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The city in the world—the world in the city

25. nov 2009. "Cities on Speed", a series of four documentary films about four cities: Shanghai, Mumbai, Cairo and Bogotá, is the background for an article by Jens Kvorning, Professor in Urban…

Cities on Speed - What's it to me?

24. nov 2009. How do we make developments in the non-Western world interesting to people in the West? That question brought together two Danish Film Institute film commissioners, Dola Bonfils and Michael Haslund…

Classroom Isolation

24. nov 2009. In every school class there are usually two or three kids who experience social isolation. Sidse Stausholm’s "Invisible Girls" follows three girls struggling with the loneliness that comes with…

Burma VJ on Oscar shortlist

19. nov 2009. The Danish documentary director Anders Østergaard and his film "Burma VJ — Reporting from a Closed Country" has been shortlisted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an Oscar.

Experiments from a true auteur

19. nov 2009. Jørgen Leth, one of Denmark's most versatile and productive artists, delivers his sixth and final DVD in The Jørgen Leth collection.

CPH:DOX Awards 2009

17. nov 2009. At the closing gala of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's international documentary film festival (6-15 November 2009), films and filmmakers were honoured with the following awards: