Danish director Ali Abbasi, whose debut feature Shelley was nominated at both the Bodil and Robert Awards this year, will compete in the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the 71st Cannes Film Festival (8 - 19 May) with his supernatural love story Border (Gräns), based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). A border guard (Eva Melander) with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers develops a strange attraction to a suspect (Eero Milonoff) who is the
Horror
Nightwatch | Nattevagten
OVERVIEW | CAST & CREW 1994 | 107 minutes | Horror | Thriller Director: Ole Bornedal Written by: Ole Bornedal Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia Law student Martin takes a job as night watchman in a mortuary to finance his studies. But when the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are taken there, disturbing things start to happen. However, as disturbing things begin to happen, and by a cruel twist of fate resulting from a bet, Martin finds himself as prime suspect
Epidemic
OVERVIEW | CAST & CREW 1987 | 106 minutes | Drama, Horror Director: Lars von Trier Written by: Lars von Trier (screenplay), Niels Vørsel (screenplay) Stars: Allan De Waal, Ole Ernst, Michael Gelting, Colin Gilder Vørsel and von Trier play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. The story is intercut with scenes from the film that they write, in which von Trier plays a renegade doctor trying to cure a modern-day epidemic. This is the second in the director’s Europa trilogy. The
Bornedal Confirms Plans For Sequel To Nightwatch
Ole Bornedal has revealed that he is working on a sequel to the 1994 horror sensation Nightwatch (Nattevagten), and is hopeful that the original cast will join him. In Nightwatch, law student Martin takes a job as night watchman in a mortuary. However, as disturbing things begin to happen, and by a cruel twist of fate resulting from a bet, Martin finds himself as prime suspect in a serial killer case. Ole Bornedal told BT that he began to wonder what would
Refn Raises Eyebrows With Criticism Of Von Trier
On Thursday evening, Nicolas Winding Refn showed The Neon Demon, his submission for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and on Friday morning he sat alongside actress Elle Fanning at a press conference to talk about the film, including the controversial sex scenes in the morgue: "I wanted to do it in a real morgue in Los Angeles... It was so we could get the genuine atmosphere we needed. Those in charge asked us to sign papers to say that we would