by Nathaniel R
Since we last discussed the Best International Feature Film four more official submissions have been announced from Egypt, Nepal, Slovakia, and Ukraine which you can read about on those charts (click on the country names) with several more to follow since oft-nominated countries like Spain, Italy, France, and Sweden are all announcing in the next few days. Tonight though, one of my favourite topics: Norway! As longtime readers know I once lived there and was once fluent in Norwegian. Those days are long long gone but I still like to watch Norwegian movies and television and try to turn off the subtitles on occassion.
Norway has announced three finalists for their submission: Let the River Flow, A Happy Day, and Songs of Earth...
Since we last discussed the Best International Feature Film four more official submissions have been announced from Egypt, Nepal, Slovakia, and Ukraine which you can read about on those charts (click on the country names) with several more to follow since oft-nominated countries like Spain, Italy, France, and Sweden are all announcing in the next few days. Tonight though, one of my favourite topics: Norway! As longtime readers know I once lived there and was once fluent in Norwegian. Those days are long long gone but I still like to watch Norwegian movies and television and try to turn off the subtitles on occassion.
Norway has announced three finalists for their submission: Let the River Flow, A Happy Day, and Songs of Earth...
- 9/20/2023
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Hisham Zaman’s A Happy Day, Ole Giæver’s Let The River Flow and Margreth Olin’s Songs Of Earth have been shortlisted
Hisham Zaman’s A Happy Day, Ole Giæver’s Let The River Flow and Margreth Olin’s Songs Of Earth have been shortlisted to be the Norwegian entry for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
A Happy Day centres around three teenagers longing to escape the refugee camp where they live in north Norway. It had its world premiere in Toronto’s Centrepiece strand and is produced by Zaman’s Snowfall Cinema in co-production with Zentropa Denmark and Rein Film.
Hisham Zaman’s A Happy Day, Ole Giæver’s Let The River Flow and Margreth Olin’s Songs Of Earth have been shortlisted to be the Norwegian entry for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
A Happy Day centres around three teenagers longing to escape the refugee camp where they live in north Norway. It had its world premiere in Toronto’s Centrepiece strand and is produced by Zaman’s Snowfall Cinema in co-production with Zentropa Denmark and Rein Film.
- 9/19/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Prior selections Close, Drive My Car, The Worst Person In The World all garnered international feature film Oscar submissions.
Aki Kaurismäki’s Cannes jury prize winner Fallen Leaves and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses starring Cannes best actress winner Merve Dizdar – both Oscar submissions this year – are among the international line-up at the upcoming 59th Chicago International Film Festival (October 11–22).
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures Of Ghosts are two other Cannes selections to feature in the roster, while Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist and Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias both launched in Venice.
Aki Kaurismäki’s Cannes jury prize winner Fallen Leaves and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses starring Cannes best actress winner Merve Dizdar – both Oscar submissions this year – are among the international line-up at the upcoming 59th Chicago International Film Festival (October 11–22).
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures Of Ghosts are two other Cannes selections to feature in the roster, while Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist and Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias both launched in Venice.
- 9/14/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A trio of teenage refugees try to escape from a detention center located in an absurdly remote area of northern Norway in the first trailer for A Happy Day, the new film from Letter to the King director Hisham Zaman.
The Hollywood Reporter received the exclusive first-look trailer for the dark comedy, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Sept. 11 in TIFF’s Centerpiece section.
Right away it’s clear this is not going to be a typical refugee tale. The first time we see the three teenage protagonists: Hamid (Salah Qadi), Aras (Ravand Ali Taha), and Ismail (Mohamed Salah), who live together at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors, they are talking about a dream one of them had of escape.
“The police were chasing me through the snow,” one recounts, “I saw a donkey. Suddenly my head popped out of the...
The Hollywood Reporter received the exclusive first-look trailer for the dark comedy, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Sept. 11 in TIFF’s Centerpiece section.
Right away it’s clear this is not going to be a typical refugee tale. The first time we see the three teenage protagonists: Hamid (Salah Qadi), Aras (Ravand Ali Taha), and Ismail (Mohamed Salah), who live together at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors, they are talking about a dream one of them had of escape.
“The police were chasing me through the snow,” one recounts, “I saw a donkey. Suddenly my head popped out of the...
- 9/7/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Zaman’s previous films ’Before Snowfall’ and ’Letter To The King’, both won the Best Nordic Film prize in Goteborg.
REinvent International Sales has boarded the Toronto world premiere A Happy Day directed by Hisham Zaman.
Zaman’s third feature, selected for TIFF Centerpiece, follows his earlier festival hits Before Snowfall and Letter To The King, which both won the Dragon award for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg.
A Happy Day is about three teenage boys stuck in a refugee camp in the frozen north of Norway who come up with a plan to escape to a better world. Their...
REinvent International Sales has boarded the Toronto world premiere A Happy Day directed by Hisham Zaman.
Zaman’s third feature, selected for TIFF Centerpiece, follows his earlier festival hits Before Snowfall and Letter To The King, which both won the Dragon award for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg.
A Happy Day is about three teenage boys stuck in a refugee camp in the frozen north of Norway who come up with a plan to escape to a better world. Their...
- 9/6/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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