World buyers hungry for Taste of Hunger and Hope

Boe’s anticipated Danish drama A Taste of Hunger, currently in post-production, was picked up by Vertigo Media for Hungary, BestFilm.eu for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Capella Film for Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, CatchPlay for Taiwan, and Cinemania Group for Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia. 

Boe co-wrote the script for A Taste of Hunger with A War’s Tobias Lindholm. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal star as a couple who have it all - love, two kids and one of the city's most hyped gastronomic temples…but one thing is missing to their trophy list: a Michelin star. 

The film is set to open in Denmark February 25, 2021 via Nordisk Film. 

A Taste of Hunger VR is currently playing in Venice as part of the festival’s VR-Expanded strand. 

Meanwhile Maria Sødahl’s drama Hope which opened in Norway last November, will now reach out to worldwide audiences. Distributors who have just acquired the film include Brooklyn-based KimStim for the US, Arsenal Filmverleih for Germany and Austria (DVD and VOD only), Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih for Austria (theatrical only), Cinemania Group for former Yugoslavia, Aurora Films for Poland, Estin Film for Estonia, Europos Kinas for Lithuania and Shani Film/Lev Cinema for Israel. 

The emotional drama about a couple, fighting together the wife’s cancer stars Stellan Skarsgård and Andrea Braein Hovig. The latter won a Best Actress statuette at Norway’s recent Amanda Awards, while Jørgen Stangebye Larsen won Best Production Design.

Hope was produced by Motlys, in association with Oslo Pictures.

Both A Taste of Hunger and Hope were supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.