The Finnish and Spanish co-coproduced short film "I should have kissed you in Ankara" directed by Miguel Pons and starred by the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen and the American Javier Buckenmeyer, has been selected at the XV Kerry Film Festival held this week in Ireland. The film was screened on ...

The Hollywood Film Academy, in charge of the Oscar Awards announced this morning the provisional list of nine films of which 5 will be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2013. Films of three Nordic countries remain in the race for the coveted Oscar statuette: Norway with "Kon-Tiki" ...

Elina Salo is a Finnish actress who has worked in film, theater and television in Finland for over 50 years. The veteran actress became known to international audiences in the films of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, with whom she has worked at least in six films, including "Le Havre", ...

The film selected by the Norwegian Film Academy to be presented at this year’s Academy Awards is titles "Kon-Tiki" directed by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning. The film portrays the famous expedition of the Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl who crossed the Pacific Ocean to the Polynesian islands on ...

Noomi Rapace is one of the Swedish actresses with most international impact in the recent years. The actress became known for the miniseries converted into three movies based on the Millennium trilogy by the Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. Her character of Lisbeth Salander in the famous trilogy gave the spark to ...

The Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie is one of the best known Norwegian actors outside of Norway. He rose to international fame with the hit thriller "Headhunters" released in Norway last year and in the rest of Europe in 2012. Among his film appearances are comprehended several Norwegian films, including "90 Minutes" ...

The past week, from November 30 to December 5 was held in London the inaugural edition of Nordic Film Festival, an independent festival focused on Nordic films organized by Londoner production company Day For Night. This new festival is a unique initiative within UK as to create a film festival dedicated ...

The Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen is one of the Nordic actresses known abroad. She works in Spain and is known for her roles in the Spanish television and film industry. Her films include titles such as "An almost Perfect World" (Un Mundo Casi Perfecto), "Somne", "20 Centimeters" or "Unfarewell" and TV ...

Pernilla August (before Pernilla Wallgren) is one of the most internationally recognized Swedish actresses. Also playwright and filmmaker, this veteran actress  has just released in Sweden her latest film, "Callgirl" in which she worked under the direction of Mikael Marcimain.  August began her career with small roles in the seventies. Her ...

In the month of September was released in Sweden, coinciding with its screening at the 60th International Film Festival of San Sebastian, "The Hypnotist", the latest film of the Swedish director Lasse Hallström, based on the bestselling novel of the same title by the writer Lars Kepler, pseudonym of the ...