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 to the Nordic countries , with the intention of exhibiting and distributing films from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland, including both current and past nordic filmmaking.
Nordic Film Festival took place in three London cinemas; Riverside Studios, Ciné Lumière and Prince Charles Cinema, the initiative being promoted by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, The Embassy of Denmark in London, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, The Embassy of Sweden in London, Danish Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation (Suomen Elokuvasäätiö) and the brands Tuborg , Cooper & Wolf, MUBI, Skandium and Aesthetica.
The films shown in this first edition of the festival were:
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (Den skaldede frisør) by Susanne Bier, Denmark 2012
FESTEN by Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark/Sweden 1998
HELSINKI, FOREVER (Helsinki, ikuisesti) by Peter von Bagh | Finland 2008
BEYOND (Svinalängorna) by Pernilla August I Sweden/Finland 2010
TROLL HUNTER (Trolljegeren) by André Øvredal | Norway 2010
JAR CITY (Mýrin) by Baltasar Kormakur I Iceland/Germany/Denmark 2006
OSLO, AUGUST 31ST by Joachim Trier I Norway 2011
OLAFUR ELIASSON: SPACE IS PROCESS by Jacob Jørgensen/Henrik Lundø I Denmark 2010
BABETTE’S FEAST (Babettes gæstebud) by GabrielAxel | Denmark 1987
THE PUNK SYNDROME (Kovasikajuttu) by Jukka Kärkkäinen/Jani-PetteriPassi | Finland 2012
PURE (Till det som är vackert) by Lisa Langseth | Sweden 2010
We hope this initiative will make the festival grow year after year, to become one of the most important annual events of Nordic cinema.
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