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Northwest and Detective Downs among this year’s Fantastic films

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- Three Scandinavian features selected for the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, which unspools between September 19-26

Northwest and Detective Downs among this year’s Fantastic films

Organised every year since 2005, the largest genre film festival in the US, specialising in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just “plain fantastic movies from all around the world”, the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, will present three Scandinavian features in the 2013 programme unspooling between September 19-26.

Danish director Michael Noer’s drama Northwest [+see also:
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(photo), Norwegian directorsBård Breien’s comedy Detective Downs [+see also:
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and Mikkel B Sandemose’s action-adventure Ragnarok [+see also:
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will screen at the showcase, where previously such Scandinavian films as Danish director Mikkel Nørgaard’s Klown [+see also:
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has been successfully launched (2011). Both Detective Downs and Ragnarok will have their world premieres.

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Winning the international critics’ FIPRESCI award at Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival before touring another 29 foreign events, Northwest is a gangster movie set in an impoverished multi-ethnic area of Copenhagen. Scripted by Noer, starring newcomers Oscar and Gustav Dyekjær Giese, with Nicholas Westwood Kidd, it was produced by Tomas Radoor and Rene Ezra for Nordisk Film Production.

Accompanied to Austin by director-scriptwriter Brein, actor Svein Andre Hofsø, producers Pål Røed and Asle Vatn, of Friland Produksjon, Detective Downs has Hofsø in the lead as a private detective running his own agency, but with difficulties getting jobs as he suffers from Down’s Syndrome. Ragnarok actors Pål Sverre Hagen and Nicolai Cleve Broch, director Sandemose, scriptwriter John Kåre Raake, editor Christian Siebenherz, producers Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm, of Fantefilm, will attend the festival with the depiction of an archaeologist who stages an expedition to explore the finds from when the Oseberg Viking ship was unearthed in 1904.

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