28/05/2003 - All-round success for Norwegian cinema, from domestic box office to foreign sales. Clients queue for Kitchen Stories and Villmark

There was significant interest in Norwegian cinema at this year’s Cannes Market. The renewed vigour of the domestic industry found favour both with local audiences during the first quarter of this year, and was consolidated by the deals signed at the Market for titles like Bent Hamer’s Kitchen Stories.
Part of the Celluloid Dreams line up, the Kitchen Stories was sold to ten-plus territories including France (Les Films du Losange ), Italy (LADY FILM - EUROPEAN ACADEMY), Benelux (Cinelibre-Cineart) and Japan (SPO Inc).

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Pål Øie’s directorial feature debut, Villmark, was another first quarter domestic hit with over 140,000 tickets sold and a title that was picked up by Uwe Schwentker’s Atlas Film & Medien Gmbh for distribution in all German-speaking territories and by Horng en Limited Culture Co., for Taiwan.
The cherry on the Norwegian film industry’s cake was represented by the appointment on 21 May in Cannes, of Stine Oppegaard, the current head of International Relations at the NFI- Norsk Filminstitutt, to the board of directors of European Film Promotion.

(Translated from Italian)