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FESTIVALS France

Rouen: At the heart of Nordic cinema

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The 19th Nordic Film Festival kicked off yesterday in Rouen, once again bringing together the best of recent Scandinavian production, as well as films from the Baltic states, Iceland, Belgium and Holland.

Running through March 26, the festival’s programme will be graced by 70 features, with a main competition section of eight films: Christoffer Boe’s Allegro [+see also:
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(Denmark), Aku Louhimies’ Frozen Land (Finland), Per Fly’s Manslaughter [+see also:
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(Denmark, see news), Pal Sletaune’s Next Door (Norway, see review) , Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s An Enemy of the People (Norway), Vincent Lannoo’s Ordinary Man (Belgium), Love and Happiness by Kristina Humle (Sweden) and Nanouk Leopold’s Guernsey [+see also:
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(Holland, see article).

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The Nordic Panorama section will also screen 14 features, among them Brothers [+see also:
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from Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier, Dark Horse [+see also:
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from Iceland’s Dagur Kári, Lars von Trier’s Manderlay [+see also:
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, the Norwegian phenomenon Kissed By Winter [+see also:
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by Sara Johnsen (see news) and Factotum [+see also:
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from another Norwegian director, Bent Hamer (see interview); as well as three Finnish films, from Pirjo Honkasalo, Erja Dammert and Pia Andell; a Lithuanian film from Sharunas Bartas; and a Dutch title (Mark de Cloe’s False Waltz).

The festival’s Nordic Thriller section offers 20 films, among them the recent Les morts de la Saint-Jean by Birger Larsen (Sweden) and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher 2 [+see also:
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(Denmark), as well as two retrospectives, on Dutch filmmaker Jos Stelling and Lithuanian animation director Arnold Burovs, and a selection of productions from Germany’s Lower Saxony region.

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(Translated from French)

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