Painkiller in Canneseries, 8 Months in Series Mania

By |2024-03-13T15:30:17+00:00March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Gabriela Pichler and Johan Lundborg’s Painkiller is nominated in Canneseries, Short Form Competition. Jens Jonsson and Johan Lundin’s 8 Months has been selected for Series Mania, International Panorama. Both drama series are co-produced with Film i Väst. Painkiller Painkiller is the story of Dijana - a proud Balkan-mother and cleaning woman - and her daughter [...]

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Netflix premiere March 28 for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter

By |2024-03-13T14:51:03+00:00March 13th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Now it’s out: the trailer for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, the world-famous fantasy tale by Astrid Lindgren, directed by Lisa James Larsson. In an expansive yet faithful reimaging of the classic tale, members are re-introduced to one of the most beloved stories in Sweden. The series is written by Hans Rosenfeldt and will launch on Netflix [...]

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Seminar in Berlin: “Less is more… or not!”

By |2024-02-15T12:01:56+00:00February 15th, 2024|Uncategorized|

During Berlin Film Festival Film i Väst arranges a seminar with a keynote speach by Tomas Eskilsson, Film i Väst Analysis on ”Less is more… or not – how should Europ strengthen its competitiveness”. The panelists producer Jens Meurer, strategy advisor Doreen Boonekamp and producer Thomas Robsahm will be moderated by journalist Wendy Mitchell. In [...]

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Seven Guldbagge Awards for Film i Väst’s co-productions

By |2024-01-17T15:40:17+00:00January 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|

The Swedish film award, Guldbaggen Award, was held Monday 15 January. Film i Väst’s co-productions won in total seven awards. Mika Gustafson’s Venice premiered Paradise is Burning won Best Picture, Lukas Moodyssons Toronto premiered Together 99 won Best Screenplay and Maria Fredriksson’s Tribeca winner The Gullspång Miracle won Best Documentary. Winning co-productions Karen Fabritius Gram and Pierre [...]

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Svitlana Lishchynska’s A Bit of a Stranger selected to Panorama at the Berlinale

By |2024-01-17T15:25:22+00:00January 17th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Director and script writer Svitlana Lishchynska’s documentary A Bit of a Stranger has been selected to Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. In her documentary she explores her own familys four generations of women and their relation to the USSR era and the impact of the russification. The film's director, Svitlana, was born in [...]

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Invitation to Online workshops on AI

By |2024-01-11T08:28:58+00:00January 11th, 2024|Uncategorized|

Understanding AI – The New Future for the Screen Industries Understanding the fast-moving challenge of AI and the exponential changes generative models are already having on the Film Value Chain are critical for all practitioners in the screen entertainment industries. AI is now (yes, already!) ubiquitous and is impacting on underlying rights and IP, copyright; [...]

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36 Swedish Guldbagge Award nominations for Film i Väst’s co-productions

By |2023-12-13T13:17:56+00:00December 13th, 2023|Uncategorized|

The nominations for the Guldbagge Awards for the film year 2023 have been presented. In total Film i Väst co-productions received 36 nominations. Both Hammarskjöld and Opponent were presented with seven nominations, The Gullspång Miracle and Together 99 received four nominations each. The Guldbagge Awards Gala is arranged by the Swedish Film Institute in collaboration [...]

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Mads Mikkelsen wins Best Actor at the European Film Awards 2023

By |2023-12-13T12:39:34+00:00December 13th, 2023|Uncategorized|

At the Europan Film Awards gala in Berlin, Mads Mikkelsen was awarded Best Actor for his role in Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land. The film also took home the awards for Best Cinematography, Rasmus Videbæk, and Costume Design, Kicki Ilander. Produced by Zentropa Entertainments in co-production with Zentropa Berlin, Zentropa Swedan and Film i Väst. [...]

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Film i Väst Analysis: Eleven country reports on European film future

By |2023-10-05T13:08:23+00:00October 5th, 2023|Uncategorized|

During the film festival in Venice, Tomas Eskilsson from Film i Väst Analysis introduced the second part of the unique, pan-European study Public Film Funding at a Crossroads: All that is solid melts into air. It is a research project in three parts that explores and discusses the future purpose and relevance of film and audiovisual [...]

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Film i Väst’s co-productions and the Oscar race 2024

By |2023-09-12T13:03:42+00:00September 12th, 2023|Uncategorized|

The Oscar race 2024 is running. So far four countries have submitted Film i Väst’s co-productions: The Netherlands, Turkey, Chile and Iceland. All three prenominated films, who will be one, from Sweden are Film i Väst’s co-productions. Here are the submissions, so far: The Netherlands: Ena Sendijarević’ Sweet Dreams, premiered in Locarno and screened at [...]

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