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Welcome to Paradise for the first time at Copenhagen's CPH PIX 2013

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- "A unique experience," said festival director Jacob Neiiendam of the highlight in the 5th Copenhagen International Film Festival, which runs from April 11-24

For the first time, the CPH PIX-Copenhagen International Film Festival will be launched by a Danish feature, Michael Noer's Northwest [+see also:
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, about 18-year-old Casper, a petty fence who finds himself in a battlefield of drugs, violence and prostitution, when organized crime hits the neighbourhood.
 
Wednesday (March 13) at Copenhagen's Grand Theatre, followed by the Danish premiere of US director Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, festival director Jacob Neiiendam announced the programme of his fifth showcase with 160 features presented at 400 screenings and events between April 11-24 at eight Copenhagen cinemas and numerous other venues, adding the Øst for Paradis theatre in Aarhus.
 
One of the highlights will be Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy - Hope [+see also:
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, Faith [+see also:
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, Love [+see also:
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(photo - 2012-2013) - which for the first time will screen in full. "A unique experience," said Neiiendam of the depictions of three women from one family  - one who travels to Kenya as a sex tourist, one who has to spend time at a weight-loss camp, one who tries to propagate Catholicism - which were originally intended as one film.
 
Northwest, which already received the international critics' FIPRESCI prize at Sweden's Göteborg International Film Festival and will continue to New York's Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28), has also been selected for Copenhagen's New Talent Grand Pix main competition for first features, which this year has two local entries - the other, New Zealand-born Daniel Joseph Borgman's The Weight of Elephants [+see also:
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, co-produced by Zentropa Entertainments. An international jury will decide the winner of €15,000 among ten contenders.
 
"The Danish films are very different from the domestic fare which are otherwise doing well on the domestic box-office. But what the festival wants to show more than anything is the diversity of international filmmaking, which - in a difficult market - is sometimes lost on the way to the theatres," explained Neiiendam.
 
Another CPH PIX highlight is Dutch director George Sluizer's thriller Dark Blood, the film US actor River Phoenix was working on at the time of his death in 1993, which Sluizer completed almost 20 years later and will introduce in Copenhagen. The programme of the festival, which in 2012 took 40,200 admissions, also includes Spotlights on France, Germany, Italy, UK, Middle East, Iran - Thrilling North, American Indies, Asian Connection, Thrills & Kills, and It's All in the Family, films by the children of famous directors.

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