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For the first time ever, the New Nordic Films market in Haugesund, Norway, is rolling out its red carpet to a 30-plus delegation of Baltic industry reps to bolster partnerships between the Nordic and Baltic film industries and find new paths for already escalating collaborations.

“The Baltic Focus [in Haugesund] is not just an ordinary program. It’s a milestone. An affirmation that the creative exchange and artistic alliance between the Baltics and Nordics is evolving into something deeper, more strategic and enduring,” says Edith Sepp, CEO at the Estonian Film Institute (Efi), setting the tone for the joint political and industry efforts, already standing on firm ground.

Historically, due to its stronger audiovisual sector and close proximity to Finland, Estonia has been the closest Nordic production ally among the Baltics. “Finland remains a strong and close partner, with decades of shared production history, but in the last five to seven years,...

Estonian writer-director Martti Helde who made his mark on the global festival stage with his multi-awarded debut “In the Crosswind” and sophomore “Scandinavian Silence” (a Europa Cinema Label winner at Karlovy Vary 2019) is prepping perhaps his most ambitious project to date: the historical drama “Silverwhite” (“Hõbevalge”).

The project, which marks Helde’s third collaboration with producer Elina Litvinova of Tallinn-based Three Brothers, will be pitched at New Nordic Films’ Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, Aug. 20.

Famed for his experimental style combining formalist approaches with traditional narrative, Helde’s new feature will again dwell with the notion of time, although it will be “broader” than his earlier works, he said.

Loosely based on the book “Hõbevalge” from the legendary Estonian writer-director and Estonia’s former President Lennart Meri, the story goes back approximately 7,500 years ago. At the time, traces of the Kaali meteorite that struck the Estonian island of Saarema, left...

Sundance Film Festival has announced the 16 jurors heading into the festival launch on January 23, with Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen,Celine Song, and Daniel Kaluuya among those taking part.

Song, whose Oscar-nominated Past Lives premiered in Park City in 2023, joins Bob Marley: One Love director Reinaldo Marcus Green, and Iranian-born Succession actor Arian Moayed as U.S. Dramatic Competition jurors.

Serving on the corresponding documentary jury are Steven Bognar, director of Sundance 2019 selection American Factory, Higher Ground head of film and TV Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith, who is president of the non-profit Firelight Media that advocates for documentary filmmakers of colour.

Levan Akin’s Crossing and Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo headed the winners at Sweden’s Guldbagge national film awards, presented in Stockholm on Monday, January 13.

Crossing won the best film award, presented to producer Mathilde Dedye – the second time Akin and Dedye have taken the top Guldbagge award, after And Then We Danced in 2020.

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Akin received the best director prize, with the film also winning best cinematography for Lisabi Fridell, and best sound design for Anne Gry Friis Kristensen and Sigrid Dpa Jensen.

Crossing opened the Panorama strand at last...

Argentinian filmmaker Luis Ortega’s Venice title Kill The Jockey, German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan and a series of special spotlight screenings including Stephen Frears’ The Grifters and Damon Gameau’s climate-change documentary 2040 are among the titles that will screen at the 13th edition of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (Emiff).

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina will open the festival on October 30, while Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot, the biopic of the grand dame of champagne, Veuve Clicquot, starring Haley Bennett and Tom Sturridge, will close it on November 5.

Annette Bening will collect the...

Paris- based Urban Sales has hopped aboard Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo, a swimming drama set against the backdrop of the Second World War that is world premiering in Toronto’s Centrepiece section next month.

Set in the summer of 1939, the film is inspired by the true story of Sally Bauer, a Swedish single mother who wants to pursue her dream of becoming the first Scandinavian woman to swim across the English Channel amid pressure from society and her family who threaten to take her son away from her.

Josefin Neldén, whose recent roles include Ali Abbasi’s Border...