This Norwegian success and some solid Nordic promises concluded a very lively New Nordic Films market in Haugesund. For the second year running, the recipient of the Eurimages Lab Project Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (17-23 August) was Norwegian. Director Guro Brusgaard, a member of the Alternativet production collective, executed an enticing presentation of her forthcoming first feature, Him, a topical take on gender dynamics. Him centres on three different males between the ages of 11 and 60 and unfolds during a single day in Oslo. “Witty, intelligent and compassionate” was the verdict of the jury, consisting of Christin Berg, Nordisk Film Kino, Norway; Swedish Film Institute veteran Kristina Börjeson; Haifa industry curator Rut Lev Ari, Israel; and Berlinale Scandinavian film expert Stephen Locke, Germany. The suitably impressed jury also awarded an Honourable Mention to Swedish director Ninja Thyberg’s hotly anticipated Jessica, a uniquely female gaze...
Eurimages Lab Project Award goes to performance artist story Burning Man from Norway.
Two Danish films were the buzz hits of Haugesund’s works in progress presentations this week. They were Queen Of Hearts, a drama starring Trine Dyrholm as a middle-aged woman having an affair; and political thriller Sons Of Denmark.
Dyrholm, whose credits include The Commune, Oscar winner In A Better World and TV’s The Legacy, stars in May el-Toukhy’s second feature Queen Of Hearts alongside rising Swedish actor Gustav Lindh. The story is about Anne, a lawyer who works with troubled youth, who shockingly starts...
Two Danish films were the buzz hits of Haugesund’s works in progress presentations this week. They were Queen Of Hearts, a drama starring Trine Dyrholm as a middle-aged woman having an affair; and political thriller Sons Of Denmark.
Dyrholm, whose credits include The Commune, Oscar winner In A Better World and TV’s The Legacy, stars in May el-Toukhy’s second feature Queen Of Hearts alongside rising Swedish actor Gustav Lindh. The story is about Anne, a lawyer who works with troubled youth, who shockingly starts...
- 8/24/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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