Annika Pham

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Norway’s recent contribution to genre movies has largely been via disaster (“La Palma,” “The Quake”), horror comedy (“The Ugly Sister”), supernatural terror (“Handling the Undead,” “The Innocents”) or fantasy thriller (“Troll”). With his feature debut “Light Years” (“Lysår”) to be pitched at Cannes’ Frontières Platform next month, rising talent Vegard Dahle (“Penthouse”) will expand Nordic Noir into the rarely explored sci-fi realm.

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Annika Pham

Danish queer sex drama “Sauna,” a Sundance Festival hit, has closed its first significant international market deals, sales house TrustNordisk licensing North America to Breaking Glass, Germany to  Salzgeber & Co Medien and Spain to Filmin. Nordisk Film Distribution will bow “Sauna” in Denmark on April 24. The sales underscore an early pattern in early 2025 international deal-making. much driven by genre, animation, star auteurs and also breakout auteurs playing off “A” fest acclaim.

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At the industry awards of Copenhagen’s documentary festival CPH:DOX last night, the U.S. project “Untitled Edward Said Documentary” by Maiken Baird, whose credits include Netflix’s “Venus and Serena” and “Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich,” won the new Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-Production Award, with a cash prize of €10,000 ($10,800). The project is being produced by Alex Gibney, Paul Dallas and Sarah Mowaswes.

4 weeks ago | variety.com | Annika Pham

Investigative journalist Christo Grozev, a key contributor to Oscar-winning doc “Navalny” and central protagonist of “Antidote,” is one of Vladimir Putin’s most wanted men for having exposed his assassination operations against opponents such as the late Alexei Navalny. At Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX documentary festival Tuesday, he spoke about the dangers he is facing.