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The Nordic Film Fest returns to Rome

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- From Thursday 4 May to Sunday 7 May, the capital will host the sixth edition of the event. The selected films include Virgin Mountain, Long Story Short, Sami Blood and The Wave

The Nordic Film Fest returns to Rome
Virgin Mountain by Dagur Kári

Journeys, portrayed in all their declensions, will be the main theme of the sixth edition of the Nordic Film Fest, which will be held at the Casa del Cinema in Rome from Thursday 4 May to Sunday 7 May. The event, which was born with the aim of promoting the films and culture of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), is organised by the four Nordic embassies present in Italy in partnership with the Scandinavian Circle in Rome, and will screen premieres and films that have yet to be released in Italy. 

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Opening the Nordic Film Fest is a Finnish film classic, The White Reindeer (1952) by Erik Blomberg. Also being shown on Thursday 4 May is The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Juho Kuosmanen
film profile
]
by Juho Kuosmanen, the winner of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.

Friday heralds the screening of Virgin Mountain [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Icelandic director Dagur Kári, which won the awards for Best Narrative Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Fest in 2015, and won the Nordic Council Prize in 2015; In order of Disappearance [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Hans Petter Moland
film profile
]
by Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland; Nice People by Karin af Klintberg and Anders Helgeson (Sweden); Long Story Short [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
,which won the awards at the 2016 Bodil Awards (the Danish Oscars) for Best Actress for Mille Lehfeldt’s performance and Best Screenplay for the screenplay written by the director of the film, May el-Toukhy.

On Saturday 6 May there will be screenings of Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, a 2016 documentary by Katja Gauriloff (Finland); Sparrows [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson
interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile
]
by Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland); Staying Alive [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Charlotte Blom
film profile
]
by Charlotte Blom (Norway); Sami Blood [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Amanda Kernell
interview: Lars Lindstrom
film profile
]
by Swedish director Amanda Kernell, which won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film and the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award at the Göteborg Film Festival in 2017, and won awards at the Thessaloniki IFF, the Tokyo IFF and Venice Days at the Venice IFF. Last but not least, on Sunday 7 May there will be a screening of Viskan Miracles by John O. Olsson (Sweden); Inuk [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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by Mike Magidson (Denmark); Little Wing [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Selma Vilhunen (Finland) and finally The Wave [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Roar Uthaug
film profile
]
by Roar Uthaug, the Norwegian candidate for the Oscars in 2016.

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(Translated from Italian)

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