Film & TV
The global boom in Nordic noir focused on Denmark and Sweden but has spread beyond to include the smaller countries of Finland, Norway and Iceland, with all five in the spotlight during this year’s Scandinavian Film Festival.
Film & TV
History from a deeply personal lens in From Hilde, With Love launches the German Film Festival as it celebrates both contemporary cinema and titans like Werner Herzog, whose gothic vampire film Nosferatu the Vampyre has never been bettered.
A two-part film about the legendary Three Musketeers – one starring former ‘Bond Girl’ Eva Green – gets the French Film Festival off to a swashbuckling start, but this year’s fare also includes romance, science fiction and a touch of culinary magic.
True tales about a young Swiss couple kidnapped on the Silk Road, an award-winning journalist who invented stories, and a model discovered on the street in East Germany inspired feature films in this intriguing festival line-up.
