New York’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival kick started on Wednesday and the festival’s artistic director Frederic Boyer - pictured - fin connoisseur of Scandinavian cinema- has selected the Norwegian film Before Snowfall by Hisham Zaman for the World Narrative competition slot.
“Zaman is among the upcoming Scandinavian talents to watch out for, with the likes of Gabriela Pichler (Eat, Sleep, Die), and Esther Martin Bergsmark (She Male Snails), “said Boyer. Nordic cinema as a whole has really improved over the last decade and in particular Norwegian cinema. They offer a great diversity of films, from genre movies such as Troll Hunter, Escape, to epic movies like Kon-Tiki and the fact that the film was selected for an Oscar is a proof of its high quality. Norway delivers an increasing number of event movies that do well internationally and break box office records at home and in parallel, you have many young talents to keep an eye on.”
Another upcoming Nordic talent is screening at Tribeca’s Viewpoint sidebar: the Danish Michael Noer with his realistic drama Northwest. “Documentarian Michael Noer returns to the fiction of his amazing prison film R for an ultra-realistic thriller about two brothers attempting not only to survive but to find their own identities. Non-professional leads and real-life brothers Gustav and Oscar Dyekjær Giese are very convincing throughout the story’s intimate scenes, giving Northwest an instinctive and powerful force,” says Boyer. The Nordisk Film produced Northwest opened in Denmark yesterday after playing successfully in Rotterdam, Gothenburg and finding distributors in the UK, France and Benelux.
Tribeca’s other Northern proposition is the documentary Aatinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys running in the world competition programme under the Finnish banner. The film by US born Jessica Oreck features a year in the life of a family of reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland.
For further information on the festival check: www.tribecafilm.com