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Scandinavian couple pick up Sundance gong

It was another golden day for Scandinavian cinema on Wednesday as a Swedish-Danish couple picked up an award at one of the biggest film festivals in the US.

Published: 4 February 2015 17:24 CET
Scandinavian couple pick up Sundance gong
The Egyptian Theatre lit up on the first night of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Photo: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP

Married couple Frida (from Sweden) and Lasse Barkfors (who is Danish) took home the special award for their documentary 'Pervert Park' at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah. 

The film is about a Florida trailer park turned into a home for over a hundred sex offenders. The park offers a safe haven for the convicted criminals to receive therapy to help them reintegrate into society and fight their demons. Many of them are haunted by memories of sexual abuse in their own childhoods.

The Sundance Festival is one of the biggest independent film festivals in the US, attracting almost 50 000 visitors every year. This year, the coveted Grand Jury Prize was awarded to American film 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.

The Barkfors couple now join the ranks of Swedish filmmakers Malik Bendjelloul, Göran Hugo Olsson, Hanna Lejonqvist and Jens Assur, who have all claimed their own gongs at the festival.

FILM

French film club for English speakers returns to cinemas

Lost in Frenchlation, a film club that screens French films with English subtitles in Paris, is returning to cinemas this weekend after holding virtual screenings during lockdown.

Published: 20 May 2021 10:34 CEST
French film club for English speakers returns to cinemas
Photo: LOIC VENANCE / AFP

Wednesday saw the reopening of cafés, restaurants, museums, theatres and cinemas in France since October.

This means that Lost in Frenchlation can return to cinemas, and film buffs who struggle to watch French movies without English subtitles can meet up again this weekend at the Luminor Hotel de Ville where the first screening is taking place this Sunday.

READ ALSO: French cinemas face 400-film backlog as they prepare to reopen

What’s on the programme?

The first event taking place on Sunday, May 23rd is a screening of Albert Dupontel’se César awarded film “Adieu les cons” (Bye bye Morons), a comedy drama about a woman who tries to find her long-lost child with a help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.

On Sunday, May 30th there will be a Mother’s Day special screening of “Énorme”, comedy, starring Marina Foïs and Jonathan Cohen, at Club de l’Étoile in the 17th arrondissement in Paris. 

On Saturday, May 22nd, there will be a virtual screening of “Joli Mai” by Chris Marker (1963) which inspired the documentary film Le Joli Mai 2020. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Chris Marker specialist & journalist Jean-Michel Frodon.

Lost in Frenchlation is a company that sets up screenings of recent French film releases with English subtitles to give Paris’s large international community access to French culture and meet others in the same situation.

For more information, check out their website or sign up to their newsletter (link here).

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