4th Showcase of Joias do Cinema dinamarquês

The showcase of Joias do Cinema dinamarquês arrives at its fourth edition and highlights the female presence in the direction, script and as protagonists of the North European cinema.

In partnership with Cine Joia of Rio de Janeiro the Danish Cultural Institute presents the 4th Joias do Cinema dinamarquês from October 19 to November 1 with the screening of five films by directors from Denmark and one by a Greenlandic director. Curated by the programming team of Cine Joia, the selection offers an opportunity to watch films that had few or no national shows and to know a little more about the customs, social aspects, political, emblematic places and traditions of the people who live in the Nordic country. Five Danish films will be screened as well as Sumé the first feature film produced in Greenland.

In total, it will be three documentaries and three fiction films and in this fourth edition three films has women in the roles of director and protagonist. Among the highlights of the program, the opening film Sumé was the first feature-length documentary ever made in Greenland. It tells the story of another Greenlandic “first”, the rock band the film is named after, which not only were the originators of rock in Greenland, they also used their own language in their music, and had a strong impact with their politically charged messages.

“It is very important for the Cultural Institute and for Denmark that there is a cinema show like this. I believe that projects where the public finds the art of another country with curatorship in Brazil is a true cultural exchange,” says Maibrit Thomsen director of the institution.  “The quest for its essence helped make Danish-produced cinema one of the most respected and impactful in the world, a festival-award-winning film scene and a steady presence at the Oscars – only in the last five years there have been three nominations for the best foreign film statuette”, observes Raphael Aguinaga from Cine Joia.

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Danish Cinema and CineKlap
Danish Cinema is one of the oldest in the world and stands out for its vanguard. Director Carl Theodor Dreyer is an icon of international Nordic classic cinema and later generations has spawned such groundbreaking directors as Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who was among the group that defined the influential Dogma 95 movement. In recent years Danish films has often been selected for prestigious awards, including the “foreign film” category of the Oscars, which accomplished director Susanne Bier won in 2011 with In a Better World.

Due to the great international prominence that the cinema of Denmark has been obtaining in the last years the Danish Cultural Institute in Brasil created CineKlap. CineKlap was created with the aim of promoting Danish cinema and promoting exhibitions, lectures and workshops that will allow a cultural exchange between the two countries. Joias do Cinema dinamarquês is part of these efforts.