Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival unveiled its 2023 lineup today, featuring 250 feature films set to screen across 10 days, with highlights including Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam, and Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland. Other stand-out titles include Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, which pops up in the International Competition, and Mia Engberg’s latest Hypernoon in the Documentary Competition.
The festival opens on January 27 with the world premiere of Abbe Hassan’s emotionally charged debut Exodus, which follows the story of a professional people smuggler who attempts to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war. The festival’s closing film on February 5 is Camino by Birgitte Stærmose. The film is Viaplay’s first Danish feature project and portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain.
Guests set to pass through Gothenburg include Alicia Vikander,...
The festival opens on January 27 with the world premiere of Abbe Hassan’s emotionally charged debut Exodus, which follows the story of a professional people smuggler who attempts to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war. The festival’s closing film on February 5 is Camino by Birgitte Stærmose. The film is Viaplay’s first Danish feature project and portrays the complex relationship between a father and daughter walking a famous pilgrim route in Spain.
Guests set to pass through Gothenburg include Alicia Vikander,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the competition titles selected for its 46th edition, which runs from January 27 – February 5. (Scroll down for the full list).
Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a Sek 400 000 cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.
Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of...
Göteborg is split into four competition strands. The main strand is the Nordic Competition, which features nine films from the Nordic region. The competition’s winner takes home the Dragon Award and a Sek 400 000 cash prize. The rest of the festival comprises the Nordic Documentary Competition, the Ingmar Bergman Competition for first-time filmmakers, and the International Competition.
Among the Nordic highlights is Swedish filmmaker Isabella Carbonell’s thriller Dogborn, starring Swedish rap star Silvana Imam. The pic debuted at Venice last year and follows two homeless twins and their struggle to survive. Hlynur Pálmason’s well-received period piece Godland also screens in competition. Set in the late 19th Century, the drama revolves around a young Danish priest who travels to a remote part of...
- 1/10/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The twins (Silvana Imam’s Sister and Philip Oros’ Brother) have nothing since their mother passed away. No house. No jobs. No money. Brother doesn’t even have a voice—not since they left Syria long ago. It’s therefore up to Sister to manage for them both. Finding places to squat, talking their way into odd jobs to get paid, and making connections she can hopefully lean on when things get even tougher than they already are. Which is why it’s nice to have someone like their cousin Petri (Lukas Malinauskas) looking out. He works for a big-shot entrepreneur, Yann (Henrik Norlén), who could use a duo as desperate and volatile as these soft-spoken yet tenacious bruisers. And they’re only happy to oblige. Until they discover their task.
Writer-director Isabella Carbonell talks about wanting Dogborn to depict the complexity of the unfortunate souls caught inside the dark world of her setting.
Writer-director Isabella Carbonell talks about wanting Dogborn to depict the complexity of the unfortunate souls caught inside the dark world of her setting.
- 9/8/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The film will premiere at Venice’s Critics’ Week.
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales rights to the drama Dogborn, the debut feature of Swedish writer/director Isabella Carbonell.
Dogborn will have its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week.
The story is about a refugee brother and sister living in Sweden; they are homeless and invisible and dream of a better future. A rift occurs between them when they get caught up in the underworld of human trafficking.
Silvana Imam, a popular Swedish rapper, makes her film debut as the sister, with Philip Oros (Blinded) playing the brother. The cast also...
TrustNordisk has boarded international sales rights to the drama Dogborn, the debut feature of Swedish writer/director Isabella Carbonell.
Dogborn will have its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week.
The story is about a refugee brother and sister living in Sweden; they are homeless and invisible and dream of a better future. A rift occurs between them when they get caught up in the underworld of human trafficking.
Silvana Imam, a popular Swedish rapper, makes her film debut as the sister, with Philip Oros (Blinded) playing the brother. The cast also...
- 7/25/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Stockholm-based production house Hobab whose buzzy Cannes Directors’ Fortnight “Clara Sola” was snapped by New-York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories, is ramping up its ambitions, with female-led projects.
“Our vision is to combine arthouse sensitivity with mainstream appeal, and to help talents – both Nordic and international – grow with care,” said Nima Yousefi, producer and joint owner with Peter Krupenin.
Pedigree European shingles Finland’s Tuffi Films, Denmark’s Toolbox and Italy’s Intramovies have boarded as co-producers Hobab’s next Swedish feature drama “Sisters,” from first-time fiction helmer Mika Gustafson.
Ruben Öslund’s former alumna at Göteborg’s Valand Academy, Gustafson had her international break with the short film “Mephobia,” followed by the doc-biopic “Silvana,” about rapper and feminist icon Silvana Imam.
Due to start lensing in June, “Sisters” is penned by Gustafson with actor-screenwriter Alexander Öhrstrand, seen in “The Bridge” and “The Hunt for a Killer.”
The coming of age story follows...
“Our vision is to combine arthouse sensitivity with mainstream appeal, and to help talents – both Nordic and international – grow with care,” said Nima Yousefi, producer and joint owner with Peter Krupenin.
Pedigree European shingles Finland’s Tuffi Films, Denmark’s Toolbox and Italy’s Intramovies have boarded as co-producers Hobab’s next Swedish feature drama “Sisters,” from first-time fiction helmer Mika Gustafson.
Ruben Öslund’s former alumna at Göteborg’s Valand Academy, Gustafson had her international break with the short film “Mephobia,” followed by the doc-biopic “Silvana,” about rapper and feminist icon Silvana Imam.
Due to start lensing in June, “Sisters” is penned by Gustafson with actor-screenwriter Alexander Öhrstrand, seen in “The Bridge” and “The Hunt for a Killer.”
The coming of age story follows...
- 2/2/2022
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Stockholm-based Momento Film, the company behind “Tiny King for a Day” and Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market-bound work in progress “Dogborn,” has confirmed start of production and E.U. partners on Daniel Espinosa’s “Madame Luna,” its biggest project ever.
Principal photography in Sicily and Calabria is set to begin May 5 on the €5 million ($5.6 million) refugee drama, penned by Maurizio Braucci (“Gomorrah”) and Suha Arraf (“Lemon Tree”) from an idea by Binyam Berhane.
David Herdies is producing for Momento Film, with co-production partners Marco Alessi and Massimiliano Navarra of Italy’s Dugong Films, Peter Nadermann of Germany’s Nadcon and Katja Adomeit and Pål Røed of Denmark’s Adomeit Film.
The film marks Chilean-born Espinosa’s return to Swedish-language filmmaking, after a string of Hollywood movies including “Safe House,” “Life” and Sony Pictures’ upcoming Spider-Man spin-off “Morbius”.
“It’s going to be interesting and inspiring to enter a cinematic tradition that really was my roots,...
Principal photography in Sicily and Calabria is set to begin May 5 on the €5 million ($5.6 million) refugee drama, penned by Maurizio Braucci (“Gomorrah”) and Suha Arraf (“Lemon Tree”) from an idea by Binyam Berhane.
David Herdies is producing for Momento Film, with co-production partners Marco Alessi and Massimiliano Navarra of Italy’s Dugong Films, Peter Nadermann of Germany’s Nadcon and Katja Adomeit and Pål Røed of Denmark’s Adomeit Film.
The film marks Chilean-born Espinosa’s return to Swedish-language filmmaking, after a string of Hollywood movies including “Safe House,” “Life” and Sony Pictures’ upcoming Spider-Man spin-off “Morbius”.
“It’s going to be interesting and inspiring to enter a cinematic tradition that really was my roots,...
- 1/27/2022
- by Annika Pham
- 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
Swedish documentary specialist Momento Film, the company behind “Tiny Tim: King for a Day” and Cph:Forum work in progress “Stories from the Debris,” is ramping up its narrative feature film output.
A decade after he founded his outfit, helmer/producer David Herdies has propelled Momento Film among Sweden’s top creators of cutting-edge documentaries and shorts. Award-winning pics to his credit include “Ouaga Girls” (2017), “Hamada” (2018), “Transnistra” (2019), and most recently Johan von Sydow’s docu biopic “Tiny Tim: King for a Day,” currently touring the U.S., courtesy of Juno Films. Herdies also produced and co-helmed with George Götmark the buzzed about Visions du Réel competition entry “Bellum: The Daemon of War,” and is spotlighting Jennifer Rainsford’s works in progress documentary “Stories from the Debris” at this week’s Cph:forum, industry sidebar to Denmark’s Cph:dox fest.
While keeping a solid foundation in documentary films, Herdies — a former European Film...
A decade after he founded his outfit, helmer/producer David Herdies has propelled Momento Film among Sweden’s top creators of cutting-edge documentaries and shorts. Award-winning pics to his credit include “Ouaga Girls” (2017), “Hamada” (2018), “Transnistra” (2019), and most recently Johan von Sydow’s docu biopic “Tiny Tim: King for a Day,” currently touring the U.S., courtesy of Juno Films. Herdies also produced and co-helmed with George Götmark the buzzed about Visions du Réel competition entry “Bellum: The Daemon of War,” and is spotlighting Jennifer Rainsford’s works in progress documentary “Stories from the Debris” at this week’s Cph:forum, industry sidebar to Denmark’s Cph:dox fest.
While keeping a solid foundation in documentary films, Herdies — a former European Film...
- 4/28/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Musicians The xx presents a curated programme; festival hosts world premieres of new films by Andreas Dalsgaard and Iris Zaki.
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
Cph:Dox will offer more than 200 films during its 15th event, which runs March 15-25.
In its five competitions (full list below), world premieres include Woman In Sink director Iris Zaki’s new film Unsettling, about Jewish setllers in the West Bank; The War Show director Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Great Game, about a man trying to find out if his grandfather was a spy; Emma Davie & Peter Mettler’s Becoming Animal, about how our relationship with nature has evolved; and Elissa Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei’s Laila at the Bridge, about an Afghan woman trying to save heroin addicts in Kabul.
Highlights also include a specially curated programme by The xx; a focus on justice (films will include Pre-Crime, Recruiting for Jihad and The Congo Tribunal); and a film programme and art exhibition dedicated to social experiments (with films...
- 2/16/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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