Eskil Vogt can win a prize for Copenhagen Does Not Exist
The Norwegian, Eskil Vogt, competes with a new film at an international film festival.
This year, Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt were Oscar-nominated for the Norwegian film Worst person in the worldand in the new year, Eskil will probably get an opportunity to run away with a hefty premium.
He gets that opportunity through the new Danish film Copenhagen does not exist alias Copenhagen does not exist.
The film premieres during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and is among the selected films in the category Big screen competitionit writes Variety.
Eskil Vogt is the film’s screenwriter.
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Copenhagen does not exist is a psychological drama based on the Norwegian novel Sanderwritten by Terje Holtet Larsen.
The film is about a young woman named Ida who suddenly disappears without leaving any trace. Three months later, her boyfriend Sander agrees to listen to Ida’s father. During the interrogation, it does not take long before it emerges that the couple lived a strange and unconventional life. Even before the disappearance, they lived separated from the outside world and isolated in the middle of the city.
In the role of Ida we find Angela Bundalovic, who will also be seen in the new Netflix series Copenhagen Cowboy from the director to Drive (2011). Zlatko Burić, who incidentally won the European Film Award for best actor for his role in the Swedish-registered one Triangle of Triangles, plays Ida’s father. In the role of Sander, we get to see newcomer Jonas Holst Schmidt.
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The film is directed by Martin Skjovberg (Sticks and stones) and producer of Snowglobe as second among Oslo Pictures on the team as co-producers.
Watch the trailer for Copenhagen does not exist below.
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The selected films from the Big Screen competition are shown to a jury of five film lovers. The jury decides which film will walk away with the victory, and which will therefore be shown in cinemas all over the Netherlands. They also win a cash prize of 30,000 euros (DKK 315,266.27).