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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) Annemarie Hørsman (AH) a catalogue section and useful information about people and companies. Editorial team Lars Fiil-Jensen (LFJ) 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 Holton, Swift, Akzidenz Paper MultiDesign White Printed by Centertryk Circulation 3,500 ISSN 1399-2813 (print version) ISSN 1903-7511 (online version) Cover The Salvation Photo: Joe Alblas Danish Film Institute Gothersgade 55 DK-1123 Copenhagen K T +45 3374 3400 www.dfi.dk/english 2 DFI-FILM | Cannes Issue 2014 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 DFI-FILM | Cannes Issue 2014 CategoryDFI news Kicking Off Upcoming Talks News & Notes The Danish Film Institute in a new proposal presents a series of initiatives to form a basis for negotiations with the Danish parliament about a new four-year film policy accord. With a national market share that is one of the Andreas Schlieter highest in Europe, Danish films enjoy broad Photo: popular support among domestic audiences as well as international acclaim. Antboy II In preparation for a new four-year film-policy accord to secure the economic framework for Danish films 2015-2018, the Danish Film Institute has formulated a series of initiatives, suggesting key themes of the coming debates and negotiations: The strained economic situation of production companies should be improved. With digitisation, the film market’s ability to generate revenue and investment for film production companies has declined. The Danish Film Institute maps out solutions to this challenge, including: increased unfurl his world a bit more, taking a public funding, a redistribution of film revenues, Popular Ant closer look at the fictional Danish establishing new distribution windows, and a town where Antboy lives. We also Returns hope the relationships between the redistribution of the television licence fees. characters will show that Antboy and NEW FILM. Danish superhero his classmates are a year older now, The quality criteria for awarding funds should be movie is getting a sequel – Ask allowing the audience to grow with further strengthened. The funding system’s focus Hasselbalch to direct Antboy II. the cast, as it happened with the on quality in awarding funds is a significant Harry Potter movies,” she says. While its budget was small, Antboy The villain from the first film, The element in the success of Danish films compared hit it big with critics and audiences Flea, is back, while Antboy is also to other countries. This should be strengthened and alike last year. The film was even facing an even greater foe who clear quality criteria should be formulated with a sold to the birthplace of superhero comes in the shape and form of the focus on cultural value for all funding schemes. movies, the US. new boy in school, Chris. The script Now the boy who gets is by Anders Ølholm, adapting the superpowers when he’s bitten by children’s books by Kenneth Bøgh The proposal also includes increased funding an ant is returning to the big screen. Andersen. Antboy II is scheduled for for games as well as serial films, a new talent Antboy II will again be helmed by Ask release in December 2014. organisation, proposals to strengthen media and Hasselbalch and star 13-year-old Read more about Eva Jakobsen film literacy and film heritage digitisation. Oscar Dietz. and Antboy II on page 22. JVK “The first film about a superhero is always the origin story,” the film’s Photo from behind the scenes of The debates and negotiations on the Film Accord producer, Eva Jakobsen of Nimbus Antboy II with Oscar Dietz as the are expected to extend into the fall of 2014. Film, says. “In the sequel we will superhero facing new perils. DFI Winding Refn on Cannes jury Photo: Nicolas Winding Refn took home the Best Director prize for Drive in 2011, and last year he returned to Cannes with Only God Forgives in the Official Competition. Now the director is back as a member of the main competition jury, led by jury president Jane Campion, alongside Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Carole Bouquet, Jeon Do-yeon, Leila Hatami, Gael Garcia Bernal, and Jia Zhangke. 4 DFI-FILM | Cannes Issue 2014 news & notes Western wave films & people Kamoli Films CANNES. It is not without irony Peter Schønau Fog, who won Photo: that Denmark, a country with no the Nordic Council Film Prize for his mountains or wilderness to speak darkly funny drama The Art of Crying of, is making a strong showing in (2007), is working on an adaptation the Western genre at this year’s of Christian Jungersen’s novel You Cannes Festival. Disappear. Jungersen reached international success with his latest In addition to Kristian Levring’s The book, The Exception, which was Salvation, Denmark is represented by an editor’s choice of the New York two actors, Sonja Richter and David Times. Louise Vesth is producing Dencik, in Tommy Lee Jones’s You Disappear for Zentropa. Western drama The Homesman. Danish production company Miso Both are among the most respected Film opens a branch in Sweden with Danish actors of their generation: producer Sandra Harms heading Richter, 40, has appeared in a wealth the new office. The aim is to have a of films and TV dramas and is currently bigger footprint in Scandinavia and starring in Jonas Alexander Arnby’s build on the company’s experience When Animals Dream, screening working in Sweden via such titles as the Danish stage and screen, plays a in Critics’ Week.