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For the Welcome Film Festival artists and filmmakers with non-Danish backgrounds invite guests into their private homes
to show the films they have created.
04 to 26 March 2026 — Copenhagen
Over the course of the festival, films will be screened not in cinemas, but in private spaces — creating site-specific micro-cinemas
shaped by each host’s context and hospitality. Press image and poster
No jury. No institutional filters. (No censorship.) Each creator selects their own work and defines the conditions of viewing.
The result is a plurality of voices, formats, experiments, and experiences.
Through its decentralized and self-organized structure, the Welcome Film Festival challenges the conventions of cultural presentation,
offering an alternative model rooted in openness, conviviality, and autonomy.
Participants 2026 Artists – Filmmakers:
Alice de Champfleury, Jella Bethmann, Juan Hein, Ada Ortega Camara, Valerie Collart, Thomas Fleurquin, Frank Franzen,Maia Hauser ,
Thierry Geoffroy, Rebeka Szalai, Arturo Fabbro,Abel Alazo Rangel,Sara Gebran
Preparation Team: Thierry Geoffroy, Rebeka Szalai
For more info, please contact: Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel 1@colonel.dk, Rebeka Szalai szalai.rebeka@gmail.com
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The Welcome Film Festival is a new Emergency Art Format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Geoffroy)
Other Emergency Art Format coming in 2026 ( Paris / Oslo / Venice ) : https://www.emergencyrooms.org/2026.html
read the Copenhagen post from 03 march 2026
https://emergencyrooms.org/the_Welcome_Film_Festival_CPHPost.html
Screening:
26/03/2026 Thursday 7 pm
To contact: 1@colonel.dk
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Copenhagen Ø (write to have a confirmation we have still capacity )
Films Programmation : “What is a film ? , What is a festival ?”
Thierry
Geoffroy / Colonel, known for his Emergency Art Formats
such as Emergency Room and Critical Run, will present a personal
selection of his films
and will, in between, engage in a debate about “What is a film?
What is a festival?”
"My Parents in Algeria"
"The Immigrant"
“Which Image of Greenland Do People in Denmark Have?”
Together, these works trace a complex trajectory: the artist, born the son of a French colonial army officer in Algeria, reflects on how he evolved from exploring the world as a tourist to becoming an immigrant in Denmark.
The screening explores themes of identity, displacement, and post-colonial memory — while also questioning the nature of film and the role of the film festival itself.
This event is part of the Welcome Film Festival, a new Emergency Art Format created by the artist to foster intimate encounters, artistic freedom, and political reflection through private, home-based screenings.
Film duration: 1h30
Post-film gathering: Yes, screening followed by an open discussion and informal gathering.
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“I am a filmmaker, illustrator, drawer and writer.”
After finishing school, Alice began to draw stories and became autodidact illustrator for several papers and magazines.
In 1998, Alice graduated from the National Filmschool as animation film director, created the Ernst series, directed some live action short films, worked on several film productions and as a teacher and story consultant at the film school.
Alice is at present working on the story development of a hand drawn animation film project and on a personal graphic novel.
Alice has French nationality. She was born in 1967 in French Guyana, and has a Danish mother. ”We Moved from Paris to Copenhagen in 1980, I was 14 years old and did not speak Danish well.”
Contact: champalice@gmail.com
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: OLUFSVEJ 17 - ØsterbroFilm: A short series of 6 animation films 6x7 min. For all ages. Hand drawn animation made with ink, pastels and watercolour
Ernst and his slightly eccentric and absent minded mother have a project which gives Ernst some freedom to explore the world.
Ernst in the swimming pool, Ernst on train journey, Ernst in Tivoli, Ernst and the football, Ernst goes skating, Ernst goes hiking,
Besides, I will have an exhibition of drawings on my walls.
Jella Bethmann is a documentary filmmaker from Germany. She has worked as a director, editor and cinematographer on various tv series and films. ..
Jella moved to Copenhagen in 1988
10/03/2026 16.30
12/03/2026 16:30
Contact: jella@achtungfilm.dk
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Vesterbro - Halmtorvet.
Film: Plaza Romani 90 min.
A group of Roma people have set up camp on a square in front of the church in central Copenhagen. This makes the neighbours feel unsafe, and the police have cleared theplace several times, but the problems remain. Two idealistic artists try to reconcile the insecure neighbors with the poor bottle collectors, but it's easier said than done.
Audience capacity: Max 7 guests
Post-film gathering: Yes
Juan Hein is a visual artist working with photography and film/video through different formats, books, installations, projections, performance of a hand drawn animation film project and on a personal graphic novel.
Argentinian from a Danish father, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, Juan arrived in Denmark in 2006, 20 years this year, and officially regained his citizenship and passport as a Dane in 2020.
Screening:
15/03/2026: 17.00 to 19.00
(RSVP): contact@juanhein.com
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Kastrup, close to Tårnby Station.
Film: ORIENTE, "Oriente" (work-in-progress, 15 minutes).
Film:
Video installation "Water and blood" (22 minutes) +
"Oriente" (work-in-progress, 15 minutes).
ORIENTE is a short film on a little town with homonymous name in the South of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. In Oriente live 2.000 inhabitants and 7 families are descendants of Danish immigrants from the early XX century. Oriente is part of a non-official area in Buenos Aires called by the popular saying as The Danish Triangle, an imaginary zone limited by three cities where most of the descendants from 13.000 immigrant Danes are living today. The film follows some characters and explores the idea of "broken narratives" from literature theory, the system of le collage from visual arts and the concept of "moving image" by Gilles Delleuze.
+ Film:
Video installation "Water and blood" (22 minutes)
Audience capacity: 10 guests. Maximum total time of the event: 2 hours.
French/Danish party maker raised in Paris, moved to Copenhagen in 1998 age 25.
Thomas works with rave culture and street parties. His famous project is called Distortion.
Screening:
05/03/2026: 7 pm
Contact: tdf@nusnus.dk
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Frederiksberg
Film: I show videos & talk about street parties.
I am planning to show 3-4-5 different films and tell stories about them, depicting the story of the evolution of distortion.
Short films made of the street parties. I show films and photos.
Audience capacity: contact artist
Post-film gathering: Yes
“Maia Hauser, Venezuelan Chilean-Danish?”
A multi artist, trained in classical ballet and music since childhood, have done coregraphies, performances. Graduated as a photographer from Imagomundi, Vzla and Fatamorgana, DK.
Came to Denmark as a professional ballet dancer in 2001. Has worked as a DJ and a producer. Has collaborated and worked for artists as Colonel and Helle Fulgsang.
Screening
09/03/2026 : 5.30 pm
Contact: hausermaia@gmail.com
Write directly to Maia to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: 1352 Kbh K
Film: Pixelated Faces- a 25/30 min film by Maia Hauser
In a world where justice is still up for debate, it is the duty of artists to be present not only as witnesses but also as mediators. Pixelated Faces is a personal story about immigrants who strive to be regarded as valuable members of the society they belong to, a struggle for integration, a process of patience.
“I’m a visual artist and the long-time organizer of the 60 Seconds Festival—an urban video festival that brings silent video works into public space.”
Ada is a visual artist born in Barcelona and raised in Valencia, living in Denmark since 1986. She studied Fine Art at San Carlos and UPV in Valencia, Spain, and has worked on group-based film and video projects through FilmPlatform, including short film events and festival screenings in cafés and alternative public spaces. Since 2006, I have been the founder and organizer of the 60 Seconds Urban Film Festival, an urban video festival that brings short silent films into the streets. She is also a contributor to Vi Maler Stort, a large-scale public art project created by children.
Screening:
14/03/2026: 8 pm.
Contact: ada@60sec.org
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Christianshavn
Film: "One week, one year, one hour" - 10 min.
Is a short film but it will be installed artistically at home
The film is about a journey in time and images
The method or game for the film is about instruction without control, structure without authority. “Working like a relaxed brain, external input, .... function, ....score .... and chance.”
Audience capacity: 10 people
Post-film gathering: yes an intro before and short time to talk about the film if people like it (hope for interest about it after)
Abel is a Cuban artist who arrived in Denmark in 1998. “I'm an experienced Art director, designer, and producer who tries to use any available platform to get a message across – graphic and editorial design, web design, video, and copywriting.” Abel also takes the role of production coordinator and communication consultant when required and he is the founder of the music event Nova Concerts Series in Copenhagen.
Screening:
13/03/2026 5 PM
To contact: abel.alazo@gmail.com
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Amager
Film: NEITHER/NOR
Duration: 17 min
“NEITHER/NOR” is an art film production by Abel Alazo and Tijana Miskovic for the Australian artist Danius Kesminas. The film is inspired by EITHER/OR, one of the significant works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In dialog with the artist, we decided to point out elements from Kierkegaard’s existentialist thinking in a visually poetic approach and with Copenhagen as the point of departure. Kierkegaard’s famous reflective walks through the city of Copenhagen were the base for the storyline, colored by his emotional contradictions. Centralized by the protagonist figure played by the artist (Kesminas) recreating Kierkegaard’s character, the storyline takes the viewer on a journey of reflection and dualities. Aesthetically the resulting film was a graphic visual narrative in a noir comic book style.
Audience capacity: TBD
Post-film gathering: Yes
Frank is a visual artist of Dutch and Danish nationality. He was born in the Netherlands in 1963 and he moved to Denmark for the first time in 1983.
“After I left the Art Academy in Holland in the nineties, I had my art practice in Denmark, first at The Factory of Art & Design in Copenhagen and later at my home in Vesterbro”
Screening
07/03/2026 : Between 4:30 PM and 6:30 PM.
Contact: mail@frankfranzen.dk
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Vesterbro. Enghavevej.
Film: There is going to be a screening of the installation of Forvandling, 2026 and Beppie (8 minutes)
“Transformation” is a self-portrait, 2026
It looks deformed and suffocating when water encloses you. Trapped in another reality; to approach the inaccessible, water transforms the performance into a fragile self-image. Close to life and death at the same time.
Beppie is a new film of Frank, created for the festival.
Audience capacity: 20 guests
I was born in Hungary and moved to France as a child. I moved to Copenhagen in 2025 to do my PhD student in sociology and I am a big art enthusiast!
Screening:
08/03/2026 5PM
To contact: szalai.rebeka@gmail.com
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Location: Orestad
Film:
As this is my first film, I am planning to show something about the concept of welcome
Film duration: 15 minutes
Audience capacity: TBD, please contact me
Post-film gathering: Yes, screening followed by an open discussion and informal gathering.
Arturo is an italian filmmaker, moved to Denmark 5 years ago. Born in 1997.
Screening:11/03/2026 17:30 Location: Sundby (next cafe to Ingolfskaffebar.)
Contact: szalai.rebeka@gmail.com for registering to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
Film: Rafah Garden Duration: 20 minutes
Copenhagen, Denmark. University students start a political boycott. Yet before their time, Danish higher education had changed deeply. And even earlier than that, a devastating conflict had broken out in the Middle East. Nowadays, it is its brutal echo that is pushing the students to demand justice.
Valérie Collart (b. 1981) is a French visual artist based in Copenhagen (DK), whose work centers around sculpture and photography. She studied at the École Nationale
Supérieure d’art Villa Arson in Nice, where she obtained a BA in 2004 and MA with honourable mention in 2006.
Her practice moves between photography and sculpture, exploring the dynamic relationship between the two media. I work in the space between the manipulated, artificial and perfected image and the raw, physical and spatial object.
“My work inserts itself into the continuum of historical and classical references drawn from art history, where beauty functions as a force of permanence and invites a deep engagement with our collective visual memory.”
The resulting works are deliberately difficult to place as either contemporary or historical, inserting themselves into a timeless aesthetic. Valérie is a French artist, was born in France in 1981 and move d to Denmark in 2008.
Screening
18/03/2026 From 18h00 to 20h 00
Contact: valeriecollart@gmail.com
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home
Location: Dronningensgade (21 ST TV), Christianshavn, 1420 Copenhagen K
Film
I'll show a video installation composed of 3 different videos that will come one after the other. The sequence will be looped.
Titles of the 3 videos: "Serpent", "Twisted column", "Putty"
The three video works “Serpent”, “Twisted column” and “Putty” belong to a series of four videos called “Tricky objects”. They are collaborative works created together with Sebastian Brink and signed by both of us, using photography (re-contextualised and displaced), and 3D generated images. Through these works, we would like to reflect on the dematerialisation of the physical object and the interplay between the real and the virtual representation of the sculptures.
Audience capacity: 5 people
Post-film gathering: Since it will be a video installation more than a film. The conversations can occur during the screening
Sara Gebran
Date. 25.03.26 kl. 19.00
Adilsvej, Frederiksberg
2 performative films: “The Forests’ Trial” (22 min) & “62-Grieving Poems” (12 min)
“The Forests’ Trial” is a performative film about the environmental destruction of the Venezuelan Amazon by illegal gold mining and it presents The Rights of Nature movement. The film's soundtrack is produced live by a performer moving sound around the audience.
“62-Grieving Poems”, is a live film-making by reciting-moving 62 grieving poems, while film colours are projected on her body.
Sara Gebran is a choreographer, dancer, writer and educator, born in Venezuela. Based in Denmark. @saragebran https://saragebran.com/
Duration of the whole: 35-40 minutes.
Write directly to the artist to ask if places are still available; capacity is limited to ensure a cozy experience for everyone. Please keep in mind that the films are shown in the artist’s home.
