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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

Gala Award Show 2007

Gala Awards Ceremony

On Saturday night, Copenhagen International Film Festival rolled out the red carpet and welcomed Danish and international film stars to the Gala Awards Ceremony in the reopened cinema Scala in Copenhagen.

After a welcoming drink in the foyer, the evening's host Thomas Mørk got the show started, and the evening's awards were handed out. The awards ceremony is the culmination of ten days of European films, and this year's festival jury saw and judged 11 widely different films, narrowing down the winners of the Golden Swans 2007.

And the Golden Swans go to


Best Film: Children (Börn, Iceland)

Director: Ragnar Bragason. Produced by: Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Hlynur Kristjánsson, Ingvar E.Sigurðsson, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Víkingur Kristjánsson and Ragnar Bragason.

 
Grand Jury Special Prize: The Band's Visit (Bikur hatizmoret, Israel/France)
Director: Eran Kolirin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Best Director: Mirush (Blodsbånd, Norway)
Director: Marius Holst

Best Actress: To Love Someone (Den man älskar, Sweden)
Actress: Sofia Ledarp

 

 

 

 

 

Best Actor: Heartbeat Detector (La question humaine, France)
Actor: Mathieu Amalric

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Screenplay: To Love Someone (Den man älskar, Sweden)
Screenplay: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Honorary Award: Kim Fupz Aakeson

 

 

 

Best Cinematography: Hallam Foe (Hallam Foe, United Kingdom)
Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens

 

 

 

 

The Alice Award: Sounds of Sand (Si le vent soulève les sables, Belgium/France)
Director: Marion Hänsel

 

 

 
 
The Audience Award: The Band's Visit (Bikur hatizmoret, Israel/France)
Director: Eran Kolirin

 

Ragnar Bragason, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Eran Kolirin, Marius Holst, Sofia Ledarp, Mathieu Amalric and Kim Fupz Aakeson all attended Saturday's awards ceremony.

After the presentation of the awards, there was a screening of Kenneth Branagh's film Sleuth. The night was rounded off with a great after-party.

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