Maria Sødahl’s critically acclaimed drama HOPE has been selected for the Panorama Section at Berlin International Film Festival 2020 (February 20th – March 1st), where the film will also have its European premiere. HOPE is produced by Motlys in co-production with Zentropa Sweden and Film i Väst. The film was partially shot in Film i Väst’s [...]
Four of Film i Väst’s co-productions has been selected as their countries Oscar submissions for the 2020 Best International Feature Film. – It is fantastic that films co-produced by Film i Väst are not only hugely successful at the international festivals, but receiving great recognition at home too. We are also very proud of the [...]
Two of Film i Väst’s co-production have been selected to Venice Film Festival. It’s Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Andrei Tarkovsky, A Cinema Prayer in Venice Classics Documentary Films and Dag Johan Haugerud’s Beware of Children in Venice Days section. https://vimeo.com/349424172 Beware of Children When crisis strikes we reveal our true colors. Dag Johan Haugerud’s Beware of Children traces [...]
Five of Film i Väst’s co-productions are selected for Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF. The co-productions are all shot or post produced in west Sweden, in region Västra Götaland. The five co-productions are (links to www.tiff.net and section at the festival): https://youtu.be/HcVTEzTEdPM Swedish director Rojda Sekersöz’ My Life as a Comedian. Shot in Göteborg. Discovery. Novelist Jonas [...]
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg is now shooting his upcoming Druk in Västra Götaland, reuniting with several key collaborators from his acclaimed 2012 drama The Hunt. This is Thomas Vinterberg’s fourth co-production with Film i Väst. He reteams with scriptwriter Tobias Lindholm as well as actors Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Susse Wold. [...]
Six of Film i Väst’s co-productions are selected for the film festival in Karlovy Vary. The co-productions are all post produced in west Sweden, in region Västra Götaland, with the exception of Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-di Koko-da which also was shot here. Horizons: Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die opened the film festival in Cannes. Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day was shown in [...]
At a press lunch in Cannes, Scandinavia's biggest film fund Film i Väst presented several new films, and this year’s Cannes lineup. At the event, CEO Mikael Fellenius presented three new initiatives which will keep Film i Väst at the forefront of film funds. Peter Possne, Head of Productions, presented a selection of the 29 [...]
The Icelandic scriptwriter and director Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day is one of seven feature films that have been selected for competition in the International Critics’ Week, one of the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival. This will be the film’s world premiere. The film is co-produced with Film i Väst, and part [...]
For the first time Film i Väst has two co-productions represented in Official Competiton in the Festival de Cannes: Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s drama The Whistlers and multiple Official Selection director Jim Jarmusch, who will open the festival with The Dead Don’t Die, May 14th. - For Film i Väst it’s the first time we [...]
https://youtu.be/bs5ZOcU6Bnw Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die is to open the Cannes Film Festival, 14th of May. It is produced by Animal Kingdom in cooperation with Film i Väst and Chimney. VFX on the film were made by Haymaker in Göteborg. “Film i Väst congratulates director Jim Jarmusch, whose feature The Dead Don’t Diewill compete for [...]
