Kunsten at græde i kor wins the FIPRESCI AWARD in Lecce, Italy too!!

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor

wins the:

FIPRESCI AWARD

in

FESTIVAL DEL CINEMA EUROPEO

Lecce, Italy.

The FIPRESCI Jury composed by Critics Marina Sanna, Ioanna Papageorgiou, Matyas Gyozo awards the prize to The Art of Crying by Peter Schonau Fog.

For the capacity of telling in a tragic, ironic way the sorrows and perversions of a family, through the eyes of an adolescent.

Read more here.

Congratulations to the cast and crew!

Vote for The Art of Crying!

Vote for The Art of Crying for “AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD for BEST FEATURE FILM” at Nashville filmfestival!

HERE at DISHMAG!

The Art of Crying wins The FIPRESCI AWARD in Istanbul, Turkey

FIPRESCI AWARD
The FIPRESCI Jury of the 26th International Istanbul Film Festival presided over by Miguel Somsen (Portugal), and composed of Cüneyt Cebenoyan (Turkey), Katharina Dockhorn (Germany), Marina Drozdova (Poland), Nathan Lee (USA) and Uygar Şirin (Turkey), gave:

The FIPRESCI Award in the International Competition to "KUNSTEN AT GRAEDE I KOR / THE ART OF CRYING" by Peter Schønau Fog (Denmark), for telling the story of a family with secrets everybody knows about but nobody speaks about it, balancing comedy and tragedy. You will never feel detached by this intense portrait of a Danish family, seen through the innocent point of view of a child.

Kunsten at Græde i Kor Featured in FILM(DFI)

The DFI magazine FILM features interviews with actor Jesper Asholt and director Peter Schønau Fog written by Liselotte Michelsen and Morten Piil(in danish).

Download as pdf here. Or as html here and here.

Canberra International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to the:

Canberra International Film Festival

(October 24 - November 4) Australia

Peter Schønau Fog modtager Natsværmerprisen

Ritzau: Torsdag den 22. marts 2007

Instruktør Peter Schønau Fog
modtager her til aften Natsværmerprisen

Hans prisvindende spillefilmsdebut ”Kunsten at græde i kor” får Danmarkspremiere fredag den 27. april.
I aften er der officiel åbningsgalla i Dagmar Teatret i København for årets NatFilm Festival. Den ærefulde åbningsfilm er det prisvindende drama ”Kunsten at græde i kor”, men inden festivalen for alvor kan skydes i gang, skal filmens instruktør Peter Schønau Fog på scenen for at modtage dette års prestigefulde Natsværmerpris – NatFilm Festivalens ærespris.

Natsværmerfonden uddeler hvert år prisen til unge danske filmtalenter, som har ydet et værdifuldt bidrag til dansk film, og med prisen følger 25.000 kr. og et kunstværk af Alexander Tovborg. Et uddrag af bestyrelsens motivation er: ”Vi er mange, der har ventet og ventet på at se hans karriere folde sig ud. Nu sker det, og det har været ventetiden værd. Hans spillefilmsdebut er en modig og sikker debut, der takler et svært emne uden at ryste på hånden, får det optimale ud af både professionelle skuespillere som amatører, og som tør at udfordre vore vaner og forventninger ved at være indspillet på klingende sønderjysk.”

Natsværmerprisen bliver som oftest uddelt til talenter i udvikling, og Peter Schønau Fog er allerede rigtigt godt på vej. Tilbage i 2000 blev han indstillet til en Student Academy Award for sin afgangsfilm ”Lille Mænsk”, og ”Kunsten at græde i kor” har allerede nu modtaget en række priser og ikke mindst masser af roser. Siden Verdenspremieren ved Toronto Film Festival har filmen været på en imponerende verdensturné - bl.a. San Sebastián (Tildelt Ungdomsjuryens pris), Tokyo International Film Festival, AFI / Los Angeles (Juryens special mention) og Mannheim-Heidelberg (Tildelt Publikumsprisen, Special mention til Jesper Asholt og De Tyske Biografejeres Anbefaling). Ved Gøteborg i februar modtog Harald Gunnar Paalgaard desuden den prestigefulde ”The Kodak Nordic Vision Award” for Bedste Fotografering.

”Kunsten at græde i kor” er i løbet af dette forår udtaget til at deltage i endnu en række Film Festivaler over hele verden: Sofia International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Vilnius International Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival og Jerusalem Film Festival.

Senest er ”Kunsten at græde i kor” blevet inviteret til New Directors/New Films, som anses være en af verdens mest eksklusive præsentationer af debutant film fra hele verden.

”Kunsten at græde i kor” er baseret på Erling Jepsens succesfulde roman af samme navn og får Danmarkspremiere fredag den 27. april. ”Kunsten at græde i kor” er produceret af Final Cut Productions.

Se også: Politiken

Festroia International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor has been invited to:

The First Works Competition

Festroia International Film Festival

Portugal (June 1 - 10)

First Works (competition) present first works, giving the Portuguese audiences the possibility of discovering the first feature films of directors whose importance for the future evolution of the medium will be acknowledge by film critics and historians.

Setúbal
Setúbal, the headquarters of the International Film festival, is the centre of a vast region of unique characteristics, both in its landscape that greatly justifies its tourist vocation, and in its economic diversity, divided between traditional activities, such as fishing and agriculture, and the most modern industry.

Seattle International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i Kor has been invited to:

Seattle International Film Festival.

(24. May - 17. June)

Trondheim International Filmfestival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i kor Has been invited to:

Trondheim International Filmfestival.

(19.-25. April)

(Trondheim is the fourth festival showing the film in week 17 - which is the same week the film is going to premiere in Denmark(27. April), phew...)

Opening Galla at Nat Filmfestivallen

Kunsten at græde i kor

Det er en modig bedrift at behandle et emne som incest med sort humor. Men når det lykkes så ubetinget elegant og underholdende som i Peter Schønau Fogs intelligente filmatisering af Erling Jepsens bestseller af samme navn, kan man kun have respekt for valget. Instruktøren tager nemlig sin historie alvorligt – her er ingen ironisk distance, blot en velfungerende galgenhumor. Jesper Asholt leverer en spektakulær præstation som den ynkelige og selvoptagede familiefar, der klynker af selvmedlidenhed, imens han misbruger sin datter og manipulerer sin familie i en lille, sønderjysk by i 1970’erne. Sceneriet iagttages gennem øjnene af den 11-årige søn Allan, hvis barnlige naivitet ikke begriber situationens alvor, og det forlener portrættet af den dobbeltmoralske familie med så meget tragikomik, at man griner højt mere end én gang. Det er en imponerende balancegang uden et eneste fejltrin, og ’Kunsten at Græde i Kor’ har af samme grund hittet stort på festivaler blandt både kritikere og publikum. Fog beskriver miljøet, så man kan mærke de brune fløjlsbukser og stueurets konstante tikken, og autenticiteten understreges af, at dialogen er på klingende sønderjysk.

22/3/2007

København
21:30 (Dagmar)

Kolding
21:30 (Kolding: Kolding BioCenter)

Odense
19:00 (Odense: Cafe Biografen)

Århus
18:30 (Århus: CinemaxX)

(Hold og spillere - skynd jer at bestille billetter til visningen i Kbh - så kan vi få en aften ud af det... Mvh Peter)

Dublin Reviews

Danish sneak previews

According to findings on Google has/is The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor beeing sneak-previewed at:

Bodil : Closing film.
Natfilm: Opening film
Filmfestihvalsø
Gladsaxe Oplysnings Forbund

Lecce European Cinema Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor

has been invited to:

Lecce European Cinema Festival, Italy

(April 17 - 22)

In competition.

Guadalajara International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to:

The XXII edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival(Mexico) (March 22 - 30)

Screenings at European Film Market

Kunsten at graede i kor/The Art Of Crying will be screened at European Film Market in Berlin:

Sat Feb 10 13:30
Marriott 2 (E)
Digi Beta

Tue Feb 13 17:00
Marriott 2 (E)
Digi Beta

Welcome to the European Film Market (EFM), one of the top annual events for the international film industry. Since 2006, the central location for the EFM is the Martin-Gropius-Bau, situated in the heart of Berlin within the immediate vicinity of the festival centre. Once again this year, additional attractive space will be available at the EFM Business Offices at Potsdamer Platz 11. The Market’s attractive locations, its productive integration into the Berlinale, one of the world’s largest film festivals, as well as selected co-operations and partnerships come together to make the EFM one of the most dynamic marketplaces for international film.

At the EFM 2006, 264 exhibitors from more than 50 countries were represented. A total of 618 films, including more than 400 market premieres, were presented to professional visitors in 1,000 screenings. The trademark of EFM is the timeliness of the films and projects as well as its close connections to the festival programme: Around 30 percent of publicly screened Berlinale films are presented in EFM screenings.

The EFM offers the ideal infrastructure to inform oneself on the diversity of international cinema, to discover new trends and to strengthen one’s own position in the market.

Invitation to Jerusalem International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to:

Jerusalem International Film Festival

(July 5th - July 14th)

The Jerusalem International Film Festival - Israel’s most prestigious cinematic event – a ten-day dazzling celebration of cinema. This glorious event held over 10 days each summer, is a highlight of Israel’s cultural calendar, and a well-known gem on the international film festival circuit. Recognised internationally for its unique screening programme, seminars and intimate atmosphere, the Jerusalem International Film Festival is an unprecedented venue for creating and stimulating dialogue and discussion among professionals and audiences from different cultures. Preparations are now underway for the 22nd Jerusalem International Film Festival – taking place from July 7-16 2005 They come from the four corners of the planet to be in Jerusalem: Stars; personalities; critics; directors; producers; festival directors; old friends and new faces…

Cinematographer Harald Paalgard wins The Kodak Nordic Vision Award!

Kodak Nordic Vision Award
The same jury also chose the winner of the Kodak Nordic Vision Award. The Kodak Nordic Vision Award goes to cinematographer Harald Paalgard for "his sharp and sensitive camera work in Peter Schønau's film The Art of Crying. His images draws our attention to the human being and the human condition, creating a very special mood in this dark tale."

In swedish:
The Kodak Nordic Vision Award
The Kodak Nordic Vision Award på 50 000 kronor tilldelas fotografen Harald Gunnar Paalgard för hans "följsamma kameraarbete i Peter Schønau Fogs film Kunsten at græde i kor/The Art of Crying. Hans bilder lyfter fram människor och miljöer och ger åt filmens mörka historia dess speciella atmosfär."

Favorits of the head of the festival

Jannike Åhlund

Gör på festivalen:

Konstnärlig ledare(Head of the festival) - har ansvaret för filmprogrammet ? content provider, helt enkelt!

Favoritfilmer alla kategorie(All time favorits): Sunset Boulevard, Återkomsten och Lady och Lufsen (den första film jag såg på bio!)

Favoriter i årets festival(Favorits of this years festival):

The Art of Crying, Children, Ten Canoes, Doften av grön papaya, The Optimists, After This Our Exile, Clash of Egos, The Way I Spent the End of the Word - och i princip hela ANOTHER VIEW-sektionen!

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor has been invited to New York

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i Kor has been invited to:

New Directors/New Films
March 21–April 1, 2007

Now in its thirty-sixth year, the renowned New Directors/New Films festival, presented jointly by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging or not-yet-established filmmakers from around the world. All of the films in New Directors/New Films are having either their New York, United States, or North American premieres, and many of the screenings are introduced by the filmmakers. Films selected for the 2007 edition include Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (Great Britain/Denmark), Jean-Pascal Hattu’s 7 Years (France), Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night (USA) and Peter Schønau Fog’s The Art of Crying (Denmark). See www.moma.org or www.filmlinc.com for details and a complete listing of titles and screening times. A schedule is also available in MoMA’s main and theater lobbies, and in the lobby of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. New Directors/New Films is sponsored by Stella Artois and HBO Films. The festival is made possible through the generosity of the Irene Diamond Fund. Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

Oskarshamns Tidningen - review (in swedish)

Genom att skildra berättelsen genom Allans häpna blå ögon skapar Schönau Fog den distans som krävs för att göra filmen The art of crying uthärdig.

Massor av film man bara inte får missa

KULTUR Göteborgs filmfestival är i gång. Den fyller 30 i år. Det firas med pompa och ståt och det märks i programmet. Att bläddra genom katalogen tar timmar och väcker beslutsvånda på snart sagt varje sida. Filmerna som man bara inte får missa är betydligt fler än man klarar av hur man än vrider och vänder sig.

Festivalen i Göteborg är den största i Norden och det är också filmer från vårt hörn av världen som dominerar utbudet. Huvudnumret är den nordiska tävlingen där färska filmer från Sverige, Norge, Danmark, Finland och Island tävlar om Filmdraken (en staty av Ernst Billgren) och 100 000 kronor. Vinnaren utses på lördag.

(...)

Oduglig och oälskad

Mörk, men på ett annat sätt, är den debuterande danske regissören Peter Schönau Fogs familjedrama The art of crying. Den utspelar sig i en liten by på Jylland i början av 1970-talet. Elvaårige Allan bor med sin mamma, pappa och storasyster Sanna.

Fadern, som kör ut mjölk i trakten, beklagar sig ständigt över att han är oduglig och att ingen älskar honom. Allt som oftast hotar han att ta livet av sig och lägger sig på soffan i vardagsrummet och gråter.

Allan avgudar sin pappa och gör allt för att hålla honom vid liv och på gott humör. Han vet att det enda som kan få pappan att sluta gråta är att storasystern gör honom sällskap på soffan - under täcket. Och vill inte Sanna tänker Allan göra det själv. Pojken inser förstås inte riktigt följderna av sina handlingar.

Genom att skildra berättelsen genom Allans häpna blåa ögon, som plirar genom ett par stora brillor, skapar Schönau Fog en distans och mörk humor som krävs för att göra tragedin uthärdlig - och faktiskt mycket rolig mellan varven, men det är skratt som fastnar i halsen.

(...)

af Mikael Hagner/Oskarshamns Tidningen

Göteborg festival daily - interview

The Art Of Crying

THE ART OF CRYING, directed by Danish filmmaker Peter Schønau Fog, is a gentle study of a dysfunctional family, set in rural Denmark in the early 1970s.

»I felt it was a really important film to make, even though it has been extremely stressful. The issue of child abuse is something that is dealt with in a very strange way. There is a certain taboo connected to it that I wanted to explore«, says Schønau Fog.

The film resolves around Allan, a precocious eleven-year-old boy who grows up with his mother, his depressive milkman father and his older sister Sanne. It should be an idealistic environment, but it is not. Allan’s father is frequently threatening to commit suicide, claiming that no one understands him, that no one loves him. Allan adores his father and tries his best to comfort him. Without realising the consequences of his actions, and in order to make his father feel better, Allan convinces his older sister to “comfort” daddy on the couch.

»THE ART OF CRYING« is a complex movie with moments that are tempered with dark, almost absurd humour that moves the spectator between despair and amusement. Schønau Fog always felt that the only way to treat the issue of child molestation was to add some humour to it.

»I hope people will watch my film forwardly and understand it retrospectively. I wanted to make a film that spoke to the audience through emotions. Sure, it is a black and tragic movie, but through the eyes of Allan, some things are so innocent that they become humorous. It’s so tragical it becomes bizarre«, says Schønau Fog.

Författare: ANDERS BENGTSSON

Fotograf: MARCUS BERGMAN

Closed screenings for danish cinema owners

Closed screenings of The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i kor for danish cinema owners in "Filmtræf 2007" in Horsens.

23. jan. 16.00 Sal A
25. jan. 8.45 Sal A

The Art of Crying invited to Dublin International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to:

Dublin International Film Festival

(Feb 16 - 25)

The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is one of the most high profile events in Ireland and screens over 100 film premieres and hosts many popular forums throughout the 10 days. It invites and hosts a number of high profile guests and provides an attractive and diverse selection of the best in contemporary world cinema.

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Sofia International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at Græde i kor has been invited to:

Sofia International Film Festival
(March 1 - 18)

International İstanbul Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to the

Competition of the
International İstanbul Film Festival. (March 31 - April 15, 2007).

The International İstanbul Film Festival was first presented as a film week in the summer of 1982, within the framework of the International İstanbul Festival. Beginning in 1984, the event became a separate activity and was shifted to April.

In 1985, two competitive sections, one national and the other international, were included in the Festival program. Accredited by FIAPF since 1989, the Festival, features a thematically specialized international competition, provides a showcase for recent Turkish film productions, and thus represents a rewarding medium where Turkish and foreign filmmakers get together. The Festival draws a special interest to world classics, presenting retrospective sections within its programs particularly attended by young audiences.

The Festival, whose aim is “to encourage the development of cinema in Turkey, to help Turkish cinema attain international recognition and to promote films of quality in the Turkish market”, has also introduced international institutions and organizations like EURIMAGES and EFDO to the Turkish market.

Göteborg International Film Festival

The Art of Crying/Kunsten at græde i kor has been invited to:

Göteborg International Film Festival
(26. jan - 5. feb. 2007)

In Nordic Competition.

Screenings:
lördag: 27/1 17.30 Draken
söndag: 28/1 12.30 Folkan
tisdag: 30/1 17.30 Handels

Facts about Göteborg International Film Festival
Today, Göteborg International Film Festival is the biggest public film festival in Scandinavia. Each year, some 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115 000 visitors. Additionally, some 60 film related seminars attract roughly 6 000 visitors. The aim of the festival is today two-fold. Firstly, and most importantly, it's a yearly opportunity to offer interested viewers a broad program of films that not always reach the cinemas. Secondly, it's a meeting place for the Nordic film industry. To that end, in 2000, the festival established a market place for Nordic film. The ambition was to strengthen the role of the festival as a Nordic meeting place and to be the interational link to new Nordic films. During four days, new films are screened for an international group of buyers, distributors and festival representatives. The market place, which runs parallel to the ordinary festival, is called Nordic Film Market and hosts 180 specially invited guests each year. It is today the biggest single market place for Nordic films.

Press release here.

Vilnius International Film Festival

The Art of Crying has been invited to Vilnius International Film Festival (22. march - 5 april 2007)

Politiken interview - in danish

Director: Peter Schønau Fog

- Foto: Martin Bubandt Jensen

"Der er absolut ikke noget at grine ad

- man kan bare ikke lade være".
Interview in Politiken by Hans Jørgen Møller

Read it here. (in danish)

(The Danish paper JydskeVestkysten, has written about Jannik, but this article isn't on the net 07.12.2006)

Firpresci at Mannheim-Heidelberg

Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique

International Federation of Film Critics.

(...) Danish director Peter Schønau Fog also shows a lot of talent. In The Art of Crying he develops another horrifying and strong story. Based on the novel of Erling Jepsen, it shows a family in the south of Jutland in the 70s, whose harmony rests in the possibilities to calm the emotional non-equilibrium of the father, an egotistical and hysterical individual enjoying Schubert's lieder and suffering from crisis of crying with threats of suicide. The only one to calm him is his 14-year-old daughter, whose ingenuous younger brother always convinces her to sleep with the father, although in his innocence the boy doesn't know that what happens between father and daughter is a crime. A terrible and raw secret, also shared by the pusillanimous mother of the children and their older brother, who has left home to study but at his return, sees with impotence how the things at home are still the same.

With a story as this, we would be able to speak of a classical Nordic melodrama, tragic and severe. But the surprising thing is how the director achieves that The Art of Crying stands always on the thin line that divides drama from comedy. He holds a delicate balance that also includes black humor, tenderness and charm. The story is shown from a child's point of view, which is faced to complex situations (not recommendable for someone of this age) and never understands the gravity and sordidness of the situation. Although seeing the way his brothers are acting may tell him that something is not well at all. The plot develops without neglecting its literary origins, but as not many movies dare to do, is divided in chapters, each one dedicated to a character. So the events are made still clearer for the audience, leading to a powerful, captivating and sensitive human portrait in which the performances are fundamental: the two children, Jannik Lorenzen and Julie Kolbech, are true revelations, and as the father Jesper Asholt gives a spectacular performance.

Its formal characteristics – cinematography, music and art direction are excellent — would make this film what is called a "quality film", one that its country selects as candidate for an Academy Award in the best foreign language film’s category. It's true that the narration is traditional and the film has classical visuals, but that does not lessen the emotions of the story, splendidly guided by Schønau Fog, who never uses easy means to move the audience, although it would have been easy doing so, knowing that he had to direct children actors in a incest and abuse story. As Erik Richter Strand in Sons, the filmmaker knows how to create a work with popular leanings, that we can call a genre piece, but it goes a lot further. These are two stimulating debuts from two filmmakers, two new names to follow.

Joel Poblete

© FIPRESCI 2006

Joel Poblete is a journalist and film critic based in Santiago de Chile. He has worked on cultural subjects for Chilean TV, radio and papers and is now a movie critic in the magazine Capital. He is one of the founders and still member of the Chilean critics' publication

Nashville Film Festival invitation

The Art of Crying has been invited for the Nashville Film Festival.

Nashville Film Festival (NaFF)

2007 Festival – April 19-26

Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) is hosted by the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in the Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee. With nearly 16,000 people attending the 2006 edition, it is rapidly becoming one of the best-known arts events in Tennessee and is the biggest, most international film festival in the mid-South.

Each year, NaFF receives submissions of over 1700 films from all over the world. Last year, 244 films from over 40 countries were selected. NaFF provides the only opportunity to see many of these films in this region of the U.S.Because it takes place in “Music City,” Nashville Film Festival places special focus on music in films with its “Music Films in Music City” section and two special music awards. Additionally, NaFF has special sections for late night screenings, gay & lesbian films, and, for children, our KidCinema section.

NaFF has had such notable guests as Keifer Sutherland, Joshua Jackson, Craig Brewer, Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Al Gore, Patrick Swayze, Rick Schroder, Oprah Winfrey, Matthew McConaughey, Christine Vachon, Michael Moore, Barbara Kopple, D.A. Pennebaker, and John Waters, to name a few.