Oslo (NTB-Day Kjørholt): Producer Are Heidenstrøm can rejoice. While the flood swept over southern Norway on Wednesday became his disaster film “wave” selected as Norway’s candidate for an Oscar.
After just five days in theaters, the film is seen by an audience of 186,540. Wednesday afternoon, it became clear that it is the Norwegian Academy hoped category best non-English language film.
“wave” opened the festival in Haugesund and gets its international premiere at the film festival in Toronto in mid-September. It had Norwegian premiere Friday 28 August, with the third best opening weekend for a Norwegian film ever.
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Unanimously
The candidate was ready after the Norwegian Oscar Committee Wednesday considered the three kortlistede candidates “Returning” (Henrik Martin Dahl Hill), “The nearest” (Anne Sewitsky) and “wave” (Roar Uthaug) and unanimously chose the latter production.
These are three very different films in size and genre, but common to all three is good cinematic qualities and qualifications to reach through the Oscar-related, according to the committee .
– “Wave” is Norway’s first disaster film, and as a genre film with a well-written script, great director and great performances we have in the committee believe that it will make their mark in the Oscar race, says committee chairman Sindre Guldvog.
The film is about the geologist Kristian Eikjord who suddenly finds himself in the middle of his life’s worst nightmare. Alarm goes off by landslides center in Geiranger. The landslide geologists have feared, is a fact and a giant tsunami is heading for the place.
Eikjord split from his family and it is ten minutes to the gushing inferno hit. It becomes a race against time before the powerful forces of nature Norway seen hitting land.
More than genre film
The committee believes that Uthaug film in Oscar-context is emerging as an exciting and original choice . In the Committee’s opinion, the strong cinematic qualities, an impressive actor gallery and a Norwegian character that makes it far more than a genre film.
Each country may nominate one film for the category of Best Foreign Language Film. From October 1, considering American Film Academy’s committee for this category all films before they select six films to a short list.
Then adds another committee further three films to the list, which in all shall consist of nine productions. A committee on the US east coast and one on the US West Coast look into the nine films and select the five to be nominated for an Oscar.
Nominations published on Thursday 14 January next year, while the actual ceremony takes place on Sunday 28 February. (© NTB)
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