Two Fridas is Ishtar Yasin's second film Photo: Courtesy of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival The first eight films in Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Official Selection competition strand have been announced.
Seven of the films that will screen at the festival - which runs from November 16 to December 2 - are world premieres.
The announcement features four European films, three from the Americas and one from Egypt.
Among them are Ishtar Yasin's Two Fridas, starring Venice Best Actress Award winner Maria de Mereiros, and Bernard Émond's A Place To Live, which will have its international premiere in Tallinn.
The selection includes four films from Europe, with director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm’s Until We Fall representing Denmark, Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among the Clouds coming from Albania, Gábor Reisz’s Bad Poems from Hungary and Juha Lehtola’s The Human Part produced in Finland.
The full Official Selection slate...
Seven of the films that will screen at the festival - which runs from November 16 to December 2 - are world premieres.
The announcement features four European films, three from the Americas and one from Egypt.
Among them are Ishtar Yasin's Two Fridas, starring Venice Best Actress Award winner Maria de Mereiros, and Bernard Émond's A Place To Live, which will have its international premiere in Tallinn.
The selection includes four films from Europe, with director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm’s Until We Fall representing Denmark, Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among the Clouds coming from Albania, Gábor Reisz’s Bad Poems from Hungary and Juha Lehtola’s The Human Part produced in Finland.
The full Official Selection slate...
- 10/8/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Danish director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm took home the Gothenburg Film Festival’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film for drama In Your Arms.
The coveted award comes with the world’s biggest festival cash prize of 1 million Sek ($120,000).
At the gala event on Saturday evening, Copenhagen-based Sahlstrom also won the Fipresci award for his film about a nurse who travels with a terminally ill man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
The jury said of Sahlstrom’s film: “The award goes to a film, that with honest sensitivity, brings up the questions: when is life worth living? When is life not worth living?
“Told in a pure language, with poetic moments, and with an acting that is vibrating of human authenticity. It is a film that ends with death - but also with life, love and hope.”
The Dragon Award for best documentary went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up...
The coveted award comes with the world’s biggest festival cash prize of 1 million Sek ($120,000).
At the gala event on Saturday evening, Copenhagen-based Sahlstrom also won the Fipresci award for his film about a nurse who travels with a terminally ill man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
The jury said of Sahlstrom’s film: “The award goes to a film, that with honest sensitivity, brings up the questions: when is life worth living? When is life not worth living?
“Told in a pure language, with poetic moments, and with an acting that is vibrating of human authenticity. It is a film that ends with death - but also with life, love and hope.”
The Dragon Award for best documentary went to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, the follow-up...
- 2/1/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Naomi Kawase, Michael R Roskam, Noomi Rapace among attendees.
Danish drama Key House Mirror, directed by Michael Noer (R), will open the 2015 edition of the Göteborg Film Festival (Jan 23 - Feb 2).
Ghita Nørby and Sven Wollter play the lead roles in the drama about an elderly woman who strikes up an unexpected relationship with a fellow care-home resident.
Jorn Donner’s docu-biopic of Finnish designer Armi Ranta, Armi Alive!, will close the festival.
Eight Nordic films will compete for the $125,000 Nordic prize with this year’s jury comprising directors Pernille Fischer Christensen, Pirjo Honkasalo, Anja Breienand Benedikt Erlingsson, as well as actress Maryam Moghaddam.
The nominees are:
Key House Mirror by Michael NoerMy Skinny Sister by Sanna LenkenIn Your Arms by Samanou Acheche SahlstrømParis of the North by Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurðssonThey Have Escaped by Jukka-Pekka ValkeapääHomesick by Anne SewitskyUnderdog by Ronnie SandahlWomen in Oversized Men’s Shirts by Yngvild Sve FlikkeDebut prize
The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award...
Danish drama Key House Mirror, directed by Michael Noer (R), will open the 2015 edition of the Göteborg Film Festival (Jan 23 - Feb 2).
Ghita Nørby and Sven Wollter play the lead roles in the drama about an elderly woman who strikes up an unexpected relationship with a fellow care-home resident.
Jorn Donner’s docu-biopic of Finnish designer Armi Ranta, Armi Alive!, will close the festival.
Eight Nordic films will compete for the $125,000 Nordic prize with this year’s jury comprising directors Pernille Fischer Christensen, Pirjo Honkasalo, Anja Breienand Benedikt Erlingsson, as well as actress Maryam Moghaddam.
The nominees are:
Key House Mirror by Michael NoerMy Skinny Sister by Sanna LenkenIn Your Arms by Samanou Acheche SahlstrømParis of the North by Hafsteinn Gunnar SigurðssonThey Have Escaped by Jukka-Pekka ValkeapääHomesick by Anne SewitskyUnderdog by Ronnie SandahlWomen in Oversized Men’s Shirts by Yngvild Sve FlikkeDebut prize
The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award...
- 1/8/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Producer Lars Bredo Rahbek of Copenhagen’s Nimbus Film, whose Itsi Bitsi screened premiered at Tiff last night, is now developing a big-screen adaptation of In Search of a Distant Voice by author Taichi Yamada.
The film’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen and director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm is attached to direct and working on the first draft of the script now.
The novel, first published in 1986, is well known in Japan and was translated into English in 2006.
Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story. It also suits the talents of Samanou very well.”
“Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer, who is a fluent Japanese speaker, tells Screen. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that...
The film’s setting will be transplanted from Tokyo to Copenhagen and director Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm is attached to direct and working on the first draft of the script now.
The novel, first published in 1986, is well known in Japan and was translated into English in 2006.
Rahbek told Screen: “It’s a mixture of a drama with a ghost story. It also suits the talents of Samanou very well.”
“Sometimes I get envious that you can see certain genres of film like horror or ghost stories that are hard to envision in a small, modern country such as Denmark,” the producer, who is a fluent Japanese speaker, tells Screen. “I was scouting to see how we could bring elements of that...
- 9/7/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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