‘You know there’s got to be something better,” sang the iconic Marianne Faithfull. Similarly Göteborg market’s head of TV Drama Vision Cia Edström and Josef Kullengård, head of industry and Nordic Film Market, were determined to bring “good energy and hope” to their 2,000-plus guests – and not only as DJs of the closing Nordic Film Market gig.
Below are takeaways from the 2025 Nordic Film Market and TV Drama Vision, that took place under the motto “Collaborate, Create and Captivate.”
Farewell – Until Next Year
A new record attendance was set this year, according to preliminary figures released by Kullengård. A total 2,368 on-site delegates from 54 countries were accredited, including 780 for TV Drama Vision and 586 for the Nordic Film Market.
In terms of projects, Nordic Film Market showcased 68 feature-length projects and TV Drama Vision 61 series at various stages of production.
Edström said she is very happy with the numbers for the...
Below are takeaways from the 2025 Nordic Film Market and TV Drama Vision, that took place under the motto “Collaborate, Create and Captivate.”
Farewell – Until Next Year
A new record attendance was set this year, according to preliminary figures released by Kullengård. A total 2,368 on-site delegates from 54 countries were accredited, including 780 for TV Drama Vision and 586 for the Nordic Film Market.
In terms of projects, Nordic Film Market showcased 68 feature-length projects and TV Drama Vision 61 series at various stages of production.
Edström said she is very happy with the numbers for the...
- 2/1/2025
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Scandinavia’s heavyweight sales outfit TrustNordisk has picked up international rights to the “The Last Resort” by Maria Sødahl. The Norwegian writer-director’s previous drama “Hope,” starring Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig, earned her an Oscar shortlist berth in 2021.
In her first Danish pic, co-penned with Eske Troelstrup (“Shadow of Victory”) and Therese Hasman, top actors Danica Curcic” and Esben Smed” star as a couple, holidaying in an exclusive resort on a Spanish Island with their daughters. When a stranger suddenly approaches them and asks for help, they agree to assist him, but as he asks for more, they start fearing for their own safety.
“My previous films are shamelessly autobiographical,” Sødahl said. “The Last Resort” opens for a larger story with a more complex universe. A story where our Scandinavian protagonists start out as diplomatic humanists, until xenophobia leads them to act in full paranoia, primal and violence.
In her first Danish pic, co-penned with Eske Troelstrup (“Shadow of Victory”) and Therese Hasman, top actors Danica Curcic” and Esben Smed” star as a couple, holidaying in an exclusive resort on a Spanish Island with their daughters. When a stranger suddenly approaches them and asks for help, they agree to assist him, but as he asks for more, they start fearing for their own safety.
“My previous films are shamelessly autobiographical,” Sødahl said. “The Last Resort” opens for a larger story with a more complex universe. A story where our Scandinavian protagonists start out as diplomatic humanists, until xenophobia leads them to act in full paranoia, primal and violence.
- 1/23/2025
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
New projects from Lone Scherfig and Hlynur Palmason are among the 55 projects selected for Goteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market (January 29-31).
Scherfig will present Honeytrap in the Discovery - Films In Development strand. The film is produced by Rebecka Hamberger for Sweden’s Art & Bob, with few details currently available on the project. Scherfig’s last feature was 2023’s The Movie Teller, with 2019 Berlinale opener The Kindness Of Strangers prior to that.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Icelandic director Palmason will present The Love That Remains in the Works in Progress strand. The film is...
Scherfig will present Honeytrap in the Discovery - Films In Development strand. The film is produced by Rebecka Hamberger for Sweden’s Art & Bob, with few details currently available on the project. Scherfig’s last feature was 2023’s The Movie Teller, with 2019 Berlinale opener The Kindness Of Strangers prior to that.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
Icelandic director Palmason will present The Love That Remains in the Works in Progress strand. The film is...
- 1/13/2025
- ScreenDaily
Göteborg’s prime Nordic Film Market where last year’s Cannes sensations “The Girl with the Needle,” “Armand” and “When the Light Breaks” were first showcased as works in progress, has announced exclusively to Variety its full 2025 program.
Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates from 38 countries.
As always, several acclaimed-directors will share the spotlight with promising newcomers, as reflected in the centre-piece 15-title Works in Progress lineup.
Five years after his Cannes selection with “Godland,” Iceland’s festival darling Hlynur Pálmason makes a comeback with “The Love that Remains,” a vignette-driven family drama toplining Sverrir Guðnason and Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Balls”).
A Cannes Directors’ Fortnight habitué, Afghan-born Shahrbanoo Sadat (“The Orphanage”) will bring “No Good Men,” her first romcom, set inside a Kabul newsroom in 2021 pre-Taliban ruled-Afghanistan.
Sweden’s Lisa Langseth (“Pure”) returns to feature length after her...
Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates from 38 countries.
As always, several acclaimed-directors will share the spotlight with promising newcomers, as reflected in the centre-piece 15-title Works in Progress lineup.
Five years after his Cannes selection with “Godland,” Iceland’s festival darling Hlynur Pálmason makes a comeback with “The Love that Remains,” a vignette-driven family drama toplining Sverrir Guðnason and Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Balls”).
A Cannes Directors’ Fortnight habitué, Afghan-born Shahrbanoo Sadat (“The Orphanage”) will bring “No Good Men,” her first romcom, set inside a Kabul newsroom in 2021 pre-Taliban ruled-Afghanistan.
Sweden’s Lisa Langseth (“Pure”) returns to feature length after her...
- 1/13/2025
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk has just picked up international rights to the Danish drama “Home” by actor-turned director Marijana Jankovic (“The House that Jack Built”).
For her debut feature after 2019’s multi-awarded short film “Maja,” a best short winner at Tribeca, Jankovic has assembled an impressive A-list international cast.
This includes Dejan Cukic (“Snabba Cash”), Nada Sargin (“The Mould”), Zlatko Buric (“Triangle of Sadness”), Claes Bang (“The Square”), Jesper Christensen, Trine Dyrholm (“The Girl With the Needle”) and Lene Maria Christensen (“Unruly”).
Based on a script co-penned by Jankovic with the seasoned Bo Hr. Hansen, behind Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming series “Families like Ours,” a hit at MipTV, and Babak Vakili (“Outlaw”), the story is inspired by the director’s own experience, and feelings of and reflections on uprootedness.
Aged six, she moved from Montenegro to Denmark with her parents, but feeling homesick, she returned to her grandmother’s care. A year later,...
For her debut feature after 2019’s multi-awarded short film “Maja,” a best short winner at Tribeca, Jankovic has assembled an impressive A-list international cast.
This includes Dejan Cukic (“Snabba Cash”), Nada Sargin (“The Mould”), Zlatko Buric (“Triangle of Sadness”), Claes Bang (“The Square”), Jesper Christensen, Trine Dyrholm (“The Girl With the Needle”) and Lene Maria Christensen (“Unruly”).
Based on a script co-penned by Jankovic with the seasoned Bo Hr. Hansen, behind Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming series “Families like Ours,” a hit at MipTV, and Babak Vakili (“Outlaw”), the story is inspired by the director’s own experience, and feelings of and reflections on uprootedness.
Aged six, she moved from Montenegro to Denmark with her parents, but feeling homesick, she returned to her grandmother’s care. A year later,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The program announcements continue for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, with the Series and Generation strands both unveiling today, as well as the line-up for the Co-Production Market. Scroll down for the lists of titles.
The Berlinale Series selection, which is increasingly becoming a more high-profile part of the festival, again boasts several buzzy titles.
Premiering in Berlin will be Amazon Prime Video’s Argentinian series Yosi, The Regretful Spy, the Swedish show Lust from HBO Max, Sky’s UK series The Rising, and Lone Scherfig Danish show The Shift, which comes from local broadcaster TV2.
The Generation strand, which features youth-focused cinema, includes 14 features this year. The selection marks the last of long-time Generation head Maryanne Redpath.
Elsewhere, the European Film Market has confirmed titles for its Co-Production Market, which like the rest of the industry activity will take place virtually this year.
The Berlinale runs February 10-20 this year,...
The Berlinale Series selection, which is increasingly becoming a more high-profile part of the festival, again boasts several buzzy titles.
Premiering in Berlin will be Amazon Prime Video’s Argentinian series Yosi, The Regretful Spy, the Swedish show Lust from HBO Max, Sky’s UK series The Rising, and Lone Scherfig Danish show The Shift, which comes from local broadcaster TV2.
The Generation strand, which features youth-focused cinema, includes 14 features this year. The selection marks the last of long-time Generation head Maryanne Redpath.
Elsewhere, the European Film Market has confirmed titles for its Co-Production Market, which like the rest of the industry activity will take place virtually this year.
The Berlinale runs February 10-20 this year,...
- 1/14/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Sundance programmer Hussain Currimbhoy was the guest programmer.
Two world premieres are among the line-up for the Nordic documentary competition of the 30th anniversary edition of the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, which runs September 19-24 in Malmo, Sweden.
The first is Boris Benjamin Bertram’s Photographer Of War (Denmark) about famed Danish war photographer Jan Grarup who has to learn to take care of his three children when his ex-wife becomes ill. LevelK handles sales.
The other is Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir’s The Vasulka Effect (Iceland), about two pioneers of video art who see a renewed interest from the art world when they are retired.
Two world premieres are among the line-up for the Nordic documentary competition of the 30th anniversary edition of the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, which runs September 19-24 in Malmo, Sweden.
The first is Boris Benjamin Bertram’s Photographer Of War (Denmark) about famed Danish war photographer Jan Grarup who has to learn to take care of his three children when his ex-wife becomes ill. LevelK handles sales.
The other is Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir’s The Vasulka Effect (Iceland), about two pioneers of video art who see a renewed interest from the art world when they are retired.
- 8/8/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Last night in New York at the 18th Tribeca Film Festival, the winners were announced in the competition categories. The top honours went to Burning Cane which took the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) which won Best International Narrative Feature and Scheme Birds which was named Best Documentary Feature. Here’s a full list of Tribeca 2019 competition winners:
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories
Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Burning Cane, directed by Phillip Youmans. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal on behalf of the jury.
Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Haley Bennett in Swallow.
Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Wendell Pierce in Burning Cane.
Best International Narrative Feature – House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) directed and written by Bora Kim.
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane.
U.S. Narrative Competition Categories
Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature – Burning Cane, directed by Phillip Youmans. The award was given by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal on behalf of the jury.
Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Haley Bennett in Swallow.
Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Wendell Pierce in Burning Cane.
Best International Narrative Feature – House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae) directed and written by Bora Kim.
Best Cinematography in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film – Phillip Youmans for Burning Cane.
- 5/3/2019
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Women claim four short film prizes.
Nineteen-year old Phillip Youmans became the first African American to win The Founders Award for best Us narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival when Burning Cane received the top honour on Thursday (2).
Youmans, 19, already the youngest filmmaker to have a feature in the festival (he was 17 when he directed the story of a troubled preacher starring best actor award-winner Wendell Pierce), receives $20,000 sponsored by At&T.
The jury of Lucy Alibar, Jonathan Ames, Cory Hardrict, Dana Harris, and Jenny Lumet said of Burning Cane: “The Founders Award goes to a voice that is searingly original.
Nineteen-year old Phillip Youmans became the first African American to win The Founders Award for best Us narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival when Burning Cane received the top honour on Thursday (2).
Youmans, 19, already the youngest filmmaker to have a feature in the festival (he was 17 when he directed the story of a troubled preacher starring best actor award-winner Wendell Pierce), receives $20,000 sponsored by At&T.
The jury of Lucy Alibar, Jonathan Ames, Cory Hardrict, Dana Harris, and Jenny Lumet said of Burning Cane: “The Founders Award goes to a voice that is searingly original.
- 5/2/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Burning Cane, the drama whose writer-director Phillip Youmans is the youngest-ever helmer to have a feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the fest’s marquee Founders Award on Thursday. Tribeca bestowed all three of its top juried feature awards on first-time directors, but none more first-time than Youmans, who made the movie when he was 17. He also becomes the first African American director to win the award.
The film’s Wendell Pierce won the Best Actor award in the fest’s U.S. Narrative Competition section. He plays a preacher dealing with his wife’s recent death in Burning Cane, a portrait of Southeastern Louisiana. Youmans also won a cinematography honor.
Haley Bennett won the Best Actress award for Swallow, a psychological thriller about a newly pregnant woman who develops the compulsion to consume dangerous objects.
In the documentary competition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin’s Scheme Birds won the Best Feature prize,...
The film’s Wendell Pierce won the Best Actor award in the fest’s U.S. Narrative Competition section. He plays a preacher dealing with his wife’s recent death in Burning Cane, a portrait of Southeastern Louisiana. Youmans also won a cinematography honor.
Haley Bennett won the Best Actress award for Swallow, a psychological thriller about a newly pregnant woman who develops the compulsion to consume dangerous objects.
In the documentary competition, Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin’s Scheme Birds won the Best Feature prize,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
“Burning Cane” has won the Founders Award for best U.S. narrative feature and star Wendell Pierce has been awarded the top actor in the category for the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Haley Bennett won the festival’s award for best actress in a narrative feature for her performance in “Swallow.” “House of Hummingbird” (Beol-sae) took the prize for best international narrative feature, and “Scheme Birds” won for top documentary feature.
The awards were announced Thursday. Rania Attieh won the Nora Ephron Award and a $25,000 prize for Initials S.G. (“Iniciales S.G.”). The award honors excellence in storytelling by a female writer or director embodying the spirit and boldness of the late filmmaker. Tribeca’s Storyscapes Award went to “The Key,” created by Celine Tricart.
“Burning Cane,” set in the Louisiana swamplands, is directed by Phillip Youmans, who wrote, directed and shot the film at the age of 17. He...
Haley Bennett won the festival’s award for best actress in a narrative feature for her performance in “Swallow.” “House of Hummingbird” (Beol-sae) took the prize for best international narrative feature, and “Scheme Birds” won for top documentary feature.
The awards were announced Thursday. Rania Attieh won the Nora Ephron Award and a $25,000 prize for Initials S.G. (“Iniciales S.G.”). The award honors excellence in storytelling by a female writer or director embodying the spirit and boldness of the late filmmaker. Tribeca’s Storyscapes Award went to “The Key,” created by Celine Tricart.
“Burning Cane,” set in the Louisiana swamplands, is directed by Phillip Youmans, who wrote, directed and shot the film at the age of 17. He...
- 5/2/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The film follows two antagonistic brothers smuggling drugs via a young Polish girl.
Screen can unveil an exclusive first trailer for Vultures, an Icelandic thriller written and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson (Trapped) and produced by Everest director Baltasar Kormákur and Agnes Johansen.
Starring Gisli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Baltasar Breki Samper (Trapped), Danish actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything Will Be Fine) and rising Polish actress Anna Próchniak (The Innocents), the film concerns two antagonistic brothers who attempt to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule.
The film will have its market premiere in Cannes,...
Screen can unveil an exclusive first trailer for Vultures, an Icelandic thriller written and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson (Trapped) and produced by Everest director Baltasar Kormákur and Agnes Johansen.
Starring Gisli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Baltasar Breki Samper (Trapped), Danish actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything Will Be Fine) and rising Polish actress Anna Próchniak (The Innocents), the film concerns two antagonistic brothers who attempt to smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule.
The film will have its market premiere in Cannes,...
- 5/1/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and Norway: Scandinavia has always made a good show of films in all festivals, but this is the first time in 17 years a Swedish film has been in Competition.
“The Square” is the first Swedish film in Competition in 17 years! Winner of the Palme D’or and the Vulcain Prize for an artist technician awarded by the C.S.T. Director Ruben Östlund attracted producers from Sweden, Germany, France and Denmark to tell this tale of the successful curator of a modern art museum who lives in the epicenter of the art community and takes his work very seriously. A few days before the opening of the prestigious exhibition The Square he is mugged, which he can neither shake off or let pass unnoticed. He embarks on a hunt for the perpetrator and ends up in situations that turn steadily more amusing, and make him question his own moral compass.
“The Square” is the first Swedish film in Competition in 17 years! Winner of the Palme D’or and the Vulcain Prize for an artist technician awarded by the C.S.T. Director Ruben Östlund attracted producers from Sweden, Germany, France and Denmark to tell this tale of the successful curator of a modern art museum who lives in the epicenter of the art community and takes his work very seriously. A few days before the opening of the prestigious exhibition The Square he is mugged, which he can neither shake off or let pass unnoticed. He embarks on a hunt for the perpetrator and ends up in situations that turn steadily more amusing, and make him question his own moral compass.
- 6/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: The film stars Anna Próchniak and Gisli Örn Garðarsson.
Screen can reveal the first still for Mules, the Nordic thriller written and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson (Trapped TV series) and produced by Baltasar Kormakur (Everest).
Mules follows two antagonistic brothers whose lives spiral out of control after they smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule.
The still features rising Polish actress Anna Próchniak (The Innocents) who plays the drugs mule. The film also stars Gisli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Baltasar Breki Samper (Trapped), and Danish actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything Will be Fine, Norskov TV series).
Mules is produced by Kormákur and Agnes Johansen (Trapped) and includes crew such as Editor Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir (John Wick) and Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson (Of Horses And Men).
The film, which finished shooting in April is currently in post-production. WestEnd will continue handling world sales in Cannes where they will be showing buyers a first promo of...
Screen can reveal the first still for Mules, the Nordic thriller written and directed by Börkur Sigthorsson (Trapped TV series) and produced by Baltasar Kormakur (Everest).
Mules follows two antagonistic brothers whose lives spiral out of control after they smuggle drugs into their native Iceland using a young Polish girl as their mule.
The still features rising Polish actress Anna Próchniak (The Innocents) who plays the drugs mule. The film also stars Gisli Örn Garðarsson (The Oath), Baltasar Breki Samper (Trapped), and Danish actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything Will be Fine, Norskov TV series).
Mules is produced by Kormákur and Agnes Johansen (Trapped) and includes crew such as Editor Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir (John Wick) and Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson (Of Horses And Men).
The film, which finished shooting in April is currently in post-production. WestEnd will continue handling world sales in Cannes where they will be showing buyers a first promo of...
- 5/21/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Icelandic director makes his feature debut for Rvk Studios; he will direct four episodes of next series of hit TV show Trapped.
Börkur Sigthorsson started the 30-day shoot for his debut feature film Mules on February 24 in and around Reykjavik and at Keflavik airport in Iceland.
Rvk Studios’ Agnes Johansen and Baltasar Kormakur are producing, with the Icelandic Film Center and broadcaster Ruv also on board. WestEnd Films handles sales.
The story is about two Icelandic brothers who hatch a drug-smuggling plan.
Johansen said: “They come from a difficult background but take very different paths with their lives. The older brother is a high-flying corporate lawyer, living an unsustainable life embezzling his clients.
“He has to pay back money so he recruits the help of his brother, who has been in and out of prison, to help him import drugs to Iceland.
“They hire an Eastern European woman to be the drug mule… There are serious...
Börkur Sigthorsson started the 30-day shoot for his debut feature film Mules on February 24 in and around Reykjavik and at Keflavik airport in Iceland.
Rvk Studios’ Agnes Johansen and Baltasar Kormakur are producing, with the Icelandic Film Center and broadcaster Ruv also on board. WestEnd Films handles sales.
The story is about two Icelandic brothers who hatch a drug-smuggling plan.
Johansen said: “They come from a difficult background but take very different paths with their lives. The older brother is a high-flying corporate lawyer, living an unsustainable life embezzling his clients.
“He has to pay back money so he recruits the help of his brother, who has been in and out of prison, to help him import drugs to Iceland.
“They hire an Eastern European woman to be the drug mule… There are serious...
- 3/3/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Last year's live action short films were a bit better than this year's crop and none of this year's films can live up to writer/director Anders Walter's Helium, which ended up winning the live action Oscar last year and Shorts HD is now presenting it for free to watch directly below. The film, for me, was essentially like watching a live action Hayao Miyazaki feature. It's extraordinarily touching and almost magical as it centers on a dying young boy (Pelle Falk Krusb?k) who finds comfort in through the stories about the titular fantasy world as told told by the hospital's janitor Enzo (Casper Crump). Like pretty much everything the Oscar shorts have to offer, this one is a bit sad, but its sadness of overwhelmed by greatness. Marijana Jankovic also stars. Watch the short below and for my thoughts on all of this year's short film contenders...
- 2/18/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Fantasia 2012 has come to an end, which means it's time for the announcement of this year's jury winners. As usual, they're an eclectic bunch, and hopefully we'll get to see them and all the other great films that screened during the fest here in the States sooner rather than later.
Feature Film Jury - President: Gabriel Pelletier, with Jay Baruchel, Sylvain Krief and Maggie Lee
Cheval Noir Award for Best Film: Doomsday Book by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung
The film impressed the jury by the intelligence and originality it displayed in its efforts to imagine the near future and its impending doom through a collection of short films, all the while displaying mastery in every artistic aspects of the production.
Best Director: Jason Banker, Toad Road
Best Screenplay: Alberto Marini, Sleep Tight
Best Actor: James Davidson, Toad Road
Best Actress: Marijana Jankovic, Beast
Special Mention: AnnaLynne McCord, Excision
With her fearless performance in Excision,...
Feature Film Jury - President: Gabriel Pelletier, with Jay Baruchel, Sylvain Krief and Maggie Lee
Cheval Noir Award for Best Film: Doomsday Book by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung
The film impressed the jury by the intelligence and originality it displayed in its efforts to imagine the near future and its impending doom through a collection of short films, all the while displaying mastery in every artistic aspects of the production.
Best Director: Jason Banker, Toad Road
Best Screenplay: Alberto Marini, Sleep Tight
Best Actor: James Davidson, Toad Road
Best Actress: Marijana Jankovic, Beast
Special Mention: AnnaLynne McCord, Excision
With her fearless performance in Excision,...
- 8/9/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Beast
Directed by Christoffer Boe
Written by Christoffer Boe
Denmark, 2011
Everybody enjoys a well told love story. The sub genre, less prominent perhaps, is the doomed love story, the ones in which the two protagonists do not get exactly what they want by the film’s end. It can be played in such a way that grips the audience, sending them on an emotionally charged ride along with the characters. A second variation of the sub genre pushes the limits of what makes a love story even further, David Cronenberg’s The Fly being a prime example. The emotional tugs are there, even though the movie is more hard core than one’s typical romance tale. Then there are projects the likes of Christoffer Boe’s Beast, movies that purport to be about the emotional side of the breakdown, with that aspect serving as mere salad dressing for the far more experimental intentions lurking underneath.
Directed by Christoffer Boe
Written by Christoffer Boe
Denmark, 2011
Everybody enjoys a well told love story. The sub genre, less prominent perhaps, is the doomed love story, the ones in which the two protagonists do not get exactly what they want by the film’s end. It can be played in such a way that grips the audience, sending them on an emotionally charged ride along with the characters. A second variation of the sub genre pushes the limits of what makes a love story even further, David Cronenberg’s The Fly being a prime example. The emotional tugs are there, even though the movie is more hard core than one’s typical romance tale. Then there are projects the likes of Christoffer Boe’s Beast, movies that purport to be about the emotional side of the breakdown, with that aspect serving as mere salad dressing for the far more experimental intentions lurking underneath.
- 8/2/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Danish film Beast screens this Sunday, July 29th, at the Fantasia International Film Festival, but Trembles has already had a chance to watch it and reviews the film as only he can. Check out his Motion Picture Purgatory review exclusive to Dread Central right here!
Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas star in director Christoffer Boe's Beast. If you're in Montreal, you can catch the screening at 8:00 Pm in the J.A. De Seve Theatre with opening film Punched, a short film from Austria directed by Michael Rittmannsberger.
Beast Synopsis
Bruno loves his wife, Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression, and hatred, there is no turning back.
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Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas star in director Christoffer Boe's Beast. If you're in Montreal, you can catch the screening at 8:00 Pm in the J.A. De Seve Theatre with opening film Punched, a short film from Austria directed by Michael Rittmannsberger.
Beast Synopsis
Bruno loves his wife, Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression, and hatred, there is no turning back.
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- 7/25/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
While we are all celebrating Independence Day here in the States, our friends up North are still pumping out news and images from the upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival. On tap for you now is a look at director Christoffer Boe's Beast.
Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas star.
Synopsis
Bruno loves his wife, Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression and hatred, there is no turning back.
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Unleash your beast in the comments section below.
Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas star.
Synopsis
Bruno loves his wife, Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression and hatred, there is no turning back.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Unleash your beast in the comments section below.
- 7/4/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
It’s that time again. The Fantasia Film Festival is once again imminent, ready to take over Montreal for three weeks with a barrage of genre films and oddball features from all over the world. Running from July 19th to August 7th, this year’s iteration promises to be another insane smorgasbord of the world’s wildest movies. Besides the initial list of films that have been confirmed below, expect another 10,000 or so when the full lineup is revealed.
We can also expect appearances from Tony Todd and Mark Hamill, promoting their new movie Sushi Girl, directed by Ken Saxton, as well as a spotlight on Jennifer Lynch (!), which will include her new feature Chained and the Hissss making-of documentary Despite the Gods. The Documentaries from the Edge section is getting a boost this year as well, though only two titles ( My Amityville Horror and We are Legion: The Story...
We can also expect appearances from Tony Todd and Mark Hamill, promoting their new movie Sushi Girl, directed by Ken Saxton, as well as a spotlight on Jennifer Lynch (!), which will include her new feature Chained and the Hissss making-of documentary Despite the Gods. The Documentaries from the Edge section is getting a boost this year as well, though only two titles ( My Amityville Horror and We are Legion: The Story...
- 6/18/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is gearing up to take Montreal by storm with three weeks of inspiration and thrills starting July 19 and running all the way through August 7. Read on for the latest!
The full 2012 lineup of programming and special events will be revealed next month, and we've got all the preliminary details for you below!
Fantasia Proudly Presents The World Premiere Launch Of A Unique, All-star Travelling Art Show
If They Came From Within: An Alternative History of Canadian Horror Movies
Cinematheque Quebecoise, July 20– July 29
Opening gala July 20, 5Pm
Imagine an alternative universe of Canadian horror movies that didn’t get made, couldn’t get made and maybe even shouldn’t get made… but we’d still love to see.
Rue Morgue magazine Editor-in-Chief Dave Alexander brings together some of Canada and Quebec’s most celebrated genre filmmakers with some of the country’s best...
The full 2012 lineup of programming and special events will be revealed next month, and we've got all the preliminary details for you below!
Fantasia Proudly Presents The World Premiere Launch Of A Unique, All-star Travelling Art Show
If They Came From Within: An Alternative History of Canadian Horror Movies
Cinematheque Quebecoise, July 20– July 29
Opening gala July 20, 5Pm
Imagine an alternative universe of Canadian horror movies that didn’t get made, couldn’t get made and maybe even shouldn’t get made… but we’d still love to see.
Rue Morgue magazine Editor-in-Chief Dave Alexander brings together some of Canada and Quebec’s most celebrated genre filmmakers with some of the country’s best...
- 6/18/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Beast - Directed by Christoffer Boe - Denmark It’s always interesting to see a director work with the same themes in a new way. In this case, Beast is another horrific, microscopic examination of obsessive love in the midst of a crumbling relationship, much like Christoffer Boe’s earlier film Offscreen. But, whereas Offscreen was unflinching and straight-forward, Beast is a much more ambiguous, abstract affair. Boe once again relies on Nicolas Bro to play the obsessive lover (Bruno), pairing him against Marijana Jankovic as his wife Maxine. We catch them at a crucial time in the dissolution of their relationship, with Maxine still allowing Bruno’s increasingly violent sexual advances despite being vocal about their being no chance of reconciliation...
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- 3/16/2012
- by John Gholson
- Movies.com
"Beast" is a lean, surreal portrait of a marriage in its extremes from Danish director Christoffer Boe, who's probably still best known for his 2003 feature debut "Reconstruction." The film's focus keeps almost exclusively to Bruno (Nicolas Bro) and Maxine (Marijana Jankovic), a couple whose relationship vacillates between love and hate and a meeting place between the two that approaches the feral. When we first see them, the pair are looking at a beautiful apartment they're considering buying. "Let's take this home and be a family," Bruno proposes. The hope and sweetness of the moment then goes slightly dissonant with unease when Maxine cuts her finger and Bruno sucks at the cut and talks, with all romanticism, about having a part of her inside him.
The next time we see the pair, an unclear amount of time has passed and their marriage is on the rocks. They walk in the snow -- always the snow,...
The next time we see the pair, an unclear amount of time has passed and their marriage is on the rocks. They walk in the snow -- always the snow,...
- 3/12/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- The Playlist
Sound On Sight will once again be covering the SXSW Film Festival this year, making it our second time attending. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas fest taking place March 9-17, including 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. As previously announced, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods will have the honours of opening the festival, and now they have released the full list of films – and it’s looking pretty amazing. Enjoy!
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths,...
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths,...
- 2/3/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The 2012 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival runs March 9–17 in Austin, Texas, and now the full film program lineup has been announced. From a first glance at the list, it's pretty light on horror, but there are a few standouts.
In addition to the world premiere of Lionsgate’s The Cabin in the Woods as the Opening Night Film, which we already knew, here are the horror (and a few horror-ish or just very interesting sounding) highlights:
Killer Joe - Us Premiere
Director: William Friedkin | Screenwriter: Tracy Letts
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church
A garish, Southwestern tale - a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help of his family (Haden Church, Gershon). They hire a crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer (McConaughey) to do the job, but Killer Joe...
In addition to the world premiere of Lionsgate’s The Cabin in the Woods as the Opening Night Film, which we already knew, here are the horror (and a few horror-ish or just very interesting sounding) highlights:
Killer Joe - Us Premiere
Director: William Friedkin | Screenwriter: Tracy Letts
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church
A garish, Southwestern tale - a violent black comedy about a desperate Texas debtor (Hirsch) who plots to kill his mother with help of his family (Haden Church, Gershon). They hire a crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer (McConaughey) to do the job, but Killer Joe...
- 2/2/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year's Festival, March 9 - 17, 2012 in Austin, Texas. We are also pleased to reveal the world premiere of Emmett Malloy's documentary Big Easy Express as our Closing Night Film, which follows a train ride unlike any other with Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show. Big Easy Express will screen on Saturday, March 17. The program will also include the world premiere of Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' 21 Jump Street, screening in the Centerpiece slot on Monday, March 12. The 2012 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of celebrating ambitious experimentation with risk takers both in front of and behind the camera, and a deep immersion into cultural touchstones. The Midnighters feature section and the Short Film program will be announced on February 8.
"SXSW has long been a haven for bold...
"SXSW has long been a haven for bold...
- 2/2/2012
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry, shot by Bob Gruen in 1977
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
screens as part of 24 Beats per Second
SXSW Film has just announced its features lineup for the 2012 edition, running March 9 through 17. We already knew that the Opening Night Film would be Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. For its Closing Night Film, the festival will host the world premiere of of Emmett Malloy’s documentary Big Easy Express (more below). The lineup, with descriptions from the festival:
Narrative Feature Competition
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin. When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail. (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim.
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
screens as part of 24 Beats per Second
SXSW Film has just announced its features lineup for the 2012 edition, running March 9 through 17. We already knew that the Opening Night Film would be Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. For its Closing Night Film, the festival will host the world premiere of of Emmett Malloy’s documentary Big Easy Express (more below). The lineup, with descriptions from the festival:
Narrative Feature Competition
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin. When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Cast: Nico Stone, Adam DuPaul, Seymour Cassel, Kristin Dougherty, Brian McGrail. (World Premiere)
Eden
Director: Megan Griffiths, Screenwriters: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths, Story by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim.
- 2/1/2012
- MUBI
With Sundance 2012 Film Festival over, the next big one on the horizon is South by Southwest, which we’ll be heavily covering. The biggest chunk of the line-up has been announced today, which has some great premieres including 21 Jump Street, Tiff and Sundance hit The Raid, Will Ferrell‘s Casa de mi Padre, the documentary Girl Model (which we liked at Tiff), as well as the next from Broken Lizard, The Babymakers. There are many other promising titles included and you can see them all below. Check back for our coverage for the fest, kicking off March 9th.
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
Narrative Feature Competition
This year’s 8 films were selected from 1,112 submissions. Each film is a World Premiere. Films screening in Narrative Feature Competition are:
Booster
Director/Screenwriter: Matt Ruskin
When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted.
- 2/1/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Attendees of South by Southwest 2012 are in for a treat. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas festival taking place March 9-17. Among them are 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. The organization already announced [1] Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods would open the festival (the movie is phenomenal [2]) and today the majority of the remaining line up has been revealed. One of the highlights is the unbelievably smart and hilarious 21 Jump Street, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Both of those are World Premieres. Other highlights include The Hunter, Killer Joe, The Babymakers, frankie goes boom, God Bless America, The Imposter, The Raid, Bernie and Casa de mi Padre just to name a few. After the jump, read descriptions of all the films that have been announced so far. Before I copy and paste the rest of the list, a few minor notes.
- 2/1/2012
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
[Updated with English subtitled trailer]It was nearly a year ago that Twitch presented the first images from Beast, the latest feature from Denmark's Christoffer Boe. At the time the film had just finished shooting and audiences hoping for the same fusion of character drama and a descent into madness that drove Offscreen - the previous picture that paired Boe with star Nicolas Bro - were promised exactly that with the still of Marijana Jankovic licking blood from Bro's face shown in the gallery below.Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of...
- 10/12/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm in Susanne Bier's In a Better World Best Danish Film In a Better World (Susanne Bier) Clown (Mikkel Nørgaard) R (Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm) Truth About Men (Nikolaj Arcel) Submarino (Thomas Vinterberg) Best Actress Julie Brochorst Andersen (Hold Me Tight) Trine Dyrholm (In a Better World) Ellen Hillingsø (Eksperimentet) Bodil Jørgensen (Nothing's All Bad) Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt (Nothing's All Bad) Best Actor Pilou Asbæk (R ) Jakob Cedergren (Submarino) David Dencik (Brotherhood) Mikael Persbrandt (In a Better World) Peter Plauborg (Submarino) Best Supporting Actress Marijana Jankovic (Everything Will be Fine) Laura Skaarup Jensen (Eksperimentet) Rosalinde Mynster (Truth About Men) Patricia Schumann (Submarino) Paprika Steen (Everything Will be Fine) Best Supporting Actor Kim Bodnia (In a Better World) Morten Holst (Brotherhood) Gustav Fischer Kjærulff (Submarino) Roland Møller (R ) Kurt Ravn (Nothing's All Bad) Best American Film A Single Man (Tom Ford) Inception (Christopher Nolan) Somewhere (Sofia Coppola...
- 1/21/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
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