After reading over a thousand scripts, and having a profound overview of all the fiction being produced in the Nordics, the time has come for Torleif Hauge to retire from his role as Senior Fiction Advisor at Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
The two Nordic shows triumphed at the annual gathering hosted by the Principality, bridging high-quality scripted drama and hard-hitting factual storytelling.
Why do filmmakers from all over the world keep travelling to the small Finnish village Sodankylä? This year new films were screened side by side with over 100-year-old films from the Swedish film archive.
The conference “Protecting young people from online harm in an open and safe public sphere” laid bare a startling reality: The very tools we use to connect are increasingly being used to "trap" the next generation.
Budgets remain tight, and sound enters too late, but Nordic sound designers across the region see a growing respect for its power to shape emotion, rhythm and story. Is there a specific Nordic approach to sound?
The producer behind the upcoming animated kids’ series Ted & Paula’s Tadpole Journey, and the team behind the successful drama series Requiem for Selina, share their creative strategies for building brands.
Seemingly a modest Cannes edition for Nordic cinema, 2026 still proved a rich year, not least through the many co-productions, again with Norway being the prominent territory.
Nordic film graduates’ deadline for applying to pitch a project to the Nordic industry and the jury is June 1, while delegates can register until the event is fully booked.
Meet the pan-Nordic jury: an Oscar-winning documentary producer, an internationally awarded fiction producer, an acclaimed Icelandic actor and scriptwriter, an internationally active Drama Commissioner and a Head of a popular Nordic conference/festival market.
Half of the films that received support for distribution to other Nordic countries in Q1 are aimed at children and youth, as well as two of the eleven top financed productions.
Danish auteur Refn says he’s a modern-day Hans Christian Andersen, inspired by the globe, but shooting his new film Her Private Hell in Copenhagen; Norway’s Ulven moves from music to acting in Low Expectations.
The Danish Oscar nominee explores complex family and farming dynamics in his first TV show, Harvest, and convinced his starry cast to drive tractors for authenticity.
The Swedish filmmaker spent seven years exploring ideas in A Sweetness From Nowhere, now premiering at CPH:DOX. She calls it a nerve-racking process that envelops everything from disco jellyfish to footage she shot for an abandoned sci-fi film.
After her global hit Hatching, the Finnish writer/director comes to Berlinale Competition with her English-language debut, Nightborn, offering a twisted take on parenthood.
The Oscar nominated co-writer of Sentimental Value describes his collaborative writing process with Joachim Trier; and how he’s writing a new script to “mix Bergman and Hitchcock.”
This successful Faroese producer is now collaborating on Tea Lindeburg’s The Seal Woman as well as fostering local talents and servicing big Hollywood shoots.
The Swedish writer-director works with Nick Cave on her new TV project The Death of Bunny Munro, while also handwriting the script for the first of the new Dogma 25 films, Mr. Nawashi.
The Icelandic filmmaker talks about the spontaneous way he works with his children starring in his two latest films, Joan of Arc and The Love That Remains, and how he enjoyed exploring magical realism for the first time.
Sofie Gråbøl talks about punching Mads Mikkelsen in their new film The Last Viking, acting with Donald Sutherland in her first film and experiencing how the grpundbreaking series The Killing changed the international outlook on Denmark.
The Norwegian documentary We Are Stardust has its world premiere today at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. Later this week it will have its Nordic premiere at CPH:DOX.
The Norwegian documentary In Cod We Trust has its world premiere at Thessaloniki International Film Festival today, as well as its Finnish premiere at Tampere Film Festival.