Cannes: Young Danish Collective Reboots Dogma for New Generation

Thirty Years After Lars Von Trier and Thomas vinterberg Gave the Arthhouse Movie World a Much-Neded Kick in the Pants with The Dogma 95, ALSO KNOWN AS DOGMEK Up The Torch.

A Collection of Four up-and-coming Danish Directors, May El-Toukhy (Queen of Hearts), Milad Alami (OPPONENT), Annika Berg (Team Hurricane), Isabella eklöf (Kalak), and jesper just (Vanishing Woman) are launching dogma 25, A manifesto-Driven initiative designed to rescue artistic integrity from the pressures of the Modern Film Industry.

“Dogma 25 is a rescue mission and a Cultural Uprising,” The Collective Declared in A Statement Released in Cannes on Saturday. “WE STAND TOGETCHER TO DEFAnd Artistic Freedom As a Shield Against Pointlessness and Powerlessness.”

The Five Filmmakers Are Backed by Denmark’s MOST ESTABLISHED PRODUCTION ENTITIES. The Project Was Spearheaded by El-Toukhy, Who Approached Zentropa Last Year. Zentropa Producers Louise Votth (Melancholia, Nymphomaniac) and sisse graum j had (The Hunt, Another Round) Will Oversee The Rollout, with Support from the Danish Film Institute, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Nordisk Film Distribution, and International Sales Agent Trusnordisk. The Directors will have their FIRST FILLMS FULLY FINANCED (TO A BUDGET OF 10 MILLION DANISH Krone, OR $ 1.45 Million), with a Theatral Release Guaranteed for Denmark.

“In ’95, we made Films in the Certainty of Peace and Created a Revolt Against Conformity,“ Von Trier and Vinterberg Said in A Joint Statement. “In ’25, New DogMas Are Created, Now in A World of War and Uncertainty. We Wish You The Best of Luck on Your March Town Reconquering Danish Film.”

Von Trier and Vinterberg, Together with Directors Kristian Levring and S Byren Kragh-Jacobsen, ForMed The Dogme 95 Collective, with Strify “Vows of Hyst. Natural Light, and Banning The Use of Diegetic Music or Genre Convenions.

Films Made Under The Dogme Label Included Vinterberg’s Cannes Jury Winner The Celebration (1998), Von Trier’s The Idiots (1999), Kragh-Jacobsen’s Mifune (1999), and Levring’s The King Is Alive (2000). The Movement Went International With Lovers (1999) from French Director Jean-Marc Barr and Julien donkey-boy (1999) from American Bad Boy Harmony Korine. The Movement is Credited with Revitalizing Indie Cinema in the Late ’90s.

Like ITS 1995 PREDECESSOR, DOGMA 25 IS UNDERPINNED by A Stringent Vow of Chantity and Ten Dogmas that Set Strict Creative and Production Rules. But While Dogma 95 Was Primarily About Aesthetics, Conceived As An Attack on the Vanity of the Director Class and on Overly-PraduCed, SuperFicial Art House Film Target is the Means of Production, with A Focus on How Films Are Made, Not Whaty Look Like.

The 10 DOGMAS OF DOGMA 25 Are: “Scripts Must Be Original and Handwritten to Preserve Creative Intraction Banned from the Creative Process to Enseure Connection to the Physical World MUTH SHOT INTERN-WORLD Locations, with No Cosmetic Alterations to Faces or Bodies Unless Required by the Story Must Be Completed WitHin A Year to Preserve Urgency and Creative Flow.

“In a world whore formulaic films bassed on algorithms and artificial visual expression are gaining traction, it is our Mission to Stand Up for the Flawed, Distinct, and Human IMPIN IMPIN IMPIN. “We Fight Against The Forces Working to Reduce Cinematic Art to an Ultra-Processed Consumer Product.”

Dr’s head of Drama Henriette Marienlund Added, “We Agree With The Necessit of Finding New Directions in Order to Build Talent and Bring New Voices Into Danish Film. WEERE Theater to Are Also Along for The Journy in 2025. ”

Nordisk Film Distribution’s SVP Kenneth Wiberg Pointed to the Relevance of the Moment: “Dogma Has Always Centred Relevant Stories, and The Market Toads Needs.

Trustnordisk’s Managing Director Susan Wendt Called The Launch “The Perfect Way to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dogma 95,” Saying She Loked Forward to Bringing The NEW SABALS.

The FIRST DOGMA 25 FILMS Are Expectioned to Enter Production Later This Year. A Global Launch and Festival Premieres Are Anticipated for 2026.