THE NORWEGIAN WAVE HITS TORONTO
THE NORWEGIAN WAVE HITS TORONTO
TORONTO/CANADA: Five Norwegian films – three features, two shorts – selected for the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs between 10-20 September.
Having flooded the opening of the 43rd Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (16 August), Norwegian director Roar Uthaug’s The Wave (Bølgen) – Scandinavia’s first disaster movie – will screen as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival between 10-20 September
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Five Norwegian films – three features, two shorts – selected for the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs between 10-20 September
As previously announced, Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Louder than Bombs – Norway’s first Golden Palm contender in Cannes for 36 years, starring Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid – has also been selected for a Special Presentation in Toronto, which shows more than 300 films from 60 countries
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The Wave and Louder than Bombs, both sold to almost 100 countries, will accompanied Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick(De nærmeste) in the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar and two entries in the Short Cuts programme, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s 32-minut Bird Hearts (Fuglehjerter) and Det sporadiske filmkollektivet’s Oslo’s Rose (Oslos rose).
Starring Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro and Fritjof Såheim, The Wave is based on a real-life event – the 7 April1934 tsunami in Norway’s Tafiord, where two million cubic metres of rock from a landslide triggered a wave more than 85 metres high, which left 40 people dead in communities along the shore.
In the script by John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw Eeg, history is about to repeat itself at the Geiranger Fjord – and geologist Kristian Eikjord (Kristoffer Joner) is away from his family, when he realises there are 10 minutes till the inferno hits. The Wave was produced by Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm, for Fantefilm Fiksjon.
World-premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah, Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick was scripted by Ragnhild Tronvold and Sewitsky, and follows Charlotte (27) who meets her brother Henrik (35) for the first time as adults with no idea what a normal family is.
Ine Marie Wilmann and Simon J Berger play the leads in the unusual family drama, with Silje Storstein and Anneke von der Lippe, and the film was produced by Synnøve Hørsdal and Åshild Ariane Ramborg, for Maipo Film.
TrustNordisk is the international sales agent of Homesick and The Wave while Memento Films International is handling Louder Than Bombs
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