The NatFilm Festival , staged annually across 16 cinemas in Copenhagen , in addition to several in Odense , Aalborg (replaced by Kolding in 2007) and Århus , shows the widest programme of films to the largest festival audience in Denmark . Established in 1990, it rivals the more recently established Copenhagen International Film Festival which emerged in 2003 in prestige though not directly - NatFilm generally occurs in Easter , around the beginning of April, whereas the CIFF is staged in September. Since 2003 NatFilm has steadily attracted a total audience of around 35,000 over its annual ten-day run.
22-554: The Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , or CPH:DOX , is an offspring of the NatFilm festival occurring in November. It usually shares some of its more popular or controversial offerings with NatFilm. The Festival has become an important platform for domestic distributors, who exhibit a range of new films from Bollywood to J-Horror to festival-goers to both gauge and encourage their likely popularity and profitability in
44-635: A creative partnership among seven key European documentary film festivals. Juries hand out prizes in seven international competition programmes: Buster Film Festival CPH PIX was a film festival that takes place annually in Copenhagen , Denmark. Created when the Copenhagen International Film Festival and the NatFilm Festival were merged in 2008, the festival ran from 2009 until 2021. It
66-516: A new compressed WEEKEND edition. The first WEEKEND edition was held in 2019, with a strongly curated program consisting of 20 films in four days. In this year, the festival once again separated from Buster Film Festival for Children and Youth. In 2020, CPH PIX was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In February 2021 it was announced that Tine Fischer would be stepping down from the CEO role after
88-430: A panel of three international judges chooses a winner from around ten nominated films, all debut or second features of selected directors. The award is announced at the festival's closing gala and comes with a stipend of DKK 25,000. Other Awards Other awards and prizes offered intermittently in the festival's history include a Danmark Radio Filmland Award , Canal+ Script Award and Grand Prix . NatFilm Festival
110-444: A wide selection of recent international releases targeting certain regions and genres, a programme of Danish films, and a more general retrospective with some particular tributes. Every year since its conception a particular figure in the industry has been selected for a Special Tribute, in which a retrospective of their work has been shown. To date, NatFilm Festival tributes have comprised the following: Audience Award The bulk of
132-467: Is a member of European Coordination of Film Festivals and serves as the official Danish partner of Equinoxe under the presidency of Jeanne Moreau . Copenhagen International Documentary Festival CPH:DOX , also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival , is a Danish film festival focused on documentary films , held annually in Copenhagen , Denmark. Since 2008 has been run by Copenhagen Film Festivals , which also managed
154-431: Is organised by Natsværmerfonden , an independent foundation established to support young Danish film-makers, and every year a stipend of DKK 25,000 is awarded to one or more individuals considered to have made a valuable contribution to Danish film. Notable prior recipients of this award include Lars von Trier , Thomas Vinterberg and Natasha Arthy . Critics Award The Critics Award was introduced in 2004. Each year
176-587: Is the official name of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. Copenhagen Film Festivals has managed CPH:DOX and CPH PIX since the latter was created in 2008. It is held in Kunsthal Charlottenborg . CPH:DOX is devoted to supporting independent and innovative film and to present contemporary non-fiction, art cinema , and experimental film. In 2009, the festival launched
198-812: The COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 CPH:DOX held their festival virtually, using a Shift72 video-on-demand platform that was built and launched in just 24 hours. In February 2021 it was announced that Tine Fischer would be stepping down from the CEO role after the 18th edition (21 April to 2 May 2021) to take up a position as director of the National Film School of Denmark . The 2023 event took place between 15 and 26 March. Past guest curators of film programmes have included artists and filmmakers such as The xx ; Anohni ; Harmony Korine ; Animal Collective ; Nan Goldin ; Douglas Gordon ; Ben Rivers with Ben Russell ; Ai Weiwei ; The Yes Men ; Olafur Eliasson ; and Naomi Klein with Avi Lewis . CPH:DOX
220-691: The Danish Film Academy earlier, and had been running the Robert Awards (the Danish film awards) since 2013. He had a continuing role on the selection committee for the European Film Academy . Until 2018, the festival lasted for two weeks, with a packed program of more than 200 films from around the world, as well as 700 film related events and activities. After the change in management, the festival's format relaunched in
242-407: The 18th edition (21 April to 2 May 2021) to take up a position as director of the National Film School of Denmark . The 2021 edition was a smaller version of the event, running over five days and screening 40 films, and this was the last edition of the festival. In June 2022 it was announced that the festival would be shutting down permanently, after having had financial problems for some years in
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#1732783279999264-644: The Danish and wider Scandinavian market; the Audience Prize, selected from amongst recent productions that have no scheduled distribution in Denmark, guarantees funds for the theatrical release of the winning film. The 19th and last staging of the festival, the 2008 NatFilm Festival , occurred between March 28 and April 6, 2008. In 2009, NatFilm and the CIFF were merged into a single event, CPH PIX , which launched on April 16–26, 2009. NatFilm generally presents
286-469: The development and actual production of artists' films in the feature length format. CPH:DOX runs the five-day CPH:Conference as well as the experimental educational course DOX:Academy for students, both of which take place during the festival. At the industry segment CPH:WIP, Nordic works-in-progress are presented to the potential sponsors and distributors. CPH: DOX is part of the Doc Alliance ,
308-632: The documentary festival CPH:DOX . The festival was founded by Jacob Neiiendam, former head of programming at Copenhagen International Film Festival from 2005 to 2007, and the Nordic correspondent for Screen from 1999 until 2005. The first edition of CPH PIX was held in April 2009 with an audience of 36,500 - the largest crowd ever recorded for a film festival in Copenhagen at the time. The festival grew to an audience of 78,000 people in 2017. In 2016
330-516: The festival merged with Buster Film Festival for Children and Youth, and the festival period also moved from April to October/November. From 2016, Jacob Neiiendam and CPH:DOX founder-director Tine Fischer [ da ] were co-CEOs of all three festivals (CPH PIX, CPH:DOX, and BUSTER). In September 2018 it was announced that Jacob Neiiendam would be stepping down after 31 October, and that Fischer would continue as sole CEO for all three festivals. Neiiendam had recently been appointed chairman of
352-441: The festival programme consists of titles not scheduled for Danish distribution, and all participating films without a prior distribution deal for Denmark compete for the Audience Prize of 125.000 DKK (c. $ 20,000) earmarked for national theatrical release. Recent recipients of this award include Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer in 2007 and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane by Louise Alston in 2008. Natsværmerpris The festival
374-507: The first of the new spring editions of the festival was held from 16 to 26 March 2017, with the centrally-located Kunsthal Charlottenborg as the new festival centre. From 2016, Jacob Neiiendam and CPH:DOX founder-director Tine Fischer were co-CEOs of the three festivals (CPH PIX, CPH:DOX, and Buster Film Festival ). In September 2018 it was announced that Jacob Neiiendam would be stepping down after 31 October, and that Fischer would continue as sole CEO for all three festivals. In response to
396-477: The international talent development and film production workshop CPH:LAB (formerly known as DOX:LAB) where around 20 filmmakers are invited each year to develop and direct a film in teams of two. Besides its seven international competitions, the festival presents parallel curated and guest-curated sections. The festival hosts seminars, debates and events as well as the curated concert series "Audio:Visuals", where bands and artists perform to original work created for
418-486: The new era of streaming services and being unable to raise the necessary funding. BUSTER and CPH:DOX festivals would continue, with the 2022 edition of BUSTER taking place from 29 September 29 to 9 October. Over the course of its history CPH PIX awarded several different prizes, including: In 2021 the festival awarded only one prize: the Crystal Ball, an international competition for feature film debutants, which
440-493: The now-defunct CPH PIX festival. The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival was established in 2003. CPH:DOX has since grown to become one of the largest documentary film festivals in Europe, with 114,408 admissions in 2019. The festival's founder-director was Tine Fischer [ da ] . Following the 2015 edition of CPH:DOX, the festival announced that it would change its dates from November to March, and
462-409: The occasion by visual artists. CPH:DOX also presents a number of other initiatives parallel to the festival itself: the industry platform CPH:Forum, with the attached CPH:Market for buyers and programmers, is a financing and co-production forum as well as a networking facility which takes place for three days during the festival. In 2011, the related ART:FILM branch was launched with the aim to facilitate
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#1732783279999484-400: Was run by Copenhagen Film Festivals, which also manages the documentary festival CPH:DOX . CPH PIX incorporated Buster Film Festival for Children and Youth between 2016 and 2018. CPH PIX was created when the Copenhagen International Film Festival and the NatFilm Festival were merged in 2008, which created the organisation Copenhagen Film Festivals. Copenhagen Film Festivals also manages
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