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Fares turns to Beruit for inspiration
Jalla! Jalla! and Kops director Josef Faresis set to make Zozo, a drama inspired by his own life.TheSwedish, Lebanese-born director will be working with a $5.2m (SEK 40m) budget -twice that of Kops - to tell the story of an 11-year-old boy who moves fromBeirut to Sweden.Fares said: "It won't ...
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Swedes agree to extend $30m government film deal
Aftermonths of conflicts, the Swedish Film Agreement - which sees $30m of governmentsupport channelled into local film-making - has been extended for another year,until the end of 2005.Theagreement was due for renewal at the end of this year - but looked as though itwould be blocked following complaints from American ...
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Swedes back English language features
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit six new Swedish feature films and given financial support to Lars von Trier's Manderlay.Colin Nutley's English-language drama The Queen of Sheba's Pearls won most backing. $1.04m (SEK 8m) has been allocated to the film, which is being produced by Maritha Norstedt of Sweetwater ...
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NonStop takes Buena Vista sequel for Scandinavia, Baltics
Stockholm based distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian and Baltic rights to Musica Cubana - The Sons Of Havana, the follow up to Buena Vista Social Club.Sold by Victory Media Group, the deal was struck at MIP-TV. Produced by Wim Wenders, Musica Cubana follows a group of Cuban musicians ...
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Swedish films face funding crisis
A funding crisis is threatening the Swedish film industry as a conflict between US distributors and local exhibitors threatens to delay the new Swedish Film Agreement.The agreement, which is designed to generate money for local productions, is due for renewal at the end of this year, and a number of ...
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Rings prove precious to Svensk Filmindustri
Strong earnings from its film division helped Swedish media major Bonnier AB - owner of Scandinavia's largest film company Svensk Filmindustri (SF) - post a net profit of $140m (SEK 1,011m) in 2003.SF distributes The Lord Of The Rings films, which helped its parent company's entertainment division achieve record profits. ...
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Third Swedish film icon dies this year
The legendary Swedish actor/director Hasse Ekman has died at the age of 88. As the director of 41 feature films - from comedies and thrillers to love stories and melodramas - Ekman was one of Sweden's most prolific film makers.After his debut 1940 with comedy Med Dej I Mina Armar, ...
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Sweden's NonStop takes five Berlin titles
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment acquired five new titles at last week's Berlin Film Festival. The films include animated hits, a Sundance surfing doc and a spin-off to the Oscar-nominated City Of God.Stacy Peralta's Riding Giants, from Studio Canal, is an documentary about American surfing. It will be distributed in Sweden, ...
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NonStop Entertainment acquires Berlin five
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment acquired five new titles at this month's Berlin Film Festival.It bought Stacy Peralta's surfing doc Riding Giants from StudioCanal, and will distribute the film in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.City Of Men, from Buena Onda Films, is a spin-off TV series of Fernando Mereilles' City ...
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Andersson embarks on Second Floor follow-up
Following the success of his last film, Songs from the Second Floor -winner of the Cannes' Jury Prize three years ago - Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson has started shooting his latest feature after receiving $673,000 (SEK5m) from the Swedish Film Institute this week.Roy Andersson told ScreenDaily.com that he expected ...
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AMC quits Swedish exhibition sector
Less than four years after its arrival in Sweden, American exhibitor AMC is quitting the territory. Scandinavian major SF Bio will now be taking over its multiplex in Heron City in the southern region of Stockholm. The name of the multiplex, which has 18 screens and a total of 4,166 ...
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Sweden set to roll out Ingmar Bergman database
The Swedish Film Institute has received Euros 438,000 from the Bank of Sweden to establish an "Ingmar Bergman Interface" - an international, English-language data base and website for research into the life and art of Ingmar Bergman.Ase Kleveland, managing director of the Swedish Film Institute and chairman of the board ...
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NonStop takes on sales for Sonet pair
Film sales agent NonStop Sales has taken on worldwide sales for two Swedish films from Sonet Film - romantic comedy Miffo and children's/family drama Emma And Daniel - The Meeting. Both productions will market premiere at MIFED.Directed and produced by Daniel Lind Lagerlof with production companies Sonet Film and Hagring, ...
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Stockholm unveils festival line-up
With three weeks to go until the 14th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival, festival director Git Scheynius and her team have unveiled the full line-up for this year's event (Nov 13-23).The festival will present around 140 films divided into ten different categories.Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill will open the ...
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Baltic Storm stirs up Swedish press
Reuben Leder's controversial film Baltic Storm had its world premiere in Berlin last week - and, according to Swedish reports, Swedish journalists were banned from the screening. The film - which stars Donald Sutherland, Greta Scacchi and Jurgen Prochnow - tells the story of a young German journalist who discovers ...
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Swedish Film Institute re-awards funding to troubled production
Exactly one year after the Swedish Film Institute's (SFI) unprecedented decision to withdraw its financial support of $619,000 (SEK5m) for the screen adaptation of 2001 local best seller Popular Music From Vittula (Popularmusik fran Vittula), the production has received a new grant of $866,000 (SEK7m) from the SFI.The state funding ...
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Moodysson returns to Sweden with Terrorists
Less than ten months after the Swedish premiere of Lilya 4-ever, Lukas Moodysson returns to local cinemas with another controversial film.His latest project Terrorister - En Film Om Dom Domda (Terrorists - A Film About Those Who Were Sentenced) is a gritty and unflinching documentary about some of the young ...
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Swedish film institute greenlights two new comedies
Two new comedies have been greenlighted by the Swedish Film Institute, one by newcomer Ragnar Di Marzo (pictured) and one by established comedian/director Peter Dalle.Ragnar Di Marzo's family comedy Karringen Dar Nere tells the story of 74-year-old Magda, whose life changes when she is persuaded to help a 23-year-old female ...
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Top directors benefit from Swedish funding
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has greenlit four new feature films, most of them from established, successful directors.The major recipient of funding was Swedish production and distribution company Sonet Film, which has already started shooting its first English-language feature film, The Third Wave (Den Tredje Vagen). The film is being ...
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Children's films honoured at Swedish and German festivals
At the fourth edition of the Swedish children's film festival Stockholm Film Festival Junior, Finnish production Hayflower And Quiltshoe (Heinahattu Ja Filttitossu) by Kaisa Rastimo won the award for best film. The Stockholm Film Festival Junior, which saw a record attendance of 7,000 young visitors this year, is further evidence ...
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