Roskilde Cinema 2009

This year, Roskilde Cinema offers more seats, reduced power consumption and Scandinavian films.

Through the past couple of years, Roskilde Cinema has enjoyed increasing popularity and therefore expands to 900 seats this year. Measured in seats, Roskilde Cinema thereby becomes Denmark’s second largest cinema.

In addition, the technique will be upgraded so that Roskilde Cinema as of this summer goes 100 % digital. Practically all films will be shown in full HD format, and the sound will be improved and adjusted to the surroundings.

At the same time, Roskilde Cinema is working on making the cinema greener. Roskilde Cinema has made an ambitious objective for reducing the power consumption. Already as of 2009, the cinema expects to use 30 % less power than in 2008 – and the objective is to achieve a reduction of approximately 60 % over a period of three years.

As a part of Roskilde Festival’s overall focus on climate in 2009, Roskilde Cinema will make an account of the power consumption per guest in the cinema.

Scandinavian focus
Roskilde Cinema’s programme will have a strong Scandinavian focus this year.

”The past couple of years have offered films such as the Swedish absurdly funny cult film Gitarrmongot (The Guitar Mongoloid), the Swedish youth comedy Hata Göteborg (Hating Gothenburg), the Norwegian mad travesty of Tarantino's Kill Bill, Kill Buljo, have been a great success with the festival audience. We want to build on that success,” says cinema manager Torsten Hvas.

Many Scandinavian films contain a skewness and humour that fit perfectly with the levity and playfulness which mark the atmosphere at Roskilde Festival.

”People want to be entertained and at the same time have an extraordinary experience – and that's what we want to give them with this year's film programme,” says Torsten Hvas.

Treats from the programme
This year's programme offers the Norwegian Nazi-zombie-gore-comedy Død Snø (Dead Snow). To guarantee entertainment in the late hours, the programme is horrored up so the audience can look forward to the Finnish horror film Sauna (Filth), Lordi's fantasy thriller Dark Floors and the Swedish social-realist vampire film Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In).

Roskilde Cinema also presents a couple of Danish premiere screenings. Look forward to a Bollywood-remake of the Danish film Pusher and the slightly brutal Australian drama West.

Like in the rest of Roskilde Festival's programme, Roskilde Cinema also makes room for the new growth layer. Roskilde Cinema will this year show films from the National Film School of Denmark, short films from dvoted.net, and the film club D.Y.I will present their newest creations. In addition, Roskilde Cinema is currently working on establishing a collaboration with two major international film festivals that will help find upcoming film talents from other parts of the world.

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