The Nordisk Film & TV Fond has announced its latest round of financial support, which was officially decided on in December. The Oslo-based fund, which promotes and finances film and TV productions from the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, will support two fiction feature films, three feature-length documentaries and two initiatives with a budget that totals over NOK 6 million (€600,000).

Danish director Kasper Torsting, best known for his documentaries and the TV series Ø, will direct In War & Love (I Krig & Kærlighed), the first-ever Danish film about the First World War. Produced by Ronnie Fridthjof (Fridthjof Film, Denmark) and budgeted at DKK 42.5 million (€5.7 million), the war drama received NOK 2.5 million (€260,000) and is being co-produced by Film United (Czech Republic) and Nordfilm Kiel (Germany), in association with the Danish Film Institute, DR, the Mads Clausen Foundation, Creative Europe, the Czech Film Fund, NDR and TV2 Norge. Filming starts next month, and the movie will premiere on the 100^th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in November.

For her third feature film, entitled Call Mum, Swedish writer-director Lisa Aschan (She Monkeys [+leggi anche:
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One of the three documentaries that received NOK 500,000 (€52,000) each is Exit, directed by Karen Winther, which explores the reasons behind the director’s and other former extremists’ decisions to leave violence behind. It is being produced by Eirin Gjørv (Sant & Usant, Norway) in co-production with Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion (Germany) and NDR in cooperation with ARTE, and in association with AMP Film, NRK, SVT, YLE and VPRO.

Another doc is Jozi Gold, directed by Fredrik Gertten (Bikes vs Cars), Sylvia Vollenhoven and Adam Welz, which takes a look at the decay of the gold mines in Johannesburg. Produced by Margarete Jangård (WG Film, Sweden) in co-production with Anita Rehoff Larsen (Sant & Usant, Norway) and Sylvia Vollenhoven (Vision in Africa, South Africa), in conjunction with SVT, YLE, DR, LTV, ETV, RTV, Fritt Ord and the City of Malmö, the film is being supported by the Swedish Film Institute and Creative Europe.

Once Aurora [+leggi anche:
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Finally, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond has backed Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market (1-4 February) with NOK 530,000 (€55,000) and Nordic Film Music Days by the Nordic Film Composers Network – an event held in partnership with EAVE – with NOK 60,000 (€6,000).