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News list
2008-06-30
2008-03-10
2007-10-15
New festival landscape 2008
2007-10-15
Watch the Festival TV
2007-10-04
Winners of The Golden Swans 2007
2007-09-29
Gala Award Show 2007
2007-09-28
Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award
When Copenhagen International Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 29 September, the Danish screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson will be presented with an Honorary Award.
2007-09-24
Sweepingly beautiful costumes and Israeli Night
Read about today´s events - Talkie with Manon Rasmussen and Israeli night
2007-09-23
Meet the director of Heartbeat Detector
come to the Turkish Night, see Ingmar Bergman´s masterpiece Shame and get behind the camera with Spielberg
2007-09-22
The Black Pimpernel - one of the real world´s heroes
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly invites you to the preview screening of The Black Pimpernel on Sunday, 23 September.
2007-09-21
Festive gala opening ceremony in Imperial
2007-09-18
Makram Khoury replaces Gillies MacKinnon in the jury
2007-09-17
Spielberg on Spielberg - behind the camera
Copenhagen International Film Festival will be the first festival to screen the brand-new documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, where the audience will have a unique possibility to step behind the camera with the director.
2007-09-13
The festival´s guests
The stars are waiting in the wings for the kick-off on 20 September, when Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for 10 days of tribute to European films and the capital’s cinemas fill up with world-famous and upcoming film directors and actors.
2007-09-13
New Danish Screen
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly welcomes you to the premieres of a string of exciting films from New Danish Screen.
2007-09-06
Tribute to Bergman and Renoir
Copenhagen International Film Festival will look back at two of Europe’s great filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir.
2007-09-04
This year’s nominations for the Alice Award
Eight films by female directors are this year competing for Copenhagen International Film Festival’s women’s award – the Alice Award.
2007-08-31
Jury 2007
2007-08-30
Patrice Leconte to attend Copenhagen IFF
Patrice Leconte will attend the French Day at Copenhagen International Film Festival.
2007-08-28
Kenneth Branagh to attend Copenhagen IFF
The Oscar-nominated director and actor Kenneth Branagh will attend this year’s film festival.
2007-08-27
This year’s competition films
When Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for this year’s film event on 20 September, the audience can experience 147 fantastic films. 11 of them will get special attention, namely the films in competition, which compete for the six categories of the festival’s Golden Swan award.
2007-08-23
Israeli film in the competition
Israeli film will play an important role at Copenhagen International Film Festival. This year, the festival’s competition series will feature the Israeli film The Band’s Visit, and the festival has decided to dedicate a whole series to Israeli film.
2007-08-20
This year´s festival is kicked off with The Diving Bell and concluded with Sleuth
Julian Schnabel’s Cannes-award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly will open this year’s Copenhagen International Film Festival, and the 10 days of European film will be rounded off with Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth.
2007-08-17
Come to the program launch
Copenhagen International Film Festival will launch this year’s program with both a biographical drama and a zombie thriller on Sunday, 2 September.
2007-08-13
New head of BUSTER
Füsun Eriksen has been appointed as the new head of BUSTER and will take up office on 1 September 2007
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The Contestant Concursante
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Rodrigo Cortés has made a vigorous and witty critique of consumer society in his feature debut about a man, whose biggest dream turns into his worst nightmare. When Martin wins the highest sum of money ever in a TV quiz show, he and his girlfriend are over the moon. But it quickly turns out that the many expensive prizes (cars, houses, boats) don’t guarantee a carefree life of luxury, on the contrary setting off an avalanche of economic entanglements. The tax authorities, banks and lawyers all want a slice of his fortune, and he is forced to borrow money to afford his new life. Ironically, Martin himself teaches economics. But it is only when he meets the Marxist economist Figueroa that he realises, how he can plot his comeback. Cortés’s film is closely related to Fight Club, but in this version, violence is replaced with black Spanish humour.
Website: http://www.concursante.es/
Order tickets here:
22/9 Kinopalæet - 21.3027/9 Palads - 19.00Ikke i dansk biografdistribution
Director:
Rodrigo Cortés
Screenplay:
Rodrigo Cortés
Cinematography:
David Azcano
Cast:
Leonardo Sbaraglia, Chete Lera, Myriam Gallego, Fernando Cayo, Myriam De Maeztu
Production:
lazona films
Worldsales:
Filmax International
Country:
Spanien
Language:
Spansk
Subtitles:
Engelsk
Year:
2007
Duration:
90
Section: Spanish Connection
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Tributes
The Human Beast
La bête humaine
27/9 Cinemateket - 21.15
Shame
Skammen
24/9 Cinemateket - 21.15
Ulzhan
Ulzhan
26/9 Metropol - 21.30
27/9 Park Bio - 21.30
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