Norwegian director and screentwriter Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand and The Girl With the Needle by Swedish/Polish director and screenwiter Magnus von Horn together with screenwriter Line Langebek are nominated for three European Film Awards each. The EFA gala will be held in Luzern, Switzerland on December 7. Both films are coproduced by Film i Väst. [...]
Denmark, Norway, Finland and Belgium have submitted Film i Väst’s co-productions in the International Feature Film category for the upcoming Academy Awards. The contenders are Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand, Tia Kouvo’s Family Time and Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet. Magnus von Horn, The Girl with the Needle [...]
FOCAL Medici and Filling the Gap are two examples of European forums for decision-makers of film funding organisations at national or international level respectively producers. Both are during the autumn arranging meetings hosted by Film i Väst in Göteborg. FOCAL Medici From 9 to 12 October 2024 Film i Väst is hosting FOCAL Medici, a [...]
Five Film i Väst co-productions have been selected for the BFI Lonton Film Festival: Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours, Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Keeps Quiet, Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight and Göran Hugo Olsson’s Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989. The Apprentice Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice was selected for the Official Competition at the [...]
In August Norwegian director Joachim Trier began filming his hotly anticipated sixth feature film, Sentimental Value in Oslo and Strömstad in Sweden. Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen is together with a star-studded cast – Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolalj Lie Kaas and Sofie Gråbøl – preparing the filming of his upcoming dark comedy Back to Reality outside [...]
Why are they doing like this? Why will they do like this 2030? – A reflection about the future purpose for film and audiovisual policies. Will a multifaceted Europe converge or diverge? What do the different purposes and logics mean for producers and co-productions in the future? Here you can watch the seminar. https://youtu.be/xCjzDlWrCqI?si=GgrRQlBq_MJZ-Mh7 [...]
World premieres for Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo, Frederik Louis Hviid’s The Quiet Ones and Malin Ingrid Johansson’s Deck 5B. North American premieres for Erik Poppe’s Quisling – the Final Days, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families like Ours, Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle, Leonardo van Dijl’s Julia Keeps Quiet and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s O. That’s [...]
World premiere for Thomas Vinterberg’s drama series Families Like Ours and Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, both selected Out of Competition. In Orizzonti you find the international co-productions Quiet Life by Alexandros Avranas and the short film O by Rúnar Rúnarsson. Furthermore Isabella Torre’s Basilieia has been selected for the [...]
There is no other search entry that gives an equal amount of hits when searching the SVT archives as "Israel/Palestine". No other specific topic has been given a comparable amount of resources to be followed and reported on. Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson have gotten unique access to a treasure and the 4th of October [...]
During Saturday night's award ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, Director and screenwriter Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel received the Caméra d'Or – the Golden Camera – for his work on the feature film Armand at the Cannes Film Festival. The Caméra d'or is one of the prestigious awards at the Cannes Festival, given annually to a [...]
