DFI-FILM / Cannes ISSUE 2014 DFI-FILM / Cannes DFI-FILM Cannes ISSUE 2014 FILM is published by the Danish Film Institute Published by the Danish Film Institute When animals dream eva jakobsen the salvation Jonas Alexander Arnby’s feature debut Antboy producer on the move. Kristian Levring has always loved uses the werewolf theme as a powerful Westerns. Making The Salvation, with metaphor. anders thomas jensen Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish settler Much-in-demand screenwriter. in 1870s America, was a childhood Nordic factory dream come true, says the director. Four fast-shooting teams are ready to nikolaj coster-waldau show their films in Directors’ Fortnight. An unusual acting career. FILM is the Danish Film Institute’s international festival magazine, issued prior to the festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Amsterdam. FILM includes a comprehensive catalogue in the reverse section. DFI-FILM CANNES ISSUE 2014 Published by the Danish Film Institute FILM Digital Issue is the Danish Film Institute’s web release for your smartphone, tablet or computer. Editors FILM Digital Issue brings articles on new films, Susanna Neimann (SN) Kristian Levring grew up as a huge fan of John Ford and Sergio Leone and was always Annemarie Hørsman (AH) a catalogue section and useful information about INTO people and companies. 8 watching classic Westerns on TV on Saturday afternoons. Now, he has made his own, Editorial team THE WILD The Salvation, with Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish settler in 1870s America, who sets out Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) to avenge his family’s murder and confront the gang leader in a corrupt community. Anders Budtz-Jørgensen (ABJ) FILM Digital Issue: www.dfi.dk/film Support: Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard (JVK) DFI Festival team The Danish Film Institute is the national agency Lizette Gram Mygind Christian Juhl Lemche that supports and encourages Danish film and Anne Marie Kürstein cinema culture. Translations Glen Garner Design Rasmus Koch Studio Art Direction Pernille Volder Lund Type THE WEREWOLF WITHIN NORDIC FACTORY PRODUCER ON THE MOVE Holton, Swift, Akzidenz 16 As Jonas Alexander Arnby throws himself 20 Over a few short months, two Danish and 22 Eva Jakobsen has a weakness for films Paper into the horror genre in his debut feature two Finnish directors, working with directors that are set in unique worlds. A résumé MultiDesign White When Animals Dream, the director stresses from Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, France and including Ask Hasselbalch’s Antboy and Printed by the importance of realism in the story of a Zambia, made four short films, all premiering Mads Brügger’s The Ambassador testifies Centertryk girl undergoing sudden and bizarre changes. in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. to the range of the producer’s work. Circulation 3,500 ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) ANDERS THOMAS JENSEN TO WATCH OUT FOR NEWS & NOTES I ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) 04 15 Kristian Levring wrote The Salvation with 28 Three new documentaries depict human Anders Thomas Jensen, who has skillfully struggles – for freedom, sustainability NEWS & NOTES II Cover The Salvation 26 delivered the goods in a number of genres. and identity. Photo: Joe Alblas 32 FACTS & FIGURES NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU FOUR CO-PRODUCTIONS Danish Film Institute The 43-year-old actor has everything it takes , Gothersgade 55 24 29 Force Majeure Fúsi, Song of the DK-1123 Copenhagen K for a great career – the hair, the smile, the Sea and The Mountain – introducing four T +45 3374 3400 jawline, the eyes, the sensitivity. titles with co-production support from the + CATALOGUE Danish Film Institute. www.dfi.dk/english REVERSE SECTION 2 DFI-FILM | Cannes Issue 2014 DFI-FILM | Cannes Issue 2014 DFICategory news news & notes Kicking Off Upcoming Talks Western wave films & people News & Notes Kamoli Films CANNES. It is not without irony Peter Schønau Fog, who won The Danish Film Institute in a new proposal Photo: that Denmark, a country with no the Nordic Council Film Prize for his presents a series of initiatives to form a basis mountains or wilderness to speak darkly funny drama The Art of Crying for negotiations with the Danish parliament of, is making a strong showing in (2007), is working on an adaptation about a new four-year film policy accord. the Western genre at this year’s of Christian Jungersen’s novel You Cannes Festival. Disappear. Jungersen reached international success with his latest With a national market share that is one of the Andreas Schlieter In addition to Kristian Levring’s The book, The Exception, which was highest in Europe, Danish films enjoy broad Photo: Salvation, Denmark is represented by an editor’s choice of the New York popular support among domestic audiences as two actors, Sonja Richter and David Times. Louise Vesth is producing Dencik, in Tommy Lee Jones’s You Disappear for Zentropa. well as international acclaim. Antboy II Western drama The Homesman. Danish production company Miso Both are among the most respected Film opens a branch in Sweden with In preparation for a new four-year film-policy Danish actors of their generation: producer Sandra Harms heading accord to secure the economic framework for Richter, 40, has appeared in a wealth the new office. The aim is to have a Danish films 2015-2018, the Danish Film Institute of films and TV dramas and is currently bigger footprint in Scandinavia and has formulated a series of initiatives, suggesting starring in Jonas Alexander Arnby’s build on the company’s experience When Animals Dream, screening working in Sweden via such titles as key themes of the coming debates and negotiations: the Danish stage and screen, plays a in Critics’ Week. Dencik, who has Beck and Wallander. Upcoming Miso woman who suddenly appears in the appeared in Danish and Swedish Film ventures in Denmark include The strained economic situation of production A Dane in life of Mortensen’s character. productions, had an international Ole Bornedal’s epic TV series 1864, companies should be improved. With digitisation, Most of the film was shot on breakthrough playing in Tinker, dramatising Denmark’s stinging the film market’s ability to generate revenue and location in the stunning, unspoiled Tailor, Soldier, Spy. JVK military defeat to Germany that year. Patagonia wilderness of Patagonia, Argentina, See more on page 27. investment for film production companies has while some scenes were shot at Lone Scherfig, who boosted declined. The Danish Film Institute maps out CANNES. Viggo Mortensen has his a 16th-century manor house in Carey Mulligan’s international solutions to this challenge, including: increased unfurl his world a bit more, taking a first Danish-language lead inJauja , Zealand, Denmark. career with An Education, will soon public funding, a redistribution of film revenues, Popular Ant closer look at the fictional Danish an Argentine feature co-produced The director wrote Jauja with the Linda Johansen be bringing out Posh, an English- town where Antboy lives. We also with Kamoli Films of Denmark. Argentine poet Fabián Casas. The language drama based on Laura establishing new distribution windows, and a Photo: Returns hope the relationships between the film’s Finnish DOP Timo Salminen Wade’s play about an exclusive redistribution of the television licence fees. characters will show that Antboy and “It’s been a true adventure to make is best known for his films with Aki club at Oxford University. Following NEW FILM. Danish superhero his classmates are a year older now, this film come true. We are all Kaurismäki. Jauja is supported by two freshmen, the film shows how The quality criteria for awarding funds should be movie is getting a sequel – Ask allowing the audience to grow with honoured to be selected for Cannes World Cinema Fund and is a co- Sonja Richter ambition and greed over the course further strengthened. The funding system’s focus Hasselbalch to direct Antboy II. the cast, as it happened with the over thousands of other films,” says production between 4L of Argentina, of a single night at a pub can lead on quality in awarding funds is a significant Harry Potter movies,” she says. Helle Ulsteen, Jauja’s Danish producer. Kamoli Films of Denmark, Perceval down some very dark paths. The While its budget was small, Antboy The villain from the first film, The Viggo Mortensen has his Pictures of the US, Fortuna Films release is scheduled for September. element in the success of Danish films compared hit it big with critics and audiences Flea, is back, while Antboy is also first Danish-language lead role of the Netherlands, Mantarraya After his resounding success with to other countries. This should be strengthened and alike last year. The film was even facing an even greater foe who in Lisandro Alonso’s drama. The Producciones of Mexico, Les films Peter Mydske The Hunt, included winning awards clear quality criteria should be formulated with a sold to the birthplace of superhero comes in the shape and form of the Danish-born Hollywood star plays a du Worso of France and Massive at Cannes, Thomas Vinterberg Photo: focus on cultural value for all funding schemes. movies, the US. new boy in school, Chris. The script Dane who immigrates with his young of US. AH is now releasing his adaptation Now the boy who gets is by Anders Ølholm, adapting the daughter to Argentina in the 19th of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the superpowers when he’s bitten by children’s books by Kenneth Bøgh century. His daughter is played by Photo from the set of Jauja with Madding Crowd, first made into The proposal also includes increased funding an ant is returning to the big screen. Andersen. Antboy II is scheduled for rising star Viilbjørk Malling Agger, director Lisandro Alonso and Viggo David Dencik film by John Schlesinger in 1967.