KATJA´S ADVENTURE

By Lars Hesselholdt

FACTS

Title: KATJA´S ADVENTURE
Original title: FALKEHJERTE
Director: Lars Hesselholdt
Cast: Alessandro Haber, Fanny Bernth
Genre: Adventure
Duration: 81 min
Language: Danish
Country of origin: Denmark
Scriptwriter: Lars Hesselholdt, Tina Rud Mogensen
Cinematographer: Marco Pontecorvo
Editor: Malene Molly Stensgaard
Production Company: Angel Arena/facility
Producers: Ulrik Bolt Jørgensen
Production year: 1999
Executive producers: Marco Valerio Pugini
Local release: 08-10-1999
Film status: Internationally Premiered

Nine-year-old Katja rescues a baby falcon during a thunder storm and seeks refuge in the back of a truck where she falls asleep. When she wakes up she is in a strange southern country.

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Festival overview

Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
Awards: Silver Gryphon Prize: BEST FILM
1999-07-18

Chicago International Childrens Film Festival
Awards: In competition
2000-10-12

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Awards: In competition
2000-10-12

Toronto Sprockets Intl. Film Festival For Children
Awards: Il Fornello Young People's Jury Awards: BEST FILM
2000-04-08

Lübeck, Nordische Filmtage
Awards: BEST CHILDREN'S FILM
1999-11-04

Cinekid Childrens Film Festival-Amsterdam
Awards: AUDIENCE AWARD, Children's Jury
1999-10-23

Antwerpen European Youth Film Festival of Flanders
2000-03-05

BAMKids International Film Festival, NY
2001-04-21

Berlin Film Festival
2000-02-09

Durban Int. Film Festival
2001-09-17

Edinburgh Int. FF
2000-08-13

Int. FF For Children and Youth/Czech Republic-ZLIN
2000-05-28

Leeds International Film Festival
2000-10-05

Montevideo Divercine
2000-07-03

Norwegian Film Festival
1999-08-22

Rimouski Carrousel Int. FF
2000-09-17

Wisconsin Int. FF
2000-11-11