Jørgen Leth

Jørgen Leth (b. 1937, Aarhus, Denmark) is a journalist, poet, movie director, and television commentator. He studied literature and anthropology in Aarhus and Copenhagen. As a journalist he wrote film, music, and theater criticism, and he also worked in the diplomatic service in Haiti (1999-2005). He has made forty-five films, many distributed worldwide. He published his first book in 1962 and shot his first film a year later. He is one of the founding members of the avant-garde Danish film group Abcinema. Leth has written ten collections of poetry as well as nonfiction. Over the course of his life he has received numerous awards for literature, film, and journalism, and in 2009 he took the World Cinema Contribution Award from the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. In 2008 Leth was Chairman of the Documentary Film Jury at the 43rd KVIFF.

46. IFF Karlovy Vary