06/03/2012 - Eighteen Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Icelandic films will be screened in the French capital from March 7 to 12.

Simon och ekarna [+see also:
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From Sweden, also to be screened is the excellent and very un-politically correct Play [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Ostlund
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Norway will be on show with the worrying Babycall [+see also:
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film profile] by Pål Sletaune starring Noomi Rapace (to be distributed in France on May 2 by Jour2fête), with Happy Happy [+see also:
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interview: Karin Julsrud
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Denmark will bring Parisian cinephiles the chilling Beast [+see also:
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film profile] by Frederikke Aspöck (selected at Cannes at a special viewing), and Truth About Men [+see also:
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interview: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
interview: Nikolaj Arcel
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Iceland will also be at the festival with Volcano [+see also:
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film profile] by Rúnar Rúnarsson (well-received at the last Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes - review), Brim (Undercurrent) by Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson (who last year won Best Film in his country), and Jitters by Baldvin Zophoniasson (article).

Finally, Finland will screen The Good Son [+see also:
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(Translated from French)