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Finding Love in Unlikely Places

12. may 2010. Mikkel Munch-Fals, known to Danes as a two-fisted film critic from TV, is making his debut as a feature film director with the ensemble drama Nothing's All Bad, a warts-and-all look at engulfing…

The Diversity of Beauty

10. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. Your dignity. Your beauty. Think about those
two words when you're on stage tonight, Antony gently encourages the transsexual performers in the show "Turning", as they prepare to go on stage, in…

The Ultimate Modern Woman

23. nov 2015 | INTERVIEW. One-time beauty queen, mother of three, tough-as-nails defence attorney in Kabul – Kimberley Motley's complexity fascinated director Nicole N. Horanyi. In Motley's Law, she tracks the American lawyer…

Gifted Idiocy

13. nov 2013. In its transgressive aesthetics and upfront awkwardness, Lars von Trier's Dogme film "The Idiots" (1998) hits like a fist in the gut. Jesper Jargil's making-of film "The Humiliated" (1998) peels back…

Guts and Curiosity

02. feb 2009. Trine Dyrholm is hands-down Denmark’s biggest female film star.

The World Is Calling

02. feb 2009. Directors Lone Scherfig, Nicolas Winding Refn and Jonas Elmer plus screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg – all used their Danish hits as launch pads to international work. Scherfig’s "An Education" took…

Shut Up Mountain Goat!

03. nov 2010 | INTERVIEW. Phie Ambo's "The Home Front" is a breezy documentary comedy made for Danish prime-time TV, but the title's reference to war is no fluke. The film is about conflict, how they arise and grow, in this…

Doing a Lot with a Little

12. aug 2015 | ACTOR PROFILE. The prototype of an all-round character actor with an international career, David Dencik in recent years has worked with stars like Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman. Find out more about Dencik and his…

Devices For Capturing Happy Accidents

04. nov 2010 | INTERVIEW. A thorough discussion of development and methods in documentary films is called for to clear up the prevailing confusion of terminology, Jesper Jack says. The Danish Film Institute's short and…

Building a True Creative Space

11. nov 2014. Signe Byrge Sørensen has produced both of Joshua Oppenheimer's films bringing to light the human consequences of the Indonesian genocide. Her collaboration with the American-born director has proven…

In It for The Spirit

01. feb 2008. Peter Schønau Fog's "The Art of Crying" has made it to festivals around the world and taken home several awards. Now, Final Cut Productions is busy finishing Jan Troell's "Maria Larsson's Everlasting…

Films should make you feel

02. feb 2009. Manyar I. Parwani has no intention of sneaking out a polite debut feature. He wants to make a splash and shake up the audience with a movie about an important issue. Inspired by true events, "When…