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Ulrich Thomsen, Rasmus Hammerich (“On My Mind”), Ida Marie Nielsen (“Vikings”) and Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”) are set to headline “Ripple,” a graduation film by promising new director Joey Moe and producer Jasmin Jiramani.

Jiramani recently delivered the Star Wars fan film “Shrouded Destiny: A Star Wars Long Tale” starring Lars Mikkelsen, who has also been in the Disney+ Star Wars series “Ahsoka.”

Moe and Jiramani, who are both students of the prestigious Danish film school Super8, said “Ripple” explores why people spend so much time obsessing over macabre true crime tales.

“Ripple” is a psychological thriller inspired by true events that send a ripple effect through half a century of murders,” said the pair.

“Ripple” has already been pre-bought by Scandinavian Film Distribution and will be released across the Nordics in 2024.

“I think we’re both the missing piece to our respective puzzles. The energy, the ambition, the determination,...

What is going on over at the Academy? For years, I have questioned whether it made sense for the organization to continue awarding short films, seeing as how they are no longer a routine part of the moviegoing experience (the category dates back to a time when newsreels and short subjects regularly preceded the main attraction). Except in rare cases, when an animation studio attaches one to its latest feature-length cartoon, it’s been decades since shorts got serious theatrical play. These days, they’re relegated to film festivals and small-screen formats — so why include them in the telecast, I wondered.

I was wrong. In recent years, as a rise in on-demand, at-home viewing points the way for the industry’s future, shorts are getting more exposure than ever. Streamers now embrace them: You can watch last year’s winner, “Two Distant Strangers,” on Netflix. And once the nominations are announced,...

The five films nominated for live-action short at this year’s Oscars were shot and produced in five different countries around the world, and tell stories that have little in common with each other, from a satire to a romantic drama. But all were labors of love from talented directors who had to deal with numerous obstacles to get there, whether it was a limited budget or short-shooting times or harsh shooting conditions. The results are all deeply thought-provoking films, ones that reflect the issues and beliefs important to the storytellers behind them.

Ala Kachuu — Take and Run

Director: Maria Brendle

Zurich-based director Brendle was inspired after learning about the practice of ala kachuu in which thousands of women are kidnapped and forced into marriages in Kyrgyzstan, although it’s officially outlawed by the government. Brendle wanted to give a voice to these victims. Her short, “Ala Kachuu — Take and Run,...

Rasmus Hammerich and Camilla Bendix star in Martin Strange-Hansen’s Oscar-nominated Live Action Short On My Mind

In my conversation with Oscar-winning director Martin Strange-Hansen (This Charming Man) and two-time Oscar-winning producer Kim Magnusson (Anders Walter’s Helium and Anders Thomas Jensen’s Election Night) on Martin’s Oscar-nominated On My Mind, starring Rasmus Hammerich, Camilla Bendix, and Ole Boisen, we discuss special Oscar ingredients, the meaning of numbers, universal stories, and the essence of saying goodbye.

Martin Strange-Hansen with Kim Magnusson and Anne-Katrin Titze on Always On My Mind: “For me it has that essence of saying goodbye that is so specific.”

A man walks into a bar. He wants to sing karaoke. It has to be ‘You were always on my mind” and it has to be right now, daytime on a regular Tuesday. Only it is a day like no other for Henrik (Hammerich). Louise (Bendix), the woman behind the bar,...

I was very very excited when I heard Netflix had an all new Christmas horror series coming this year. There’s nowhere near enough Christmas shows and there’s even less Christmas horror shows.

In the Danish show Elves a family of four travel to a remote island in Denmark for Christmas. There arrival seems to bother the locals though and the electric fence surrounded the forests on the island is keeping something from escaping.

This is not what most people will think of when you think elves but it’s a really cool horror-filled take on the Christmas ‘creatures’. Because here they are definitely that, creatures. For much of this short six episode series we don’t see a whole lot of them. Well, we see a single baby elf and not too much else. There’s definitely a Gizmo from Gremlins likeness in the way the baby looks...