Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Shift,’ and Series Mania Winner ‘Blackport’ Up for the 2022 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your compelling first teaser trailer and images from season four of hit Israeli series Fauda.

A big hit at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the Finnish film “Compartment No. 6” has been compared to Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunset” in its ideas of romance on board a train and the philosophical, dialogue-heavy scenes it features.

If you want to get in the International Film Oscar race get your ass to the Cannes Film Festival. This year, eight titles that made the 15 films cut debuted on la Croisette including Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero,” Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s NYFCC and LAFCA Best Film winner, “Drive My Car.” This year’s Palme d’Or winner and the French submission, “Titane,” was snubbed.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs Europe copes with yet another wave of COVID-19 infections and skyrocketing cases of the Omicron variant, prospects for a full-blown comeback for the international film festival circuit are looking less likely every day.The Netherlands and Denmark have taken the strictest measures so far, while France and Germany have closed their borders to U.K. travellers.

Selome Hailu editorFormer “CSI” showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and producer Julie Weitz in early development on two drama series: “Honor” for NBC and “Body Farm” for CBS.“Honor” is based on “Heder,” the Swedish series created by Sofia Helin along with stars Julia Dufvenius, Anja Lundqvist and Alexandra Rapaport, which centered on a law firm that handles sexual crimes against women.

Carol Mendelsohn, the former showrunner of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has scored a pair of broadcast development sales.

Naman Ramachandran BritBox, the streaming service operated by ITV and the BBC, is expanding across the Nordic regions via a distribution partnership with C More.The service will be available from early 2022 in Sweden, Finland and Denmark from C More and in Norway from TV2. The programming will be in English, with both English and local language subtitles available in each country.

Two arrests have been made after a missing man was found dead following a crash between a Scots cargo ship and a container vessel from Denmark.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn spite of a new wave of COVID-19, a snow storm and train cancelations, Les Arcs European Film Festival kicked off its 13th edition on Dec. 10 with a festive opening night ceremony highlighted was the presence of Swedish star Noomi Rapace who introduced her film “Lamb” on stage.Vladimar Jóhannsson’s feature debut, “Lamb,” world premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.

For weeks now, as he’s done in the past with previous film or TV series, Danish filmmaker and enfante terrible Nicolas Winding Refn has been hyping up a new project called “Copenhagen Cowboy” on his Instagram. This past week, the filmmaker revealed that his teenage daughter, LizzieLou Winding Refn, who he often features on his Instagram page in playful dance sequences, would be the star of the project.

Naman Ramachandran “The Miracle Club,” an Ireland-U.K. co-production starring Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney, is one of a further nine independent co-productions being supported by the U.K.

 Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson recently named 51-year-old Lina Axelsson Kihlblom as the country’s new Schools Minister. Kihblom is the first transgender government minister in not only Sweden but all of Scandinavia.“This is a huge and exciting task and I’m ready to take it on,” Kihblom said at a press conference on last week.Before her entry into politics, Kihlblom was known for achieving a great deal of success through her work as a principal.

EXCLUSIVE: Future Of Film Is Female (The FOFIF), the NYC based non-profit dedicated to amplifying the work of all women and non-binary filmmakers, announced its Fall 2021 Short Film Fund recipients. Founded in 2018, The FOFIF awards grants three times a year with partner companies, Heard City and Nice Shoes, to offer post-production grants.

Eurovision Song Contest.After Italy’s Måneskin emerged victorious at the 2021 event, next year’s Eurovision will be held in Turin.As planning for next year’s contest gets underway, Eskimo Callboy have shared an application video to represent their country in Turin.Watch the video below:Elsewhere, ABBA have suggested that they would be open to writing a UK Eurovision Song Contest entry for Dua Lipa.The Swedish icons, whose new album ‘Voyage’ arrived last month (November 5), won the annual music

“Garbo” by Robert Gottlieb (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Coming a century after the Swedish actress' film debut, Robert Gottlieb’s biography of Greta Garbo is a classic movie lover's dream. Enriching his insightful reconsideration of Garbo's life and career are wonderful photos, a selection of essays from the past, and anecdotes from those who encountered the enigmatic star.It’s just the kind of book the famously private Garbo would have hated — and read — every page.