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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 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. The film portrays one of the real worlds heroes and tells an incredible, but true story that took place during the military coup in Chile in 1973. The film is introduced by the Chilean-born Paula Larrain and after the screening, the audience is given the possibility to ask questions to a number of people who were strongly affected by the events.
The name Harald Edelstam doesn't mean much to most Danes, but for hundreds of people he was another Wallenberg or Schindler. He was given the nickname The Black Pimpernel by Norwegian resistance fighters, when he helped them in their struggle against the Nazis in World War II. But it was in Chile, after the military coup on 11 September 1973, that he achieved lasting fame.
With Michael Nyqvist (As It Is in Heaven) in the powerful title role and the veteran filmmaker Ulf Hultberg (The Daughter of the Puma) directing, the film has become a moving and tough story about a man who took big risks to save other people, but who couldnt control his own life. Both Nyqvist and Hultberg will be present to answer questions after the screening.
The Black Pimpernel is shown in Metropol on Sunday, 23 September at 1630 hrs. Free drinks will be served before the screening. Tickets: 150 kr. (or two discount cupon). |
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Meet the producers Ivan Mactaggart and San Fu Maltha Tomorrow (Sunday), you will have the opportunity to attend a seminar with the producers Ivan Mactaggart and San Fu Maltha. They will talk about the challenges of co-producing European feature films, both art house and commercial.
Ivan Mactaggart has produced Irresistible (2006) with Susan Sarandon, The Truth About Love (2004) with Dougray Scott, as well as a number of genre films for his company Meteor Pictures.
The Dutch producer San Fu Maltha has produced Paul Verhoevens Black Book and earlier hits such as Costa (2001) and The Emperors Wife (2003).
Venue: Cinemateket
Time: Sunday, 23 September, 1130 to 1330 hrs
Price: 75 kr
Tickets: Tickets can be ordered at Cinemateket |
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German Day German films have experienced a fantastic rejuvenation. This has not just been obvious in the program of Copenhagen International Film Festival, but also in cinemas in general, where films such as Der Untergang (Downfall), Wolfgang Beckers Good Bye, Lenin! and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks The Lives of Others have enjoyed a tremendous success. Tomorrow (Sunday), Copenhagen International Film Festival will focus on new talents from our southern neighbour, and will offer a day with German films by three debut filmmakers.
Jan Bonnys Counterparts (Gegenüber) is a both serious and realistic, but at the same time also witty drama about a conflict-averse policeman, who has to suffer the beatings of his temperamental wife back at home.
Thomas Wendrichs Mary on Water (Maria am Wasser) is a film of a completely different, more mysterious, kind: it tells the story of a young man, played by Andreas Beyer (Good Bye Lenin), who returns to his home town after 22 years to bring his repressed past back to the surface.
The day is concluded with the beautiful and melancholy film Hounds (Jagdhunde) by Ann-Kristin Reyels. With a underplayed sense of humour, the film tells the story about two young people on the verge of adulthood. The film is nominated for the festivals Alice Award for best female director, together with seven other films.
Both the director and the actor from Mary on Water will be present at the German Day, together with Ann-Kristin Reyels.
Program for the German Day at Dagmar, Sunday 23 September:
1630 hrs: Counterparts
1900 hrs: Mary on Water (drinks are served after the screening)
2130 hrs: Hounds (Jagdhunde) |
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Ulrich Thomsen in the Hungarian film Opium: Diary of a Madwoman Tomorrow, the audience can also meet the director of Opium: Diary of a Madwoman, Janos Szász, who will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience. The Hungarian film stars the Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen in the lead role of the morphine-addicted psychiatrist Dr. Brenner. In 1913, he comes to a remote mental institution for women, where the patients are still being subjected to spectacular, medieval treatment methods. In contrast to the older doctors, Brenner is tracking down the human aspect in the midst of insanity, and he is especially taken by Gizella. She is beautiful, but a lost soul, who, with her schizophrenic and manic writings, manages to put words to what Brenner himself is trying to express. But his own demons overpower him time and time again, driving him further down the path of opium addiction and promiscuity.
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman is shown in Empire Bio. Jameson will offer a free drink at the event. |
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___________________________________________________ DIRECTOR NICOLAS KLOTZ IS COMING TO COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Tomorrow french director Nicolas Klotz will introduce his competition-film Heartbeat Detector at the screening at 2130 hrs in Metropol
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