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High-Impact Films and the Festival Circuit
• Scandinavian Cinema since the 1990s
• Blockbuster or High-Impact Films?
• Diversity of Production and Audience
• The Festival Circuit and Exemplary Films
• Dogme 95 (DK)
• Kitchen Stories (2003, N)
• Reprise (2006, N)
• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005, 2009, 2011, S/US)
Scandinavian cinema since the 1990s • National attendance crisis
and cinema-institute revitalization
• Professionalization
• Economics over aesthetics
• From grant-making to automatic funding schemes
• 50/50 and 40/60
• International co-productions and emphasis on circulation and exposure (Hjort)
Dane Susanne Bier claiming 2011 Oscar for In a Better World
Blockbuster films
• Oriented to national audience
• High-concept
• National topics
• Saturation release and marketing
• Little or no foreign distribution or festival exposure Bad Boys (SF, 2006)
High-Impact Films • Production and distribution
synergy
• Strategy
• Networks
• Festival exposure and notoriety
• International, multi-local audience
• Niche identity
• Promotional impact on careers and national cinema
• May include national blockbusters Björk in von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000)
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Diversity of Production and Audience
• Waning of Art Film/Farce Film Dichotomy
• New diversity of production
• Auteur cinema
• Genre cinema
• Documentary cinema
• Diversification of distribution
• Festivals
• National cinema
• Internet and television
2000-hit Swedish comedy Jalla! Jalla!
Film Festivals • Loosely organized network of
some 500 film festivals worldwide
• Hierarchy of exposure
• Concentration of cultural and economic importance
• Film markets at key festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance)
• Focused marketing at key festivals by companies and national film institutes
• Festival success creates international media exposure, and subsequent business
Actor Andre Wilms and Filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki
in Cannes, 2011
Scandinavian Cinema and the Festival Circuit Dogme 95
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Kitchen Stories (2003)
Reprise (2006)
• Joachim Trier’s (1974) first feature film
• Discovery Award, Toronto IFF (New York, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary)
• Densely referential, cinematically and musically
• Simple story, made complex for a youthful, art-house audience
• Solid narrative structure, with sound and editing disruptions
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (’05, ’08, ’11)