“Royal Affair” period drama nominated for Nordic Film PrizeSeptember 4, 2012 - 18:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nikolaj Arcel's period drama A Royal Affair, Ruben Ostlund's Play about school bullying and the Finnish feature The Punk Syndrome, about a band of mentally challenged rockers, are in the running for pan-Scandinavian honor, the Nordic Film Prize, The Hollywood Reporter said. Also nominated this year are family drama The Orheim Company from Norwegian director Arild Andresen and Either Way from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, which is set in 1980s in northern Iceland. The award, backed by the Nordisk Film and TV Fund, honors the year's best feature film which is “embedded to a significant degree in Nordic culture.” A jury in each of the five Nordic countries nominates a single title. A joint jury with members from each nation – Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Finland - picks the winner, who receives a $60,000 (DKK 350,000) cash busary. Previous winners include Danish directors Lars von Trier, Per Fly and Thomas Vinterberg; Sweden's Roy Andersson and Josef Fares and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki. This year's Nordic Film Prize will be announced at the Nordic Council's session in Helsinki on Oct. 31. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |