Film icon Trine Dyrholm reflects on 30 years of Dogma ’95 at Bozar on 19 September 25

During this special evening, Dyrholm will reflect on her impressive career, her connection to the Dogma 95 movement, and her collaborations with acclaimed Danish and international directors.
The conversation, which will be conducted in English, will be moderated by film journalist Stanislas Ide.
Dyrholm gained international recognition with Festen by Thomas Vinterberg and reunited with him for The Commune (2016), for which she won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale. She has appeared in, among others, the Oscar-winning In a Better World by Susanne Bier, Nico, 1988, Queen of Hearts, The Almond and the Seahorse, Poison, and The Girl with the Needle - selected for Cannes and shortlisted for the Oscars. She will soon be seen in Birthday Girl by Michael Noer and the upcoming HBO miniseries Rematch.
Two new films starring Dyrholm will soon be released in Belgium : Second Victims, a gripping hospital thriller in which a routine check-up spirals into tragedy - a box office hit in her native Denmark - and Beginnings, an intimate drama in which Dyrholm shines as a woman forced to reinvent her life and relationship after a stroke. The latter was selected for the Panorama programme of the Berlinale 2025.

Close-up : Dogma ’95 - 30 years
DOGME 95 – 30th anniversary of a cinematographic manifesto
11 → 28 Sept.’25
BOZAR invites you to celebrate an artistic insurrection
To mark the Danish Presidency of the Council of Europe and the 30th anniversary of the Dogme 95 Manifesto, Bozar is celebrating a movement that stripped cinema of its artifice to rediscover the raw power of the image, the urgency of reality and the truth of emotions.
In 1995, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg signed a manifesto breaking with Hollywood and the old avant-gardes, affirming a collective vision of cinema, far from the myth of the solitary auteur, in a sincere and essential gesture. Dogme 95 rejects illusionist cinema through strict rules known as the Vow of Chastity. Hand-held camerawork, natural light and pared back storytelling : these films turned the industry on its head by reviving authenticity. What began as a provocation became a worldwide phenomenon, inviting filmmakers and audiences to rethink the foundations of cinema.
To celebrate this anniversary, Bozar and De Cinema are screening five iconic films of the movement, alongside by meetings with guests : Festen by Thomas Vinterberg, The Idiots by Lars Von Trier, Open Hearts by Susanne Bier and Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig.
In 2025, history is repeating itself : at the last Cannes Film Festival, a collective of producers, filmmakers and visual artists launched the Dogme 25 Manifesto, a new provocation to the global film industry. Based on this renewed movement, Bozar proposes a reflection on the future of cinema as a space of artistic urgency and creative freedom, freed from the constraints of entertainment.

Programme
11 → 17 Sept.’25
Festen - Thomas Vinterberg
12 + 13 Sept.’25
The Idiots - Lars Von Trier
13 → 27 Sept.’25
Italian for beginners - Lone Scherfig
14 → 26 Sept.’25
Open Hearts - Susanne Bier
19 Sept.’25 - 20:00
Meet the Artist : Trine Dyrholm
24 Sept.’25 - 19:00
Queen of Hearts - May El-Toukhy
26 Sept.’25 - 19:00
Mifune – Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
28 Sept.’25 - 19:00
The King is Alive - Kristian Levring