https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed ‘Another Round’ (Danish title: ‘Druk’), a film about a pact by four world-weary Danish schoolteachers to spend every day drunk for a loosely scientific "experiment," was always going to walk a fine line between comedy and darkness. https://www.thelocal.dk/20210420/how-danish-oscar-nominated-dark-booze-comedy-was-inspired-by-directors-tragic-loss Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:18:50 +0200 how-danish-oscar-nominated-dark-booze-comedy-was-inspired-by-directors-tragic-loss The Danish-Syrian-made film Last Men in Aleppo, which depicts the work of rescue workers in the war-torn Syrian city, has been nominated for an Oscar for the Best Documentary Feature category. https://www.thelocal.dk/20180124/danish-syrian-white-helmets-film-gets-oscar-nomination Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:52:45 +0100 danish-syrian-white-helmets-film-gets-oscar-nomination The Danish film ‘Under sandet’ (English title: Land of Mine) has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170124/denmarks-land-of-mine-and-viggo-mortensen-up-for-2017-oscars Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:31:40 +0100 denmarks-land-of-mine-and-viggo-mortensen-up-for-2017-oscars Danish film director Susanne Bier may not have left Sunday night’s Golden Globe awards with a statue in hand, but her miniseries The Night Manager was still one of the evening’s big winners. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170109/danish-director-biers-the-night-manager-a-big-winner-at-golden-globes Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:55:00 +0100 danish-director-biers-the-night-manager-a-big-winner-at-golden-globes Lars von Trier's bleak and erotic 1996 movie "Breaking the Waves" has become a modern film classic partly because it gives viewers wide freedom to interpret the plot. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170106/opera-revisits-dark-dynamic-of-danish-film-breaking-the-waves Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:07:41 +0100 opera-revisits-dark-dynamic-of-danish-film-breaking-the-waves The past 12 months have been terrible for Denmark’s film industry. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161222/why-2016-was-a-disastrous-year-for-the-danish-film-industry Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:36:07 +0100 why-2016-was-a-disastrous-year-for-the-danish-film-industry The Danish film ‘Under sandet’ (English title: Land of Mine) is one of nine movies to make the shortlist for the best foreign-language film at next year’s Academy Awards, Variety reported. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161216/danish-post-war-drama-makes-oscar-shortlist Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:01:17 +0100 danish-post-war-drama-makes-oscar-shortlist Grab the popcorn, it's that time of year again. https://www.thelocal.dk/20161026/cph-pix-film-festival-doctor-strange-and-more Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:20:48 +0200 cph-pix-film-festival-doctor-strange-and-more Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn, whose supermodel horror story "The Neon Demon" premieres Friday at the Cannes film festival, is a divisive filmmaker whose genre-bending, violent work has earned him a cult following. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160520/danish-pornographer-of-violence-tackles-celebrity-cannibalism-at-cannes Fri, 20 May 2016 10:44:55 +0200 danish-pornographer-of-violence-tackles-celebrity-cannibalism-at-cannes France on Wednesday honoured Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen with a top civilian award, paying tribute to him as a "fascinating" actor whose "face tells it all". https://www.thelocal.dk/20160428/france-honours-mads-mikkelsen-and-thomas-vinterberg Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:18:06 +0200 france-honours-mads-mikkelsen-and-thomas-vinterberg The Dresden grave of trailblazing trans woman Lili Elbe is to get a new tombstone – funded by the company behind a hit film about her life. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160418/film-company-to-rebuild-danish-girls-dresden-grave Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:31:45 +0200 film-company-to-rebuild-danish-girls-dresden-grave Swedish star Alicia Vikander has won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance in Nordic transgender movie 'The Danish Girl'. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160229/swede-alicia-vikander-wins-oscar-for-danish-girl-role-2 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:41:04 +0100 swede-alicia-vikander-wins-oscar-for-danish-girl-role-2 Director Thomas Vinterberg made it clear in Berlin on Wednesday that he is no fan of Denmark's reaction to the refugee crisis. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160218/star-film-director-im-ashamed-to-be-danish Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:33:56 +0100 star-film-director-im-ashamed-to-be-danish Denmark’s ‘A War’ will compete for the Oscar in the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category https://www.thelocal.dk/20160114/denmark-hopes-to-win-a-war-at-oscars Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:14:10 +0100 denmark-hopes-to-win-a-war-at-oscars Qatar has banned "The Danish Girl" movie -- about an artist who undergoes one of the world's first sex changes and which stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne -- from cinemas, officials announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160112/qatar-bans-sex-change-film-the-danish-girl Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:20:06 +0100 qatar-bans-sex-change-film-the-danish-girl The Danish film 'Krigen' (A War), which tells the story of a Danish military company captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan, remains in the running for the Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language after the field was narrowed from 80 films to nine. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151221/krigen-still-in-oscar-hunt-after-field-narrowed-denmark-oscar Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:29:27 +0100 krigen-still-in-oscar-hunt-after-field-narrowed-denmark-oscar "The Danish Girl," a film about transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, hits US theaters this week, riding on a wave of growing cultural awareness and media attention on LGBT issues. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151125/the-danish-girl-caps-year-of-transgender-issues Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:30:17 +0100 the-danish-girl-caps-year-of-transgender-issues The 2015 edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival came to its formal conclusion on Sunday and The Local's writers have made their picks for the best films of the bunch. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151116/the-six-best-films-from-cphdox Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:24:25 +0100 the-six-best-films-from-cphdox Ahead of this year's CPH:DOX film festival, The Local's Allan Mutuku-Kortbæk guides readers through some of the films you won't want to miss. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151103/cph-dox-2015-ten-must-see-films Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:32:46 +0100 cph-dox-2015-ten-must-see-films The Danish comedy film ‘Klovn Forever’ is a hit in the theatres but not everyone is happy about a provocative image promoting the film in the public sphere. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151002/raunchy-klovn-poster-too-much-for-some-danes Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:04:00 +0200 raunchy-klovn-poster-too-much-for-some-danes