Copenhagen International Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival is a film festival held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first held in 2003, and is held annually. The main award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival is the Golden Swan, which will be awarded for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Script and Best Cinematography.

From 2009, CIFF merged with the NatFilm Festival into a single event, CPH:PIX.

Regular award winners

Year	Best Film	Best Director	Best Actress	Best Actor	Best Script	Best Cinema- tographer	Best Female Director	Politiken Audience Award	Lifetime Achievement Awards
2003	Song For a Raggy Boy (Aisling Walsh)	Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories)	Stephanie Léon (Bagland)	Kristoffer Joner (Himmelfald)				Afgrunden (Torben Skjødt Jensen)	Vera Gebuhr Gabriel Axel
2004	The Granny (Lidija Bobrova)	Nimród Antal (Kontroll)	Anna Maria Mühe (Love in Thoughts)	Luis Tosar (Te doy mis ojos)	Lidija Bobrova (The Granny)	Gyula Pados (Kontroll)	Guka Omarova (Shiza)	Kongekabale (Nicolaj Arcel)	István Szabó
2005	Live and Become (Radu Mihaileanu)	Bent Hamer (Factotum)	Lili Taylor (Factotum)	Ion Fiscuteanu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu)	Radu Mihaileanu (Live and Become)	Gyula Pados (Fateless)	Yasmine Kassari (The Sleeping Child)	Harry's Daughters (Richard Hobert)	Costa-Gavras Nicolas Roeg
2006	12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)	Kim Rossi Stuart (Along the Ridge)	Heidrun Bartholomäus (Happy as One)	Ulrich Mühe (Das leben der Anderen)	Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest)	Stefano Falivene (Along the Ridge)	Valeska Grisebach (Sehnsucht)	Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)	Henning Carlsen

Other awards

2003

Special Grand Prize of the Jury

Rithy Panh (S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine)

The Special Jury Award

Sylvain Chomet (Les Triplettes de Belleville)

2004

Grand Jury Special Prize

Nina Choubina and Anna Ovsiannikova (The Granny)

Special Lifetime Achievement Award

Abbas Kiarostami

The Hans Morten prize (70.000 Euro)

Mette Heeno

2005

Grand Prix du Jury

The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)

Honorary Award

Nils Malmros

Emir Kusturica

External links

• http://www.copenhagenfilmfestival.com/