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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 Film Festival 2006
- The best 145 European films of the year -
 Photo: Robin Jørgensen |
The Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Awards. In 2006, Copenhagen International Film Festival honoured Denmark’s first lady of screen and stage, actress Ghita Nørby, with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Ghita Nørby was also this years’ president of the jury. |
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 Photo: Robin Jørgensen |
Acclaimed veteran film maker Henning Carlsen was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Danish cinema.
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Festival Success The ticket sales increased by 24 % at the cinemas in 2006 compared to the year before, and the audience figures rose by 12 %. In addition to that, the festival also attracted an impressive amount of international journalists, not least because of the world premiere of Lars Von Trier’s The Boss of it All. The international film industry was also well represented in 2006. The two market days ”Copenhagen Screenings”, where international film buyers could screen 11 Danish films, were attended by buyers from all over the world. |
 The Boss Of It All |
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 Alice O´Fredericks |
The Alice Award In 2006 The Alice Award, the award for the best film by a female director, found its name. It is named after the first Danish female sound film director, Alice O’Fredericks. The five members of the jury were Lotte Andersen, Nicolas Bro, Anthony Dod Mantle and Anne Wivel, they awarded Valeska Grisebach for her film Longing. |
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Guests Also in 2006 the festival was enriched with lots of international guests. Among them Stephen Frears, Samuel Fröler, Robby Müller, Istvan Szabo, Nicole Garcia, Amos Gitai, Goran Paskaljevic, Martina Gedeck og Jean-Marc Barr. Furthermore a number of Danish film makers attended the festival, more than 50 actors and directors were present at the screenings of their movies. |
 Actress Anna Maria Mühe and Jean-Marc Barr. |
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Seminars & Master Classes This year’s Master Classes were held by Ghita Nørby, Stephen Frears, Goran Paskaljevic and Robby Müller. In addition there were seminars with István Szabó and Amos Gitai, and a ”New Danish Screen” new talent seminar. |
 Stephen Frears
Photo: Robin Jørgensen |
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 The Word (1955) |
Carl Th. Dreyer
The festival screened, in cooperation with The Cinemateque, for the first time a complete Dreyer series with all his Danish films. It was an excellent opportunity to loose oneself in the oeuvres of Denmark’s absolute most important director. |
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