We take a look at the Nordic film entries to the 2023 BFI London Film Festival, which will be taking place next month. Shame On Dry Land | Sweden | Director: Axel Petersén When fraudster Dimman returns to a Swedish … Continue reading BFI London Film Festival: Nordic Film Entries
Sheffield Doc Fest kicks off on the 14th June for 5 days with over 200 documentary films to catch. The festival is the UK’s premier documentary festival as well as a global documentary project marketplace. Every year it hosts a … Continue reading 4 Nordic Documentaries to look out for at Sheffield Doc Fest
This year’s Glasgow Film Festival takes place from 1st – 12th March. It’s described as one of the friendliest film festivals in the world, with a long tradition of championing new talent and celebrating world cinema as well as the … Continue reading Five Nordic picks showing at Glasgow Film Festival 2023
The busy film festival season is upon us and we managed to get a quick glimpse at some of the films that featured at Reykjavik International Film Festival, which closes today. Below you will find our top picks of Nordic … Continue reading Our top Nordic picks from Reykjavik International Film Festival
Isabella Carbonell is a director and screenwriter rising talent from Stockholm who has made many short films, such as Boys (2015) which screened in Cannes, SXSW, and won the Grand Jury Award at AFI FEST, and Brother (2019). Dogborn is her first … Continue reading Swedish director Isabella Carbonell discusses her debut feature thriller ‘Dogborn’ about survival and sex trafficking
Around this time of year a whole load of exciting festivals start to happen and featuring at those tend to be some hotly tipped new Nordic releases. We take a look at some top picks from the Norwegian International Film … Continue reading Norwegian International Film Festival highlights and Amanda Award winners!
In a unique film the showed at Copenhagen Film Festival, ‘Abyss’ bombards the senses with thousands of images flashing before your eyes and morphing into one another, stitched together by Google’s AI. The creator of this is Danish visual artist … Continue reading ‘Abyss’ creator Jeppe Lange discusses his hypnotic short film made of 10,000 images linked by artificial intelligence
Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) is back for 2022, starting on 23rd March and finishing this coming weekend. This year sees the return of in-person events and screenings all over Copenhagen city, and we flew out there to check it … Continue reading Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival 2022: Four films in the Nordic award that examine electro-sensitivity, burnout, karaoke, and the Swedish pandemic strategy
Last year, the pandemic pushed the festival to online-only but this year it’s back in-person from 23rd March to 3rd April, as Copenhagen’s art hall becomes the HQ for CPH:DOX and the city’s cinemas host countless documentary films from all … Continue reading Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival 2022 – we look at the nominees in the Nordic Award category
Alli Haapasalo is a Finnish writer and director who is passionate about telling strong female-driven stories. Her feature debut Love and Fury was out in 2016 and her second, 2019’s Force of Habit, was nominated for several Jussi Awards (Finnish … Continue reading Alli Haapasalo discusses her new film ‘Girl Picture’ which premieres as BFI FLARE this week