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“Euthanizer” director Teemu Nikki will walk down “Memory Lane” next, making his English-language debut.

In the film, a thirtysomething actress is hired by a company called Memory Lane. But she has to keep things secret, even though business is booming. They are replacing bad memories with good ones.

“The thing is, you have to shoot it first in a studio, like a TV show, with real-life actors reenacting the scenes. You are not supposed to meet the clients, but she does – on a blind date,” reveals Nikki.

“Unaware, he tells her: ‘I am sure it will work out. You look exactly like my mother.’”

“We have been working on this concept for some time now. At one point, it was called ‘The Way Too Expensive Teemu Nikki Feature,’” jokes producer Jani Pösö of It’s Alive Films. “Memory Lane” is a working title.

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Paola Cortellesi’s Italian comedy-drama There’s Still Tomorrow won two prizes at the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund, which closes its 52nd edition today.

Cortellesi’s film, which debuted at Rome Film Festival last year, took the Audience Award, and the €30,000 Eurimages Audentia Award, which aims to promote greater gender equality in the film industry.

Scroll down for the full list of Haugesund winners

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More than 250 international guests, including 53 buyers from 18 countries, have signed up for the Norwegian International Film Festival’s three-day industry event New Nordic Films in Haugesund, which will fête its 30th anniversary and kickoff with Charlotte Sieling’s drama “Way Home”, Aug. 20.

Some of the strongest filmmakers from the region and beyond – including Erik Poppe, Dag Johan Haugerud, Selma Vilhunen, Zaida Bergroth, Rúnar Rúnarsson – will be screening or pitching their next projects, next to scores of rising talents.

“Our DNA hasn’t changed,” said Line Halvorsen, who joined New Nordic Films four years ago and is serving as acting director, temporarily filling in for Gyda Velvin Myklebust.

“Our core is to gather Nordic filmmakers and industryites interested in Nordic films, to serve as a launching pad for new talents, and to spotlight latest industry trends. Together with our twin event in the Göteborg Nordic Film Market, we are here to support our Nordic industry,...

The ‘90s are back – also in Naima Mohamud’s upcoming “Halima,” produced by Finland’s It’s Alive Films, behind Oscar entry “Euthanizer,” and No-Office Films.

“It was a wild time. The hair! The clothes! I really wanted to go back to when boybands, Tamagotchis and popper pants were all the rage. And Aqua, the greatest ‘90s pop band in the world, [behind] ‘Barbie Girl’!” enthused the director, who used to be “obsessed” with its singer Lene Nystrøm.

“I tried cutting my own bangs and dyeing my hair with food coloring to rock her hairstyle. It didn’t work, of course, and the following months were agony. I got told off for wasting food coloring my mother needed to make Somali dessert halwa.”

In Mohamud’s partly autobiographical “down-to-earth dramedy about loneliness, childhood and conquering your fears” – currently in development and eyeing a 2025 shoot – it will be Halima’s turn to experience such “heartwarming and humorous” misadventures.