– 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 [...]
Göteborg Film Festival's former leader, Mikael Fellenius will become the new CEO of Film i Väst on January 1st next year. He succeeds Tomas Eskilsson who in turn assumes a new role as Head of Strategy of the film fund, as previously announced. Now it is announced that Mikael Fellenius will succeed Tomas Eskilsson as [...]
The Finnish film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen has won the Un Certain Regard Award and the Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat has won the Directors Fortnight Art Cinema Award for her debut feature Wolf and Sheep at the Cannes Film Festival. Both are co-produced by Film i Väst. The Happiest Day in [...]
Film Väst is very happy to congratulate Trine Dyrholm and Tomasz Wasilewski, who last Saturday each received a Silver Bear at the Berlinale: Trine Dyrholm for Best Actress for her perfomance in Thomas Vinterberg's THE COMMUNE, Tomasz Wasilewski for Best Script in his UNITED STATE OF LOVE. In The Commune, Trine Dyrholm plays Anne, who along with her husband Erik (Ulrich Thomsen) and their daughter Freja, [...]
