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“Probably the best co-producers in the world?” is the provocative title of one of the International Film Festival Rotterdam panels during “Pulling Focus,” IFFR Pro’s day dedicated to the global influence of Dutch cinema held on February 4.

The Dutch don’t normally boast; their lack of egotism is what can make them such excellent collaborators. Nonetheless, leading producers in the Netherlands agree they are indeed now adept at co-production - and that is partly because it has become a market necessity.

“Over the last 10 or 15 years, the Dutch have really oriented themselves toward the international market. In the past,...

Previous selections include Crip Camp, Miss Juneteenth, Swallow, The Truffle Hunters.

Gotham Film & Media Institute has announced the announced its slate of 135 international and US features, series and audio projects for this year’s virtual event that runs September 19-24.

The meetings-driven forum says it is the only international co-production market in the US featuring stories for multiple platforms, and hosts scheduled artist and industry meetings dedicated to furthering the work and careers of independent artists.

Previous selections include Crip Camp, (pictured), Miss Juneteenth, Monos, Swallow, My Salinger Year, and The Truffle Hunters.

Gotham Week will also feature a roster of panels,...

Swedish helmer Johannes Nyholm, best known for 2019 Sundance pic “Koko-di Koko-da,” is re-teaming with producer Maria Møller Christoffersen of Copenhagen-based Beofilm on the surrealistic comedy “Firehawks,” which is set to start production this summer in Sweden.

It’s one of a number of films Møller Christoffersen has in the works at Beofilm, where she’s also co-producing “The Wall,” Philippe Van Leeuw’s drama about a U.S. border patrol agent working along the Arizona-Mexican border, who tries to cover up an irrevocable crime. Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”) is set to star in the film, which is scheduled to shoot in November with Brussels-based Altitude 100 majority producing.

Møller Christoffersen says the film is “about putting up national and mental borders, and of course it’s an indirect comment on the wall that Trump wanted to put up towards Mexico. It’s a film about being afraid of what...

Selection includes upcoming features from Berlinale award-winner Carla Simon and San Sebastian award-winner Johannes Nyholm.

CineMart, the co-production market of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), has revealed the 17 feature projects to be showcased at the upcoming edition, which will take place entirely online.

The market will run February 1-5, during the 50th IFFR, and will invite filmmakers to pitch their projects virtually to a host of international film professionals in tailored one-to-one meetings, as well as online presentations that are open to all CineMart guests.

Eleven of the filmmakers are returning to IFFR after previously screening films at earlier editions,...

It’s All About Love: Nyholm Returns with Absurdist Allegory on Relationships

If Groundhog Day (1993), the well-liked Bill Murray title about a weatherman who is forced to relive one particular day over and over again, had eschewed romantic comedy tropes and instead focused on a marital crisis in the wake of a dead child it might have resembled something akin to Johannes Nyholm’s sophomore effort, the Swedish-Danish co-production Koko-di Koko-da, thus named for the frivolous lyrics of a children’s nursery rhyme. Then again, it might not, seeing as Nyholm’s effort plays like an art-house fever dream whose metaphors about the significant difficulties of communication in any relationship are fodder for recurring nightmare material.…...

Koko Di Koko Da Dark Star Pictures Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Johannes Nyholm Screenwriter: Johannes Nyholm Cast: Ylva Gallon, Leif Edlund Johansson, Peter Belli, Katarina Jacobson, Morad Khatchadorian Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 3/13/20 Opens: Tbd 2020 The idea is a clever one, one of monstrous […]

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Stars: Peter Belli, Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Katarina Jakobson, Morad Khatchadorian, Brandy Lietmanen | Written and Directed by Johannes Nyholm

After recently re-discovering my fondness for movies that are about people dealing with grief, I seem to have almost accidentally watched quite a few, and the oddly titled Koko-Di Koko-Da can be included in this category.

Like many of these movies, Koko-Di Koko-Da begins with a emotional and upsetting scene which explains the grief that, in this movie, a couple are going through. After struggling to cope with the loss, the couple decide to go on a camping trip to the woods but do not worry. This is certainly not a typical horror movie about people camping in the woods.

On the first night in the woods, the couple are attacked by a sideshow artist and his entourage which includes a man, a woman and a dog. The attack is violent and creepy,...

Johannes Nyholm directs this strange psychological horror about a couple haunted by their dead daughter’s musical box

Johannes Nyholm’s film is a strange, self-aware little psycho horror about grief: the title is taken from a bizarre (and genuine) Swedish nursery rhyme, Our Rooster Is Dead, played here on a musical box belonging to a little girl: “Vår tupp är död, vår tupp är död, Han kan inte sjunga koko-di koko-da!” Her musical box has three weird figures drawn on it: a dapper old gent in a straw boater, a young woman with a dog on a lead and a brutish Goliath of a man carrying a dead dog. It’s not clear whether these figures are accurate, like the rhyme, or made up for the film.

Related: Devils and debauchery: why we love to be scared by folk horror...

This Danish/Swedish co-production from writer/director Johannes Nyholm (The Giant) tells the tale of Tobias and Elin; a thirty-something couple who stumble upon a troupe of art/circus weirdos while on a camping trip. Led by a shifty, white suit wearing sideshow artist with two dogs (one dead), the freaks beleaguer and torture the couple. Tobias and Elin then find themselves locked in a perpetual time-loop while trying to escape, so must find a way to evade the weirdos then disentangle themselves from the alternative realities.

Writer/director Nyholm brilliantly balances gnarly drama and austere surrealism; hurling tar dark humour, camp-site/invasion/circus horror and Dali/Bunuel-like lunacy into the cine-broth to make a gloopy, befuddling yet tantalising nightmare. But Koko-Di Koko-Da is not without its fissures. The story dawdles due to self-imposed structural limitations (because of the loop) which results in it slumping into a stultifying lull.

Shadows...

In her four-star review, Emily von Seele wrote that Koko-Di Koko-Da is a "...tense illustration of the never-ending nightmare that is the grief process," and with the surreal horror film coming to theaters this month from Dark Star Pictures, the wait to see it on the big screen is nearly over. Ahead of the its release, the official trailer for Koko-Di Koko-Da has been unveiled, offering a deeper look into the film's terrifying and trippy time loop.

Written and directed by Johannes Nyholm, Koko-Di Koko-Da stars Peter Belli, Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Katarina Jackobson, and Brandy Litmanen.

Dark Star Pictures will release the film in New York's IFC Center on March 27th, followed by an eventual theatrical expansion in New York City, Los Angeles, and other cities across the Us:

NYC/La Theaters:

Friday, March 27- IFC Center, NYC

Friday, April 3- Cinema Village, NYC

Friday, April 10- Film Noir Cinema,...

In her 4-Star review out of Fantasia, Dread’s Anya Stanley wrote “Koko-di Koko-da is refreshingly unforgiving in its unpacking of the ways that grief betrays us. Every dread-filled moment holds the audience bound and gagged, praying for the nightmare to end.” THR called […]

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The new Swedish horror comedy, ‘Koko-di Koko-da,’ is set to be unleashed across the U.S. in the coming weeks. It’s distributor, Dark Star Pictures, has announced that the film will open theatrically in New York on Friday, March 27. A Los Angeles and multi-city national release is set to follow throughout April for the psychological […]

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In her 4-Star review out of Fantasia, Dread’s Anya Stanley wrote “Koko-di Koko-da is refreshingly unforgiving in its unpacking of the ways that grief betrays us. Every dread-filled moment holds the audience bound and gagged, praying for the nightmare to end.” THR called […]

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Jeanette Nordahl’s feature debut is a female-driven crime drama.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK distribution rights to Jeanette Nordahl’s feature debut Wildland from Bac Films. The Danish family drama became a buzz title when it premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale last month.

Sidse Babbett Knudsen and newcomer Sandra Guldberg Kampp star in the drama about a teenage girl taken in by her aunt when her mother is killed in a car accident.

The script is written by Ingeborg Topsøe, whose credits include Amazon series Hanna and the upcoming Moths.

“We were blown away by this...

After showing at the Sundance Film Festival and a part of the official selection at the BFI London Film Festival, Picturehouse Entertainment has launched a new trailer for ‘Koko-di Koko-da’.

The story follows the couple, Tobias (Leif Edlund Johansson) and Elin (Ylva Gallon) as they embark on a trip to find their way back to each other and repair their broken relationship. A sideshow artist (Peter Belli) and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. Desperately the couple tries to escape, only to find themselves back where they started: in their tent, waking up at dawn. By way of their tangled dreams, we relive one particular night in their lives over and over again. From this nightmarish atmosphere, underpinned by a haunting score and striking cinematography, a poignant story emerges about relationships, grief and reconciliation,...

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired U.K. rights from TrustNordisk for Maria Sødahl’s “Hope,” which stars Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Bræin Hovig, and will have its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this month.

Based on the director’s own experiences after being diagnosed with brain cancer, “Hope” explores the relationship between artists and partners Tomas (Skarsgård) and Anja (Hovig), which is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis. The film world premiered in the Discovery program of the Toronto Film Festival and will screen in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.

Sødahl took a long break from filmmaking after her diagnosis nearly a decade ago. Her first feature, “Limbo,” premiered to wide acclaim in 2010, earning her a share of best director honors at the Montreal Intl. Film Festival and nabbing 10 nominations at the Amanda Awards, Norway’s top film prize.

Speaking to Variety ahead of...

Buzzy works-in-progress presentations include Lamb from Iceland and The Innocents from Norway.

Beware Of Children, directed by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud, has won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg tonight (1 Feb).

The prize money of $104,000 (Sek 1m) makes it the world’s largest film prize. The backers are Volvo Car Group, Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg.

The jury, led by Mia Hansen-Love, said Beware Of Children was “inspiring reflection about the intricacy of education from an adult perspective. It questions the innocence of one’s childhood in a captivating way. Human relationships...

The film debuted at Toronto 2019.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Hope, the second feature from Norwegian writer-director Maria Sødahl, ahead of the film’s European premiere in Panorama at the Berlinale next month.

The film debuted at Toronto 2019 in the Discovery section. Picturehouse Entertainment struck the deal with Scandinavian sales agent TrustNordisk; it is yet to set an exact date for the release, which will come later this year.

Based on the director’s personal experiences, the film explores the relationship between a pair of artists which is tested when one of them receives a life-threatening diagnosis.

Stellan Skarsgård...

The scabrously-titled absurdist drama “Cook F**k Kill” from Slovak multihyphenate Mira Fornay is Examining unhealthy relationships, it’s structured as a prologue and three chapters, all of which make imaginative use of metaphor and anxiety-inducing images and framing. The stylized action sometimes brings to mind Swedish helmer Johannes Nyholm’s “Koko-di Koko-da,” also about a couple stuck in a damaging behavioral pattern. Overall, the film is a tad too long and definitely not for everyone, yet it is without doubt Fornay’s most ambitious and stimulating work. Festivals with adventurous programming venues should take note.

A 64-second prologue, featuring a Greek chorus of female villagers in swimsuits on the bank of a river recounting a fable to a figure in the water, manages to introduce many of the film’s key themes, concepts, and visuals. The folk tale that the women recite emphasizes how everything is interconnected and how...

From Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day 2U and the Netflix series Russian Doll to Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-di Koko-da and Tom Paton’s Stairs, 2019 has been the year of time loop entertainment, and director D.C. Hamilton looks to add another compelling time-warping experience to the list with The Fare. Based on a screenplay by Brinna Kelly (who also co-stars in the movie), The Fare follows a taxi driver (Gino Anthony Pesi) who must figure out why his latest customer (Kelly) disappeared from the back of his cab... and why he keeps experiencing the eerie event over and over. With The Fare out now on Blu-ray and DVD from Dread, we caught up with Hamilton in our latest Q&a feature to discuss filming The Fare in six days, making the movie stay fresh while filming primarily in one location, and the upcoming projects he hopes to make with Brinna Kelly.

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has wrapped for 2019 and the complete list of award winners has been announced, including Daniel Isn't Real for "Best Picture" in the horror feature category and Travis Stevens' Girl on the Third Floor winning "Best Gooey Effects." Also in today's Horror Highlights: My Girlfriend the Serial Killer Indiegogo details, Pumpkin Spice Podcast season finale episode details, and The Spirit Gallery's new DVD and limited VHS info.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2019 Awards Announced: "The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival closed out their fourth edition on October 24th with a sold-out screening of Joe Begos’ Vfw. The Screening was hosted at Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park with Director Joe Begos, Writer Max Brallier, and cast members Stephen Lang, Tom Williamson and Linnea Wilson in attendance.

This year the festival featured over 100 films and events across Brooklyn at Nitehawk Cinema, Cobble Hill Cinema, Ifp Made in NY Media Center...

Shannon Murphy’s debut feature has its UK launch at London Film Festival.

Picturehouse Entertainment has picked up UK rights to Shannon Murphy’s debut feature Babyteeth from Celluloid Dreams. It follows the film’s world premiere in Competition at Venice last month.

Murphy’s film is making its UK premiere in the first feature competition at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday, October 6.

The comedy drama stars Eliza Scanlen as a seriously ill teenager who falls in love with small-time drug dealer, played by Toby Wallace, to the horror of her parents. The Babadook star Essie Davis and...

Grief can be a horrible, insidious force that tears apart families and destroys everything that it touches, and it's those themes that are at the heart of writer/director Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-Di Koko-Da, his surreal cinematic meditation on the difficulties of navigating your way through the grieving process. Beyond that, the film also features a quirky band of misfits that feel plucked straight out of a Grimm fairytale, as well as a poignant, lovely, and show-stoppingly great shadow puppet play as well, making Koko-Di Koko-Da a truly unique viewing experience.

The film recently played as part of the 2019 Fantastic Fest, and during the festival, Daily Dead spoke with Nyholm about his approach to the story, mixing visual mediums for Koko-Di Koko-Da, and how he created the film’s dreamy surreal aesthetic.

I would love to start at the beginning and talk about how you approached this story, because we've seen movies about grief,...

Dark Star Pictures announced today that it has acquired the North American rights to the upcoming horror comedy, ‘Koko-di Koko-da.’ The company is planning to release the film in theaters in November, which will be followed by a VOD and DVD distribution. The fantasy movie will begin its theatrical run in Los Angeles and New […]

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Haugesund, Norway — Celine Sciamma’s intellectually dexterous, bittersweet love tale “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” has claimed another heart, taking home The Norwegian Film-Critics’ Prize at the Haugesund Film Festival’s closing night on Thursday.

The festival, which runs over August 17-23, capped its 47th edition with a screening of André Løyning and Kristian Landmark’s documentary

Sciamma’s revisionist romance won the screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May and will next head to Toronto, where it will screen as a Special Presentation.

“With elegance, sophistication and courage, the film explores how love and vitality can – at least momentarily – throw off the shackles of an oppressive social order. Exquisite acting performances and cinematography, combined with a soupcon of mythological symbolism, add up to a work of serious artistic merit,” noted the jury members in their verdict.

The Eurimages Lab Award went to director Guro Bruusgaard’s “Him.

The Sundance entry and Fantasia Festival prize-winner will get a November theatrical launch.

Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights to Swedish writer-director Johannes Nyholm’s fantasy horror film Koko-di Koko-da, a World Cinema selection at this year’s Sundance and a prize-winner at the Fantasia Film Festival.

Dark Star will give the film - which has also screened at the Rotterdam, Seattle and Karlovy Vary festivals - a North American theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York (and other yet-to-be-announed cities) in November, with VOD and DVD launches to follow.

Koko-di Koko-da follows a married couple and...

One of the most anticipated films at the North Bend Film Fest was Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-di Koko-da. This abstract and surreal piece of fantasy is a tense illustration of the never-ending nightmare that is the grief process.

Three years after suffering the tragic loss of their daughter, Tobias (Lief Edlund) and Elin (Ylva Gallon) decide to take a camping trip together. Their marriage has been strained (to say the least) since their daughter’s death. They don’t communicate at all, they argue constantly over mundane things, and they can barely stand to be in each other’s presence. Some people are able to heal through grief, and for others, it tears them apart. We get the sense that this relationship is very much in its last days, and that this trip could be the one last effort to try to save it (although they don’t seem to...

Mark Jenkin didn’t need a bigger boat as his black-and-white film, set in a fishing village, won the Grand Prix and the Audience Award of the 19th edition of the Polish festival. Mark Jenkin’s UK-produced Bait, presented in Competition at this year’s New Horizons International Film Festival, might have a Cornish fisherman without a boat as its unlikely protagonist — played to poker-faced perfection by comedian Edward Rowe — it still somehow managed to leave everyone else far behind. Winning the main award of the Polish festival, but also emerging as the top choice of the audience, after competing with 11 other titles including the likes of Richard Billingham’s autobiographical drama Ray & Liz, Ena Sendijarević’s Take Me Somewhere Nice or Johannes Nyholm’s Swedish-Danish oddity Koko-di Koko-da. “Through its raw visual and sonic language, playful and almost campy style, this film dexterously revitalizes film heritage, referencing the Nouvelle Vague and.

Stars: Peter Belli, Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Katarina Jakobson, Morad Khatchadorian, Brandy Lietmanen | Written and Directed by Johannes Nyholm

After recently re-discovering my fondness for movies that are about people dealing with grief, I seem to have almost accidentally watched quite a few, and the oddly titled Koko-Di Koko-Da can be included in this category.

Like many of these movies, Koko-Di Koko-Da begins with a emotional and upsetting scene which explains the grief that, in this movie, a couple are going through. After struggling to cope with the loss, the couple decide to go on a camping trip to the woods but do not worry. This is certainly not a typical horror movie about people camping in the woods.

On the first night in the woods, the couple are attacked by a sideshow artist and his entourage which includes a man, a woman and a dog. The attack is violent and creepy,...

16 titles will play across three Kinoscope sections.

Nadav Lapid’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, Juliano Dornelles’ Cannes Competition entry Bacurau and Anna Eborn’s Rotterdam award winner Transnistra are among the selection for the Kinoscope strand at Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23 2019).

The festival has selected 16 titles across three sections.

Scroll down for the full list of films

The Kinoscope section is open to films from around the world, excluding the Southeastern European territories which comprise the festival’s competition strand.

One title from the UK, Peter Strickland’s dark comedy In Fabric, is chosen, in the Kinoscope Surreal section.

Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm jumped into the limelight of the international arthouse circuit with both feet, sweeping audiences and awards with his feature debut The Giant. It was a touching dramedy, absolved of sentimentality, about an autistic boy separated from his mother and convinced that winning the Scandinavian Championship of pétangue will win her back. A very mature offering, wherein Nyholm capitalized on his previous formalistic experiences and the unconventional storytelling of The Giant, combining the inside and outside worlds of the protagonist, earned Nyholm a rising-filmmaker-to-follow spot. The expectations revolving around his latest project proved to be high, since his sophomore feature Koko-di Koko-da screened at Sundance, Rotterdam and Goteborg film festivals in quick succession. Koko-di Koko-da, the title taken from a nursery rhyme...

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Musically macabre and structurally curious, Johannes Nyholm’s sophomore feature “Koko-di Koko-da” works as a nightmarish exploration of unresolved grief. Its peculiar tone can best be described as a crossbreed between John Cameron Mitchell’s drama “Rabbit Hole” and Christopher Landon’s horror flick “Happy Death Day,” with elements that thematically echo “Force Majeure” by the director’s compatriot, Ruben Östlund.

Continue reading Time Loop Nightmare ‘Koko-di Koko-da’ Haunts A Couple In Crisis [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.

When “Koko-di Koko-da” characters Elin (Ylva Gallon) and Tobias (Leif Edlund) discover their daughter Maja dead on her eighth birthday, they think life couldn’t get worse. Shockingly, it can. The film jumps ahead three years to the couple’s miserable camping holiday, which gets interrupted by three psychopaths — a dandy in a bowler hat, a big-haired girl, and a giant — who kill them, over and over again, with guns, knives, fists, and a very hungry dog. The wicked murderers have no motive. They’re just inevitable death — as is all death — no matter how hard people like Elin and Tobias and, well, all of us try to escape.

Writer-director Johannes Nyholm’s fable about grief is at once brutal and childlike, a horror-show that hums along to a nursery rhyme that gives “Koko-di Koko-da” its name. Not that children should be allowed anywhere near Nyholm’s bloody nihilism, where...

Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm’s “Koko-Di Koko-Da,” which is competing at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by U.K. distribution company Picturehouse.

Represented in international markets by Paris-based banner Stray Dogs, “Koko-Di Koko-Da” had its U.S. premiere at Sundance on Friday in the World Dramatic Competition selection and played to a packed audience.

“Koko-di Koko-da” follows a couple who goes on a trip to find their way back to each other a few years after the tragic death of their only child. But the couple ends up reliving a traumatic night over and over again while camping. The story, told through their mutual dreams, is about relationships, grief and love as a healing force.

The Swedish helmer previously told Variety that the film’s story unfolded during the “wee hours of the morning when dreams are at their most relentlessly untamed” and was set during “this nightmarish landscape between wakefulness and sleep.

Terror is in the offing from the first scene of Swedish writer-director Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da. A demonic trio — impeccably dressed old man Mog (Peter Belli), Andre the Giant-resembling behemoth Sampo (Morad Khatchadorian) and angular J-Horror reject Cherry (Brandy Litmanen) — wind their way through the woods, dead and live dog in tow. Mog approaches the camera, singing the earworm of a title song and grinning devilishly. His entourage provides silent, glaring backup. It's a true nightmare in motion: The immediate desire is to recoil, but it's impossible to turn away. That about sums up the experience ...

Terror is in the offing from the first scene of Swedish writer-director Johannes Nyholm's Koko-di Koko-da. A demonic trio — impeccably dressed old man Mog (Peter Belli), Andre the Giant-resembling behemoth Sampo (Morad Khatchadorian) and angular J-Horror reject Cherry (Brandy Litmanen) — wind their way through the woods, dead and live dog in tow. Mog approaches the camera, singing the earworm of a title song and grinning devilishly. His entourage provides silent, glaring backup. It's a true nightmare in motion: The immediate desire is to recoil, but it's impossible to turn away. That about sums up the experience ...

Around The World When You Were My AgeThe titles for the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam are being announced in anticipation of the event running January 23 – February 3, 2018. We will update the program as new films are revealed.Tiger COMPETITIONSons of Denmark (Ulaa Salim)Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević)Present.Perfect. (Shengze Zhu)Sheena667 (Grigory Dobrygin)Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Camila José Donoso)Koko-di Koko-da (Johannes Nyholm)Els dies que vindran (Carlos Marqués-Marcet)Bright Future COMPETITIONAlva (Ico Costa)Chèche lavi (Sam Ellison)De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula)Doozy (Richard Squires)Dreissig (Simona Kostova)Ende der Saison (Elmar Imanov)Fabiana (Brunna Laboissière)The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)Heroes (Köken Ergun)Historia de mi nombre (Karin Cuyul)Last Night I Saw You Smiling (Kavich Neang)Lost Holiday (Michael Kerry Matthews/Thomas Matthews)Maggie (Yi Okseop)Mens (Isabelle Prim)No Data Plan (Miko Revereza...

Big Screen Competition line-up also announced.

The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam (23 Jan – 3 Feb) has revealed the eight films that will compete in its 2018 Hivos Tiger Competition.

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The award includes a cash prize of €40,000, to be divided between filmmaker and producer. There is also a special jury award worth €10,000.

This year’s selection includes new feature films by directors including Johannes Nyholm, Ena Sendijarević, Ulaa Salim and Shengze Zhu. There are seven world premieres and one international premiere.

This year’s jury will comprise of Chilean filmmaker and artist Alfredo Jaar; Daniela Michel, festival...

The $34,000 prize is aimed at promoting gender equality.

The Goteborg Film Festival will open with Miia Tervo’s Aurora from Finland, about a party animal Finnish woman in Lapland who meets an Iranian asylum seeker, on January 26.

The festival will close with the world premiere of Swedish directors’ Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Swoon on February 4. The period romance is about two young lovers from families who own rival amusement parks.

The festival will screen 376 films from 83 countries.

Full lists of the films in the festival’s five competitions below.

The festival will host Eurimages’ Audentia Award competition for...

The 42nd edition of the Goteborg Film Festival will open on a light note with Miia Tervo’s romantic comedy “Aurora,” which marks the Finnish director’s feature debut. Also set to compete in the Nordic and Audentia sections, “Aurora” marks Tervo’s follow up to her critically acclaimed documentary short, “Lumikko,” which was nominated at the European Film Awards in 2010.

The festival will close with “Swoon,” a fantasy-filled love story directed by Stein and Mårlind, the pair behind hit drama series “The Bridge,” “Midnight Sun” and “Shelter” with Julianne Moore. “Swoon” follows the impossible romance between Ninni and John, the young heirs of two rival families who own neighboring amusement parks.

Along with the launch of the Dragon Award for best acting, the Goteborg Film Festival will also host the Audentia Award, a prize created by Eurimages to honor the best female-directed film of the year. The Audentia Award...

Koko-di Koko-da

Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm returns with his highly anticipated sophomore film Koko-di Kojo-da, which the director produced alongside co-producer Maria Moller Christofferson. His cast consists of Leif Edlund, Peter Belli, Ylva Gallon and Katatina Jakobson. John Lundborg (from Nyholm’s 2016 debut The Giant) and Tobias Höiem-Flyckt serve as cinematographers. Nyholm’s celebrated debut The Giant premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and scooped up an award out of San Sebastian. He had three straight short films selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, including a drunken baby in Las Palmas – which was selected for Sundance as well.…...

It’s hard to believe it’s almost time for a new year of the Sundance Film Festival, but we’re now less than two months away, and this writer is extremely excited to head to Park City once again, especially after digging into Sundance’s initial lineup announcement today. Not only does their Midnight slate look insanely great, but there are a ton of films running in Sundance’s other programming tracks that I am beyond excited to see in January.

Some of the highlights from today’s lineup announcement include Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile which chronicles the life of Ted Bundy (played by Zac Efron) through the experiences of his girlfriend; Paradise Hills, which stars Emma Roberts, Milla Jovovich, and Awkwafina; Relive from producer Jason Blum; Dan Gilroy’s Buzzsaw; and the Alien-themed documentary Memory. I’ve gone ahead and broken down all the titles...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

The Dark Knight and Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)

What can be said about The Dark Knight that hasn’t already been? To paraphrase The Joker, this movie changed things forever. Although 2005’s Batman Begins resurrected the series from its unfortunate Joel Schumacher era, it was The Dark Knight where Christopher Nolan began to explore the idea of doing a genre piece that just happens to feature Batman. What we...

One of the best festivals during the first half of the year is The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Films, which kicks off its 46th year this March, running from the 15th to the 26th. With last year’s line-up including some of the year’s best films, including Cameraperson, The Fits, Kaili Blues, Neon Bull, Weiner, and more, we can expect many more discoveries this year.

Opening with Patti Cake$ and closing with Person to Person, in between will be one of our favorite films from Sundance as the centerpiece, Beach Rats. Also among the line-up is a handful of other festival favorites, including The Dreamed Path, The Giant, Menashe, and Lady Macbeth.

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The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announces their complete lineup for the 46th annual New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), running March 15 – 26. Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, this year’s festival will screen 29 features and nine short films. This year’s lineup boasts nine North American premieres, seven U.S. premieres, and two world premieres, with features and shorts from 32 countries across five continents.

The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”

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Event also featured Mister Universo, The Man, Home and A Wedding.

Iffr Live returned for a third year, with a larger offering of real-time, immersive film premieres made available in more theatres and international cities.

The event took place over the weekend, from Friday January 27 – Sunday January 29, and consisted of six features (compared to last year’s five):

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s Mister Universo (Austria, Italy); Alice Lowe’s Prevenge (UK); Charlotte Seiling’s The Man (Denmark); Fien Troch’s Home (Belgium); Stephan Streker’s A Wedding (Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Pakistan) and Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (Sweden, Denmark).

Audiences in over 45 European cities could watch the films and Q&As as a live ticketed event or via Iffr’s new VOD set-up Unleashed available for the duration of the festival.

Also new was Iffr Live’s expansion into more international regions including Singapore, Israel and Canada, as well as...

Other winners at Swedish film awards include The Yard, Martha & Niki and My Aunt In Sarajevo.

Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (pictured) was the big winner at the 2017 Guldbagge Awards in Sweden.

Produced by Garagefilm International and Beo Film, it won best film, best screenplay (for Nyholm) and best make-up (Eva von Bahr, Love Larson and Pia Aleborg).

The Yard also won three awards, including best actor (Anders Mossling), best cinematography (Ita Zbroniec-Zajt) and best sound/sound design (Patrik Strömdahl).

Goran Kapetanović won best director for the unusual My Aunt In Sarajevo, which had a theatrical release despite being only 58 minutes long. The film’s Sadžida Šetić also won best actress in a supporting role.

Maria Sundbom picked up best actress for The Girl, The Mother And The Demons, while Michael Nyqvist won best supporting actor for his role in A Serious Game.

Martha And Niki won best editing (Tora Mkandawire Mårtens and Therese Elfström) and best...

Les Arcs unveils 16 projects due to be presented in the work-in-progress selection.

Upcoming films by the UK’s Rungano Nyoni, the Czech Republic’s Olmo Omerzu and Sweden’s Johannes Nyholm are among 16 works-in-progress projects due to be presented at the eighth edition of the Les Arcs Coproduction village (Dec 10-13).

Footage from the films, which are all in post-production, will be shown on Dec 11. The festival’s artistic director Frédéric Boyer made the selection.

British-Zambian director Rungano Nyoni will show first footage from her debut satire I Am Not A Witch [pictured top] about a nine-year-old girl who is a victim of a witch-hunt, which is shot by Embrace Of The Serpent’s DoP David Gallego.

Nyholm will present his second feature Koko-di Koko-da - after The Giant which premiered at Tiff this year - revolving around a couple whose camping trip takes a strange turn when a circus troupe turns up.

Two awards...

Bulgarian-Danish-French drama previously won festival awards in Locarno and Sarajevo.

Ralitza Petrova’s Godless has won this year’s Golden Puffin, the top award at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff)

The jury, comprised of Goteborg artistic director Jonas Holmberg, Rams director Grimur Hákonarson and bestselling Icelandic novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, said, “The Golden Puffin goes to a bleak but beautiful film with poignant acting and atmospheric cinematography. The film combines the downbeat suspense of an medicalised crime story with a subtle portrayal of the agony in a post communist society where redemption is only glimpsed in the sacral world of music.”

Godless, which is a Bulgarian-Danish-French co-production, previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Special Jury Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress (Irena Ivanova) at Sarajevo Film Festival. It also won five national awards at the Golden Rose National Film Festival in Bulgaria.

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Exclusive: Copenhagen’s festival, in new autumn dates, will show a record 226 features kicking off with Doctor Strange.

Copenhagen’s Cph Pix festival, now in its new autumn dates, has revealed a record 226 feature films in its lineup.

The 14-day festival (Oct 27 - Nov 9), which now also includes kids and family festival Buster, will show 46 features for young people in its daytime programmes and 180 films for teenagers and adults in the evenings.

As previously reported, the eighth edition of festival will open with a gala premiere of Marvel’s Doctor Strange (Mads Mikkelsen will attend).

There will be four main awards at Pix: the New Talent Grand Pix for a debut feature (with $11,200 (€10,000)); the Politiken Audience Award that comes with Danish distribution support, and the Nordisk Film Fond prizes for best children’s feature and best children’s short.

Terence Davies [pictured] will be given a full retrospective as well as showing his latest film A Quiet Passion and participating...