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Discover the award-winning films of the 6th Copenhagen Film Festival nomination categories and learn more about all the inspiring filmmakers we featured this year.
Best Animated Film Winner
Lifeblood
Bourke is a place that exists on the edge of civilisation, and at the edge of Australia’s collective memory. When you visit this part of Australia, and really see it, it will speak to you. In a modern context, Bourke represents one of those places that sees ‘Boom and Bust’ on an almost seasonal basis. An abandoned place. Littered with memories and old stories. But when you look closely, you see that life is everywhere. Impossibly beautiful. Life hibernates. Life adapts. The people of Bourke Shire are more resilient than the rest of us. After the Europeans arrived, Aboriginal people in Bourke were taken away, and others were brought here, to live in the missions. Today there are more than 20 tribes and clans represented in the region, so identity is a problem for a lot of Aboriginal people. Is this my place? Or is this your place? Think about what that must feel like. Lifeblood is a film about the intersection of place, history, and our identity. Who are we as Australians? We are disconnected from our true cultural identity. We don’t understand our environment, and therefore we don’t know how to protect the delicate equilibriums that have existed for millions of years on our planet. Bourke people are more closely connected with the way our planet is changing. People suffer when the river is low. Businesses go bankrupt because of the drought. People change their livelihoods accordingly. We ignore the truth, and an entire culture that flourished for hundreds of thousands of years slowly dies. Why do we ignore these truths? Where are we rushing to? Stop and look. Stay a while, and you will see.
Nicholas Tory
Best Comedy Winner
Cruise
We’ve all received scam phone calls, but what about the person making the calls? Cruise is a dark workplace satire about a hapless telemarketer trying mightily to give away a free cruise. And if he fails, there will be dire consequences.
Sam Rudykoff
Best Danish Film Winner
I'll Be Your Kettle
A woman desperately tries to keep up with her partner's unusual desires.
Tobias Rud
Best Drama Winner
Father of Storm
Mr. Giversen is in a worrying state of mind when he’s paid a visit at home by Tove Digmann and Doris – two officers from a special police unit. Mr. Giversen soon realizes that he’s suspected of having abducted his own son, Storm. Mr. Giversen has already lost his right to have contact with Storm, and Tove Digmann, the head officer, is not afraid of proving her point by the abuse of power.
Christian B Frederiksen
Best Experimental Winner
Clotheslined
A chronicle of the life of an average Lebanese family across decades, illustrated through what is witnessed on their clothesline
Patrick Chemali
Best Feature Documentary Winner
Finding Satoshi
A documentary film about a 14 year hunt for a Japanese man named Satoshi which started as a game.
Laurent Barthelemy
Best Feature Film Winner
Sol's Journey
Sol is a divorced woman, one night when going to claim her ex-husband due payments of child-support, her seven year-old son, Christian, is taken from her. This traumatic event fills her with pain, anger and despair. After realizing the indifference and slowness of the investigation processes, Sol begins a frantic search for her son aside from the official procedure. On her journey to find clues of the whereabouts of Christian, she will gradually withdraw from her daily activities . Only the hope of finding Christian mantains her afloat. This film presents a human and personified vision of unbearable loss and struggle reminding us reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source.
Claudia Sainte-Luce
Best Music Video Winner
Hyper Duo – Cadavre Exquis
Cadavre Exquis is an experimental music video for and with the swiss band Hyper Duo. This piece has been composed by using the principle of the surrealist game Cadavre Exquis (exquisite corpse). It ends up being a 16 minutes long trip of 12 different parts, and the film sticks to this concept. Full of surrealistic elements, humor and satirical details about the music world, it's a maelström of universes and ideas.
Emmanuel Vion-Dury
Best Short Documentary Winner
Holiday
A short portrait documentary that tells the Story of a woman who has dementia, due to her illnes she forgot about the death of her two daughters. Her son takes care of her and tells us her story.
Nicklas Stinner
Best Short Film Winner
Laundry
Humorous fragments of starting over, struggles with life and neighbours. A story when even washing the undies seems difficult.
Fabian Munsterhjelm
Best Student Film Winner
Cousins
During the seven days of mourning for her grandfather, 14 year old Maayan sleeps over at her cousin’s house, Ran. Tired of reflecting about death, the two start exploring intimacy with each other.
Michal Haggiag