Universal’s monster movie Abigail helmed by Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett has been set to world premiere as the closing night film of horror fest The Overlook Film Festival, which is taking place this year at the Prytania Theatres in New Orleans from April 4 – 7.
Slated for release on April 19, Abigail watches as a group of criminals retreats to an isolated mansion after kidnapping the ballerina daughter (Alisha Weir) of a powerful underworld figure, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick, the film’s cast also includes Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito, and the late Angus Cloud.
This year’s Overlook lineup includes 45 films — 22 features and 23 shorts — from 11 countries, as well as four live presentations and five immersive experiences. Set to open the fet, on the heels of its Berlin launch,...
Slated for release on April 19, Abigail watches as a group of criminals retreats to an isolated mansion after kidnapping the ballerina daughter (Alisha Weir) of a powerful underworld figure, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl. Written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick, the film’s cast also includes Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito, and the late Angus Cloud.
This year’s Overlook lineup includes 45 films — 22 features and 23 shorts — from 11 countries, as well as four live presentations and five immersive experiences. Set to open the fet, on the heels of its Berlin launch,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Overlook Film Festival, billed as “the annual celebration of all things horror,” announced today the initial lineup for its 2024 edition.
Taking place April 4 through 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres, the horror fest is ready to bring audiences back to “America’s most haunted city” with a selection of both new and classic films, including 2024 releases like Sundance smash hit “I Saw the TV Glow” from director Jane Schoenbrun, Tilman Singer’s opening night pick “Cuckoo,” closing night offering “Abigail” from the Radio Silence team, plus offscreen offerings including interactive events, live performances, immersive programming, special guests and much, much more.
“We are finally able to see the fruits of post-pandemic productions and it’s a sight to behold,” said Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of film programming of the Overlook Film Festival, in an officials statement. “This year’s lineup is full of bigger, scarier, more personal,...
Taking place April 4 through 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres, the horror fest is ready to bring audiences back to “America’s most haunted city” with a selection of both new and classic films, including 2024 releases like Sundance smash hit “I Saw the TV Glow” from director Jane Schoenbrun, Tilman Singer’s opening night pick “Cuckoo,” closing night offering “Abigail” from the Radio Silence team, plus offscreen offerings including interactive events, live performances, immersive programming, special guests and much, much more.
“We are finally able to see the fruits of post-pandemic productions and it’s a sight to behold,” said Michael Lerman, co-founder and director of film programming of the Overlook Film Festival, in an officials statement. “This year’s lineup is full of bigger, scarier, more personal,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Screen shines a light on 30 European titles that look set to grab the attention of festival directors in 2023, including new features by Tom Tykwer, Paz Vega, Paolo Sorrentino, Cecilia Verheyden and Baltasar Kormakur.
For our separate list of French festival hopefuls for 2024, click here.
Ariel (Sp-Por)
Dir. Lois Patiño
Patiño won the Encounters special jury prize at Berlin last year for Samsara and picked up the emerging director prize at Locarno in 2013 with Coast Of Death. His latest is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, shot in Galicia and The Azores islands. Ariel stars Goya winner Irene Escolar...
For our separate list of French festival hopefuls for 2024, click here.
Ariel (Sp-Por)
Dir. Lois Patiño
Patiño won the Encounters special jury prize at Berlin last year for Samsara and picked up the emerging director prize at Locarno in 2013 with Coast Of Death. His latest is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, shot in Galicia and The Azores islands. Ariel stars Goya winner Irene Escolar...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Cologne-based The Match Factory has acquired rights to Swedish-Polish helmer Magnus von Horn’s Danish pic “The Girl With the Needle,” billed as a “fairy-tale about a horrible truth.” In the starring roles are Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”).
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
- 1/18/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The Göteborg Film Festival’s film industry confab, the Nordic Film Market, unspooling Jan 31-Feb. 2, has unveiled in exclusivity to Variety its 2024 lineup comprising 58 new and upcoming Nordic films.
These are directed by newcomers and bona fide helmers such as Hans Petter Moland, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Charlotte Sieling, Daniel Espinosa and Pirjo Honkasalo.
Just over two weeks before kick-off, a record number of delegates – 507 from 33 countries – have signed up for the biggest film market in the Nordic region.
The 90-plus international buyers, 90 funding bodies, 60 festival programmers and 50 sales agents can look forward to a revamped showcase, both in terms of programming and set-up, with a new hub for networking and accommodation at the Clarion Hotel Draken. “We’re very excited about making this year’s venue both new and familiar for delegates coming to Göteborg,” said head of industry Josef Kullengård.
“The industry has entered a slowdown, but creatively, the Nordic...
These are directed by newcomers and bona fide helmers such as Hans Petter Moland, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Charlotte Sieling, Daniel Espinosa and Pirjo Honkasalo.
Just over two weeks before kick-off, a record number of delegates – 507 from 33 countries – have signed up for the biggest film market in the Nordic region.
The 90-plus international buyers, 90 funding bodies, 60 festival programmers and 50 sales agents can look forward to a revamped showcase, both in terms of programming and set-up, with a new hub for networking and accommodation at the Clarion Hotel Draken. “We’re very excited about making this year’s venue both new and familiar for delegates coming to Göteborg,” said head of industry Josef Kullengård.
“The industry has entered a slowdown, but creatively, the Nordic...
- 1/16/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s SXSW Film Festival, taking place in Austin, TX, just unveiled their lineup, and what a massive year for horror.
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for what’s in store.
The fest unveiled its Midnight lineup, which includes the Samara Weaving-starring Azrael. Elsewhere, look for Neon’s highly anticipated Cuckoo set to make its premiere.
Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2024’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.
Narrative Spotlight
Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Cuckoo (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Producers: Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer...
The 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival’s Opening Night TV Premiere is the highly anticipated Netflix series 3 Body Problem created, executive produced and written by Emmy Award winners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and Emmy Award nominee Alexander Woo. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for what’s in store.
The fest unveiled its Midnight lineup, which includes the Samara Weaving-starring Azrael. Elsewhere, look for Neon’s highly anticipated Cuckoo set to make its premiere.
Read on for the genre titles included in SXSW 2024’s lineup, and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.
Narrative Spotlight
Unforgettable features receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Cuckoo (Germany)
Director/Screenwriter: Tilman Singer, Producers: Markus Halberschmidt, Josh Rosenbaum, Maria Tsigka, Ken Kao, Thor Bradwell, Ben Rimmer...
- 1/10/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The film was a standout title from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard line-up in 2022.
Hlynur Palmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard 2022 standout Godland will be the Icelandic contender in the 2024 Oscar race for best international feature.
The film also played at Telluride and Toronto 2022. In the US, Janus Films handled the theatrical release in early 2023, followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
Godland is produced by Katrin Pors, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin of Denmark’s Snowglobe and Anton Máni Svansson of Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures. The companies previously collaborated on A White, White Day (also Iceland’s Oscar submission...
Hlynur Palmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard 2022 standout Godland will be the Icelandic contender in the 2024 Oscar race for best international feature.
The film also played at Telluride and Toronto 2022. In the US, Janus Films handled the theatrical release in early 2023, followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
Godland is produced by Katrin Pors, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin of Denmark’s Snowglobe and Anton Máni Svansson of Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures. The companies previously collaborated on A White, White Day (also Iceland’s Oscar submission...
- 9/12/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Prolific Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice, Adams Apples, Men & Chicken), is dipping back into his deep well of dark comedy for his upcoming film, Back to Reality.
The film is described as a drama/crime comedy mashup involving a bank robbery, Anker, who gets released after a jail stint for a heist from which the money was never recovered. The only one who knows where the loot is buried is Anker’s brother Manfred, but the shock of his childhood trauma has sent him fleeing to an alter ego who has no recollection of the money. Hoping to unlock Manfred’s memory, the brothers travel to their childhood home and start digging, physically and psychologically. Back to Reality is currently in preproduction and in the final phase of financing.
No cast has been confirmed but Jensen is a frequent collaboration with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, the...
The film is described as a drama/crime comedy mashup involving a bank robbery, Anker, who gets released after a jail stint for a heist from which the money was never recovered. The only one who knows where the loot is buried is Anker’s brother Manfred, but the shock of his childhood trauma has sent him fleeing to an alter ego who has no recollection of the money. Hoping to unlock Manfred’s memory, the brothers travel to their childhood home and start digging, physically and psychologically. Back to Reality is currently in preproduction and in the final phase of financing.
No cast has been confirmed but Jensen is a frequent collaboration with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, the...
- 5/19/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Back To Reality’ is a dark comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen.
TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.
Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...
TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.
Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.
Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Filled with the brutal wonder of nature – both topographical and psychological – Hlynur Pálmason’s impressive period drama “Godland” drops us into the harshly beautiful terrain of Iceland for an austerely mesmerizing tale of mad conceit and errant conquest in the late nineteenth century. A sumptuous travelogue it is not; a visually stunning, soul-clenching examination of the curious push/pull between humans and the environment it most certainly is.
With its landscape of volcanos, lowlands, and ice, and hubristic treks marked by doomed clashes and solemn grace, “Godland” – its majestic Academy-ratio cinematography ideally maximized if seen in a theater – is the kind of bold work about which one could imagine Werner Herzog, upon viewing, feeling very seen. And yet with his third feature, Pálmason’s stylized mix of viscerality and mystery is decidedly his own, heralding a talent fully aware of how to achieve ambitious storytelling with memorable execution.
Our protagonist...
With its landscape of volcanos, lowlands, and ice, and hubristic treks marked by doomed clashes and solemn grace, “Godland” – its majestic Academy-ratio cinematography ideally maximized if seen in a theater – is the kind of bold work about which one could imagine Werner Herzog, upon viewing, feeling very seen. And yet with his third feature, Pálmason’s stylized mix of viscerality and mystery is decidedly his own, heralding a talent fully aware of how to achieve ambitious storytelling with memorable execution.
Our protagonist...
- 2/3/2023
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Kalak
We still think about her breakout directorial debut and we were filled with glee when we learned that Isabella Eklöf moved into her sophomore feature packing her bags for Denmark and Greenland for Kalak. Production took place sometime around September and producer Marie Møller Kjeldgaard might look to premiere at a Euro-fest coming ’23. 2018’s Holiday was a big deal for actress Vic Carmen Sonne, this film sees Asta Kamma August and Emil Johnsen topline. Eklöf has worked in television between features and this project was co-written by Kim Leine and Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen – this is described as a harrowing drama based on Leine’s own childhood trauma and experience of working as a nurse in Nuuk, and a take of the complex relations between Denmark and Greenland.…...
We still think about her breakout directorial debut and we were filled with glee when we learned that Isabella Eklöf moved into her sophomore feature packing her bags for Denmark and Greenland for Kalak. Production took place sometime around September and producer Marie Møller Kjeldgaard might look to premiere at a Euro-fest coming ’23. 2018’s Holiday was a big deal for actress Vic Carmen Sonne, this film sees Asta Kamma August and Emil Johnsen topline. Eklöf has worked in television between features and this project was co-written by Kim Leine and Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen – this is described as a harrowing drama based on Leine’s own childhood trauma and experience of working as a nurse in Nuuk, and a take of the complex relations between Denmark and Greenland.…...
- 1/18/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
"I'm well aware that at times your task will seem… monumental." Janus Films has revealed a new official US trailer for the Icelandic film titled Godland, made by acclaimed Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason. This initially premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival last year playing in Un Certain Regard, and it also played at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (where I eventually saw it and reviewed). It's a stunning, slow burn, mesmerizing film about how nature is God and how this young priest struggles to survive. In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and try to photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission, and morality. The film stars Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø,...
- 1/17/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s the late 19th century, and a young Danish priest is traveling to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people — yet the deeper he journeys into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission, and morality.
“Godland” is written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason, the filmmaker behind “A White, White Day” and “Winter Brothers.” Janus Films is releasing the acclaimed Icelandic feature on February 3 in New York and February 10 in Los Angeles, and IndieWire is sharing the exclusive trailer below.
“Godland” stars Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø, and Hilmar Guðjónsson. Crosset Hove stars as Lucas, a Lutheran priest sent from Denmark to Iceland to watch over the establishment of a new parish church, but his faith is challenged by the harshness of life in rural Iceland, including the fact that,...
“Godland” is written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason, the filmmaker behind “A White, White Day” and “Winter Brothers.” Janus Films is releasing the acclaimed Icelandic feature on February 3 in New York and February 10 in Los Angeles, and IndieWire is sharing the exclusive trailer below.
“Godland” stars Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø, and Hilmar Guðjónsson. Crosset Hove stars as Lucas, a Lutheran priest sent from Denmark to Iceland to watch over the establishment of a new parish church, but his faith is challenged by the harshness of life in rural Iceland, including the fact that,...
- 1/17/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Hylnur Pálmason’s impressive third feature is a bleak and beautiful look at one man’s mission to conquer a hostile and unforgiving land. Set in the late nineteenth century, this Icelandic saga is a story of a young Danish priest Lucas (Crosset Hove) sent on a mission to conquer the hearts of the Icelandic people. He is to build a church and see that the natives attend it. But if cinema has taught us anything, we know that this task will inevitably end in failure. From The Mission to Silence, religious men and their hubris have been portrayed on the big screen, with Godland now joining their ranks. But if 143 minutes in the company of a granite-faced parson and a booming smoking volcano that smells ‘like the Earth has shat its pants’ doesn’t sound appetising, you would be missing out on a wonderful feast.
Godland has two titles:...
Godland has two titles:...
- 11/21/2022
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Janus Films has acquired North American rights for Hlynur Pálmason’s “Godland,” which bowed at Cannes and is bound for Telluride and Toronto.
The film follows a young Danish priest in the late 19th century who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
It stars Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”), Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne (“Holiday”), Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (“Shorta”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø “The Team”) and Hilmar Guðjónsson (“Sóttkví”).
Janus Films plans a theatrical release to be followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
The film is is produced by Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin. Production entities include Snowglobe (Dk) in collaboration with Join Motion Pictures (Is) and in co-production with Maneki Films (Fr), Film I Väst...
The film follows a young Danish priest in the late 19th century who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
It stars Elliott Crosset Hove (“Winter Brothers”), Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne (“Holiday”), Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (“Shorta”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø “The Team”) and Hilmar Guðjónsson (“Sóttkví”).
Janus Films plans a theatrical release to be followed by a Criterion Channel streaming premiere.
The film is is produced by Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen and Mikkel Jersin. Production entities include Snowglobe (Dk) in collaboration with Join Motion Pictures (Is) and in co-production with Maneki Films (Fr), Film I Väst...
- 9/2/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Iceland-set period drama premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Hlynur Pálmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Godland ahead of screenings at Telluride and TIFF.
‘Godland’: Cannes Review
The story centres on a late 19th century Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø and Hilmar Guðjónsson star.
Janus Films has acquired North American rights to Hlynur Pálmason’s Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Godland ahead of screenings at Telluride and TIFF.
‘Godland’: Cannes Review
The story centres on a late 19th century Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø and Hilmar Guðjónsson star.
- 9/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ovation TV has voted in favor of Nordic noir spy thriller series Red Election.
The arts network has taken linear U.S. rights to the ten-part drama after a deal with A+E Networks International, which co-produces the series with streamer Viaplay and Swedish drama producer Mopar Studios. It will debut the series on August 6 at 7pm Et and run weekly through to October 8.
Episodes will also be available on demand and through the Ovation Now app.
The series — which stars Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack), and James D’Arcy (Homeland) — is set to the backdrop of simmering international tensions, as a newly elected British Prime Minister announces a referendum to decide the future of Scotland in the UK, as a shady foreign power seeks to influence the election from behind the scenes to unleash agents of chaos and upset the world order. Victoria Carmen Sonne,...
The arts network has taken linear U.S. rights to the ten-part drama after a deal with A+E Networks International, which co-produces the series with streamer Viaplay and Swedish drama producer Mopar Studios. It will debut the series on August 6 at 7pm Et and run weekly through to October 8.
Episodes will also be available on demand and through the Ovation Now app.
The series — which stars Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack), and James D’Arcy (Homeland) — is set to the backdrop of simmering international tensions, as a newly elected British Prime Minister announces a referendum to decide the future of Scotland in the UK, as a shady foreign power seeks to influence the election from behind the scenes to unleash agents of chaos and upset the world order. Victoria Carmen Sonne,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Lucas’ bishop warns him of the dangers before he sets out to minister to a remote community of Icelanders in Cannes Un Certain Regard title Godland. “It’s easy to go mad there,” he explains at his Copenhagen dining table, steadily chewing his way through the fabulous feast in front of him. Iceland, where the sun never sets on summer nights, where the weather is extreme, the landscape broodingly monumental: just remember the apostles, “a group of lonely men,” the bishop advises as he wipes his mouth. Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) is not eating; one glance tells you he’s a priest of an ascetic bent.
He is clearly feeling his isolation as he sets out with guides and helpmeets across the sphagnum moss to his new parish. They have a tight schedule, with a fixed deadline of summer’s end to build his church and corral his flock into a weekly show of piety.
He is clearly feeling his isolation as he sets out with guides and helpmeets across the sphagnum moss to his new parish. They have a tight schedule, with a fixed deadline of summer’s end to build his church and corral his flock into a weekly show of piety.
- 5/27/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Hlynyur Palmason’s Icelandic drama has sold to the UK/Ire, Spain and Greece.
Jan Naszewski’s New Europe has closed a number of high-profile deals for Hlynyur Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Curzon has taken rights for UK/Ireland, with A Contracorriente buying Spain, Scanorama for Baltics, Vertigo Media for Hungary and One from the Heart for Greece.
Previously confirmed sales were to France (Jour2Fete), Benelux (Imagine), Poland (New Horizons Association) and Australia/New Zealand (Palace).
“Godland is a breathtaking piece of cinema filled with intelligent and subtle reflections on politics, art, history,...
Jan Naszewski’s New Europe has closed a number of high-profile deals for Hlynyur Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Curzon has taken rights for UK/Ireland, with A Contracorriente buying Spain, Scanorama for Baltics, Vertigo Media for Hungary and One from the Heart for Greece.
Previously confirmed sales were to France (Jour2Fete), Benelux (Imagine), Poland (New Horizons Association) and Australia/New Zealand (Palace).
“Godland is a breathtaking piece of cinema filled with intelligent and subtle reflections on politics, art, history,...
- 5/27/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Iceland is like no other place on Earth, and the films that take place there can’t help but reflect this. In “Godland,” Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason attempts to see his homeland through outside eyes, the way it must have looked to the Danes who claimed and controlled it until World War II. Icelandic period pieces are often set much earlier, à la “The Northman,” but this one — at once visually striking and emotionally austere, in its almost Bressonian restraint — takes the country’s colonialist past as its subject, pitting a late-19th-century man of faith against a force far stronger than him, like some kind of Arctic, art-house “There Will Be Blood.”
In the opening scene Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest, is sent by the Church of Denmark to establish a parish in Iceland, not at all prepared for what lies ahead. He’s a sincere and devout idealist,...
In the opening scene Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest, is sent by the Church of Denmark to establish a parish in Iceland, not at all prepared for what lies ahead. He’s a sincere and devout idealist,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
New Europe Film Sales has announced the first sales for Cannes Un Certain Regard-selected “Godland,” directed by Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason.
The film was picked up in France by Jour2Fete, and the movie was also acquired by three distributors that worked on Pálmason’s Cannes Critics’ Week title “A White, White Day” – Benelux rights were sold to Imagine, Poland was picked up by New Horizons Association and Australia/New Zealand was picked up by Palace.
The film is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
The film is produced by Denmark’s Snowglobe in collaboration with Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures, in co-production with France’s Maneki Films, Film I Väst & Garagefilm in Sweden,...
The film was picked up in France by Jour2Fete, and the movie was also acquired by three distributors that worked on Pálmason’s Cannes Critics’ Week title “A White, White Day” – Benelux rights were sold to Imagine, Poland was picked up by New Horizons Association and Australia/New Zealand was picked up by Palace.
The film is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
The film is produced by Denmark’s Snowglobe in collaboration with Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures, in co-production with France’s Maneki Films, Film I Väst & Garagefilm in Sweden,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Still without the section opener and a couple of films shy from being complete, nearly half of the fifteen titles selected for this year’s Un Certain Regard section are first time projects. Beginning with the known knowns, we’re excited to see two Euro filmmakers move up the Croisette. Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason and Poland’s Agnieszka Smoczyńska both premiered their last feature films in the Critics’ Week and they’ll both be offering their third feature films respectively. Pálmason’s Vanskabte Land (we discussed the project in last week’s five under-the-radar) stars Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir and only receives its domestic release in December.…...
- 4/14/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The film is Icelandiic director Hlynur Palmason’s third film following ‘Winter Brothers’ and ‘A White, White Day’.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic writer/director Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, a feature that was shot in Iceland under the radar in 2021 and has today been confirmed for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
New Europe also sold the director’s first two features, Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, as well as his latest short Nest, which premiered at Berlinale 2022.
Godland is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) travels to a remote...
New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic writer/director Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, a feature that was shot in Iceland under the radar in 2021 and has today been confirmed for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
New Europe also sold the director’s first two features, Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, as well as his latest short Nest, which premiered at Berlinale 2022.
Godland is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) travels to a remote...
- 4/14/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Osaka Asian Film Festival has unveiled its biggest ever program – a total of 76 films – to unspool next month.
Its competition section includes the acclaimed Korean debut film “Aloners,” which offers an exacting critique of the alienating effects upon life of modern capitalist economies; Hong Kong biopic “Anita”; the world premiere of “Angry Son,” which combines LGBT and mixed race themes in a heartwarming comedy; Kong Dashan’s new take on “Journey to the West,” as a ragtag group of people on a UFO hunt; “Mama’s Affair,” the second film by Kearen Pang, whose 2017 debut “29+1” won Osaka’s audience award, “No Land’s Man” from Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and festival circuit hit “Barbarian Invasion.”
The spotlight section includes ten titles. Among them are “The Ground Beneath her Feet” from Bangladesh’s Mohammad Rabby Mridha; “A Room of Her own” from China’s Xie Yiran; and Carlo Francisco Manatad’s “Whether the Weather is Fine.
Its competition section includes the acclaimed Korean debut film “Aloners,” which offers an exacting critique of the alienating effects upon life of modern capitalist economies; Hong Kong biopic “Anita”; the world premiere of “Angry Son,” which combines LGBT and mixed race themes in a heartwarming comedy; Kong Dashan’s new take on “Journey to the West,” as a ragtag group of people on a UFO hunt; “Mama’s Affair,” the second film by Kearen Pang, whose 2017 debut “29+1” won Osaka’s audience award, “No Land’s Man” from Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and festival circuit hit “Barbarian Invasion.”
The spotlight section includes ten titles. Among them are “The Ground Beneath her Feet” from Bangladesh’s Mohammad Rabby Mridha; “A Room of Her own” from China’s Xie Yiran; and Carlo Francisco Manatad’s “Whether the Weather is Fine.
- 2/17/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
“Yanagawa,” which this week won the top prize at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas in France, has been set as the opening title of the 17th Osaka Asian Film Festival in Japan. The festival, which runs as an in-person event, March 10-20, 2022 will close with multinational co-production “Miss Osaka.”
Yanagawa, was directed by Korean-Chinese auteur Zhang Lu, and was filmed in China and Japan. Telling a tale of search for East-Asian identity, the film is Zhang’s first mainly Chinese-language picture in the eleven years since “Dooman River.”
It had its world premiere screening at Busan and was subsequently the opening film for the Pingyao International Film Festival. It is expected to receive a Japanese theatrical release later this year, though a date has not yet been finalized.
A unique Danish-Norwegian-Japanese co-production, directed by Daniel Dencik, “Miss Osaka” is a drama with mystery and thriller elements that...
Yanagawa, was directed by Korean-Chinese auteur Zhang Lu, and was filmed in China and Japan. Telling a tale of search for East-Asian identity, the film is Zhang’s first mainly Chinese-language picture in the eleven years since “Dooman River.”
It had its world premiere screening at Busan and was subsequently the opening film for the Pingyao International Film Festival. It is expected to receive a Japanese theatrical release later this year, though a date has not yet been finalized.
A unique Danish-Norwegian-Japanese co-production, directed by Daniel Dencik, “Miss Osaka” is a drama with mystery and thriller elements that...
- 2/9/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Film is produced by Thomas Robsahm and Renée Mlodyszewski at Oslo Pictures.
Paris-based Totem Films has taken on world rights to rising Norwegian film and music video director Yenni Lee’s polyamorous love story Explosions In The Heart, starring Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne and Swedish rapper Silvana Imam.
It follows a young woman who falls madly in love but then finds herself and the relationship put to the test on discovering that the object of her desire and devotion is polyamorous, someone who has mutliple love affairs at the same time.
”Yenni’s cinema is a world of sensation,...
Paris-based Totem Films has taken on world rights to rising Norwegian film and music video director Yenni Lee’s polyamorous love story Explosions In The Heart, starring Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne and Swedish rapper Silvana Imam.
It follows a young woman who falls madly in love but then finds herself and the relationship put to the test on discovering that the object of her desire and devotion is polyamorous, someone who has mutliple love affairs at the same time.
”Yenni’s cinema is a world of sensation,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Film is produced by Thomas Robsahm and Renée Mlodyszewski at Oslo Pictures.
Paris-based Totem Films has taken on world rights to rising Norwegian film and music video director Yenni Lee’s polyamorous love story Explosions Of The Heart, starring Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne and Swedish rapper Silvana Imam.
It follows a young woman called who falls madly in love but then finds herself and the relationship put to the test on discovering that the object of her desire and devotion is polyamorous, someone who has mutliple love affairs at the same time.
”Yenni’s cinema is a world of sensation,...
Paris-based Totem Films has taken on world rights to rising Norwegian film and music video director Yenni Lee’s polyamorous love story Explosions Of The Heart, starring Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne and Swedish rapper Silvana Imam.
It follows a young woman called who falls madly in love but then finds herself and the relationship put to the test on discovering that the object of her desire and devotion is polyamorous, someone who has mutliple love affairs at the same time.
”Yenni’s cinema is a world of sensation,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
In today’s Global Bulletin, the English Premier League renews rights deals for three years; Stephen Graham-starrer “Boiling Point” sells wide; Nent Group sets terrorism drama “Red Election”; Endeavor Content strengthens management team; and Alchimie and All3Media International launch SVOD channel Inside Outside in the U.S.
The English Premier League soccer championship has agreed a proposal for a three-year renewal of U.K. live and non-live broadcast agreements with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport.
The rights deal worth £5 billion ($7 billion) was agreed in 2018 and will now be rolled over from 2022-2025.
This follows approval in principle for the renewal from the U.K. government after a period of consideration where the League cited the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enabled by an exclusion order from the government, the League will conclude the renewals without the normal broadcast rights tender process.
As part of the deal,...
The English Premier League soccer championship has agreed a proposal for a three-year renewal of U.K. live and non-live broadcast agreements with Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon Prime Video and BBC Sport.
The rights deal worth £5 billion ($7 billion) was agreed in 2018 and will now be rolled over from 2022-2025.
This follows approval in principle for the renewal from the U.K. government after a period of consideration where the League cited the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Enabled by an exclusion order from the government, the League will conclude the renewals without the normal broadcast rights tender process.
As part of the deal,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Stephen Dillane (Game Of Thrones), Lydia Leonard (Gentleman Jack), and James D’Arcy (Homeland) will headline Nordic noir spy thriller Red Election, which is set at Scandi streamer Viaplay and is co-produced by A+E Networks International.
Housed at Swedish production outfit Mopar Studios, Deadline first mooted the 10-part series in January. Production has now wrapped following a six-month delay last year, when filming was shut down after just two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Set against the backdrop of a terrorist plot in London, Red Election centers on Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson (played by Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne) and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy (Leonard), who are pitched together in a desperate race against time.
Caught in a web of lies, murder, and power struggles, they soon realize they can’t trust anybody and that the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
Housed at Swedish production outfit Mopar Studios, Deadline first mooted the 10-part series in January. Production has now wrapped following a six-month delay last year, when filming was shut down after just two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Set against the backdrop of a terrorist plot in London, Red Election centers on Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson (played by Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne) and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy (Leonard), who are pitched together in a desperate race against time.
Caught in a web of lies, murder, and power struggles, they soon realize they can’t trust anybody and that the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
- 5/12/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
We told you. Remember the rules. You didn’t listen. Now we’re Back with an all new batch of guest recommendations featuring Blake Masters, Julien Nitzberg, Floyd Norman, Tuppence Middleton and Blaire Bercy.
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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Wild Angels (1966)
Spirits of the Dead (1966)
The Trip (1967)
Mooch Goes To Hollywood (1971)
Stalker (1979)
The Candidate (1972)
The Parallax View (1974)
Network (1976)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Ace In The Hole (1951)
Margin Call (2011)
Death Wish (1974)
Death Wish (2018)
Seconds (1966)
Soylent Green (1973)
Rage (1972)
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Repo Man (1984)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
The Train (1965)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Strange Brew (1983)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Guys And Dolls (1955)
On The Town (1949)
Casablanca (1942)
The Dirt Gang (1972)
Back To The Future (1985)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
My Man Godfrey...
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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
The Wild Angels (1966)
Spirits of the Dead (1966)
The Trip (1967)
Mooch Goes To Hollywood (1971)
Stalker (1979)
The Candidate (1972)
The Parallax View (1974)
Network (1976)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Ace In The Hole (1951)
Margin Call (2011)
Death Wish (1974)
Death Wish (2018)
Seconds (1966)
Soylent Green (1973)
Rage (1972)
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Repo Man (1984)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
The Train (1965)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Strange Brew (1983)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Guys And Dolls (1955)
On The Town (1949)
Casablanca (1942)
The Dirt Gang (1972)
Back To The Future (1985)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
My Man Godfrey...
- 8/14/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
For the past few years we’ve had the privilege of partnering with the European Film Promotion’s sterling initiative, the Shooting Stars. This week we sat down with the latest cohort to find out more about these stars of the future.
These interviews were conducted at the Berlin Film Festival, and the ten winners were selected by a jury of industry experts from 28 nominations, most of the talent are already award-winning in their home countries.
The winners are Martina Apostolova (Bulgaria), Pääru Oja (Estonia), Victoria Carmen Sonne (Denmark), Zita Hanrot (France), Levan Gelbakhiani (Georgia), Jonas Dassler (Germany), Bilal Wahib (The Netherlands), Bartosz Bielenia (Poland), Joana Ribeiro (Portugal), Ella Rumpf (Switzerland).
Stefan Pape spoke to the chosen ten to ask them what the programme means to them, how their early successes have informed their career so far, and what they were doing when they heard that they had been selected.
These interviews were conducted at the Berlin Film Festival, and the ten winners were selected by a jury of industry experts from 28 nominations, most of the talent are already award-winning in their home countries.
The winners are Martina Apostolova (Bulgaria), Pääru Oja (Estonia), Victoria Carmen Sonne (Denmark), Zita Hanrot (France), Levan Gelbakhiani (Georgia), Jonas Dassler (Germany), Bilal Wahib (The Netherlands), Bartosz Bielenia (Poland), Joana Ribeiro (Portugal), Ella Rumpf (Switzerland).
Stefan Pape spoke to the chosen ten to ask them what the programme means to them, how their early successes have informed their career so far, and what they were doing when they heard that they had been selected.
- 2/26/2020
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Upcoming talent to be showcased at the Berlin Film Festival.
The 10 young actors selected for this year’s European Shooting Stars has been unveiled.
European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the selection of upcoming talent, which will be introduced to international casting directors, producers and filmmakers at the Berlin Film Festival next month.
They include Germany’s Jonas Dassler, who starred as serial killer Fritz Honka in Faith Akin’s The Golden Glove, a biography of German serial killer Fritz Honka, which played in competition at last year’s Berlinale.
The selection also features Poland’s Bartosz Bielenia from Poland,...
The 10 young actors selected for this year’s European Shooting Stars has been unveiled.
European Film Promotion (Efp) has revealed the selection of upcoming talent, which will be introduced to international casting directors, producers and filmmakers at the Berlin Film Festival next month.
They include Germany’s Jonas Dassler, who starred as serial killer Fritz Honka in Faith Akin’s The Golden Glove, a biography of German serial killer Fritz Honka, which played in competition at last year’s Berlinale.
The selection also features Poland’s Bartosz Bielenia from Poland,...
- 1/9/2020
- by ¬0¦Thomas Messner¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
European Film Promotion has unveiled the 10 Shooting Stars, up-and-coming acting talents set to break out internationally, who will be honored at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival.
The selection comprises Bartosz Bielenia from Poland, star of Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi,” among films shortlisted for this year’s best international feature film Oscar; France’s Zita Hanrot, the voice talent of Zunaira in animated Oscar contender “The Swallows of Kabul” who broke out locally with Philippe Faucon’s “Fatima”; and Portugal’s Joana Ribeiro who is currently shooting Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller “Infinite” for Paramount alongside Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Alba Rohrwacher, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur.
The Shooting Stars initiative is also honoring German actor Jonas Dassler, who made a splash at Berlin last year with his performance as a serial killer in Fatih Akin’s “The Golden Glove”; Dutch actor Bilal Wahib,...
The selection comprises Bartosz Bielenia from Poland, star of Jan Komasa’s “Corpus Christi,” among films shortlisted for this year’s best international feature film Oscar; France’s Zita Hanrot, the voice talent of Zunaira in animated Oscar contender “The Swallows of Kabul” who broke out locally with Philippe Faucon’s “Fatima”; and Portugal’s Joana Ribeiro who is currently shooting Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller “Infinite” for Paramount alongside Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Previous Shooting Stars include Alicia Vikander, Alba Rohrwacher, Matthias Schoenaerts, Pilou Asbæk and Baltasar Kormákur.
The Shooting Stars initiative is also honoring German actor Jonas Dassler, who made a splash at Berlin last year with his performance as a serial killer in Fatih Akin’s “The Golden Glove”; Dutch actor Bilal Wahib,...
- 1/9/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The 2020 edition of European Shooting Stars has unveiled the 10 young acting talents it will spotlight, with participants arriving with credits including Polish Oscar shortlisted feature Corpus Christi.
On the list is Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, whose turn as an amateur priest in Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi has already earned him acting awards at the Stockholm, Chicago and El Gouna film festivals.
He is selected alongside Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne, who has appeared in Hlynur Palmason’s Winters Brothers and Isabella Eklöf’s 2018 Sundance pic Holiday; she has won two Danish Academy awards (Bodils).
Also named is Swiss actress Ella Rumpf, who lead the cast of Julia Ducournau’s 2016 Cannes selection Raw, which won her the Révelation prize at the 2018 César Awards, and Jakob Lass’s 2017 Berlin title Tiger Girl. Rumpf will also appear this year in upcoming German Netflix series Freud.
Portuguese talent Joana Ribeiro makes the 2020 cut...
On the list is Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, whose turn as an amateur priest in Jan Komasa’s Corpus Christi has already earned him acting awards at the Stockholm, Chicago and El Gouna film festivals.
He is selected alongside Danish actress Victoria Carmen Sonne, who has appeared in Hlynur Palmason’s Winters Brothers and Isabella Eklöf’s 2018 Sundance pic Holiday; she has won two Danish Academy awards (Bodils).
Also named is Swiss actress Ella Rumpf, who lead the cast of Julia Ducournau’s 2016 Cannes selection Raw, which won her the Révelation prize at the 2018 César Awards, and Jakob Lass’s 2017 Berlin title Tiger Girl. Rumpf will also appear this year in upcoming German Netflix series Freud.
Portuguese talent Joana Ribeiro makes the 2020 cut...
- 1/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Danish filmmaker Grahtø’s feature debut stars Lisa Carlehed and Victoria Carmen Sonne.
Us sales and distribution company Princ Films has acquired world sales rights on Danish filmmaker Marie Grahtø’s feature debutPsychosia ahead of its official premiere in Venice Critics’ Week on Wednesday (Sept 4).
The psychological drama stars Lisa Carlehed as an uptight researcher specialised in the field of suicide, opposite Victoria Carmen Sonne as a suicidal psychiatric patient she is treating. The pair form a strong bond but as they get closer it becomes clear that something is not as it seems.
The film was produced by Amalie...
Us sales and distribution company Princ Films has acquired world sales rights on Danish filmmaker Marie Grahtø’s feature debutPsychosia ahead of its official premiere in Venice Critics’ Week on Wednesday (Sept 4).
The psychological drama stars Lisa Carlehed as an uptight researcher specialised in the field of suicide, opposite Victoria Carmen Sonne as a suicidal psychiatric patient she is treating. The pair form a strong bond but as they get closer it becomes clear that something is not as it seems.
The film was produced by Amalie...
- 9/3/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Isabella Eklöf's Holiday (2018), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from June 7 – July 6, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.Holiday bites its teeth into male-female power dynamics and the blood is all glitter. Isabella Eklöf’s debut feature reprimands a static notion of masculine control, portraying a drug circle paired with a provocative example of female agency: a Danish criminal gang seen through the eyes of a woman. Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne) arrives in Bodrum, at the glamorous Turkish Riviera, but the luxurious villa and expensive goods won’t save her from the group's misdemeanors and violence. Ironically enough, the title alludes to a joyous escapade, but in retrospect, it resonates with Michael Haneke’s title choice of Funny Games. The film opens with an empty airport, its long, spotless corridors echoing the footsteps of Sascha,...
- 6/17/2019
- MUBI
I was lassoed by the pre-fest launching of the accompanying marketing materials for this Danish-Dutch-Swedish co-production Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Comp selected debut, and a mere minutes into the screening, I knew I was in for the type of delight I’m accustomed to seeing in the comp for the Palme d’Or. You see, this examination of femininity through masculinity under the guise mafioso world in swim trunk vaca mode adheres to a quality that we find in some master filmmakers who adorn Cannes. With a firm control with long takes, still frames, subtext loaded language, Isabella Eklöf‘s Holiday invites curious onlookers to witness how one might conform, assert and essentially climb the ranks machismo with actress Victoria Carmen Sonne’s character making power moves with bare minimum in terms of “physical” effort.…...
- 2/9/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
With American indie being the focal point of our Sundance coverage, it takes a little coaxing for us to check out the offerings found in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, but this Danish offering from first time filmmaker Isabella Eklöf had the kind of marketing materials that paint a curious picture. My first film viewing experience in Park City where I was carded before entering, Holiday flips the gangster film on its head with its transformative waiflike and trophylike protagonist (played with bravura by Victoria Carmen Sonne) who traces her own lines. This is a rare Sundance preemed film that I would have seen at Cannes.…...
- 2/8/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Holiday Breaking Glass Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net by: Harvey Karten Director: Isabella Eklöf Screenwriter: Isabella Eklöf, Johanne Algren Cast: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Romer Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 2/1/19 Opens: February26, 2019 In one of the few, though absorbing, moments in which cast members exchange real ideas, a side character […]
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- 2/8/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Everything passes with time. And then we're just dead." Ain't that the truth. Breaking Glass Pictures has unveiled the first official Us trailer for an acclaimed psychological thriller titled Holiday, about a young woman who discovers the luxurious holiday with her drug lord boyfriend and his "family" isn't as relaxing as it's supposed to be. Made by Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf, it first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year then went on to play at tons of festivals throughout 2018. This reminds me a bit of Coralie Fargeat's Revenge, about a woman who gets back at the men who abuse her. Newcomer Victoria Carmen Sonne stars as Sascha, and the Danish cast includes Thijs Römer, Lai Yde, Morten Hemmingsen, and Michiel de Jong. This looks crazier than I was expecting, and I hope she gets some bloody sweet revenge. Here's the official Us trailer (+ original poster) for Isabella Eklöf's Holiday,...
- 1/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Isabella Eklof’s daring directorial debut “Holiday” surprised audiences at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in the World Cinematic Dramatic Competition section, and the Danish drama is gearing up for its theatrical debut with an appropriately unsettling trailer. The film stars a breakout Victoria Carmen Sonne as Sascha, a beautiful young woman who is already entangled with violent drug lord Michael (Lai Yde) long before the opening credits even run, as the drama centers on their (especially ill-fated) holiday to sunny Turkey. It’s there that things veer wildly off course, including scenes of shocking violence and a rape scene that stunned viewers.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of luxury, recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of luxury, recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city...
- 1/7/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
We first meet Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), at the airport, a stylish young woman apparently on holidays in a beautiful seaside locale that is eventually revealed as Turkey. It's quickly apparent hat she's not travelling for leisure after all and that in fact, she's on business and though it's clear from an early interaction that the business is most likely something illegal, it's not clear what she's involved with for some time.
Isabella Eklof's Holiday follows Sascha as she feels her way in this world of crime and though she clearly knows the people she's in Turkey to meet, there's also a feeling that she's testing the waters of what she can and can't get away with. Michael, her boyfriend and the leader of their band of drug traffickers, is clearly used to having women foll...
Isabella Eklof's Holiday follows Sascha as she feels her way in this world of crime and though she clearly knows the people she's in Turkey to meet, there's also a feeling that she's testing the waters of what she can and can't get away with. Michael, her boyfriend and the leader of their band of drug traffickers, is clearly used to having women foll...
- 10/1/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Director also reveals plans for his second feature.
Reel Pictures has bought Danish rights to Neon Heart, writer/director Laurits Flensted-Jensen’s debut feature which has its world premiere this week in San Sebastian’s New Directors Competition.
Reel Pictures has a history of supporting new directors with recent acquisitions such as Holiday, Sticks & Stones (Brakland), Christian IV, Heartstone and Cutterhead.
Neon Heart stars Victoria Carmen Sonne from Sundance hit Holiday, as well as Niklas Herskind and Noah Skovgaard Skands. The story follows three people ’chasing life’ – a woman returns home to Denmark after a short-lived porn career in the...
Reel Pictures has bought Danish rights to Neon Heart, writer/director Laurits Flensted-Jensen’s debut feature which has its world premiere this week in San Sebastian’s New Directors Competition.
Reel Pictures has a history of supporting new directors with recent acquisitions such as Holiday, Sticks & Stones (Brakland), Christian IV, Heartstone and Cutterhead.
Neon Heart stars Victoria Carmen Sonne from Sundance hit Holiday, as well as Niklas Herskind and Noah Skovgaard Skands. The story follows three people ’chasing life’ – a woman returns home to Denmark after a short-lived porn career in the...
- 9/26/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Holiday is an extremely unpleasant film, and yet it is stunningly bright, vibrant and set in a Riviera. This strange contradiction is also reflected in young mob moll Sascha (Victoria Carmen Sonne). Its opening stretch emphasizes the sun-soaked surroundings, but scenes of recreation echo subtle undertones of violence and trauma, the same stirrings inside Sascha it turns out. The glitz and glamour are nothing but gaudy distraction from the immorality. Less of a holiday and more of a business opportunity, Danish drug baron Michael (Lai Yde), Sascha and his extended crime family initially breeze through typical classless tourist treats. The luxury Turkish Aegean seaside villa of Bodrum is a sunlit and vibrant gangster’s paradise at day, and a hyper neon-soaked drug-fuelled party at night, but...
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- 7/28/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The film will shoot for six weeks on location at Psychiatric Center Sankt Hans, in Roskilde near Copenhagen.
Trine Dyrholm has joined the cast of Danish director Marie Grahtø’s debut feature Teenage Jesus, which started shooting last week.
The drama is set in a psych ward. The cast is led by Lisa Carlehed (In Your Arms) as a perfectionist young psychologist and Victoria Carmen Sonne (Holiday) as her suicidal patient. Through an intense psychological war, the two women form a complicated and intimate bond. Dyrholm plays a fellow doctor.
The film will shoot for six weeks on location at Psychiatric Center Sankt Hans,...
Trine Dyrholm has joined the cast of Danish director Marie Grahtø’s debut feature Teenage Jesus, which started shooting last week.
The drama is set in a psych ward. The cast is led by Lisa Carlehed (In Your Arms) as a perfectionist young psychologist and Victoria Carmen Sonne (Holiday) as her suicidal patient. Through an intense psychological war, the two women form a complicated and intimate bond. Dyrholm plays a fellow doctor.
The film will shoot for six weeks on location at Psychiatric Center Sankt Hans,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
One hundred Danish actors have contributed to a Danish project presenting everyday people’s #MeToo stories.
One hundred Danish actors including Claes Bang (The Square), Danica Curcic (Silent Heart), Jesper Christensen (Casino Royale), Ghita Nørby (Babette’s Feast), Victoria Carmen Sonne (Holiday), and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (A Royal Affair) have contributed to a Danish project presenting everyday people’s #MeToo stories.
Copenhagen-based production company Meta Film has launched the website dkmetoo.dk, where its ‘mosaic’ of 100 videos related to #MeToo can be streamed.
The videos – nearly all under 2 minutes each – will also be screened tonight (Friday) at the Scandinavian Terrace...
One hundred Danish actors including Claes Bang (The Square), Danica Curcic (Silent Heart), Jesper Christensen (Casino Royale), Ghita Nørby (Babette’s Feast), Victoria Carmen Sonne (Holiday), and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (A Royal Affair) have contributed to a Danish project presenting everyday people’s #MeToo stories.
Copenhagen-based production company Meta Film has launched the website dkmetoo.dk, where its ‘mosaic’ of 100 videos related to #MeToo can be streamed.
The videos – nearly all under 2 minutes each – will also be screened tonight (Friday) at the Scandinavian Terrace...
- 5/11/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
At one point in Hlynur Pálmason’s “Winter Brothers,” protagonist Emil (Elliott Crosset Hove) performs a magic trick by mixing a few clear chemicals in a soda bottle in the hopes of impressing a young woman (Victoria Carmen Sonne). Like her, we can see all the components (which are literally transparent) and yet the result still thrills. Likewise, Pálmason’s arthouse ingredients are familiar and innocuous — long takes, minimal dialogue, surrealist flourishes, an avant-garde soundtrack — he as well accomplishes something magical with his feature-length debut.
- 4/3/2018
- by Bradley Warren
- The Playlist
By most estimations, this year’s Sundance was not a big marketplace. While Neon picked up the midnight movie “Assassination Nation” for $10 million, and breakouts like “Sorry to Bother You” (Annapurna), “Puzzle” (Sony Pictures Classics) and “Colette” (Bleecker Street) are all coming to theaters at some point, a number of highlights from this year’s program ended it without homes. Of course, it goes without saying that obvious commercial plays like “Juliet, Naked” and star-driven dramas like “Wildlife,” both of which didn’t end Sundance with distribution plans in place, will eventually find them. But they aren’t alone. As the dealmakers continue to sift through their options, here are the festival standouts we’d like to see at the top of every buyer’s list.
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When people occupies the same household for decades,...
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When people occupies the same household for decades,...
- 1/30/2018
- by Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, Anne Thompson and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“Holiday” is already unsettling in its portrait of a young woman trapped by a cruel overlord, and then it arrives at a brutal, graphic rape scene more alarming than anything comparable in world cinema since “Irreversible.” No matter the extreme disgust at the center of this scene and the devastating circumstances surrounding it, Danish writer-director Isabella Eklof’s debut never feels like an empty provocation. This astonishing first feature depicts a world of superficial pleasures with such precision that even the people trapped in its confines can’t deny its appeal.
For Sacha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), being arm candy for slick gangster Michael (Lai Yde) yields a life of constant leisure, but only if she behaves like his prized possession. An early scene establishes the cruel possibilities at hand if she acts out of line — overdrawing on his bank account and confessing to one of his minions, she’s met...
For Sacha (Victoria Carmen Sonne), being arm candy for slick gangster Michael (Lai Yde) yields a life of constant leisure, but only if she behaves like his prized possession. An early scene establishes the cruel possibilities at hand if she acts out of line — overdrawing on his bank account and confessing to one of his minions, she’s met...
- 1/26/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A great many movies premiere at Sundance every year, some more attention-grabbing than others. Isabella Eklöf’s feature debut looks like it could get people talking: “Holiday” stars Victoria Carmen Sonne as a young woman who gets in over her head with a drug lord in the Turkish Riviera. Watch an exclusive teaser below.
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Here’s the synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way of life in this volatile household, but when Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet veneer is stripped raw to the bone. Is it possible that...
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Here’s the synopsis: “Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is welcomed into the ‘family’ of her drug lord boyfriend at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence are a way of life in this volatile household, but when Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet veneer is stripped raw to the bone. Is it possible that...
- 1/20/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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