Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMaria Sødahl’s “Hope” has been selected to represent Norway in the Oscar’s international feature film race.The film was selected by the Norwegian Oscar Committee out of three candidates which included “Disco” by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, and the documentary “Self Portrait” by Espen Wallin, Katja Høgset and Margreth Olin.Represented in international markets by TrustNordisk, “Hope” won the European Cinemas Label Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival after world premiering at Toronto.
It was just nominated for a pair of European Film Awards and was released in Sweden across 90 theaters.“Hope” marks Sødahl’s follow up to “Limbo” and is a personal film based on what she went through after being.
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