The film industry on the west coast of Sweden is booming, with a record amount of film shoots and premieres. In the space of a few weeks, ten feature films and TV dramas are being shot in Västra Götaland, with Hollywood actors and Swedish film stars in the leading roles. - Never before have we [...]
Norway, Sweden, Turkey and Tunisia have chosen Film i Väst co-productions as their Oscar submissions in the category Best Foreign Language Film. The four films are Iram Haq’s What Will People Say, Ali Abbasi’s Border, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree and Kaouther Ben Hania’s Beauty and the Beast. - It is fantastic that films co-produced by Film i Väst [...]
Film i Väst’s co-production Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas will be shown at the festivals in Venice (competing for a Golden Lion), San Sebastian (in the prestiguous Horizontes Latinos) and Toronto (Masters section). Our Time is a co-production between Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden (Film i Väst and Chimney). Synopsis: [...]
Five of Film i Väst’s co-productions has been selected to Toronto International Film Festival. All shot or postproduced in Västra Götaland, in western Sweden. The five are, in respectively sections: Special Presentations: Tell it to the Bees by Annabel Jankel. Academy Award winner Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star in this wrenching drama of [...]
As the first Indian film, Rahi Anil Barve’s and Adesh Prasad’s Tumbbad, will open Venice International Film Critics Week. Tumbbad is produced by Little Town Films and Colour Yellow Films in co-production with Swedish Film i Väst and Filmgate Films. Synopsis: India, 19th century: on the outskirts of a decrepit village called Tumbbad lives Vinayak, [...]
Two of Film i Väst’s co-production are competing at the Locarno Festival August 1-11: Bálint Kenyere’s Tegnap and Radu Muntean’s Alice T. Bálint Kenyere’s Tegnap (Hier) will compete in the section Concorso Cineasti del presente. It’s an international co-production (Hungary, Germany, France, Netherlands, Morocco, Sweden) and the film is produced by Mirage Film in co-production [...]
Film i Väst’s co-production Border (Gräns) directed by Ali Abbasi, is the winner of the section Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes. - Film i Väst congratulates director Ali Abbasi and the whole team of the feature Border (Gräns) for their success in Cannes. Over the last few years Film i Väst’s co-productions [...]
A selection of new co-productions was presented at the Film i Väst Press Conference in Cannes with several well-known Swedish and international directors, producers and actors. This year's competing co-productions at the Cannes Film Festival were also presented. - We have a very exciting year ahead, with several major films shooting at Film i [...]
The dramatic story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye held captive by the Islamic State terrorist organisation for over a year is now being turned into a major feature film. Toolbox Film is adapting Puk Damsgård’s highly acclaimed bestseller Ser du månen, Daniel, which is the first feature film to depict a hostage taking by Islamic [...]
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, whose 2008 “Waltz With Bashir” nabbed a foreign-language Oscar nom, is set to write and direct “Horse Boy,” an English-language feature based on Rupert Isaacson’s New York Times bestseller that will topline current Cannes jury member Léa Seydoux and Joel Kinnaman. Film i Väst is co-producing and the film will partially [...]
