The Cine Nordica Film Festival in Paris (March 20-24, 2013) will be blowing its fifth candle this year
Backed by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, the Nordic film festival has been steadily increasing its profile and number of visitors since its launch in 2008. Over 20 Nordic titles selected by Festival director Maria Sjöberg-Lamouroux will screen at Paris' Cinema du Pantheon, including several titles that will premiere ahead of their French national release. Those include the opening film and multiple Guldbagge winner Eat Sleep Die (ASC Distribution), A Hijacking (Ad Vitam), Liv & Ingmar (KMBO Films) and The Deep (Bac Films April 24 release). "The Scandinavian wave continues and French distributors who suffer from a saturated domestic market are trying to specialise and some of them have found their niche with Scandinavian films", says Sjöberg-Lamouroux.
For the second year in a row, Cine Nordica will pay tribute to the Nordic Council Film Prize with the screening on March 21 of the 2012 winner Play (Sweden) and nominated films A Royal Affair (Denmark). Either Way (Iceland), The Orheim Company (Norway) and The Punk Syndrome (Finland). "Between The Punk Syndrome, Palme, Liv & Ingmar and Searching for Sugar Man, we have our largest ever line up of Nordic documentary films and this reflects the growing interest worldwide for the genre", notes the festival director.
Other highlights of the festival include a tribute to Norway's prominent director/writer Anja Breien and to Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn with a special Pusher night and the screening of the French documentary about Refn named NWR.