
The film has been awarded in Cannes for Reinsve’s performance and scored two Oscar nominations for best original screenplay and international feature.

Trier, behind “Louder Than Bombs” or “Thelma,” co-wrote the script with Eskil Vogt. One night, she gate-crashes a party and meets Eivind. Several of her talents have gone to waste and her older boyfriend is pushing for them to settle down. Julie (Renate Reinsve) turns thirty and her life is an existential mess. Domestic distribution is handled by Sena and international sales by New Europe Film Sales, also behind “Godland.” Written by Jóhannsson and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson aka Sjón – who also co-wrote “The Northman” with Robert Eggers – this dark fairytale was produced by Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, owner and CEO of Go to Sheep, and Sara Nassim. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This Noomi Rapace starrer is a supernatural drama about an Icelandic couple who live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. Nikki, who runs It’s Alive Films with Jani Pösö, was also nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize for “Euthanizer.” His fifth feature, lensed by Sari Aaltonen, premiered at Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti Extra, where it won the Audience Award. When Jaakko hears about Sirpa’s deteriorating health, he decides to go to her immediately despite his condition. Living far away from one another, they have never met in person, but they meet every day over the phone. Jaakko is blind and disabled, glued to his wheelchair.

“The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic” And God, as they say, is in the details,” wrote Variety. “He’s a cinematic original whose voice grows stronger and more certain with each film. Pálmason is also behind “Winter Brothers” and “A White, White Day.” Produced by Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors and Mikkel Jersin (Snowglobe) and Anton Máni Svansson (Join Motion Pictures), the film premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.

But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose.

Set in the late 19th century, it tells a story of a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. Other past winners include Roy Andersson’s “You, the Living,” Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist,” Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Hunt” or Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,” crowned last year. 1 during the session of the Nordic Council in Helsinki.
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This is also the success recipe of our industry and it’s truly well worth celebrating,” summed up Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s CEO Liselott Forsman. There is no jury lobbying, no promotional campaigns. “For the twentieth time, the Nordic Council Film Prize sheds light on five extraordinary films selected by national juries and on the Nordic winner to be selected by a pan-Nordic jury.
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“Together with her protagonist Wendy Chinchilla Araya and photographer Sophie Winqvist, she has made a sensual film about sexuality and the fight for freedom, in which you can get a sense of the smells and tastes, feel the skin under your fingertips, and feel the power of nature around you,” they stated. Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s feature debut “Clara Sola” impressed Swedish jurors with its depiction of the world that’s “self-evident and completely new and unique, both magical and internally logical.”
