The Danish terrorist

16. nov 2009. "The Accidental Terrorist", a documentary for young people, is a side-by-side look at two young men. They are the same age, from the same culture and religious background and they had the same…

FILM#67 Amsterdam online

06. nov 2009. A crowd at a Mumbai station spreads the cover of the latest issue of FILM, marking the release of Cities on Speed, a series of films portraying the megacities of Bogotá, Cairo, Mumbai and Shanghai.

Grierson award to Burma VJ

06. nov 2009. "Burma VJ" swept away the Grierson Best Cinema Documentary Award, beating Oscar winner "Man on Wire".

If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution

06. nov 2009. An apt choice, emblazoning the cover of this year's CPH:DOX festival programme with a statement by the anarchist Emma Goldman. In seven short years CPH:DOX has grown into Scandinavia's biggest…

Spain celebrates Nordic shorts

06. nov 2009. The film festival in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, kicking off today, is celebrating Nordic films. Six Danish shorts are selected.

Changing Habits

04. nov 2009. Cairo Garbage, directed by Mikala Krogh, takes us on a journey into Cairo's "garbage cities", entire neighbourhoods where people earn a living sorting and recycling garbage. Cairo shows us the…

Creating community out of chaos

04. nov 2009. Bogotá Change, directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, is the unique and surprising story of two mayors, Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa, who have changed behaviour patterns in the Colombian capital,…

Infrastructure out of control

04. nov 2009. Humour is a powerful element in Mumbai Disconnected, directed by Camilla Nielsson and Frederik Jacobi. Mumbai is growing like it was on steroids. But a collapsing infrastructure is threatening to put…

Megacitites: Global visions for an urban future

04. nov 2009. At this very moment, giant urban organisms are growing at unprecedented rates. Today 50 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2030 this figure is predicted to increase to 80…

Danish honours at Kiev, Sevilla, Chicago

03. nov 2009. Audience, jury and industry awards went respectively to a Danish film, a director and a producer.