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Göteborg International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the largest film event in Scandinavia. When it was launched in 1979 it showed 17 films on 3 screens and had 3,000 visitors. Today, the film festival takes place over 10 days each year at the end of January and beginning of February. In later years around 450 films from 60 countries are screened for 115,000 visitors. The film festival is also an important market place for the contractors in the movie industry. Awards the following prizes were awarded: Dragon Awards *Dragon Award Best Nordic Film (Nordiska filmpriset) *Dragon Award Best Acting (since 2019) *Audience Dragon Award Best Nordic Film – (Nordiska Filmpriset – Publikens val) *Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary (since 2013) *Dragon Award Best International Film * Honorary Dragon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 590,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Troopers
''Body Troopers'' ( no, Jakten på nyresteinen}), also known as ''Chasing the Kidneystone'', is a 1996 Norwegian children's film directed by Vibeke Idsøe, starring Torbjörn T. Jensen and Kjersti Holmen. Eight-year-old Simon shrinks himself to microscopic size in order to travel through his ailing grandfather's body in search of a kidney stone. On his journey he meets anthropomorphic characters such as the taste buds, white and red blood cells, and the vocal cords. The film is based on the book ''Jakten på nyresteinen'', also written by Idsøe.Idsøe, Vibeke.'' Jakten på nyresteinen''. J.W. Cappelens Forlag, 1994. Awards See also * Fantastic Voyage * Resizing (fiction) Resizing (including miniaturization, growth, shrinking, and enlargement) is a recurring theme in fiction, in particular in fairy tales, fantasy, and science fiction. Resizing is often achieved through the consumption of mushrooms or toadstools, whi ... References External links * ''Jakten på nyresteine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let The Right One In (film)
''Let the Right One In'' ( sv, Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish Romance film, romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 Let the Right One In (novel), novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. A film adaptation of Lindqvist's novel began development in 2004 when John Nordling acquired the rights to produce the project. Alfredson, unconcerned with the Horror film, horror and Vampire films, vampire conventions, decided to tone down many elements of the novel and focus primarily on the relationship between the two main characters and explore the darker side of humanity. Selecting the lead actors involved a year-long process with open castings held all over Sweden. In the end, Kåre Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson were chosen for the leading roles. Leande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Kling
Johan Kling (born Carl-David Johan Natt och Dag, 7 August 1962, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and novelist. His debut movie, '' Darling'' (2007), won the award for best Swedish film. Career Kling started his career making in music and television and directing TV shows. Movies ''Darling'' Kling's debut feature, ''Darling'', which he wrote and directed, was released in 2007. The movie is based on a short film, ''Jag'', made a few years earlier. ''Darling'' is "a dark comedy about morals and manners in Stockholm," and stars Michael Segerström and Michelle Meadows. The latter's performance was praised highly by ''Variety'', which also praised Kling's "smooth" direction. After winning the Best Film award, the "Nordic Film Prize," at the 2007 Gothenburg Film Festival, ''Darling'' garnered almost every possible award in Sweden. At the Swedish Film Awards in 2007, the Guldbagge Awards, ''Darling'' was nominated in six categories and won the awards for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling (2007 Swedish Film)
''Darling'' is a 2007 Swedish drama film directed by Johan Kling, about an irresponsible young woman in central Stockholm who befriends an older man. The film was generally well received by critics. Cast * as Eva * Michael Segerström as Bernard * Richard Ulfsäter as Micke * Michael Lindgren as Nico * Marko Ivkovich as McDonald's chef * Erica Silfverhielm as Martina * Henrik Lundström as Mickes friend * Tanja Lorentzon as Maja Awards and nominations The film was awarded the Nordic Film Prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival as well as the Guldbagge Awards for Best Actor (Michael Segerström) and Best Cinematography, at the 43rd Guldbagge Awards. It was also nominated for the Guldbagge Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Horse (2005 Film)
''Dark Horse'' ( da, Voksne mennesker) is a 2005 Danish-Icelandic film directed by Dagur Kári, about a young man, his best friend, and a girl. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Cast and characters * Jakob Cedergren as Daniel * Nicolas Bro as Morfar * Tilly Scott Pedersen as Franc * Morten Suurballe as Dommeren * Angela Bundalovic as Dommeren's daughter * Bodil Jørgensen as Gunvor * Nicolaj Kopernikus as Tejs * Anders Hove as Herluf C * Kristian Halken as Allan Simonsen * Thomas W. Gabrielsson as Sleep researcher Arne * Michelle Bjørn-Andersen as Dommerens' wife * Pauli Ryberg as Skule Malmquist * Mikael Bertelsen as clerk * Asta Esper Hagen Andersen as grandmother Lovisa * Vera Gebuhr Vera Margrethe Gebuhr (15 May 1916 – 22 December 2014) was a Danish film, television and stage actress. Gebuhr was most noted for her portrayal of the snobbish neurotic head saleswoman Miss Jørgensen in the popular televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aku Louhimies
Aku Louhimies (2009) Aku Louhimies (born 3 July 1968) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He has directed feature films, documentary films, commercials and music videos. His international breakthrough was the 2016 serial drama '' Rebellion''. He has directed and produced the 2017 war film '' The Unknown Soldier'' which is the most expensive feature film ever made in Finland. Education Aku attended school in the United States, graduating from Billings West High School in Montana. After he studied history at the University of Helsinki, and film directing at University of Art and Design Helsinki in Finland. Louhimies' military rank is Reserve Senior Lieutenant. He is fluent in English, Finnish, Swedish, and Spanish. December 2019 Louhimies was promoted to an officer rank of Senior Lieutenant (in reserves) by Finnish Defence Forces. Career Feature films '' Restless'' (2000) was first feature film directed by Louhimies, and after that, he has directed eight feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frozen Land
''Frozen Land'' ( fi, Paha maa) is a 2005 Finnish drama film directed and written by Aku Louhimies starring Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi and Pamela Tola. The film's plot is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1911 posthumously published story "The Forged Coupon", part one, which was also the basis for Robert Bresson's 1983 film ''L'Argent''. Plot When a schoolteacher gets fired from his teaching job (at the same time, Antti joins as a new teacher) he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son Niko (Jasper Pääkkönen) and evicts Niko from his apartment. On New Year's Eve, high on drugs, Niko forges a 500 euro banknote at his friend Tuomas' other friend's party and buys a CD player from a pawnshop since his father has sold the old one to get money for alcohol. Seeing a counterfeit 500-euro banknote, the shop owner gets furious and beats the woman Niko had paid with the counterfeit money. When, Isto Virtanen sells his widescreen TV to the same store, the shop owner offers 51 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Johan De Geer
Baron Carl Johan Louis De Geer af Finspång (born 13 July 1938) is a Swedish artist, writer, musician and '' friherre'' (baron) of the De Geer noble family. De Geer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a castle in Skåne, in southern Sweden. He broke with his bourgeois background and became a leftist artist, and studied at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He also exposed his grandmother's Nazi sympathies in a film called ("Grandmother, Hitler and I"). Most radical and provoking at that time was his 1967 painting of a burning Swedish flag The national flag of Sweden ( sv, Sveriges flagga) consists of a yellow or gold Nordic cross (i.e. a horizontal cross extending to the edges, with the crossbar closer to the hoist than the fly) on a field of light blue. The Nordic cross design t ... with the words ('COCK') and "" (Desecrate the flag) written on it. The painting was shown in an art gallery, but was immediately confiscated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagur Kári
Dagur Kári (born Dagur Kári Pétursson; 12 December 1973) is an Icelandic film director. Early life and education He was born in Paris, France, to Icelandic parents. The family returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. After attending local schools as a child, Kári went to Denmark for college. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, having created the art house short movie ''Lost Weekend''. The film won 11 prizes on the international festival circuit. Career Kari's first feature film ''Noi the Albino'' (''Nói albínói'', 2003) won several international awards. His second film, ''Voksne mennesker'' (''Dark Horse'', 2005) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2008, he finished his first English-language film '' The Good Heart'', starring Americans Brian Cox and Paul Dano, and French actress Isild Le Besco. He is also a member of the band Slowblow. He featured their music in '' Nói albínó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noi The Albino
''Noi the Albino'' ( is, Nói albinói () is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói (played by Tómas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland. It won multiple awards. ''Nói albinói'' was filmed in Bolungarvik (pop. 957), a fishing village in the far northwest of Iceland, located on the Westfjords peninsula. The moody original musical score is from the director's band, Slowblow. The '' Los Angeles Times''' Kenneth Turan called the movie "singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards" and noted that it was a selection in "dozens of film festivals." Skye Sherwin of the BBC called it "a coming-of-age tale, bound between grinding humdrum and exquisite surrealism." Plot Nói Kristmundsson is a 17-year-old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in western Iceland with his grandmother Lína (Anna Friðriksdóttir). His father Kiddi ( Þröstur Leó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the ''Mods Trilogy'', three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, '' They Call Us Misfits'' (1968), '' A Respectable Life'' (1979) and ''The Social Heritage'' (1993). ''A Respectable Life'' won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Jarl also wrote and directed '' Jag är din krigare'' (1997), and directed '' Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced'' (2003), ''The Girl From Auschwitz'' (2005), and ''Submission'' (2010), a documentary about the "chemical burden" of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award. Selected filmography * '' They Call Us Misfits'' (''Dom kallar oss mods'') codirector Jan Lindqvist * '' A Respectable Life'' (''Ett anständ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
