With not much happening right now, some cool additions from the past have been added to the archives. There’s screencaptures and videos from two interviews at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival to promote the premiere of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, two press junket interviews from 2014 alongside director Michaël R. Roskam to promote “The Drop” and one additional 2021 interview in which Noomi and director Valdimar Jóhannsson talk about “Lamb”. The full list of albums and videos can be found below. Enjoy.

Romanian film Three Kilometers to the End of the World, from director Emanuel Pârvu, won the Heart of Sarajevo prize on Friday for Best Feature Film at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival. The competition jury included Paul Schrader as president (director, USA), Sebastian Cavazza (actor, Slovenia), Una Gunjak (director, Bosina and Herzegovina), Juho Kuosmanen (director, screenwriter, Finland), and Noomi Rapace. The gallery has been updated with pictures from the awards ceremony alongside add-ons from the previous events at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The Heart of Sarajevo prize for Best Documentary went to A Picture to Remember from director Olga Chernykh, and Absent, from Cem Demirer, was the top Short Film. Next up, as reported by Deadline earlier this week, is the filming of “Mother”, which will begin shooting next month in Belgium before moving to Calcutta.

The 30th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina is coming to an end today, so we will probably see more of jury member Noomi Rapace later. In the meantime, she and her jury colleagues attended yesterday’s screening of “Dwelling Among the Gods”. Pictures have been added to the photo gallery.

Another summary of the Sarajevo Film Festival Q&A, this time from Deadline. Noomi Rapace teased elements of her upcoming project Mother, in which she will play the revered and “complex” Catholic saint. The Swedish star, who is currently serving as a jury member at the Sarajevo Film Festival, has been prepping for the indie project with director Teona Strugar Mitevska (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya) and remarked that in between watching films at the festival, she’s also “reading a lot about” Mother Teresa. “I’ve been reading her letters, listening to her and doing research,” Rapace told Deadline. “There’s also a lot of negativity written about her so I’m filling myself with everything I can and trying to find who she is for me and, in conversations with Teona, we’re finding our Mother Teresa.” Rapace stressed the film, which is the English language debut from Strugar Mitevska, will not be a biopic, but will rather examine seven crucial days during the saint’s life when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta to launch her own Missionaries of Charity. The complete article can be read over at Deadline.She also talked about the cancellation of “Constellation” after one season.

I loved that character. It was a beautiful journey and Peter Harness is a brilliant writer and became a dear friend of mine. I loved working with Apple and the creative team and I was disappointed at first when it was canceled. It was a long journey though. I was prepping for three months and shooting for eight months so when you take on something of that level, it’s a big commitment. But I believe things happen for different reasons and I wouldn’t be able to do the films I’m doing now had they called for a second season. I’m very much in love with European arthouse directors at the moment and it feels refreshing and liberating for me to go back a bit to where it all started – small and more rock and roll. (Noomi Rapace, Deadline, August 22, 2024)

Noomi Rapace is teasing her portrayal of Mother Teresa in the upcoming film “Mother,” in which the multi-faceted Swedish talent tackles the role of the Catholic saint when she was just an ordinary woman, Variety reports. Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival this week, where she’s part of a competition jury headed by Paul Schrader, Rapace said she was drawn to the offbeat portrait of Teresa because she wasn’t interested in doing a conventional biopic. “She was no saint,” Rapace said. “She’s a quite complex character.” “Mother,” which marks the English-language debut of North Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska, will follow seven days during a pivotal moment in the life of the revered saint, when she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order. The complete article can be read over at Variety.

She’s waiting for permission from the Vatican to go out on her calling, her mission, to leave the convent and start her mission outside. No one has done what she’s asking permission to do. It hasn’t been done before. She’s a woman in a man’s world. I’ve felt like I’m against all odds many times and finding my voice and myself in different foreign situations, so I think I can relate to her stubbornness and her conviction that she needed to do this, even if it was going to be painful. She talks a lot about darkness and her doubts. She once said, ‘If I will ever become a saint, it will surely be one of darkness,’ which is very powerful. Both me and Teona somehow have some connecting tissue to Mother Teresa’s determined stubbornness, and how she takes on something and how she doesn’t back away and just pushes through. I can relate to that, that you keep fighting for something you believe in, even if everyone is telling you it’s not going to happen. Or no one else can see it. (Noomi Rapace, Variety, August 21, 2024)

As previously reported, Noomi Rapace is among this year’s jury members for the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Her. The festival started last Friday and will bow this Friday. So far, only a couple of pictures from the opening night and a Q&A event. Make sure to check back during this week for (hopefully) more pictures.

After presenting her debut collection for Stel at Copenhagen’s TheKrane, Astrid Andersen returned to the elevated venue with her nearest and dearest to toast the unveiling of Collection 01. Speaking to Vogue Scandinavia ahead of Copenhagen Fashion Week, Andersen described the first collection as comprised of “tailoring you can skate in, denim you can dance in, and shirts you can travel in.” In which case, last night called for Stel’s denim: Andersen planned a full-blown rave to celebrate. But first, an intimate gathering with family and friends to reflect on the moment. “Coming back to The Krane – a venue that holds such special memories for me – feels like a perfect space for me to celebrate this next chapter with the people closest to me,” Andersen says. “I can’t wait to carry on the party, we all love to dance!” A full article on the launch with a photo gallery can be found over at Vogue Scandinavia. Noomi’s pictures have been added to the photo gallery. P.S. Noomi and Astrid were also guests at A$AP Nast’s Birthday Party At Broadwick Soho last week. You can find pictures from this appearance in the photo gallery as well.

According to Screen Daily, US filmmaker Paul Schrader will be president of the jury for the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 16-23). Schrader will preside over a five-person jury, consisting of Swedish actress and producer Noomi Rapace, Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen, Bosnian filmmaker Una Gunjak and Slovenian actor Sebastian Cavazza. The jury will award the Heart of Sarajevo awards in the Competition Programme – Feature Film, with the winners announced on Friday, August 23. Prizes include best feature film, director, actress and actor. Previous Sarajevo jury presidents have included Mike Leigh, Jasmila Zbanic, Asghar Farhadi, Ruben Ostlund and last year’s president Mia Wasikowska. Schrader’s most recent film Oh Canada debuted in Competition at Cannes this year. He received an honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2022, although was unable to attend the festival due to health issues. Danis Tanovic’s My Late Summer will open Sarajevo Film Festival in its world premiere, while Palestinian director Elia Suleiman will receive an honorary award at the festival.

I’ve been able to re-upload screencaptures in better quality from two of Noomi’s earlier film appearances in Sweden – the thriller Blodsbröder from 2005, with a lot of famous Swedish faces at the beginning of their careers, and 2007’s Daisy Diamond. The latter proved to be the perfect acting showcase in the casting process for Lisbeth Salander – the film remains as bleak as it gets and is still difficult and at times unbearable to watch. Enjoy the new additions.

AppleTV+ is still plugging “Constellation” and Noomi for Emmy consideration, so luckily for us, there’s more recent interviews. Yesterday, DP/30 uploaded a new conversation with Noomi in which she talks about the long shoot of the series, her early career and how her interest in roles have shifted over the last decade since her breakout with “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. The full interview can be watched in the video archive. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.