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CANNES 2015: Lisa Ohlin’s Danish feature kicked off its sales at Cannes’ Film Market from a three-minute promo reel

Posted on July 16, 2015
in Feature Film, film
by Lars Skree

Lisa Ohlin’s Walk with Me walked all the way to France with KMBO

by Jorn Rossing Jensen

– CANNES 2015: Lisa Ohlin’s Danish feature kicked off its sales at Cannes’ Film Market from a three-minute promo reel

Ohlin’s Walk with Me walked all the way to France with KMBO
Walk with Me by Lisa Ohlin (© Rolf Konow)

Danish international sales agency TrustNordisk concluded this year’s Cannes Film Marketby licensing Swedish director Lisa Ohlin’s Danish feature Walk with Me to French distributor KMBO from a three-minute promo reel.

Ohlin, who most recently directed Wallander: The Sad Bird (2013), the 32nd and last episode in Sweden’s Yellow Bird and TV4’s thriller series based on Henning Mankell’s novels, starring Krister Henriksson, was awarded two Guldbagges – Sweden’s national film prize – and the City of Gothenburg Award for her coming-of-age feature Simon and the Oaks [+] (2011).

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Scripted by Danish screenwriter Karina Dam, Walk with Me is the story of Danish soldier Thomas, deployed on a mission in Helmand, Afghanistan, who steps on a landmine and loses both his legs. At the local rehabilitation centre he meets Sofie, an aspiring ballerina from the Royal Danish Ballet, who is helping a relative to regain strength after a long-term illness.

Thomas desperately wants to get back in the field and becomes impatient, as progress is not as quick as he would like it to be. When Sofie offers to help him with a more intensive rehabilitation plan, he accepts. Despite their differences, they develop a special bond and a mutual affection. Danish actors Cecilie Lassen and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard play the leads.

The DoP is the award-winning Lars Skree Armadillo

The cast of the drama also includes Karen-Lise Mynster and Morten Holst. It was staged by Denmark’s Asta Film (by Danish veteran producer Per Holst, whose Bille August filmPelle the Conqueror won, among other accolades, an Oscar, a Golden Globe and the Palme d’Or at Cannes); Denmark’s Nordisk Film Production and Sweden’s Illusion (Peter Hiltunen) co-produced the film, which Filmcompagniet–SF Film will release domestically on 20 August.

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4 Awards at Venice Filmfestival!

Posted on September 7, 2014
in awards, film
by Lars Skree

FIPRESCI Award (International Film Critics Award)
Best Film of Venezia 71 to The Look of Silenceby Joshua Oppenheimer

Mouse d’Oro Award (Online Film Critics Award)
Mouse d’oro for the best film of Venezia 71: The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer

Fedeora Prize Venezia 71 (European Film Critics Award)
Award for Best European/Mediterranean film: The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer

Human Rights Nights Award
to The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer
and to Io sto con la sposa by Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry

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Joshua Oppenheimer’s new documentary, “The Look of Silence” at Toronto and Venice

Posted on August 5, 2014
in film
by Lars Skree

Joshua Oppenheimer’s new documentary, “The Look of Silence”, has been selected for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

“The Look of Silence”, a companion piece to his Oscar-nominated film, “The Act of Killing”, has been selected for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where it will have its Canadian premiere. The film follows a young optometrist as he attempts to bring the past into focus. The family discovers how their son was murdered during the Indonesian genocide — as well as the identity of the men who murdered him. The film documents the confrontation in the absence of any truth and reconciliation process, while the murderers remain in power. The film is more than “the other side” of the story — it is the story of the victims, as well as a rich essay on memory, time and death. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Look of Silence” will have its world premiere in the competition at the 71st Venice Film Festival. “The Look of Silence”, a companion piece to his Oscar-nominated film, “The Act of Killing”, has been selected for this year’s Venice Film Festival, where it will have its world premiere. Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen at Final Cut For Real, Joshua Oppenheimer’s new opus depicts the genocide in Indonesia in the mid-1960s — this time from the perspective of the victims. “The Look of Silence” follows a family who discover the perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide that murdered their son, accusing him of being a communist. Their youngest son, now an adult, vows to confront the people who took the life of his brother, asking how he can raise his children in a society where survivors are terrorised into silence. Oppenheimer describes the second act as “A lyrical elegy to this silence, but also a poem about breaking it and the trauma it represents.”

 

Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary "The Look of Silence"

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Look of Silence”

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