In the Dark Green Pine Forest

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Unleashing primordial Nordic forces, Esben Toft Jacobsen's first feature "The Great Bear" is an animated fantasy inspired by Scandinavian nature and indigenous storytelling. Selected for Generation…

Son of a Castrated Alpha Male

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. An insecure young man, his bizarre, embittered father and a randy blind girl inhabit the weird small town of "Skyscraper", the directorial debut of screenwriter Rune Schjøtt. In a unique blend of the…

When Mom is a Dangerous Role Model

03. feb 2011 | INTERVIEW. Director Heidi Maria Faisst remembers clearly what it was like changing almost overnight from a horse-loving girl to an unruly teenager. The chaos of the first titillating steps into adult life is…

You Don't Have to Love Kids

03. feb 2011. … to make great movies for them. Maybe the opposite is true. Maybe you have to be totally self-obsessed and egomaniacal to push your vision through, Rasmus Horskjær says. The new DFI commissioner for…

Creative experiments to Rotterdam

26. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Three films from CPH:DOX' cross-cultural matchmaking lab are showing in Rotterdam. Running for a Tiger Award is Thor Ochsner's childhood reconstruction "1989 (When I Was Five Years Old)". In all…

Oscar nomination to In a Better World

25. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier receives her second Oscar nomination, this time for the drama In a Better World.

A lab where anything goes

21. jan 2011. CHILDREN & YOUTH. "In theory, the task of making films for children and teens is destined to fail from the beginning," says Rasmus Horskjær, Danish film commissioner for children's films, in …

From Golden Globes to Park City

20. jan 2011 | FESTIVAL. Susanne Bier is among the jurors at the Sundance Film Festival, opening Thursday 20 January. The director's Golden Globe winner "In a Better World" is one of eleven films on show in the…

Renegades Elmgreen & Dragset to Berlin

20. jan 2011 | BERLIN 2011. A man lying face down in a swimming pool formed one of the disturbing narratives in the Nordic pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Meet the makers, activist artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, in…

In a Better World on Oscar shortlist

19. jan 2011 | NOMINATION. "In a Better World", by Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier, is selected as one of the foreign language films contending for an Academy Award nomination.