SIX NORDIC FEATURES IN BUSTER COMPETITIONS
Running between Monday, 12 - Sunday, 18 September, the 6th Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences shows 156 films from all over the world - and a sidebar of New Nordic Films
The 6th Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences, which took off Monday (12 September) to the screening of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle) in the attendance of festival protector, Her Highness Princess Alexandra, will present 156 films with competitions both for features and shorts. Using screens at the Grand, the Huset and the Cinemateket, the festival's main venue is Copenhagen's Palads Theatre, which will host the award ceremony on Friday, 16 September (and US director Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
Three Nordic productions will contend for the prize as Best Children's Feature, including Danish director Anders Rønnow Klarlund's Strings, Finnish director Liisa Helminen's Pelikaanimies (The Pelican Man) and Swedish director Anders Gustafsson's Percy, Buffalo Bill & jag (Percy, Buffalo Bill & I), the latter - from Ulf Stark's novel - showing as an international première. The eight competitors comprise such films as Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's award-winning Lakposhtha häm parvaz mikonand (Turtles Can Fly).
Another three Nordic titles have been included among the 11 entries for Best Film for Young Audiences: Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy, Swedish directors Filippa Freijd, Martin Jern, Emil Larsson, Henrik Norrthon's Fjorton suger (Fourteen Sucks), and Daniel Espinosa's Babylonsjukan (The Babylon Disease). They will be up against - among others - Mexican director Luis Mandoki's Crystal Bear winner from Berlin, Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices), represented in Copenhagen by its scriptwriter, Oscar Torres.
For his first showcase new festival director Dionysos Reitz Kerasiotis has programmed a sidebar on New Nordic Films, as well as on World War II as seen through the eyes of children and youngsters, eg German director Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl - The Last Days). A series of (mostly) comedies depicts youth culture at American high schools. Special programmes for documentaries, shorts and animation add to the selection, as well as seminars and workshops (at Film-X participants will learn to shoot and edit their own films which they can bring with them home).
SOURCE: http://www.nordicfilmnews.net/Newsletter/NL-050915.html
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