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From award-winning filmmaker Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World), Sentimental Value follows sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) as they reconnect with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgärd), a once-celebrated director eager to reclaim his former glory. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role in his long-awaited comeback film, she refuses, only to learn that he has given the part to a rising Hollywood star (Elle Fanning). As shooting begins, old wounds resurface, and the presence of the American star forces the family to confront their fragile family dynamics. (Description by NEON)

Joachim Trier is an Norwegian-Danish director and screenwriter whose six feature films haveall received widespread critical and box office acclaim. From the beginning of his career, hiswork has enjoyed global recognition, starting with his debut feature Reprise (2006), whichwon the Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. His second film, Oslo,August 31st (2011), has since attained cult status in several countries.

Four of Trier's films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, three of them in the MainCompetition, including Sentimental Value (2025), which was awarded the Grand Prix. TheWorst Person in the World (2021) earned Renate Reinsve the Best Actress Award at Cannesand went on to receive two Academy Award nominations (Best International Feature andBest Original Screenplay), two BAFTA nominations (Best International Film and Best Actress), and was named Best Foreign Language Film by the New York Film Critics Circle.

Trier is the most-awarded director in the history of Norway's Amanda Awards, and four of hisfilms - including Sentimental Value - have been submitted as Norway's official Oscar entry.Sentimental Value marks his sixth collaboration with co-writer Eskil Vogt and his secondwith Reinsve. The film is on track to double the French admissions of The Worst Person inthe World and is approaching its record-breaking success in Norway. It has already been selected for numerous major festivals, in addition to Cannes, such as Karlovy Vary, Telluride,San Sebastian, the New York Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival.

Olivier Bugge Coutté is an editor based in Denmark and a graduate of the National Film and Television School, where he studied alongside his longtime collaborator, Joachim Trier. He has cut all of Trier’s films, including their most recent feature SENTIMENTAL VALUE, which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year, as well as THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature; THELMA, which screened at the Toronto and London Film Festivals; LOUDER THAN BOMBS, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival; and OSLO, AUGUST 31ST, which also screened at Cannes.

Coutté’s recent credits include THE APPRENTICE, directed by Ali Abbasi, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival; THE PROMISED LAND, directed by Nikolaj Arcel, which screened at the Venice Film Festival; Nicolas Winding Refn’s COPENHAGEN COWBOY; and Mike Mills’ BEGINNERS, which screened at the Toronto Film Festival.