07/11/2003

Copenhagen is hosting its first International Documentary Film Festival, which starts today (November 7) and goes on until November 16, 2003. It is organised by the NatFilm Festival in cooperation with Danish Film Institute’s Cinematheque and the European Documentary Network.

A total of 83 international documentaries will screen in 10 cinemas during the event supported by the DFI - Danish Film Institute and many prominent local film industry names, such as Lars von Trier, Jorgen Leth, and film producer Carsten Host from Zentropa Real.

Apart from the 11 titles in main competition programme, the event is divided into nine different sections, including an Amnesty Award, Docs in Europe, State of Europe (including the works To be and To Have, Carlo Giuliani, a Boy, Deux ans après, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, A Normal Life and Dans, Grozny Dans), New Vision, Open Zone, American Independent and Sound and Vision.

Six Danish films will be shown: the opening film will be Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier’s The Five Obstructions, Max Kestner’s The Collectors, Stig Dalager’s Darkness and Reconciliation, Helle Ryslinge’s Larger Than Life and the closing film, Rocket Brothers, a depiction of the Kashmir music group, by Kasper Torsting.