Meet the director of the French film in competition Heartbeat Detector

Copenhagen International Film Festival is proud to present another international guest, the director of Heartbeat Detector Nicolas Klotz. Heartbeat Detector is nominated for the festival's main prize The Golden Swan. At the screening of the film today, Sunday, Klotz will present the film and answer questions from the audience after the screening.

Heartbeat Detector
Heartbeat Detector is an atmospheric drama and the tightly composed visual surface of the film conceals disturbing questions about man's inhumanity to man. Simon is a human resources manager in a big chemical company, and has a highly professional approach to work. He is a well-dressed "corporate terminator", who sees the company's efficiency as his first priority. This is why he is also the ideal candidate to secretly investigate the company's director, Mathias Jüst, whose behaviour is slightly too eccentric. But Simon's restless soul, which is only set free at weekend techno raves, is in no way prepared for the grave crimes he starts coming across.

Threads are spun all the way back to the Second World War and questions arise regarding the modern and "efficient" ways of running a business. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Michael Lonsdale (Munich) deliver strong performances as Simon and Just, making the film a sophisticated and engaging thriller.

The audience can see Heartbeat Detector on Sunday, 23 September at 2130 hrs in Metropol, on Tuesday, 25 September at 1900 hrs in Dagmar and on Sunday, 30 September at 1830 hrs in Cinemateket.

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New guests at the German Day on Sunday

At today's German Day at Copenhagen International Film Festival, the films' directors will present their films and answer questions from the audience.

Apart from the directors, both the lead actor and lead actress of Mary on Water will be present. Alexander Beyer plays Marcus, who after 22 years returns to his former home in a small country village in former East Germany. Annika Blendl plays the beautiful Alena.

Stefan Ruzowitzky, who has directed the competition film The Counterfeiter, will also be present at the German Day reception after the screening of Mary on Water. The moving and untypical wartime drama The Counterfeiter will be shown on Monday, 24 September at 1900 hrs in Metropol, and Ruzowitzky will present the film himself. The film can also be seen on Wednesday, 26 September at 2130 hrs in Dagmar and Sunday, 30 September at 1230 hrs in Vanløse Bio.

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Turkish Night

Tomorrow (Monday), you can experience an evening with Turkish films in Vanløse Bio. You can see two outstanding films from a nation that is showing its films at more and more film festivals. Between the screenings, one of Turkey's hottest names in film and TV, Ozgü Namal, will be there to share a cold Turkish beer with you.

The evening kicks off with the film Bliss (Mutluluk) by Abdulla Oguz. The film is an adaptation of Zülfü Livaneli's popular novel about three people, who each in their own way wish to find a sense of peace in a world marked by cultural, social and religious contrasts.

To conclude, there will be a screening of the film Adam and the Devil (Adem'in trenleri) by Baris Pirhasan. The film is about a family's secret, about love and about making a choice.

Program for the Turkish Night in Vanløse Bio, Monday 24 September:

19.00: Bliss
21.30: Adam and the Devil

Bergman tribute

See Bergman's masterpiece Shame.

Tomorrow evening (Monday), Cinemateket will pay tribute to the director Ingmar Bergman, who recently passed away, by showing his fantastic film Shame from 1968.

Shame is Bergman's masterly vision of war and its human consequences. The film is sadly just as relevant today as when it was made, and its impact has not lessened since. The film stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in the lead roles of a married couple that has fled from the horrors of the war and become indifferent to it  until it catches up with them and threatens their lives.

The film is introduced by the president of the festival's jury, Katinka Faragó, who in virtue of her year-long collaboration with Bergman was given the nickname Bergmans right hand.

Venue: Cinemateket
Time: Monday, 24 September, 2115 hrs
Tickets: Can be ordered at Cinemateket

Spielberg on Spielberg

Tomorrow (Monday) Copenhagen International Film Festival will screen the brand-new documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, where the audience will have a unique possibility to step behind the camera with the director.

Spielberg on Spielberg is directed by the film critic Richard Schickel, who has made numerous portraits of great filmmakers. Much like his career as a journalist and author, Schickel's career as a documentary filmmaker has focused on the world of film. Among other documentaries, he has made insightful portraits of Martin Scorsese (Scorsese on Scorsese), Chaplin (Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin) and Woody Allen (Woody Allen: A Life in Film).

Spielberg on Spielberg will be screened at 1930 hrs in CinemaxX, and here, two dedicated fans, the film director and screenwriter Søren Frellesen and the film critic Christian Monggaard, will give a spirited introduction to the world of Steven Spielberg. The film will not be released in Danish cinemas, and will be shown the last time on Wednesday, 26 September at 1930 hrs in CinemaxX.

On the occasion of the festival premiere of the documentary, CinemaxX will also give the audience the chance to see Spielberg's controversial award-winning film München, which will be shown on Tuesday, 25 September at 1930 hrs

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