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FESTIVALS Denmark

18th NatFilm in full swing

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With 185 films for its 18th edition, Denmark’s largest film festival, the NatFilm Festival, has been filling the screens of all Copenhagen venues and those of Århus, Odense and Koldning since last Thursday.

Peter Schønau Fog’s feature debut The Art of Crying [+see also:
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had the privilege of opening the festival – ahead of its domestic release on April 24 – and was awarded the Natsværmer Prize, given each year to one or two emerging local talents (a filmmaker, producer, actor, editor or DoP).

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Running through April 1, the festival features 30 sections, ranging from large US productions and Danish previews to Italian B movies and Asian horror. As usual, the bulk of the programme consists of titles not yet picked up for distribution in Denmark.

These include over 20 new European films spread among the Special sections dedicated to France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Eastern Europe, New British Talent and Norwave (New Nordisk films) that will compete for the audience prize of 125,000 DKK (€16,700), which goes towards the winning title’s theatrical release in Denmark.

The Gala section has 12 world or Danish premieres in its programme, such as Danny Boyle’s Sunshine [+see also:
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(to be released by Fox in Denmark), Emanuele Crialese’s Golden Door [+see also:
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(Camera Film) and Nick Cassavetes’ US/German film Alpha Dog (Scanbox).

Other highlights of this year’s NatFilm Festival include a section presented by Quentin Tarantino, Italian King of the B’s, with six films by Fernando Di Leo, Mario Brava and Massimo Dallamano; and the popular Sound & Vision, a dozen music documentaries offered to night owls.

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