Film i Väst brings five co-productions to Toronto
Contemporary World Cinema:
Border by Ali Abbasi
Ali Abbasi’s film Border won the prestigious section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in May and is also selected as the Swedish entry for Academy Awards best foreign-language film. The film is an adaptation of a John Ajvide Lindqvist’s (Let The Right One In) short story.
Masters:
Our Time by Carlos Reygadas
Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) is also nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and for the prestigious section Horizontes Latinos at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Carlos Reygadas heart wrenching investigation into marriage and intimacy stars the director himself and his wife in the leading roles.
The Wild Pear Tree by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Turkish director and former winner of the Cannes Film Festival now follows up on his prior success with the film The Wild Pear Tree, which had its world premiere during the Cannes Festival this year, where it competed for a Palme d’Or.
Special Mentions:
Tell it to the Bees by Annabel Jankel
A tumultuous drama, set in a small town in post-war Britain, about the relationship between a doctor and bee keeper, and the mother of one of his young patients, starring the Golden Globe and Oscar winner Anna Paquin (The Piano, True Blood) and Holliday Grainger (Anastasia, The Finest Hours).
TIFF Doc:
Heartbound by Janus Metz and Sine Plambech
Filmed over the course of ten years and three generations, in separate parts of the world, Heartbound is a film about longing, family bonds, and survival in the face of challenging differences, with marriage as a unifying theme. Janus Metz is the director of Borg (the opening film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2017, also co-produced by Film i Väst) and Armadillo. Sine Plambech is a director, anthropologist and senior researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Barnard College.
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Film i Väst Analysis introduces an unique pan-European study on audiovisual funding in Venice1.9.2023 10:25:46 CEST | Pressmeddelande
During the film festival in Venice Film i Väst Analysis introduces av unique, pan-European study, All that is solid melts into air – Public Film Funding at a Crossroads II. It is presented at a seminar as a part of Venice Production Bridge by Tomas Eskilsson, head of Film i Väst Analysis. Public Film and Audiovisual Policies and Funding at a Crossroads is a research project in three parts that explores and discuss the future purpose and relevance of film and audiovisual funding. Last year’s much talked about and debated report Public Film Funding at a Crossroads is now followed up with All that is solid melts into air – Public Film Funding at a Crossroads II.
Nine new co-productions presented in Cannes19.5.2023 11:50:11 CEST | Press release
Nine 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.
Film i Väst’s co-production About Dry Grasses in competition in Cannes13.4.2023 12:08:33 CEST | Press release
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.
PRESS INVITATION: The unveiling of Europe’s No. 1 projector-based Virtual Production Wall27.1.2023 11:25:11 CET | Press release
Tuesday January 31 Europe’s largets projector-based Virtual Production Wall will be unveiled in Studio Fares, Trollhättan, Sweden. The Wall is 24 x 8 meters, which makes it easy to project different sceneries on different parts of the wall and still be able to film in the studio on other set constructions.
Grand slam for Ruben Östlund at the European Film Awards11.12.2022 00:03:59 CET | Press release
It was Ruben Östlund’s night at the European Film Awards gala in Reykjavik, Iceland. His Triangle of Sadness was rewarded with European Film, European Director and European Screenwriter. A grand slam! Furthermore Zlatko Buric won European Actor. Triangle of Sadness is co-produced by Film i Väst and was partially shot in Göteborg and Trollhättan, Studio Fares.
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