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Troubled Water catches Starfish at Hamptons Fest

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Erik Poppe’s drama Troubled Water [+see also:
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won the Golden Starfish for Best Film and $185,000 of in-kind production services, plus the Audience Award, at the 16th Hamptons International Film Festival in the US (October 15-19).

This is the third time a Norwegian film has won at the event, after Hans Petter Moland’s Aberdeen, winner of the Audience Award in 2001, and Jens Lien’s The Bothersome Man [+see also:
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, Best Film in 2006.

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Troubled Water is the third film in Poppe’s trilogy, along with Schpaaa (1998) and Hawaii, Oslo [+see also:
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(2004). The Norwegian/Swedish co-production between Paradox and the Casa Nova Film Company is currently screening in Norwegian cinemas and has garnered over 65,000 admissions so far.

Worldwide sales agent Bavaria Film International will hold a screening at the Business Street market of the Rome International Film Festival this Saturday, October 26.

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