Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2018 he won the Palme d’Or for his feature film The Square. Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. have also been selectd for Official Competition. All four co-produced by Film i [...]
Friday, March 11, Film i Väst Analysis will launch the unique report on the future relevance of public film funding in Europe – particularly selective film finance, Public Film Funding at a Crossroads. The report will be presented at the European Co-Production Forum in Brussels, and can be followed live here March 11, 11:00-13:00. — [...]
In September the shooting starts for Families Like Ours, Thomas Vinterberg’s new 6-part TV drama series. Written by Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round, The Hunt) and Bo Hr. Hansen (Darkness: Those Who Kill). It is set to shoot on location in Denmark, Sweden, and The Czech Republic. This is Film i Väst’s fifth co-production with Thomas [...]
Sanna Lenken's feature film Comedy Queen has been awarded the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. This is the second time around for director Sanna Lenken, who also won the Crystal Bear for her previous feature film, My Skinny Sister, at the 2015 Berlinale. Beautiful Beings, the second feature from Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar [...]
Joachim Trier's award-winning cinema success The Worst Person in the World has received Oscar nominations in the categories Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay (Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt). Produced by Thomas Robsahm and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar for Oslo Pictures in co-production with Film i Väst. The world premiere was in Cannes 2021, [...]
Three co-productions have been selected for Sundance Film Festival 20-30 of January 2022: Oliver Hermanu’s Living, Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching and Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World. In addition, two shorts will be shown in retrospective: Niki Linderoth von Bahrs The Burden and Johnannes Nyholm’s Las Palmas. All co-produced with Film i Väst. Living [...]
Sanna Lenken’s new film Comedy Queen has been invited to the Berlinale’s children and young people’s section, Generation Kplus. Comedy Queen tells the story of 13-year old Sasha who refuses to cry despite suffering from immeasurable sorrow. She decides to become a stand-up comedian. Her goal is to make everyone laugh again, especially her father. The film is produced [...]
Five Film i Väst co-productions are nominated or has won prizes at the European Film Awards 2021. Two nominations for Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, two for Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb and one each for Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure, Eskil Vogt’s The Innocents and Linda Hambäck’s The Ape Star. All shot and/or postproduced in [...]
Two Cannes 2021 films, Joachim Trier’s competition title The Worst Person in the World, and Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb selected for Un Certain Regard, have been selected as Norway’s respectively Iceland’s entries for Best International Feature Film Award at the 94th Academy Awards. Both are co-produced by Film i Väst. Besides the two chosen national entries [...]
Internationally acknowledged actress Tuva Novotny and actor Mikael Persbrandt will star in the final season of Lars von Trier’s cult series The Kingdom Exodus together with Primetime Emmy Award-winning Alexander Skarsgård and David Dencik, who will both star as guests. The Kingdom Exodus is produced by Zentropa, NENT Group and DR in co-production with Film i [...]
