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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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Jury 2007
It won’t be long before the film event of the year, Copenhagen International Film Festival 2007, kicks off. On Sunday, 2 September, the festival’s program will be launched in Dagmar and CinemaxX, where you can enjoy free drinks and get a copy of the Danish program paper. But when the festival raises the curtain on 147 fantastic films on 20 September, 11 of them will get special attention, as they compete for the festival’s Golden Swan award. The winners will be chosen exclusively by an international jury consisting of five distinguished personalities from the European film industry. In charge of this year's jury is 'Bergman's right hand', Katinka Faragó.
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Jury President: Katinka Faragó, producer (Sweden):
Even if Katinka Faragó was born in Vienna, it was in Sweden – through her lifelong collaboration with Ingmar Bergman – that she became known as a Nestor of European film production. She was still a teenager when she started as a script supervisor for Bergman on Dreams (1955). This was followed by work on classics such as Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Silence and Shame, and she was given the nickname of ’Bergman’s right hand’. In the 1970s, she became a production manager and subsequently a producer, and she played an important role in the making of Bergman’s magnum opus, Fanny and Alexander (1982). Since then, she has produced a large number of features, from Kjell Grede’s Good Evening, Mr Wallenberg and Aki Kaurismäki’s The Match Factory Girl to Daniel Bergman’s Sunday’s Children and Reza Bagher’s Popular Music from Vittula. In her function as a Swedi sh film commissioner, she has also supported Danish films such as Pelle the Conqueror. |
 Katinka Faragó |
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Bent Hamer, director, screenwriter and producer (Norway):
Bent Hamer had his debut as director and screenwriter in 1991 with the short film Sunday Dinner. He attracted international attention with his first feature, Eggs (1995), which was followed by Water Easy Reach (1998) and Kitchen Stories (2003). All these films were highly successful at the festivals in Cannes and Toronto. Most recently, he has written, directed and produced Factotum (2005) with Matt Dillon, and is in the process of completing his latest feature, O’Horten, which among others stars Ghita Nørby. |
 Bent Hamer |
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Gillies MacKinnon, director (Scotland):
Gillies MacKinnon started his film career at a relatively late stage, having worked as an art historian for many years before being admitted to the National Film and Television School in London. He had his debut with the television feature Conquest of the South Pole in 1989 and his international breakthrough with Small Faces in 1996. Since then, he has directed films as diverse as Regeneration (1997), Hideous Kinky (1998) with Kate Winslet and Tara Road (2005) with Andie MacDowell, based on Maeve Binchy’s bestseller. |
 Gillies MacKinnon |
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Sofie Gråbøl, actress (Denmark):
In spite of her young age, Sofie Gråbøl is one of the most established names within the Danish film and theatre world. She had her debut in Henning Carlsen’s Oviri (1986), which won her a Bodil for Best Supporting Actress. The year after, she had her great breakthrough in Astrid-Henning Jensen’s Street of My Childhood. Since then, she has performed in a large number of theatre and film productions, among others Accused in 2005. She can currently be seen playing the role of vice detective Sarah Lund in Danmark Radio’s TV drama Forbrydelsen. |
 Sofie Gråbøl |
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Tuncel Kurtiz, actor and director (Turkey):
Tuncel Kurtiz is one of Turkey’s most productive and popular actors, with scores of Turkish films and TV series as well as stage appearances in countless European countries under his belt. He made his first film appearance with Devil’s Servants in 1964 and has since appeared in more than 60 films, from Yilmaz Güney’s Umut (1970) to Code Name Coq Rouge (1989) with Stellan Skarsgård. He lived in Sweden for a number of years, where he directed the feature Lyckliga vi... (1980). Most recently, he played a central role in Fatih Akin’s latest film The Edge of Heaven.
Read more about this year's competition films click here |
 Tuncel Kurtiz |
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The awards are presented for:
Best Film
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
The awards are sponsored by:
Danish Film Producers
Danish Film Directors
Danish Actors’ Association
Danish Playwrights’ Association
Film Finances Scandinavia ApS |
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