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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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Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award
Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award at Copenhagen International Film Festival 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.
Extract from the motivation speech
When a new film is released, the attention usually focuses on the director and the actors. On the actors, because they are so visible, after all that's their profession; and on the director, because he or she is traditionally seen as the guiding force behind the film. The screenwriter, on the other hand, normally enjoys only a modest level of attention. What's more, the screenwriter has the ungrateful task of spending great time and effort on writing something that is hardly read by anyone. (...)
In the past, between the 1930s and the 1960s, there were six authors, who wrote over half the screenplays for all Danish films. They were people who knew how this was to be done. Today, one has the feeling that screenplays are written only by two people. Even if this is a gross exaggeration, it still feels like that when Kim Fupz Aakeson writes the screenplays for 17 films in nine years. (...)
His screenwriting career got going for good in 1999 with The One and Only. With its light-hearted wit and romance, the film marks something of an exception in Fupz's output, but it nonetheless deals with a topic typical for his other screenplays: the crises of relationship and family life. Films such as Minor Mishaps, Okay, Aftermath, Accused and Prague have confirmed Fupz as a true virtuoso of family disasters, a master of marital breakdown and a specialist in crisis-ridden private spheres. (...)
Fupz is a hero of small budgets, as he can create infinitely great things out of infinitely small means. Two people in a room is enough. The films are not costume dramas with a high production value; they are about naked souls being given a thorough psychological X-ray. They are about the minor mishaps and crimes against ones nearest and dearest, about pure hearts and deeply troubled consciences. As a prolific author of books, Fupz could possibly do without films. But Danish films could in no way do without Fupz. He writes stories that directors can tell. And he creates characters that an entire generation of actors can bring to life with feelings, actions and something to say. _____________________________________________________ Kim Fupz Aakeson
Since the early 1980s, he has worked as a freelance illustrator for newspapers, periodicals and magazines, among others Press, Information and most recently Weekendavisen. Kim Fupz Aakeson is also the author of a number of comics, children's books, short stories and novels. He had his debut as a comic illustrator with Go for It in 1982, and as an author with the children's book Hvem Vover At Vække Guderne in 1984. In 1996, he graduated as a screenwriter from the Danish Film School and has since written screenplays for a whole host shorts and feature films. He had his debut as a feature film screenwriter in 1997 with Michael Wikke and Sten Rasmussen's family film Hannibal and Jerry, based on his own children's book. In 1999 he wrote the romantic comedy The One and Only, which not only went on to be one of the most seen Danish films ever, but also saw the breakthrough of the director Susanne Bier and the actress Sidse Babett Knudsen. It also ea rned Kim Fupz Aakeson a Robert for best screenplay. He has also written the screenplays for Minor Mishaps (2002), Okay (2002), In Your Hands and Aftermath (2004). Together with his colleagues Anders Thomas Jensen and Mogens Rukow, Aakeson was given an honorary Bodil for his contribution to Danish film. He has also worked as a dramatist, among other things writing radio drama for Danish national radio and plays for Ålborg Teater. Fupz is a member of Danish Writers of Fiction and Poetry and the Danish Playwrights' and Screenwriters' Guild.
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