Lone Scherfig

Creative Excellence Award – Women in Cinema

Lone Scherfig has mastered the art of subtle characterization. She repeatedly gets under characters' skins to reveal the impulses of good and evil, while the plot evolves without strain. Though a light humor prevails, there is a pervasive sense of the tragic in her characterization. Scherfig's films are concerned with the lot of ordinary, rather eccentric people.

Born in Denmark in 1959, Lone Scherfig graduated from the Danish Film School in 1984 and had her debut as a film director with Kaj's fødselsdag (1990) (The Birthday Trip). The film was selected for Panorama in Berlin and New Directors, Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2000, Scherfig got her international breakthrough with the romantic Dogme 95 comedy, Italiensk for begyndere (2000) (Italian for Beginners), for which she received the Silver Berlin Bear and huge box-office returns. Scherfig followed up with her first English-language film, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002). She has since made two films in English, An Education, based on Nick Hornby's screenplay, and One Day, adapted from David Nicholl's popular novel.

RIFF proudly welcomes Lone Scherfig to the 2011 festival edition, where she will be awarded the Creative Excellence Award for Women in Cinema. Furthermore, three of Scerfig’s films will be screened at the festival; Italiensk for begyndere, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself and One Day.

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