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
Last Saturday, June 27th, the awards of the 4th annual Cinema City International Film Festival were announced at the closing ceremony in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival gives its signature Ibis Awards in several categories to films in its three competition sections: ‘National Class’ (contemporary Serbian cinema), ‘Exit Point’ (international art cinema) and ‘Up to 10.000 Bucks’ (low-budget cinema). In addition to Cinema City’s main juries for these three sections, the festival invites critics from Fedeora, Fipresci and the Serbian branch of Fipresci to give their awards. There is also an Audience Award, which allows the public to vote for their favourite film.
Here is the complete list of winners, in order of number of awards won (all are Ibis Awards unless otherwise stated):
The Enemy (Neprijatelj, 2011, dir. Dejan Zečević)
National Class:
-Best Photography
-Best Scenography
-Best Costume
-Fedeora Award
White White World (Beli Beli Svet, 2010, dir. Oleg...
Here is the complete list of winners, in order of number of awards won (all are Ibis Awards unless otherwise stated):
The Enemy (Neprijatelj, 2011, dir. Dejan Zečević)
National Class:
-Best Photography
-Best Scenography
-Best Costume
-Fedeora Award
White White World (Beli Beli Svet, 2010, dir. Oleg...
- 6/27/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
Last night I had a lovely Scandinavian dinner with friends as we discussed our book club title "The Ice Princess" the latest best seller capitalizing on the super hot Scandinavian crime genre (oh what The Girl With/Who... has wrought!). I didn't like the book at all and the translation seemed clunky (or maybe that was the fault of the original prose?) but I find the whole trend vaguely hilarious since Scandinavian countries, to their vast collective credit, are not exactly known as hotbeds of crime! Returning home, what do I have in my inbox?, but the nominations for Norway's annual "Amanda" Awards. Don't you love unexpected theme days?
Norway had a record breaking year with 34 original films eligible for their own prizes. To give you a very general sense of the amount of films various countries make each year here's a handy graphic AMPAS provided for the films of...
Norway had a record breaking year with 34 original films eligible for their own prizes. To give you a very general sense of the amount of films various countries make each year here's a handy graphic AMPAS provided for the films of...
- 6/23/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Maria Sødahl has made an assured feature debut with Limbo (2010) at the Cinema City film festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. The film was previously screened at Montreal and Thessaloniki. Set in the 1970s, Limbo centres on a Norwegian woman named Sonia who, with her two children, goes to Trinidad to join her husband Joe who is working for an oil company. She receives a warm welcome from the expatriate community, especially the Swedish wife of one of Joe’s colleagues who is happy to find someone who speaks her language.
But Sonia is ill at ease with their new lifestyle, from the uncomfortable décor of their house, with its formal, overbearing housekeeper Mrs. George, to the superficiality of the wives who follow their husbands wherever their temporary contracts lead them. Although her children seem to enjoy the novelty of living on a tropical island, Sonia worries about the strict discipline and...
But Sonia is ill at ease with their new lifestyle, from the uncomfortable décor of their house, with its formal, overbearing housekeeper Mrs. George, to the superficiality of the wives who follow their husbands wherever their temporary contracts lead them. Although her children seem to enjoy the novelty of living on a tropical island, Sonia worries about the strict discipline and...
- 6/20/2011
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
(Lena Endre, above. Photo by Marica Rosengard.)
by Terry Keefe
Although best known on the U.S. shores for her role of Erika Berger in the films based on the Stieg Larsson "Millenium Trilogy" books (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), Swedish actress Lena Endre has been an international star for years, having worked in her home country with the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman. Her newest film, Limbo, contains a richly dramatic character study by Endre that would have been worthy of inclusion in a Bergman film.
Limbo features actress Line Verndal as a Norwegian woman named Sonia, who has been living quite independently in her home country for years, raising her two children. Her husband Jo (Henrik Rafaelsen) works as an oil engineer in Trinidad, and life changes dramatically for Sonia when...
by Terry Keefe
Although best known on the U.S. shores for her role of Erika Berger in the films based on the Stieg Larsson "Millenium Trilogy" books (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), Swedish actress Lena Endre has been an international star for years, having worked in her home country with the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman. Her newest film, Limbo, contains a richly dramatic character study by Endre that would have been worthy of inclusion in a Bergman film.
Limbo features actress Line Verndal as a Norwegian woman named Sonia, who has been living quite independently in her home country for years, raising her two children. Her husband Jo (Henrik Rafaelsen) works as an oil engineer in Trinidad, and life changes dramatically for Sonia when...
- 5/3/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Hans Van Nuffel's Oxygen. The Montreal World Film Festival winners were announced on Sept. 7. Feature Films Grand prix des Americas: Oxygen (Adem) by Hans Van Nuffel (Belgium/Netherlands) Special Grand Prix of the jury : Dalla Vita In Poi (From The Waist On) by Gianfrancesco Lazotti (Italy) Best Director ex-aequo: Limbo by Maria Sødahl (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Trinidad and Tobago) TÊTE De Turc by Pascal Elbé (France) Best Actress : Eri Fukatsu for the film Akunin (Villain) by Lee Sang-Il (Japan) Best Actor : FRANÇOIS Papineau for the film Route 132 by Louis Bélanger (Canada) Best Screenplay: De La Infancia (From Childhood) by Carlos Carrera, screenplay by Silvia Pasternac, Fernando Leon, Carlos Carrera (Mexico) Best Artistic Contribution : Venice (Wenecja) by Jan Jakub Kolski (Poland) Innovation Award: Tromper Le Silence (Silence Lies) by Julie Hivon (Canada) Short Films : 1st prize : El Vendedor Del AÑO (Salesman Of The...
- 9/16/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
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