DENMARK
FINLAND
ICELAND
NORWAY
SWEDEN
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 DOGMA 95. This manifesto, born in Denmark, has given rise to around 20 international movies and a revolution in turn-of-the-century filmmaking. But Dogma 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 early 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 Moodyson, Hans Peter Molland, Baltsar Kormákur, Anders Thomas Jensen or the new revelations Erik Richter Strand, Peter Schonau Fog and Ragnar Bragason. Cold Fever, which takes its name from the title of the film made by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson 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. A selection of some thirty films, made between 1995 and the present time, from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
Thematic retrospective
Under more generic, allegorically-entitled headings, the Festival
has grouped together films not commonly offered (even in specialised
sections) and which, nevertheless, deserve filmgoersí attention.
Based on this philosophy, a number of cycles have seen the light,
including "The Guys in the Photo", "Forgotten Films";
"You Only Live Once", "The Best 100 Years in our
Lives", "The European Adventure", "Spanish
Cinema Discoveries", "The Red Nightmare", "A
Long Absence", the two editions dedicated to post-war Italian
comedy, entitled "Hunger, Humour and Fantasy" and "The
Boom Italian-Style", or "The TV Generation", "It
Happened yesterday", "50 from the 50s", "Amongst
friends and neighbours", "Incorrect@s", "Rebellious
and untamed", "Emigrants" last of these cycles.
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