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‘Touch’: Review
Focus Features’ pandemic-set drama by Baltasar Kormákur moves between Iceland, London, and Hiroshima
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NonStop buys four titles including Julia Ducournau’s upcoming ‘Alpha’ (exclusive)
Company also takes Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title ‘Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point’.
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Features
How the ‘True Detective: Night Country’ production team doubled Iceland for Alaska
Producer Mari Jo Winkler and production designer Dan Taylor reveal the details that went into creating a fictional Alaskan town
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‘When The Light Breaks’: Cannes Review
National and personal tragedy collide over the course of a single Icelandic summer day in Runar Rúnarsson’s Un Certain Regard opener
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'Borgen' star Pilou Asbæk joins cast of ‘The Fires’; pre-sales heat up for Bankside (exclusive)
Sales have landed in Germany, Eastern Europe, Former Yugoslavia, Middle East and Switzerland.
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Future Leaders 2024: Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal (Mexico and Iceland)
Bernal works for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival.
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‘Lamb’, ‘Rams’ producers join forces for Sarimar Films (exclusive)
First joint project will be the new feature from ‘Rams’ director Grimur Hákonarson.
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Nordic film institutes rebrand umbrella organisation as The Five Nordics (exclusive)
The Five Nordics increases the organisation’s focus on sustainability and data collection
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Two world premieres among Smart7 travelling festival competition line-up
Seven titles will screen at seven European film festivals, competing for a €5,000 prize.
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‘The Home Game’: Glasgow Review
A small Icelandic town prepares to host an FA Cup match in this feel-good documentary
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Fremantle secures global rights to Constantin’s film and series fantasy saga ‘Hagen’
The production shot at the Czech Republic’s Barrandov Studios and on location in Iceland.
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From frozen corpses to “plumper” polar bears: the VFX that shaped ‘True Detective: Night Country’
VFX supervisor Barney Curnow breaks down the most gruesome and snowiest scenes.
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Nordic Film Composers Award goes to ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ composer
“Special, because it is melting together human voices, rhythmic, yet fleshy sounds.”
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Bankside boards hot Icelandic volcano thriller ‘The Fires’ (exclusive)
Director Ugla Hauksdóttir’s previous credits include TV series ‘The Power’.
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‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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Lasse Hallstrom to make series debut with Icelandic thriller ‘The Darkness’ for CBS Studios
English language series stars Lena Olin and will film in Iceland later this year.
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Reykjavik film festival celebrates 20th anniversary
Source: RIFF ‘Solitude’ Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 28-October 8) is planning a busy 20th edition, with honorary awards going to Isabelle Huppert, Luca Guadagnino, Vicky Krieps, Nicolas Philibert, Luc Jacquet and Catherine Breillat, who will all come to the Icelandic capital. A delegation from Cannes will ...
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IceDocs gives top prize to ‘Against The Tide’, launches first industry programme
Iceland Documentary Film Festival ran July 19-23.
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Baldvin Z’s Icelandic hit series ‘Black Sands’ readies second season with All3Media (exclusive)
The first season sold widely around the world.
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Truenorth launches Icelandic talent agency (exclusive)
One of the first clients is Rúnar Ingi Einarsson of company Norður, who is in Cannes as producer of Intrusion (Fár).