03/02/2003

Five Danish features were selected for screening at the forthcoming Berlinale (6-16 February) with a further 3 new titles to be unveiled at the European Film Market.
Lone Scherfig, who won three major awards at the 2001 edition for Italian for Beginners is back with her English-language Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself [+see also:
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film profile], an ambitious film starring Claire Danes and Joaquim Phoenix.
Three Danish titles are screening in the “Kinderfilmfest” section: Someone Like Hodder by the Oscar-nominated director Henrik Ruben Genz (Bror min bror - 1998), produced by Nordisk Film; Pia Bovin’s feature debut, Wallah Be, produced by Zentropa Productions and The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear, a cartoon co-produced by France and Denmark and directed by Janik Hastrup.
Trust Film Sales are handling the international sales of both Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself and It’s All About Love. Two other Trust Films titles will be screened in the Market: the English language Skagerrak by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, who won a Berlin Silver Bear Award in 1999 for Mifune, and the Dogme film Old New Borrowed and Blue by Natasha Arthy. A third Danish film entitled Move Me directed by Morten Arnfred and produced by Nordisk Film under its “Low-Budget Scheme” is also screening at the Market.

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