'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?

Art Meeting The Market

04. may 2010 | PROFILE. Christian Rank, Danish Producer on the Move, loves quirky films. He believes that small films can learn from the market orientation of big productions. No matter how specialised a film is, it’s still…

Back to Basics

04. may 2010 | OPINION. I'm not completely sure of the origin of the statement “the best film act in the world", nor whether it's absolutely true, but the fact remains that people ask us all the time: What's the secret…

Tenderness for the Characters

04. may 2010. Why doesn't Marjorie, Jenny's mother in "An Education", have a sewing machine? And why does Olympia from "Italian for Beginners" drop so many scones? There is always a story behind the story when…

Filmhouse in May

01. may 2010. Immerse yourself into the screen dreams of Shanghai, or the less dreamy reality of life behind bars. Romp through Sherwood Forest, see the best from the Gyllenhaal siblings, and warm up to the…

Six Danish films at Hot Docs

30. apr 2010 | FESTIVAL. Nyon winner "Into Eternity" is one of the six documentaries invited to one of the world's most important documentary festivals taking place 29 April - 9 May.

Between heroes and killers

29. apr 2010. Denmark lost its innocence when it became a warring nation, Janus Metz says. For six months the Danish filmmaker was embedded on the front lines in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. His documentary …

FILM#Special Cannes 2010

29. apr 2010. Feast your eyes on the latest edition of our web magazine highlighting the three Danish films in Cannes programmes.

The Joys of Retelling

29. apr 2010. Who really directed Christoffer Boe's fourth feature "Everything Will Be Fine", screening in Directors' Fortnight in Cannes? It took more than one take as Lasse Kyed Rasmussen, Boe's PA on the shoot…

When friendship comes knocking

29. apr 2010. For the second year running New Zealand born, Danish director Daniel Joseph Borgman has a short fiction film selected in Cannes, this year in the Critics’ Week programme. Berik is a story about…