The day after the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban occupy the former CIA base Hollywoodgate in Kabul. It turns out to be a treasure trove. The Americans have left behind high-tech fighter jets, helicopters, weapons, medicine and valuable military equipment. Afghan fighters lick their

I wish I was five kilos lighter than I am now, thinks director Mette Korsgaard. She wants to lose weight – just a little. It’s been like that for many years. In fact, almost all her life. In her youth, the body ideal was Barbie,

Eight years ago, Danish screenwriter Lars K. Andersen had an idea for a film inspired by his childhood hero, Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad, who in 1937 went on an expedition to Mexico to search for a lost Apache tribe. Lars will follow in his footsteps

Calling all Star Wars fans! You probably already know that a long time ago in a distant galaxy, a special Star Wars film was made, about which the film’s creator and director George Lucas has said that if he had the time and a hammer,

Mød Judy Gringer i Grand – one time only! Jacob Wendt Jensen interviewer Judy om hele karrieren og tager spørgsmål fra salen. Bagefter er der mulighed for at møde Judy og få en snak. Hun signerer også den nye bog, der kan købes til favørpris.

Czechoslovakia, 1968. Libuše Jarcovjáková is 16 years old. She has short, messy hair and a black and white camera. The Soviet regime enters a repressive phase of ‘normalisation’ after the mass protests of the Prague Spring, and under the pretext that she is not working

Burning buildings in a dense fog, a lifeless horse on a dusty country road, people fleeing through harsh mountain landscapes. Birgitte Stærmose’s feature film ‘Afterwar’ opens with grainy images from Kosovo, 1999. A dark chapter in Europe’s modern history is coming to an end. After

Fresh out of high school, dazed n’ confused and on the cusp of adulthood, five teenagers decide to embark on one last adventure. They hop into a second hand van and set off on an 800 km journey to the Pacific coast to see what

Jeff Harris, a music journalist from New York, travels to Brazil to research his next book on bossa nova. As soon as he arrives in Rio, Jeff encounters the myth of Francisco Tenório Junior, an enigmatic pianist considered one of Brazil’s leading jazz musicians who

When Marius the giraffe was euthanised by the Copenhagen Zoo 10 years ago, the news went viral from Hollywood to Chechnya. But it was also the first domino to fall in the sprawling forest of existential questions Max Kestner asks himself (and us) in his