İstanbul Modern Cinema is presenting a program of offbeat love stories that all take place in northern climes: “Love at 0° C”. Five different films relate 5 different states of love that are both ice-cold and red-hot: A doomed love story with a vampiric twist, a painful “growing-up” story of two young girls in a small town, a pianist’s inner journey, a polar destiny, a circular love story that questions love as a relationship…
ALLEGRO, 2005
Denmark | 35mm, Color, 88’ | Danish
Director: Christoffer Boe
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, Henning Moritzen
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN), 2008
Sweden, Norway | 35mm, Color, 115’ | Swedish
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE (LOS AMANTES DEL CÍRCULO POLAR), 1998
Spain, France | 35mm, Color, 112’ | Spanish, English
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Fele Martínez, Nancho Novo
NORTH (NORD), 2009
Norway | 35mm, Color, 78’ | Norwegian
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo
Cast: Anders Baasmo, Kyrre Hellum, Marte Aunemo
SHOW ME LOVE (FUCKING ÅMÅL), 1998
Sweden, Denmark | 35mm, Color, 89’ | Swedish
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson