STOCKHOLM, May 20 — A new generation of Scandinavian filmmakers is making waves, following in the footsteps of Ingmar Bergman, Lars von Trier and the Dogme movement, with three...
, by Sweden’s Tarik Saleh and Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi’s.Scandinavian films have been a fixture at the Cannes Film Festival over the years.Denmark’s Bille August is one of a handful to win the Palme d’Or twice and Von Trier won the top prize in 2000 for, while Bergman was the first-ever recipient of an honorary Palme in 1997 for his body of work.
Abbasi, 40, is making his second appearance at Cannes, after winning the newcomer’s Un Certain Regard section in 2018 with “Border”, an eccentric troll-fantasy film about a border guard.is the gritty story of a serial killer “cleansing” the Iranian holy city of Mashhad of street prostitutes.“You can’t pigeonhole him. When you think you have him, he’s a shapeshifter and does something else,” his producer Jacob Jarek told AFP.
That versatility defines others from his generation, said Jarek.Immigrant perspectivesThe previous wave of Danish filmmakers, such as von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, won international acclaim with the Dogme movement, which set strict filmmaking rules aimed at ensuring realism in their films.
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