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Norway lifts ban on Oshima classic
Norway's recently established Board of Film Classification Appeals, Filmklagenemnda, has lifted the ban on local commercial exhibition of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's erotic classic In The Realm Of The Senses.The board granted the 1976 film a commercial exhibition permit, citing its artistic qualities as the reason for lifting the ban. ...
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Verhoeven shorts to heat up Tampere fest
The leading Nordic short film event, Finland's Tampere International Short Film Festival (March 7-11), has unveiled the programme of its 31st edition which includes cult favourites chosen by Aki Kaurismaki as well as early shorts from Paul Verhoeven.Both international and Finnish competition films will be judged by an international jury ...
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BV International acquires Vietnamese Stork
Norwegian sales company BV International Pictures has picked up international rights to Jonathan Foo and Nguyen Phan Quang Bing's Song Of The Stork, described as the first Vietnam war film to be shot on location in Vietnam by an international crew. Inspired by true stories, Song Of The Stork depicts ...
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Sweden set to revise ratings system
Sweden's culture minister Marita Ulvskog has announced that a new film ratings system could be introduced in Sweden, based on a report which she recently commissioned from the Swedish Council on Media Violence.Sweden's current censorship debate started at the end of last year with the release of teen horror spoof ...
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Hald becomes chair of Nordic Film & TV Fund
The Swedish Film Institute's Peter Hald has been appointed chairman of the board of the Nordic Film & TV Fund by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Other additions to the board, which includes one member from each Nordic country, include Finnish Film Foundation head of production Erkki Astala; Thorfinnur Omarsson, ...
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Lounguine's Wedding wins top prize at Tromso
Pavel Lounguine's The Wedding (La Noce) picked up top honours, the Aurora award, at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (January 16-21). One third of the $10,000 award, founded by the Norwegian Film Institute, goes to the film's director, while the rest of the money is earmarked for its Norwegian ...
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Skarsgard joins von Trier's Dogville
Sweden's Stellan Skarsgard has joined the cast of Lars von Trier's new feature film Dogville which will be shot in English with mostly US and UK actors.Von Trier recently completed a $313,000 (DKr2.5m) test for the project in Zentropa's studios in Filmbyen outside Copenhagen, which according to producer Vibeke Windeloev ...
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Norwegian Film Workers bid for Norsk library
In a surprise move, The Norwegian Film Workers' Association has expressed interest in acquiring Norsk Film's back catalogue of around 170 films, that are to be sold together with the government's 77.5% stake in the state-owned company.Earlier this week, the Norwegian culture ministry decided to consider the sale of Norsk ...
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Swedish Oscars return Lukas Moodysson's insult
Lukas Moodysson, the director who showed his appreciation when he won the Swedish Oscars for Show Me Love by giving the audience the finger, has controversially missed getting a best film nomination this year for Together.Instead, Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor was heavily nominated, securing nominations for best ...
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Cool And Crazy opens Tromso arctic festival
The world premiere of Norsk Film's musical documentary Cool And Crazy opens this month's Tromso International Film Festival.Belgium's Thomas Est Amoureux closes the Norwegian event, located 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and the country's most attended festival. This year's edition, which runs January 16 to 21, will be ...
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Dogme, Jan Troell bookend Gothenburg festival
Dogme film When The Nights Get Longer will open Scandinavia's largest film event, the Gothenburg International Film Festival, while Jan Troell's As White As Snow closes proceedings as a world premiere.When The Nights is a tragicomedy about the hidden conflicts at a family's Christmas reunion in a mountain cabin. The ...
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Depardieu adds heft to Bornedal's gothic romance
Gerard Depardieu has joined the cast of Ole Bornedal's I Am Dina, an English-language gothic romance that is one of the most expensive Scandinavian film productions ever.The addition of the French actor, one of Europe's best paid stars, could further increase the $13m budget of the project, which is being ...
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Norway's Cinema Commission proposes levy increase
Norway's Cinema Policy Commission has recommended an increase in the country's film and video levy, by 1% to 3.5%, in order to help smaller theatres make the conversion to digital projection.The Commission, appointed by Norway's Ministry of Culture one year ago to review the government's exhibition policy, also suggested the ...
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Oslo Cinemas unveils multiplex plans
Norway's largest exhibitor Oslo Cinemas, which is soon to be opened up to private investors, is planning to build a 10 to 20 screen multiplex in the centre of Oslo, to be ready in 2005.The company is also looking for sites to build a 4-screen cinema in the eastern area ...
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Norsk Film library sale opposed by public bodies
Two Norwegian state-owned institutions, broadcaster NRK and the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI), are opposing the government's plans to sell the back catalogue of state-owned production outfit Norsk Film to the commercial sector.The Norwegian government announced in October that it was parting ways with Norsk Film, which has suffered a string ...
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Nordisk Film & TV launches feature production unit
Norway's Nordisk Film & TV, owned by Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film, is establishing a feature film production division that aims to have an output of two titles a year that will travel across Scandinavian borders.The new outfit, to be headed by producer Rune Trondsen, will run parallel to Nordisk Film's other ...
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Norwegian mockumentary to get blockbuster roll-out
Norwegian distributor Egmont Columbia TriStar (ECT) plans to give low-budget local mockumentary Get Ready To Be Boyzvoiced a blockbuster opening by releasing it on 52 screens across Norway this weekend.In comparison, ECT released studio titles such as The Patriot and Hollow Man on 50 prints and its upcoming Charlie's Angels ...
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Angelopoulos to shoot historical trilogy
Despite announcing that 1998 Palme d'Or winner An Eternity And A Day would be his last feature, Greek director Theo Angelopoulos has revealed that he is developing a trilogy of films exploring the subject of Greek exiles throughout the 20th Century.The first film in the trilogy, The Weeping Field, is ...
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Oslo Film Festival to open with Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous opens the 10th anniversary edition of the Oslo International Film Festival, which runs November 16-26.Highlights at this year's event include festival favourites such as Edward Yang's A One And A Two, Karyn Kusama's Girlfight, Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me, Jerzy Stuhr's The Big Animal ...
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Danish features bookend Norway's BUFF fest
The third edition of the BUFF festival for children's and youth films in Sandnes, Norway (November 13-18) will open with the international premiere of Danish production Diver, the latest film from Swedish director Ake Sandgren. The festival will end with another Danish entry, Miracle, directed by Natasha Arty.In total, 80 ...
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