Everyone knows the animated heroine Cirkeline and her mousy friends Ingolf and Frederik. For generations they have been enjoyed by children and their parents. But few people know the woman who invented Cirkeline. Her name is Hanne Hastrup, and like many other women, she lost

The young Indonesian musician Anggi was given away as an infant and grew up among musicians practicing the traditional music phenomenon Reak. Reak is practiced in West Java and is a spiritual cultural form where both musicians and audiences go into trance and are possessed

Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of

It’s not easy being a man in today’s China. At least not if you want a wife. The dating market is fiercely competitive and decades of one-child policy have not made it any easier. So the three bachelors Zhou, Li and Wu sign up for

With barely a hundred inhabitants, the village of Andriivka is a dot on the map. But the town is strategically important, and when Russia invades Ukraine, a group of soldiers are tasked with liberating the town. From their position two kilometers away, they must fight

Rob Moore has chosen a life of secrets and deception. For five years he has posed as a journalist to gain the trust of activists in their fight against the international asbestos mafia. Meanwhile, he has been working undercover as a spy – for the

In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Scandinavia suddenly became a mecca for the most innovative music of the time: Jazz. The cold, dark north became a haven for black American jazz stars. Here, they could be far more at peace from the racism that persecuted

For more than 50 years, Jon Bang Carlsen has been Danish cinema’s itinerant film poet and adventurer. A rare bird who has often sought out the vast American expanses for inspiration and higher skies. With ‘The More Naked You Dare to Be’, he takes stock

When David Bowie calls your album the best album of all time, you’re probably on the right track. Unfortunately, Jeff Buckley only got to release the album ‘Grace’ before drowning at the age of 30 in 1997. It was a tragedy in every way. Through