LevelK continues to terrify international distributors with Finnish horror “The Knocking,” directed by Max Seeck and Joonas Pajunen.
The film has now been sold to over 70 countries, Variety has learned, with the company sealing further deals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Alamode Film), Latin America (Gussi), Cis (Capella Film), France (Kmbo), Indonesia (Pt. Falcon) and Taiwan (Av-Jet International Media).
“We have been looking at many Nordic projects, especially the Finnish ones. We definitely see a shift in not just more genre projects emerging, but also in the subjects and the creativity,” says CEO Tine Klint.
“‘The Knocking’ ticks those boxes in providing a Nordic horror with an original story, told through classic genre tropes, which is exactly what the buyers are looking for at the moment.”
The film is produced by Markus Selin and Jukka Helle for Helsinki-based Solar Films, also behind Mika Kaurismäki’s “The Grump: In Search of an Escort,...
The film has now been sold to over 70 countries, Variety has learned, with the company sealing further deals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Alamode Film), Latin America (Gussi), Cis (Capella Film), France (Kmbo), Indonesia (Pt. Falcon) and Taiwan (Av-Jet International Media).
“We have been looking at many Nordic projects, especially the Finnish ones. We definitely see a shift in not just more genre projects emerging, but also in the subjects and the creativity,” says CEO Tine Klint.
“‘The Knocking’ ticks those boxes in providing a Nordic horror with an original story, told through classic genre tropes, which is exactly what the buyers are looking for at the moment.”
The film is produced by Markus Selin and Jukka Helle for Helsinki-based Solar Films, also behind Mika Kaurismäki’s “The Grump: In Search of an Escort,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The Criterion Channel’s July lineup is an across-the-board display of strengths, ranging as it does from very specific programming cues to actor retrospectives and hardly ignoring the strength of Criterion Editions. Surely much fun’s to be had with “In the Ring,” a decade-spanning, 16-film curation of boxing pictures—Raging Bull and Fat City, of course, with some you forget are boxing movies (Rocco and His Brothers) and others you’ve likely never seen at all (count me excited for King Vidor’s The Champ). “Noir in Color” brilliantly upends common conception of a drama (and gives you excuse to see Nicholas Ray’s Party Girl); Setsuko Hara films are gathered into a handy collection; and Blake Edwards gets six.
On the Criterion Editions front they’ve gone all out: the Before trilogy, Alex Cox’s Walker, Leave Her to Heaven, Shaft, Destry Rides Again, Raging Bull, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...
On the Criterion Editions front they’ve gone all out: the Before trilogy, Alex Cox’s Walker, Leave Her to Heaven, Shaft, Destry Rides Again, Raging Bull, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Warner Bros,’ “The Batman” ruled the U.K. and Ireland box office, debuting at pole position with £13.5 million ($17.8 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
In its fourth weekend, Sony’s “Uncharted” dropped a place down to second with £1.3 million and now has a total of £20.2 million.
In third position was Universal’s “Sing 2” with £1 million and the animated sequel has a robust £30.3 million total after six weekends.
In its second weekend, Warner Bros’ “The Duke,” the late “Notting Hill” director Roger Michell’s last fiction feature, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, collected £682,096 in fourth place and has a total of £2.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Death on the Nile,” directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, with £283,550. The film has a total of £7.1 million after four weekends.
Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued its mighty performance at...
In its fourth weekend, Sony’s “Uncharted” dropped a place down to second with £1.3 million and now has a total of £20.2 million.
In third position was Universal’s “Sing 2” with £1 million and the animated sequel has a robust £30.3 million total after six weekends.
In its second weekend, Warner Bros’ “The Duke,” the late “Notting Hill” director Roger Michell’s last fiction feature, starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, collected £682,096 in fourth place and has a total of £2.7 million.
Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Death on the Nile,” directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, with £283,550. The film has a total of £7.1 million after four weekends.
Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” continued its mighty performance at...
- 3/9/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
When a widower washes up in a remote Finnish town with his son, his culinary skills enchant the locals and mesmerise the camera
Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki (elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki) gives us a well-intentioned if watery and bland drama, a decently performed but tepid heartwarmer which can be filed under that dodgiest of sub-headings: “foodie”, that is, something with a supercilious tendency to showcase delicious-seeming food as a shortcut to being life-affirming and life-enhancing.
A Chinese widower called Cheng (played by Hong Kong actor Pak Hong Chu) shows up out of the blue in a remote Finnish town with his young son Niu Niu (Lucas Hsuan), and walks into a roadside cafe run by Sirkka (Anna-Maija Tuokko), who is listlessly serving up dull grub for the locals. With no Finnish and only halting English, Cheng asks everyone in the place if they know of “Fongtron”: this mysterious...
Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki (elder brother of Aki Kaurismäki) gives us a well-intentioned if watery and bland drama, a decently performed but tepid heartwarmer which can be filed under that dodgiest of sub-headings: “foodie”, that is, something with a supercilious tendency to showcase delicious-seeming food as a shortcut to being life-affirming and life-enhancing.
A Chinese widower called Cheng (played by Hong Kong actor Pak Hong Chu) shows up out of the blue in a remote Finnish town with his young son Niu Niu (Lucas Hsuan), and walks into a roadside cafe run by Sirkka (Anna-Maija Tuokko), who is listlessly serving up dull grub for the locals. With no Finnish and only halting English, Cheng asks everyone in the place if they know of “Fongtron”: this mysterious...
- 3/8/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The documentary was produced by Berlinale award-winning Finnish firm Tuffi Films
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on feature documentary Just Animals, directed by Finland’s Saila Kivelä and Vesa Kuosmanen.
Elli Toivoniemi, Juha Löppönen and Venla Hellstedt produce for Finland’s prolific, female-centred production company Tuffi Films, whose credits also include Berlinale Crystal Bear winner Stupid Young Heart.
Just Animals will reveive its market premiere at the European Film Market (EFM), ahead of Aurora Studios releasing the film in Finnish cinemas on March 4.
The film follows an animal rights activist through the legal battles of her youth, and...
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on feature documentary Just Animals, directed by Finland’s Saila Kivelä and Vesa Kuosmanen.
Elli Toivoniemi, Juha Löppönen and Venla Hellstedt produce for Finland’s prolific, female-centred production company Tuffi Films, whose credits also include Berlinale Crystal Bear winner Stupid Young Heart.
Just Animals will reveive its market premiere at the European Film Market (EFM), ahead of Aurora Studios releasing the film in Finnish cinemas on March 4.
The film follows an animal rights activist through the legal battles of her youth, and...
- 2/9/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Helsinki-based sales outfit The Yellow Affair, behind Hulu’s transgender TV drama “Rūrangi,” has boarded the Finnish pic “The Grump: In Search of an Escort.”
The third installment in “The Grump” series about the stubborn elderly Finnish farmer, the pic is produced by Markus Selin, Jukka Hele and Hanna Virolainen for Finnish production powerhouse Solar Films, in co-production with Raoul Reinert for Germany’s Aspekt Telefilm.
This time around, on the pretext of finding a replacement for his beloved vintage Escort car, the Grump heads off to Germany where his estranged elder brother Tarmo is based. Forced to spend time together, the siblings end up healing decades of old wounds.
In the main roles are Heikki Kinnunen, cast as the-not-so-happy old man in the second film “Happier Times Grump,” as well as Aake Kalliala.
The pic, about reconciliation and forgiveness, was co-financed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Telia Group’s...
The third installment in “The Grump” series about the stubborn elderly Finnish farmer, the pic is produced by Markus Selin, Jukka Hele and Hanna Virolainen for Finnish production powerhouse Solar Films, in co-production with Raoul Reinert for Germany’s Aspekt Telefilm.
This time around, on the pretext of finding a replacement for his beloved vintage Escort car, the Grump heads off to Germany where his estranged elder brother Tarmo is based. Forced to spend time together, the siblings end up healing decades of old wounds.
In the main roles are Heikki Kinnunen, cast as the-not-so-happy old man in the second film “Happier Times Grump,” as well as Aake Kalliala.
The pic, about reconciliation and forgiveness, was co-financed by the Finnish Film Foundation, Telia Group’s...
- 8/27/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Seven feature-length fiction films, three documentaries and two shorts have received close to €4.2 million in production aid. March has already got off to a good start in Finland, with 12 new titles being granted Finnish Film Foundation backing as part of the 50/50 production support scheme – aimed at productions with high audience appeal. Jussi-winning director Aleksi Salmenperä, now developing Bubble with Minna Haapkylä, of Rabbit Films, was granted €800,000, while Markku Pölönen will focus on Hamsters, following the successful run of his previous historical drama, Land of Hope. Popular franchises also keep going strong, with Lapland Odyssey 4 given €700,000 and Mika Kaurismäki taking over the third part of the successful Grump series, about a cranky yet ultimately rather loveable older man. Produced by Jukka Helle,...
The film had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and will have its market premiere at Berlin’s EFM.
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on Jennifer Sheridan’s debut feature Rose: A Love Story.
The film had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and will have its market premiere at Berlin’s EFM. It was nominated for the BIFA Raindance Discovery Award.
Rose: A Love Story is about a young couple living alone in the woods who have to contend with a disease that gives Rose a parasitic thirst for blood.
Matt Stokoe...
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on Jennifer Sheridan’s debut feature Rose: A Love Story.
The film had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and will have its market premiere at Berlin’s EFM. It was nominated for the BIFA Raindance Discovery Award.
Rose: A Love Story is about a young couple living alone in the woods who have to contend with a disease that gives Rose a parasitic thirst for blood.
Matt Stokoe...
- 2/24/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Mika Kaurismäki's latest film is a largely improvised affair set against the backdrop of Covid pandemic, which sees three men chew the fat over the course of May Day night.
Each of the men - Heikki (Pertti Sveholm), Risto (Kari Heiskanen) and Juhani (Timo Torikka) - is introduced to us earlier in the day, an accomplished bit of, largely, visual storytelling which acts as a welcome open contrast to the bulk of the film which leans heavily on dialogue. Risto, is a doctor, who has just had bad news about a patient, Juhani, a man who has received a disturbing phone call and Juhani is busily taking matters into his own hands regarding the future of his bar, which is in Covid lockdown - in one of several sly and dry nods to the virus, a bottle of Corona advert flashes above the door.
While Heikki contemplates his next move over food.
Each of the men - Heikki (Pertti Sveholm), Risto (Kari Heiskanen) and Juhani (Timo Torikka) - is introduced to us earlier in the day, an accomplished bit of, largely, visual storytelling which acts as a welcome open contrast to the bulk of the film which leans heavily on dialogue. Risto, is a doctor, who has just had bad news about a patient, Juhani, a man who has received a disturbing phone call and Juhani is busily taking matters into his own hands regarding the future of his bar, which is in Covid lockdown - in one of several sly and dry nods to the virus, a bottle of Corona advert flashes above the door.
While Heikki contemplates his next move over food.
- 11/25/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The festival is underway in Estonia with 80 international guests in town.
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
When the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia opened last Thursday November 12, festival director Tiina Lokk stood in front of a socially-distanced, fully masked audience at the Coca-Cola Plaza cinema before a gala screening of Oskar Roehler’s Rainer Werner Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible.
Images were streamed around the world to accredited guests. For as has become commonplace in 2020, the festival is taking place as a hybrid event this year, with around 80 international guests, down from 1,500 last year.
But on opening night, Lokk admits she was unnerved; after...
- 11/20/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Twelve films to receive their world premiere in competition at the festival.
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-29) has unveiled the full lineup of its main competition strand as it prepares to go ahead as a mix of physical and online events.
The festival’s official selection comprises 12 world premieres, 12 international and two European premieres. Eight of these films were previously announced, including István Szabó’s Final Report.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Titles set to receive their world premiere include rural drama Armugan from Spanish director Jo Sol, who won a best new director...
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-29) has unveiled the full lineup of its main competition strand as it prepares to go ahead as a mix of physical and online events.
The festival’s official selection comprises 12 world premieres, 12 international and two European premieres. Eight of these films were previously announced, including István Szabó’s Final Report.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Titles set to receive their world premiere include rural drama Armugan from Spanish director Jo Sol, who won a best new director...
- 10/29/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Mika Kaurismäki, Dalibor Matanić and veteran director Peeter Simm will compete for Tallinn's main awards during the festival's hybrid 24th edition. Adding 17 films to the previously announced eight (see the news), the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has rounded off its Official Selection – Competition. Six of these titles will have their world premieres in Estonia, including Armugan by Spanish director Jo Sol and Gracious Night by Finland's Mika Kaurismäki, which will see him working without a written screenplay and shooting using improvisation as the main method for telling the story of three men meeting in a local bar in Helsinki during lockdown. The Road to Eden by Bakyt Mukul and Dastan Zhapar Uulu, and On the Water by Estonian director Peeter Simm will also be shown for the very first time, with the latter set during the Era of Stagnation in the 1980s, when a sensitive teenager is...
- 10/23/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The film plays in competition at Tallinn Black Nights next month.
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales for Mika Kaurismäki’s Gracious Night, which will screen in competition at the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-29).
Gracious Night is about three men who bond over a long night of fine wine and intellectual discussion, on what could be the final night for a Helsinki bar under serious financial pressure during lockdown.
The barman serves his friend, a frontline healthcare worker who worked a tragedy-filled shift. A stranger comes in looking for a phone charger and they worry...
The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales for Mika Kaurismäki’s Gracious Night, which will screen in competition at the 24th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-29).
Gracious Night is about three men who bond over a long night of fine wine and intellectual discussion, on what could be the final night for a Helsinki bar under serious financial pressure during lockdown.
The barman serves his friend, a frontline healthcare worker who worked a tragedy-filled shift. A stranger comes in looking for a phone charger and they worry...
- 10/22/2020
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Online screenings, early footage, filmmaker presentations from November 9-13.
The Hollywood agencies and a coalition of more than 30 sales agents will operate a parallel virtual market alongside AFM 2020 online next month, similar to the initiative staged alongside virtual Cannes Marché last summer.
From November 9 there will be five days of screenings, early footage, filmmaker presentations, and “other fundamental features of a film market”, according to the agencies.
Sales agents will use preferred platforms to host meetings, presentations and screenings in different time zones, and will create their own time zone schedules.
It remained unclear at time of writing whether a...
The Hollywood agencies and a coalition of more than 30 sales agents will operate a parallel virtual market alongside AFM 2020 online next month, similar to the initiative staged alongside virtual Cannes Marché last summer.
From November 9 there will be five days of screenings, early footage, filmmaker presentations, and “other fundamental features of a film market”, according to the agencies.
Sales agents will use preferred platforms to host meetings, presentations and screenings in different time zones, and will create their own time zone schedules.
It remained unclear at time of writing whether a...
- 10/22/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The film won the audience award at Nordic Days.
Parkland Entertainment has picked up all UK & Ireland rights to Mika Kaurismäki’s Master Cheng, from Finnish sales agent The Yellow Affair.
It is planning a theatrical release for the Finnish title for later in 2020.
The film has screened in the virtual market at Cannes this week. It has also been acquired for Germany (Mfa), Austria (Polyfilm), Switzerland (Frenetic), Estonia (Estin), airlines (Penny Black), Hungary (Cirko), Israel (New Cinema), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta), and Japan (Gaga). Sf Studios is handling the Scandinavian release, with further territories under negotiation.
After debuting in...
Parkland Entertainment has picked up all UK & Ireland rights to Mika Kaurismäki’s Master Cheng, from Finnish sales agent The Yellow Affair.
It is planning a theatrical release for the Finnish title for later in 2020.
The film has screened in the virtual market at Cannes this week. It has also been acquired for Germany (Mfa), Austria (Polyfilm), Switzerland (Frenetic), Estonia (Estin), airlines (Penny Black), Hungary (Cirko), Israel (New Cinema), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta), and Japan (Gaga). Sf Studios is handling the Scandinavian release, with further territories under negotiation.
After debuting in...
- 6/25/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
The audience prize was won by Mika Kaurismäki’s Master Cheng.
Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature A White, White Day has won the top prize at Nordic Film Days in Lubeck in Germany.
The Ndr Film Prize includes a cash award of €12,500.
It is the second consecutive year an Icelandic film has won the award following Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman At War win in 2018.
A White, White Day premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week and is a tale of grief and revenge, revolving around a former policeman in a small Icelandic town. International sales are handled by New Europe Film Sales...
Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature A White, White Day has won the top prize at Nordic Film Days in Lubeck in Germany.
The Ndr Film Prize includes a cash award of €12,500.
It is the second consecutive year an Icelandic film has won the award following Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman At War win in 2018.
A White, White Day premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week and is a tale of grief and revenge, revolving around a former policeman in a small Icelandic town. International sales are handled by New Europe Film Sales...
- 11/4/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Dok Leipzig’s International Golden Dove won by ‘Exemplary Behaviour’.
Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature A White, White Day has won the top prize at Nordic Film Days in Lubeck in Germany.
The Ndr Film Prize includes a cash award of €12,500.
It is the second consecutive year an Icelandic film has won the award following Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman At War win in 2018.
A White, White Day premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week and is a tale of grief and revenge, revolving around a former policeman in a small Icelandic town. International sales are handled by New Europe Film Sales and...
Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature A White, White Day has won the top prize at Nordic Film Days in Lubeck in Germany.
The Ndr Film Prize includes a cash award of €12,500.
It is the second consecutive year an Icelandic film has won the award following Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman At War win in 2018.
A White, White Day premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week and is a tale of grief and revenge, revolving around a former policeman in a small Icelandic town. International sales are handled by New Europe Film Sales and...
- 11/4/2019
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Rolling off its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight world bow, J.-P. Valkeapää’s Bdsm movie “Dogs Don’t Wear Pants” has been sold by The Yellow Affair to new U.K. distributor Anti-Worlds for the U.K. and Ireland, as well as to The Klockworx Co for Japan, Ama Films for Greece, Hhg for Russia/Cis, Pilot Film for the Czech Republic and Kasi for the Baltics.
Further deals, notably with Australia/New Zealand, are pending, said Steven Bestwick, The Yellow Affair’s head of sales & business development.
“Dogs” is screening this week at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market, before heading to Toronto’s World Contemporary Cinema program, then segueing to Austin’s Fantastic Fest where it will have its U.S. premiere.
In his Cannes Directors’ Fortnight review, Variety’s Guy Lodge said: “For those who found too much fantasy in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’s’ depiction of S&m and its painful,...
Further deals, notably with Australia/New Zealand, are pending, said Steven Bestwick, The Yellow Affair’s head of sales & business development.
“Dogs” is screening this week at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market, before heading to Toronto’s World Contemporary Cinema program, then segueing to Austin’s Fantastic Fest where it will have its U.S. premiere.
In his Cannes Directors’ Fortnight review, Variety’s Guy Lodge said: “For those who found too much fantasy in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’s’ depiction of S&m and its painful,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
It’s time for last orders at Corona, Dubrovnik and Kafe Mockba, as the legendary Helsinki complex, co-owned by Finland’s best known directors, will close down for good in June. After undergoing complete renovation, the building on Eerikinkatu will then be turned into a hotel.
The decision to serve eviction notices to one of Helsinki’s most beloved spots provoked a general outcry. Sadly, it is now final, with Andorra Culture and Entertainment Center – consisting of Corona Bar, Dubrovnik and Kafe Mockba, as well as movie theatre Kino Andorra – shutting down its long-serving doors already in June. “There was nothing to be done” – explains Nuppu Koivu, who has been working there for 17 years. Scoring a part of a waitress in Aki Kaurismäki Berlin Silver Bear-winner “The Other Side of Hope” somewhere along the way. “The owners of the building decided not to renew our contract, there will be a...
The decision to serve eviction notices to one of Helsinki’s most beloved spots provoked a general outcry. Sadly, it is now final, with Andorra Culture and Entertainment Center – consisting of Corona Bar, Dubrovnik and Kafe Mockba, as well as movie theatre Kino Andorra – shutting down its long-serving doors already in June. “There was nothing to be done” – explains Nuppu Koivu, who has been working there for 17 years. Scoring a part of a waitress in Aki Kaurismäki Berlin Silver Bear-winner “The Other Side of Hope” somewhere along the way. “The owners of the building decided not to renew our contract, there will be a...
- 6/6/2019
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Kung Fu Panda creators Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris have teamed with The Wire and House of Cards director Agnieszka Holland on a series about Napoleon that will be offered to TV buyers at the Berlin Film Festival.
The show is the most high-profile drama to be presented as part of the Berlinale’s Co-Pro Series 2019, which will take place in the German city on 12 and 13 February. The show, which is produced by UK producer Saltire Entertainment will be offered to producers, programming directors, distributors and other series financiers at the fifth iteration of the pitch event.
Reiff and Voris wrote the original screenplay for the Dreamworks Animation hit as well as feature film Bulletproof Monk and Showtime’s Sleeper Cell. Polish director Holland has directed a number of U.S. series, including Hulu’s The First as well as HBO’s Eastern Europe mini-series Burning Bush.
The series will...
The show is the most high-profile drama to be presented as part of the Berlinale’s Co-Pro Series 2019, which will take place in the German city on 12 and 13 February. The show, which is produced by UK producer Saltire Entertainment will be offered to producers, programming directors, distributors and other series financiers at the fifth iteration of the pitch event.
Reiff and Voris wrote the original screenplay for the Dreamworks Animation hit as well as feature film Bulletproof Monk and Showtime’s Sleeper Cell. Polish director Holland has directed a number of U.S. series, including Hulu’s The First as well as HBO’s Eastern Europe mini-series Burning Bush.
The series will...
- 1/15/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Holland is directing Napoleon about the French military leader.
Ten projects have been announced for the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s Co-Pro Series event, which takes place on February 12 and 13 as part of the ‘Drama Series Days’ at the Berlinale (February 7-17).
The titles include Napoleon, a series about the French military leader and his cult of personality, to be directed by Agnieszka Holland and produced by the UK’s Saltire Entertainment. Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris (Brimstone) are writers and showrunners on the project. Holland’s film Mr Jones was one of several titles added to the Competition at the festival last week.
Ten projects have been announced for the Berlinale Co-Production Market’s Co-Pro Series event, which takes place on February 12 and 13 as part of the ‘Drama Series Days’ at the Berlinale (February 7-17).
The titles include Napoleon, a series about the French military leader and his cult of personality, to be directed by Agnieszka Holland and produced by the UK’s Saltire Entertainment. Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris (Brimstone) are writers and showrunners on the project. Holland’s film Mr Jones was one of several titles added to the Competition at the festival last week.
- 1/15/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
Finnish sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired worldwide rights to Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema strand.
The project is written by Kirsikka Saarì, who collaborated with Vilhunen on the Oscar-nominated short Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. Vilhunen’s 2016 film Little Wing also debuted at Tiff.
Stupid Young Heart revolves around two suburban teenagers who discover they are expecting a baby. Lacking a father figure himself, Lenni latches on to a member of a right-...
- 9/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Turner Asia Pacific has agreed a licensing partnership with Indonesian real-estate and hospitality investment company, The Maj Group, to develop a 4.3-hectare entertainment park in Bali. The family destination will feature the island’s largest waterpark and an indoor entertainment centre splashed with Cartoon Network theming. Slated to open in 2020, the development will be part of The Maj Nusa Dua resort. There will be characters from shows including Ben 10, We Bare Bears, The Powerpuff Girls and Adventure Time. Other Cartoon Network-branded projects already licensed by Turner International include Cartoon Network Amazone in Thailand, Img Worlds of Adventures in Dubai, Amaazia in India and Cartoon Network Wave cruise liner in Asia Pacific.
Lionsgate has inked a new deal with Australian streaming service Stan, which will house Lionsgate series and Stars originals. Stars titles set for the Svod service include Sweetbitter, Vida and doc series Wrong Man. The deal also covers upcoming...
Lionsgate has inked a new deal with Australian streaming service Stan, which will house Lionsgate series and Stars originals. Stars titles set for the Svod service include Sweetbitter, Vida and doc series Wrong Man. The deal also covers upcoming...
- 6/6/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s International Newswire, Variety asks if high-end drama is the new content king in Europe; Nordic Film & TV Fund announce new round of top-up financing; Turner/Warner Bros. FilmStruck launches in France and Spain; Natpe Budapest International announces a participation hike – a sign of vitality of some regional markets.
Is Drama the New Soccer of Europe?
Are drama series the new soccer? And, of all countries, in soccer loco Spain? On Thursday, via a tweeted video, a man in a “La Casa de Papel” garb – Dali mask, lush Bordeaux red overalls, who turned out, once he took off the mask, to be Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, announced with Telefonica’s executive CEO José María Alvarez Pallete that Netflix would be made available to Telefonica’s Movistar + pay TV subscribers in Spain and Latin America.
More than daylight robbery, however, that’s a win-win play for both companies. This is a union between Netflix,...
Is Drama the New Soccer of Europe?
Are drama series the new soccer? And, of all countries, in soccer loco Spain? On Thursday, via a tweeted video, a man in a “La Casa de Papel” garb – Dali mask, lush Bordeaux red overalls, who turned out, once he took off the mask, to be Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, announced with Telefonica’s executive CEO José María Alvarez Pallete that Netflix would be made available to Telefonica’s Movistar + pay TV subscribers in Spain and Latin America.
More than daylight robbery, however, that’s a win-win play for both companies. This is a union between Netflix,...
- 5/25/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
★★☆☆☆ This latest film from Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki makes an adolescent drama out of the true story of 17th century Queen Kristina (Malin Buska), who became Sweden's first native female sovereign aged just six. Amidst an ongoing European conflict between Catholics and Protestants, she grows up in a conservative Lutheran court and the tutelage of Chancellor Axel (Michael Nyqvist), but emerges a rebellious figure. She clashes with her abusive mother and her sceptical advisors at court on finding peace in Europe, at the same time shunning suitors and instead exploring her attraction to the Countess Ebba Sparre (Sarah Gadon).
- 6/18/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
This preposterous, unconvincing period drama tells the story of Sweden’s Queen Kristina and her repressed gay sexuality
This plumply preposterous film from director Mika Kaurismäki (brother of Aki) is an unconvincing and solemn account of the controversially mannish Queen Kristina and her secret sapphic yearnings in 17th-century Sweden. There are frilly ruffs, white pointy beards, illicit embraces with ladies of the bedchamber and a Europudding cast reciting dialogue that sounds as if it has been rendered into English from Swedish via Google Translate. We get lines such as: “Like Luther, I want to spend the night with the devil!” and “By Christ’s balls, I don’t like to be kept waiting!” It is like a lost 106-minute Python sketch, as directed by Peter Greenaway, and Kristina comes across as a sullenly emo-ish version of Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth I. Her daring intellectual heterodoxy, challenges to Protestantism and final rapprochement with the Vatican are regarded as side effects of a gay sexuality repressed and denied. That might well be a reasonable analysis. Malin Buska delivers the role of Kristina with a certain mutinous conviction and, as the object of her desire, Sarah Gadon is just very demure.
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This plumply preposterous film from director Mika Kaurismäki (brother of Aki) is an unconvincing and solemn account of the controversially mannish Queen Kristina and her secret sapphic yearnings in 17th-century Sweden. There are frilly ruffs, white pointy beards, illicit embraces with ladies of the bedchamber and a Europudding cast reciting dialogue that sounds as if it has been rendered into English from Swedish via Google Translate. We get lines such as: “Like Luther, I want to spend the night with the devil!” and “By Christ’s balls, I don’t like to be kept waiting!” It is like a lost 106-minute Python sketch, as directed by Peter Greenaway, and Kristina comes across as a sullenly emo-ish version of Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth I. Her daring intellectual heterodoxy, challenges to Protestantism and final rapprochement with the Vatican are regarded as side effects of a gay sexuality repressed and denied. That might well be a reasonable analysis. Malin Buska delivers the role of Kristina with a certain mutinous conviction and, as the object of her desire, Sarah Gadon is just very demure.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Sarah Gadon as Ebba and Malin Buska as Kristina in The Girl King
It's not often that a Finnish director's take on a Swedish historical figure makes an international splash, but The Girl King is fast becoming a festival hit, winning praise from audiences and critics alike. After my recent interview with Malin Buska I spoke with director Mika Kaurismäki to get his take on how it all happened.
"I was asked to direct this film in 2009 in a bar in Rio de Janeiro," says Mika. "A German producer asked me if I would be interested in doing a film about Kristina. I remembered when I was young, my teacher telling me about Kristina. I knew she was a very strong character with interesting ideas, and a very modern person for the time."
Mika Kaurismäki Photo: Soppakanuuna
In the past, he's specialised in documentaries. Was he process of making this film similar,...
It's not often that a Finnish director's take on a Swedish historical figure makes an international splash, but The Girl King is fast becoming a festival hit, winning praise from audiences and critics alike. After my recent interview with Malin Buska I spoke with director Mika Kaurismäki to get his take on how it all happened.
"I was asked to direct this film in 2009 in a bar in Rio de Janeiro," says Mika. "A German producer asked me if I would be interested in doing a film about Kristina. I remembered when I was young, my teacher telling me about Kristina. I knew she was a very strong character with interesting ideas, and a very modern person for the time."
Mika Kaurismäki Photo: Soppakanuuna
In the past, he's specialised in documentaries. Was he process of making this film similar,...
- 12/10/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Malin Buska in The Girl King
Nobody really expected much of Kristina of Sweden when she came to the throne. She was, after all, a girl, and an unconventional one at that. In the 22 years of her reign, however, she revolutionised her country, ending its reliance of expansionism and setting it on course to become the sophisticated, intellectually focused nation we know today. Her story has been told on screen three times, most recently in Mika Kaurismäki's The Girl King. We asked its star, Mallin Buska, how she felt about following in the footsteps of Greta Garbo and Liv Ullmann.
"You know, Greta Garbo did a really great interpretation but I needed to make my own version of her," she says. "I needed to find her spirit and her heart and take Kristina into myself. Of course it was scary because she was a fantastic person. I knew a...
Nobody really expected much of Kristina of Sweden when she came to the throne. She was, after all, a girl, and an unconventional one at that. In the 22 years of her reign, however, she revolutionised her country, ending its reliance of expansionism and setting it on course to become the sophisticated, intellectually focused nation we know today. Her story has been told on screen three times, most recently in Mika Kaurismäki's The Girl King. We asked its star, Mallin Buska, how she felt about following in the footsteps of Greta Garbo and Liv Ullmann.
"You know, Greta Garbo did a really great interpretation but I needed to make my own version of her," she says. "I needed to find her spirit and her heart and take Kristina into myself. Of course it was scary because she was a fantastic person. I knew a...
- 12/6/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Throne of Loneliness: Kaurismaki Cartoons Christina
Considering it’s been forty years since her last notable on screen incarnation, the time has come for a new biopic on that other famous ‘virgin’ queen, Christina of Sweden. Iconically portrayed by Great Garbo in 1933’s Queen Christina, and then again in 1974 by Liv Ullmann in The Abdication, these are significant footsteps to follow, especially considering these productions are best remembered for their female leads and not their directors (Rouben Mamoulian and Anthony Harvey, respectively). Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki, the brother to world renowned auteur Aki Kaurismaki, aims to resuscitate her provocative legacy with The Girl King, though its use of archaic language concepts (such as ‘girl’ and ‘virgin’) hint at a certain ignorance of both femininity and lesbianism despite a screenplay penned by Michel Marc Brousard (Lilies; Tom at the Farm). A handsome costume drama, this international co-production is more often distracting than relevant,...
Considering it’s been forty years since her last notable on screen incarnation, the time has come for a new biopic on that other famous ‘virgin’ queen, Christina of Sweden. Iconically portrayed by Great Garbo in 1933’s Queen Christina, and then again in 1974 by Liv Ullmann in The Abdication, these are significant footsteps to follow, especially considering these productions are best remembered for their female leads and not their directors (Rouben Mamoulian and Anthony Harvey, respectively). Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki, the brother to world renowned auteur Aki Kaurismaki, aims to resuscitate her provocative legacy with The Girl King, though its use of archaic language concepts (such as ‘girl’ and ‘virgin’) hint at a certain ignorance of both femininity and lesbianism despite a screenplay penned by Michel Marc Brousard (Lilies; Tom at the Farm). A handsome costume drama, this international co-production is more often distracting than relevant,...
- 12/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Mika Kaurismäki has had a long film career, but he still may be best known to film fans in the shadow of his brother, Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre). The Girl King, his next film, may change that reputation though given the pedigree of both the cast and writers, and its possibility to tell the story of a feminist icon and eccentric historical footnote.
Written by Michel Marc Bouchard, who most recently adapted Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm, and starring Michael Nyqvist, Sarah Gadon, and stateside unknown Malin Buska in the lead role, The Girl King, is the story of Christina of Sweden.
Ruler of Sweden for eighteen years in the 17th century beginning at age 6, Christina worked to modernize Sweden against the wishes of a conservative country. She was a cultural revolutionary who prided herself on various forms of sexual and gender ambiguity, and views that could be considered proto-feminist.
Written by Michel Marc Bouchard, who most recently adapted Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm, and starring Michael Nyqvist, Sarah Gadon, and stateside unknown Malin Buska in the lead role, The Girl King, is the story of Christina of Sweden.
Ruler of Sweden for eighteen years in the 17th century beginning at age 6, Christina worked to modernize Sweden against the wishes of a conservative country. She was a cultural revolutionary who prided herself on various forms of sexual and gender ambiguity, and views that could be considered proto-feminist.
- 11/24/2015
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
The German festival will screen Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams, Tobias Lindholm’s A War and Klaus Harö’s The Fencer in its 2015 programme.
Denmark and Iceland dominate the main competition line-up at Germany’s 57th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, which will open on November 4 with Icelandic director Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams.
Speaking about the choice of opening film, featival director Linde Fröhlich described Rams as “a human drama filled with empathy for the protagonists as well as odd situations and comic moments, all set in a spectacular landscape.”
Denmark is represented in the Feature Film Competition with five titles, including Tobias Lindholm’s A War - Denmark’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar - Martin Peter Zandvliet’s Land Of Mine, Chrisitina Rosendahl’s The Idealist and Frederikke Aspöck’s Rosita.
Three Icelandic titles have been selected: Rúnar Rúnarsson’s coming of age drama Sparrows, made as a co-production with Denmark and Croatia, and Dágur Kari...
Denmark and Iceland dominate the main competition line-up at Germany’s 57th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, which will open on November 4 with Icelandic director Grimur Hákonarson’s Rams.
Speaking about the choice of opening film, featival director Linde Fröhlich described Rams as “a human drama filled with empathy for the protagonists as well as odd situations and comic moments, all set in a spectacular landscape.”
Denmark is represented in the Feature Film Competition with five titles, including Tobias Lindholm’s A War - Denmark’s submission for the Foreign Language Oscar - Martin Peter Zandvliet’s Land Of Mine, Chrisitina Rosendahl’s The Idealist and Frederikke Aspöck’s Rosita.
Three Icelandic titles have been selected: Rúnar Rúnarsson’s coming of age drama Sparrows, made as a co-production with Denmark and Croatia, and Dágur Kari...
- 10/14/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sales outfit inks deals on Kaurismaki biopic and comedy The Grump.
Scandinavian sales company The Yellow Affair has inked deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King and Dome Karukoski’s The Grump.
Film Buro has bought Spanish rights to Kaurismaki’s English-language biopic The Girl King, in which rising Swedish actress Malin Buska stars as 17th century Swedish Queen Kristina alongside Sarah Gadon and Michael Nyqvist.
Wolfe Releasing acquired the film for the Us during Cannes.
Meanwhile, Binci Media has picked up Chinese rights to 2014 Finnish comedy The Grump, about a cranky old man who must spend time with his family
The deals come two days after Yellow Affair sealed a Us deal with Breaking Glass Pictures for Tali Shalom Ezer’s drama, Princess.
Scandinavian sales company The Yellow Affair has inked deals on Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King and Dome Karukoski’s The Grump.
Film Buro has bought Spanish rights to Kaurismaki’s English-language biopic The Girl King, in which rising Swedish actress Malin Buska stars as 17th century Swedish Queen Kristina alongside Sarah Gadon and Michael Nyqvist.
Wolfe Releasing acquired the film for the Us during Cannes.
Meanwhile, Binci Media has picked up Chinese rights to 2014 Finnish comedy The Grump, about a cranky old man who must spend time with his family
The deals come two days after Yellow Affair sealed a Us deal with Breaking Glass Pictures for Tali Shalom Ezer’s drama, Princess.
- 9/15/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Philippe Ramos’ Mad Love was awarded the top prize at the Montreal World Film Festival.
The Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 7) has revealed the award winners for its 2015 edition.
Philippe Ramos’ Mad Love took the top prize, the grand prize of the Americas, while the best director prize was shared between Mikko Kuparinen for 2 Nights Till Morning and Georgi Balabanov for The Petrov File.
Alongside its main awards, the festival presented British producer Lord Puttname with a special grand prize of the Americas for his “exceptional contribution to the world of cinema”.
Full list:
Competition awards:
Grand Prize of the Americas: Mad Love, dir. Philippe Ramos (France)Special Grand Jury Award: Misafir (The Visitor/La Visiteuse), dir. Mehmet Eryilmaz (Turkey)Best director: 2 nights til morning, dir. Mikko Kuparinen (Finland / Luthania) and The Petrov File (Le Dossier Petrov), dir. Georgi Balabanov (Bulgaria / Germany)Best Actress: Malin Buska for The Girl King, dir. [link...
The Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 27 - Sept 7) has revealed the award winners for its 2015 edition.
Philippe Ramos’ Mad Love took the top prize, the grand prize of the Americas, while the best director prize was shared between Mikko Kuparinen for 2 Nights Till Morning and Georgi Balabanov for The Petrov File.
Alongside its main awards, the festival presented British producer Lord Puttname with a special grand prize of the Americas for his “exceptional contribution to the world of cinema”.
Full list:
Competition awards:
Grand Prize of the Americas: Mad Love, dir. Philippe Ramos (France)Special Grand Jury Award: Misafir (The Visitor/La Visiteuse), dir. Mehmet Eryilmaz (Turkey)Best director: 2 nights til morning, dir. Mikko Kuparinen (Finland / Luthania) and The Petrov File (Le Dossier Petrov), dir. Georgi Balabanov (Bulgaria / Germany)Best Actress: Malin Buska for The Girl King, dir. [link...
- 9/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
Connect4Climate's Francis James Dobbs: "In Cannes we met with the Cine-Regio, which is the film commissions in France and Belgium and Holland and Germany." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the official launch of Wild-Touch's Ice & Sky with Luc Jacquet and Marion Cotillard, I arranged to meet with Connect4Climate's Francis James Dobbs who discussed with me the Action4Climate competition that had jury members including filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders, Atom Egoyan, Walter Salles, Mira Nair, Fernando Meirelles, Bob Rafelson, Mika Kaurismaki, Marc Foster and Pablo Trapero, a meeting with Cine-Regio at the Cannes Film Festival, contacting Sony, Universal, and Paramount to come on board, what Yoko Ono said at the press preview for Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 - 1971 at MoMA and looking forward to COP21 in Paris.
Luc Jacquet and Marion Cotillard with Marie-Monique Steckel, President of the French Institute Alliance Française Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Le...
At the official launch of Wild-Touch's Ice & Sky with Luc Jacquet and Marion Cotillard, I arranged to meet with Connect4Climate's Francis James Dobbs who discussed with me the Action4Climate competition that had jury members including filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders, Atom Egoyan, Walter Salles, Mira Nair, Fernando Meirelles, Bob Rafelson, Mika Kaurismaki, Marc Foster and Pablo Trapero, a meeting with Cine-Regio at the Cannes Film Festival, contacting Sony, Universal, and Paramount to come on board, what Yoko Ono said at the press preview for Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 - 1971 at MoMA and looking forward to COP21 in Paris.
Luc Jacquet and Marion Cotillard with Marie-Monique Steckel, President of the French Institute Alliance Française Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Le...
- 6/14/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The biggest deals of this year’s Cannes Marché du Film and how the Competition titles sold throughout the festival.
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
- 5/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
Mika Kaurismaki’s costume epic is set in 1633.
Us distributor Wolfe Releasing has snapped up all rights to Mika Kaurismaki’s costume epic The Girl King. A theatrical release is planned for the autumn of 2015 followed by VOD, DVD, and Svod dates.
The film is a co-production between Finland, Canada, Germany, and Sweden. It is scripted by Canadian writer Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom at the Farm, Lilies). The film stars Malin Buska (Easy Money) in the title role alongside Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birnand Martina Gedeck.
The Girl King is the story of Queen Christina of Sweden. Crowned in 1633 at the age of six and raised as a prince, Queen Christina was an enigmatic and brilliant young leader who fought conservative forces to revolutionize Sweden while falling in love and exploring her awakening sexuality.
The deal was negotiated by Jim Stephens, president of Wolfe Releasing, and Miira Paasilinna, CEO of international...
Us distributor Wolfe Releasing has snapped up all rights to Mika Kaurismaki’s costume epic The Girl King. A theatrical release is planned for the autumn of 2015 followed by VOD, DVD, and Svod dates.
The film is a co-production between Finland, Canada, Germany, and Sweden. It is scripted by Canadian writer Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom at the Farm, Lilies). The film stars Malin Buska (Easy Money) in the title role alongside Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birnand Martina Gedeck.
The Girl King is the story of Queen Christina of Sweden. Crowned in 1633 at the age of six and raised as a prince, Queen Christina was an enigmatic and brilliant young leader who fought conservative forces to revolutionize Sweden while falling in love and exploring her awakening sexuality.
The deal was negotiated by Jim Stephens, president of Wolfe Releasing, and Miira Paasilinna, CEO of international...
- 5/14/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
The Girl King
Director: Mika Kaurismaki // Writer: Michel Marc Bouchardt
Swedish director Mika Kaurismaki, brother of famed auteur Aki Kaurismaki, has often resided in the shadows of his sibling. Directing a steady output of films since the late 1980s, he doesn’t seem to snag international distribution, but his latest is a profile international co-production, The Girl King, penned by award winning Canadian writer Bouchard. German and Swedish backers also explain the presence of names like Nyqvist and Gedeck, plus throw in some French faces, such as Hippolyte Girardot. Swedish actress Malin Buska will bear the brunt of expectation, as the film revisits the tale of Swedish Queen Christina, portrayed famously in 1933 by Greta Garbo in the Rouben Mammoulien directed film. Here’s to openly being able to discuss her sexuality in this version, famously coded in the Garbo picture often championed as one of the first defiant examples of acknowledged homosexuality in the cinema.
Director: Mika Kaurismaki // Writer: Michel Marc Bouchardt
Swedish director Mika Kaurismaki, brother of famed auteur Aki Kaurismaki, has often resided in the shadows of his sibling. Directing a steady output of films since the late 1980s, he doesn’t seem to snag international distribution, but his latest is a profile international co-production, The Girl King, penned by award winning Canadian writer Bouchard. German and Swedish backers also explain the presence of names like Nyqvist and Gedeck, plus throw in some French faces, such as Hippolyte Girardot. Swedish actress Malin Buska will bear the brunt of expectation, as the film revisits the tale of Swedish Queen Christina, portrayed famously in 1933 by Greta Garbo in the Rouben Mammoulien directed film. Here’s to openly being able to discuss her sexuality in this version, famously coded in the Garbo picture often championed as one of the first defiant examples of acknowledged homosexuality in the cinema.
- 1/6/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
10 European actors to be celebrated by Efp in Berlin.
The UK’s Maisie Williams and Denmark’s Joachim Fjelstrup are among ten European acting talents to watch who have been selected for the line-up of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Shooting Stars showcase at the 65th Berlinale (Feb 5-15).
An international jury of film professionals comprising Slovenian producer Danijel Hocevar, Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, Swedish actress Eva Röse, UK film journalist Damon Wise, and French casting director Nathalie Cheron made its selection of six actresses and four actors from 23 nominations submitted by Efp member organisations.
The line-up for the 18th edition of Shooting Stars - with their nominated films - is as follows:
- Denmark: Joachim Fjelstrup (Itsi Bitsi)
- Finland: Emmi Parviainen (The Princess Of Egypt)
- Germany: Jannis Niewöhner (Sapphire Blue)
- Iceland: Hera Hilmer (Life In A Fishbowl)
- Ireland: Moe Dunford (Patrick’s Day)
- Lithuania: Aistė Diržiūtė (The Summer Of Sangaile)
- Spain:...
The UK’s Maisie Williams and Denmark’s Joachim Fjelstrup are among ten European acting talents to watch who have been selected for the line-up of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) Shooting Stars showcase at the 65th Berlinale (Feb 5-15).
An international jury of film professionals comprising Slovenian producer Danijel Hocevar, Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, Swedish actress Eva Röse, UK film journalist Damon Wise, and French casting director Nathalie Cheron made its selection of six actresses and four actors from 23 nominations submitted by Efp member organisations.
The line-up for the 18th edition of Shooting Stars - with their nominated films - is as follows:
- Denmark: Joachim Fjelstrup (Itsi Bitsi)
- Finland: Emmi Parviainen (The Princess Of Egypt)
- Germany: Jannis Niewöhner (Sapphire Blue)
- Iceland: Hera Hilmer (Life In A Fishbowl)
- Ireland: Moe Dunford (Patrick’s Day)
- Lithuania: Aistė Diržiūtė (The Summer Of Sangaile)
- Spain:...
- 12/11/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners come from Bulgaria and Us.
Portuguese film maker Gonçalo Tocha’s The Trail of a Tale (pictured) has won the $15,000 top prize in the Action4Climate documentary competition’s 18 -35 age category.
The film was made in collaboration with Imagine2020 and the New Economics Foundation.
The story is about a letter written in the future addressed to today’s society.
Second place with $10,000 went to Dobrin Kashavelov from Bulgaria for Global Warming. The third place $5,000 prize went to Nathan Dappen from the Us for Snows Of The Nile.
“These talented young film makers connect to their audience in emotional and powerful ways about the dangers of climate change. They have done serious, important work, which shows that climate change could result in a world that is unrecognizable today, and that we need act now to protect the planet for future generations,” said Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group.
The competition...
Portuguese film maker Gonçalo Tocha’s The Trail of a Tale (pictured) has won the $15,000 top prize in the Action4Climate documentary competition’s 18 -35 age category.
The film was made in collaboration with Imagine2020 and the New Economics Foundation.
The story is about a letter written in the future addressed to today’s society.
Second place with $10,000 went to Dobrin Kashavelov from Bulgaria for Global Warming. The third place $5,000 prize went to Nathan Dappen from the Us for Snows Of The Nile.
“These talented young film makers connect to their audience in emotional and powerful ways about the dangers of climate change. They have done serious, important work, which shows that climate change could result in a world that is unrecognizable today, and that we need act now to protect the planet for future generations,” said Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group.
The competition...
- 10/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Canadian actress Sarah Gadon has landed the female lead in The 9th Life Of Louis Drax, the adaptation of Liz Jensen’s best selling novel that Alexandre Aja (Horns) is directing for Miramax. The thriller centers on Louis Drax, a young boy who suffers a near-fatal fall on his ninth birthday. A psychologist probing into the accident is drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality. Gadon has emerged in recent years with striking back-to-back roles in Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral and David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, and won the role of Louis’ mother Natalie in a competitive casting search. She’ll star opposite Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan as Dr. Allan Pascal and Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul, who is set to play the boy’s father.
Gadon also recently appeared in Enemy, Belle, and the animated feature The Nut Job and next...
Gadon also recently appeared in Enemy, Belle, and the animated feature The Nut Job and next...
- 9/24/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Finnish film historian, critic, documentary filmmaker Peter von Bagh – co-founder and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival – has died aged 71
When in 1985 Finnish directors Anssi Mänttäri, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, and film historian Peter von Bagh met in Helsinki to discuss where it would be totally impossible to organise a film festival, they agreed on Sodankylä – who would go 129 kilometres north of the Arctic circle, to a village in Lappland with 8,809 inhabitants, 35,000 reindeer and millions of mosquitoes to watch films?
At this year’s Midnight Sun Film Festival, von Bagh – festival director for 29 years – walked down Peter von Bagh Street to the Lapinsuu Theatre to welcome Us director Samantha Fuller, who was invited with A Fuller Life, the documentary about her late father, who was a special guest in 1986. She had taken the Samuel Fuller Street from the hotel; the village knows whom to honour.
The Midnight Sun Film Festival put Sodankylä on the world map, mainly...
When in 1985 Finnish directors Anssi Mänttäri, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, and film historian Peter von Bagh met in Helsinki to discuss where it would be totally impossible to organise a film festival, they agreed on Sodankylä – who would go 129 kilometres north of the Arctic circle, to a village in Lappland with 8,809 inhabitants, 35,000 reindeer and millions of mosquitoes to watch films?
At this year’s Midnight Sun Film Festival, von Bagh – festival director for 29 years – walked down Peter von Bagh Street to the Lapinsuu Theatre to welcome Us director Samantha Fuller, who was invited with A Fuller Life, the documentary about her late father, who was a special guest in 1986. She had taken the Samuel Fuller Street from the hotel; the village knows whom to honour.
The Midnight Sun Film Festival put Sodankylä on the world map, mainly...
- 9/23/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Antti Alanen, Film Programmer at National Audiovisual Institute in Finland, has posted an announcement that the Finnish media are now confirming. Film historian and director Peter von Bagh, co-founder (with Aki Kaurismäki and Mika Kaurismäki) and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival and artistic director of Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato, has died at the age of 71. "He died with his boots on," writes Alanen. "New films and books were in the making. Retrospectives and trips had been booked…. His energy and wit were undiminished. He knew what was coming, and he faced it soberly. With a gentle sense of humor he created a jovial atmosphere even in terminal circumstances." » - David Hudson...
- 9/22/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Antti Alanen, Film Programmer at National Audiovisual Institute in Finland, has posted an announcement that the Finnish media are now confirming. Film historian and director Peter von Bagh, co-founder (with Aki Kaurismäki and Mika Kaurismäki) and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival and artistic director of Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato, has died at the age of 71. "He died with his boots on," writes Alanen. "New films and books were in the making. Retrospectives and trips had been booked…. His energy and wit were undiminished. He knew what was coming, and he faced it soberly. With a gentle sense of humor he created a jovial atmosphere even in terminal circumstances." » - David Hudson...
- 9/22/2014
- Keyframe
Coverage of International Sales Agents (ISAs) has resumed for the Toronto International Film Festival. This segment covers inspirational companies that have officially selected films in the festival. SydneysBuzz features ISAs, as they play an instrumental and necessary role in helping filmmakers to share their visions and voices with the world.
The Yellow Affair, based in Stockholm and Helsinki, will be at the Toronto International Film Festival with two official selections: "They Have Escaped" (Vanguard Selection) and "The Grump" (Contemporary World Cinema). The company has two additional new films including Big News From Grand Rock" and "Fell".
The Yellow Affair has been around for nearly five years, and 2014 was its fifth year at the Cannes Film Festival as well. The Yellow Affair's CEO and International Sales Agent Miira Paasilinna started the company with Aleksi Bardy, a producer at Helsinki Filmi, a Finnish production company.
Miira shares her company’s nontraditional 50/50 profit model, her background, and her views on changes in the industry:
How did you start The Yellow Affair?
I founded the company together with the chairman of the board, Aleksi Bardy, who’s a producer at Helsinki Filmi. From the beginning, we’ve worked very closely with them. Before that, I was working at Non-Stop Sales, a Swedish sales outfit.
When I was working with Aleksi, he proposed this new type of business plan for international sales. I thought it was appealing, as it benefitted the producers much more than the traditional model. That was the reason we started the company.
How is your model different?
Basically, we call it the 50/50 model. The idea is that the producers get money from the first penny, so there’s no cost off the top. There’s no hidden cost, and things that can be allocated to films without producers having any control. They immediately get 50% of everything. As the sales agent, we get 50% up to a certain level. Let’s say the film does really well - we can’t demand 50% of sales forever. We don’t play with costs as other sales agents do, so that’s been a very important principle for us. Our producers really like that, because it’s a transparent model. We are proud to work with our producers and work very closely with them, rather than just doing it on our own.
We do work with the traditional model with some of our bigger films. It's often up to the producers and what they’re most comfortable with, but once they look at the numbers, they really like the 50/50 model.
Were you always in sales?
I have a background in TV production. I’ve been a producer and a director, and I had a small production company while doing that. I'm also an economist, so I actually have a business background. I have a masters degree in economics, and a bachelor’s degree in media. Sales is a good way to combine creativity with business. That’s one reason why I wanted to do film sales. I first was kind of geared more to becoming a producer, but then I realized that I like the marketing, selling and pitching of films. The tempo is a bit faster, and instead of handling just a few films, you have a big slate of films. I really enjoy that part.
What types of films do you represent?
Our catalog is mostly art house, festival driven films of high production quality. We carry films from about twenty countries, so we’re not just geared up with Scandinavian films, even though we’re based in Helsinki and Stockholm. The combination of good quality film that we can also sell and bring to festivals is important for us.
We’re getting into the bigger budget films at the moment. Our first larger scale film is "The Girl King", an English language period piece by Mika Kaurismäki. Its world-class cast includes Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck. It's in postproduction at the moment.
How do you feel about the changes of business in the industry?
Looking at all my years in sales, the prices have definitely gone down for art house films. I see that it’s difficult for distributors; they're making less money, and so we are making less money as well. From our point of view, it’s important to be really selective and know what type of films to really take in. I think it’s a very difficult market, but I’m happy to say that we’ve been getting income from VOD sales. When there was a drop in DVD sales, VOD sales started to pick up, and there are now some ok deals out there for digital rights.
I think there’s a bit of a lull now, and things are changing. There are some incentives that have been negatively affected in the European film business, and we could already see the reflection of this at Berlin and Cannes this year, as sales for smaller films were more difficult.
The award winning festival films do have a place in the market, and they can have nice theatrical release. The windows are just getting shorter at the same time. It’s an interesting challenge, but one has to be awake and alert all the time to move with the market.
The Yellow Affair, based in Stockholm and Helsinki, will be at the Toronto International Film Festival with two official selections: "They Have Escaped" (Vanguard Selection) and "The Grump" (Contemporary World Cinema). The company has two additional new films including Big News From Grand Rock" and "Fell".
The Yellow Affair has been around for nearly five years, and 2014 was its fifth year at the Cannes Film Festival as well. The Yellow Affair's CEO and International Sales Agent Miira Paasilinna started the company with Aleksi Bardy, a producer at Helsinki Filmi, a Finnish production company.
Miira shares her company’s nontraditional 50/50 profit model, her background, and her views on changes in the industry:
How did you start The Yellow Affair?
I founded the company together with the chairman of the board, Aleksi Bardy, who’s a producer at Helsinki Filmi. From the beginning, we’ve worked very closely with them. Before that, I was working at Non-Stop Sales, a Swedish sales outfit.
When I was working with Aleksi, he proposed this new type of business plan for international sales. I thought it was appealing, as it benefitted the producers much more than the traditional model. That was the reason we started the company.
How is your model different?
Basically, we call it the 50/50 model. The idea is that the producers get money from the first penny, so there’s no cost off the top. There’s no hidden cost, and things that can be allocated to films without producers having any control. They immediately get 50% of everything. As the sales agent, we get 50% up to a certain level. Let’s say the film does really well - we can’t demand 50% of sales forever. We don’t play with costs as other sales agents do, so that’s been a very important principle for us. Our producers really like that, because it’s a transparent model. We are proud to work with our producers and work very closely with them, rather than just doing it on our own.
We do work with the traditional model with some of our bigger films. It's often up to the producers and what they’re most comfortable with, but once they look at the numbers, they really like the 50/50 model.
Were you always in sales?
I have a background in TV production. I’ve been a producer and a director, and I had a small production company while doing that. I'm also an economist, so I actually have a business background. I have a masters degree in economics, and a bachelor’s degree in media. Sales is a good way to combine creativity with business. That’s one reason why I wanted to do film sales. I first was kind of geared more to becoming a producer, but then I realized that I like the marketing, selling and pitching of films. The tempo is a bit faster, and instead of handling just a few films, you have a big slate of films. I really enjoy that part.
What types of films do you represent?
Our catalog is mostly art house, festival driven films of high production quality. We carry films from about twenty countries, so we’re not just geared up with Scandinavian films, even though we’re based in Helsinki and Stockholm. The combination of good quality film that we can also sell and bring to festivals is important for us.
We’re getting into the bigger budget films at the moment. Our first larger scale film is "The Girl King", an English language period piece by Mika Kaurismäki. Its world-class cast includes Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck. It's in postproduction at the moment.
How do you feel about the changes of business in the industry?
Looking at all my years in sales, the prices have definitely gone down for art house films. I see that it’s difficult for distributors; they're making less money, and so we are making less money as well. From our point of view, it’s important to be really selective and know what type of films to really take in. I think it’s a very difficult market, but I’m happy to say that we’ve been getting income from VOD sales. When there was a drop in DVD sales, VOD sales started to pick up, and there are now some ok deals out there for digital rights.
I think there’s a bit of a lull now, and things are changing. There are some incentives that have been negatively affected in the European film business, and we could already see the reflection of this at Berlin and Cannes this year, as sales for smaller films were more difficult.
The award winning festival films do have a place in the market, and they can have nice theatrical release. The windows are just getting shorter at the same time. It’s an interesting challenge, but one has to be awake and alert all the time to move with the market.
- 9/5/2014
- by Erin Grover
- Sydney's Buzz
Telefilm Canada has confirmed its financial support of nearly $13 million of Canadian tax payers' money towards the production of nine English-language feature films through the 'Canada Feature Film Fund', although there doesn't seem to be anything culturally 'Canadian' about most of their selections, other than the crews that will be working on them.
Among the films receiving money include a psycho horror with a demonic 'Santa Claus', a bio pic about a former Queen of Sweden, the 'relationship' between 'James Dean' and a photographer, a thriller involving a Satanic child abuse sex ring, and an inflatable Sex Doll drug smuggling story:
The films are "After the Ball" (Sean Garrity), "A Christmas Horror Story" (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, Brett Sullivan), "Aloft" (Claudia Llosa), "A Worthy Companion" (Jason Sanchez, Carlos Sanchez), "Life" (Anton Corbijn), "Regression" (Alejandro Amenabar), "Rest Home" (Michael Rowe), "The Girl King" (Mika Kaurismäki) and "Zoom" (Pedro Morelli...
Among the films receiving money include a psycho horror with a demonic 'Santa Claus', a bio pic about a former Queen of Sweden, the 'relationship' between 'James Dean' and a photographer, a thriller involving a Satanic child abuse sex ring, and an inflatable Sex Doll drug smuggling story:
The films are "After the Ball" (Sean Garrity), "A Christmas Horror Story" (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, Brett Sullivan), "Aloft" (Claudia Llosa), "A Worthy Companion" (Jason Sanchez, Carlos Sanchez), "Life" (Anton Corbijn), "Regression" (Alejandro Amenabar), "Rest Home" (Michael Rowe), "The Girl King" (Mika Kaurismäki) and "Zoom" (Pedro Morelli...
- 6/21/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Read Screen International’s latest daily magazine from the 67th Cannes Film Festival here.
Click on the pages below to read the digital editions…
Features - Honouring the Spirit of Sarajevo, David Robert Mitchell (It Follows)
Reviews - Maps to the Stars, Foxcatcher, Force Majeure, A Girl at my Door, Love at First Fight
Deals - Winter Sleep wakes up Cannes buyers, Glacier mints $100m fund, Little Introduces Debut Slate from Genesius, Visit strikes Critics Week Deals, Rumble Fish arrives with Dealer, First Paris Coproduction Village Readies Projects, Mad to cross borders with 10 Arab Features, Almeida’s film scoops Doc Alliance prize,
Features - Dean Dublois (How to train Your Dragon 2), Jonas Cuaron (Forsaken), On the Frontline, Call of the Capitol (Film London’s 10th anniversary - promotional features)
Reviews - The Wonders, The Homesman, It Follows, The Salvation, A Hard Day, Self Made, The Go-Go Boys
Deals - Sorrentino’s Youth Draws a Crowd, Hanway...
Click on the pages below to read the digital editions…
Features - Honouring the Spirit of Sarajevo, David Robert Mitchell (It Follows)
Reviews - Maps to the Stars, Foxcatcher, Force Majeure, A Girl at my Door, Love at First Fight
Deals - Winter Sleep wakes up Cannes buyers, Glacier mints $100m fund, Little Introduces Debut Slate from Genesius, Visit strikes Critics Week Deals, Rumble Fish arrives with Dealer, First Paris Coproduction Village Readies Projects, Mad to cross borders with 10 Arab Features, Almeida’s film scoops Doc Alliance prize,
Features - Dean Dublois (How to train Your Dragon 2), Jonas Cuaron (Forsaken), On the Frontline, Call of the Capitol (Film London’s 10th anniversary - promotional features)
Reviews - The Wonders, The Homesman, It Follows, The Salvation, A Hard Day, Self Made, The Go-Go Boys
Deals - Sorrentino’s Youth Draws a Crowd, Hanway...
- 5/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Canadian actress Sarah Gadon leads an international cast in Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki’s 17th Century historical drama “The Girl King,” which began production this week in Finland, and we’ve got the first photo of Gadon and Swedish actress Malin Buska in the title role. Additionally, Gadon has joined the cast of 1950s set romantic drama [...]
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The post Sarah Gadon Joins Historical Dramas “Brooklyn” and “The Girl King” (First Look Photo) appeared first on Up and Comers.
- 2/13/2014
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
Sarah Gadon (Countess Ebba Sparre) and Malin Buska (Queen Kristina) appear in the first image from Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King.
The film, which starts shooting in Turku, Finland on Tuesday, will continue its shoot in Sweden and Germany. The project is an international co-production between Finland (Marianna Films), Canada (Triptych Media and Galafilm), Germany (Starhaus) and Sweden (Anagram).
The Yellow Affair handles international sales.
Distributors already on board are Equinoxe of Canada, Sf Svensk for the Nordic territories and Nfp for Germany.
The story of Sweden’s 17th century Queen Kristina is written by Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom At The Farm) with the English-language version by Linda Gaboriau. The cast also features Michael Nygvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck.
Kaurismaki said: “The Girl King is not intended as a traditional epic costume film but as an intense, actor-centered, psychological drama about one of the most interesting and mysterious personalities of all time, the 17th century...
The film, which starts shooting in Turku, Finland on Tuesday, will continue its shoot in Sweden and Germany. The project is an international co-production between Finland (Marianna Films), Canada (Triptych Media and Galafilm), Germany (Starhaus) and Sweden (Anagram).
The Yellow Affair handles international sales.
Distributors already on board are Equinoxe of Canada, Sf Svensk for the Nordic territories and Nfp for Germany.
The story of Sweden’s 17th century Queen Kristina is written by Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom At The Farm) with the English-language version by Linda Gaboriau. The cast also features Michael Nygvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck.
Kaurismaki said: “The Girl King is not intended as a traditional epic costume film but as an intense, actor-centered, psychological drama about one of the most interesting and mysterious personalities of all time, the 17th century...
- 2/8/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Sarah Gadon (Countess Ebba Sparre) and Malin Buska (Queen Kristina) appear in the first image from Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King.
The Girl King
The film, which starts shooting in Turku, Finland on Tuesday, will continue its shoot in Sweden and Germany. The project is an international co-production between Finland (Marianna Films), Canada (Triptych Media and Galafilm), Germany (Starhaus) and Sweden (Anagram).
The Yellow Affair handles international sales.
Distributors already on board are Equinoxe of Canada, Sf Svensk for the Nordic territories and Nfp for Germany.
The story of Sweden’s 17th century Queen Kristina is written by Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom At The Farm) with the English-language version by Linda Gaboriau. The cast also features Michael Nygvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck.
Kaurismaki said: “The Girl King is not intended as a traditional epic costume film but as an intense, actor-centered, psychological drama about one of the most interesting and mysterious personalities of all time...
The Girl King
The film, which starts shooting in Turku, Finland on Tuesday, will continue its shoot in Sweden and Germany. The project is an international co-production between Finland (Marianna Films), Canada (Triptych Media and Galafilm), Germany (Starhaus) and Sweden (Anagram).
The Yellow Affair handles international sales.
Distributors already on board are Equinoxe of Canada, Sf Svensk for the Nordic territories and Nfp for Germany.
The story of Sweden’s 17th century Queen Kristina is written by Michel Marc Bouchard (Tom At The Farm) with the English-language version by Linda Gaboriau. The cast also features Michael Nygvist, Hippolyte Girardot and Martina Gedeck.
Kaurismaki said: “The Girl King is not intended as a traditional epic costume film but as an intense, actor-centered, psychological drama about one of the most interesting and mysterious personalities of all time...
- 2/8/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Fund awards a total of $8.3m to new titles from Susanne Bier, Miguel Gomes and Yorgos Lanthimos among others.
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has agreed to support 20 projects of feature films, animations and documentaries for a total amount of $8.3m (€6.1m). The meeting ran from Oct 15-17 inVilnius.
Titles to benefit include:
Kosac - Zvonimir Juric (Croatia)
(Croatia, Slovenia)
Another Day of Life - Raul de la Fuente (Spain), Nenow Damian (Poland)
(Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany) Animation
As Mil e uma Noites - Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
(Portugal, France, Germany)
FRANCOØNIA, le Louvre sous l’occupation - Alexandre Sokourov (Russia)
(France, Germany, Netherlands) Documentary
The Girl King - Mika Kaurismaki (Finland)
(Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden)
Druga strana svega - Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Documentary
(Serbia, France)
Onder het hart - Nicole Van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)
Melody - Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
Le Portail - Régis Wargnier (France)
(France...
The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund has agreed to support 20 projects of feature films, animations and documentaries for a total amount of $8.3m (€6.1m). The meeting ran from Oct 15-17 inVilnius.
Titles to benefit include:
Kosac - Zvonimir Juric (Croatia)
(Croatia, Slovenia)
Another Day of Life - Raul de la Fuente (Spain), Nenow Damian (Poland)
(Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany) Animation
As Mil e uma Noites - Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
(Portugal, France, Germany)
FRANCOØNIA, le Louvre sous l’occupation - Alexandre Sokourov (Russia)
(France, Germany, Netherlands) Documentary
The Girl King - Mika Kaurismaki (Finland)
(Germany, Canada, Finland, Sweden)
Druga strana svega - Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Documentary
(Serbia, France)
Onder het hart - Nicole Van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)
Melody - Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium)
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
Le Portail - Régis Wargnier (France)
(France...
- 10/22/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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