Searching for Sugar Man: Cross-Nordic distribution and lessons from the success of Nordic TV drama
Petri Kemppinen, the CEO of Nordisk Film & TV Fond describes that cross-Nordic distribution has seen a slight increase in the recent years. This is mainly due to few successful titles, including A Man Called Ove (Holm, 2015), which somewhat surprisingly for a comedy managed to do well across the region, and the increase in the films by auteur directors that traditionally perform well in their neighbouring countries, including the works of Ruben Östlund, Joachim Trier and Aki