A selection of new co-productions was presented at the Film i Väst Press Conference in Cannes with several well-known Swedish and international directors, producers and actors. This year's competing co-productions at the Cannes Film Festival were also presented. - We have a very exciting year ahead, with several major films shooting at Film i [...]
The dramatic story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye held captive by the Islamic State terrorist organisation for over a year is now being turned into a major feature film. Toolbox Film is adapting Puk Damsgård’s highly acclaimed bestseller Ser du månen, Daniel, which is the first feature film to depict a hostage taking by Islamic [...]
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, whose 2008 “Waltz With Bashir” nabbed a foreign-language Oscar nom, is set to write and direct “Horse Boy,” an English-language feature based on Rupert Isaacson’s New York Times bestseller that will topline current Cannes jury member Léa Seydoux and Joel Kinnaman. Film i Väst is co-producing and the film will partially [...]
Hermione Corfield plays the lead role in Neasa Hardimans upcoming thriller Sea Fever, partly shot in Västra Götaland during 2018. The film is produced by Fantastic Films in co-production with Film i Väst and Bright pictures. Hermione Corfield has played in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Mission Impossible – Rougue Nation And Young Inspector Morse. [...]
The case of Thomas Quick is Sweden's biggest legal scandal ever. The upcoming feature Quick is being directed by Mikael Håfström, who is now returning to Sweden to make his first Swedish film since Oscar nominated “Evil”. Quick stars David Dencik, Alba August and Jonas Karlsson and is produced by Helena Danielsson, Brain Academy and [...]
Last year the Swedish director Ruben Östlund's The Square won the Palme d’Or and was nominated for both an Oscar® and Golden Globe. This year another Film i Väst co-production is competing in the Official Selection: The Wild Pear Tree by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won a Palme d’Or 2014). We're proud co-producers of three [...]
The former Palme d’Or-winner, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s feature film The Wild Pear Tree has been selected to the Cannes Film Festival, 8 – 19 May, the Official Selection. The Wild Pear Tree is co-produced by seven countries, and Film i Väst is Swedish co-producer along with Chimney. Parts of the post-production is done in [...]
Film i Väst’s co-production Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built has been added to the Official Selection - Out of Competition. This is the 10th time Lars von Trier is in Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival. In 2000 he won The Palme d'Or for Dancer in the Dark, shot in Trollhättan, Sweden [...]
Film i Väst’s co-production Fugue (Fuga), directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, has been selected to Semaine de la Critique, 9-17 May, in Cannes. Fugue is produced by Agnieszka Kurzydło, MD4, in co-production with among others Jonas Kellagher, Common Ground Pictures, and Film i Väst. Part of the post-production is to be done in Göteborg by Cloudberry [...]
The Cannes Film Festival today announced a selection of this year's films in competition, and one of the feature films is Film i Väst’s co-production Border (Gräns) directed by Ali Abbasi, competing in the section Un Certain Regard. “Film i Väst congratulates director Ali Abbasi, whose feature Border (Gräns) will compete in Un Certain Regard [...]
