A Finnish musician. An Icelandic artist. A Danish architect. A Norwegian actress. Two Swedish film directors. A Colombian poet. An Egyptian movie star. They are all protagonists of Cannes 2025, often in trouble.
The 14th edition of the training programme, designed within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival, took place May welcomed 24 participants and 30 experts.
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value won the Grand Prix in Cannes 2025: The director’s road from punk culture and being the nice Trier to mastering vulnerability.
He was the angry young Swede who almost single-handedly created a “new” cinema in the early 1960s. Still a direct or indirect influence on the Nordic scene, 2025 brings a new documentary on Bo Widerberg’s work and legacy, world-premiering in Cannes.
The award celebrates Frøya, known from Billionaire Island and Everybody Hates Johan, as one of the most promising new destinations for film and TV production.
In this special Cannes 2025 episode of Nordic Film Talks, we delve into two Cannes world premieres with the writer/director and lead actor of Eagles of the Republic and one of the lead actors of The Love That Remains.
In this special Cannes 2025 episode of Nordic Film Talks, we delve into two Cannes world premieres with the writer/director and lead actor of Eagles of the Republic and one of the lead actors of The Love That Remains.
The Icelandic star on combining domestic and international work: his new company ACT4’s first series, Reykjavik Fusion, and his roles in US hit series Severance and Somebody Somewhere.
The Icelandic writer/director talks about moving into TV with The Danish Woman, why he likes headstrong women, and how he tries to pull the carpet from underneath the audience.
The Danish actress discusses her complex characters, like the infamous criminal in Oscar-nominated The Girl With The Needle and a woman recovering from a stroke in Berlinale premiere Beginnings.
As The Ugly Stepsister premieres in Sundance, the ambitious Norwegian debut film’s writer/director and veteran producer discuss financing and adding feminist body horror to the classic Cinderella fairytale.
The director and produce, known for their documentaries, reveal how Jacques Demy and an oil tycoon’s secret bunker inspired their ambitious first fiction feature, The End, a six-country co-production with a budget of about $17m.
The head of the International Sámi Film Institute talks about boosting indigenous filmmaking through smart collaborations with Netflix, Disney, NRK, Telefilm Canada and more - and she reveals what’s next for Sámi filmmakers.
Finnish producer Aleksi Bardy is proud of the Nordic elements that Helsinki Filmi could bring to the adaptation of Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book that stars Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie.
The Danish director has wanted to make a TV series since 1998; he explains why Families Like Ours offered the gravitas he wanted to explore across seven episodes.
The Swedish-Finnish feature film Raptures, is now screening in cinemas across Sweden following its Finnish premiere in March. It's the first feature film in meänkieli, one of Sweden's minority languages.