Northern Lights: Scandinavian Countries to be Honoured at ANIMA 2020
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Every year, the Anima Festival spotlights production from one or two European countries – Scandinavian countries and Finland are to be honoured in 2020.
One thing producers working in these countries have in common is to concentrate their production on quality features mainly for children. We will be able to see this in particular with the preview in competition screening of Anders Matthesen and Thorbjorn Christoffersen Checkered Ninja, an up-tempo adventure with a great friendship story, not without a touch of social criticism.
The Palace cinema will also host a retrospective of children’s films including Gordon & Paddy, Next Door Spy, Rita & Crocodile, etc.
In addition, the Anima audience will have the opportunity to discover what makes independent filmmakers from the North tick through a panorama of four short film programmes for adults entitled Northern Lights. Whether inspired by real events, first-hand accounts or funny and original invented stories, these directors have tackled the subjects with open minds and a bold artistic vision.
One of them, Swedish filmmaker Jonas Odell, renowned in the industry for his ex-studio FilmTecknarna, prolific in commercial and music video making, and his multi-award-winning Never Like the First Time, will be visiting the professional days to present his new studio The Chapel Films.
And what better way to round off this Nordic focus than with the preview screening to close the Festival of Danish filmmakers Anders Morgenthaler and Mikael Wulff’s latest feature Monty and the Street Party, co-produced by the Belgian Caviar Films, giving the Anima 2020 audience one last opportunity to delve into the crazy minds of our friends from the North, and in this case, the Danes, in the presence of the Belgian Team of the film.
View the Animate Nights: Northern Lights programme here.