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Danish FILMs cannes ISSUE 2015 FILM is published by the Danish Film Institute Tsunami Land of Mine David Dencik Beauty and sorrow intermix in Sofie Digging deep into Danish World War II He is a master of doing a lot with a little. Nørgaard Kampmark’s short animation. history. Gold Coast Katja Adomeit Klown Forever Jakob Oftebro and Danica Curcic set to She loves the creative side of producing A humorous X-ray of the modern male. music by Badalamenti. and never tires of finding new ideas. Meet a producer who is all about the Rosita facts & figures non-traditional. When love arrives by mail order. Get all the numbers on Danish cinema 2014. FILM is the Danish Film Institute’s international festival magazine, issued prior to the festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Amsterdam. FILM includes a comprehensive catalogue in the reverse section. DANISH FILMS CANNES ISSUE 2015 FILM Digital Issue is the Danish Film Institute’s Published by the Danish Film Institute online release bringing articles on new films, a catalogue section and useful information about Editors Susanna Neimann (SN) people and companies. Annemarie Hørsman (AH) FILM Digital Issue: www.dfi.dk/film Editorial team Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) Anders Budtz-Jørgensen (ABJ) Freja Dam (FD) The Danish Film Institute is the national agency Lea Mosegaard (LM) that supports and encourages Danish film and cinema culture. DFI Festival team Lizette Gram Mygind Christian Juhl Lemche Anne Marie Kürstein Translations Glen Garner IMAGES OF LOSS Sofie Nørgaard Kampmark was living in Tokyo in 2011 when a tsunami hit Japan and laid 12 waste to vast stretches of coastline. The young director talks about how her encounter Design AND BEAUTY Rasmus Koch Studio with the Japanese inspired her to make Tsunami, her graduation film from the Animation Art Direction Workshop, one of Denmark’s most respected animation schools. Pernille Volder Lund Type Holton, Swift, Akzidenz Paper MultiDesign White Printed by Centertryk Circulation 2,500 ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) Danish FILMs Cover Cannes Digital issue 2015 Left to right: Gold Coast, photo Michael ALL ABOUT THE NON-TRADITIONAL DOGME REVISITED DOING A LOT WITH A LITTLE Haslund-Christensen / producer Katja Adomeit, photo Daniel Joseph Borgman / 14 Katja Adomeit loves the creative side of 20 Twenty years ago, Lars von Trier and 24 David Dencik can be understated and producing and never tires of finding new Thomas Vinterberg wrote ten rules that subtle where others feel they have to raise Land of Mine, photo Gordon Timpen / Find articles from our print concepts for her films, whether they are would change Danish film forever. FILM their voice. A profile of the Danish actor Rosita, framegrab / Tsunami, framegrab / magazine, a film catalogue and made in New Zealand, South Dakota, looks back on the rescue action and follows who has more than 60 roles in films and on Klown Forever, photo Per Arnesen / Ukraine or Afghanistan. the traces in Danish cinema today. television to his name. Men & Chicken, photo Rolf Konow. all the basics on Danish films. Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 GREAT CINEMA ON A SHOESTRING? DK-1123 Copenhagen K dfi.dk/film SHORTS FACTS & FIGURES 18 Directors and producers have an appetite + + T +45 3374 3400 for making films for little money. FILM asked dfi.dk/english 04 NEWS & NOTES DANISH CINEMA IN 2014 four film professionals about their views on Discover new films and find stories low-budget filmmaking – a phenomenon on filmmakers and the industry. which is hardly new but is getting increased + CATALOGUE attention at a time when talent is plentiful, 17 CO-PRODUCTIONS IN REVERSE SECTION funding limited and technology more Introducing the Danish partners on Joachim available than ever before. Trier’s Louder Than Bombs and Grímur Hákonarson’s The Rams, selected for Cannes. 28 TO WATCH OUT FOR Three new documentaries each follow a determined individual on a mission. DANISH FILMS | Cannes Issue 2015 news & notes / danish films Limited News & Notes Steen Brogaard Universal Pictures Photo: Budgets, Photo: CEO of the Copenhagen Film Fund, which has supported the production unlimited Danish with DKK 6m (EUR 0.81m). Sixty crew members from London Creativity were supplemented by eighty Danish Girl in B-crew members. And the Britons Danish film policy is distinguished by being open and could have easily saved some of the having many avenues to funding. Filmmakers have Copen- plane tickets, says Gammeltoft. “Both parties learned that we would benefit many doors to knock on if they have a good idea for from mixing the teams more and leave a film, TV series or video game. The doors are open hagen some of the prominent positions to to mainstream films with a broad appeal as well as to local crew members.” In future Watch out for radical experimentation, to new talents and seasoned INDUSTRY STORY. Over a few collaborations, the Danish production Danica Curcic auteurs, and to international co-productions. The many weeks in March, the Danish coordinators will try to present some capital formed the backdrop for Danish crew members in London ahead doors ensure diversity and the evolution of Danish PEOPLE. Denmark’s quickest rising the shooting of Tom Hooper’s of the production and keep them as star, Danica Curcic, was the first- films enriched by a multitude of voices and global The Danish Girl, a venture backed leading crew members in Copenhagen. ever actor to receive the Nordisk Film cultural exchange. by Copenhagen Film Fund. “At first glance, Denmark is an Prize talent award at the opening of expensive country to shoot in because CPH PIX in April. “I didn’t even know The new four-year Film Agreement for 2015-2018 is now Not since images of Copenhagen’s of the high wages,” Gammeltoft says. an actor could win this prize,” said City Town Square traveled round the “But we are used to working with opening even more options for low-budget films. The a thrilled Curcic in her acceptance world in Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz a much smaller crew, which saves speech, where she also encouraged aim is to fund a greater number of inexpensive films from 1969 has a grand Hollywood money in the end – if the teams and Gerda Wegener. Their marriage the streets undisturbed,” says through 2015. So far it has invested screen-writers in general to pen more exploring new narratives and production methods. production had the same opportunity adapt to our method.” and work is put to the test when Gammeltoft. in productions such as Barnaby substantial parts for women. She Conceived as low-budget films, they are not just cheap to brand the Danish capital as Tom The Danish Girl is a love story Einar begins his journey towards The fund is currently in talks with episode no. 100, The Team, The definitely proved she can carry them: versions of “regular” films. Their production concepts Hooper’s upcoming feature, The inspired by the lives of artists Einar becoming Lili Elbe, one of the world’s Working Title about supporting a new Bridge III and Wallander (both With major roles in no less than four Danish Girl. The Oscar-winning first transgender women. large-scale studio production. FD in production). See more at are devised in tandem with their content. Ultimately, feature films (Bille August’s Silent director (Les Misérable, The King’s British Oscar-winner Eddie cphfilmfund.com/en. Heart, Christian E. Christiansen’s the films are inspired, not limited, by the budget. Speech) spent two weeks shooting Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Copenhagen Film Fund was On the Edge, Mikkel Nørgaard’s on location in central Copenhagen at Les Misérables) and Swedish rising established in 2013 and is a Photos of Eddie Redmayne The Absent One and Hella Joof’s Already, there is huge interest among young, inter- the end of March. star Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) collaboration between a number as Lili Elbe/Einar Wegener, left, and All Inclusive), winner at the national Universal Pictures nationally oriented producers who have experience The film marks the first Hollywood play the leads. The cast also includes of Copenhagen municipalities, the from the set of The Danish Girl by Robert and Bodil Awards, and selected production to be supported by the Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Capital Region and various players the “Nyhavn” waterfront, above, one using a limited budget to boost the creative process. Photo: as a Shooting Star at the Berlinale, the Copenhagen Film Fund, established Bone), Ben Whishaw (Skyfall), and from the Danish film industry. The of the film’s approximately twenty 29-year-old actress definitely has kept Meet Jacob Jarek, who highlights the explosive energy in 2013. Produced by Universal Amber Heard (The Rum Diary). purpose is to strengthen the position locations in Copenhagen. In one scene busy the past year. Next up are roles and creative freedom that a faster, nimbler production subsidiary Working Title Film, it’s the “The actors enjoyed the relaxed of the capital as an attractive city for Copenhagen doubles as Paris where in Daniel Dencik’s historical drama process can engender. Jarek is the co-producer, with perfect scale for the fund to make a atmosphere of Copenhagen and film and TV production. The fund has Lili Elbe lived for a while. The film is Gold Coast and May el-Toukhy’s Ditte Milsted, of Grímur Hákonarson’s The Rams, difference, says Thomas Gammeltoft, the fact that they could walk around a budget of EUR 4.69m going also shot in London and Belgium. romantic comedy Long Story Short. FD selected for Un Certain Regard. Producer on the Move Katja Adomeit likewise points of True Detective Season Two.