Film
The Danish Cultural Institute acts as an intermediary for Danish films in the Benelux.
Coming events
KRAN Film Grand Opening August 28, 20:00
Place Saint-Géry 26, 1000 Bruxelles
Come celebrate the grand opening of our new KRAN>>FILMSPACE, featuring multifunctional furniture designed by Architect Mikkel Marcker Stubgaard (DK). The project is using the limitations of the given space to shape and compress its different functionalities, wrapping them into one interlocking movement.
Enjoy free drinks, music by DJs Dan Mintz ( US ) & Tal Hadad (F), and "Read My Lips", a video by artist Mette Bartholin (DK).
Kran Film is a international collective of people working with film from a non-traditional approach. Its mission is to create a network that empowers its members to exchange experience and knowledge, expand their production and distribution possibilities, and showcase their works to the general public. Kran Film instigates collaboration, screening and archiving relevant works and connecting with engaged film artists from around the world.
Kran Film Collective encourages films that can evolve, exchange, and revolutionize. We push for social justice in a global sphere that has become segregated and isolated, both humanly and spatially. Breaking with the hegemonic media landscape, Kran Film wants to unite through creativity. DIY.
Kran Film is an emerging nonprofit organization based in Copenhagen and Brussels.
27x27x27 - Europalia
In the film project 27x27x27 Europalia asks 27 different artists from the 27 EU-member countries to tell what they think is the emblematic European work of art. Among the many European artists you will find great names such as the Irish author John Banville, the Portuguese Nobel prize winner José Saramago and the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. From Denmark it is the prize-winning film director Christoffer Boe who will tell what he thinks is the emblematic European work of art.
The film will be shown at the Belgian centre for fine arts Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from the 5.10.2007 until the 20.01.2008.
The Danish film director Jesper Jargil is going to visit the Belgian film school RITS on the occasion of Europalia. He is giving a masterclass to the students where he is going to present his to films "The humiliated" and "The purified" which both are about Danish Dogma films and the eccentric working methods of Lars von Trier.
Jesper Jargil was born in Denmark in 1945.
He is a veteran director, scriptwriter, cameraman and producer who has won numerous international awards, including the Lion d'Or at Cannes. Documentary films (a selection): "Per Kirkeby Vinterbillede"/"Per Kirkeby Winter's Tale" won the Danish Film Academy Award for best documentary in 1996 and the Jury's Special Prize at the Biennale Int. du Film sur l'Art in Paris in 1995. Jargil's trilogy on Lars von Trier consists of "De Ydmygede"/"The Humiliated" (1998), about the production of Lars von Trier's Dogme film "Idioterne"/"The Idiots", "De udstillede"/"The Exhibited" (2000), about Lars von Trier's media happening "Psychomobile 1 The World Clock" and "De lutrede"/"The Purified" (2002) about the four Danish directors who formed the Dogma 95 brotherhood.
In "The Humiliated" director, Jesper Jargil, captures the vulnerable, stormy creative process which von Trier himself called "a whipped-up state of emotion that is the technique of the film itself". The result is a unique, frequently amusing portrait of Lars von Trier and his method. In "The Purified" Jesper Jargil documents the four principle Dogme artists' visions through to their completed films. Afterwards he confronts them with their actions and results - which are not always in accordance with the spirit of Dogme 95. With "The Purified" Jargil has created a unique record of a major epoch in the history of the cinema.
Read more about the Europalia Festival here.
Previous events
World Refugee Day 2007
The Danish Cultural Institute contributed this year to the World Refugee Day with the documentary "Nice to meet you" by Fenar Ahmad. The director has followed more than 600 Iraqis at the Danish asylum centre "Avnstrup" and the result is a strong and touching portrayal of life as a refugee in Denmark. In February this year "Nice to meet you" recieved the Salaam Prize at Copenhagen's Multi-Cultural Film Festival.
BIFFF - Danish film in Brussels
The Danish film scene was this year represented by to films at the 25 th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) from the 5 th to the 17 th of April. Offscreen by Christoffer Boe presenting the award winning actor Nicholas Bro as the main character was competing with How to get rid of the others by Anders Rønnow Klarlund.
Anders Rønnow Klarlund also gave a master class to the participants at the annual film workshop for short film directors. The Danish film director supervised on this occasion the production of three different short films during the festival. Danish films have previously been honoured at the festival in Brussels . The film Adam's apples by Anders Thomas Jensen won several prices in 2006.
Find out more about the festival at www.bifff.org
EuroCiné25
The Danish Cultural Institute helped the Belgian film event Eurociné25 finding Danish films for its programme.
In 2006 Danish film participated with "In your Hands " (Forbrydelser) . In 2005 the Danish contribution was Susanne Bier's film "Brødre" (Brothers) starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich Thomsen and Connie Nielsen. Please visit EuroCiné25 for further information.
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