Copenhagen Short Film Festival

Awards

Read about this year's awards, nominees and the different jurys

We will be handing out four awards at this year’s festival: New Danish Talent, Best Danish Short Film, Danish Animation Talent and Best Foreign Short Film. More information about the awards, nominees and jurys will be updated soon.

New Danish Talent​ (2021)

The nominees for the New Danish Talent are:

  • A Woman Without Children (Uden barn)
    Cecilie Kronborg Thomsen / 20 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Til et yngre jeg – Winning film
    Kristoffer Bjerg / 12 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Writer’s Block
    Magnus Padkær / 6 min. / Denmark /2020 
  • Sail On, My Love
    Jonatan Egholm Keis / 30 min. / Denmark / 2020
  • Skilleveien
    Peter Bjerre Salling / 29 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Måneridt
    Caroline Polke / 7 min. / Denmark / 2021

The winner of the New Danish Talent award will receive:

  • A certificate
  • A gift certificate with a value of 2500 DKK. to Wedio
 

New Danish Talent Jury​

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MATHIAS BROE
Film director

Maria Møller Christoffersen

MARIA MØLLER CHRISTOFFERSEN
Producer

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MARTIN SKOVBJERG
Film director

Best Danish Short Film (2021)

The nominees for the Best Danish Short Film award are:

  • Deroute
    Nadia Claudi / 24 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Wild Wild Vesløs – special mention
    Esben Persson / 16 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Forever Young Forever Old – A Love Story
    Kathrine Skibsted / 24 min. / Denmark /2021 
  • Boys (Friends forever) (Drengevenner)
    Joachim Morre / 17 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • In the Soil (Det er i Jorden)
    Casper Rudolf Emil Kjeldsen / 15 min. / Denmark / 2021
  • Pinkie’s Funeral – winning film
    Simon Mortensen / 26 min. / Denmark / 2019
  • As the Crow Flies (Fugleflugt)
    Michael Søndergaard / 21 min. / Denmark / 2021

The winner of the Best Danish Short Film award will receive:

  • A certificate
  • Cash prize of 2500 DKK.

Best Danish Short Film Jury

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CHRISTINA ROSENDAHL
Film director

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FENAR AHMAD
Film director

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STINNA LASSEN
Producer

Best Foreign Short Film (2021)

  • The nominees for the Best Foreign Short Film are:
  • The Magic Flute (La Flûte Enchantée)
    Geordy Couturiau / 26 min. / France / 2021
  • In the Middle
    Viesturs Meiksans / 26 min. / Latvia / 2020
  • Sunrise In My Mind
    Danech San / 14 min. / Cambodia /2020 
  • Consumed
    Karen Lamond / 15 min. / UK/Scotland / 2020
  • White Eye 
    Tomer Shushan / 21 min. / Israel / 2020
  • Where to land – winning film
    Sawandi Groskind / 15 min. / Finland / 2020

The winner of the Best Foreign Short Film award will receive:

  • A certificate
  • A cash prize of 2500 DKK.

Best Foreign Short Film Jury​

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CLAUS LÖSER
Film curator and film historien

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KATIE McCULLOUGH
Film Festival Strategist & Founder (Festival Formula)

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MADS MIKKELSEN
Festival programmer (CPH:DOX)

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who participated, the filmmakers and our wonderful juries