is gearing up for a whole new stage in his career.

"Voices of the World": Language is the House of Being

01. nov 2007. Somewhere between six and seven thousand languages are spoken in the world. But half of the world's languages will disappear within the next 100 years. In average a language vanishes every two weeks,…

Passion for Dialogue

03. nov 2010 | INTERVIEW. Klara Grunning-Harris wasn’t sure she would ever return to her Scandinavian roots, but the post of DFI film commissioner was too much of a temptation. After 17 years in California, the 39-yearold…

Moped Hearts

01. nov 2008. After his high-octane "Vesterbro" (2007), Michael Noer figured he’d done enough films about teenagers drinking and acting out, at least for a while. Then his production manager told him about a gang…