From cosy Hallmark romances to spicy HBTQ+ love stories – the appetite for feel-good escapism and romcom is surging. Yet despite the buzz, filmmakers say getting new projects off the ground can be a challenge.
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.
Petter Næss’s No Comment wins Best Script, microdramas gear up for a European breakthrough, and the Nordics show resilience with a renewed creative spark.
Fighting for democracy and human rights remains at the forefront of the conversation, yet the recent budget cuts — often driven by political decisions — cast a decidedly gloomy outlook.
Currently doing extensive festival travelling is the Finnish documentary Shadowland, next heading for Turin. Co-creator duo Otso Tiainen and Kalle Kinnunen share stories and advice from a bumpy road.
Criminalizing consumption: As Sweden targets IPTV users for the first time, Mediavision’s Adrian Grande breaks down the habits shaping one of the Nordics’ biggest black markets.
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Support for nature and animal-related productions and kids' stories, with titles such as The Whale Mystery, Death of a Horse, The Earth is a Sinful Song, Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile, and the premiere-ready Fleak and A Mouse Hunt for Christmas.
Top financing of 25 Nordic productions includes three animated Christmas tales, a Greenlandic documentary, and a film adaptation of a screenplay by Nobel-prize winning author.
The first ever Sámi animated film, The Forest of Knowledge by Oskar Östergren Njajta, is one of the 18 productions supported by NFTVF the first quarter of 2025.
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.
In this animation special we dive into the current Nordic animation scene in disucssions with the talents behind Fleak and Captain Sabertooth that both opened at Annecy International in June.
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.