Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Maria Sødahl’s Hope and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin has been selected by the Oscar nomination committees in Denmark, Norway and Tunisia. All three films has been co-produced by Film i Väst and the first two has been shot in Region Västra Götaland.
Another Round was honoured with the official selection label at Cannes Film Festival 2020 as well as Toronto International Film Festival 2020, where it had its international premiere. In addition, the drama won the award ‘Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai in France’, the LFF Virtual Audience Award for ‘Best Film’ at the BFI London Film Festival 2020 and the Silver Shell for ‘Best Actor’ at the 68th San Sebastian Film Festival. The drama has also been nominated for the European Film Awards 2020 within four categories: European Film, European Director, European Scriptwriter and European Actor.
Another Round has not least had a fantastic reception from the audience. Since the film’s local release on 24 September 2020, the film has had an overwhelming number of admissions. Almost 800,000 admissions have been sold locally despite the current covid-19 restrictions, and the ticket sales are still going. This makes the film Vinterberg’s greatest cinema success to date.
The cast includes Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, Magnus Millang.
Another Round is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Kasper Dissing for Zentropa Entertainments3 in co-production with Film i Väst, Zentropa Sweden (Lizette Jonjic), Topkapi Films and Zentropa Netherlands with support from Danish Film Institute, TV 2 DENMARK, Eurimages, Netherlands Film Fund, Svenska Filminstitutet, Netherlands Film Production Incentive and the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
Maria Sødahl’s Hope had a very successful world premiere in the Discovery section at Toronto International Film Festival 2019 and subsequently had its European debut at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival 2020, where the film was both selected for the Panorama section and won the Europa Cinemas Label award. Hope also got nominated within two sections for the European Film Awards 2020: Maria Sødahl for ‘European Director’ and Andrea Bræin Hovig for ‘European Actress’.
The cast includes Norwegian actress Andrea Bræin Hovig (who takes the female lead opposite multi-award-winning Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård who stars as the male lead in the drama.
Hope is produced by Thomas Robsahm for Motlys in co-production with Zentropa Sweden (Lizette Jonjic), Film i Väst and Oslo Pictures, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Nordic Film and TV Fund, Eurimages, and in cooperation with SF Studios, TrustNordisk, NRK, SVT, Amarcord, Talent Norge and Storyline Studios. International sales handled by TrustNordisk.
Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin had it’s world premiere at Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti sectio enice International Film Festival, Orizzonti section, where it won Edipo Re Award (Università degli Studi di Padova e ResInt Rete dell’Economia Sociale Internazionale).
Cast Monica Bellucci, Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koed de Bouw, Wim Delvoye
Synopsis Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed by one of by the World’s most sulfurous contemporary artist. Turning his own body into a prestigious piece of art, Sam will however come to realize that his decision might actually mean anything but freedom.
Producers Tanit Films (FR), Cinetelefilms (TN) Co-producer Kwassa Films, Laika Films, Andreas Rocksén (SE), Twenty Twenty Vision (DE). In association with Guillaume Rambourg, Lassaad & Rafik Kilani, ZDF / ARTE In coproduction with METAFORA MEDIA PRODUCTION, SUNNYLAND FILM as member of A.R.T GROUP, Film i Väst, VOO et Be Tv, Istiqlal Films. With the support of EURIMAGES, La Région SUD, en partenariat avec le CNC, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Ministère des affaires culturelles – CNCI – Tunisie, Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge via Belga Films Fund, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée – France, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image CNCI – Tunisie – Aide à la coproduction franco-tunisienne, The Swedish Film Institute, FONDS IMAGE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE, la Sacem
