Nordic Film Talks
Nordic Film Talks is a podcast offering in-depth interviews with filmmakers and other
creatives from the Nordic countries, offering insight into their latest films or TV series.
The series is hosted by Nordic film expert Wendy Mitchell, a journalist and film festival
consultant, and presented by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
Host: Wendy Mitchell, filmwendy.com
Presenting partner: Nordisk Film & TV Fond, https://nordiskfilmogtvfond.com/
Audio producer: Karoline Balstrøm
Logo designed by: Tine Seerup
Music artist: Bail Bonds
Title: Swimming Lessons
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Sofie Gråbøl and 'The Last Viking' in Venice
Sofie Gråbøl talks about punching Mads Mikkelsen in their new film 'The Last Viking', acting with Donald Sutherland in her first film and experiencing how the grpundbreaking series 'The Killing' chan…
00:32:13 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Danish actor Claes Bang and Finnish producer llona Tolmunen
In this special bonus episode from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, we speak to Danish actor Claes Bang about his role in the majority French production 'The Great Arch', directed by Stephane Demoustie…
00:32:09 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Tarik Saleh, Fares Fares and Sverrir Guðnason
In this special Cannes 2025 episode of Nordic Film Talks, we delve into two Cannes world premieres with the writer/director and lead actor of Eagles of the Republic and one of the lead actors of The …
00:29:12 |
Mon 26 May 2025
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson - Reykjavik Fusion
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson discusses his new production company ACT4 and their first series, Reykjavik Fusion, which premieres at Canneseries. He wanted the show to feel more vibrant than typical Nordic n…
00:46:34 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Benedikt Erlingsson - The Danish Woman
After his acclaimed 2018 film Woman at War, Benedikt Erlingsson thought he was done with stories about headstrong women bending the rules for a greater cause. But then The Danish Woman emerged.
“I kne…
“I kne…
00:44:31 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Trine Dyrholm - Oscars and Beginnings
The acclaimed Danish actress discusses why she likes spend time exploring her complex characters, such as an infamous criminal in Oscar-nominated The Girl With The Needle and a wife and mother recove…
00:45:56 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Emilie Blichfeldt & Maria Ekerhovd - The Ugly Stepsister
Forget Disney princesses—Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister reimagines Cinderella with a feminist twist and moments of body horror. In this episode, Blichfeldt discusses her feature debut, explo…
00:44:55 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Joshua Oppenheimer - The End
The director and producer reveal how Jacques Demy and an oil tycoon’s secret bunker inspired their ambitious first fiction feature, 'The End', a six-country co-production with a budget of about $17m.
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00:41:12 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Anne Lajla Utsi - International Sámi Film Institute
The head of the International Sami Film Institute talks about boosting indigenous filmmaking through smart collaborations with the Netflix, Disney, NRK, Telefilm Canada and more — and she reveals wha…
00:45:40 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
Aleksi Bardy - The Summer Book
Producer Aleksi Bardy, like most people in Finland, grew up loving the Moomins. When Bardy was a young adult and read Moomins author Tove Jansson’s adult fiction book 'The Summer Book' (Sommarboken),…
00:40:44 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Thomas Vinterberg - Families Like Ours
In this episode of the Nordic Film Talks podcast, veteran Danish writer and director reveals that he had wanted to create a TV series ever since his 1998 feature Festen, the Dogme film that became hi…
00:48:56 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Frida Kempff - The Swedish Torpedo
Frida Kempff’s The Swedish Torpedo tells the forgotten story of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. Despite this groundbreaking achievement, Bauer never be…
00:38:57 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Dag Johan Haugerud - Sex Dreams Love
Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud discusses his ambitious trilogy Sex Dreams Love: “Three films are not enough to talk about sex.”
The trilogy, which explores themes of sexuality, relationships, …
The trilogy, which explores themes of sexuality, relationships, …
00:42:43 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Lina Flint - Sons
It's only halfway through 2024 and Danish producer Lina Flint has already had a very exciting year: Her most recent production, Gustav Möller’s Sons (Vogter), premiered at Berlinale competition in Fe…
00:41:42 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
Magnus von Horn - The Girl with the Needle
This episode features Swedish-born, Poland-based writer/director Magnus von Horn,
talking about his third feature film, The Girl With The Needle, premiering at Cannes
Competition 2024.
Magnus talks abou…
talking about his third feature film, The Girl With The Needle, premiering at Cannes
Competition 2024.
Magnus talks abou…
00:44:08 |
Mon 13 May 2024
Runar Runarsson - When the Light Breaks
This episode features Icelandic writer/director Runar Runarsson, talking about his fourth
feature film, When The Light Breaks, premiering at Cannes 2024 Un Certain Regard.
Runar talks about offering t…
feature film, When The Light Breaks, premiering at Cannes 2024 Un Certain Regard.
Runar talks about offering t…
00:37:04 |
Mon 13 May 2024
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