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Nordic Film Talks

Nordic Film Talks

Nordic Film Talks is a podcast offering in-depth interviews with filmmakers and othercreatives from the Nordic countries, offering insight into their latest films or TV series.The series is hosted by Nordic film expert Wendy Mitchell, a journalist and film festivalconsultant, and presented by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.Host: Wendy Mitchell, filmwendy.comPresenting partner: Nordisk Film & TV Fond, https://nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/Audio producer: Karoline BalstrømLogo designed by: Tine

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36:37

Isabella Eklöf - The Death of Bunny Munro and Dogma 25

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/11/13

Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf – known for 'Holiday', 'Kalak' and 'Border '– joins us to talk about her bold new TV series 'The Death of Bunny Munro', starring Matt Smith.She reveals why England’s decaying seaside towns inspired her “crumbling empire” story, how adapting Nick Cave’s manic novel became her proudest work yet, and what it’s like to be a first-time showrunner.Eklöf also teases her next project: A “BDSM love story” racing against Dogma 25’s one-year rule and opens up about blending

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44:16

Hlynur Pálmason - The Love That Remains

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/09/30

Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason doesn’t start his films with a fixed idea — he lets them emerge. In a conversation with Nordic Film Talks at the San Sebastian Film Festival, he describes how narratives “come by surprise” as he writes, shoots and edits, often across several years. His two latest films, Joan of Arc and The Love That Remains, both star his three children and capture the mix of playfulness and conflict in family life.From the demolition of his old studio to spontaneous moments of

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32:13

Sofie Gråbøl and 'The Last Viking' in Venice

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/09/04

Sofie Gråbøl talks about punching Mads Mikkelsen in their new film 'The Last Viking', acting with Donald Sutherland in her first film and experiencing how the grpundbreaking series 'The Killing' changed the international outlook on Denmark.Host: Wendy Mitchell, filmwendy.comPresenting partner: Nordisk Film & TV Fond, https://nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/Audio producer: Karoline BalstrømLogo designed by: Tine SeerupMusic artist: Bail Bonds Title: Swimming Lessons

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55:41

2 filmmakers at Annecy

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/06/23

Host: Wendy Mitchell, filmwendy.comPresenting partner: Nordisk Film & TV Fond, https://nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/Audio producer: Karoline BalstrømLogo designed by: Tine SeerupMusic artist: Bail Bonds Title: Swimming Lessons

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32:09

Danish actor Claes Bang and Finnish producer lona...

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/05/28

In this special bonus episode from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, we speak to Danish actor Claes Bang about his role in the majority French production 'The Great Arch', directed by Stephane Demoustier, which had its world premiere in Cannes Premieres.Bang plays the Danish architect Otto von Spreckelsen who tries to protect his artistic integrity after winning a competition to build an important French monument commissioned by Francois Mitterand.The second interviewee in this episode is Finnish

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29:12

Tarik Saleh, Fares Fares and Sverrir Guðnason

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/05/26

In this special Cannes 2025 episode of Nordic Film Talks, we delve into two Cannes world premieres with the writer/director and lead actor of Eagles of the Republic and one of the lead actors of The Love That Remains.Swedish writer/director Tarik Saleh says his new film Eagles of the Republic is not a political satire. “I love satire, but this is absolutely not satire. It is a very serious film, but there is an absurdity underneath,” he says in the latest episode of the Nordic Film Talks podcast,

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46:34

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson - Reykjavik Fusion

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/04/23

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson discusses his new production company ACT4 and their first series, Reykjavik Fusion, which premieres at Canneseries. He wanted the show to feel more vibrant than typical Nordic noir, following a chef rebuilding his life after prison.Ólafsson balances Icelandic work with international projects like Severance and Somebody Somewhere, while keeping his base in Reykjavik. ACT4 is also developing a murder mystery, Death of a Horse, and an animated feature, Stormy Island.He calls

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44:31

Benedikt Erlingsson - The Danish Woman

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/03/24

After his acclaimed 2018 film Woman at War, Benedikt Erlingsson thought he was done with stories about headstrong women bending the rules for a greater cause. But then The Danish Woman emerged.“I knew I couldn’t make another film with the same concept, so a TV series was the perfect way to explore it further. If Woman at War had a ‘white witch,’ The Danish Woman is the ‘black witch,’” he says in this episode of Nordic Film Talks.The series, premiering at Series Mania, follows a former Danish

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45:56

Trine Dyrholm - Oscars and Beginnings

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/02/18

The acclaimed Danish actress discusses why she likes spend time exploring her complex characters, such as an infamous criminal in Oscar-nominated The Girl With The Needle and a wife and mother recovering from a stroke in Berlinale world premiere Beginnings.Nordic Film Talks is a podcast offering in-depth interviews with filmmakers and othercreatives from the Nordic countries, offering insight into their latest films or TV series.The series is hosted by Nordic film expert Wendy Mitchell, a journalist

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44:55

Emilie Blichfeldt & Maria Ekerhovd - The Ugly Stepsister

Nordic Film Talks ·

2025/01/24

Forget Disney princesses—Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister reimagines Cinderella with a feminist twist and moments of body horror. In this episode, Blichfeldt discusses her feature debut, exploring themes of beauty standards and bodily perfection.Producer Maria Ekerhovd shares insights into the film’s ambitious €5.5m production and its journey to Sundance and Berlinale.Tune in for behind-the-scenes stories, from 19th-century medical research to rethinking fairy tale archetypes, and discover

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41:12

Joshua Oppenheimer - The End

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/12/19

The director and producer reveal how Jacques Demy and an oil tycoon’s secret bunker inspired their ambitious first fiction feature, 'The End', a six-country co-production with a budget of about $17m.Producer Signe Byrge Sørensen and writer/director Joshua Oppenheimer set their ambitions high for their first fictional feature together. It’s not only the world’s first post-apocalyptic musical, it’s also a complicated six-country co-production that needed 45 shooting days across Germany, Italy and

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45:40

Anne Lajla Utsi - International Sámi Film Institute

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/12/02

The head of the International Sami Film Institute talks about boosting indigenous filmmaking through smart collaborations with the Netflix, Disney, NRK, Telefilm Canada and more — and she reveals what’s next for Sami filmmakers.Anne Lajla Utsi is the head of the International Sámi Film Institute (ISFI), which she co-founded in 2009 and has now grown to include partnerships with Netflix and major public broadcasters like NRK, SVT and YLE; creating collaborations with Telefilm Canada and other

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40:44

Aleksi Bardy - The Summer Book

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/10/31

Producer Aleksi Bardy, like most people in Finland, grew up loving the Moomins. When Bardy was a young adult and read Moomins author Tove Jansson’s adult fiction book 'The Summer Book' (Sommarboken), he adored it. Later, when he became a screenwriter and producer, he read it again with an eye to bringing it to the big screen. 'The Summer Book' stars Glenn Close, celebrated its world premiere in October at BFI London Film Festival and its US premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles.Nordic Film Talks is a

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48:56

Thomas Vinterberg - Families Like Ours

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/09/30

In this episode of the Nordic Film Talks podcast, veteran Danish writer and director reveals that he had wanted to create a TV series ever since his 1998 feature Festen, the Dogme film that became his breakout international success. Thomas Vinterbergs Families Like Ours is set in a scarily realistic near-future, and follows one family – teenage daughter Laura, her now-single mom, her dad and his new wife and baby and Laura’s first boyfriend Elias, as they have to choose alliances when the entire

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38:57

Frida Kempff - The Swedish Torpedo

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/09/10

Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo tells the forgotten story of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. Despite this groundbreaking achievement, Bauer never became a household name. After digging deeper, Kempff found Bauer’s personal reflections from the year before her swim in a small regional library, inspiring her to bring Bauer’s story to life.Kempff, speaking on the Nordic Film Talks podcast, shared her motivation: “I felt I should drag her into the

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42:43

Dag Johan Haugerud - Sex Dreams Love

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/08/27

Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud discusses his ambitious trilogy Sex Dreams Love: “Three films are not enough to talk about sex.”The trilogy, which explores themes of sexuality, relationships, intimacy, and queerness, took about 10 months to shoot.Sex follows two heterosexual men whose views on sexuality and identity are challenged.Love centers on a woman in her 40s exploring casual sex, inspired by Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City.While Dreams depicts a teenage girl’s first exploration of her

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41:42

Lina Flint - Sons

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/06/13

It's only halfway through 2024 and Danish producer Lina Flint has already had a very exciting year: Her most recent production, Gustav Möller’s Sons (Vogter), premiered at Berlinale competition in February and will start its international rollout in French cinemas starting in July. And she also joined forces with Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster to co-found Square Peg Nordic, which develops international projects with high-profile Scandinavian talent.To cap it off, Flint participated in European Film

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44:08

Magnus von Horn - The Girl with the Needle

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/05/13

This episode features Swedish-born, Poland-based writer/director Magnus von Horn,talking about his third feature film, The Girl With The Needle, premiering at CannesCompetition 2024.Magnus talks about the decision to shoot in black-and-white, why heavoided a typical criminal biopic, and casting Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm inkey roles.Nordic Film Talks is a podcast offering in-depth interviews with filmmakers and othercreatives from the Nordic countries, offering insight into their latest

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37:04

Runar Runarsson - When the Light Breaks

Nordic Film Talks ·

2024/05/13

This episode features Icelandic writer/director Runar Runarsson, talking about his fourthfeature film, When The Light Breaks, premiering at Cannes 2024 Un Certain Regard. Runar talks about offering the audience a sense of reality by setting the film over 24hours; why there can be beauty in tragedy; and how he likes to prepare extensivelybefore shooting with his cinematographer Sophia Olsson.Nordic Film Talks is a podcast offering in-depth interviews with filmmakers and othercreatives from the Nordic

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