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 ...

According to the previous forecasts, the Danish singer Emmelie de Forest got the victory in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place yesterday in the Swedish city of Malmö. The candidate of Denmark received a total of 281 points being the clear winner of the night with her song "Only ...

Playwright Ignacio García May and the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen On Tuesday April 23, was held at the Night of the Books of Madrid a staged reading "The Nordic Man Exists Too" organized by the Embassies of Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the Ibero-American Institute of Finland in collaboration with ...

The Nordic Embassies in Spain organize on Tuesday March 23 (The Night of the books in Madrid) a dramatic reading of texts by contemporary Nordic writers performed by the Spanish playwright Ignacio Garcia May and the Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen.  The event run in collaboration with the library Tierra del Fuego ...

The Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal was proclaimed world champion today in Downhill skiing at the alpine skiing World Cup held in Austria. The downhill competition took place today, Saturday, in the Austrian ski resort of Schladming, being the Norwegian a clear winner. He marked a time that none of his competitors ...

The Finnish writer Pirjo Hassinen has received the annual Finnish literary prize Savonia for her novel "Popula". The $ 10,000 prize is given annually to an outstanding novel from the Finnish Savo region, being this year’s edition the 24th. Fruit of the writer's indignation against the recent growth of the extreme right ...

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 ...