What happened during NFMD 2023
The winner of the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award 2023 is Norwegian composer Jørund Fluge Samuelsen for his score to Hallvar Witzø’s ’Alle hater Johan’
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Anna-Mari Kähärä, Filip Leyman, Martin Dirkov, Jørund Fluge Samuelsen, Eðvarð Egilsson, Anna von Hauswolf, Silke Lange, Christine Hals.
Foto 1-5: Thomas Kolbein Bjørk Olsen, Berlinkontoret.no | Picture 6: Foto Frank Michaelsen
Foto 1-5: Thomas Kolbein Bjørk Olsen, Berlinkontoret.no | Picture 6: Foto Frank Michaelsen
Erica Procunier, Anna-Maria Kähärä, Jørund Fluge Samuelsen, dr. Yati Durant, Johan Ramstrøm, Einar Trygvason, Halldor Krogh, Mons Niklas Schak, Tuomas Nikkinin. Foto: Frank Michaelsen
Program for NFMD 2023
Sat. 18.02.23
09.30–12.30 WIFTI (Women in Film & Television International) Network meeting Location: Canteen Area Sign up link TBA Seminars from 12.00–16.00 Location: Auditorium and Online 12.00–13.00: A look at Europe The films, Culture and Music. Meet Elisabeth Sjastaad (NO), Barbara Gessler (DE) and Anselm Kreuzer (DE). Moderated by Jesper Hansen (DK). Also online –BREAK– 13.15 – 13.45: Filmmusic for Children Meet Anna-Mari Kähärä (FIN), Torbjørn Jansson (SE) and Jørund Fluge Samuelsen (NO). Moderator Erica Procunier (CA) and with Peter Vuust (DK) as a special guest. Also online –BREAK– 14.00–14.45: Film Scoring Educations in the Nordic Countries Meet Mons Niklas Schak (DK), Einar Sv. Tryggvason (IS), Halldor Krogh (NO), Johan Ramström (SE), Tuomas Nikkinen (FIN). Moderated by Yati Durant (USA/GB). Also online. –BREAK– 15.00–16.00: Meet the Nominated Composers In a conversation with this years 5 nominated composers last years winner, Sanna Salmenkallio (FIN) will give the audience knowledge about the scores, the composers and their process. Also online. 16.30–17.30: Network Meeting – Nordic Female Composers and Track15 Location: Hotel Lounge Address: An d. Urania 12/14, 10787 Berlin, Germany |
Sat. 18.02.23
HARPA Award Show Location: Exhibition Area Hosted by Kaisa Rönkkö (FIN), CEO, Music x Media & Halfdan E, film composer and chair, Danish Film and Media Composers. 19.00–19.30: Presentation of Nominees 19.30–20.00: Live concert and revelation of this years recipient of the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award |
Sun. 19.02.23
Film Screenings from 09.00–20.15 Location: Auditorium 09.00–11.15: Holy Spider l Denmark –BREAK– 11.30–13.15: Ruthless Times: Songs of Care l Finland –BREAK– 14.30–16.30: Skjálfti/Quake l Iceland –BREAK– 16.30–18.15: Alle Hater Johan l Norway –BREAK– 18.30–20.15: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World l Sweden |
Other Activities
Fri. 17.02.23 15.30–18.30: Visit the GENELEC EXPERIENCE HUB Location: Genelec c/o BCK Architektur, Münzstr. 10, 10178 Berlin Su. 19.02.23 13.30 –14.00: Music x Media Event in Tampere & SPELLBOUND Location: Reception (Exhibition Area) Mo. 20.02.23 11.30–15.00: Special event by Nordic Film Commission: Nordic Monday Location: Canteen 13.30–15.00: Nordic Filmmusic Presentation for Nordic Nominees Location: Exhibition Area |
Meet the nominees for 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award
The composer organizations of the five Nordic countries have announced their national nominees for the 13th Annual HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.Once again, the nominees reflect the high quality and uniqueness of Nordic artistry, with a mix of Nordic electronic soundscapes, delicate & strong themes, confident collaborations, richly orchestrated music, and highly original scores.
Photo by: Carsten Snejbjerg & video by Helle Pagter and Maia Elisabeth Sørensen
DENMARK | Martin Dirkov for his score in "Holy Spider" (directed by Ali Abbasi) The music captures the suffocating sense of mortal fear, but manages simultaneously to be beautifully melodic and inventive, and credibly underlines the unpredictable and scary twists of the story. |
Photo by: Tero Ahonen and video by Inés Nofuentes
FINLAND | Anna Mari Kähärä for her score in "Armotonta menoa - hoivatyön lauluja / Ruthless times - Songs of Care " (directed by Susanna Helke) In Kähärä's music the silent and silenced ones gain a voice so powerful and rugged that it hurts: it’s a cry for help and humanity of the generations. |
Photos by: Cole & Ólafsdóttir & video by Blair Alexander
ICELAND | Eðvarð Egilsson & Páll Ragnar Pálsson for their score in "Skjálfti/Quake" (directed by Tinna Hrafnsdóttir) A subtle masterpiece from two composers at the pinnacle of their powers |
Photo by: Morten Aamot & video by Catharina Wandrup
NORWAY | Jørund Fluge Samuelsen is the 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award recipient for his score in "Alle Hater Johan" (directed by Hallvar Witzø) A score which brings a measured amount of comedy, sentimentality and a quirky, homemade feel to the whole film |
Photos by: Gianluca Grasselli & video by Donovan von Martens
SWEDEN | Anna von Hausswolff & Filip Leyman for their score in "The most beautiful boy in the world" (directed by Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri) The low-key, brilliant music by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman interweaves in a delicate way all the artistical film narratives in this striking documentary. |
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Jury for 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award
Sanna Salmenkallio | Composer & 2022 HARPA Winner | Finland || Christine Aufderhaar | Composer | Germany || Sung-woo Cho | Composer | South Korea || Sophie Joos | Music projects coordinator | Belgium || World Soundtrack Awards || Michael P. Aust | Festival Director SoundTrack_Cologne | Germany || Lucy Bright | Music Supervisor | UK
Seminar
A Look at Europe – Moderated by Jesper Hansen
Sa.18.02.23
12.00–13.00
12.00–13.00
Anselm Kreuzer
Anselm was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973. He is a composer for film, series and media with a large and varied oeuvre, including scores for some of the most successful German TV series such as “Die Rosenheim-Cops” (at present) and “In Aller Freundschaft”, numerous scores for documentary films, title themes for various TV shows and a huge catalogue of Production Music with international placements, including the Oscar nominated Hollywood movie „Night Crawler“ (2014) and Golden Globe Award winning movie „The Disaster Artist“ (2017). Since 2018 he has also run his own Production Music library. Anselm Kreuzer studied musicology with a Ph.D. and has written two monographs on film music. He is a board member of the Composers Club Germany and the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) and politically active in defending authors’ rights. |
Barbara Gessler
Worked in the European Parliament before joining the European Commission in 1994. After the Directorate General's Unit for Audiovisual Policy, changed to Environment in 1996. From 1998 until 2003 at European Commission in Berlin. Personal leave 2003-2004 to advise the Deutscher Kulturrat on European affairs. Until 2009, Head of the Regional Representation of the Commission in Bonn to return to Brussels as Head of the Press Unit of the European Economic and Social Committee until mid–2011. Until 2016, ran the Culture Unit at the Executive Agency for EU's funding programmes. Between 2017 and 2022, responsible for the culture part of the Creative Europe programme at Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture. Since 2023, head of unit of the Erasmus + action Capacity Building Higher Education at EACEA. |
Elisabeth O. Sjaastad
Film- and theatre director educated at Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama (1998–2000). Promotion manager Virgin Records/EMI 2000–2002. Amanda-nominated for the documentary film “Shiny Stars, Rusty Red” (2003) about freedom of expression in China. Vice President of Norwegian Filmmakers’ Association 2005–10. CEO of FERA (Federation of European Screen Directors) in Brussels 2009–14. Founding partner and head of project for the independent Norwegian streaming service Nettkino in cooperation with Kulturmeglerne funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Creative Europe 2015–20. President of the Norwegian Filmmakers’ Association 2020–present. |
Jesper Hansen
As a filmcomposer Jesper Hansen (DK) has created multiple scores for tv-series, shorts and documentaries. Other than his work as a composer, Hansen is a member of the chair of the Danish Film and Media Composers and the European Commitee for Film and mediamusic, FFACE. Together with Halfdan E he has founded the record label, plant sound - the main goal is to release and showcase Danish film music world wide. https://plantsounds.net/ |
Seminar
Filmmusic for Children – Moderated by Erica Procunier
Sa. 18.02.23
13.15–13.45
13.15–13.45
Anna-Mari Kähärä (FI)
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Jørund Fluge Samuelsen (NO)
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Erica Procunier (CA)
Erica Procunier is an Emmy–nominated and award winning Canadian composer. Her credits include dramatic and comedic scores for film, television, advertisement and interactive productions. In recent years she has focused on documentary scores (Great Lakes Untamed) as well as children's content such as Ghostwriter (AppleTV+). She is currently working on season 2 of the preschool series Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go. She currently teaches composition at Humber College in Toronto and is on the board of directors of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada. |
With special comments by: Peter Vuust
What is happening in the brain of the child, whilst watching film with music? To get an answer to that we have invited Peter Vuust. Peter Vuust is a combination of a renowned scientist and a world class musician. As a researcher, he is Denmark’s leading expert in the field of music and the brain – a research field he has single-handedly built up as leader of the group Music In the Brain. He is internationally recognised, widely quoted and received in October 2014 DKK 52 million and in August 2020 DKK 46 million from the Danish National Research Foundation’s centre to found the Center for Music In the Brain. http://www.petervuust.dk/ |
Seminar
Film Scoring Educations in the Nordic Countries – Moderated by Yati Durant
Sa. 18.02.23
14.00–14.45
14.00–14.45
Einar Trygvasson
Born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Einar studied the piano at an early age and then focused his time on composition. He graduated with honors with a BA in Film Composition from Iceland University of the Arts in 2011. He graduated with an MA in Film Composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2015. |
Halldor Krogh
A musician, composer, arranger, music producer, and professor in film music at Innland University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer Norway. He has studied music at A/S Bergens Musikkonservatorium, film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston and the University of Southern California in LA. I represent the film scoring program at Innland University of Applied Sciences. It' s a one-year, part-time, film scoring study for composers and focuses on 3 columns: Film knowledge, Film scoring knowledge, and communication/networking. |
Johan Ramström
A composer and senior lecturer in filmscoring at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. He has a masters degree in Composition from Pitea School of Music/ Lulea University of Technology. Johan has worked for over 20 years as a composer in genres spanning from contemporary Art music to Filmmusic and Theater music. I represent the Master's Programme in Film Music Composing at KMH/SKH Stckholm is a two year Masters program given in collaboration with the filmprogram at Stockholm University of the Arts (UniArts). We focus mainly on narrative fictionfilm and documentary filmmaking. |
Tuomas Nikkinen
A Helsinki-based film and media composer. He has studied film music and orchestration at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki University and Berklee Online. Tuomas is currently a guest lecturer at Sibelius Academy on film music and music technology. He founded the music production company Helsinki Sound Factory in 2015 I represent the film and game music program of Sibelius Academy, on behalf of Matti Strahlendorff. I hope to bring some practical experiences regarding educational needs from the film & media field as well as the possibilities and pros/cons of online education and self-learning. |
Mons Niklas Schak
A highly skilled and experienced film composer with a strong background in classical and electroacoustic music. Associate Professor at SDMK (Danish National Academy of Music) I represent the film scoring program at SDMK. Located in Copenhagen, it's a 2 year master programme. The students work closely with directors on documentary, fiction, animation and games. |
Yati Durant
Yati Durant is an award-winning, U.S.–born, composer of concert and film music, Professor, sound artist, trumpeter and conductor. He is a visiting Professor of Film Music Conducting at the Rovigo Conservatory of Music “Francesco Venezze”. He is the former Programme Director of MSc Composition for Screen at the University of Edinburgh (2010–19). Since 2019, Yati is the Director of the International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education (IMMSANE). He has been the WDR Funkhausorchester composer/mentor-in-residence since 2021. Yati has worked in TV and film, writing for HBO, Walt Disney Productions, Fox, US Army, Jif, Waterman Pens and many others. In Europe, Yati has worked for many State broadcasters, including the ARD and WDR, and many of his compositions and film scores have been published on CD and DVD. He is a frequent contributor and jury member to the most important film music competitions and festivals in Europe, including Soundtrack Cologne, Oticons Faculty, Festival International du Film d’Aubagne and FMF Krakow. He also has an international profile as a performer of jazz trumpet and electroacoustic music, and he has performed in Italy, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, India, France, Brazil and in the United Kingdom. Due to technical difficulties, this seminar recording was cut short in the beginning. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the seminar. We apologize profusely for the inconvenience.
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Panel
Meet the Nominated Composers – Moderated by Sanna Salmenkallio
Sa. 18.02.23
15.00–16.00
15.00–16.00
Learn more about the nominated composers and their individual creative process in a panel speerheaded by previous HARPA Award recipient, Sanna Salmenkallio.
– Martin Dirkov (DK) – Anna-Mari Kähärä (FIN) – Jørund Fluge Samuelsen (NO) – Eðvarð Egilsson & Páll Ragnar Pálsson (IS) – Anna Von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman (SE) |
Sanna Salmenkallio (FI)
Sanna Salmenkallio is a Finnish film composer who in 2022 won the HARPA Nordic Film Composer's Award for her composition in Virpi Suutari's "Aalto". She has written the score for more than 30 films and has created her own style by mixing classical classical background to different contemporary and experimental elements. Sanna has won four Jussi Awards for the best film score in Finland and was recently presented with the Suomi-Palkinto Finland Prize. She graduated from Sibelius Academy with and education in classical composition and as a Sound Designer from the Theatre Academy, which creates an inspiring dialogue between sound and music. She has also a passion for Arabic music, which she studied in Cairo. As a violinist she is specialized on improvisation. |
Award show – HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award
Sat. 18.02.23
19.00–20.00
Want to meet the nominated composers, want to meet Nordic composers, and want to celebrate this years most wanted scores? Nordic Film Music Days invites you to join the event, where we will announce the winner of the 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.
The award show will be hosted by Kaisa Röhnkkö (FIN) and Halfdan E (DK) and the guests will be welcomed by María Erla Marelsdóttir, Ambassador of Iceland
More info will follow
19.00–20.00
Want to meet the nominated composers, want to meet Nordic composers, and want to celebrate this years most wanted scores? Nordic Film Music Days invites you to join the event, where we will announce the winner of the 2023 HARPA Nordic Film Composers Award.
The award show will be hosted by Kaisa Röhnkkö (FIN) and Halfdan E (DK) and the guests will be welcomed by María Erla Marelsdóttir, Ambassador of Iceland
More info will follow
Other activities
Visit the GENELEC EXPERIENCE HUB
Genelec c/o BCK Architektur, Münzstr. 10, 10178 Berlin Fr. 17.02.23 15.30–18.30 The GENELEC Sound Hub is an immersive experience where you will be able to hear your own music through the state-of-the-art loudspeaker system of the Finnish loudspeaker company Genelec. Eric Horstmann from Genelec is giving Nordic composers the possibility to experience what the equipment and loudspeakers can add on to your music. See more about the system and the Berlin Experience Centre here. Want to hear your music? Upload max 5 minutes. The link must be oploaded before Monday February 13th at 12.00. Sound Specifications: Stereo Content: PCM WAV, 24bit, 48kHz 5.1-Content: PCM WAV, 24bit, 48kHz, 6 individual files (L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE) Dolby Atmos Content: 7.1.4-Downmix (L, R, C, LFE, Lss, Rss, Lsr, Rsr, Ltf, Rtf, Ltr, Rtr), PCM WAV, 24bit, 48kHz GENELEC is able to take in 8 participants at a time during the assigned time slots. 15.30–16.30 16.30–17.30 17.30–18.30 WIFTI - Women in Film & Television International Sa. 18.02.23 09.30–12.30 Women in Film & Television International is a global network that aims to advance the professional development and achievement of women working in film and television all over the world. Nordic Film Music Days and the Nordic Embassies are proud to provide location for their gathering and invite any and all female composers who are interested in learning from one another, to a chat on Saturday February 18th, 2023 at the canteen area of the Nordic Embassies between 09.30–12.30. |
Nordic Female Composers and Track15
Sa. 18.02.23 16.30–17.30 During Nordic Film Music Days 2023 German based Track15 Female Composers Collective will invite female directors and composers from the Nordic countries to join for a networking afternoon coffee. Via open chats we aim to get to know each other, talk about our work, have more visibility and by choice get partnerships started. TRACK 15 is a collective of eleven female professional composers, songwriters and producers experienced in the fields of film and TV scoring, pop music production as well as classical music, world music and jazz. Track15 will be conducting a networking meet & greet along with the nominated female composers at the Hotel Lounge of Motel-One Berlin Tiergarten on Saturday February 18th between 16.30–17.30. Feel free to stop by for a chat, get a drink at the hotel bar (at your own cost), and to get to know the talented female composers. Address: An d. Urania 12/14, 10787 Berlin, Germany
Nordic Monday Mo. 20.02.23 11.00–15.00 At the Berlinale 2023, Nordic Film Commissions, a network of 15 film commissions from the various Nordic countries, will be hosting a Nordic Monday; the event will take place on Monday, February 20 between 11.30-15.00 at the Nordic Embassy Nordische Botschaften Berlin . To this event we will invite film producers and other festival guests for lunch & mingle with the Nordic Film industry – as well as a varied professional program, reflecting both Green Film Production and Film Music. There will be an inspirational panel, reflecting cases of Green Film work in the Nordic countries. We will also present some successful Nordic film composers who have done remarkable work recently: We will get to know the nominees for 2023 Harpa Nordic Film Composers Award at the Nordic Film Music Days, taking place at the Berlinale just before our Nordic Monday and present the Norwegian composer Christine Hals, who made the score for THE BATTLE OF NARVIK, a film based on world history events in Northern Norway during World War II. |

Music x Media Event in Tampere - hosted by Kaisa Rönkkö
Sun. 19.02.23
13.30–14.00
Kaisa Rönkkö has been CEO of Music x Media since September 2022. Music x Media is a future forum for music-related creative business – happening again on 4-7 October, 2023, in Tampere, Finland.
Kaisa has worked in management and expert positions in the cultural sector for 20 years, latest as a CEO of Music Finland, head of orchestra department at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet and as a senior intendant at the Public Information Division of the Defence Command Finland. Kaisa has a passion to deliver the message of the power of arts and culture and develop the dialogue between arts and society.
Sun. 19.02.23
13.30–14.00
Kaisa Rönkkö has been CEO of Music x Media since September 2022. Music x Media is a future forum for music-related creative business – happening again on 4-7 October, 2023, in Tampere, Finland.
Kaisa has worked in management and expert positions in the cultural sector for 20 years, latest as a CEO of Music Finland, head of orchestra department at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet and as a senior intendant at the Public Information Division of the Defence Command Finland. Kaisa has a passion to deliver the message of the power of arts and culture and develop the dialogue between arts and society.
Screening of the Nominated Films
09.00–11.15
DK | Holy Spider
Duration: 01.56 | English Subtitles
DK | Holy Spider
Duration: 01.56 | English Subtitles
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Director: Ali Abbasi ABOUT THE SCORE Martin Dirkov has created a complex and unconventional score for Ali Abbasi's intense psychological thriller, "Holy Spider". Dirkov's mix of symphonic drama, middle eastern motifs, and abstract electronic soundscapes elegantly integrates with the sound design and cinematography, and brings us convincingly into the Spider Murderer's claustrophobic and naive psychopathy, as well as the female journalist's emotional fight against corruption and misogyny. The music captures the suffocating sense of mortal fear, but manages simultaneously to be beautifully melodic and inventive, and credibly underlines the unpredictable and scary twists of the story. |
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11.30–13.15
FIN | Ruthless Times: Songs of Care | Armotonta Menoa - Hoivatyön lauluja
Duration: 01.32 | English Subtitles
FIN | Ruthless Times: Songs of Care | Armotonta Menoa - Hoivatyön lauluja
Duration: 01.32 | English Subtitles
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A documentary portraying the privatization of the elderly care sector in Finland. Retirees, elderly citizens and dementia patients, those who have been pushed in the shadows of society and who have been coined as the "sustainability gap" sing impudent songs playing with the newspeak of the economical lingo of our era. Through several perspectives, testimonies and documentary characters, the film aims to capture the crisis of the Finnish elderly care sector.
By combining songs and documentary elements, the film portrays the collision between the ethics of care and the logic of profit and austerity. We have all accepted the view that we cannot afford providing decent care of the ever growing population of elderly citizens. Meanwhile, the elderly care sector has been taken over by multinational corporations. Director: Susanna Helke ABOUT THE SCORE Anna-Mari Kähärä's primitive, honest and touching score breaks straight through the endurance deficits, statistics and staff sizings of the modern eldercare. In Kähärä's music the silent and silenced ones gain a voice so powerful and rugged that it hurts: it’s a cry for help and humanity of the generations. |
14.30–16.30
IS | Skjálfti | Quake
Duration: 01.46 | English Subtitles
IS | Skjálfti | Quake
Duration: 01.46 | English Subtitles
After being hit by a fierce epilepsy seizure Saga's life changes forever. Long forgotten repressed memories suddenly start to come back, forcing her to face a disturbing truth about her past, and present, and her role in life as a daughter, sister, partner and mother.
Director: Tinna Hrafnsdóttir ABOUT THE SCORE Music, memory and feelings are intricately linked. This has been the essence of rituals that have been celebrated since the beginning of civilization. Music and sound have been used to trigger emotions in a variety of situations ranging from cathartic expressions of sympathy, grief, love to the salivating dogs of Pavolv. Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson know their music history, technique and evade all pitfalls that an unmeasured approach might invite. The music comes out of the main character and her inner self that is repressed and hidden. It becomes the voice of the neurons and the inner turmoil that in lesser hands might invite cliché upon cliché. Every note is controlled and there for a reason. Every nuance finds its way into the music but never gives anything away and only illustrates what is there. This is Zen in the Art of Film Music. A subtle masterpiece from two composers at the pinnacle of their powers, using their accumulated experience in various forms and expressions of music in a purposeful and wonderfully creative way. |
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16.45–18.30
NO | Alle Hater Johan
Duration: 01.33 | English Subtitles
NO | Alle Hater Johan
Duration: 01.33 | English Subtitles
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Everybody Hates Johan is a comedy about Johan Grande's adventurous life, and his long-lasting battle to win over the love of his life, Solvor, who he accidentally blew up a bit in his teens. A story about an outsider in a tiny community nestling the Norwegian shoreline. His parents fought the Germans in WWII, mostly with dynamite.
Director: Hallvar Witzø ABOUT THE SCORE The music of Jørund Fluge Samuelsen keeps the slapstick-style comedy of the film very much down to earth, and is always quite low-key, despite a few explosive moments. A few melodies and repeated chords unify the score, while the instrumentation underlines both the folksiness of Johan himself and the setting. Sound-producing objects you may find in a wind torn house on the coast include Jew’s harp, harmonicas, fiddles, a harmonium and then some more exotic percussion and a didgeridoo (that blends in rather surprisingly). Add a male chorus, and you have a score which brings a measured amount of comedy, sentimentality and a quirky, homemade feel to the whole film. Beneath all the humour, there are some darker truths about what war does to people and how we retell stories from the war, with Samuelsen’s score adding quite a bit of afterthought. |
18.45–20.30
SE | The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Duration: 01.33 | English Subtitles
SE | The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Duration: 01.33 | English Subtitles
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is a striking story about the musician and actor Björn Andrésen who was chosen by Luchino Visconti for the part of young Tadzio in his film from 1971. Many years later Björn Andrésen thoughtfully tells Kristian Petri and Kristina Lindström about the film role which took on such a fateful significance in his life.
Director: Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri ABOUT THE SCORE The beautiful, evocative music score by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman emphasizes his story about a life marked by dramatic events and tragedies in dark moods, in fragile strings and piano. The story about a boy whose mother disappeared when he was 10, a boy carrying an inner sense of emptiness, a boy who wanted to become a concerto pianist but became an icon because of his beauty at age 14. The low-key, brilliant music by Anna von Hausswolff and Filip Leyman interweaves in a delicate way all the artistical film narratives in this striking documentary. |
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