The Danish Poet (Den danske dikteren)

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The Danish Poet
Original title	Den danske dikteren
Type	Shorts
Genre	Animation
Director	Torill Kove
Short summary	Is it possible to trace the chain of events that led to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?
Summary	Is it possible to trace the chain of events that led to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter? In The Danish Poet the narrator ponders these question as we embark on a holiday to Norway with Kaspar, a poet whose creative well has run dry. As the story of Kaspar's quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, angry dogs, cows that slip form barn planks, careless postmen, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.
Narrator	Liv Ullmann
Screenplay	Torill Kove
Editor	Phyllis Lewis
Animation	Torill Kove, Astrid A. Aakra, Bjarte Agdestein
Composer	Kevin Dean
Sound	Håkon Lammetun
Producer	Lise Fearnley, Marcy Page
Production company	Mikrofilm AS \| P.O. Box 5 Majorstua \| N-0330 Oslo \| Norway
Co-producer	National Film Board Canada \| 3155, Côte-de-Liesse Road \| Montréal \| Québec H4N 2N4 \| Canada Tel. +1-514-283-9000
Country of origin	Norway, Canada
Release date (international)	2006-02-15
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:1,66
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	15
Length in meters	410
No. of reels	1
International sales	Europe: Norwegian Film Institute Rest of the World: National Film Board Canada
Festival participation	2006 Berlin International Film Festival - Kinderfilmfest 2006 Aspen Shortsfest 2006 Mo&Friese KinderKurzFilmFestival Hamburg 2006 Annecy Int'l Animation Film Festival - Panorama 2006 Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2006 Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2006 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival 2006 Giffoni International Children & Youth Film Festival 2006 Cartoon Club, Rimini, Italy 2006 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2006 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2006 LA Shortsfest 2006 Cinefest, Sudbury, Canada 2006 Calgary Int'l Film Festival 2006 Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Festival 2006 AniMadrid, Spain 2006 St. Johns International Women's Film Festival 2006 Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival 2006 Tindrindis Int'l Animation Film Festival, Lithuania 2006 Animatrix, Helsinki, Finland 2006 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2006 Cinanima - Int'l Animated Film Festival Espinho, Portugal 2006 Columbus International Film & Video Festival 2006 Denver International Film Festival 2006 St. Louis International Film Festival 2006 New York City Short Film Festival 2006 Brest International Film Festival, France 2006 Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2007 Flickerfest, Sydney, Australia 2007 Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg, Germany 2007 Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2007 Theran International Animation Festival 2007 BUFF International Children & Youth Film Festival Malmö 2007 Freeze Frame Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada 2007 Filmfest Dresden, Germany 2007 Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway 2007 Kristiansand Int'l Children's Film Festival 2007 Viewfinders - Halifax Children Film Festival 2007 Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival 2007 Int'l Children Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Oberhausen Int'l Short Film Festival - Award Winner Programme 2007 Festtroia Int'l Film Festival, Portugal 2007 Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto - Opening Gala 2007 Arcipelago, Rome, Italy 2007 Plein la Bobine, France 2007 Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary 2007 Festival Internacional de Cine para Ninos, Mexico 2007 Dresden Open Air, germany 2007 Anonimul Int'l Independent Film Festival, Romania 2007 Best of Festivals. La Ciotat, France 2007 Shhh! Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2007 Tinklai Film Festival, Lithuania 2007 Wiesbaden International Week of Animation 2007 Wissembourg Animation Film Festival, France 2007 Dresden Festival for Animated Films 2007 Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2007 Laterna Nordica, denmark 2007 Alcine, Spain 2007 Festival du Cinéma Européen en Essonne, France 2007 Int'l Children's Film Festival of Cyprus 2007 Euroshorts, Warsaw 2007 Animated Dreams, Tallin, Estonia 2007 Anilogue 5th. Budapest Int. Animation Festival, Hungary 2007 Animateka, Slovenia 2007 Leuven Int. Short Film Festival, Belgium 2008 Projektor Animation Film Festival, Scotland 2008 Tricky Women Animation Film Festival, Vienna 2008 St. Paul Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA 2008 Lucca Animation Festival, Italy 2008 Stuttgart Intl. Animation Festival, Germany 2008 Animafest, Zagreb, Kroatia 2008 Animator Festival, Poznan, Poland 2009 Kecskemét Animation Film Festival
Prizes received	2006 Aspen ShortsFest: Audience Award 2006 Aspen ShortsFest: The Animated Eye Award for Best Animation 2006 Aspen ShortsFest: The Ellen Award for Most Original Film 2006 Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada: Core Digital Pictures Award For Best Animated Short 2006 AniMadrid, Spain: Special Mention 2006 Cinanima, Portugal: Jury Special Prize, Class A 2006 Cinanima, Portugal: Prize 2: Onda Curta 2006 Columbus International Film & Video Festival: Chris Statuette - category Arts 2006 New York City Short Film Festival: Audience Choice Award - Category Adult Programme 2006 New York City Short Film Festival: Audience Choice Award - Category Kids Programme 2006 New York City Short Film Festival: Best Animation Short 2007:: National Film Award Genie for Best Animated Short 2007: : Academy Award - Best Animated Short 2007 Theran International Animation Festival: The Special Prize of the Festival Director For the poetic definition and understanding of the meaning of life 2007 BUFF, Malmö, Sweden: Special Mention 2007 Shanghai Television Festival: Foreign Animation Golden Award 2008 Tricky Women Animation Film Festival, Vienna: Special Mention 2008 Lucca Animation Festival, Italy: Audience Award
URL	http://www.mikrofilm.no

Kasper and Ingeborg en route to Copenhagen

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Director biography:
The Director Torill Kove (b. May 25 1958 in Hamar), studied animation at Concordia University in Montreal, winning the Kodak Award for her quirky films All You Can Eat, Fallen Angel and Squash and Stretch.

Torill has worked in a variety of roles on several National Film Board of Canada productions and wrote the script for the animated short Snails, directed by the filmmaker Pjotr Sapegin. She also illustrated three children's books. Her first professional film, My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Studio Magica of Oslo, won numerous international awards and was nominated for an Oscar®.

Filmography:
2005: The Danish Poet
1999: My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts