Lone Scherfig during an interview for her film "Italian for Beginners"

Lone Scherfig

Italian for Beginners

Writer/director Lone Scherfig graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1984. Her first feature film, THE BIRTHDAY TRIP (1990), was selected for Panorama in Berlin, the New Directors section at MOMA in New York and won the Grand Jury Prix in Rouen. Her next film, ON OUR OWN (1998), received the Grand Prix in Montreal and the Cinekid Prize in Amsterdam. Scherfig then wrote and directed ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (2000; the Danish ‘Dogma’ #5), which was a huge audience hit and won her the Silver Bear and the international film critics’ award FIPRESCI at the 2001 Berlinale, plus numerous other awards around the world.

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