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Exclusive premieres at CPH PIX

CPH PIX. Denmark's largest feature film festival, running 9-22 April, offers a wide range of events, talks, concerts and, of course, new films from around the globe. For now, these are some of the local highlights at this year's edition, opening and closing with premieres from Danish directors.

30. March 2015 Lea Mosegaard

The opening film of CPH PIX 2015 is Jeppe Rønde's feature film debut Bridgend, which is based on true events from Bridgend County in South Wales where a wave of teen suicides shook the small community a few years back. In January, the film was screened at Rotterdam and Göteborg Film Festivals and won a Special Mention at the latter, and is off to compete at Tribeca Film Festival in New York end of April.

At CPH PIX Bridgend competes in the main competition New Danish Talent Grand PIX with two other Danish debut films: Thomas Daneskov's The Elite and Anne Sofie Hartmann's Limbo.

Read interview with Jeppe Rønde United in Death

Danish Premieres

Three other Danish feature films will premiere at CPH PIX. The thriller The Idealist by Christina Rosendahl plus the two directorial feature film debuts Long Story Short by May el-Toukhy and In Your Arms by Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm. At the film festival in Göteborg in January, "In Your Arms" took home the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film as well as the international film critics' FIPRESCI Award.

Director Christian Braad Thomsen's Fassbinder – To Love without Demands is a portrait of one of the world's most prominent directors. The documentary was selected for the Panorama Dokumente series at the Berlinale this year, where the film made its world premiere, while the Danish premiere will take place during CPH PIX.

Read interview with Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm Travelling with a Dead Man 

Read comments by Christian Braad Thomsen in Love Is Colder than Death

World Premiere for Vinterberg

The closing film of the festival is the world premiere of Thomas Vinterberg's UK production Far from the Madding Crowd. The film, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel of the same name, features Carey Mulligan, Juno Temple, Michael Sheen, and Tom Sturridge among others.

See the full CPH PIX (9-22 April) programme

Bridgend

Jeppe Rønde, 2015

Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village, which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave, as the town's new police officer, tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides. The film focuses on the relationship between vulnerable teenagers and their parents who are left in the dark as the inexplicable suicides gradually take on the character of a punishing ritual.

The Idealist

Christina Rosendahl, 2015

January 21st, 1968 – An American B-52 bomber carrying nuclear warheads has just crashed on the polar ice near the US military Air Base in Danish controlled Thule, Greenland. A few days later, responsible governments classify the crash as a Broken Arrow scenario (nuclear accident) but proclaim the situation to be under control. Hundreds of Thule workers are set to work, helping in the gigantic clean-up operation.

Long Story Short

May el-Toukhy, 2015

The story of Ellen and her friends, all in their late thirties/early forties, and their more or less self-inflicted complicated love life and longing for romantic redemption. The story is a summary of three years of love-related highs and lows for the group of friends told through eight chapters, each of them set at a party: a New Year's Eve, a housewarming, a Midsummer's Eve, a wedding, a surprise party, a naming ceremony, an anniversary and a round birthday. It is an ensemble story about a group of people who struggle with the conception of the perfect relationship and are bound to re-evaluate their take on what true love is.

In Your Arms

Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm, 2015

Maria is a young and caring nurse who wants to break free. Niels is an incurable patient who wants to travel to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide. Together they embark on an intense journey that will bring them closer to each other, but also closer to their dreams.

Fassbinder - to love without demands

Christian Braad Thomsen, 2015

Danish film director Christian Braad Thomsen was a close friend of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82). They met when Fassbinder showed his first film "Love is colder than death" at the Berlinale 1969 and saw each other for the last time just three weeks before he died. This documentary is based on lengthy film interviews that Braad Thomsen shot with Fassbinder in the 1970's, and which have never been published.

Interruption

Malou Reymann, 2015

Marie (Tuva Novotny) is juggling a demanding job as a doctor in oncology and her hectic family life. When she discovers that she is pregnant with her third child, she handles it with her customary efficiency. But the stress is more than she bargained for, driving Marie to decisions she might live to regret.