- Film i Väst congratulates Renate Reinsve (picture), who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Joachim Trier’s Palme d’Or-nominated The Worst Man in the World, co-produced by Film i Väst, says Kristina Börjeson, Head of Production at Film i Väst. This is the second time Trier has had a [...]
Mexican director Michel Franco’s Sundown has been selected for the main competition at the filmfestival in Venice. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tim Roth. Sundown is postproduced in Göteborg, Sweden, by Cloudberry Post and co-produced with CommonGround Pictures, Jonas Kellagher, and Film i Väst. From writer-director Michel Franco (New Order) comes a simmering, suspenseful sharp jolt: [...]
Film i Väst, Scandinavia's biggest film fund, on Saturday arranged a press conference together with the Swedish Film Institute during the Cannes Film Festival for Swedish and international media to present this year’s Cannes line-up. Film i Väst has four co-productions in selection. Film i Väst has four co-productions in selection at this year's edition [...]
The internationally acclaimed and award-winning Swedish director Björn Runge (The Wife) will direct SF Studios’ upcoming film adaption Burn All My Letters, based on Swedish author Alex Schulman’s success novel of the same name. The film brings the international stars Bill Skarsgård, Asta Kamma August and Gustav Lindh together in a passionate drama spanning over [...]
Italian director Jonas Carpignano’s feature film A Chiara has been selected for Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is produced by Stayblack in co-production with Snowglobe and Film I Väst. Part of the postproduction was made in region Västra Götaland by Haymaker and CAN Film. A Chiara is the fourth Film i [...]
Joachim Trier's film The Worst Person in the World will be shown in the main competition in Cannes and can thus win the very prestigious award Palme d'Or. Eskil Vogt`s The Innocents has been invited to the Un Certain Regard program just like Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb starring Noomi Rapace. All three films are co-produced by [...]
Linda Hambäck’s new film The Ape Star (Apstjärnan) has been selected to compete at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the world’s leading animation festival. The film is based on Frida Nilsson’s children’s book and voice actors include Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August, Rebecca Gerstmann and Melinda Kinnaman. The film was partially animated in Trollhättan by [...]
- Film i Väst congratulates Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg and Zentropa for winning the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Another Round tells a touching story by extraordinary talented actors. We are so proud and happy to be co-producers of this film, which in part was shot in our region of West Sweden, Västra Götaland, says Kristina [...]
One win and three nominations was the result at the prestigious British film award Bafta for Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round. The film is produced by Zentropa (Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing) and co-produced by Film i Väst and Zentropa Sweden and partially shot in Västra Götaland. Another Round won the coveted Bafta statuette for [...]
https://youtu.be/IIRMesNkcMI Director Ruben Östlund received the 2021 Nordic Honory Dragon Award during Gothenburg Film Festival. During the festival, Ruben Östlund participated in a Directors Talk led by the festival’s artistic director, Jonas Holmberg. We dive in to a retrospective, from the early short films to Palme d’Or winner The Square. We also get exclusive sketches and stills [...]
