Film i Väst's co-production The Square by Ruben Östlund has been nominated to five categories at the 30th European Film Awards, which means that they received the most nominations of all this year. Östlund’s social satire was nominated as European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter. The leading actor Claes Bang was nominated as European Actor. [...]
Tomorrow, Thursday 7th of September, is the opening day of Toronto International Film Festival. The opening gala feature is Borg/McEnroe directed by Janus Metz, the story about the tennis legends Björn Borg and John McEnroe. This is the first-ever Swedish film to open TIFF. In all Film i Väst are proud to introduce no less [...]
Palme d’Or winner, director Ruben Östlund and Film i Väst have had a long term and prosperous partnership. Film i Väst has co-produced four feature films with Ruben Östlund, producer Erik Hemmendorff, and the Gothenburg based production company Plattform Produktion. All the films have done both elements of shooting and postproduction in West Sweden. Here is their impressive track [...]
– Film i Väst congratulates Ruben Östlund, Erik Hemmendorff and Plattform Produktion to a Palme d’Or, on the most prestigeous and most important film festival in the world. As a co-producer it is amazing to during more than a century have had the opportunity to follow a film creator from the Swedish west coast, who [...]
The new line-up of co-productions was presented at Film i Väst's annual press conference in Cannes with several Swedish and international directors, producers and actors attending. Further, this year's co-productions competing at the Cannes Film Festival were presented, including Ruben Östlund's The Square being nominated for a Palme d’Or. The first title to be presented [...]
The Cannes Film Festival has announced that director Ruben Östlund’s THE SQUARE will compete for the Palme d’Or with Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss and Danish actor Claes Bang in the leading roles. THE SQUARE makes it the forth Film i Väst co-production in competition so far in this year’s edition of the festival. After [...]
Once again, Film i Väst is well represented at the Berlin International Film Festival. Game Count by Polish master of cinema Agnieszka Holland, leads Film i Väst’s line up at the Berlinale and will take part in the Official Competition program. Joining Game Count in Berlin will be Viceroy’s House, by Bend it Like Beckham [...]
Film i Väst has a reputation of working on co-productions with director-driven projects that capture the interest of programmers for the world’s most prestigious film festivals. With film premiers in Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin already in the books, there are still high expectations for the premiers of more auteur films in 2017. Among the most [...]
Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Eili Harboe and Kaya Wilkins are just some of the actors in three features by Björn Runge, Lars von Trier and Joachim Trier, all co-produced by Film i Väst. Joachim Trier’s Thelma is right now shot in Studio Fares in Trollhättan and next spring Lars von Trier [...]
Film i Väst co-produced A Man Called Ove by Hannes Holm has received Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The film is thus a strong contender at the Academy Awards Ceremony on 26 February. In december it won European Comedy at European Film Awards Love Larson and Eva von [...]
