Copenhagen International Film Festival
# Copenhagen International Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) was a film festival held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2003 to 2008. The main prize, the Golden Swan, was awarded for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Script and Best Cinematography.

In 2009, CIFF merged with the NatFilm Festival to become the CPH:PIX film festival.

## Regular award winners

| Year | Best Film | Best Director | Best Actress | Best Actor | Best Script | Best Cinema- tographer | Best Female Director | Politiken Audience Award | Lifetime Achievement Awards |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Song For a Raggy Boy (Aisling Walsh) | Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) | Stephanie Léon (Bagland) | Kristoffer Joner (Himmelfald) | | | | Afgrunden (Torben Skjødt Jensen) | Vera Gebuhr Gabriel Axel |
| 2004 | The Granny (Lidija Bobrova) | Nimród Antal (Kontroll) | Anna Maria Mühe (Love in Thoughts) | Luis Tosar (Te doy mis ojos) | Lidija Bobrova (The Granny) | Gyula Pados (Kontroll) | Guka Omarova (Shiza) | Kongekabale (Nicolaj Arcel) | István Szabó |
| 2005 | Live and Become (Radu Mihaileanu) | Bent Hamer (Factotum) | Lili Taylor (Factotum) | Ion Fiscuteanu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) | Radu Mihaileanu (Live and Become) | Gyula Pados (Fateless) | Yasmine Kassari (The Sleeping Child) | Harry's Daughters (Richard Hobert) | Costa-Gavras Nicolas Roeg |
| 2006 | 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) | Kim Rossi Stuart (Along the Ridge) | Heidrun Bartholomäus (Happy as One) | Ulrich Mühe (Das leben der Anderen) | Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) | Stefano Falivene (Along the Ridge) | Valeska Grisebach (Sehnsucht) | Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) | Henning Carlsen |

## Other awards

### 2003

**Special Grand Prize of the Jury**


    Rithy Panh (S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine)

**The Special Jury Award**


    Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville))

### 2004

**Grand Jury Special Prize**


    Nina Choubina and Anna Ovsiannikova (The Granny)

**Special Lifetime Achievement Award**


    Abbas Kiarostami

**The Hans Morten prize (70.000 Euro)**


    Mette Heeno

### 2005

**Grand Prix du Jury**


    The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)

**Honorary Award**


    Nils Malmros
    Emir Kusturica
