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

Gunnar Hall Jensen is one of Norway’s most recognized documentarians. Always with a wry take on life, existence and the biggest topics – and with a sure and forgiving eye for the ability of all of us to screw up and fail while doing everything

As you read this, millions of products are being bought and soon thrown away. We are filling our shopping carts, thinking less and longing for more. Our basic needs have become cogs in a profit machine where we work and consume until we die. But

Led by Professor Eske Willerslev, a team of international scientists embark on a monumental mission. They have five years to map the genomes of five thousand people who have been buried underground for thousands of years. As the DNA library grows, Willerslev and his team

Iranian singer Googoosh is considered her country’s first and greatest pop icon. She was three years old when she started performing with her father, an acrobat and artist. Before the 1979 revolution, she was able to practice her music freely, playing for the country’s royalty

Does an almost 100-year-old opera still have something to say about our own time? Chinese artist Ai Weiwei explores the question in his directorial debut as an opera director, with a radical reinterpretation of Puccini’s masterpiece ‘Turandot’ at the beautiful and classic Teatro dell’Opera in

Mrs. Li suspects her husband of having an affair. She is in shock, but has not given up on love, so she resorts to a method that is less far-fetched than it sounds: She hires the young woman Wang Zhenxi to infiltrate and sabotage her