Scandi : 25.1. - 29.1.2017
http://scandi.filmeurope.eu/en/
This year Scandi will above all present new pictures. Having chosen this fresh approach, we aim to differ from similarly focused Nordic film festivals. New movies, new creators, yet also, traditionally, a large distribution cloud. Scandi will again be taking place at the best Slovak and Czech cinemas, on VOD platforms, within the Festival 12 DVD edition, as well as on premium television channels – this year, besides the Film Europe Channel, for the first time on the Festival Cinema Channel. Every year, the turbo-charged Nordic film engine generates bold genre titles, top-notch cinema films, remarkable quality TV series, but also extraordinary festival artefacts. I cannot but repeat that the Nordic con- text can serve as the best possible example for the Slovak and Czech cinematic culture. Welcome to Scandi 3.
A variety of trends has been fruitfully embraced by Nordic cinema: the whole- family pleasures – family movies and comedies (worthy of mention in this respect is the specific Danish black comedy); contemporary and historical drama with a marked social overreach; genre titles, including action, horror and thriller films; as well as the Nordic Noir crime fiction. Remarkable too is the art film and the deep-rooted tradition of movies for children and the young.
All the mentioned types and styles can be found in the four sections of Scandi 2017, whose aim it is to celebrate the sheer diversity, universality and viability of the Nordic film industries. Titles that have not yet been screened at Slovak cinemas are included in the Scandi Premieres section. You will be among the first in the world to see the extraordinary debut feature Sami Blood, featuring an excellent cast.
The third edition of the Nordic film festival includes a new section, Scandi Comedies. The fact that the French or the Italians are capable of making fine “light comedies” is generally known, yet that good comedies have also been shot in Scandinavia may come as a pleasant surprise to Scandi visitors. The section thus completes the concept of a festival presenting a variety of genres.
This year, we have also included the Scandi Kids section, which gained great acclaim within the first edition.
The Best of Scandi presents our selection of the most striking and most distinct Nordic films of the past few years, which have proved their forcibility at prominent global festivals and ranked among the most successful within the previous two editions of Scandi. They definitely deserve to be shown on the large screen again.
Welcome to Scandi 2017!
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture. Show more
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture. Show more
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality. Show more
Three young girls' friendship is tested after they plant a very special flower; the Nectar from the flower changes their lives- and friendship - forever, as they get a taste of what it's like growing up as a boy. It's a story of how we've created gender, and how to know who you are when society is telling you who you should be, but also a story about young love and lust. Show more
35 year old Henrik is to establish himself with a pregnant girlfriend in a new apartment and start a new job. But he has some rather childish childhood friends, and is Henrik really ready to go from boy to more ore less a man? Show more
