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AWARDS Norway

Oslo, August 31st awarded Norwegian Film Critics’ Prize

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Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st [+see also:
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concluded an eventful week at last night’s (August 25) awards ceremony of the 39th Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, where Trier received the Norwegian Film Critics’s Prize.

His second feature, which was premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, had earlier been selected for the Toronto Film Festival, shortlisted for the Norwegian Oscar submission, and nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize. It will be released on August 31 by Norsk Filmdistribusjon.

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”My happiest observation at this year’s festival has been the enthusiasm surrounding the selection of new Norwegian films,” said festival director Gunnar Johan Løvvik. ”A total of seven new productions have met their audiences here, in crowded theatres.”

One of them, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen feature debut, Turn Me On, Goddammit [+see also:
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– which opened the New Nordic Films market section – is already in cinemas, and has registered a record 2011 opening weekend for a local film, selling 36,740 tickets.

”Now we are looking forward to celebrating our 40th anniversary in style,” Løvvik said after the 39th edition, which presented 93 films, adding 50 works-in-progress/projects in different stages af productions, to 1,410 participants from 25 countries.

Besides the festival and market programmes, with the 5th Nordic Co-Production and Film Financing Forum and the Amanda awards – Norway’s national films prizes – Haugesund honoured the late Norwegian actress Wenche FossThor Heyerdahl’s 1947 expedition to the Polynesian Islands introduced Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s upcoming $17 million Kon-Tiki feature.

Sidebars included Cinemagi – the children’s film festival – and special focuses on French and Italian cinema. At the closing ceremony in the Edda Cinema Centre, US director Tate Taylor’s The Help – represented by local distributor, The Walt Disney Company Nordic – collected both the Sower of Joy, from the Norwegian Exhibitors’ Association, and the Audience Prize. The Andreas (ecomenical) prize was given to US director Terrence Malick’s Cannes winner, The Tree of Life.

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