WINNERS

WINNERS

Discover the award-winning films of the 2023 Copenhagen Film Festival nomination categories and learn more about all the inspiring filmmakers we featured this year.

Best Animated Film Winner

Going Well..

The deadline is approaching. Producer Park, who is in charge of closing, comes to the writer. The writer escapes to delusions and goes crazy due to the PD's pressure and stress of the deadline.

HyeJeong Lee

Best Comedy Winner

Spag Bol

Following a double homicide, two crime scene cleaners find themselves entangled in an unlikely romance. Who said romance is dead.

BRICK

Best Danish Film Winner

Neurolink

In a near future, we meet Frida (22), who undergoes a brain implant – a Neurolink. The chip communicates with her in the form of a voice inside her head, helping her towards a happier life. For a while, she lives without worries as she unquestioningly follows the voice's advice. However, the voice begins to take more and more control. Eventually, the Neurolink app takes over Frida, and she no longer recognizes herself. In an attempt to regain control, Frida deletes the app. It turns out, however, not to be so easy. After a brief feeling of freedom, the voice returns, leading to a battle to permanently delete the chip.

Jens-Julius Grunderlund Dall

Best Drama Winner

The Taster

The Danube Delta, Romania. Near future. The young Romanian Ozana is chosen to work as the new taster girl for the occupying forces. But already on her first day of work she breaks the most important rule – never look the leader in the eye. Soon Ozana finds herself face to face with the unpredictable man who is occupying her country. All alone.

Sophia Bierend

Best Experimental Winner

Movers

Movers' is an exploration into the storytelling through movement: Five people were given prompts asking about specific, significant memories from their past. They were they asked to translate the experiences into movement. [Shot on Alexa Mini – Printed onto 16mm Film]

alec goldberg

Best Feature Documentary Winner

The Honey Movie

A man’s journey to show the true value of honey and its purpose for humanity. The film follows the hero for 30 days, thru 6 different countries, eating only honey for the entire duration of filming. It explores how different cultures relate to this product, how they cultivate it and dispels the myth that honey and sugar are the same. From the tribes of Ethiopia, to the modern European techniques, the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, and the jungles of Java – the film unravels how much work a jar of honey really contains, the importance of bees, and how miraculous this product really is.

Sasha Nikitin

Best Feature Film Winner

Paula

At only fourteen years old, Paula hates her body. In an attempt to express what she feels, Paula creates a blog and becomes part of a large virtual community that shares her problems. Shelter in anonymity, she uploads content recorded with her cell phone, exposing her friends and family. The feeling of belonging blinds Paula, who begins to walk a lonely path in which bulimia and anorexia lurk as alternatives in the search for self-acceptance.

Florencia Wehbe

Best Music Video Winner

My Body Is My Temple

The Dad Bods bring their big fitness unit to this hard-hitting music video, as they gracefully interpret the Testosterone-infused power ballad from Spandex the Musical.

Elizabeth Piccoli

Best Short Film Winner

Killing Ourselves

Maya takes her parents and sister to the desert in order to film them for an additional scene in her film. But the day of filming turns into a never-ending family argument, and it becomes unclear whether they will even manage to cooperate and become a team.

Maya Yadlin

Best Student Film Winner

The Beast Within Me Is A Child

Do we ever become adults? If so, when? Regardless of where we are in life, the question seems to remain unanswerable. We improvise and take risks, and yet we never seem to reach a goal. Even with the work we put in to meet expectations, especially our own, that gnawing feeling of inadequacy persists. Perhaps we never lose our inner child, but rather become blind to its whims, both good and bad. Maybe growing up is about befriending and reconciling with that child, rather than searching to control it. Could it be that the inner child we all have is what binds us all together?

Mai Alneng