TrustNordisk has closed a U.K. deal on “Before It Ends,” a WW2-set drama with “Game of Thrones” star Pilou Asbæk, unfolding during the final stages of Nazi Occupation in Denmark. Signature Entertainment has bought U.K. rights to the movie.
“Before It Ends,” whose trailer has just been unveiled (see below), was written and directed by Anders Walter, known for his Oscar-winning short film “Helium” and “I Kill Giants” which played at Toronto in 2017. The feature was produced by Nordisk Film Production in collaboration with Growing Studios.
Asbæk stars alongside Danish talent Katrine Greis-Rosenthal and Morten Hee Andersen (“A Matter of Trust”), and German actor Peter Kurth (“Inventing Anna”).
When announcing the project, TrustNordisk boss Susan Wendt describes it as a “deeply moving and nerve-wrecking drama that portrays the unimaginable dilemmas that people face in the wake of war.”
The film is inspired by true events and depicts...
“Before It Ends,” whose trailer has just been unveiled (see below), was written and directed by Anders Walter, known for his Oscar-winning short film “Helium” and “I Kill Giants” which played at Toronto in 2017. The feature was produced by Nordisk Film Production in collaboration with Growing Studios.
Asbæk stars alongside Danish talent Katrine Greis-Rosenthal and Morten Hee Andersen (“A Matter of Trust”), and German actor Peter Kurth (“Inventing Anna”).
When announcing the project, TrustNordisk boss Susan Wendt describes it as a “deeply moving and nerve-wrecking drama that portrays the unimaginable dilemmas that people face in the wake of war.”
The film is inspired by true events and depicts...
- 6/30/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Nordisk Film Production is being released locally on November 3.
LevelK has boarded international sales for Fathers & Mothers, a Danish comedy from Paprika Steen.
An acclaimed actress best known for films including The Celebration and Applause, Steen has previously directed three features: That Time Of Year, With Your Permission and Aftermath.
Jacob Weis wrote the original script, which is about a married couple who have to navigate hierarchy, rivalry and hidden agendas at their daughter’s new school, including during a popular school camping trip.
The ensemble cast includes Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (Shorta), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Riders of Justice), Amanda Collin...
LevelK has boarded international sales for Fathers & Mothers, a Danish comedy from Paprika Steen.
An acclaimed actress best known for films including The Celebration and Applause, Steen has previously directed three features: That Time Of Year, With Your Permission and Aftermath.
Jacob Weis wrote the original script, which is about a married couple who have to navigate hierarchy, rivalry and hidden agendas at their daughter’s new school, including during a popular school camping trip.
The ensemble cast includes Jacob Hauberg Lohmann (Shorta), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Riders of Justice), Amanda Collin...
- 11/1/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market runs August 23-26.
Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market has unveiled the works in progress presentations for its 2022 edition, running August 23-26.
The line-up includes new films from the likes of Pathfinder director Nils Gaup’s new drama The Riot (Sulis), sold by REinvent and set against a workers revolt in 1907 Lapland; The Worst Person In The World producer Thomas Robsahm, who presents Aurora Gossé’s Norwegian youth film Dancing Queen, sold by Level K; and Berlinale prize-winning director Selma Vilhunen’s new Finnish production, polyamory drama Four Little Adults.
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Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market has unveiled the works in progress presentations for its 2022 edition, running August 23-26.
The line-up includes new films from the likes of Pathfinder director Nils Gaup’s new drama The Riot (Sulis), sold by REinvent and set against a workers revolt in 1907 Lapland; The Worst Person In The World producer Thomas Robsahm, who presents Aurora Gossé’s Norwegian youth film Dancing Queen, sold by Level K; and Berlinale prize-winning director Selma Vilhunen’s new Finnish production, polyamory drama Four Little Adults.
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- 8/12/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
TrustNordisk, Nordisk Film launch Norwegian TV project.
TrustNordisk, Nordisk Film Production and Nordisk Film Distribution are teaming on Norwegian TV-series Twin, created by Kristofer Hivju from Game Of Thrones and Kristoffer Metcalfe.
TrustNordisk will handle all international sales on the project, which will also star Hivju, who plays Tormund Giantsbane in the HBO fantasy smash.
The Norwegian-set drama centres on a surfer bum who has to assume his successful brother Adam’s identity after Adam’s wife accidentally kills him. Further cast will be announced.
Gisle Norman Melhus is also a writer on the show.
“Twin is a dream project for TrustNordisk and a great example of the possibilities that lie ahead, when the right talent is combined with a great production team,” TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis said.
“The project was highly anticipated at [Paris-based TV festival] Series Mania and we are convinced that it will be sold worldwide.”
Tomas Radoor from Nordisk Film Production added: “We are beyond excited...
TrustNordisk, Nordisk Film Production and Nordisk Film Distribution are teaming on Norwegian TV-series Twin, created by Kristofer Hivju from Game Of Thrones and Kristoffer Metcalfe.
TrustNordisk will handle all international sales on the project, which will also star Hivju, who plays Tormund Giantsbane in the HBO fantasy smash.
The Norwegian-set drama centres on a surfer bum who has to assume his successful brother Adam’s identity after Adam’s wife accidentally kills him. Further cast will be announced.
Gisle Norman Melhus is also a writer on the show.
“Twin is a dream project for TrustNordisk and a great example of the possibilities that lie ahead, when the right talent is combined with a great production team,” TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis said.
“The project was highly anticipated at [Paris-based TV festival] Series Mania and we are convinced that it will be sold worldwide.”
Tomas Radoor from Nordisk Film Production added: “We are beyond excited...
- 5/23/2017
- ScreenDaily
Despite his lengthy filmography as a scribe (mostly Thomas Vinterberg’s righthand man Submarino, The Hunt and upcoming The Commune) and his previous outings as a filmmaker in the grizzly R (2010) and gritty A Hijacking (2012), Tobias Lindholm hasn’t been part of the make-up of the festival in terms of exhibiting a film there, but the Dane has been present as a creative advisor specifically at the January Screenwriters Lab (2014) and June Screenwriters Lab (2015). Rejoining his muse actor Pilou Asbæk, his third film which Variety called “engrossing, impeccably sensitive Afghanistan War drama makes good on the promise of,” and THR suggested that “complexity emerges through a combination of careful writing and a little work on the viewers’ part“) received coin support via the 2014 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award and would eventually land on the Lido in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section. Denmark’s official selection for the...
- 11/23/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A War
Director: Tobias Lindholm // Writer: Tobias Lindholm
Director and screenwriter Tobias Lindholm has received more attention for his work as screenwriter on a pair of Thomas Vinterberg titles (Submarino, 2010; The Hunt, 2012), and the upcoming The Commune. However, he’s at the forefront of rising Danish filmmakers thanks to his own films. Each year he’s worked with Vinterberg, Lindholm has also premiered his own directorial efforts, including 2010’s excellent R and 2012’s more famous A Hijacking. He’s back with A War, a film meant to conclude a loose trilogy centered on ‘desperate men in small rooms.’ Reuniting once more with Pilou Asbaek, who’s starred in all three films, as well as Soren Malling, a Danish commander must make a difficult decision when his troop falls under heavy gunfire, ultimately seeing him face war crime charges.
Cast: Dar Salim, Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny
Producers: Nordisk Film Production’s...
Director: Tobias Lindholm // Writer: Tobias Lindholm
Director and screenwriter Tobias Lindholm has received more attention for his work as screenwriter on a pair of Thomas Vinterberg titles (Submarino, 2010; The Hunt, 2012), and the upcoming The Commune. However, he’s at the forefront of rising Danish filmmakers thanks to his own films. Each year he’s worked with Vinterberg, Lindholm has also premiered his own directorial efforts, including 2010’s excellent R and 2012’s more famous A Hijacking. He’s back with A War, a film meant to conclude a loose trilogy centered on ‘desperate men in small rooms.’ Reuniting once more with Pilou Asbaek, who’s starred in all three films, as well as Soren Malling, a Danish commander must make a difficult decision when his troop falls under heavy gunfire, ultimately seeing him face war crime charges.
Cast: Dar Salim, Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny
Producers: Nordisk Film Production’s...
- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Film will reunite writer-director Tobias Lindholm with actor Pilou Asbæk for the third time; StudioCanal will start selling the film in Cannes.
StudioCanal and Nordisk Film Production A/S will partner on A War.
Tobias Lindholm’s latest feature sees him reunite with actor Pilou Asbæk for their third feature together, following R and A Hijacking. Asbæk will star as a soldier put on trial upon his return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The film also stars Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling, Charlotte Munck and Dulfi Al-Jabouri.
Nordisk Film will distribute in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, while StudioCanal will distribute in France, Germany, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. StudioCanal handles international sales and will start seeling the film in Cannes.
Ron Halpern, Evp international production and acquisitions, StudioCanal, commented: “From the moment we saw A Hijacking, we knew that Tobias Lindholm was a director we wanted to work with at Studiocanal. As a writer...
StudioCanal and Nordisk Film Production A/S will partner on A War.
Tobias Lindholm’s latest feature sees him reunite with actor Pilou Asbæk for their third feature together, following R and A Hijacking. Asbæk will star as a soldier put on trial upon his return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The film also stars Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling, Charlotte Munck and Dulfi Al-Jabouri.
Nordisk Film will distribute in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, while StudioCanal will distribute in France, Germany, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. StudioCanal handles international sales and will start seeling the film in Cannes.
Ron Halpern, Evp international production and acquisitions, StudioCanal, commented: “From the moment we saw A Hijacking, we knew that Tobias Lindholm was a director we wanted to work with at Studiocanal. As a writer...
- 5/9/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning Danish director behind R and Nordvest to set new feature around a love story at an old people’s home.
Danish director Michael Noer, who set R in a prison and Nordvest in the criminal underworld, has chosen an old people’s home for the setting of his new feature Key House Mirror (Nøgle Hus Spejl).
The film will shoot from late next month for Nordisk Film Production and is being lined up to premiere in 2015.
Ghita Nørby – the grand lady of Danish film and stage – will star as a 76-year-old woman who moves into the home with her sick husband, only to meet the love of her life played by 80-year-old Swedish actor Sven Wollter.
Noer came up with the story for Danish writer Anders Frithiof August to script, and the Danish Film Institute has contributed $1.4m (Dkk 7.5m) for the Tomas Radoor and René Ezra production for Nordisk in collaboration with Danish pubcaster Dr TV.
“I...
Danish director Michael Noer, who set R in a prison and Nordvest in the criminal underworld, has chosen an old people’s home for the setting of his new feature Key House Mirror (Nøgle Hus Spejl).
The film will shoot from late next month for Nordisk Film Production and is being lined up to premiere in 2015.
Ghita Nørby – the grand lady of Danish film and stage – will star as a 76-year-old woman who moves into the home with her sick husband, only to meet the love of her life played by 80-year-old Swedish actor Sven Wollter.
Noer came up with the story for Danish writer Anders Frithiof August to script, and the Danish Film Institute has contributed $1.4m (Dkk 7.5m) for the Tomas Radoor and René Ezra production for Nordisk in collaboration with Danish pubcaster Dr TV.
“I...
- 3/17/2014
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Less than 24 hours after his oft-collaborator Thomas Vinterberg landed his next directing gig, Screen Daily reports that Tobias Lindholm will begin lensing The War (Krigen) sometime next year – the Danish filmmaker’s third outing as a director after festival hits R and A Hijacking. The trade mentions that Lindholm is reteaming with his muse actor Pilou Asbæk, he’ll play a solider for what is being coined as trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms.” Nordisk Film Production’s Tomas Radoor and René Ezra who produced Lindholm’s pair of films are back on board as producers.
Gist: Covering themes of “democracy, violence, the cost of war and the rules of the game”, this is a military action drama set in Afghanistan.
Worth Noting: Having grossed almost half a million theatrically in the U.S., his last film A Hijacking will certainly be mentioned in the same breath as the upcoming Captain Phillips.
Gist: Covering themes of “democracy, violence, the cost of war and the rules of the game”, this is a military action drama set in Afghanistan.
Worth Noting: Having grossed almost half a million theatrically in the U.S., his last film A Hijacking will certainly be mentioned in the same breath as the upcoming Captain Phillips.
- 9/17/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A Hijacking director Tobias Lindholm to next shoot a feature about military action in Afghanistan.
Danish director Tobias Lindholm, who won several awards for his Somali pirate drama A Hijacking (Kapringen), will next make The War (Krigen), about the military action in Afghanistan.
The film will conclude the trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms,” which Lindholm launched with the prison drama, R (co-directed by Michael Noer in 2010).
Danish actor Pilou Asbæk, who was is in hopeless situations in both R and Kapringen – as a young prisoner and as a ship’s cook taken hostage – will also star in The War, as a soldier on mission in Afghanistan.
The last part of the trilogy will be produced by Tomas Radoor and René Ezra for Nordisk Film Production (also credited for R, Kapringen), and shooting will start early next year.
Nordisk confirmed that the themes of the film will cover democracy, violence, the cost...
Danish director Tobias Lindholm, who won several awards for his Somali pirate drama A Hijacking (Kapringen), will next make The War (Krigen), about the military action in Afghanistan.
The film will conclude the trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms,” which Lindholm launched with the prison drama, R (co-directed by Michael Noer in 2010).
Danish actor Pilou Asbæk, who was is in hopeless situations in both R and Kapringen – as a young prisoner and as a ship’s cook taken hostage – will also star in The War, as a soldier on mission in Afghanistan.
The last part of the trilogy will be produced by Tomas Radoor and René Ezra for Nordisk Film Production (also credited for R, Kapringen), and shooting will start early next year.
Nordisk confirmed that the themes of the film will cover democracy, violence, the cost...
- 9/17/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to Tobias Lindholm's “A Hijacking,” which recently won the audience award in the AFI Fest’s New Auteurs program. The specialty distributor plans a theatrical release in the spring. Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling and “Game of Thrones” actor Dar Salim star in the timely dramatic tale of ordinary men working on a cargo ship that is taken hostage by Somali pirates. Tomas Radoor and René Ezra produced the project for Nordisk Film with support from the Danish Film Institute, Danish Broadcasting Corporation and Nordic Film and TV Fund. "‘A Hijacking’ is a strikingly intelligent, thrilling and timely film," said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. "Tobias Lindholm is a talent to be reckoned with." Read More: Venice 2012: Searching For The Golden Lion In The Festival's First Half “A Hijacking” had its world premiere at the...
- 11/15/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
- Congratulations are in order for not only the winners (Jason Kohn's Manda Bala picked up 3 awards!) and the nominees (many films that I'm hoping will receive an extended life theatrically and via home viewing), but to those who conceived the first edition of the Cinema Eye Honors. A reportedly successful event took form like only 40 bed times ago after a couple of folks noticed that the Oscar voters weren't doing the best job to honor the non-fiction, this becomes an instantly credible showcase for filmmakers who push the doc envelope. What will most likely be dubbed 'the Oscars for docu filmmakers', I imagine that next year's event will only be better prepared, fine-tuned, will have more corporate sponsorship and will probably include some live coverage on Ioncinema.com's part. In the mean time you can find a transcript of how the night went by IndieWire and you can get
- 3/19/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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