Copenhagen International Film Festival Explained

Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) was a film festival held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 2003 to 2008. The main prize, the Golden Swan, was awarded for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Script and Best Cinematography. In 2009, CIFF merged with the NatFilm Festival to become the CPH PIX film festival.[1] [2]

Regular award winners

YearBest FilmBest DirectorBest ActressBest ActorBest ScriptBest Cinema-
tographer		Best Female DirectorPolitiken Audience AwardLifetime Achievement Awards
2003Song For a Raggy Boy
(Aisling Walsh)		Bent Hamer
(Kitchen Stories)		Stephanie Léon
(Bagland)		Kristoffer Joner
(Himmelfald)		Afgrunden
(Torben Skjødt Jensen)		Vera Gebuhr
Gabriel Axel
2004The Granny
(Lidija Bobrova)		Nimród Antal
(Kontroll)		Anna Maria Mühe
(Love in Thoughts)		Luis Tosar
(Te doy mis ojos)		Lidija Bobrova
(The Granny)		Gyula Pados
(Kontroll)		Guka Omarova
(Shiza)		Kongekabale
(Nicolaj Arcel)		István Szabó
2005Live and Become
(Radu Mihaileanu)		Bent Hamer
(Factotum)		Lili Taylor
(Factotum)		Ion Fiscuteanu
(The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu)		Radu Mihaileanu
(Live and Become)		Gyula Pados
(Fateless)		Yasmine Kassari
(The Sleeping Child)		Harry's Daughters
(Richard Hobert)		Costa-Gavras
Nicolas Roeg
2006
(Corneliu Porumboiu)[3] 		Kim Rossi Stuart
(Along the Ridge)		Heidrun Bartholomäus
(Happy as One)		Ulrich Mühe
(Das leben der Anderen)		Corneliu Porumboiu
()		Stefano Falivene
(Along the Ridge)		Valeska Grisebach
(Sehnsucht)		Das Leben der Anderen
(Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)		Henning Carlsen

Other awards

2003

Special Grand Prize of the Jury
  • Rithy Panh ()
    The Special Jury Award
  • Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville))

    2004

    Grand Jury Special Prize
  • Nina Choubina and Anna Ovsiannikova (The Granny)
    Special Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Abbas Kiarostami
    The Hans Morten prize (70.000 Euro)
  • Mette Heeno

    2005

    Grand Prix du Jury
  • The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)
    Honorary Award
  • Nils Malmros[4]
  • Emir Kusturica

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. News: Copenhagen gets a new film festival. Iversen. Ebbe. 30 June 2008. Berlingske Tidende. 28 June 2018.
    2. Web site: Niels Lind Larsen returns to CPH PIX . Screen Daily . Wendy. Mitchell . 17 August 2015.
    3. News: Romanian film snatched The Golden Swan. Ritzau. Ritzau. 30 September 2006. Berlingske Tidende. Danish. 28 June 2018.
    4. News: Malmros stops. Gregerson. Cartsen. 9 March 2006. Berlingske Tidende. Danish. 28 June 2018.

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