An excerpt of the invitation from the program-committee:
... I am very happy to hear that we will be able to include your wonderful film in our line-up for cph:dox 2004. ... We want to include „Carpatia“ in the European side bar called '89 Millimeters'. 89 millimeters is the distance between railway tracks in Polen and in the Belarusse - a symbolic expression for the new border between the enlarged EU and it's new neighbours. The side bar focuses on questions of European identity - of the possibility of Europe as a union and on European inferiority in the new member countries. „Carpatia“ is very important for us in this regard as it poetically and with an amazing beauty shows areas of Europe that most Danes don't even think belong to the EU. ...

Tine Mosegaard, Programmer cph:dox, Copenhagen