The Bioscope hosts Danish film festival

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The Bioscope hosts Danish film festival --

Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:42

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The Bioscope Independent Cinema in partnership with the Embassy of Denmark is featuring a film festival of the best contemporary Danish films until 21 September. The festival, titled New Danish Cinema, will feature family screenings, a Q and A session with a Danish documentary filmmaker and a live composition screening. Highlights of the festival include:

Only God Forgives

Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of Drive,return to the big screen with this Bangkok-set thriller. Tasked with avenging his brothers death, a drug smuggler becomes entangled with a shadowy, unhinged policeman, who follows his every move.

Time: 12 September at 19h30

Tickets: R20

Cinema Improvisando

At a screening of the Danish classic Vampyr composer Paul Hanmer presents a live improvised score to the film. The film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, portrays a traveller who visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires.

Time: 21 September at 17h00

Tickets: R115

The Red Chapel and The Ambassador

The director of these two Danish documentaries, Mads Br gger, will attend screenings and host a Q and A session after each film.

The Red Chapel offers audiences a rare glimpse into the world of a Danish-Korean theatre group which travels to North Korea to present their absurd sketch comedy.

Time: 18 September at 19h30

Tickets: R20

In The Ambassador Br gger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to expose the blood diamond trade in Africa.

Time: 19 September at 19h30

Tickets: R20

Lost in Africa

A Danish eleven year old who is passionate about playing soccer moves to Kenya and loses an autographed ball to a group of locals. On a mission to get it back, he gets lost in the expansive Nairobi shantytown of Kibera. The film was a favourite at international children s film festivals and is suitable for family viewing.

Time: 13 September at 14h00

Tickets: R20

Visit the Bioscope website for more information.

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