Hot projects include Runar Runarsson’s Echo, Grimur Hakonarson’s The County and Hlynur Palmason’s A White, White Day.
The three Icelandic films presented at Goteborg’s Works In Progress were some of the most buzzed about by festival programmers and buyers.
Runar Runarsson’s Echo is a stylistic departure for the Volcano and Sparrows director. He paints a portrait of contemporary society by presenting 59 difference scenes, in a mix of fiction and documentary. Jour2Fete handles sales.
The County will mark Grimur Hakonarson’s follow-up to his international hit Rams. The film, previously pitched at Les Arcs’ works in progress,...
The three Icelandic films presented at Goteborg’s Works In Progress were some of the most buzzed about by festival programmers and buyers.
Runar Runarsson’s Echo is a stylistic departure for the Volcano and Sparrows director. He paints a portrait of contemporary society by presenting 59 difference scenes, in a mix of fiction and documentary. Jour2Fete handles sales.
The County will mark Grimur Hakonarson’s follow-up to his international hit Rams. The film, previously pitched at Les Arcs’ works in progress,...
- 2/4/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The $9.8m project will shoot in Sweden this year, before a Copenhagen shoot in 2017.
Lars von Trier will make his new feature The House That Jack Built in two separate shoots, Zentropa producer Louise Vesth confirmed in Cannes yesterday.
“It will take a long time because Lars will work in two different shooting periods, he wants to be able to change the script in between. He wants to follow the thing he started in Nymphomaniac with digressions,” Vesth said.
She continued, “It’s a film about Jack, a serial killer. We follow him over 10 years and we experience the way he gets into the killings, we follow his murders where he’s taking more and more chances because he wants to make the perfect piece of art…The ending will be fatal.”
The film is casting now and she said it “will be an American and European cast.” The $9.8m (€8.7m) project will shoot starting in the...
Lars von Trier will make his new feature The House That Jack Built in two separate shoots, Zentropa producer Louise Vesth confirmed in Cannes yesterday.
“It will take a long time because Lars will work in two different shooting periods, he wants to be able to change the script in between. He wants to follow the thing he started in Nymphomaniac with digressions,” Vesth said.
She continued, “It’s a film about Jack, a serial killer. We follow him over 10 years and we experience the way he gets into the killings, we follow his murders where he’s taking more and more chances because he wants to make the perfect piece of art…The ending will be fatal.”
The film is casting now and she said it “will be an American and European cast.” The $9.8m (€8.7m) project will shoot starting in the...
- 5/14/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Naomi Kawase to head the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury.
With the Official Selection of features for the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 14), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 5,008 short films – 458 more than in 2015.
Ten films will compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or, to be awarded by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 22.
The titles are mostly from Europe and Latin America, with one from Asia and one from Africa.
Short Films Competition
La Laine Sur Le Dos
Lofti Achour (Tunisia, France)
Dreamlands
Sara Dunlop (UK)
Timecode
Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Imago
Raymund Gutierrez (Philippines)
Mother (Madre)
Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia)
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo)
João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
Après Suzanne
Félix Moati (France...
With the Official Selection of features for the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) set to be revealed tomorrow (April 14), the line-up of Short Films has been unveiled in advance.
This year the Selection Committee received 5,008 short films – 458 more than in 2015.
Ten films will compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or, to be awarded by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, president of the Cinéfondation and Short Films jury, at the festival’s awards ceremony on May 22.
The titles are mostly from Europe and Latin America, with one from Asia and one from Africa.
Short Films Competition
La Laine Sur Le Dos
Lofti Achour (Tunisia, France)
Dreamlands
Sara Dunlop (UK)
Timecode
Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Imago
Raymund Gutierrez (Philippines)
Mother (Madre)
Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia)
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo)
João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
Après Suzanne
Félix Moati (France...
- 4/13/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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