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The price of perfection

13. nov 2012 | IDFA. Katrine Philp's first feature-length documentary, "Dance for Me", follows a pair of young elite dancers who have a hard time finding their groove outside the dance floor. The film is celebrating its…

Danish feature film festival awards 2004

07. aug 2004. Press release07.08.2004Calm may have reigned in Berlin and Cannes this year, but the Danish film sector has continued to reap the

Making the Familiar Surprising

06. feb 2018 | INTERVIEW. How do you adapt a popular children’s book for the big screen? With 'The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear,' animation director Philip Einstein Lipski, who co-directed with Jørgen Lerdam and Amalie…

Creating a safe space in a warzone

19. nov 2018 | INTERVIEW. Since it premiered at IDFA last year, 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' has reaped numerous festival awards and is now nominated for a European Film Award and three IDA Awards. But for producer Monica…

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…

Charlotte Sieling's The Man to Göteborg

11. jan 2017 | FESTIVAL. Feature films, documentaries, TV drama and short films – Danish film is widely represented at this year's big Nordic festival in Gothenburg, which kicks off on 27 January. Among the films competing…

Settling In

23. nov 2015 | INTERVIEW. What does it mean for a child to be on the run? How do you make a home for yourself in a new country? Andreas Koefoed's At Home in the World provides a different perspective on refugees than the one…

Afghan-Danish duo returns to Directors' Fortnight

14. may 2019 | INTERVIEW. Director Shahrbanoo Sadat and producer Katja Adomeit will premiere their third collaboration, 'The Orphanage', in Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Set in Kabul during the pro-Soviet government, the…

Danish Films - Berlin International Film Festival - Newsletter

29. jan 2003. 29.01.2003
BOX OFFICE
INCREASE - DANISH FILMS RETAIN THEIR POPULARITY
Danish filmmakers enter 2003 after an impressive year, in which

Dancing with Demons

09. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. For two years, co-directors Christian Bonke and Andreas Koefoed tracked former International Latin World Champion Slavik Kryklyvyy as he struggled to get back to the top. For the Ukrainian ballroom…

Childhood in the Shadow of War

07. nov 2017 | INTERVIEW. What's it like to be a child in a warzone? Simon Lereng Wilmont's 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' follows a ten-year-old boy, Oleg, who lives in a village near the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine. For…

Piecing together a 50-year-old murder mystery

27. jan 2019 | INTERVIEW. Mads Brügger spent seven years working on 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld', where the director and Swedish investigator Göran Björkdahl track the bizarre death in 1961 of UN Secretary-General Dag…