Maria Sødahl’s “Hope” has been selected to represent Norway in the Oscar’s international feature film race.
The film was selected by the Norwegian Oscar Committee out of three candidates which included “Disco” by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, and the documentary “Self Portrait” by Espen Wallin, Katja Høgset and Margreth Olin.
Represented in international markets by TrustNordisk, “Hope” won the European Cinemas Label Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival after world premiering at Toronto. It was just nominated for a pair of European Film Awards and was released in Sweden across 90 theaters.
“Hope” marks Sødahl’s follow up to “Limbo” and is a personal film based on what she went through after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer years ago.
The heartfelt drama stars Stellan Skarsgard and Andrea Braein Hovig (“All the Beauty”) as a couple with a large blended family whose lives break down when the wife...
The film was selected by the Norwegian Oscar Committee out of three candidates which included “Disco” by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, and the documentary “Self Portrait” by Espen Wallin, Katja Høgset and Margreth Olin.
Represented in international markets by TrustNordisk, “Hope” won the European Cinemas Label Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival after world premiering at Toronto. It was just nominated for a pair of European Film Awards and was released in Sweden across 90 theaters.
“Hope” marks Sødahl’s follow up to “Limbo” and is a personal film based on what she went through after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer years ago.
The heartfelt drama stars Stellan Skarsgard and Andrea Braein Hovig (“All the Beauty”) as a couple with a large blended family whose lives break down when the wife...
- 11/12/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired U.K. rights from TrustNordisk for Maria Sødahl’s “Hope,” which stars Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig, and will have its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this month.
Based on the director’s own experiences after being diagnosed with brain cancer, “Hope” explores the relationship between artists and partners Tomas (Skarsgård) and Anja (Hovig), which is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis. The film world premiered in the Discovery program of the Toronto Film Festival and will screen in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
Sødahl took a long break from filmmaking after her diagnosis nearly a decade ago. Her first feature, “Limbo,” premiered to wide acclaim in 2010, earning her a share of best director honors at the Montreal Intl. Film Festival and nabbing 10 nominations at the Amanda Awards, Norway’s top film prize.
Speaking to Variety ahead of...
Based on the director’s own experiences after being diagnosed with brain cancer, “Hope” explores the relationship between artists and partners Tomas (Skarsgård) and Anja (Hovig), which is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis. The film world premiered in the Discovery program of the Toronto Film Festival and will screen in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
Sødahl took a long break from filmmaking after her diagnosis nearly a decade ago. Her first feature, “Limbo,” premiered to wide acclaim in 2010, earning her a share of best director honors at the Montreal Intl. Film Festival and nabbing 10 nominations at the Amanda Awards, Norway’s top film prize.
Speaking to Variety ahead of...
- 2/3/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The film debuted at Toronto 2019.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Hope, the second feature from Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl, ahead of the film’s European premiere in Panorama at the Berlinale next month.
The film debuted at Toronto 2019 in the Discovery section. Picturehouse Entertainment struck the deal with Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk; it is yet to set an exact date for the release, which will come later this year.
Based on the director’s personal experiences, the film explores the relationship between a pair of artists which is tested when one of them receives a life-threatening diagnosis.
Stellan Skarsgård...
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Hope, the second feature from Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl, ahead of the film’s European premiere in Panorama at the Berlinale next month.
The film debuted at Toronto 2019 in the Discovery section. Picturehouse Entertainment struck the deal with Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk; it is yet to set an exact date for the release, which will come later this year.
Based on the director’s personal experiences, the film explores the relationship between a pair of artists which is tested when one of them receives a life-threatening diagnosis.
Stellan Skarsgård...
- 1/31/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
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