“Cinema Needs Europe, Europe Needs Cinema”: 4,700 Film Professionals Call for EU to Protect Film Funding

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Francis Ford Coppola, Juliette Binoche, Sandra Hüller, Stellan Skarsgård, Joachim Trier, and Vicky Krieps are among the more than 4,700 film professionals who have signed an open letter calling for the European Union to protect film funding on the continent. The letter, titled “Europe needs cinema, Cinema needs Europe,” calls on the EU to “future-proof”…

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“European Cinema Is Alive and Kicking”: EFA Chief Matthijs Wouter Knol on a Bold Awards Season Pivot

Admin5 months ago012 mins

This year’s awards race has seen an unprecedented surge for European talent with several films from continental auteurs — including Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Oliver Laxe’s Sirat, and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (a French-Iranian production from the Iranian director) — heading into the final lap as Oscar favorites. No longer relegated to…

Joachim Trier Explains Rejecting Hollywood Money to Have Final Cut on His Films: “It’s a Moral Responsibility”

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Joachim Trier left San Sebastian Film Festival attendees in awe at an event Sunday morning where the Sentimental Value director spoke candidly and eloquently about his career. The Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, an Academy Award nominee for his 2021 romantic dramedy The Worst Person in the World, is also known for Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011)…

Director Joachim Trier Interview on ‘Sentimental Value’

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For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut Reprise (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures…