Category: Current news

  • THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN in International Oscar Race

    Kaouther Ben Hania’s masterpiece and Laika co-production The Man Who Sold His Skin is in the race for an Oscar for Best International Feature! Starring MONICA BELLUCCI Directed by KAOUTHER BEN HANIAS Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe…

  • ARICA to premiere at IDFA

    ARICA to premiere at IDFA

    Our film ARICA will have it’s WORLD PREMIERE at IDFA. Film makers William Johansson Kalén and Lars Edman went to Arica in Chile in 2005. For 15 years we have followed the case where a Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a…

  • The award winning short Brotherhood in competition Stockholm International Film Festival

    The award winning short Brotherhood in competition Stockholm International Film Festival

    Following prestigious awards at TIFF, Carthage and Wintherthur, director Meryam Joobeur’s short film Brotherhood is now selected for the shorts competition in Stockholm. The film is screened in a package of Social Issues Shorts on Sunday at 11.30. Venue Cinema “Klara”. “Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two…

  • Beauty And The Dogs selected for Cannes

    Beauty And The Dogs selected for Cannes

    Beauty and the Dogs has been selected for ”Un Certain Regard” at the 2017 Cannes Festival. Kaouther Ben Hania’s debute fiction film about a girl fighting for her restitution in a corrupt Tunisia is the first major fiction film with Laika as a co-producer. The film is about Myriam, a young Tunisian student who, after…

  • World premiere for Democracy Road in Bergen

    World premiere for Democracy Road in Bergen

    Turid Rogne’s documentary Democracy Road is chosen to compete at Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) 20 to 28 September.   The film is a co-production between Norwegian Aldeles A / S and Laika Film and is a story about how Aye Chan Naing, chief editor of Radio and TV station The Democratic Voice of Burma…