Autobiographical Scene No. 6882 by Ruben Östlund- screens in Paris. ©: Plattform produktion
Festival favourites
The Swedish segment of the programme includes festival favourites of 2008 as The King of Ping-Pong by Jens Jonsson, Patrik, Age 1.5 by Ella Lemhagen and Wolf by Daniel Alfredson. It also features Swedish shorts, rarities from Ingmar Bergman, documentaries alongside a retrospective of the entire production from Gothenburg artistic powerhouse Plattform Produktion, headed by producer Erik Hemmendorff and director Ruben Östlund – including Involuntary which unspooled at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Another familiar face for the French cinephiles included in the programme is Roy Andersson, who will be presenting a vast selection of his work at Ciné Nordica. A majority of the projects presented will have director and producer attending. Attendees include Jan Troell, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, Jens Jonsson, Ruben Östlund, Ella Lemhagen and Tomas Alfredson.
– We have mapped the market in collaboration with the Swedish Trade Council and hope to be able to present a platform where new Swedish film will reach French distributors, and Swedish producers will establish contact with their French colleagues. To be able to conduct this within an elegant framework and a fine upmarket programme truly showcases the international status of contemporary Swedish film, says Patrik Andersson, project manager at the Swedish Film Institute’s International Department.
Sweden advance in France
The co-op is in accordance with the current trend of a strengthened Swedish presence at the French market. The Millennium-trilogy by author Stieg Larsson are French bestsellers and more Swedish films than usual have already secured French distribution, including Let the Right One In, Patrik, Age 1.5 and Laban the Little Ghost. The collaboration between Swedish and French production companies is tightened, partly due to production company dfm fiction, the company behind Les Grand Personnes by Anna Novion and Sound of Noise, the first feature by acclaimed short film director’s Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne-Nilsson.
In Cinéma du Panthéon’s restaurant, three new exciting Swedish and Norwegian female artists gives free performances; El Perro del Mar, Frida Hyvönen and Ane Brun.
For more information, contact:
Patrik Andersson, project manager The Swedish Film Institute’s International department
patrik.andersson@sfi.se
+ 46 8 665 12 40
+ 46 767 64 80 44
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Ciné Nordica is a collaboration between The Swedish Film Institute, The Norwegian Film Institute, The Swedish Institute, Centré Culturel Suédois, the respective embassies and The Ingmar Bergman Foundation. It is arranged by new French-Swedish culture organisation Saga Nordica, with Maria Sjöberg as project manager in France (delegate for Cannes Film Festival).
Stockholm 5 November 2008