The short film I SHOULD HAVE KISSED YOU IN ANKARA selected at the XV Kerry Film Festival
Posted On Sunday, October 12, 2014 By thenordiccountries. Under Culture in Finland, Finland, Finnish Cinema, Finnish Culture, News from Finland
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 ...
Denmark wins the Eurovision Song Contest
Posted On Sunday, May 19, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Music in Denmark, News from Denmark, News from Sweden Tags: de Forest, Emmelie, Only Teardrops, Winner Eurovision 2012
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 ...
Humor in the Night of the Books of Madrid: “The Nordic Man Exists Too”
Posted On Saturday, April 27, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Nordic Art, NORDIC CULTURE, Nordic Theatre Tags: Finnish actress Emilia Uutinen, playwright Ignacio Garcia May
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 Man Exists too”: a Dramatic Reading over Nordic texts in Madrid
Posted On Friday, April 19, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Nordic Art, NORDIC CULTURE
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 ...
Writer Pirjo Hassinen Wins the Savonia Award
Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Finnish Litterature, News from Finland, Nordic Literature Tags: Finnish Litterature, Finnish writer
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 ...
Norway, Denmark and Iceland are still in the race for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film 2013
Posted On Friday, December 21, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Nordic Cinema Tags: The Best Foreign Film Oscar Shortlist
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" ...
Nordic Actresses: Elina Salo
Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Finnish Cinema, Nordic Cinema Tags: Actress in films of Aki KaurismÄki
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", ...
“Kon-Tiki” the movie selected to represent Norway in the Oscars 2013
Posted On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Nordic Cinema, Norwegian Cinema Tags: Norwegian director, Norwegian film Golden Globes 2013, Norwegian filmmakers, Norwegian movie for the Oscar
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 ...
Nordic Actresses: Noomi Rapace
Posted On Monday, December 17, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Swedish Cinema Tags: Actress Millenium, Actress Prometheus, Swedish actress
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 ...
Discovered an unknown fairy tale by H.C. Andersen
Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 By thenordiccountries. Under Current Topics, Danish Literature, News from Denmark, Nordic Literature Tags: Danish fairytale, Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen, New tale by Andersen, tallow candle, Unknown Andersen tale
The retired Danish historian Esben Brage says he has discovered, he believes, a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen that had been unknown until the moment.
The historian said on Thursday he found the text of six pages in early October while conducting a search in the Danish National Archives ...