Forget about “The Magnificent Seven”: It’s time for The Magnificent Six, competing for the Nordic Council Film Prize this year. The nominees – consisting of four fiction and two documentary feature films and each representing one of the Nordic countries – were announced by Nordisk Film & TV Fond at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund. Denmark is represented by “The Son and the Moon,” directed by Roja Pakari and Emilie Adelina Monies.
Written by Pakari – documenting her own struggle with cancer – and Denniz Göl Bertelsen, it’s produced by Sara Stockmann for Sonntag Pictures. “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna, hailing from Greenland, was written by Aaju Peter and Alluna. Pic is produced by Emile Hertling Péronard for Ánorâk Film, Red Marrow Media and EyeSteelFilm.
“I’m extremely happy about the nomination and the fact that Greenland is now, for only the second time, represented at the Nordic Council Film Prize. ‘Twice Colonized’ deals with the colonial history of the Nordic countries. It’s a history that the people of Nordics are not often confronted with, which makes it all the more important,” Emile Hertling Péronard told Variety .
“We should not shy away from these truths, and if we, like Aaju Peter, are able to talk about the dark chapters of our past, we will also be able to create a better and brighter future. ‘Twice Colonized’ is a collaboration between Inuit in both Greenland and Canada, and this nomin.