Discoveries from Denmark World Cinema

Monstrosity is a Danish horror film by Kasper Juhl and Rose Milling. A Danish tribute to Fred Vogel's "August Underground".

An abstract cartoon built over Bernhard Christensen's music. It is the first of its kind in Denmark, as it is drawn directly on film stock.

Horse racing in Sweden.

King Frederik VIII travels to Iceland in 1907.

An animated short from the 80s telling teenagers about puberty, sex and protection.

Ballet by August Bournonville 1871. With Hans Beck, Valborg Borchsenius (née Guldbrandsen) and Ellen Price. (Stumfilm.DK)

Now that all the boring and practical stuff is out of the way, I'll tell you a bit about the show. Well, I'm not going to tell you what the show is about. You'll have to go and see it. But I can tell you a bit about how it was recorded, because it's a bit different from what you're used to. Since my shows are often very different from night to night and since I've sat in an editing room with a recording and thought; “F*ck, sh*t, that joke was much better the last time I did it”, this time I made the decision to record the show in Horsens, Odense, Aarhus and Copenhagen and cut the 4 shows together into one. Whether it was a good decision, I'll leave it up to you to judge, I'm certainly very satisfied. So all I can say is, enjoy... that is, if you pick it up.

Discover Circus Nemo - Now with Neon! Anders Lund Madsen and Søren Østergaard are in top form. Watch pastries dance and learn about Nemonism - or sit back and enjoy the segment with Poul the fish, who knows every major city in the world. Clowns and artists from foreign countries perform incredible balancing acts, play with electricity, and billiard cues. Zirkus Nemo - Now With Neon! brought stars to the eyes of both critics and audiences - it was a summer of standing ovations every night and sold-out performances. Experience it all in this recording from one of the last performances in the circus tent.

Danish comedy's sharpest tongue, Thomas Hartmann, toured in the fall of 2008 with his 4th one man show Extrospekt, where he proved to audiences and critics alike why he is considered one of the very best and funniest comedians in Denmark. His twisted brain takes us past everything from religion, technology, social values and supermarket queues, to toilet paper and pensioners' manic need for gardening, and his trademark equilibristic word games show a comedian in his most versatile show yet.

It's a sport, it's a competition, it's an accidental perfect game. An absolute fight, an everyday fight, that doesn't stop. It’s Counter-Strike.

Jane is a boxer, preparing for the championship of her life. She wants to win but it's difficult to keep focus when her girlfriend Tanja wants to start a family. When Jane meets Karoline new emotions arises and she decides to leave Tanja. The training escalates, and suddenly Jane seems to be unable to get the firm foothold that she so desperately needs in both her life and in her career.

Else is stood up by her daughter and instead finds herself in the company of two other middle-aged women at a seaside hotel, where a very different day takes shape. Everyone in the unlikely trio has their own problems that make it difficult to see clearly and make the right decisions, and Else in particular must decide whether she wants to live life to the fullest. Perhaps life doesn't have to be so boring, even if you're over 60.

Falke, an old Danish man, is out hunting in the woods. When he is disturbed by Torben, with a much bigger gun, things take a drastic turn.

A journey through Lars HUG's creative mind and musical universe with the man himself as tour guide, and with brand new songs on the soundtrack.

Two incredibly different women, both becomes pregnant by an equally incredible mistake, at the gynecologist office. Despite their differences, they must now unite to find the father of their unborn children. But it's not an easy journey.

Two reporters of TV-Glad, Daniel Henriksen and Majbritt Holm, accompany the composer Per Nørgård on a train journey from Copenhagen to Aalborg, where his fairy tale cantata "Will o'-the-Wisps in Town" is going to be performed. On the journey, Per Nørgård talks about his work on the cantata, which is based on the fairy tale "The Will-o'-the Wisps Are in Town, Said the Marsh Witch", written by Andersen in 1865.

Selma and Josefine live together in an apartment in Nørrebro. Selma plays the classical harp and struggles to return to everyday life after being admitted to a psychiatric ward. Josefine has a burning dream of making it as an actress, but is often met with resistance and despair. The film insists that humans are in a process where perfection forever remains an illusion.

In a stripped-down industrial building in Lisbon, two Brazilian brothers train for a jiu-jitsu championship in Rome. One shares his daily life with his girlfriend and her child. The other fights alone, while his beloved is hospitalized back in Brazil. By day, their bodies wrestle. By night, they drive taxis to send money home.

A man is overthinking at sea. That's when a fish comes up.

A danish comedy starring Oscar Stribolt

A comedy about the young squire who has his eye on his cousin from America. But her father does not approve of his side of the family, so the amorous squire must disguise himself as a butler in order to win his way into their good graces. Stumfilm.dk

When Consul Bjørn is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting in town, he leaves his wife home alone in their luxury villa. At the same time, a cunning criminal has escaped his pursuers. His gang of robbers overpower the consul, steal his clothes, and the ‘Face Thief’ impersonates the consul so that he can rob the family. But justice is served in the end, and the identity theft is revealed. (Stumfilm.dk).

In Jammerbugten, in the far north of Denmark, by the sea, lies the small fishing village Thorupstrand. It is the only place left in Denmark where an otherwise extinct life form still exists. Where everybody knows everybody, and where fishing skills are passed on from father to son. The way it has always been. It is a tough and harsh life. The young fishermen head out to sea, while the older wait on shore, hoping for the big catch. Many myths about the sea are told here, as well as stories about life, and the ancient struggle with nature is always present.

A longer documentary about Saxbo made in collaboration with Vejen Art Museum.

Benjamin Britten’s elegiac musical setting of William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” supplies the title of Rosalind Nashashibi’s video, which unfolds as an elliptical cross-media dialogue between the multimedia artist Elena Narbutaitė, the sculptures of Marie Lund, and Nashashibi’s own paintings and camera. What emerges is a set of funny and deep reflections on artist-types and the contexts and meanings of art-making—as a place to breathe and wonder, or a form of wasting time. “Don’t take it all too seriously.”

People are starting to believe an online conspiracy that Denmark doesn't exist. One UK woman does everything she can to convince her best friend that it does.

Immersed in the gripping tale of survival in Denmarks' menacing underworld, a young man's desperate flight from relentless gang members leads to a fateful night of high stakes in a pulsating neon-lit nightclub.

A glimpse behind the colorful facade of one of Denmark's most talked-about and controversial women. It is the dramatic story of a little girl who craves attention from her mother, but who as an adult ends up in the media spotlight to such an extent that it nearly destroys her life.

Pornography has been illegally downloaded and shared from your IP address. That is what it says in the settlement letters that thousands of Danes are receiving from the law firm Njord Law Firm. Other lawyers have called the case one of the largest class action lawsuits in Danish history. Two of the defendants are journalist Anni Pape and her daughter Katja, who, like many others, deny any wrongdoing. Several others in the same situation have lost their cases, and Anni and Katja realize that they must prove their innocence themselves. But how do you prove something you haven't done?

An animated film about sex -- regarded from a more humorous point of view than usual. (DFI)

Get up close to Queen Margrethe II as we paint a portrait of Denmark's longest-reigning monarch through rare archive footage and personal interviews. Together with Ulla Terkelsen and Hans Engell, we take a closer look at the queen and the person who has been a unifying figure for the Danish people for generations.

FRAGMENT | Any grand picnic in the great outdoors is but a moment away from a brawl with an angry lepidopterist. At least, that’s what a food-loving jester and his poor girlfriend will soon find out when they mess with the important work of hunting butterflies. Soon after, the police swarm in and the chase begins! (Stumfilm.dk)

Imaginative and sensual children's film about an 8-year-old girl, her budgie and her mother. Childish rainbow-colored magic mixes with the harsh reality of adulthood.

The Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth, and out there artist Pierre Huyghe has found a skeleton that might bring life to a place where nothing else can.

An animated Christmas story for children.

After a fun night out, two cops drive by a house with the door open. One of them wants to check it out, but the other isn't too keen on the idea. He gets talked into it, though. The cops first notice a nasty smell, but things quickly get way worse.

Sofie wants to escape everyday life and rediscover her youth. Frank just wants peace and quiet. But the babysitter cancels at the last minute, and they take their daughter, Emma, with them on what was supposed to be a pleasant trip with old friends to a Norwegian summer house. But the house's original residents want to babysit Emma. And they will make sure she never leaves the place again. Can Sofie and Frank save Emma, their lives, and their relationship?