38 films to form the Cold Fever-The New Nordic Cinema retrospective at San Sebastian Film Festival
A look at the renovating post-Dogme cinema existing in the five Nordic countries since 1995.
A total of 38 films made in five countries since 1995 will form the Cold Fever-The New Nordic Cinema retrospective at the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival from 20th-29th September 2007.
The films will be accompanied by a book specially written for the San Sebastian Festival by the Danish film critic and writer, Christian Monggaard, taking a look at all of the aspects giving rise to this Nordic cinema current and analysing the work of its key directors.
1995 saw the birth of what is until now the latest film manifesto to have had international repercussion, leading to the avant-garde movement known as Dogme 95. This manifesto, born in Denmark, has given rise to around 20 international movies and a revolution in turn-of-the-century filmmaking. But Dogme hasn’t been the only focal point of films from Northern Europe, which has shown itself in the last 15 years to be one of the areas most capable of applying its own personality to depicting the doubts assailing human beings in the 21st century.
This modern, cutting view of a society returning to the teachings of classics like Carl Th. Dreyer and Ingmar Bergman, has established directors of high international acclaim including Lars Von Trier and Aki Kaurismäki, and introduced a new generation of moviemakers like Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Per Fly, Simon Staho, Lukas Moodysson, Hans Peter Molland, Bent Hamer, Baltsar Kormákur or the new revelations Peter Schonau Fog, Anders Morgenthaler, Pernille Fischer Christensen and Ragnar Bragason. Cold Fever, which takes its name from the title of the film made by Fridrik Thor Fridiksson in 1995, will showcase this cinema of contained appearance concealing intense personal dramas which uses the new possibilities to investigate an image free of rules, uncovering a volcano of creativity beneath the frozen ground.
The season will be sponsored by the CICC Tabacalera-San Sebastian, with the collaboration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which will offer a selection of films from the season.
The list of films included in the retrospective, by country, is as follows:
DENMARK (11)
Breaking the Waves. Lars Von Trier, 1996.
Pusher. Nicolas Winding Refn, 1997.
The Idiots. Lars Von Trier, 1998.
The Celebration. Thomas Vinterberg, 1998.
Italian for Beginners. Lone Scherfig, 2000.
Open Hearts. Susanne Bier, 2002.
Inheritance. Per Fly, 2003.
Offscreen. Christoffer Boe, 2006.
Princess. Anders Morgenthaler, 2006.
A Soap. Pernille Fischer Christensen, 2006
The Art of Crying. Peter Schonau Fog, 2006
SWEDEN (7)
Fucking Amal. Lukas Moodysson, 1998
Songs From the Second Floor. Roy Andersson, 2000.
Saraband. Ingmar Bergman, 2003.
Daybreak. Björn Runge, 2003.
A Hole in My Heart. Lukas Moodysson, 2004
Day and Night. Simon Staho, 2004.
Four Shades of Brown. Tomas Alfredson, 2004.
NORWAY (10)
Eggs. Bent Hamer, 1995.
Zeroº Kelvin. Hans Petter Moland, 1995.
Cross My Heart and Hope To Die. Marius Holst, 1995.
Junk Mail. Pal Sletaune, 1997.
Cabin Fever. Mona J. Hoel, 2001.
Kitchen Stories. Bent Hammer, 2003.
Uno. Aksel Hennie, 2004.
Sons. Eric Richter, 2006.
The Bothersome Man. Jens Liens, 2006.
The Art of Negative Thinking. Bard Beien, 2007.
FINLAND (4)
Drifting Clouds. Aki Kaurismäki, 1996.
The Man Without a Past. Aki Kaurismäki, 2002.
Frozen Land. Aku Louhimies, 2005.
A Man’s Job. Aleksi Salmenpera, 2007.
ICELAND (6)
Cold Fever. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 1995.
The Sea. Baltasar Kormákur, 2002.
Noi The Albino. Dagur Kari, 2002.
Cold Light. Hilmar Oddsson, 2004.
Children. Ragnar Bragason, 2006.
Parents. Ragnar Bragason, 2007.
San Sebastian, 9thAugust 2007