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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 Band's Visit Bikur hatizmoret
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Luckily, humour can be an appropriate way of dealing with a subject as serious as the relationship between Arabs and Israelis. And as Eran Kolirin demonstrates in his charming and underplayed feature debut, humour is maybe exactly what is needed. When Alexandria’s Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel, with its musicians dressed in eye-catching blue uniforms, nobody comes to pick them up at the airport. The rule-abiding and melancholic orchestra leader Tawfiq (Sasson Gabai) won’t let himself be defeated, and soon they are aboard a bus heading for the town they are meant to play in. But the town they end up in is not much of a town. Nor is it the right one. Without any money or any other buses to catch, the orchestra is stranded, and the disagreements between Tawfiq and the young Khaled (Saleh Bakri) are threatening to flare up. Khaled, a violinist, would prefer to play jazz rather than classical music. Luckily, the town’s café-owner Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), a liberal and enterprising woman, quickly finds accommodation for the musicians throughout the town. It ends up being a memorable night for both the Egyptians and the Israelis, who end up knowing more about each other and about themselves. The screenplay strikes a wonderful balance between wit and seriousness, and Kolirin’s humour bears comparison with Jim Jarmush’s. Visually, the film is inventive and confident, but it is especially the actors who make the film a memorable viewing experience.
Eran Kolirin
Born 1973 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His first major involvement in a feature film was when he wrote the screenplay for Zur – Hadassim (1999), which won the award for best screenplay at the Jerusalem Film Festival. He has written numerous screenplays for television and has directed the television feature The Long Journey (2004). The Bands Visit (2007) is his first feature as a director.
Monday the 24th the director Eran Kolirin will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience after the screening.
Website: http://www.thebandsvisit.com/
Order tickets here:
24/9 Metropol - 21.3027/9 Metropol - 19.0030/9 Cinemateket - 21.45Forpremiere
Director:
Eran Kolirin
Screenplay:
Eran Kolirin
Cinematography:
Shay Goldman
Cast:
Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Imad Jabarin
Production:
July August Productions, Sophie Dulac Productions
Distributor:
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Sony
Country:
Israel/Frankrig
Language:
Engelsk/Hebraisk/Arabisk
Subtitles:
Engelsk
Year:
2007
Duration:
84
Section: Competition
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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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