Tobias Lindholm will wage A War in Venice’s Orizzonti
- Danish writer-director’s third film with actor Pilou Asbæk will screen on the Lido, alongside several Nordic co-productions
Danish writer-director Tobias Lindholm has won both the Bodil and Robert awards for Best Film by the Danish Film Critics and the Danish Film Academy with features R [+see also:
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Shot last autumn in Denmark, Turkey, Spain and Jordan, the war drama stars Asbæk as a company commander in the Danish army alongside Swedish actress Tuva Novotny. The cast also includes Søren Malling, Charlotte Munck, Dar Salim and Dulfi Al-Jabouri. René Ezra and Tomas Radoor produced the project with Nordisk Film Production.
Lindholm- who has also found the time to write screenplays for fellow Danish fellow directors, Thomas Vinterberg (Submarino [+see also:
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Israeli actress-turned-director Yaelle Kayam’s Danish-Israeli feature debut, Mountain [+see also:
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Keeping with heights, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s mountain climbing thriller, Everest [+see also:
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US director Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader [+see also:
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