Northbridge celebrates Scandi Films

Published : July 19, 2016

The third Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival will bring new dramas, documentaries and laughs to Cinema Paradiso in Northbridge from July 21 to August 3.

A much anticipated fixture on the festival calendar, presented by Palace, Luna Palace Cinema’s and The West Australian, offers audiences a chance to watch a selection of the most exciting and fresh movies from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

The festival celebrates the cultural region that has produced some of the most iconic films ever made, screening the hottest talent from the most current crop of films; a Scandi delight that you definitely won’t want to miss!

Tickets on sale 7 June 2016.

For more information and to register for updates visit www.scandinavianfilmfestival.com or www.lunapalace.comn.au

To whet your appetite, here is a preview of the 2016 program:

From Finland comes winner of Best Film at Finland’s 2016 Jussi Awards, THE FENCER; a fictionalised take on a real-life fencing teacher who took a stand against Stalinist oppression in Soviet-era Estonia, the tense suspense thriller ABSOLUTION starring the brilliant Laura Birn and Mari Rantasila and OTHER GIRLS (Toiset Tytöt); the story of four 18-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood.
Sweden brings the laughs with the documentary comedy NICE PEOPLE; a real-life “Cool Runnings” and LOVE IS THE DRUG ; winner of the Audience Award at the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Academy Awards).

David Hellenius and Izabella Scorupco in Love is the Drug

Denmark takes us back in time with THE IDEALIST (Idealisten); a film based on real events of the 80s and 90s and the conspiracies surrounding Thule airbase during the cold war, and GOLD COAST (Guldkysten); the story of the Danish botanist Wulff Joseph Wulff who in 1836 goes to Africa to establish coffee plantations.

Norway heralds Scandinavia’s first disaster movie THE WAVE (Bølgen) based on the real-life event of the 1934 tsunami which hit Norway’s Tafiord as two million cubic metres of rock from a landslide triggered a wave of more than 85 metres high.