Danish film spotlights piracy off East Africa Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:42am EDT * “A Hijacking” premiers in Denmark this week * Low-budget film spotlights huge world problem * Action switches between ship and negotiating room * Filmed aboard a vessel in the Indian Ocean By John Acher COPENHAGEN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A new Danish film made on a shoestring budget with a partly amateur cast confronts the global scourge of piracy on the high seas through a psychological drama about negotiations to free a vessel and crew seized by Somali marauders. “A Hijacking” (“Kapringen” in Danish), directed by Tobias Lindholm, opens at cinemas in Denmark on Thursday after its world premiere in Venice at the beginning of this… Read More →

TIFF 2012 Review: A HIJACKING Is A Gritty Anti-Thriller Todd Brown, Founder and Editor The crew of the freighter MV Rozen are in trouble. En route to Mumbai to take on cargo and fresh crew the cargo vessel has been boarded by Somali pirates, seized by a dangerous and unpredictable armed gang who demand millions from the Rozen’s owners to secure the safe release of ship and crew. The process will stretch over months, the lives of the crew hanging in a tenuous balance throughout while the CEO of their company negotiates for their safe release back home. Though A Hijacking marks the solo directing debut of Tobias Lindholm the young writer-director is already regarded as one of the brightest young talents… Read More →

Toronto: WME Signs ‘A Hijacking’ Helmer Tobias Lindholm By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday September 11, 2012 @ 7:22pm EDTTags: A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm, Toronto Film Festival, WME EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Tobias Lindholm, whose drama A Hijacking received strong reviews out of Venice and before debuting at a press and industry screening yesterday. Lindholm wrote the script and directed a film that has a stylistic resemblance to United 93. U.S. distribution is being handled by Nordisk. Lindholm co-wrote and created Denmark’s top rated TV show, Borgen, and he co-wrote Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film The Hunt. He was chased by all the agencies.

Toronto Film Fest: Robert Redford, Will Smith, Soho House and Somali Pirates Published: September 10, 2012 @ 7:40 am By Sharon Waxman Follow @sharonwaxman The Toronto International Film Festival chugs along with more film gems and movie stars than it has a right to. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith showed their glitter on Sunday at an event for an Angela Davis documentary they produced a day after Johnny Depp showed up for his pal, Damien Echols, out of prison after 18 wrongful years. Paul Haggis (pictured with me) hung out at Soho House with Trudie Styler – where Madonna had a reservation — and implored the glitterati to attend his Haiti fundraiser. (He’ll shortly go back to Rome, where he’s shooting a love… Read More →

Tobias Lindholm, A Hijacking 10 September, 2012 | By Mike Goodridge The director follows up his acclaimed prison drama R with the powerful modern pirates story A Hijacking.   A Hijacking, which played in Orizzonti in Venice last week and is screening in CWC at TIFF starting today, is the first solo directing effort of Tobias Lindholm who co-directed the powerful prison drama R in 2010 with Michael Noer. In A Hijacking, R star Pilou Asbaek plays the cook on a Danish freighter captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, while Soren Malling plays the head of the shipping company back in Denmark who negotiates with the pirates. The film is shot in a stark, ultra-realistic style, and Lindholm says he cultivates a form of storytelling… Read More →

Venice 2012: Grand Theft Auteur? Sorting the Kubrick From the Chaos at the 2012 Venice Film Festival BY NEIL YOUNG SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 12:11 PM … Even outside the competition I saw only two movies I’d consider Lion-worthy, both of them in the Orizzonti section: Tobias Lindholm’s “A Hijacking” (Kapringen) - covered in my first dispatch, and Alexey Balabanov’s “Me Too” (Ja Tozhe Hochu). …

Venice Wrap: Our 5 Favorite Films Of The Festival, Plus Our Complete Coverage NEWS BY OLIVER LYTTELTON SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 4:10 PM The Venice Film Festival is done for another year. Actually, that’s far from true: the festival doesn’t wrap up til tomorrow, when top gong Golden Lion, and other prizes, will be awarded. And since we departed on Wednesday, a few more high-profile films have been unveiled, including Brillante Mendoza‘s “Thy Womb” (word on which is fairly middling), Robert Redford‘s ”The Company You Keep” (which we hear is the actor/director’s best since “Quiz Show,” and Brian DePalma‘s “Passion” (thanks to Jamie Dunn for reviewing that for us on the Lido). Although we can’t say we’ve had much to compare it to, we’ve found the last two years in… Read More →

Tobias Lindholm, A Hijacking 10 September, 2012 | By Mike Goodridge The director follows up his acclaimed prison drama R with the powerful modern pirates story A Hijacking.   A Hijacking, which played in Orizzonti in Venice last week and is screening in CWC at TIFF starting today, is the first solo directing effort of Tobias Lindholm who co-directed the powerful prison drama R in 2010 with Michael Noer. In A Hijacking, R star Pilou Asbaek plays the cook on a Danish freighter captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, while Soren Malling plays the head of the shipping company back in Denmark who negotiates with the pirates. The film is shot in a stark, ultra-realistic style, and Lindholm says he cultivates a form of storytelling… Read More →

Venice Film Festival 2012: ‘A Hijacking’ (‘Kapringen’) review ★★★★☆ This year’s 69th Venice Film Festival opened with Bait 3D (2012), which dealt with the perils of entering shark-infested water. We return to the deep with the equally dangerous and considerably scarier human sharks of the Indian Ocean, in Danish director Tobias Lindholm’s superb A Hijacking (Kapringen, 2012). The film opens with cheery chef Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) aboard the cargo ship Rozen, bound for Mumbai from where he aims to head home to his beloved wife and young daughter. With just days to go before reaching port, Mikkel jokes around with his international crew mates, headed up by its Ozzie captain (Keith Pearson). However, when the call comes in that the Rozen has been hijacked… Read More →