This claustrophobic thriller from Denmark is the first feature from director/co-writer Rasmus Kloster Bro. Old-fashioned ‘trapped-in-a-box’-style scares fuse with a streak of social commentary, but Cutterhead can be enjoyed simply as an effective thriller about a group of people trapped underground in terrifying circumstances.
Photojournalist Rie (Christine Sonderris) is covering the construction of the Copenhagen Metro. The film opens with her descent by industrial elevator down into the underground site, where she begins to interview the workers. Most seem uninterested in her project, though Ivo (Kresimir Mikic) and his assistant Bharan (Samson Semere) at least provide candid responses to her otherwise bland line of questioning - “What do you like best about your job...
Photojournalist Rie (Christine Sonderris) is covering the construction of the Copenhagen Metro. The film opens with her descent by industrial elevator down into the underground site, where she begins to interview the workers. Most seem uninterested in her project, though Ivo (Kresimir Mikic) and his assistant Bharan (Samson Semere) at least provide candid responses to her otherwise bland line of questioning - “What do you like best about your job...
- 4/29/2019
- QuietEarth.us
With a stellar line-up of the best in new independent and international horror features and shorts, Scotland's premiere horror film festival - Dead by Dawn - returns to Edinburgh's Film House this April 18th-21st. Our own Simon Read will be in attendance, providing coverage and reviews.
The line-up this year includes the UK premiers of G Patrick Condon's meta-horror Incredible Violence, Rasmus Kloster Bro's claustrophobic Cutterhead and Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren's deadpan metal-head comedy Heavy Trip.
From Germany, Tilman Singer's bizarro demonic chiller Luz will be screening, and from France director Quarxx's ferociously dark Tous Les Dieux du Ciel. Brett Simmons' Summer camp nightmare flick You Might be the Killer - starring Cabin in...
The line-up this year includes the UK premiers of G Patrick Condon's meta-horror Incredible Violence, Rasmus Kloster Bro's claustrophobic Cutterhead and Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren's deadpan metal-head comedy Heavy Trip.
From Germany, Tilman Singer's bizarro demonic chiller Luz will be screening, and from France director Quarxx's ferociously dark Tous Les Dieux du Ciel. Brett Simmons' Summer camp nightmare flick You Might be the Killer - starring Cabin in...
- 4/8/2019
- QuietEarth.us
The Lithuanian festival also lauded Zsófia Szilágyi’s debut ‘One Day’.
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
UK filmmaker Richard Billingham’s autobiographical feature Ray & Liz was named best film of the European Debut Competition at the 24th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania on April 7.
Billingham’s feature debut - which is being handled internationally by Luxbox - had its world premiere at last year’s Locarno Film Festival and has since picked up top awards at festivals ranging from Thessaloniki and Seville to Luxembourg and Batumi.
The best director award was presented to Hungary’s Zsófia Szilágyi for her debut...
- 4/8/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Genre festival will screen the Nordic premiere of Stivaletti’s ‘Rabbia Furiosa’.
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event which will run from Nov 21-25 in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
The screenings will include Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out, Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, Joel Potrykus’ Relaxer, Emma Tammi’s The Wind, Jimmy Henderson’s The Prey, Jonas Akerlund’s Lords of Chaos, and omnibus The Field Guide to Evil.
Genre festival Night Visions has revealed the line-up for this year’s event which will run from Nov 21-25 in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
The screenings will include Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Gaspar Noe’s Climax, Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart, Jim Hosking’s An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, Quentin Dupieux’s Keep An Eye Out, Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, Joel Potrykus’ Relaxer, Emma Tammi’s The Wind, Jimmy Henderson’s The Prey, Jonas Akerlund’s Lords of Chaos, and omnibus The Field Guide to Evil.
- 10/31/2018
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The film is about a troubled teenage girl and her parents.
After its world premiere in Toronto and best actress prize in San Sebastian, Tuva Novotny’s debut feature Blind Spot has now picked up the New Talent Grand Pix, with a cash prize worth $7,000, at Cph Pix in Copenhagen.
Novotny, a Swedish actress living in Denmark, directed her first feature in Norway. Shot in one real-time take, the story follows a troubled teenage girl and her parents responding to a crisis.
The jury was comprised of Tatiana Leite (Brazil), Joachim Lafosse (Belgium) and Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden).
The jury praised Novotny and Blind Spot,...
After its world premiere in Toronto and best actress prize in San Sebastian, Tuva Novotny’s debut feature Blind Spot has now picked up the New Talent Grand Pix, with a cash prize worth $7,000, at Cph Pix in Copenhagen.
Novotny, a Swedish actress living in Denmark, directed her first feature in Norway. Shot in one real-time take, the story follows a troubled teenage girl and her parents responding to a crisis.
The jury was comprised of Tatiana Leite (Brazil), Joachim Lafosse (Belgium) and Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden).
The jury praised Novotny and Blind Spot,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built will open event.
Cph Pix’s 10th edition will open with Lars von Trier in the house to present The House That Jack Built and will close with Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma: it will mark the Netflix project’s only planned theatrical screening in Denmark.
The 10th edition of the festival runs Sept 27 to Oct 10, presenting 191 features including 19 new Danish films. The Buster schools and family programme will show 44 of those features, such as I Kill Giants and The Breadwinner.
Festival hits set to screen include Cold War, Shoplifters, Capernaum, Touch Me Not,...
Cph Pix’s 10th edition will open with Lars von Trier in the house to present The House That Jack Built and will close with Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma: it will mark the Netflix project’s only planned theatrical screening in Denmark.
The 10th edition of the festival runs Sept 27 to Oct 10, presenting 191 features including 19 new Danish films. The Buster schools and family programme will show 44 of those features, such as I Kill Giants and The Breadwinner.
Festival hits set to screen include Cold War, Shoplifters, Capernaum, Touch Me Not,...
- 9/7/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Titles screening at the 18th edition include David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake.
Swiss genre festival Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has announced the programme for its 18th edition, held from July 6-14 this year.
The festival will open with the world premiere of web series Le 5e Cavalier, which won the Fantastic Web Contest at last year’s event. The closing film will be the Swiss premiere of animation Hotel Transylvania 3.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Across nine days the festival will screen over 150 films across 14 sections, consisting of 109 features and 60 shorts.
16 films will compete in the international competition,...
Swiss genre festival Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has announced the programme for its 18th edition, held from July 6-14 this year.
The festival will open with the world premiere of web series Le 5e Cavalier, which won the Fantastic Web Contest at last year’s event. The closing film will be the Swiss premiere of animation Hotel Transylvania 3.
Scroll down for the full line-up
Across nine days the festival will screen over 150 films across 14 sections, consisting of 109 features and 60 shorts.
16 films will compete in the international competition,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The film is the feature debut from Rasmus Kloster Bro.
LevelK has taken on world sales rights for Rasmus Kloster Bro’s debut feature Cutterhead.
The Danish survival drama is about a PR coordinator documenting construction of the Copenhagen Metro. When an accident occurs, she takes refuge in an airlock with a Croatian miner and a worker from Eritrea; they must put their lives in each other’s hands.
LevelK will present Cutterhead as a closed market screening in Cannes on May 10,
The film is produced by Amalie Lyngbo Quist for Beo Starling, and written by Rasmus Kloster Bro and Mikkel Bak Sørensen,...
LevelK has taken on world sales rights for Rasmus Kloster Bro’s debut feature Cutterhead.
The Danish survival drama is about a PR coordinator documenting construction of the Copenhagen Metro. When an accident occurs, she takes refuge in an airlock with a Croatian miner and a worker from Eritrea; they must put their lives in each other’s hands.
LevelK will present Cutterhead as a closed market screening in Cannes on May 10,
The film is produced by Amalie Lyngbo Quist for Beo Starling, and written by Rasmus Kloster Bro and Mikkel Bak Sørensen,...
- 5/4/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The winner of the Eurimages Lab Project Award from Haugesund’s Works In Progress presentations was Katrín Ólafsdóttirs The Wind Blew On from Iceland.
The new prize, worth $56,000 (€50,000) was given to “the most promising cutting-edge film presented as a work in progress”.
The jury was comprised of Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer, Dorien van de Pas of the Netherlands Filmfund, and Heidi Zwicker of Sundance.
Head of New Nordic Films Gyda Velvin Myklebust noted that the award was aimed at a film that was “experimental in form or content”.
Of the 20 films presented, industry buzz was highest for pitches including Izer Aliu’s energetic and funny teenage story 12 Dares; Norwegian debut The Tree Feller; Fenar Ahmad’s Danish criminal underworld drama/thriller Darkland, Danish debut Winter Brothers; family animation Richard The Stork (already a hot seller for Global Screen); absurdist Norwegian comedy Lake Over Fire; and Danish drama Mesteren, starring Soren Malling and Jakob Oftebro and directed by [link...
The new prize, worth $56,000 (€50,000) was given to “the most promising cutting-edge film presented as a work in progress”.
The jury was comprised of Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer, Dorien van de Pas of the Netherlands Filmfund, and Heidi Zwicker of Sundance.
Head of New Nordic Films Gyda Velvin Myklebust noted that the award was aimed at a film that was “experimental in form or content”.
Of the 20 films presented, industry buzz was highest for pitches including Izer Aliu’s energetic and funny teenage story 12 Dares; Norwegian debut The Tree Feller; Fenar Ahmad’s Danish criminal underworld drama/thriller Darkland, Danish debut Winter Brothers; family animation Richard The Stork (already a hot seller for Global Screen); absurdist Norwegian comedy Lake Over Fire; and Danish drama Mesteren, starring Soren Malling and Jakob Oftebro and directed by [link...
- 8/26/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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