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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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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.
”We are told incredible amounts of information about Israel by the media, but in reality we know very little about everyday life in this country,” says program director Jacob Neiiendam. ”The other thing we don’t know is that something is brewing in their film industry. It is often said that conflicts are the basis for good drama, and it is clear that Israel has no shortage of conflicts. But the films aren’t about politics, they are about highly diverse human destinies that try to live a decent life in a turbulent world.” |
 The Band´s Visit |
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 The Band´s Visit |
Subtle clash of cultures
The Band’s Visit is written and directed by Eran Kolirin. The Band’s Visit uses humour to deal with the serious topic of the relationship between Jews and Arabs, and the result is a charming and underplayed feature debut. 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 the actors deliver a great performance. The film’s screenwriter and director Eran Kolirin will attend the festival. |
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Israeli series
This year, Copenhagen International Film Festival will do something new by dedicating a whole series to Israeli films: Made in Israel. Among the highlights of the series are David Volach’s powerful award-winning debut My Father, My Lord, Jellyfish by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen, the untypical wartime drama Beaufort by Joseph Cedar and The Bubble by Eytan Fox – a story about forbidden love that transcends gender and religion. Copenhagen International Film Festival has previously shown both Fox’s breakthrough feature Yossi & Jagger and the award-winning Walk on Water. The festival will also host an Israeli Day during the festival. You can read more in the Danish program paper, which will be available throughout Copenhagen on 2 September. |
 Jellyfish |
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_____________________________________________________ Come to the program launch
Copenhagen International Film Festival will launch this year’s film program on Sunday, 2 September, by showing two films in two cinemas: A Mighty Heart in Dagmar at 1630 hrs and 28 Weeks Later in CinemaxX at 1900 hrs. Tickets for the program launch can already be bought now at Dagmar and CinemaxX, or via www.dagmar.dk and www.cinemaxx.dk. Tickets cost 65 kr.
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