Eight new projects were presented at the traditional Film i Väst press conference in Cannes. Among the directors introducing their projects were Anders Thomas Jensen, Magnus von Horn, Emma Bucht and Ragnhild Ekner. Stenbeck by Goran Kapetanović Jan Stenbeck was a Swedish entrepreneur, outsider and a controversial corporate genious who reluctantly took over the [...]
2 May the first round of applications for the Swedish film tax rebates, in total 100 million Swedish kronor, for 2023 opens. 50 million kronor will be available for the first application period in May. Support for the production of audiovisual works is intended for companies that want to produce a film, or television series [...]
Screen International, KFTV & Broadcasts together with Olsberg SPI have launched the Global Production Awards. The awards celebrate outstanding work in the fields of film and TV production around the world. The city of Trollhättan is together with Calgary, Sarajevo and Wellington nominated as City of Film, meanwhile Film i Väst has been nominated in [...]
The Turkish director and scriptwriter Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses has been selected for competition at Festival de Cannes. The film is co-produced by Film i Väst and Nadir Öperli and Beata Gårdeler at Second Land. Parts of the post production have been made in Västra Götaland. Furthermore Felipe Gálves’ The Settlershas been selected for Un Certain Regard. - We congratulate Nuri Bilge [...]
There have been fifteen Oscar nominations for Film i Väst’s co-production in the last seven years. And one win: Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round. On Sunday, March 12, it’s time for Academy Awards 2023. Swedish director Ruben Östlund is nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for his Triangle of Sadness. British actor [...]
Ruben Östlund is indisputably one of the greatest in Swedish film history with his three Oscar nominations for his film Triangle of Sadness, filmed in Västra Götaland, is outstanding. Triangle of Sadness is the seventh of Östlund’s films co-produced by Film i Väst. - The cooperation with Ruben Östlund and his fellow producer Erik Hemmendorff [...]
Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s documentary And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine! received two prizes at the Berlinale. The first was from Youths Jury Generation 14plus: Special Mention. The second was from AG Kino – Gilde Cinema Vision 14plus, German Art House Cinemas. In January the film received Jury's Special Prize – Creative [...]
During Film i Väst’s press conference in Berlin, Saturday 18 February, three new co-productions were presented, together with the talents from the productions. The triple is a spy thriller series, The Doctrine, directed by Jens Jonsson and Johan Lundin, Apathy by the Greek director Alexandros Avranas and the second film in the family series about [...]
Seven of Film i Väst’s co-productions have been selected to Berlin Film Festival 2023. Among them Milad Alami’s The Opponent, Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s Fantastic Machine!, winner of the Jury Prize – Creative Vision in Sundance, and Tia Kouvo’s Family Time. Here are all Film i Väst’s co-productions: https://youtu.be/lbtTNYR-kJA Encounter Family Time, [...]
Last year Film i Väst Analysis published Public Film Funding at A Crossroads. In april 2023 the follow up will be published, Public Film Funding at A Crossroads II (PFFC) II. At a seminar during Berlin Film Festival it will be discussed by a broad panel. The updated publication aims to deepen the discussion around [...]
