Rouen crowns Upperdog
Last weekend, Norwegian director Sara Johnsen picked up the Grand Jury Prize at the 23rd Rouen Nordic Film Festival for her second feature: Upperdog [+see also:
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Having arrived in Rouen with a slew of prizes already under its belt, Klaus Härö’s Finnish film Letters to Father Jacob [+see also:
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Meanwhile, the Young European Jury Award went to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s White Night Wedding [+see also:
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The Rouen fest also dedicated a retrospective to Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, whose latest work, Valhalla Rising [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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