Ruben Östlund’s The Square, Tarek Saleh’s The Nile Hilton Incident and Janus Metz’ Borg/McEnroe where among the winners of the Swedish film prize Guldbagge Award last Monday. Film i Väst’s co-productions received no less than eleven Guldbagge Awards at the gala. Among them Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Short. Best Film: The [...]
The international festival year has begun and Film i Väst's co-productions are well represented in Göteborg, Rotterdam, Sundance and Berlin. At Göteborg Film Festival four co-productions are competing for Dragon Award Best Nordic Film worth approx. 100.000 euro. Gabriela Pichler’s Amateurs, which also will open the festival. Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday Iram Haq’s What Will People [...]
Nominations for the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards has been announced: Ruben Östlund's The Square is nominated Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language. The Square is produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Plattform Produktion, in co-production with among others Film i Väst. Ruben Östlund was 2014 nominateed for his Swedish drama Force Majeure (Turist) in the Best [...]
Ruben Östlund’s The Square dominated the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin Saturday night, winning six prizes: European Film, European Director, European Actor (Claes Bang), European Comedy, European Production Design (Josefin Åsberg), European Screenwriter. Yesterday it was also announced that The Square is nominated for a Golden Globe. - Film i Väst congratulates Ruben Östlund [...]
Film i Väst is pleased to announce Peter Possne as Head of Production. He will head all film- and TV production activities for Scandinavia's leading regional film fun starting January 1st, 2018. Film i Väst's CEO Mikael Fellenius says: “Film i Väst has had a long relationship with Peter Possne, who knows the business well [...]
The European Film Academy announced yesterday the first winners who will be honoured at this year’s European Film Awards. Three of them worked on films co-produced by Film i Väst: Josefin Åsberg, European Production Designer 2017, Katarzyna Lewińska, European Costume Designer 2017 and Leendert van Nimwegen, European Hair & Make-up Artist 2017. A special seven-member [...]
Six European countries have chosen Film i Väst's co-productions as official submissions for the Oscar Foreign Language race. Among them Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner The Square. All films are either shot or post-produced in Västra Götaland region. Oscar nominations will be announced January 23. The six co-productions are: Sweden – The Square – Ruben Östlund [...]
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 [...]
