GSFF presents
The Bird Catcher Garden State Film Festival Asbury Park, N.J. The 17th Annual Garden State Film Festival (GSFF) will kick off this year’s screenings of over 240 independent films from around the globe with...
Tagged: Norwegian film
Dive into suspense
Film review: Pioneer John Smistad Olympia, Wash. Espionage, betrayal, and murder are all spellbindingly explored—along with the darkest depths of the ocean—in the absorbing Norwegian thriller Pioneer (Pionér, 2013). Aksel Hennie (A Somewhat Gentle...
Five prizes in one week for Los Bando
REEL NEWS: From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) The most prestigious of the five prizes given to Los Bando in one week was the audience prize at the world’s largest media festival, Cinekid in...
Iram Haq’s What Will People Say will be Norway’s candidate for Best Foreign-Language Film
REEL NEWS: From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) Norwegian director Iram Haq’s second feature What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si) will be Norway’s bid for the Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film.The...
Heads up for Nesbø
Film review John Smistad Olympia, Wash. Hunting for a not-by-the-numbers thriller? Headhunters (Hodejegerne, 2011) is the movie for you. Leave it to those crafty Norwegians to fashion a film furnishing the beholder with everything...
What Will People Say
Powerful film explores the clash of cultures faced by some Pakistani Norwegians Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. As a New Yorker, I have been surrounded by multiculturalism since I can remember. Everyone in the neighborhood...
EU MEDIA support announced for Norwegian TV series and documentary
Reel News From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) The €11.4 million Wisting, a TV thriller series staged by Norwegian production company Cinenord Drama, is the first Norwegian project to be granted the maximum €1...
Film review: The King’s Choice
Christine Foster Meloni Washington, D.C. The King’s Choice (Kongens nei) was named Best Norwegian Film of 2016 by the Norwegian Film Critics Association. It was Norway’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at...
Norway’s turn at the Oscars?
The King’s Choice / Kongens nei is shortlisted for the best foreign-language film The Local The Norwegian film The King’s Choice / Kongens nei is one of nine movies to make the short list...
Autumn Fall premieres in New York
The largely ad-libbed film is a love letter to Oslo and an intimate portrait of two artists Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Autumn Fall begins with a montage of warmly lit cozy scenes of Oslo,...
