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Norwegian actress and filmmaker announces end to directing on panel with fellow filmmakers Pernilla August and Iram Haq.

Norwegian actress and filmmaker Liv Ullmann, the two-time Oscar nominee and director of films including Cannes competition title Faithless, has announced that she doesn’t plan to direct again.

Ullmann made the announcement during a talk today at Haugesund’s Norwegian International Film Festival.

“I don’t want to direct anymore,” she said during the festival’s annual public talk, The Amanda Conversation.

“I want to use my strength to act in a film - there I can use it with a sensitive director, and write. I took that decision right now,” the 77-year-old veteran said with a smile.

As an actress, she is hoping to work with Anthony Hopkins in 2017 on an as yet unannounced film. The duo previously worked together on 1977 feature A Bridge Too Far.

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This year’s Amanda Conversation was between Ullmann, whose most recent...

One of the most complex and powerful women in cinema, Liv Ullmann is a force of nature channeled both on and off-screen as Ingmar Bergman's muse, actress and at a later date independent director. Melbourne Cinematheque is a sublime curated mix of auteur and period driven cinema that aims to reignite the passionate and educate the eager. This upcoming season highlights the Bergman period for actress and collaborator Liv Ullmann, looking at her performances in his films, but also her own directorial efforts adapted from his work. The season is book-ended perfectly, opening with Bergman's masterpiece Persona, in which Ullmann stars, and concluding with the epic 196 minute feature Private Confessions, which Ullmann directs.Click through below for highlights of the program, which runs from May 28 to...

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