Faroese-born emerging director Andrias Høgenni, winner of a Canal+ award at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2021 with his short film “Illi illa meint,” just got married this summer.
His project “Anything for Her,” introduced at this year’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, is precisely about a wedding, and much more. Family conflicts, especially with step-parents involved, and the uniquely chaotic nature of a Faroese wedding set in a tightly-knit community of 52,000 souls.
Spearheaded by Danish production partners Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard of Studiocanal-backed Sam Productions (“Borgen”) and Rikke Tambo Andersen of Tambo Film (“The Penultimate”), the project has secured co-production partners from France and the Faroe Islands, Variety has learned.
La Rochelle-based In Vivo Films, behind the 2022 Toronto-bound “Autobiography” and 2019 Rotterdam entry “La Fortaleza,” has come on board at script stage, together with the leading Faroese producer, Jón Hammer of “Trom” backer Kyk Pictures.
Tambo Andersen, set to pitch the...
His project “Anything for Her,” introduced at this year’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, is precisely about a wedding, and much more. Family conflicts, especially with step-parents involved, and the uniquely chaotic nature of a Faroese wedding set in a tightly-knit community of 52,000 souls.
Spearheaded by Danish production partners Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard of Studiocanal-backed Sam Productions (“Borgen”) and Rikke Tambo Andersen of Tambo Film (“The Penultimate”), the project has secured co-production partners from France and the Faroe Islands, Variety has learned.
La Rochelle-based In Vivo Films, behind the 2022 Toronto-bound “Autobiography” and 2019 Rotterdam entry “La Fortaleza,” has come on board at script stage, together with the leading Faroese producer, Jón Hammer of “Trom” backer Kyk Pictures.
Tambo Andersen, set to pitch the...
- 8/24/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Next Step programme helps directors make move from shorts to first feature.
French director Camille Degeye has won the second €5,000 Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize, for her debut feature project Sphinx.
The drama is about a young medical intern who is excluded from the neurosurgery department where she works. She finds a job as a medic for a trendy Paris nightclub, where she embarks on a passionate love affair with an enigmatic figure on the Paris drag queen cabaret scene.
Spearheaded by outgoing Critics’ Week manager Rémi Bonhomme, the Next Step initiative was launched in 2014 to help directors of...
French director Camille Degeye has won the second €5,000 Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize, for her debut feature project Sphinx.
The drama is about a young medical intern who is excluded from the neurosurgery department where she works. She finds a job as a medic for a trendy Paris nightclub, where she embarks on a passionate love affair with an enigmatic figure on the Paris drag queen cabaret scene.
Spearheaded by outgoing Critics’ Week manager Rémi Bonhomme, the Next Step initiative was launched in 2014 to help directors of...
- 6/4/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Nordic International Film Festival is changing locations.
With dates set for Oct. 16-20, the fifth annual event will move to the Roxy Cinema at The Roxy Hotel in New York. Panels and parties will take place at the Park Avenue outpost of the Stockholm museum Fotografiska.
Started by two Swedish born filmmakers based in New York, Linnea Larsdotter and Johan Matton, the festival boasts its status as the “biggest film festival outside Europe.” The silent theme for this year’s progressive official program is climate change.
Niff will present one world premiere, six international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere and 11 New York premieres among its multiple programs. 79 percent of the films to be shown this year also include at least one woman in power. Additionally, the festival promises a focus on up-and-coming talent to screen in its Aurora Borealis category — part of its...
With dates set for Oct. 16-20, the fifth annual event will move to the Roxy Cinema at The Roxy Hotel in New York. Panels and parties will take place at the Park Avenue outpost of the Stockholm museum Fotografiska.
Started by two Swedish born filmmakers based in New York, Linnea Larsdotter and Johan Matton, the festival boasts its status as the “biggest film festival outside Europe.” The silent theme for this year’s progressive official program is climate change.
Niff will present one world premiere, six international premieres, two North American premieres, one U.S. premiere and 11 New York premieres among its multiple programs. 79 percent of the films to be shown this year also include at least one woman in power. Additionally, the festival promises a focus on up-and-coming talent to screen in its Aurora Borealis category — part of its...
- 9/17/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
In a unanimous decision by the Cannes 2019 jury headed up by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bong Joon-ho was awarded the Palme d’Or for his new thriller Parasite, marking the first South Korean director ever to do so. “With the terrific Parasite, Bong has crafted an angry, genre-inflected social allegory that in many ways functions as a Korean analog to Jordan Peele’s Us. A far superior craftsman than Peele, Bong is perhaps the contemporary master of entertaining, intelligent and resolutely political cinema. In our age of assembly line blockbusters, he’s a veritable treasure,” Giovanni Marchini Camia said in our review of the film, which will be released in the U.S. by Neon.
In additional, Mati Diop’s Atlantics picked up the Grand Prize, while Les Misérables and Bacurau tied for the Jury Prize. The Dardennes grabbed Best Director(s) for Young Ahmed, while Antonio Banderas and Emily Beecham...
In additional, Mati Diop’s Atlantics picked up the Grand Prize, while Les Misérables and Bacurau tied for the Jury Prize. The Dardennes grabbed Best Director(s) for Young Ahmed, while Antonio Banderas and Emily Beecham...
- 5/26/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won prestigious Cannes parallel selection.
French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin’s feature-length animation I Lost My Body has scooped the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics Week, the prestigious parallel section aimed at emerging directors and showing shorts and first and second-time films.
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won the top prize at Critics’ Week since its launch in 1962.
Sold internationally by Paris-based Charades (which also sold last year’s winner Diamantino), it is about a severed hand which escapes from a laboratory refrigerator and sets off on an...
French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin’s feature-length animation I Lost My Body has scooped the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics Week, the prestigious parallel section aimed at emerging directors and showing shorts and first and second-time films.
It is the first time a feature-length animation has won the top prize at Critics’ Week since its launch in 1962.
Sold internationally by Paris-based Charades (which also sold last year’s winner Diamantino), it is about a severed hand which escapes from a laboratory refrigerator and sets off on an...
- 5/22/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
“I Lost My Body,” a dark French animated film from writer-director Jérémy Clapin, has come up trumps in this year’s Critics’ Week program at the Cannes Film Festival, taking the strand’s top honor, the Nespresso Grand Prize. The film, which follows a young man’s severed hand as it struggles to be reunited with its own, was a critical favorite in the section, standing out for its blend of morbid humor and touching drama — and of course for being the only toon in an otherwise live-action selection.
Oscar-nominated “Amélie” screenwriter Guillaume Laurant also had a hand in the film, so to speak, which Clapin — whose short film “Skhizein” also won a Critics’ Week prize in 2008 — described to Variety earlier this week as “a kind of love story.” “I Lost My Body,” his first feature, will travel on to the Annecy fest as it seeks international distribution.
Other Critics...
Oscar-nominated “Amélie” screenwriter Guillaume Laurant also had a hand in the film, so to speak, which Clapin — whose short film “Skhizein” also won a Critics’ Week prize in 2008 — described to Variety earlier this week as “a kind of love story.” “I Lost My Body,” his first feature, will travel on to the Annecy fest as it seeks international distribution.
Other Critics...
- 5/22/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The 2019 Cannes Critics’ Week lineup as been announced, revealing the seven features and 10 short films that will compete in the prestigious sidebar to the Cannes Film Festival. Critics’ Week is celebrating its 58th year in 2019. “Embrace of the Serpent” filmmaker and “Birds of Passage” co-director Ciro Guerra is serving as the president of the Critics’ Week jury.
This year’s Critics’ Week competition includes the world premiere of “Vivarium,” a science-fiction thriller from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Without a Name”). The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots as a young couple who move into a new housing development, only to discover the place is far more surreal than anticipated. “Vivarium” is Finnegan’s second feature. Critics’ Week screens directorial debuts and second features, with first-time films eligible for the Camera d’Or honor. A special screening of “Litigante” from director Franco Lolli will open Critics’ Week.
The 2019 Cannes Critics...
This year’s Critics’ Week competition includes the world premiere of “Vivarium,” a science-fiction thriller from Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Without a Name”). The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots as a young couple who move into a new housing development, only to discover the place is far more surreal than anticipated. “Vivarium” is Finnegan’s second feature. Critics’ Week screens directorial debuts and second features, with first-time films eligible for the Camera d’Or honor. A special screening of “Litigante” from director Franco Lolli will open Critics’ Week.
The 2019 Cannes Critics...
- 4/22/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Following last week’s unveiling of the Cannes Film Festival lineup, the sidebar of Critics’ Week has now revealed their program. With a jury headed by Embrace of the Serpent and Birds of Passage director Ciro Guerra, the lineup includes Lorcan Finnegan‘s sci-fi thriller Vivarium, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg and Hlynur Pálmason’s Winters Brothers follow-up A White, White Day. Adèle Haenel–who has Portrait of a Lady on Fire in competition and Deerskin opening Directors’ Fortnight–will also appear at Critics’ Week with Heroes Don’t Die.
See the lineup below, including the first teaser for I Lost My Body.
Competition, Features
About Lelia, dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes, dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day, dir: Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body, dir: Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers, dir: César Diaz
The Unknown Saint, dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, dir: Lorcan Finnegan
Special Screenings,...
See the lineup below, including the first teaser for I Lost My Body.
Competition, Features
About Lelia, dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène
Land Of Ashes, dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda
A White, White Day, dir: Hlynur Pálmason
I Lost My Body, dir: Jérémy Clapin
Our Mothers, dir: César Diaz
The Unknown Saint, dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem
Vivarium, dir: Lorcan Finnegan
Special Screenings,...
- 4/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 58th edition of Critics’ Week has unveiled its program for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The section welcomes first or second features and boasts a number of debuts which will be eligible for the Camera d’Or in 2019. Oscar-nominated Embrace Of The Serpent filmmaker Ciro Guerra is chairing the jury which will screen seven features in competition and 10 short films.
Three special screenings are also included in the lineup, among them the first feature directing effort of Hafsia Herzi. The Secret Of The Grain star’s Tu Mérites Un Amour is described as a passionate love story and an assured debut. Also in special screenings are Franco Lolli’s Litigante, which will open CW, and Heroes Don’t Die, a feature debut from Aude Léa Rapin that stars Adèle Haenel.
The competition titles include Vivarium, the second work by Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name). It stars Imogen Poots...
Three special screenings are also included in the lineup, among them the first feature directing effort of Hafsia Herzi. The Secret Of The Grain star’s Tu Mérites Un Amour is described as a passionate love story and an assured debut. Also in special screenings are Franco Lolli’s Litigante, which will open CW, and Heroes Don’t Die, a feature debut from Aude Léa Rapin that stars Adèle Haenel.
The competition titles include Vivarium, the second work by Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (Without Name). It stars Imogen Poots...
- 4/22/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Produced by Hummelfilm, ‘Borg vs McEnroe’ star Sverrir Gudnason is amongst the cast.
Haugesund’s industry programme New Nordic Films will kick off with a screening of Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s Norwegian family drama Phoenix (Foniks), which was pitched as a work in progress at the event last year.
Gudny Hummelvoll produces for Hummelfilm, with a cast that features Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Casper Falck-Løvås, Maria Bonnevie and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs McEnroe).
New Nordic Films has also today confirmed the projects for Scandinavian Debut Pitch:
A Foot In The Grave (En amputasjon), dir Simon Tillaas (Nor) Daddy’s Girl, dir...
Haugesund’s industry programme New Nordic Films will kick off with a screening of Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s Norwegian family drama Phoenix (Foniks), which was pitched as a work in progress at the event last year.
Gudny Hummelvoll produces for Hummelfilm, with a cast that features Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Casper Falck-Løvås, Maria Bonnevie and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg vs McEnroe).
New Nordic Films has also today confirmed the projects for Scandinavian Debut Pitch:
A Foot In The Grave (En amputasjon), dir Simon Tillaas (Nor) Daddy’s Girl, dir...
- 7/27/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Mr. Turner among first 12 films named in the Riff line-up.
British filmmaker Mike Leigh has been named the guest of honour at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, ahead of its 11th edition (Sept 25 - Oct 5).
His latest film, Mr. Turner, which picked up a Best Actor prize for Timothy Spall at the Cannes Film Festival in May, will be screened at the festival.
Previous Riff guests of honour include Milos Forman, Lukas Moodysson and Jim Jarmusch.
More than 80 features will be screened at the festival and 12 films by new directors will compete for the Golden Puffin in the New Visions category.
Other strands include Open Seas, featuring a variety of recent prize-winning films; green movies, comprising documentaries on environmental matters, in strand titled A Different Tomorrow; Icelandic short films; and a variety of docs.
Ahead of releasing the full line-up, an initial 12 titles have been teased out. As well as Mr. Turner, these include:...
British filmmaker Mike Leigh has been named the guest of honour at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, ahead of its 11th edition (Sept 25 - Oct 5).
His latest film, Mr. Turner, which picked up a Best Actor prize for Timothy Spall at the Cannes Film Festival in May, will be screened at the festival.
Previous Riff guests of honour include Milos Forman, Lukas Moodysson and Jim Jarmusch.
More than 80 features will be screened at the festival and 12 films by new directors will compete for the Golden Puffin in the New Visions category.
Other strands include Open Seas, featuring a variety of recent prize-winning films; green movies, comprising documentaries on environmental matters, in strand titled A Different Tomorrow; Icelandic short films; and a variety of docs.
Ahead of releasing the full line-up, an initial 12 titles have been teased out. As well as Mr. Turner, these include:...
- 9/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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