Adolescent Loneliness

04. feb 2010. Adolescence is not an easy time, as legs grow long and hormones rage, even less so if you're like Nadja, the 13-year-old protagonist of Alice de Champfleury's "Sun Shine", all by yourself on a beach…

Carl Th. Dreyer Award to Nils Malmros

04. feb 2010. This week, the committee behind one of Danish cinema’s most distinguished honours singled out auteur and veteran director Nils Malmros for a lifetime of artistic excellence.

Doing time ain't cool

04. feb 2010. No Birdman of Alcatraz or evil prison guard made it into the Danish prison film "R" – capital R, as in realism. Kim Skotte talks to the director duo Michael Noer and Tobias Lindholm about their…

Music From the Soul

04. feb 2010. Siri Melchior's Whistleless, a short animated film for pre-schoolers, is a colourful fable bursting with music and joy – about a poor little bird who can't whistle, but learns how once he stops…

Shared Memories

04. feb 2010. "Out of Love", the first documentary by awardwinning fiction director Birgitte Stærmose, is about the lives of Kosovar-Albanian street kids in Pristina. Roaming the richly atmospheric locations of…

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…

The First Time

04. feb 2010. After three films that drew on his own experiences as a refugee in Denmark, Fenar Ahmad thought it was time for something different. Even so, the emerging director's new film – about a 13-year-old…

What Story Are You In?

04. feb 2010. "Everything Will Be Fine" is the fourth feature by Christoffer Boe, whose "Reconstruction" won the Camera d'or at Cannes 2003. Now the genre-savvy Danish director, 35, is taking political thrillers…

"Out of Love" wins Prix UIP in Rotterdam

03. feb 2010. Birgitte Stærmose's short documentary received the Prix UIP Rotterdam, which includes a nomination for European Film Academy Awards.

Westerlund wins Mai Zetterling Grant

03. feb 2010. The Swedish-Danish director Karin Westerlund received the Mai Zetterling Grant of 200,000 SEK at the opening of Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden.