National Film School of Denmark

Den Danske Filmskole (National Film School of Denmark) is Denmark's national public film school, located at Theodor Christensens Plads 1, 1437 København K (Holmen, Copenhagen). Founded in 1966, it is a state-funded specialist institution offering 4-year full-time professional degree programmes in documentary directing, fiction directing, animation directing, screenwriting, producing, cinematography, sound design (tonemester), film editing, production design, and game development. Teaching is primarily in Danish. The school also offers a broad range of continuing education courses, workshops, masterclasses, and module programmes for professionals in the film, TV, and games industry, some of which are conducted in English. Internationally, the school holds an Erasmus+ charter (from 2023), is a member of CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Écoles de Cinéma et de Télévision), GEECT (the European branch of CILECT), and NORDICIL. It participates in Nordic and European collaborative projects including NORD – New Nordic Voices, Merging Methods (Nordplus), Nordfilm, Eureka Series, and the European Writers Club. The school is contactable at reception@filmskolen.dk and international@filmskolen.dk, phone +45 32 68 64 00.