Nordic Film Festival special event: FESTEN + short + talk - FREE EVENT!
Nordic Film Festival special event: FESTEN + short + talk - FREE EVENT!
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FESTEN + short film
+ post-screening talk by Dr Claire Thomson, UCL Scandinavian Studies
dir. Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark 1999, 105 min, cert 15, Danish + English subtitles
The first film of the avant-garde Dogme95 movement and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize 1998, Festen remains a defining moment in Danish cinema. Told in real time at a family dinner celebrating patriarch Helge’s 60th birthday, one of Helge’s four children, Christian, stands to make a toast, only to reveal the darkest of family secrets.
This screening launches an ongoing Dogme95 retrospective, curated by day for night*.
preceded by:
NYLON
dir. Jeanette Nordahl, Denmark/Sweden 2015, 28 min, advised cert 15, Danish/Swedish + English subtitles,
17 year old Viktor’s beautiful aunt Isabel is ill with cancer. On a family weekend away everyone except Viktor is perturbed by her attitude towards life. A New Danish Screen project.
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Birkbeck Cinema, Malet St, WC1E 7HX London
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Nordic Film Festival special event: FESTEN + short + talk - FREE EVENT!
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