Daniel Dencik

Directing

Daniel Dencik

Born 1972-05-09 · Stockholm, Sweden

Daniel Dencik is a Danish writer and film director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Miss Osaka poster
5.2

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.

Miss Osaka

2021

Miss Osaka poster
5.2

Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. Suddenly Maria disappears, and Ines seizes the opportunity to replace her – she declares herself dead and travels to Japan in order to take over Maria's identity. There, she will get a job at Miss Osaka, the same nightclub where Maria used to work. A game of broken boundaries, lost identities and the dangerous balance between reality and the past has begun, and Ines must abide by the new rules by avoiding the more obscure paths.

Miss Osaka

2021

Gold Coast poster
6.0

Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan.

Gold Coast

2015

Gold Coast poster
6.0

Young anti-colonial idealist Wulff leaves for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation but not everything goes according to plan.

Gold Coast

2015

Out of Bounds poster
5.9

A desolate, windswept island. Stella and Oskar, a young couple, visit Stella's father Nathan who lives alone with his labrador. Stella is pregnant and looking forward to having a baby, but Oskar appears to have doubts. When Oskar falls prey to Nathan's provocations and feels bewildered by the relationship between father and daughter, a clash between the two men is inevitable, and Stella is caught in between.

Out of Bounds

2011

Danish Dynamite poster
7.2

The story about Danish national football (soccer) team, a traditional minnow until the mid-1980s when they improved dramatically and eventually went on to win the European championship in 1992.

Danish Dynamite

2008

The Expedition to the End of the World poster
7.4

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

The Expedition to the End of the World

2013

The Expedition to the End of the World poster
7.4

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

The Expedition to the End of the World

2013

No artwork available
5.8

Moon Rider is a coming-of-age story about the bike rider Rasmus Quaade. The film follows young Rasmus' struggle to become a professional rider, a rough and winding road through hell and back. Shot on fragile Super8 and raw helmet-cam, it is a journey seen from the inside of a young man's head - it is a personal story entrusted to the spectator by Rasmus himself from his intimate diary.

Moon Rider

2012

No artwork available
NR

A young woman on the run encounters a man who seems willing to help.

Out

2006

No artwork available
NR

How strong the longing can be for a victory, for a man who basically gets paid to lose.

Kaptajnens Skygge: Christopher Juul Jensen

2019

No artwork available
NR

How strong the longing can be for a victory, for a man who basically gets paid to lose.

Kaptajnens Skygge: Christopher Juul Jensen

2019

Tal R: The Virgin poster
NR

A film about visions. Tal R is one of Denmark´s star artists, who has painted, sculpted and expressed himself to the top of the international art scene. In Daniel Dencik´s portrait ´Tal R - The Virgin´, we get to know the artist through a series of tableaus. Tal R was a haunted boy and his nightly visions still is a driving force in his work. A film full of charm and everyday magic, where characters, colours and shadows appear like fantasy figures onto the screen.

Tal R: The Virgin

2013

No artwork available
NR

Matti Breschel has been one of the wildest Danish riders in the professional field for the past fifteen years. As a rare photogenic character - he has a background as a photo model in New York and Milan - he has won two World Cup medals for Denmark. He is an old-fashioned rider type with no agent. He uses his father and his close surroundings to sit up to the races. His driving force has been the madness itself. It has been like living with a psychopath, his wife says. But now Matti is approaching the end of the career. No one needs a winner who no longer wins, he admits. In this intimate portrait, we get very close to anger and loneliness, hiding in it so welcoming face.

Forsvindingsnummeret - Matti Breschel

2019

No artwork available
NR

Matti Breschel has been one of the wildest Danish riders in the professional field for the past fifteen years. As a rare photogenic character - he has a background as a photo model in New York and Milan - he has won two World Cup medals for Denmark. He is an old-fashioned rider type with no agent. He uses his father and his close surroundings to sit up to the races. His driving force has been the madness itself. It has been like living with a psychopath, his wife says. But now Matti is approaching the end of the career. No one needs a winner who no longer wins, he admits. In this intimate portrait, we get very close to anger and loneliness, hiding in it so welcoming face.

Forsvindingsnummeret - Matti Breschel

2019