Margreth Olin’s Songs of Earth Set to open Krakow Film Festival May 29

Olin will attend the leading Polish film festival where her previous film Self Portrait co-directed with Katja Hogset and Espen Wallin, picked up an Audience Award.

“For the festival's opening, we always choose a spectacular film that is going to captivate the audience and encourage them not to leave the cinema for a week. Songs of Earth is an extraordinary documentary that has mesmerised us and will surely delight anyone who comes to experience it on the big screen,” said festival director Krzysztof Gierat.

Songs of Earth (Fedrelandet) which world premiered at CPH:DOX’s main competition early March, is a hymn to nature, with her 85-year old father as a guide. Through breath-taking images and sounds recreating nature’s melodies, the multi-awarded director/producer takes us to Norway’s splendid Oldedalen valley in Nordjord, where her father and ancestors have lived, always in harmony with nature.

Read our previous interview: CPH:DOX’s competitor Margreth Olin about Songs of Earth - exec produced by Wim Wenders and Liv Ullmann

The film was produced by Olin and Lena Faye-Lund Sandvik for Speranza Film, in co-production with the BBC, SWR and in cooperation with ARTE. The Norwegian theatrical release via Norsk Filmdistributsjon is set for September 1st, 2023. Cinephil handles global sales.

Other Nordic films selected for Krakow’s international competition include Sweden’s Motherland by Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka, Denmark’s The Hostage Takers, by Puk Damsgaard and Søren Klovborg, as well as Dreaming Arizona by Jon Bang Carlsen.

The 63^rd Krakow Film Festival runs May 29-June 4 in the Polish city’s cinemas and between June 2-18 across Poland and at the KFF VOD platform.