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FESTIVALS Latvia

Northern Table for Country Wedding

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The Icelandic film Country Wedding [+see also:
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by Valdís Óskarsdóttir was awarded the Northern Table, or Best Film prize, as well as then Audience Award, at the 10th Nordic Film Days in Riga, Latvia (October 16-24).

The competition section of 14 Nordic feature films included Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [+see also:
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and Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth [+see also:
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Parallel to the festival, around 30 film professionals from Latvia and Denmark attended the first Riga Meetings (October 22-23) organised by the National Film Centre of Latvia in cooperation with the Danish Cultural Institute in Riga. The purpose of the event was to establish a new regional network among Baltic and Nordic film professionals and promote better usage of regional resources in all fields of film – from policy making to production and distribution.

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The forum was inaugurated with a statement by Latvia’s Minister of Culture, Ints Dālderis. Among the 30 foreign producers and film institution representatives in attendance were Noemi Ferrer, head of international financing at Denmark’s Zentropa Entertainment, and Bronagh Walton, MEDIA Desk coordinator for the MEDIA Programme.

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