Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure and Magnus von Horn’s Sweat have been selected for Cannes Film Festival “Cannes 2020 Label”. All films shot or did parts of post production in Region Västra Götaland in Sweden and were co-produced by Film i Väst. - We congratulate the three talented directors and their teams. We [...]
Film i Väst, Scandinavia’s leading film fund, has appointed seasoned production executive Kristina Börjeson as new Head of Production. Kristina Börjeson joins Film i Väst from TV4/C More, where she is currently serving as Head of Drama Production. She will start her position at Film i Väst on January 1, 2021. - The film and [...]
Whether you call it a sunny “golden age of content” or a gloomier “global production deluge,” the unprecedented investment in content production and licensing is creating a wealth of new opportunities – and also new challenges – across the value chain of the film and TV industries. The panel “Drowning In Numbers,” held Feb 23 [...]
Today the international cast of Ruben Östlund’s new film Triangle of Sadness has been announced. The international ensemble is led by rising stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean together with three-time Oscar nominated Woody Harrelson. The film is an epic satire set against the world of fashion and the uber-rich. Production will start on February [...]
Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken has been selected to Competition at the Berlin Film Festival. The Competition programme includes 18 films from 18 countries with 16 world premieres. The Roads Not Taken starring Elle Fanning, Javier Bardem, Chris Rock, Laura Linney and Salma Hayek. The film is produced by Adventure Pictures in co-production with [...]
Two of Film i Väst’s co-productions, Sune – Best Man by Jon Holmberg and Monty and the Street Party, has been selected for the Generation Kplus competition of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival where they will have their international premieres. For the second year in a row, the popular Swedish child hero, Sune, will [...]
Romanian director Cristi Puius’ Malmkrog will open the new section Encounters at the Berlinale. The film is produced by Anca Puiu, Mandragora, in co-production with Jörgen Andersson and Kjell Åhlund at Swedish Doppelganger and Film i Väst. The Göteborg company Cloudberry is post producing. https://vimeo.com/385286697 Synopsis: Nikolai, a large landowner, a man of the world, [...]
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 [...]
