Expectations are always high when CPH:PIX  - an annual international film festival - takes over Copenhagen.

CPH:Pix is a merger between the traditional local's event Natfilmfestival - the night film festival - and the newer, more glamorous Copenhagen International Film Festival. 

A new agenda

The festival management intends to make CPH:PIX an event for the regular cineastes with high quality films from around the world, while simultaneously orchestrating a festival that competes with the major European film festivals.

This means a standard dose of red carpets, glitterati and v.i.p. parties is inevitable.

A focus on new talents and avant-garde as well as cross collaborations between art forms and institutions should make this balancing act possible.