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Film Festival Spotlights Copenhagen

Foreign films shown at previous Taipei Movie Festivals (archives)
The 2007 Taipei Film Festival has selected the city of Copenhagen as one of the focuses for the “City-Vision,” program, which showcases the classic cinemas and present movies from there. “City-Vision” is one of the major categories of the annual Taipei Film Festival. For the past four years, the festival has introduced the creativities of many international cities to the island, starting with Paris/Prague in 2002, the audience continued to enjoy other cities, such as Melbourne/Kyoto, Madrid/Barcelona, Moscow/Saint Petersburg, and Toronto/Montreal. This year’s “City-Vision” will present movies from three distinctive Copenhagen periods, beginning with a review of golden classics from the 20s to the 50s. Centered on films from one of the oldest film production companies of Northern Europe, Nordisk, the audience will have a chance to view movies that opened a new age in and the foundation of Danish films. The second period will be focused on the 60s to the 80s, when the film industry in Denmark was characterized by new talents and a large production volume. From Jorgen Leth to Bille August and from “The Perfect Human” to “Babette’s Feast,” this era opened the Danish films up to many possibilities. Finally, the showcase will also bring about more recent productions of Danish movies, including drama, documentaries, short films, and movies for children. The present films shed light on the lively and dynamic trend of Copenhagen’s theaters. In addition, the 2007 Taipei Film Festival will also introduce audiences to Dogma 95 movies – an avant-garde filmmaking movement founded in Copenhagen in 1995. Members of this movement were heavily influenced by the works of the great Danish director Carl Th. Dreyer.