41St Göteb Org Film Festiv Al Jan 26–Feb 5 2018 Goteb Orgfilmfestiv Al
2018 Nordic Film Market
41st Göteborg Film Festival goteborgfilmfestival.se Jan 26–Feb 5 2018 #gbgfilmfestival Index 4 Welcome 51 Nostradamus 2018 6 Nordic Film Market Schedule 52 Moving Sweden Seminar 8 Nordic Films 53 Nordic Festival Films 33 Works in Progress 60 Participants Nordic Film Market 43 Discovery 68 Map - Cinemas and Festival Spots 50 TV Drama Vision
Films, Works in Progress, and Nordic Film Lab Discovery
By Title The 12Th Man 11 The Violin Player 29 The Deposit 36 Wonderland 31 A Better Life 35 The Guilty 18 A Good Week For Democracy 17 The Heart 19 Iceland A Stranger 40 The Human Part 38 And Breathe Normally 11 Amateurs 10 The Monkey And The Mouth 23 The Deposit 36 And Breathe Normally 11 The Opponent 48 Woman At War 42 Anna Odell Untitled 34 The Raft 25 As I Fall 12 The Return 28 Norway Bergman 34 As I Fall 12 The Violin Player 29 Beware Of Children 35 Beware Of Children 35 The Way To Mandalay 30 Breeder 44 Burning Man 45 Valdesaz 48 Burning Man 45 Letters 22 Woman At War 42 Christian Iv 13 My Heart Belongs To Daddy 24 Wonderland 31 Denmark 14 Phoenix 39 Dogborn 45 By Country Queen Of Ice 39 East Of Sweden 15 The 12Th Man 11 Entrepreneur 16 Denmark The Monkey And The Mouth 23 Forget Lucia 46 A Better Life 35 Valdesaz 48 Goliath 36 Breeder 44 Christian Iv 13 Happy Ending 37 Sweden Denmark 14 Happy People 37 A Good Week For Democracy 17 Happy Ending 37 Holiday 20 A Stranger 40 Happy People 37 Jimmie 21 Amateurs 10 Holiday 20 Josefin & Florin 46 Anna Odell Untitled 34 That Time Of Year 41 Let’s Do Some Living Bergman 34 The Guilty 18 In The Afterlife 47 Dogborn 45 The Return 28 Letters 22 Goliath 36 The Way To Mandalay 30 My Heart Belongs To Daddy 24 Jimmie 21 One Last Deal 38 Josefin & Florin 46 Finland One-Off Incident 47 Let’s Do Some Living East Of Sweden 15 Phoenix 39 Nordic Film Market — Göteborg Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival In The Afterlife 47 Entrepreneur 16 Olof Palmes Plats 1 Queen Of Ice 39 Solsidan 27 Editor: Josef Kullengård Forget Lucia 46 413 04 Göteborg, Sweden Solsidan 27 Swoon 41 Editorial: Cia Edström, Tobias Åkesson, Andrea Reuter, One Last Deal 38 Tel: +46 31 339 30 00, Email: [email protected] Stupid Young Heart 40 That Summer 28 Johanna Koljonen One-Off Incident 47 www.goteborgfilmfestival.se Swoon 41 The Heart 19 Layout: Nils Dahl, Jussi Öhrvall Stupid Young Heart 40 That Summer 28 The Opponent 48 The Human Part 38 Stills Editor: Linda Petersson That Time Of Year 41 The Raft 25 Printed in Sweden by Billes 2018
3 Who’s who at Nordic Film Market?
Welcome to Cia Edström Jonas Holmberg Head of Industry Artistic Director, Nordic Film Market! & Nordic Film Market Göteborg Film Festival +46 (0) 708 72 23 73 +46 (0) 723 70 26 00 cia.edstrom@ Jonas.holmgren@ goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se
This year marks the 19th edition of Nordic Film Market, Mirja Wester Tobias Åkesson where Göteborg Film Festival showcases the best of the Chief Executive Officer Head of Nordic Programme brand new and soon to be released works from the Nordic +46 (0) 703 78 73 53 & Discovery mirja.wester@ +46 (0) 733 50 91 72 region. We are proud to once again present a rich panorama goteborgfilmfestival.se tobias.akesson@ of the quality and talent our region has to offer, and a long goteborgfilmfestival.se list of guests from around the world to share it with. Åsa Garnert Josef Kullengård International Press Industry Coordinator We are also pleased to present the 2018 edition of TV Drama asa.garnert@ +46 (0) 730 76 60 89 Vision — The Golden Era of Drama, which precedes the goteborgfilmfestival.se josef.kullengard@ market, and the release of the fifth Nostradamus report goteborgfilmfestival.se about the future of the screen industries, at a seminar
titled Do or Die? Read more about Nostradamus (Feb 2) Jenny Runsten Tess Tammer and TV Drama Vision (Jan 31–Feb 1) on page 50–51. Accreditation Coordinator Industry Guest Coordinator +46 (0) 736 30 83 09 +46 (0) 72 938 30 95 jenny.runsten@ tess.tammaer@ Our market line-up 2018 consists of 49 titles: 23 finished goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se feature films, 17 works in progress and 9 projects that are part of our co-funding platform Discovery. Martina Larsfeldt Simon Hagegård Accreditation Coordinator Hospitality Last but not least, be sure not to miss the social events at +46 (0) 704 32 31 75 +46 (0)706 94 66 91 Nordic Film Market – the perfect occasion to mingle with martina.larsfeldt@ simon.hagegard@ goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se friends, get to know new ones, and expand your network! Once again, welcome to Göteborg and Nordic Film Market! Julia Sandstén Vikberg Johanna Koljonen Cia Edström Industry Communications Nostradamus analyst & author +46 (0) 703 27 19 94 [email protected] Head of Nordic Film Market julia.sandsten.vikberg@ goteborgfilmfestival.se
Andrea Reuter Wendy Mitchell Co-editor TV Drama Vision Moderator & Moderator +46 (0) 736 52 83 06 andrea.reuter@ goteborgfilmfestival.se
Cinema hosts: Björn Vidlund, Kim Jansson, Pontus Paulin Hugo, Andreia Olaru, Petronella Läckgren, Sun Nordberg, Ingrid Arai, Ylva Fries Kull, Lise Blomqvist
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All Nordic Film Market screenings between Thursday Screenings are only open to Nordic Film Market ac- February 1st and Saturday February 3rd take place credited. Buyers, programmers and sales agents have at Biopalatset, situated at Kungstorget 2. The scre- priority to the screenings. No press allowed. enings on Sunday February 4th take place at Göta, Saturday February 3 Avalon Industry Lounge situated at Götaplatsen 9. 09:00 BIOP 8 The Raft (10:40) January 31–February 3 from 14.00 BIOP 1 Christian IV (10:30) Wednesday January 31 11:00 BIOP 6 Discovery — films in development (12:15) Afternoon Industry Lounge Dogborn 09:30 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 3 (11:00) Burning Man Happy Ending Venue: Avalon Hotel, Kungstorget 9 11:30 BIOP 6 TV Drama Vision (17:30) One-Off Incident (x10) Beware of Children Take your afternoon meeting, network or just Breeder The Deposit 19:00–23:00 VALAND NIGHTCLUB Forget Lucia A Better Life have a drink in the relaxing environment at TV Drama Vision - Dinner cocktail and Josefin & Florin A Stranger Avalon Hotel. award ceremony for the Nordisk Film & TV Let’s Do Some Living in the Afterlife Anna Odell Untitled Fond Prize. Invitation only. VIP and Industry The Opponent Woman at War accredited are welcome from 21.00 Valdesaz Address: Vasagatan 41 10:30 BIOP 10 Denmark (12:00) 11:00 BIOP 1 Wonderland (12:35) BIOP 3 East of Sweden (12:15) BIOP 8 Christian IV (12:30) BIOP 10 The Heart (12:45) 10:45 BIOP 1 The Violin Player (12:45) Thursday February 1 11:15 BIOP 5 Jimmie (12:45) 11:00 BIOP 7 Amateurs (12:45) BIOP 8 As I Fall (12:35) Wifi at Biopalatset 09:15 BIOP 6 TV Drama Vision (16:00) 11:30 BIOP 10 Holiday (14:00) BIOP 9 That Summer (12:20) User: NFM
12:30 BIOP 7 Wonderland (14:05) 13:15 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 1 (14:15) 12:15 BIOP 10 The Way to Mandalay (14:05) Password: NFM2018 BIOP 9 The Guilty (13:55) Swoon Bergman 13:00 BIOP 1 Solsidan (14:45) 14:15 BIOP 7 Way to Mandalay (16:05) Happy People BIOP 7 The Return (14:25) The Human Part BIOP 9 A Good Week for Democracy (14:20) 14:30 BIOP 9 Solsidan (16:15) One Last Deal 13:15 BIOP 8 Jimmie (14:45) 15:30 BIOP 5 East of Sweden (17:15) 13:30 BIOP 5 That Summer (14:50) 14:45 BIOP 9 Letters (16:00) 16:15 BIOP 7 The Monkey and the Mouth (17:55) 14:45 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 2 (15:45) Industry Ticket Desk for That Time of Year 15:00 BIOP 7 And Breathe Normally (16:35) 17:00 BIOP 9 Amateurs (18:45) Goliath festival screenings Stupid Young Heart 18:30–22:00 FESTIVALARENAN 19:30–23:00 FESTIVALARENAN Opening reception Phoenix Dragon Awards Gala 2018. Invitation only. Attendees with Press, Industry, VIP (purple), Nordic Film Market. Invitation only. VIP and Queen of Ice and Nordic Film Market accreditation can pick Industry accredited are welcome from 21.30 22:00 YAKIDA NIGHTCLUB Address: Tredje Långgatan 9 15:00 BIOP 8 And Breathe Normally (16:35) Dragon Awards Afterparty. Free for up tickets for festival screenings taking place accredited. Address: Storgatan 47. the same day or the next day. Remember to Friday February 2 15:30 BIOP 5 The Guilty (16:55) bring your accreditation. The Industry Ticket 16:00 BIOP 9 Nostradamus release and seminar (17:30) Desk is located at the Industry Centre on the 09:00 BIOP 9 Moving Sweden seminar (10:45) Sunday February 4 BIOP 5 The Violin Player (11:00) 16:45 BIOP 8 12th Man (19:00) 3rd floor of the Hotel Scandic Rubinen, Kung- BIOP 8 Raft (10:40) sportsavenyn 24 19:00–22:00 VALAND BUFFET DINNER PARTY 09:00 GÖ3 12th Man (11:15) 09:15 BIOP 10 As I Fall (10:50) Hosted by Scandinavian Films and Nordic BIOP 1 Denmark (10:45) Film Market, Invitation only 09:30 GÖ4 The Monkey and the Mouth (11:10) Industry Ticket Desk hours Address: Vasagatan 41 Jan 26–Feb 4 08:30–12:30 09:45 GÖ2 The Return (festival screening) (11:10) 22:00 SCANDIC RUBINEN Finnish Party. NFM accredited only.
7 6 The 12th Man Den 12. Mann
1943 Norway — north of the Arctic Circle. Twelve re- Harald Zwart. Born in Holland and sistance fighters, on a fishing boat carrying a cargo raised in Norway, Harald Zwart re- of explosives, are betrayed by a countryman and at- ceived his formal training at the re- tacked by a German minesweeper. Elleven of the men nowned Dutch Film Academy in are captured, tortured and killed. Only the twelfth man Amsterdam. With The 12th Man, the gets away. Jan Baalsrud escapes into the merciless internationally acclaimed director winter — unbeknownst of the fact that his determi- Harald Zwart finally returns to Norway to tell a story nation to survive will turn him into a symbol for the that he has been longing to tell for more than a decade. Norwegian resistance. A symbol people are willing to Zwart has a track record that speaks for itself with several die for. The legendary story of Jan Baalsrud’s escape big Hollywood productions on his resume, among them remains one of the wildest, most unfathomable sur- The Karate Kid (2010). vival stories of World War II.
Norway 2017. Fiction. DCP. 135 min.
DIRECTOR: HARALD ZWART. PRODUCER: AAGE AABERGE, ESPEN World Sales: HORN, VESLEMØY RUUD ZWART. SCREENPLAY: ALEX BOE. TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark CINEMATO GRAPHY: GEIR HARTLY ANDREASSEN. EDITOR: JENS +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] CHRISTIAN FODSTAD. CHRISTOPHE BECK. THOMAS Nordic Films MUSIC: CAST: GULLESTAD, JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS, MARIE BLOKHUS, MADS Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: SJØGÅRD PETTERSEN. PRODUCTION: NORDISK FILM PRODUCTION. Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 16:45, Biop 8 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sun Feb 4 09:00, Göta 3 Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected]
From The 12th Man Nordic Films 9 Amatörer Amateurs And Breathe Normally Andið eðlilega
Welcome to Lafors! A small Swedish community in Gabriela Pichler. Gabriela Pichler, At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two Isold Uggadottir. Isold Uggadottir is desperate need of a fresh start. Hope rises when the born in 1980 in Huddinge, Sweden. Her women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – an Icelandic director and screenwriter. German low-cost superstore Superbilly is considering first feature Eat Sleep Die premiered in while being trapped by unforeseen circumstances. She has directed several award-win- setting up business in the area. 500 new jobs, that 2012 at the Venice International Film Between a struggling single Icelandic mother and a ning short films that have toured the would change everything! Musse at the local govern- Festival and won the Audience Award political asylum seeker from Africa, an intimate bond festival circuit. She has an MFA in di- ment office gets the honour to make the commercial at Film Critic’s Week before it hit off will form as both fight to get their lives back on track. recting and screenwriting at Columbia that will be selling Lafors. But Aida and Dana pick with great success at film festivals around the world. University’s Graduate Film Program. And Breathe Nor- up the fight and turn their mobiles and selfiesticks Her unconventional mix of wit and social commentary, mally is her first feature film. towards everyone that isn’t allowed to take part in combined with an eye for brilliant amateur actors, are the commercial. The battle of who has the right to her characteristics and also defines her second feature tell the story of Lafors has begun. Amateurs.
Sweden 2018. Fiction. DCP. 102 min. Iceland/Sweden/Belgium 2018. Fiction. DCP. 95 min.
DIRECTOR: GABRIELA PICHLER. PRODUCER: ANNA-MARIA KANTARIUS. World Sales: DIRECTOR: ISOLD UGGADOTTIR. PRODUCER: SKÚLI MALMQUIST. World Sales: SCREENPLAY: JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI, GABRIELA PICHLER. LevelK Aps, Copenhagen Office, Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl. SCREENPLAY: ISOLD UGGADOTTIR. CINEMATOGRAPHY: I TA The Match Factory, GmbH Domstraße 60, 50668 Cologne CINEMATOGRAPHY: JOHAN LUNDBORG. CAST: ZAHRAA ALDOUJAILI, DK – 1850 Frederiksberg C, Denmark ZBRONIEC-ZAJ. EDITOR: FRÉDÉRIQUE BROOS. MUSIC: GISLI Germany, [email protected] YARA ALIADOTTER, FREDRIK DAHL. PRODUCTION: GARAGEFILM GALDUR. CAST: KRISTÍN ÞÓRA HARALDSDÓTTIR, BABETIDA SADJO INTERNATIONAL. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: ÞORSTEINN BACHMANN, GUNNAR JÓNSSON, SVEINN GEIRSSON. Sales contact: Tine Klint, +45 20 10 85 80, [email protected] PRODUCTION: ZIK ZAK FILMWORKS. Thania Dimitrakopoulou, thania.dimitrakopoulou@ Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Lauren Valmadre [email protected] matchfactory.de Thu Feb 1 17:00, Biop 9 Stine Bomholt [email protected] +45 2636 4091 Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Sat Feb 3 11:00, Biop 7 Fri Feb 2 15:00, Biop 8 Contact during Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sat Feb 3 15:00, Biop 7 Zsuzsi Bánkuti, [email protected] Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33 [email protected] 584 Fri Feb 2 18:15, Dra Laufey Gudjónsdóttir, +354 820 49 67, 637 Sat Feb 3 12:30, Stora Teatern [email protected] 713 Sun Feb 4 10:00, Roy
10 Nordic Films Nordic Films 11 As I Fall Når jeg faller Christian IV C4
As I Fall follows the unconventional relationship be- Magnus Meyer Arnesen. Magnus 1648. King Christian IV of Denmark is very ill. His Kasper Kalle. Kasper Kalle was born tween a father and son as they cling to one another Meyer Arnesen born 1981, graduated dying wish is to end his days in his beloved Copen- in 1983 in Denmark. From 2006–2012 under the looming threat of addiction and separation. from the Polish National Film School hagen and thus embarks on a journey to the capital he studied video art at The Funen Art Joachim (29) is attractive, but his charming smile veils in Lodz in 2010. His graduation film by horse and carriage. He sends for his ex-wife Kirsten Academy. In 2011 he was accepted to the daily battle he fights within himself as he struggles Sing me to sleep won numerous inter- – whom he had imprisoned after they divorced under The National Danish Film School. His to manage a heroin addiction. After years locked in a national awards and was nominated violent circumstances. Christian wants Kirsten to sign graduation film Darkest Moon was cycle of abuse, he suddenly has to step up and take for an Amanda Award. As I Fall is his graduation film a document claiming that she is guilty of betrayal. highly critically acclaimed and later nominated for a care of his 8- year old son Lukas. as master in directing from the National Film School in But once being reunited with the person he has loved Danish Robert. His debut feature Christian IV is suppor- Norway and his feature film debut. and hated the most throughout his volatile life, the ted by the Danish Film Institute’s low budget scheme past is set on fire. and premieres in 2018. He’s second feature is in the de- velopment with the working title Lilith. It’s a revenge film with a female avenger played by a transgender actress.
Norway 2018. Fiction. DCP. 94 min. Denmark 2018. Fiction. DCP. 90 min.
DIRECTOR: MAGNUS MEYER ARNESEN. PRODUCER: GYDA VELVIN World Sales: DIRECTOR: KASPER KALLE. PRODUCER: CLAUDIA SAGINARIO. SCREEN World Sales: MYKLEBUST, MAGNUS KRISTIANSEN. SCREENPLAY: KRISTIAN TBA PLAY: TRINE APPEL, KASPER KALLE. CINEMATO GRAPHY: CATHERINE TBA LANDMARK, MAGNUS MEYER ARNESEN. CINEMATO GRAPHY: IVAR TAIM. PATTINAMA COLEMAN. EDITOR: LINDA MAN. MUSIC: SOPHIA MAJ. EDITOR: JAAK OLLINO. MUSIC: DAVID STEPHEN GRANT. PRODUCTION: Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: CAST: BAARD OWE, RUDI KØHNKE, KAREN-LISE MYNSTER, ROSALINDE Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: DVF PRODUCTIONS A.S/DEN NORSKE FILMSKOLEN. Gyda Myklebust, [email protected] MYNSTER. PRODUCTION: GOOD COMPANY FILMS. Claudia Saginario, [email protected]
Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 09:15, Biop 10 Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Fri Feb 2 11:00, Biop 8 Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Sat Feb 3 11:00, Biop 8 Sat Feb 3 09:00, Biop 1
12 Nordic Films Nordic Films 13 Denmark Danmark East of Sweden
Norge, 22, is your typical slacker kid. He aimlessly wan- Kasper Rune Larsen. Kasper Rune Three men, who all have something to hide, share a Simo Halinen. Simo Halinen (born ders suburban blocks with a beer, a joint, and his only Larsen, born in 1986 Vejle, a small su- cabin on a northbound night train. Dominick is an 1963) is a Finnish film director, scre- friend Myre. The two kids dream of moving to the burbian area of Denmark. At the age undocumented African immigrant. Jere is caught up enwriter and author. He graduated big city and starting a music career. But everything of 12 he picked up his first VHS-came- in criminal activity and Aleksi is a psychiatric patient from the School of Arts, Design and changes when 16-year-old Josephine turns up claim- ra and started making movies inspi- running away. A violent confrontation ensues, which Architecture in 1995. Halinen released ing to pregnant with his child. red by console games and films like leads to Aleksi’s death. Through circumstance, the his first novel Idänsydänsimpukka in Bloodsport and Bad Taste. A few year later the Jackass Dominick and Jere fall in with Aleksi’s ex wife, the 2004 and a follow-up Lemmenomenia in 2008. He wrote and cKy wave kicked in and Kasper started to shoot beautiful Vera, and her small son. The truth will out, and directed his first feature film Cyclomania in 2001, and direct films with the contemporary mix of skate- but how will the men come to terms with what they and in 2013 he returned with awarded Open Up to Me. boarding, drinking and bound-to-go-wrong stunts. In have done? In addition to his film work, Halinen has also written and 2010 Kasper attended film college, his graduation film directed tv-series. Epoch got some attention and secured the making of his next short film Tha Man Who Didn’t which got him into the film school Super8. Denmark is his first feature.
Denmark 2017. Fiction. DCP. 90 min. Finland/Sweden 2018. Fiction. DCP. 103 min.
DIRECTOR: KASPER RUNE LARSEN. PRODUCER: HENRIK UNDERBJERG, World Sales: DIRECTOR: SIMO HALINEN. PRODUCER: LIISA PENTTILÄ, PETE EKLUND, World Sales: MARTIN FUGL CHABERT, STEFAN FROST. SCREENPLAY: KASPER RUNE TBA MADELEINE EKMAN. SCREENPLAY: SIMO HALINEN. CINEMATO The Yellow Affair, Korkeavuorenkatu 25 A 1 , FI- 00130 Helsinki LARSEN. CINEMATO GRAPHY: CLAUS LILL HAAGEDORN. EDITOR: MARTIN GRAPHY: HENRI BLOMBERG. EDITOR: KIMMO TAAVILA. MUSIC: MARKUS Finland NYGAARD FRIIS HANSEN. CAST: FREDERIKKE DAHL HANSEN, JONAS Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: KOSKINEN. CAST: LAURA BIRN, SAMUEL VAURAMO, LAURI UNTAMO, LINDEGAARD JACOBSEN, JACOB SKYGGEBJERG, JENS ”JK” KRISTIAN, Henrik Underbjerg, [email protected] DAVID NZINGA, ANDREAS AF ENEHIELM, SARA PAAVOLAINEN. PRO Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: MARTA HOLM. PRODUCTION: RADIATOR FILM, ANTI FILM. DUCTION: KAIHO REPUBLIC. Miira Paasilinna, +46 76 199 3166, [email protected] Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 09:15, Biop 1 Thu Feb 1 15:30, Biop 5 Jaana Puskala, +358 50 593 20 68, [email protected] Sat Feb 3 10:30, Biop 10 Sat Feb 3 10:30, Biop 3
14 Nordic Films Nordic Films 15 Entrepreneur Yrittäjä A Good Week for Democracy En bra vecka för demokratin
Entrepreneur is a feature-length documentary film Virpi Suutari. Virpi Suutari, born in A point of pride of Swedish democracy since 1968, the Cecilia Björk. Cecilia Björk was born about the everyday life of the self-employed entrepre- 1967 in Rovaniemi, Finland, is a di- political festival Almedalen keeps getting bigger every in 1981 in Härnösand in the north of neurs in today’s society. It focuses on their dreams, in- rector, writer and professor of arts. summer. Shot here over the course of three years, A Sweden. In her films she wants to tegrity, and ability to sustain their dignity even amidst She has worked in the film indu- Good Week for Democracy follows politicians, lobby- map out places where power is con- hardships. stry for more than 20 years and has ists and journalists at different stages in their careers, centrated. She has previously worked worked together with Susanna Helke with different degrees of power, as they navigate the within communications and media, as on several films, including the award winning Joutilaat. game rules of democracy. The film is a study of how well as with casting and as adviser on several Plattform Virpi Suutari is also a member of European Film Academy politics is performed in a society where media atten- Produktion projects, most notably Ten Meter Tower. Her tion is hard currency. previous short documentary Blessed studies how faith becomes manifest at a Christian summer camp, and premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival in 2014. A Good Week for Democracy is her first feature.
Highlighted Nordic Documentary in Competition
Finland 2018. Documentary. DCP. 74 min. Sweden 2018. Documentary. DCP. 77 min.
DIRECTOR: VIRPI SUUTARI. SCRIPT: VIRPI SUUTARI. CINEMTOGRAPHY: World Sales: DIRECTOR: CECILIA BJÖRK. CINEMTOGRAPHY: MAXIMILIEN VAN World Sales: HEIKKI FÄRM, TUOMO HUTRI, MARITA HÄLLFORS, JANI KUMPULAINEN, CAT&DOCS AERTRYCK, AXEL DANIELSON, PIA LEHTO, CECILIA BJÖRK. EDITOR: TBA HANNU-PEKKA VITIKAINEN. EDITOR: JUSSI RAUTANIEM. CAST: AMANDA Maëlle Guenegues
16 Nordic Films Nordic Films 17 The Guilty Den skyldige The Heart Hjärtat
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Gustav Möller. Gustav Möller was “If you love me, why don’t you fuck me?” Mika and Fanni Metelius. With award-winning Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped born 1988 in Gothenburg. He gradu- Tesfay. She: a photographer. He: a musician. Both up- shorts and a celebrated performan- woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the ated as director from the National and-coming. The first love. But an invisible conflict, ce in Ruben Östlund’s feature Force search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With Film School of Denmark in 2015 with an unnamable shame, stirs between their sheets. An Majeure under her belt, Swedish di- the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against I mørke. The psychological thriller The insidious power game is in play, with it rules changing rector, screenwriter and actress Fanni time to save the endangered woman. But soon he re- Guilty (2017) is Möller’s feature film like music beats at the parties in Gothenburg, Stock- Metelius is being hailed as a genera- alizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger debut. holm and Ibiza. Behind closed doors and beautifying tional auteur. The Heart is Metelius’ debut feature, brin- than he first thought. filters lies a raw reality where Mika’s control over her ging her raw, novel gaze on society and her BFA (Film mind and body is at stake. In her debut feature film, Directing/Producing), to full fruition. actress, director and auteur Fanni Metelius rips apart relationship prejudices and explores what really makes our pulses quicken in matters of the modern heart.
Denmark 2018. Fiction. DCP. 85 min. Sweden 2018. Fiction. DCP. 105 min. DIRECTOR: GUSTAV MÖLLER. PRODUCER: LINA FLINT. SCREEN World Sales: DIRECTOR: FANNI METELIUS. PRODUCERS: REBECKA LAFRENZ, World Sales: PLAY: GUSTAV MÖLLER, EMIL NYGAARD ALBERTSEN. CINEMATO TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark MIMMI SPÅNG. CINEMTOGRAPHY: MAJA DENNHAG. EDITOR: FANNI M-appeal, Prinzessinnenstr. 16 10969 Berlin Germany GRAPHY: JASPER SPANNING. EDITOR: CARLA LUFFE. MUSIC: CARL +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] METELIUS. MUSIC: KATHARINA NUTTALL, LINUS ANDERSSON. CAST: COLEMAN, CASPAR HESSELAGER. CAST: JAKOB CEDERGREN, JESSICA FANNI METELIUS, AHMED BERHAN, LEONA AXELSEN, DANIELLA MIR, Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: DINNAGE, OMAR SHARGAWI, JOHAN OLSEN. PRODUCTION: NORDISK Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: SUZANNE REUTER. PRODUCTION: GARAGEFILM. Mimmi Spång, +4670 922 79 89, [email protected] FILM / SPRING. Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] Rebecka Lafrenz, +4670 812 19 93, [email protected] Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 11:00 Biop 10 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Thu Feb 1 12:30 Biop 9 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, [email protected] Fri Feb 2 15:30 Biop 5 Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings: Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33 [email protected] 413 Wed Jan 31 17:30 Stora Teatern Parallel festival screenings: 516 Thu Feb 1 17:00 Capitol 670 Sat Feb 3 17:30, Dra 552 Fri Feb 2 12:00 Capitol 4021 Sun Feb 4 09:45, Dra
18 Nordic Films Nordic Films 19 Holiday Jimmie
Young and beautiful Sascha discovers her dream life Isabella Eklöf. Isabella Eklöf, born Jimmie tells the impressionistic story of the 4-year Jesper Ganslandt. Jesper Ganslandt, of recklessness and fun comes at a price when she is in 1978 in Östra Ryd, Sweden, holds old boy Jimmie. Seen from his eyes as he flees his born in 1978 in Falkenberg, Sweden. He welcomed into the “family” of her drug lord boyfriend a bachelor in Film Directing from the home with his father, and later when looking for the shot his feature debut Falkenberg Fa- at his holiday villa in the port city of Bodrum on the University of Gothenburg form 2007 father with a family of strangers who have taken him rewell in 2003 with family and friends Turkish Riviera. Physical and psychological violence and graduated as director from The in. The fragments of Jimmies journey explores his fear acting as themselves. That film and are a way of life in this volatile household, but when National Film School of Denmark in of being left behind, the discovery of worlds unknown The Ape (2009) and Blondie (2012) all Sascha seeks the attention of another man, the velvet 2011 with the film Notes From Underground. In 2012 she and how missing a parent really hurts. premiered at Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festi- veneer is stripped raw to the bone. Is it possible that received Bisballeprisen, a Danish art prize, for her work val. In his new film Jimmie he stars together with his son she could still leave this life of luxury and violence on the film. Eklöf also works with editing, screenwriting Hunter. Jimmie, and Ganslandt’s first English-speaking behind? and translations to and from Swedish, English and Danish feature Beast of Burden, starring Daniel Radcliffe, will and she has published translations and short stories in both premiere in 2018. Swedish. Holiday is her first feature film.
Denmark 2018. Fiction. DCP. 90 min. Sweden/Austria/Croatia 2018. Fiction. DCP. 90 min. DIRECTOR: ISABELLA EKLÖF. PRODUCER: DAVID B. SØRENSEN. SCREEN World Sales: DIRECTOR: JESPER GANSLANDT. PRODUCER: HEDVIG LUNDGREN, World Sales: PLAY: ISABELLA EKLÖF, JOHANNE ALGREN. CINEMATOGRAPHY: NADIM Heretic Outreach, 18, Promitheos Street JUAN PABLO LIBOSSART, JESPER KURLANDSKY. SCREENPLAY: JESPER TBA CARLSEN. EDITOR: OLIVIA NEERGARD-HOLM. CAST: VICTORIA 152 34 Halandri Athens, Greece, [email protected] GANSLANDT. CINEMATOGRAPHY: MÅNS MÅNSSON. EDITOR: MAGNUS CARMEN SONNE, LAI YDE, THIJS RÖMER, ADAM ILD ROHWEDER. PRO SVENSSON, JESPER GANSLANDT, MAURICIO MOLINARI. MUSIC: JON Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: DUCTION: APPARATUS. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: EKSTRAND. CAST: HUNTER LOUISE GANSLANDT, JESPER GANSLANDT, Hedvig Lundgren, [email protected] Ioanna Stais, +30 216 7003325, [email protected] CHRISTOPHER WAGELIN, ANNA LITTORIN, ELLEN SARRI LITTORIN. Screenings at Nordic Film Market: PRODUCTION: FASAD. Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 11:30, Biop 9 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: [email protected] Parallel festival screenings Fri Feb 2 11:15, Biop 5 Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected] 515 Thur Feb 1 18:30, Dra Sat Feb 3 13:15, Biop 8 601 Fri Feb 2 20:30, Biop 9 668 Sat Feb 3 17:00, Biop 10 Parallel festival screenings: 776 Sun Feb 4 17:30, Chalmers 420 Wed Jan 31 17:30, Biop 10
20 Nordic Films Nordic Films 21 Letters The Monkey and the Mouth Adjø Montebello
Marte Vold is a 37-year-old mother of two who lives Marte Vold, Jéro Yun. Marte Vold’s di- Oslo, the capital of the richest country in the world Thea Hvistendahl. Thea Hvistendahl in Oslo. Jéro Yun is 35 years old and lives alone with rectorial work includes Out of Nature has become overgrown and overheated, a kind of con- is a young and promising director from his cat in Seoul. Jéro’s visit to his parents, whom he (co-directed with Ole Giæver, 2014) temporary tropical nightmare, a police state where Oslo, Norway. She finished her film hasn’t seen for a long time, marks the start of a year- and New Directors/New Films-se- police in pig masks rule and make sure that every- studies at Westerdals School Of Com- long correspondence between the two filmmakers. lected short film, Totem (2015). As one is “neutral”. The film merges the songs from the munication in 2013, where she spe- They exchange videos and thoughts from their lives. a cinematographer, Vold’s work in- Spektrum concert with fiction. It starts with their trial cialized in directing. Making several Jéro’s mother’s health is getting worse, and suddenly cludes several award-winning films, most recent- and continues with reflections on how their friendship shorts and music videos she was selected to be part questions about family, maternity, time and memories ly Hoggeren (Dir. Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, 2017). arose and how they, from challenging personal back- of a one year talent program Viken Akademiet. In 2013
become urgent for both Jéro and Marte. Letters is an grounds, worked their way up to the positions as the her exam film, You and Me, Mommy, premiered at one of Born in Busan, Jéro Yun studied Art honest, personal and touching portrait of family life nation’s most “dangerous” advocates. Each fiction Norway’s biggest film festivals, BIFF. She has also made a and Cinema in France. His short films in South Korea and Norway. section is closely linked to the songs, and transitions name in the music video industry by winning Best Music include Promise (2011), The Pig (2013, between the visual and textual is merged to convey Video at The Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2014. co-directed with Singing Chen) and the meaning behind the lyrics. the award-winning Hitchhiker (2016). His previous documentaries include Looking for North Koreans (2013) and Mrs B., A North Norway 2017. Fiction. DCP. 98 min. Korean Woman (2016). DIRECTOR: THEA HVISTENDAHL. PRODUCER: KRISTIN EMBLEM, World Sales: Norway/South Korea/Denmark 2017. Documentary DCP. 74 min. GURI NEBY, THERESE BØHN. SCREENPLAY: MAGDI YTREEIE LevelK Aps, Copenhagen Office, Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl. ABDELMAGUID, THEA HVISTENDAHL, CHIRAG RASHMIKANT PATEL. DK – 1850 Frederiksberg C, Denmark DIRECTOR: MARTE VOLD, JERO YUN. PRODUCER: ELISA FERNANDA World Sales: CINEMATO GRAPHY: PÅL ULVIK ROKSETH. EDITOR: JONAS AARØ, PIRIR RUIZ, MARIA EKERHOVD. SCREENPLAY: MARTE VOLD, JERO YUN . TBA THOMAS TRÆLNES, JON ARNE STORKÅS. MUSIC: MAGDI YTREEIE Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: CINEMATO GRAPHY: MARTE VOLD, JERO YUN . EDITOR: NADIA BEN ABDELMAGUID, THOMAS KONGSHAVN, CHIRAG RASHMIKANT Tine Klint, +45 20 10 85 80, [email protected] RACHID, JERO YUN. PRODUCTION: MER FILM. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: PATEL. CAST: MAGDI YTREEIE ABDELMAGUID, ODA FELICIA BARDAL Lauren Valmadre, [email protected] Maria Ekerhovd, [email protected] SIGSTAD ABDELMAGUID, RAVDEEP SINGH BAJWA, JONATAN BLODE. Stine Bomholt, [email protected], +45 2636 4091 Screenings at Nordic Film Market: PRODUCTION: DRAMA EINAR. Sat Feb 3 14:45, Biop 9 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings: Thu Feb 1 16:15, Biop 7 416 Wed Jan 31 17:30, Göta 1 Sun Feb 4 09:30, Göta 4 517 Thur Feb 1 19:00, Haga 1 545 Fri Feb 2 10:00, Capitol Parallel festival screenings: 679 Sat Feb 3 18:00, Biop 1 607 Fri Feb 2 21:15 Dra 683 Sat Feb 3 18:45 Göta 1
22 Nordic Films Nordic Films 23 My Heart Belongs to Daddy Røvedatter The Raft Flotten
Sofia, a tough young director fresh out of film school, Sofia Haugan. Director Sofia Haugan In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the At- Marcus Lindeen. Marcus Lindeen reunites with her father. He has spent more time in holds a degree in documentary direc- lantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment stud- made his debut with documentary prison than out of it and lives a life marked by addic- ting from NISS, Oslo. Her thesis short ying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual feature Regretters in 2011, which won tion and criminality. His biggest sorrow is that he lost A Little About my Dad (2012) was no- attraction in human behavior. Although the project both the Prix Europa for Best Euro- Sofia. Her biggest hope is that she can help him on minated best documentary at Bergen became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody pean Documentary in Berlin and the his feet and repair broken bonds. With their charac- International Film Festival (Norway), expected what ultimately took place on that three Swedish Academy Awards (Guldbag- teristic dark humour, they fight for truth and friend- Grimstad Short Film Festival (Norway), and FEST (Por- month journey. Through extraordinary archive ma- ge) in 2011. His second film was fiction feature, Glorious ship against grinding addiction and a system that is tugal). My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Røverdatter) is her terial and a reunion of the surviving members of the Accidents, that premiered and won a prize at The Venice meant to help them. first feature documentary. expedition on a full scale replica of the raft, this film Film Festival. In January 2017 he presented The Raft tells the hidden story behind what has been described as an art installation at The Centre Pompidou in Paris. as one of the strangest group experiments of all time.
Highlighted Nordic Documentary in Competition Norway/Sweden 2018. Documentary. DCP. 83 min. Sweden 2018. Documentary. DCP. 98 min.
DIRECTOR: SOFIA HAUGAN. CINEMTOGRAPHY: MAGNUS TOMBRE World Sales: DIRECTOR: MARCUS LINDEEN. PRODUCER: ERIK GANDINI. CINEMATO World Sales: BØHN. EDITOR: CHRISTOFFER HEIE. MUSIC: HANNE HUKKELBERG. Taskovski Films Ltd, C/o Very Ard Times Ltd, GRAPHY: MÅNS MÅNSSON. EDITOR: ALEXANDRA STRAUSS, DOMINIKA Cinetic Media (US and Canada), 555 W. 25th Street, 4th Floor PRODUCER: CARSTEN AANONSEN. PRODUCTION: INDIE FILM. Tower 42 25 Old Broad Street London, EC2N 1HQ DAUBENBÜCHEL. MUSIC: HANS APPELQVIST. PRODUCTION: FASAD. New York, NY 10001, United States [email protected] Dana O’Keefe, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings Screenings at Nordic Film Market: 581 Fri Feb 2 17:30 Göta 1 Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: Fri Feb 2 09:00, Biop 8 Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: 666 Sat Feb 3 17:00 Capitol Carsten Aanonsen, [email protected] Sat Feb 3 09:00, Biop 8 Jesper Kurlandsky, +46 704 53 33 32, [email protected] 791 Sun Feb 4 18:00 Biop 10 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Sara Rüster, +46 761 17 26 78, [email protected]
24 Nordic Films Nordic Films 25 The Return Solsidan
Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time Malene Choi. Malene Choi, born in Divorce, involuntary childlessness and parental re- Felix Herngren, Måns Herngren. to the country they were once born in. Confronted 1973 in Denmark, graduated as do- lations – in an atmosphere filled with rancorous un- Felix is a Swedish director, writer with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal cumentary director from the National dertones. These are some of the ingredients when and actor. TV-work includes Solsi- stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Film School of Denmark, 2005, has the most popular comedy series in Sweden, Solsidan, dan, Bonus Family, Trigger Man, The Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emo- directed a number of documentaries moves onto the big screen. Simple Heist, Sjölyckan, and feature tionally disorienting journey that forces both of them and the short fiction Creature (2011). work includes The 100-year Old Man to question and face their own destiny and identity. The Return is Choi’s first feature film. Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The 101 Operating in a hybrid field The Return is partially year-old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disap- based on director Malene Choi’s personal experience peared, Solsidan (the movie), Adult Behaviour and Every as well as stories shared by adoptees that Malene en- Other Week. Felix Herngren is founder and co-owner of countered in Seoul while shooting the film. FLX. Måns is Felix’ older brother and has been writing and directing the last three decades, numerous box office hits as Adam & Eva, Solsidan, The Swimsuit Issue and The 101 year-old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Dis- appeared. Måns has also successfully acted in various TV-series/feature films.
Denmark 2018. Fiction. DCP. 85 min. Sweden 2017. Fiction. DCP. 104 min.
DIRECTOR: MALENE CHOI. PRODUCER: JULIE FRIIS WALENCIAK, JULIE World Sales: DIRECTOR: FELIX HERNGREN, MÅNS HERNGREN. PRODUCER: EMMA World Sales: RIX BOMHOLT, KATJA ADOMEIT. CINEMATOGRAPHY: CATHERINE Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH, Bayreuther Str. 9 NYBERG. SCREENPLAY: JESPER HARRIE. CINEMATOGRAPHY: VIKTOR SF Studios, Sveavägen 56 SE – 111 34, Stockholm, SWEDEN PATTINAMA COLEMAN EDITOR: JULIUS KREBS DAMSBO. MUSIC: PHILIP D-10789 Berlin, Germany, [email protected] DAVIDSON. EDITOR: HENNING MARK. MUSIC: LOVE MARTINSEN, DAVID +46 8 409 188 00, [email protected] NICOLAI FLINDT. CAST: KAROLINE SOFIE LEE, THOMAS HWAN, SEONG IN ENGELLAU. CAST: FELIX HERNGREN, HENRIK DORSIN, JOHAN RHEBORG, JA. PRODUCTION: WALENCIAK FILM, ADOMEIT FILM, CINE EVERYWHERE. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: JOSEPHINE BORNEBUSCH, MALIN CEDERBLADH, MIA SKÄRINGER. PRO Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: Margot Haiböck, +49 30 2191 8220, [email protected] DUCTION: JAROWSKIJ, FLX. Anita Simovic, +46 70 648 26 11, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Sat Feb 3 13:00, Biop 7 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Thu Feb 1 14:30, Biop 9 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, petter.mattsson@ Parallel festival screenings: Sat Feb 3 13:00, Biop 1 filminstitutet.se 423 Wed Jan 31 18:00, Dra Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33 [email protected] 518 Thur Feb 1 19:15, Biop 9 560 Fri Feb 2 14:15, Dra 711 Sun Feb 4 09:45, Göta 2
26 Nordic Films Nordic Films 27 That Summer Den sommaren The Violin Player Viulisti
That Summer is a feature documentary centered on Göran Hugo Olsson. Göran Hugo A celebrated violin player, Karin, has to end her stel- Paavo Westerberg. Paavo Wester- the film project artist Peter Beard initiated in 1972 Olsson, born in 1965 in Lund, Sweden, lar career after a car accident makes her fingers stop berg is an award-winning playwright, with Lee Radziwill about her relatives, the Beales of is a director, producer and editor. He working their magic. She starts teaching students who screenwriter, theatre and film director. Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary was educated at the Royal Academy are twenty years younger than her, only to find herself Paavo Westerberg has won the Jussi footage re-emerges in a film that focuses on Beard of Fine Arts in Stockholm and is one falling in love with Antti, one of her students. They are Award for the Best Script in 2007 and and his family of friends, who formed an enormously of Sweden’s leading filmmakers inter- not an easy match, both being passionate about the 2006 for the acclaimed films Frozen influential and vibrant creative community in Mon- nationally. His first cinema release was Fuck You, Fuck music and overly ambitious about their careers. The City and Frozen Land. Westerberg also wrote and di- tauk, Long Island (NY) in the 1970s. Featuring Peter You Very Much in 1998. He was editor and co-founder Violin Player is a romantic drama about giving up rected the television drama Latent Heat (2010), which Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith of the short documentary television program Ikon at on your dreams and letting your ambitions lead you. was nominated for the Prix Italia Award. Westerberg has Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol. Based on footage direct- SVT. He became internationally reknowned for his The written and directed almost 20 plays. Westerberg gradu- ed by Peter Beard, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol and Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011) and Concerning ated in 2000 with a Master’s Degree in Theatre Arts and with additional cinematography by Albert Maysles Violence (2014) which premiered at Sundance and the currently lives in Helsinki. The Violin Player is his debute and Vincent Fremont. Berlinale Panorama. feature film as a film director.
Sweden/United States/Denmark 2017. Documentary. DCP. 80 min. Finland 2018. Fiction. DCP. 119 min.
DIRECTOR: GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON. PRODUCER: TOBIAS JANSON, World Sales: DIRECTOR: PAAVO WESTERBERG. PRODUCER: MIKKO TENHUNEN, ULLA World Sales: NEJMA BEARD, JOSLYN BARNES, SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN. CINEMATO Dogwoof Global, Ground Floor – Overseas House SIMONEN. SCREENPLAY: EMMI PESONEN, PAAVO WESTERBERG. CINE TBA GRAPHY: PETER BEARD, JONAS MEKAS. EDITOR: PER K. KIRKEGAARD, 19–23 Ironmonger Row, London, United Kingdom MATOGRAPHY: MAREK WIESER. EDITOR: SAMU HEIKKILÄ. CAST: KIM GÖRAN OLSSON. MUSIC: GORAN KAJFES. CAST: PETER BEARD, WILLIAM [email protected] BODNIA, SAMULI EDELMANN, MATLEENA KUUSNIEMI, OLAVI UUSIVIRTA. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: VANDEN HEUVEL, PAUL MORRISSEY, LEE RADZIWILL, ANDY WARHOL. PRODUCTION: MJÖLK MOVIES. Mikko Tenhunen, [email protected] PRODUCTION: STORY, THUNDERBOLT RANCH, LOUVERTURE FILMS, Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: FINAL CUT FOR REAL. Tobias Janson, +46 736 50 74 15, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market Fri Feb 2 09:00, Biop 5 Jaana Puskala, +358 50 593 20 68, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sat Feb 3 10:45, Biop 1 Fri Feb 2 13:30, Biop 5 Sara Rüster, +46 761 17 26 78 [email protected] Sat Feb 3 11:00, Biop 9 Parallel festival screenings: 438 Wed Jan 31 19:45, Biop 9 Parallel festival screenings: 480 Thur Feb 1 13:45, Göta 1 394 Wed Jan 31 12:30, Biop 10 641 Sat Feb 3 12:30, Fröl 488 Thur Feb 1 15:00, Biop 10
28 Nordic Films Nordic Films 29 The Way to Mandalay Så længe jeg lever Wonderland Joulumaa
Inari Niemi. Inari Niemi’s (b. 1978) The Way to Mandalay is the story about one of Den- Ole Bornedal. Ole Bornedal is one of Helena’s husband has gone off with a younger woman. feature debut Summertime in 2014 mark’s greatest and most beloved musicians, John the most internationally recognized Christmas is coming, life is slow and nothing is as it was a box office hit in Finland and Mogensen and depicts his successes and failures danish directors and was one of the used to be. Helena’s best friend Ulli talks her into received several nominations at the throughout life and his inner dialogues revolving life, founders of the “New Danish Wave”. spending Christmas at the only destination they Finnish Oscars. Niemi has directed music, love, being a husband and father – and his Bornedal directed Nattevagten in can afford and that still has room. They are look- several short films and a feature- struggle with his own perfectionism. The film takes 1994, a psychological thriller, which ing forward to an old-time Christmas in the country length documentary about a Finnish teenage pop sen- us on a journey from John Mogensen’s childhood, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto and just among women. Christmas at the organic farm sation Robin the Movie. throughout his time in the popular band Four Jacks Sundance. Since then he has been a prominent film di- is hosted by two young fledgling farmers for whom to his late success as a solo artist – until his death in rector and his latest feat has been writing and directing even offering farm accommodation provides a new 1977 where he dies from a heart attack caused by an The Way to Mandalay, starring Rasmus Bjerg, Helle Fa- opportunity for communal togetherness. As the days extensive alcohol abuse that followed him his entire gralid, Lars Ranthe and Peter Mygind. of the Christmas season pass, the lives of the guests, adult life. as well as the hosts, unexpectedly take a completely new turn and the women of Wonderland face life’s big questions.
Finland 2017. Fiction. DCP. 92 min. Denmark 2018. Fiction. DCP. 107 min.
DIRECTOR: OLE BORNEDAL. PRODUCER: PETER BOSE, JONAS World Sales: DIRECTOR: INARI NIEMI. PRODUCER: MIIA HAAVISTO. SCREEN World Sales: ALLEN. SCREENPLAY: OLE BORNEDAL. CINEMATOGRAPHY: JESPER TBA PLAY: INARI NIEMI. CINEMATO GRAPHY: SARI AALTONEN. The Yellow Affair, Korkeavuorenkatu 25 A 1 TØFFNER. EDITOR: ANDERS VILLADSEN. CAST: RASMUS BJERG, HELLE EDITOR: HANNA KUIRINLAHTI. MUSIC: JOEL MELASNIEMI. CAST: MILKA FI- 00130 Helsinki, Finland FAGRALID, HARALD KAISER HERMANN, BEBIANE KREUTZMANN. PRO Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: AHLROTH, MARI RANTASILA, ANNA PAAVILAINEN, EERO RITALA. PRO DUCTION: MISO FILM APS. Jonas Allen, +45 30 70 22 66, [email protected] DUCTION: HELSINKI FILMI. Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: Miira Paasilinna, +46 761 99 31 66, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Thu Feb 1 14:15, Biop 7 Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 2148 8522, [email protected] Thu Feb 1 12:30, Biop 7 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sat Feb 3 12:15, Biop 10 Fri Feb 2 11:00, Biop 1 Jaana Puskala, +358 505 93 20 68, [email protected]
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18-24 AUGUST 2018 18-24 AUGUST 18 AUGUST AMANDA AWARDS CO-PRODUCTION AND FINANCE MARKET AND CO-PRODUCTION NEW NORDIC FILMS NEW Anna Odell Untitled Bergman – A Year in a Life A Better Life (Working title) Beware of Children Barn
An artist, Anna Odell, has chosen a famous and cele- In the middle of the 20th century something unrivaled As winter approaches in rural 1850s Denmark, an old 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour brated actor, Mikael Persbrandt, to collaborate togeth- is happening. An almost 40-year-old Swedish director farmer (Jens) and his family face starvation. The harsh Party politician, accidentally beats her classmate Ja- er on a feature film to deconstruct themselves and their goes into a production rate that is unprecedented. Sta- circumstances and with the prospect of yet another mie, the son of a local right wing-politician, to death. habitual roles. They embark on a game without script tistically, this artist makes 1.8 long feature films a year tough winter, Jens must make an unbearable choice. She claims Jamie’s death was an accident, but nobody and without rules where they use people around them during this period, to be added with countless stage, If the family is to survive he must settle an agreement believes her. to examine the masculine and feminine identity. The radio plays and TV films. Between 1957 and 1963, Ing- with the wealthy farmer at the nearby farm and forsake Artist’s concept of mixing reality and fiction starts to mar Bergman wrote and directed some of the greatest his own moral and the most precious he owns, in an Dag Johan Haugerud. Dag Johan Hauger- ud’s first feature, I Belong from 2012, won create conflicts and eventually the Actor and even the pictures of film history. This is the biography of this all effort to secure them all a better life. all the main Norwegian Academy Awards; film crew starts to question the Artist’s capability time greatest artist in Sweden. Best film, Best director, Best screenplay and Michael Noer. Born in Denmark, 1978. Best actress, was the Norwegian candidate Anna Odell. Anna Odell is an original and Jane Magnusson. Born in 1968, Jane Mag- Graduated from the National Film School for the Nordic Council’s Prize and won the unique talent in the world of Swedish art and nusson works as writer-director since 2009. of Denmark, 2003. Award-winning director Norwegian Film Critics Prize. Beware of Children is his second cinema. What has primarily shaped her is her She directed Bergman’s Video (SVT 2012), Michael Noer’s first feature film R (2010), feature. In addition to his directing career, Dag Johan Haugerud willingness to take risks, to dare to challenge and another documentary Trespassing co-directed by Tobias Lindholm, has marked has written four novels, all to critical acclaim. and push boundaries. This is reflected in her Bergman (2013) which premeried in Venice. him as one of the most talented directors art installations and her films. In 2013, Anna Her documentary Ebbe the movie (2009) of his time. R won top awards at Göteborg Film Festival and DIRECTOR: DAG JOHAN HAUGERUD. PRODUCER: YNGVE SÆTHER. Odell finished working on The Reunion (Återträffen), a feature was awarded the Guldbagge and the Swedish Great Journal- Mumbai Film Festival, plus several accolades at the annual SCREENPLAY: DAG JOHAN HAUGERUD. CINEMATOGRAPHY: ØYSTEIN film debut that shocked and surprised the Swedish establish- ist Award. Besides Bergman – A Year in a Life, Jane works on Danish award ceremonies Bodil and Robert. Since then, Michael MAMEN. EDITOR: JENS CHRISTIAN FODSTAD. MUSIC: ARNAUD ment and film world. Now, with her new feature she takes a two other documentary projects for B-Reel Films. Before her has continued his success with films like Northwest (2013) FLEURENT DIDIER. CAST: HENRIETTE STEENSTRUP, JAN GUNNAR RØISE, THORBJØRN HARR. PRODUCTION: MOTLYS A/S. firm view of the male and female identity. directing career she worked as a culture journalist for Swedish and Key House Mirror (2015). His latest film Papillon (2017) Television and for a number of daily papers and magazines. premiered at Toronto Film Festival. DIRECTOR: ANNA ODELL. PRODUCER: FRIDA BARGO, MATTIAS NOHRBORG. SCREENPLAY: ANNA ODELL. CINEMATOGRAPHY: DANIEL DIRECTOR: JANE MAGNUSSON. PRODUCER: MATTIAS NOHRBORG, TAKÁCS. EDITOR: KRISTIN GRUNDSTRÖM, HANNA LEJONQVIST. CAST: FREDRIK HEINIG, CECILIA NESSEN. SCREENPLAY: JANE MAGNUSSON, DIRECTOR: MICHAEL NOER. PRODUCER: RENÉ EZRA, MATILDA APPELIN. ANNA ODELL, MIKAEL PERSBRANDT, VERA VITALI, SHANTI RONEY, MATTIAS NOHRBORG. CINEMATOGRAPHY: EMIL KLANG. EDITOR: SCREENPLAY: JESPER FLINK, MICHAEL NOER. CINEMATOGRAPHY: SOFIE GRÅBÖL, JENS ABINUS, THURE LINDHART, TRINE DYRHOLM. HANNA LEJONQVIST. MUSIC: LARS KUMLIN & JONAS BECKMAN. STURLA BRANDTH GRØVLEN. EDITOR: ADAM NIELSEN. CAST: JESPER PRODUCTION: B-REEL FILMS. PRODUCTION: B-REEL FILMS. CHRISTENSEN, CLARA ROSAGER, MAGNUS KREPPER, ELLIOTT CROSSET HOVE. PRODUCTION: NORDISK FILM PRODUCTION.
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34 Work in Progress Work in Progress 35 The Deposit Tryggð Goliath Goliat Happy Ending Happy People
When Gísella (40s) decides to rent out spare bedrooms Goliath takes place in a forgotten industrial communi- Helle has been waiting forever for her workaholic husband Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it in her lavish Reykjavík home to two desperate immi- ty in Sweden. When Roland, a family father, ends up in Peter to retire, so they can enjoy the autumn of their life used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The grant women, she doesn’t realize just how much she jail, his sixteen-year-old son Kimmie is expected to take together. She really wants to travel and explore the world police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is will need to compromise. When she loses her job as a over the criminal affairs and the responsibility of the with him - but when Peter comes home from his last day that their little boy’s body has never been found. Lucas, journalist, she becomes desperate and begins to write family. A task he is not really ready for. The film depicts at work, life takes a surprisingly new turn; he is pursuing a ten years old. How easy it all would have been if the a freelance article based on the lives of the women liv- a boy’s brutal entry into adulthood and investigates new career as a wine importer and has invested all their ocean had taken the trouble to throw up a little swollen ing in her home. Money becomes a driving factor and aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, savings in an exclusive vineyard in Austria! Helle and Peter child’s corpse on to the beach. Or if a local with alcohol controls her ultimate goal. An arrangement that begins in a time when welfare is collapsing and the Swedish split up and they each set out on a blazing journey, filled in his blood and blood on his hands had ploughed him well soon develops into Gísella’s worst nightmare as society is changing. with new opportunities, problems and dreams… Happy down with full speed. An indescribable pain. No more she loses control of her home and her sanity. Ending is a fun, naughty story about having the guts to living, never more happiness, but at least no unan- Peter Grönlund. In his two short films Bröder- make a fresh start when everything seems to be over. swered questions. Unfortunately that is not how it is for na Jaukka and Gläntan and recently in the Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir. Ásthildur Kjartans- Adam and Louise. feature film debut Drifters (Tjuvheder), dóttir is a writer, director and producer. Her Hella Joof. Hella Joof has enjoyed success as latest work In Sickness and in Health was Peter Grönlund shows a unique touch and an actor, screenwriter and director in several Samanou Acheche Sahlstrøm. Samanou awarded at Arctic Heat and nominated at an outstanding sense of stories from soci- prominent Danish films. Previously, she was Acheche Sahlstrøm was born in 1982. He is Nordisk Panorama, RIFF and at the Icelan- ety’s bottom layers. With a consistent and director of Splitting Up Together (2016), All a French Director and Screenwriter living in dic Academy Awards. Her works have been enthralling image storytelling, Peter Grönlund has managed to Inclusive (2014) and Almost Perfect (2012), Denmark. He has worked very closely with distributed in the Nordic countries and Canada. Two of her merge amateur actors with professional actors, thus forming a co-author and director of Se Min Kjole (2009), Danish Director Lars von Trier, who has been documentaries have been nominated for Icelandic Academy universe with great autenticity and true naturalism. she wrote and directed En Kort, En Lang (2001), Oh Happy Day his mentor for many years. Samanou is a Awards and two of her dramas have been nominated for the (2004), Lenas Kvällbok (2007) and TV series Album (2008). She DIRECTOR: PETER GRÖNLUND. PRODUCER: MATTIAS NOHRBORG, graduate of the National Film School of Denmark from 2011. Icelandic DV Cultural Award. She is the owner of Rebella Fil- FRIDA BARGO. SCREENPLAY: PETER GRÖNLUND. CINEMATOGRAPHY: gained great popularity in several roles in both TV series and Happy People is his second feature. mworks, established in 1998. GÖSTA REILAND. EDITOR: DINA JONSÄTER. MUSIC: JOHAN TESTAD. films. Hella is also a radio host, writer and poet. Happy Ending CAST: SEBASTIAN LJUNGBLAD, JOAKIM SÄLLQUIST. PRODUCTION: is Hella’s eight feature. DIRECTOR: SAMANOU ACHECHE SAHLSTRØM. PRODUCER: JAKOB DIRECTOR: ÁSTHILDUR KJARTANSDÓTTIR. PRODUCER: EVA B-REEL FILMS. KIRSTEIN HØGEL, SARA NAMER. SCREENPLAY: SAMANOU ACHECHE SIGURDARDOTTIR. SCREENPLAY: ÁSTHILDUR KJARTANSDÓTTIR. DIRECTOR: HELLA JOOF. PRODUCER: MIE ANDREASEN. SCREENPLAY: SAHLSTRØM. CINEMATOGRAPHY: BRIAN CURT PETERSEN. EDITOR: CINEMATOGRAPHY: ÁSGRÍMUR GUÐBJARTSSON. EDITOR: ANDRI METTE HEENO. CINEMATOGRAPHY: KIM HØGH MIKKELSEN. EDITOR: THEIS SCHMIDT. CAST: DAR SALIM, LISA CARLEHED, FRANCESC STEINN GUÐJÓNSSON. MUSIC: KIRA KIRA. CAST: ELMA LÍSA JULIUS KREBS DAMSBO. MUSIC: FLEMMING NORDKROG. CAST: KURT GARRIDO. PRODUCTION: META FILM. GUNNARSDÓTTIR, ENID MBABAZI, RAFFAELLA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR. RAVN, BIRTHE NEUMANN, CHARLOTTE SIELING. PRODUCTION: HAPPY PRODUCTION: ASKJA FILMS, REBELLA FILMWORKS. ENDING FILM & TV.
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36 Work in Progress Work in Progress 37 The Human Part Ihmisen osa One Last Deal Phoenix Føniks Queen of Ice Sonja
Pekka is a bankrupt and penniless man, who has con- An elderly art dealer wants to make one last deal to From a far too young age , Jill has acted as the adult Queen of Ice is the true story of one of the world’s great- vinced his family that he is still the CEO of a successful leave the art scene as a winner. He discovers a heavi- in her family. She cares for her loving, but mentally un- est athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, IT company. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come ly underpriced painting at an auction house. Together stable mother as well as for her younger brother. The who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in or- with his grandson he starts investigating its origins. news that their estranged father will be visiting provide movie star. Her first film breaks the box office by selling der to dispel any doubts. For a moment Pekka’s bluff The dealer borrows all the savings from the grandson the children with much-needed hope. But, their mother the most tickets in the world in 1937. It is the story of a seems to work like a charm, until things start to spiral and buys the painting. When the auction house realizes cannot cope with her situation and makes a fatal deci- remarkable, iconic person who sacrificed everything to out of control. Finally Pekka realizes things have gone their mistake, they go against him. To fulfil his dream sion. Determined to prevent anything from destroying stay in the spotlight. too far and decides to tell his family the truth, bringing the dealer must face both the auction house and his the reunion with her father, Jill decides to conceal what the pieces of a once broken family back together past mistakes. has happened at home. Anne Sewitsky. The critically acclaimed di- rector Anne Sewitsky has directed several Juha Lehtola. Writer and director Juha Klaus Härö. Klaus Härö is one of the most Camilla Strøm Henriksen. Phoenix is an orig- features and high-end TV-dramas. Sewitsky Lehtola (b. 1966) has a solid reputation also successful film directors in Finland. His films inal story by Camilla Strøm Henriksen and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film as a theatre director. He has directed in The have won more than 60 awards around the will be her first feature. As an actress she has Festival with her feature film debut Happy, Finnish National Theatre and has written globe. His latest work The Fencer (also pro- appeared extensively in Norwegian films, Happy in 2010. Her latest feature Homesick several successful plays. His cinematic works duced by Making Movies) was shortlisted for TV and theatre productions. She studied at opened in Sundance in January 2015, and was also selected for include the feature film Boy Upside down an Oscar and nominated for a Golden Globe London Film School and graduated with an The Toronto Int. Film Festival that year. In 2017 she premiered (2014), mini-series Hunger for Love (2007) and several TV films. in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 2016. His other MA degree in directing in 2004. She has since directed multiple with the TV drama Monster (4 episodes for NRK). He has won several prizes for his work, including Prix Italia and works include Elina, as if I Wasn’t There (Crystal Bear Berlinale episodes of the longest running series in Scandinavia, Hotel DIRECTOR: ANNE SEWITSKY PRODUCER: SYNNØVE HØRSDAL, CORNELIA four Venla Awards, the Finnish equivalent for the Emmy Award. 2003), Mother of Mine (2005) and Letters to Father Jacob (2009). Caesar, as well as the drama series Hvaler. She’s currently devel- BOYSEN SCREENPLAY: METTE M. BØLSTAD, ANDREAS MARKUSSON oping a TV drama series and a feature film, as writer-director. CINEMATOGRAPHY: DANIEL VOLDHEIM EDITOR: CHRISTOFFER HEIE DIRECTOR: JUHA LEHTOLA. PRODUCER: MARK LWOFF, MISHA JAARI. DIRECTOR: KLAUS HÄRÖ. PRODUCER: KAI NORDBERG, KAARLE AHO. CAST: INE MARIE WILMANN, VALENE KANE, ELDAR SKAR, ANDERS SCREENPLAY: KARI HOTAKAINEN, JUHA LEHTOLA. CINEMATOGRAPHY: SCREENPLAY: ANNA HEINÄMAA. CINEMATOGRAPHY: TUOMO HUTRI. DIRECTOR: CAMILLA STRØM HENRIKSEN. PRODUCER: GUDNY MORDAL PRODUCTION: MAIPO FILM J-P PASSI EDITOR: SAMU HEIKKILÄ. MUSIC: HALFDAN E. CAST: HANNU- EDITOR: BENJAMIN MERCER. MUSIC: MATTI BYE, SAMULI KOSMINEN. HUMMELVOLL. SCREENPLAY: CAMILLA STRØM HENRIKSEN. PEKKA BJÖRKMAN, KARI HIETALAHTI, RIA KATAJA. PRODUCTION: BUFO. CAST: HEIKKI NOUSIAINEN, AMOS BROTHERUS, PIRJO LONKA, STEFAN CINEMATOGRAPHY: RAGNA JORMING. EDITOR: SVERRIR SAUK. PRODUCTION: MAKING MOVIES. KRISTJANSSON. MUSIC: PATRIK ANDREN, JOHAN SÖDERQVIST. CAST: YLVA BJØRKAAS THEDIN, CASPER FALCK-LØVÅS, MARIA BONNEVIE, SVERRIR GUDNASON. PRODUCTION: HUMMELFILM.
Presentation at NFM: Festival contact during NFM: Presentation at NFM: Festival contact during NFM: Presentation at NFM: Festival contact during NFM: Presentation at NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Friday Feb 2 approx 13:50 Jaana Puskala, Friday Feb 2 approx 14:00 Jaana Puskala, Friday Feb 2 approx 15:20 Stine Oppegard, Friday Feb 2 approx 15:30 Nicolai Korsgaard, Work in Progress Session 1 +358 50 593 20 68, Work in Progress Session 1 +358 50 593 20 68, Work in Progress Session 2 +47 90 85 96 38, Work in Progress Session 2 +45 2421 4133, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] World Sales: World Sales: World Sales: World Sales: Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, TBA Moderator: Andrea Reuter TBA Moderator: Andrea Reuter TBA Moderator: Wendy Mitchell TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28 [email protected] DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark Sales contact during NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Sales contact during NFM: +45 29 74 62 06 Festival contact during NFM: Mark Lwoff+, 358 45 131 4652, Kaarle Aho,+358 40 725 3936, Gudny Hummelvoll, [email protected] Stine Oppegard, [email protected] [email protected] +47 90 99 58 69, +47 90 85 96 38, Misha Jaari, +358 45 674 0272, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
38 Work in Progress Work in Progress 39 A Stranger Främling Stupid Young Heart Swoon That Time of Year Med hensyn til julen
In 2013, director Mikel Cee Karlsson starts a film proj- Stupid Young Heart is a story about the first love of Set in the imaginary universe of the magical and spark- That Time of Year a character-driven dramedy about a ect. The film is about an unlikely trauma that his best lightly built, carefree Lenni and gorgeous and popu- ing wonderland of two rivalling amusement parks, a woman who does everything in her power to hold togeth- friend went through, and for the most part tried to hide, lar Kiira. Not yet even properly in a relationship, they story of war and forbidden love unravels. Two neigh- er her seemingly perfect family, but soon must come to until now. During the making of the film, life changes discover that they are expecting a baby, and decide bouring amusement parks lay the scene for the secret terms with the fact she can’t even keep her own daughter dramatically, and Mikel is suddenly left alone with his to keep it. Lenni has nine months to become a man. love story between Ninni and John, the young heirs of in one piece. Christmas Eve provides the framework for friends untold story. Having grown up without a father figure, Lenni receives two rivaling families. An old grudge between their fa- this bittersweet tribute to the modern family that bat- longed for adult attention from an unlikely friend thers has evolved into hatred and bitter battle resonat- tle against the romantic notion of traditions. It’s a story Mikel Cee Karlsson. During the 1990s Mikel Janne, a member of a right wing activist group. After ing the war raging across Europe. about the tragicomic patterns we invent and accept, for was one of Sweden’s most notable skate- taking part in a scrambled attack on a local Mosque, no other reason than that of being a family; and about boarders. Through skateboarding he got in- while Kiira is rushed to the hospital to give birth, Lenni Björn Stein, Måns Mårlind. Måns and Björn the trouble we go through in order to do our best, and our troduced to cinematography and started realises that he can be a man in his own way, even if he live and work in Stockholm and LA. Over the secret desire to sometimes just run away from it all. shooting skateboarding and making never had a chance to be a child himself. last decade, they have co-directed several short films. In addition to his two multi- awardwinning features and TV series. Their Paprika Steen. Paprika Steen is one of Scan- ple awards-winning feature length documentaries Greetings latest creation was the award-winning Mid- Selma Vilhunen. Selma Vilhunen born 1976 is dinavia’s greatest actresses. She masters From The Woods and The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José night Sun, which has been sold to 90+ ter- an Academy Award -nominated screenwriter both comedy and drama and is able to trans- González, he has directed award-winning short films and nu- ritories. In 2014, their feature Shed no tears and director. She has written and directed form into any character imaginable. She has merous acclaimed music videos for artists like Fever Ray and won two Guldbagge awards. They directed both documentaries and fiction films since received numerous awards and nominations José González. the successful Hollywood production Under- 1998. Her debuting feature film Little Wing Steen made her directorial debut in 2004 world: Awakening with box office receipts with the tragedy-drama Aftermath. The film received awards DIRECTOR: MIKEL CEE KARLSSON PRODUCER: ERIK HEMMENDORFF premiered at TIFF 2016 and it received the of over $160 million, as well as the thriller SCREENPLAY: MIKEL CEE KARLSSON CINEMATOGRAPHY: MIKEL CEE Best Nordic Film Prize in 2017. Her latest release Hobbyhorse at several festivals including the Lübeck Nordic Film Days and Shelter with Julianne Moore and Jonathan KARLSSON EDITOR: MIKEL CEE KARLSSON MUSIC: HANS APPELQVIST Revolution, a documentary feature, premiered in HotDocs 2017 the Film by the Sea International Festival. In 2018 she will pre- PRODUCTION: PLATTFORM PRODUKTION Rhys-Meyers. Måns and Björn are also the and has been in cinema release in Finland, Sweden, Denmark miere her third feature film as a director, That Time of Year. creators of the critically acclaimed TV series The Bridge. and the Netherlands. DIRECTOR: PAPRIKA STEEN PRODUCER: MIKAEL CHRISTIAN RIEKS DIRECTOR: BJÖRN STEIN, MÅNS MÅRLIND PRODUCER: KRISTINA ÅBERG SCREENPLAY: JAKOB WEIS, PAPRIKA STEEN CINEMATOGRAPHY: JENS DIRECTOR: SELMA VILHUNEN PRODUCER: ELLI TOIVONIEMI, VENLA SCREENPLAY: MÅNS MÅRLIND CINEMATOGRAPHY: ERIK SOHLSTROM SCHLOSSER EDITOR: JACOB THUESEN CAST: PAPRIKA STEEN, JACOB HELLSTEDT. SCREENPLAY: KIRSIKKA SAARI CINEMATOGRAPHY: LISABI LOHMANN, SOFIE GRÅBØL, LARS BRYGMANN, PATRICIA SCHUMANN EDITOR: BJÖRN STEIN CAST: ALBIN GRENHOLM, FRIDA GUSTAVSSON, FRIDELL EDITOR: MICHAL LESZCZYLOWSKI, YVA FABRICIUS CAST: JERE PRODUCTION: NORDISK FILM PERNILLA AUGUST, ROBERT GUSTAFSSON PRODUCTION: ATMO AB RISTSEPPÄ, ROSA HONKONEN, VILLE HAAPASALO, KATJA KÜTTNER,
PIHLA VIITALA, ABSHIR SHEIK. PRODUCTION: TUFFI FILMS Presentation at NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Friday Feb 2 approx 13:15 Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 Presentation at NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Presentation at NFM: Festival contact during NFM: Presentation at NFM: Festival contact during NFM: Work in Progress Session 1 4133, [email protected] Friday Feb 2 approx 14:45 Nicolai Korsgaard, Saturday Feb 3 approx 10:15 Sara Rüster, +46 761 17 26 78 Friday Feb 2 approx 15:05 Jaana Puskala, Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, Work in Progress Session 2 +45 2421 4133, Work in Progress Session 3 [email protected] Work in Progress Session 2 +358 50 593 20 68, World Sales: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28 World Sales: Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, World Sales: Moderator: Wendy Mitchell World Sales: DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark Festival contact during NFM: TrustNordisk, [email protected] TBA TBA Moderator: Andrea Reuter +45 29 74 62 06 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, Filmbyen 28 [email protected] [email protected] DK-2650 Hvidovre , Festival contact during NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Sales contact during NFM: Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33 Denmark Christian Juhl Lemche, +45 Erik Hemmendorff, Elli Toivoniemi, +358 401 72 17 78, [email protected] +45 29 74 62 06 2148 8522, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Moderator: Andrea Reuter Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
40 Work in Progress Work in Progress 41 Discovery Woman at War Kona fer í stríð
DIRECTOR: BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON PRODUCER: MARIANNE SLOT, BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON, CARINE LEBLANC SCREENPLAY: BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON, ÓLAFUR EGILL EGILSSON CINEMATOGRAPHY: BERGSTEINN BJÖRGÚLFSSON EDITOR: DAVÍÐ ALEXSANDER CORNO MUSIC: DAVÍÐ ÞÓR JÓNSSON CAST: HALLDÓRA GEIRHARÐSDÓTTIR PRODUCTION: SLOT MACHINE, GULLDRENGURINN.
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A single woman in her late forties independently de- World Sales: Festival contact during NFM: clares war on the heavy industry in her country. She BETA CINEMA Laufey Gudjónsdóttir, turns to sabotage and is prepared to risk everything for Gruenwalder Weg 28d +354 820 49 67, 82041 Oberhaching/Munich [email protected] nature and the untouched highlands… until an orphan +49 896 73 46 98 28 from Ukraine enters her life. [email protected] Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
Benedikt Erlingsson. Benedikt Erlingsson is one of the most successful stage direc- tors of the last decade in Iceland and has several times been awarded for his work as a director, author and actor. His plays were ones of the most long lasting successes in Icelandic Theater history, performed by himself non-stop for 6 years. Two award winning short films in international festi- vals such as Clermont Ferrand will allow him to create his first feature film Of Horses and Men, which received more than 20 awards around the world including the Kutxa-New Directors Award at San Sebastian Film festival.
From Forget Lucia 42 Work in Progress Discovery 43 Discovery Moderator Burning Man Marit Kapla, Journalist, freelan- ce writer, moderator and editor The autodidact movement artist Gritt is on a quest of cultural journal Ord&Bild. for a life changing project and sense of context in Discovery, launched in 2013, is a co-fun- Göteborg Film Festival’s Artis- the mist of Oslos art scene. New in town, homeless ding plattform and a well-developed tic Director 2007–2014, Program and between chairs in the welfare system because Director for the festival’s digital streaming plat- collaboration between Nordic Film Lab of a roving past, she fights a struggle her piers form Dra Film 2014–2015. doesn’t recognize. But the hunger to manifest is and Göteborg Film Festival’s market- larger than life for an underestimated truth-seeker, Friday Feb 2 11:00–12:15, Biop 6 Director: Itonje Søimer Guttormsen place Nordic Film Market. Discovery and the bridges between creativity and crime, mat- Dogborn Script: Itonje Søimer Guttormsen ter and spirit burns. was created to offer a unique opportu- Burning Man Producer: Itonje Søimer Guttormsen One-Off Incident (x10) Production: Andropia nity for Nordic talents to present their Itonje Søimer Guttormsen (b 1979) is an Breeder Oslo based filmmaker and artist. She has World Sales: TBA up-coming projects and receive direct Forget Lucia a BA in film directing from The Norwegian Contact during Nordic Film Market: feedback from financiers, sales agents, Josefin & Florin Film school and a MFA from Academy Let’s Do Some Living in the Afterlife Itonje Søimer Guttormsen, +47 9779 4363, buyers, festival programmers and po- Valand, Gothenburg. In June 2016 she re- The Opponent [email protected] leased the mid length film Retrett, which tential co-producers. With a special Valdesaz collected several awards and was screened at Göteborg thanks to our partners, we wish you Film Festival in 2016. Itonje is the founder of the screening welcome to Discovery. consept ByFlimmer, and active in the establishment of a independent production and distribution collective in Oslo.
Breeder Dogborn Brother and Sister. He; The man who hasn’t uttered Rose loves her boyfriend William, but is frustrated a word since they escaped the war. She; The woman with his lack of sexual desire for her. Suspecting an who can’t stop using her fists instead of her words. affair, she finds out that William and his mentor Ru- When they are denied entry to the civilised society ben are holding women captive in an abandoned that is Sweden, they end up in a criminal industry dairy. Rose herself is captured, and learns about where everything and everyone can be bought. But William’s dark sexual desires. And slowly she uncov- when the merchandise they’re supposed to trans- Director: Isabella Carbonell ers the truth behind the nightmarish experiments Director: Jens Dahl port appear in the form of human beings everything Script: Isabella Carbonell conducted on the women and, eventually, herself. Script: Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen is turned upside down for the siblings. They are now Producer: Cecilia Forsberg Becker Producer: Amalie Lyngbo Quist forced to make a decision: To sell or to be sold? Production: StellaNova Film Jens Dahl has written and direct- Production: BEO Film ed the short film 2 Girls 1 cake (fea- Presenting Partner: STHLM Debut tured at the Sundance Film Festival in World Sales: TBA Isabella Carbonell is a director and World Sales: TBA screenwriter. She was selected for La 2014) and the feature film 3 ting with Contact during Nordic Film Market: Contact during Nordic Film Market: Nicolai Coster-Waldau and Birgitte Hjort Semaine de la Critique in 2015 with her Maria Møller Christoffersen, +45 28 90 15 06, Cecilia Forsberg Becker +46 707886080, short film Boys. Iti won the Grand Jury Sørensen. In addition to this he is an ac- [email protected] (Co-Producer) [email protected] claimed writer and has written films such as Pusher, Rosa Award at AFI FESTn and then travelled Morena and the TV series Lulu & Leon and Sommer. the world Carbonell’s feature film debut Dogborn is participating in the talent programs The Next Step Lab and STHLM Debut.
44 Discovery Discovery 45 Forget Lucia Let’s Do Some Living In In a conservative rural Finnish town the socially The Afterlife and sexually oppressed girls in their 20ies are put to Giovanni is an aging artist struggling for success. compete for the candle-lit crown to become Saint He has decided that he once and for all will become Lucia of the year. A change in the cherished tradi- a star, by whatever means necessary. What start- tion occurs as together the girls start discovering ed as a dream of fame and stardom has become they possess uncontrolled pyrokinetic powers. And an obsession resulting in a downward spiral where so this year Lucia will bring light into darkness in a Director: Hannaleena Hauru Giovanni is balancing on the line between the sane brand new way. Script: Hannaleena Hauru and the insane, the success and the failure and Director: Giovanni Bucchieri Producer: Jussi Rantamäki eventually between life and death. Script: Giovanni Bucchieri Hannaleena Hauru’s (b.1983) first feature Production: Aamu Film Company Producer: Isabella Rodriguez & Mathilde Dedye film Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara, Giovanni Bucchieri, born 1973, is a direc- produced by Jussi Rantamäki, was re- World Sales: TBA Production: French Quarter Film tor, actor, dancer, composer and chore- leased in Finland in 2017. The joyful and Contact during Nordic Film Market: World Sales: TBA ographer. Bucchieri is educated at The Hannaleena Hauru +358 503 74 06 55, feminist film got praises for it’s fresh Contact during Nordic Film Market: [email protected] Royal Ballet School and at the Royal Dra- and anarchistic style in contemporary Isabella Rodriguez, +46 70 499 57 64, matic Theatre’s acting school. During cinema. Hauru’s work has been compared with Vera Chy- [email protected] his long and broad career he has among tilová’s, she works as a screenwriter and director. Currently other things both danced and choreographed at the Royal she’s directing a teenage web series for YLE Opera House in Stockholm. In 2017 he directed two shorts and he is now working on his first feature film in which he is both acting and writing the music.
Josefin and Florin One-Off Incident (x10) A documentary love story about a single mother Moments in life that are called one-off incidents. from Sweden and a beggar from Romania. Josefin But how come have all women experienced them? (39) and Florin (23) first met outside a supermarket A collection of short films for the web, an episodic in Gothenburg. A few months later they got mar- feature film and an impact campaign, developed by ried and they now live together with Josefin’s kids a collective of ten female filmmakers. One-off Inci- in a small village in Sweden. A warm and humorous dent (x10) discloses and deconstructs the invisible
film about an unusual couple who choose to defy use of power towards women both in private lives Directors & Writers: Reetta Aalto, Alli Haapasalo, Anna all conventions and believe in love and a better life. and in the society. Paavilainen, Inari Niemi, Kirsikka Saari, Miia Tervo, Elli Toi- Director: Ellen Fiske, Joanna Karlberg voniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi
Ellen Fiske and Joanna Producer: Anna Weitz Behind the project are the writer-directors and producers Other writers: Maryan Abdulkarim, Raisa Omaheimo, Saara Särmä. Karlberg met during Production: Mantaray Film of the film production company Tuffi Films. They have their documentary film Producer: Elli Toivoniemi, Sanna Kultanen. World Sales: TBA gathered a collective of diverse female auteurs to exchange studies at Stockholm information and experiences, and to make films. The project Production: Tuffi Films Contact during Nordic Film Market: Academy of Dramatic brings together prominent female auteurs from the fields World Sales: TBA Anna Weitz, +46 704085931, [email protected] Arts. Joanna has made of film, theatre and social sciences. Contact during Nordic Film Market: several films about migrants and Ellen’s films have often Elli Toivoniemi + 358 401721778, [email protected] dealt with dysfunctional families. They now continue ex- ploring these themes in Josefin & Florin, which will be their feature debut. They have earlier made two short films to- gether which have been broadcasted on SVT; Keep Me Safe and Min Mamma – Moja Mama. In the spring of 2015 they also each directed their own degree film, Lone Dads (EF) and Night Bees (JK), both shown at international festivals.
46 Discovery Discovery 47 The Opponent A couple seeking asylum is faced with a difficult decision: to continue living a lie in order to improve their daughter’s life, or go separate ways meaning that the girl would never see her father again. Mas- culinity, sex and violence pervades this modern psy- chological thriller.
Director: Milad Alami Milad Alami. Swedish award-winning Script: Milad Alami director graduated from the National Producer: Annika Rogell Film School of Denmark. Alami’s feature film debut The Charmer opened New di- Production: Tangy rector’s in San Sebastian in September World Sales: TBA 2017, and has been awarded with among Contact during Nordic Film Market: others the Fedeora Award / San Sebas- Annika Rogell, [email protected] tian, Silver Hugo Prize / Chicago, NDR Film Prize / Lübeck and Best Film / Warsaw, nominated for Dragon Award at Göteborg Film Festival. We’re not just in the shipping business, we’re in the problem Valdesaz solving business. Aurora is 13 years old and hasn’t experienced much in life. Despite this she is opinionated and skeptical With over 400,000 people across the globe, we’re here to help you figure it out and get it to the people around her. The year is 2001 and she’s done – whatever “it” is. Our global shipping on summer holiday in Spain with her Norwegian team can help you find solutions to grow your family and friends. Auroras’ older sister, Nora, is 15 business, expand overseas, or optimize your and sexually active and adventurous. At the same supply chain with our expertise and innovative time their artist parents might be at the beginning technology. We operate at the speed of right now, so you can operate more efficiently than of a divorce. Valdesaz is a coming-of-age film, with Director: Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad ever. Find solutions at ups.com. themes stretching from family, sexuality and the Script: Hans Petter Blad, Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad complexity of love, to the first experiences of be- Producer: Håkon Øverås, Nina Maria Barbosa Blad coming a woman. Production: 4 ½ Fiksjon, Barbosa Film World Sales TBA Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad (b.1990) grad- uated as a film director from Nordland Contact during Nordic Film Market: College of Art and Film in 2013. Liv has Nina Maria Barbosa Blad, +47 92 25 44 42, received high praise for her latest short [email protected] film My Sister, the film won an Amanda for best short film in Haugesund in 2017. She has directed a play for theatre and written two feature film scripts, and is currently in devel- opment of a web-series for NRK.
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AD_GothenburgFilm_148x210cm.indd 1 1/18/18 5:52 PM TV Drama Vision: Nordic series that conquered the world. We take Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Nominees a look at the massive audience engagement, the Ride Upon the Storm, Denmark The Golden Era of Drama making and importance of the series and the Nominated writer: Adam Price The second year around, we present our prize for best January 31 – February 1 many remakes that have followed in its footsteps. Borderliner, Norway Nordic TV drama script worth 200,000 SEK, a prize Biopalatset 6, Kungstorget 2 Participants: Professor Annette Hill, Creator and head Nominated writers: Megan writer Hans Rosenfeldt, actress Sofia Helin, producer unique for the region for premiering the main writ- Gallagher, Alexander Opsal, Anders Landström, producer Bo Ehrhardt and executive er(s). With the seminar TV Drama Vision, the festi- Bjørn Ekeberg TV Drama Vision attracts industry from the Nordic producer Lars Blomgren region and beyond to delve into the creative and val has already established itself as one of the most Deadwind, Finland business side of drama. During two packed seminar important international meeting places. Funded by Nominated writers: Rike Jokela, Chimney presents: days, we bring you the top creators and executives Kirsi Porkka, Jari Olavi Rantala Show Me the Money! Nordisk Film & TV Fond, the script award is a part of from the drama world and present exciting content The financing of drama series is in constant this festival's continuing commitment to TV drama. Stella Blómkvist, Iceland from our region along with the most interesting in- change. At this session we go through different Our prominent jury will announce the winners on Nominated writer: Jóhann Ævar ternational fare. We will also announce the winner future funding models and take a closer look at Grímsson, Andri Óttarsson and of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize and host a dis- January 31 during an award ceremony in the evening. the structure of upcoming Swedish arms trade Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir cussion with the nominated screenwriters. Head of the jury is , Chief Creative thriller Conspiracy of Silence (Brain Academy for Walter Iuzzolino The Lawyer, Sweden Officer, GSN and he is joined by the actress Sofia Viaplay). Nominated writers: Karin Gidfors, Helin and the journalist Kirpi Uimonen Ballesteros. Participants: Fredrik Zander, Senior Executive Producer, Charlotte Lesche A Satirical Eye: keynote Chimney LA Inc, Daniel Lägersten, Producer, Brain Aca- Q&A with Armando Iannucci demy, Nicola Söderlund, Managing Partner, Eccho Rights, Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Award Ceremony Armando Iannucci, the creator of HBO’s Christian Wikander, Director Co-Production, Twelve Town. Valands Nightclub January 31 19:00 award-winning series Veep, will start off our sem- Invitation only inar. With his extensive background in creating And more … both scripted and non-scripted shows at BBC, Furthermore case studies, works in progress and he will talk about the creation and importance works in development from amongst others the of political satire. Nordic countries, Germany, Lithuania, Spain and Serbia as well as a showcase of tens of upcom- A Global Take on Local Originals: ing Nordic drama series. The upcoming talent Brian Pearson, Netflix lab Moving on to TV series by SVT and MediaX- Nostradamus report 2018 Brian Pearson, Director International Originals Change will be presented along with fresh news Seminar: Do or die? at Netflix, will elaborate on the global streaming from the region. service’s plans regarding original content for the Biop 9, February 2, 16:00–17:30 Nordic region and beyond. open for all accredited guests TV Drama Vision moderator: Andrea Reuter Full programme: For all guests and the entire programme Media analyst Johanna Koljonen presents the – are rapidly converging, small screen storytell- Nostradamus @TV Drama Vision: check our website: goteborgfilmfestival.se/tv 5th annual report of the Nostradamus Project, ers are better at relevant storytelling; and the The Golden Era of Drama Have we reached peak TV or will new money keep which monitors and analyses the rapid chang- “big tech” studios are beating everyone else in flowing? Can Nordic content continue to travel, es in the screen industries. The presentation is engagement. What do European filmmakers, and will the interest in original local content TV Drama Vision is supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Creative Europe, Region Västra Götaland och Film i Väst. followed by a discussion with invited experts. funds, financiers and exhibitors need to do to remain strong in an increasingly global market? The next five years will decide whether the embrace innovation, compete with the global Three of the experts interviewed in this year’s film industry as we know it will survive. The majors and remain a cultural force? Nostradamus report talk with Johanna Koljonen about the future of the TV landscape. small screen windows – TV, VOD and online Participants: Walter Iuzzolino, CCO at GSN, curator of streaming service Walter Presents; Marike Muselaers, Con- tent and Strategy/co-CEO of Lumière Group; Ivar Køhn, Head of Drama, NRK; Johanna Koljonen, CEO Participation | Design | Agency AB Partners:
Every Saga Has Its End: Presented by Göteborg Film Festival, in collaboration with Bron grande finale Moderator: Johanna Koljonen, Lindholmen Science Park and with additional support from Now that the original Bron is airing its fourth and CEO Participation | Design | Region Västra Götaland, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the final season, it is time for a definitive take on this Agency AB City of Gothenburg
50 Discovery Discovery 51 Moving Sweden – Seminar: Reflections from the experts Biop 9 09:00–10:45 TTXML . . No less than five films supported by Moving Sweden have their world and/or Nordic premiere VHS during Göteborg Film Festival. Moving Sweden SVOD has invited four cinematic experts to reflect on the new films and show clips that highlight their TVOD EST?! personal choice of creative elements. The filmma- ott!! kers will then join the experts on stage for an in- depth discussion about the artistic choices in the Netflix selected scenes. Moving Sweden is a micro budget scheme in- iTunes tended to give both new and experienced filmma- Amazon kers a chance to challenge their creativity and subtitling explore new formats. The scheme supports films at various length and also short series. Supported projects will be aired on SVT.
Moving Sweden is a co-operation between the Swedish Film Institute and Swedish Television (SVT) together with the regional funds; Filmregi- on Stockholm-Mälardalen, Filmpool Nord, Film i Moving Sweden Screenings: DCP Väst, Film i Skåne and Regionala resurscentrums dvd/bluray? samarbetsråd. Open for all accredited. Tweener deadline!!? 171 Sun Jan 28 15:00 Dra DAM 4006 Mon Jan 29 12:30 Capitol Filmloving experts: Jacobine van der Vloed (Director & UV Head of Studies ACE Producers), Petri Kemppinen (CEO 426 Wed Jan 31 18:00 Fröl Nordic Film and TV Fund), Aranka Matitis (Acquisitions & 787 Sun Feb 4 18:00 Haga 1 Co-Production Scout, Founder of Featurette and partner in Nine Film) and Nikolaj Nikitin (Berlinale delegate, Founder & Director of SOFA). Swedish candy, some violence and a bit of cat Film makers: Ahmed Abdullahi, Lena Bergendahl, Ester 501 Thu Feb 1 17:30 Biop 10 MESSY? Martin Bergsmark, Jesper Ganslandt, Marioan Hosseini, Jennifer Rainsford and Julia Thelin. 564 Fri Feb 2 14:30 Biop 3 Don’t worry. Leave it to us. 646 Sat Feb 3 14:30 Roy Producers: Eliza Jones, Anna-Maria Kantarius , Hedvig Lundgren and Veronica Öhnedal. 768 Sun Feb 3 16:00 Göta 1 We make sure that your material reaches its destination safe and sound. Moderator: Helen Ahlsson, Film Commissioner – Moving If you have one film or if you have thousands, we possess all the tools Sweden, Swedish Film Institute. Jimmie you need to bring your production to the audience it deserves – whether 272 Mon Jan 29 18:30 Dra on the silver screen in Seoul or a mobile device in Manchester. 301 Tue Jan 30 10:00 Capitol 420 Wed Jan 31 17:30 Biop 10
The Martyr/Birds in Space 532 Thu Feb 1 20:15 Göta 1 WE MOVE YOUR CONTENT 554 Fri Feb 2 12:00 Biop 3 628 Sat Feb 3 10:30 Göta 1
Surbrunnsgatan 6 SE-411 19 Göteborg +46 (0)31 339 95 70 www.undertext.se 52 Discovery Highlighted Nordic Films with English Subtitles 16:15 15:00 571 HAGA 2 Nordic shorts (17:45) 653 STOR Under the Tree (16:30) For all Festival Screenings, please refer to Industry Guide. 654 CAP Hour of the Wolf (16:30) 17:00 659 BIOP 10 Euthanizer (16:25) 573 HAGA 1 Dreams by the Sea (18:20) 577 BIOP 3 Living. Loving (18:25) 17:00 666 CAP My Heart Belongs to Daddy (18:25) Wednesday, January 31 13:45 17:15 667 BIOP 8 Balkan Noir, A (18:15) 479 ROY Thorn (15:10) 579 BIOP 10 Gunnel Lindblom – Out of the silence 10:00 (18:15) 17:15 380 HAGA 1 Darling (11:45) 14:30 669 AFT Winter Brothers (18:50) 483 CAP Dreams by the Sea (15:50) 17:30 10:15 581 GÖ1 My Heart Belongs to Daddy (18:55) 21:00 382 BIOP 9 Boiling Point (11:45) 16:00 4043 FRÖ 69 Minutes of 86 Days (18:40) 703 BIOP 8 Dreams by the Sea (22:20) 383 BIOP 10 Borderliner (Series) (11:45) 490 DRA Winter Brothers (17:35) 18:00 Sunday, February 4 11:30 16:30 583 BIOP 9 Garden Lane (19:50) 386 ROY What Will People Say (13:20) 496 HAGA 1 Nordic shorts (18:00) 10:00 18:30 716 HAGA 2 Nordic shorts (11:30) 12:00 17:00 586 ROY Euthanizer (19:55) 388 GÖ1 Stronger than a Bullet (13:15) 497 FRÖ What Will People Say (18:50) 11:45 390 BIOP 3 Stella Blómkvist (Series) (13:30) 19:45 4019 DRA Under the Tree (13:15) 17:30 599 BIOP 10 Entrepreneur (21:00) 13:30 501 BIOP 10 Swedish candy, some violence and a bit of 12:30 397 DRA Swan, The (15:05) cat (18:15) 20:45 736 ROY (14:10) 604 CHA Backstabbing for Beginners (22:35) 74 0 HAGA 1 Scenes from a Marriage (17:30) 15:00 18:00 406 BIOP 9 Lawyer, The (Series) (16:30) 504 ROY Garden Lane (19:50) Saturday, Februrary 3 13:30 508 GÖ2 Gunnel Lindblom – Out of the silence 74 6 BIOP 8 Winter Brothers (15:05) 16:00 (19:00) 10:00 409 DRA Dying Days of Summer (17:15) 509 BIOP 1 Love & Will (19:25) 618 STOR Backstabbing for Beginners (11:50) 14:00 620 CHA Charmer, The (11:40) * 74 8 HAGA 2 Nations and Nationalisms (15:35) 17:30 18:15 621 HAND Bergman Revisited (11:35) 74 9 GÖ1 Euthanizer (15:25) 413 STOR Heart, The (19:15) 512 GÖ1 Entrepreneur (19:30) 623 HAGA 2 Violently in Love (11:15) 752 BIOP 10 Entrepreneur (15:15) 419 BIOP 9 Dreams by the Sea (18:50) 626 GÖ2 Entrepreneur (11:15) 18:45 14:45 18:45 516 CAP Heart, The (20:30) 12:00 756 BIOP 3 Gunnel Lindblom – Out of the silence 434 CAP Love & Will (20:10) 629 ROY Göteborgsepoker (Eras of Göteborg) (13:30) (15:45) 21:30 20:00 541 BIOP 4 Swan, The (23:05) 634 GÖ2 Gunnel Lindblom – Out of the silence 15:00 444 BIOP 2 Deminer, The (21:25) (13:00) 759 BIOP 1 Moment in the Reeds, A (16:50) Friday, February 2 635 BIOP 2 Distant Barking of Dogs, The (13:30) 20:30 15:30 448 DRA Backstabbing for Beginners (22:20) 10:30 14:30 762 FRÖ Golden Dawn Girls (17:05) 547 GÖ1 Swan, The (12:05) 646 ROY Swedish candy, some violence and a bit of 21:30 cat (15:15) 16:00 457 BIOP 10 Thorn (22:55) 12:00 649 AFT Garden Lane (16:20) 768 GÖ1 Swedish candy, some violence and a bit of 552 CAP Heart, The (13:45) cat (16:45) Thursday February 1 14:15 17:30 11:45 561 CAP Winter Brothers (15:50) 781 BIOP 1 Deminer, The (18:55) 470 ROY Bergman Revisited (13:20) 14:30 18:00 12:00 562 BIOP 1 Land of the Free (16:05) 791 BIOP 10 My Heart Belongs to Daddy (19:25) 473 BIOP 1 Deminer, The (13:25) 563 BIOP 2 Love & Will (15:55) 564 BIOP 3 Swedish candy, some violence and a bit of 12:30 cat (15:15) 477 BIOP 10 Dying Days of Summer (13:45)
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For full programme see program.goteborgfilmfestival.se
Butterflies Pirret Fanny and Alexander Fanny och Maj Doris The Deminer The Deminer Together Tillsammans ةقورسم تاريماك ٣ Stolen Cameras 3 Western Sahara/Sweden 2017 Sweden 2007 Alexander Sweden/Norway 2018 Sweden 2017 Sweden/Denmark/Italy 2000 Director: Filmkollektivet Råfilm, Director: Kjell-Åke Andersson Sweden/France/West Germany 1982 Director: Jon Blåhed Director: Hogir Hirori, Shinwar Kamal Director: Lukas Moodysson Equipe Media, Alex Veitch Director: Ingmar Bergman Cut My Heart Belongs to Daddy The Distant Barking of Dogs The Under the Tree Undir Trenu 69 Minutes of 86 Days 69 Minutes of Iceland/United Kingdom 2017 Garden Lane Trädgårdsgatan Røverdatter Distant Barking of Dogs Iceland/Denmark/Germany/Poland 86 Days Director: Eva Sigurdardottir Sweden 2017 Norway/Sweden 2018 Denmark/Sweden/Finland 2017 2017 Norway 2017 Director: Olof Spaak Director: Sofia Haugan Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont Director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Director: Egil Håskjold Larsen Darling Sigurðsson Denmark 2017 Glasblåsarns barn Glasblåsarns barn Next Door Spy Nabospionen The Heart Hjärtat A Balkan Noir Balkan Noir Director: Birgitte Stærmose Sweden/Norway/Denmark 1998 Denmark 2017 Sweden 2018 Violently in Love Vold Sweden/Montenegro 2017 Director: Anders Grönros Director: Karla von Bengtson Director: Fanni Metelius Denmark 2017 Director: Drazen Kuljanin Deadwind Karppi Out Fishing Fisketur Director: Christina Rosendahl Finland 2018, series God is Silent Guds tystnad Sweden 2018 The Hunger Gutten er sulten A December Journey Decemberresan Main Writers: Rike Jokela, Kirsi Sweden 2018 Director: Uzi Geffenblad Norway 2017 Vox Lipoma Fettknölen Sweden 2018 Porkka, Jari Olavi Director: Lisa Aschan Director: Kenneth Karlstad Sweden 2018 Director: Omar Dogan Pure Till det som är vackert The Infection Infektionen Director: Jane Magnusson, Liv Dear God Rabbi Golden Dawn Girls Hatets vugge Sweden 2010 Sweden 2018 Strömquist A Good Week for Democracy En bra Sweden 2017 Norway/Denmark/Finland 2017 Director: Lisa Langseth Director: Patrik Eklund vecka för demokratin Director: Sosi Chamoun Director: Håvard Bustnes We others Vi andra Sweden 2018 Ride Upon the Storm Herrens veje The Lawyer Advokaten Sweden 2018 Director: Cecilia Björk Dreams by the Sea Dreymar við havið Gunnel Lindblom – Out of the silence Denmark 2017, series Sweden/Denmark 2018, series Director: Sharmarke Binyusuf, Manolo Faroe Islands/Denmark 2017 Gunnel Lindblom - Ut ur tystnaden Main Writer: Adam Price Main Writers: Karin Gidfors, Diaz Rämö A Moment in the Reeds A Moment in Director: Sakaris Stórá Sweden 2018 Charlotte Lesche the Reeds Director: Henrik von Sydow Salvation Salvation What Will People Say Hva vil folk si Finland/United Kingdom 2017 Drops Iceland/Sweden 2017 The Magic Flute Trollflöjten Norway/Germany/Sweden 2017 Director: Mikko Makela Denmark 2017 Hayflower, Quiltshoe & The Rubens Director: Thora Hilmarsdóttir Sweden 1975 Director: Iram Haq Director: Sarah Joy Jungen, Karsten Brothers Heinähattu, Vilttitossu ja Director: Ingmar Bergman A Musical Dream Play Ett musikaliskt Hoop Rubensin veljekset Scenes from a Marriage Scener ur ett Winter Brothers Vinterbrødre drömspel Finland 2017 äktenskap The Miracle Journey Resan till Denmark/Iceland 2017 Sweden 2018 Dying Days of Summer Innan vintern Director: Anna Dahlman Sweden 1974 Mirakelmannen Director: Hlynur Pálmason kommer Director: Ingmar Bergman Sweden 2018 Ariel Ariel Sweden 2018 Hotell Director: Fabian Wigren, Lisa Vipola Karl XII Sweden 1925 Sweden 2018 Director: Stefan Jarl, Kjell-Åke Sweden/Denmark 2013 Stella Blómkvist Director: John W. Brunius Director: Linus Tunström Andersson Director: Lisa Langseth Iceland 2017, series The Night Thief Yövaras Main Writer: Jóhann Ævar Grímsson, Finland 2017 Bergmans Reliquarium Backstabbing for Beginners Elsa och Binyam are friends Elsa och Hour of the Wolf Vargtimmen Andri Óttarsson, Nanna Kristín Director: Khadar Ahmed Sweden 2018 Dobbeltspil Binyam är kompisar Sweden 1968 Magnúsdóttir Director: Tomas Alfredson Denmark/Canada/United States 2018 Sweden 2018 Director: Ingmar Bergman The Swan Svanurinn Director: Per Fly Director: Carolina Hindsjö Stronger than a Bullet Iceland/Estonia/Germany 2017 Scener ur natten Land of the Free Land of the Free Sweden/France/Qatar 2017 Director: Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir Sweden 2018 Boiling Point Kiehumispiste Entrepreneur Yrittäjä Denmark/Finland 2017 Director: Maryam Ebrahimi Director: Pernilla August Finland 2017 Finland 2018 Director: Camilla Magid Thorn Director: Elina Hirvonen Director: Virpi Suutari Swedish candy, some violence and Denmark/Greece 2017 Lida a bit of cat Smågodis, katter och Director: Gavrill Tzafkas Borderliner Grenseland Euphoria Denmark/Sweden 2017 lite våld Norway 2017, series Sweden/Germany 2017 Director: Anna Eborn Sweden 2018 To B e Main Writers: Megan Gallagher, Director: Lisa Langseth Director: Ester Martin Bergsmark Denmark/Iran 2017 Alexander Opsal, Bjørn Ekeberg Living. Loving Leva. Älska Director: Farzaneh Omidvarnia Euthanizer Armomurhaaja Sweden/Norway 2018 The Charmer Charmøren Brink of Life Nära livet Finland 2017 Director: Mette AA Gardell Denmark/Sweden 2017 To My Children Sweden 1958 Director: Teemu Nikki Director: Milad Alami To My Children Director: Ingmar Bergman Love & Will Kärlek & vilja Norway 2017 Sweden 2018 The Day Le jour Director: Shwan Dler Qaradaki Director: Marcus Carlsson Sweden/France 2018 Director: Morgane Dziurla-Petit
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59 Glimsdal, Silje Nikoline International Sales, TrustNordisk [email protected] Participants Nordic Film Market Hauerslev, Trine Buyer/Distributor, Filmbazar [email protected] Heeno, Mette Screenwriter, Happy Ending Film [email protected] For updated lists and TV Drama Vision Participants please visist: Høgel, Jakob Producer, Metafilm [email protected] goteborgfilmfestival.se Joof, Hella Director Juhl Lemche, Christian Film Institute, Danish Film Institute [email protected] Jørgensen, Camilla Buyer/Distributor, Nordisk Film [email protected] Belarus Klint, Tine International Sales, LevelK [email protected] Chajkouskaya, Volia Festival, Northern Lights Film Festival [email protected] Korsgaard, Nicolai International Sales, TrustNordisk [email protected] Korslund, Lone Buyer/Distributor, Nordisk Film [email protected] Belgium Krogh, Rasmus Buyer/Distributor, Nordisk Film [email protected] Brookfield-Hampson, Gladys Producer, Belga Productions [email protected] Lahtinen, Timo T. Buyer/Distributor, Smile Entertainment [email protected] De Clercq, Jan Buyer/Distributor, Lumière [email protected] Lahtinen, Teemu Buyer/Distributor, Smile Entertainment [email protected] De Schutter, Christian Film Fund, Flanders Image [email protected] Larsen, Kasper Rune Director Maia, Marilyne Producer, Scope Pictures [email protected] Neiiendam, Jacob Festival, CPH PIX [email protected] Martens, Tim Producer, Lunanime/Lumière [email protected] Noer, Michael Director Muselaers, Marike Buyer/Distributor, Lumière [email protected] Olsen, Mads Peter Ole Buyer/Distributor, Red Herring Film [email protected] Roekens, Jan Film Fund, Screen Flanders [email protected] Palmquist, Hanne Commissioning Editor, HBO Nordic Hanne.palmquist@hbo.com Warnock, John Producer, Belga Productions [email protected] Pechou, Isabelle International Sales, TrustNordisk [email protected] Radoor, Tomas Producer, Nordisk Film [email protected] Bosnia and Herzegovina Richter, Valeria Writer, Nordic Factory Copenhagen [email protected] Gradevic, Izeta Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival [email protected] Rieks, Mikael Christian Producer, Nordisk FIlm [email protected] Hadzic, Armin Festival, Sarajevo Fillm Festival [email protected] Rix Bomholt, Julie Producer, Julie Rix [email protected] Saginario, Claudia Producer, Good Company Films [email protected] Canada Skovsbøl, Kasper Director Girard Deltruc, Nicolas Festival, Nouveau cinéma [email protected] Søgaard, Mette Buyer/Distributor, Camera Film A [email protected] Gravestock, Steve Festival, Toronto Film Festival [email protected] Sølvsten Thomsen, Peter Buyer/Distributor, Angel Films A/S [email protected] Underbjerg, Henrik Producer, Radiator Film [email protected] Czech Republic Valmadre, Lauren Buyer/Distributor, Levelk Film & TV Distribution Hezinova, Sandra Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [email protected] Vogelsang, Katrine Broadcaster, TV2 Danmark [email protected] Hronec, Ivan Buyer/Distributor, Film Europe [email protected] Steen, Paprika Director
Denmark Egypt Acheche Sahlstrøm, Samanou Director Al Timimi, Intishal Festival, El Gouna Film Festival [email protected] Adomeit, Katja Producer, Adomeit Film [email protected] Ahlén, Peter International Sales, TrustNordisk [email protected] Estonia Andreasen, Mie Producer, M & M Productions A/S [email protected] Aava, Hannes Festival, Tallin Black Nights Film Festival [email protected] B. Sørensen, David Producer, Dharma Film [email protected] Liiske, Marge Festival, Baltic Event [email protected] Bendtsen, Peter Buyer/Distributor, Filmbazar [email protected] Sepping, Mati Buyer/Distributor, EstinFilm [email protected] Bernth, Piv Producer, Apple Tree [email protected] Bomholt-Hansen, Stine Buyer/Distributor, Levelk Film & TV Distribution [email protected] Finland Choi, Malene Director, Zentropa Entertainments10 Aps Aho, Kaarle Producer, Making Movies & Kick Film & Allfilm [email protected] Christensen, Ole Bjørn Buyer/Distributor, Øst for Paradis [email protected] Blomqvist, Bent Buyer/Distributor, Kinoscreen Illusion ltd [email protected] Christiansen, Ditte Broadcaster, DR [email protected] Domingo, Jenni Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation [email protected] Daae, Jan International Sales, DR [email protected] Forsman, Liselott Film & TV Commissioner, Yle [email protected] Damgaard-Sørensen, Mette Film Institute, Danish Film Institute [email protected] Förnäs, Johan Broadcaster, Yle [email protected] Daugbjerg, Agnete Buyer/Distributor, Øst for Paradis [email protected] Härö, Klaus Director, MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy Ennis, Rikke International Sales, TrustNordisk [email protected] Jaari, Misha Producer, Bufo [email protected] Ferrer Schwenk, Noemi Film Institute, Danish Film Institute [email protected] Karppinen, Johanna Organisation, Nyland Film Fund [email protected] Flint, Lina Producer, Nordisk Film / SPRING [email protected] Lehtola, Juha Director, Bufo Foss, Kim Buyer/Distributor, Camera Film [email protected] Liukkonen, Riina Buyer/Distributor, Scanbox Entertainment Finland [email protected] Friis Walenciak, Julie Producer, Den Danske Filmskole [email protected] Lwoff, Mark Producer, Bufo [email protected] Gammeltoft, Thomas Producer, Copenhagen Film Fund [email protected]
60 Participants NFM Participants NFM 61 Munsterhjelm, Laura Agent, Actors in Scandinavia [email protected] Haiböck, Margot International Sales, Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH [email protected] Möttölä, Anna Festival, Helsinki International Film Festival [email protected] Kamin, Eva Buyer/Distributor, ZDF Enterprises GmbH Paasilinna, Miira International Sales, The Yellow Affair [email protected] Krusche, Christian Buyer/Distributor, ZDF [email protected] Puskala, Jaana Film Institute, The Finnish Film Foundation [email protected] Locke, Stephen Festival, Berlinale [email protected] Rantamäki, Jussi Producer, Aamu Filmcompany Ltd. [email protected] Modersbach, Christian Festival, Nordic Film Days Lübeck [email protected] Simonen, Ulla Producer, Made [email protected] Müntefering, Julia Buyer/Distributor, Telepool GmbH [email protected] Tenhunen, Mikko Producer, Mjölk [email protected] Nikitin, Nikolaj Festival, SOFA/Berlinale Delegate [email protected] Toivoniemi, Elli Producer, Tuffi Films [email protected] Novelli, Manola International Sales [email protected] Vilhunen, Selma Director, Making Movies Oy Olsson, Rickard International Sales, Picture Tree International GmbH [email protected] Westerberg, Paavo Director Ritter, Nina Buyer/Distributor, Koch Films GmbH [email protected] Wikström, Emma Agent, Actors In Scandinavia Rubanovits, Dina Organisation, Erich Pommer Institut [email protected] Schaeffer, Käte Buyer/Distributor, Arsenal Filmverleih [email protected] France Schaumann, Thorsten International Sales, Hofer International Film Festival [email protected] Alvarez Aguilera, Alberto International Sales, Reel Suspects [email protected] von Gienanth, Ira Buyer/Distributor, Prokino Filmverleih GmbH [email protected] Auzou, Sylvain Festival, Giornate degli Autori [email protected] Vurma, Lena Buyer/Distributor, NFP Marketing & Distribution [email protected] Bartha, Diana International Sales, Wild Bunch [email protected] Wiederspiel, Albert Buyer/Distributor, Filmfest Hamburg [email protected] Beffa, Sebastian Buyer/Distributor, Playtime [email protected] Wilfinger. Silke Buyer/Distributor, SilkWayFilms [email protected] Besse, Delphyne International Sales, Urban Distribution International [email protected] Windhorst, Julius Buyer/Distributor, Alamode Filmdistribution [email protected] Boyer, Frederic Festival, Tribeca Film Festival [email protected] Vollmers, Florian Festival, Nordic Film Days Lübeck [email protected] de Seille, Guillaume International Sales, Arizona Productions [email protected] de Seille, Dany Arizona Productions [email protected] Hungary Gabriele, Simon International Sales, Indie Sales [email protected] Csurdi, Gabor Buyer/Distributor, ADS Service Ltd [email protected] Gourmelen, Arnaud Festival, Quinzaine Des Réalisateurs [email protected] Horváth, György Festival, Titanic International Film Festival [email protected] Gutman, Pierre-Simon Festival, Semaine de la Critique [email protected] Sorensen, Allan Festival, Titanic International Film Festival [email protected] Hofmann, Alexis International Sales, BAC Films [email protected] Jullien, Lionel Buyer/Distributor, Trademedia [email protected] Iceland Kokh, Vladimir Buyer/Distributor, Kmbo [email protected] Erlingsson, Benedikt Director Leiser, Quentin Buyer/Distributor, Swift Productions [email protected] Gudjónsdóttir, Laufey Film Institute, Icelandic Film Centre [email protected] Mabillon, Eric Buyer/Distributor, La Belle Company/Mandra Films [email protected] Jónsson, Grímar Producer, Netop Films [email protected] Mahnert, Annick Buyer/Distributor, Screen Division [email protected] Kjartansdóttir, Ásthildur Director Marchal, Gregoire Buyer/Distributor, Kmbo [email protected] Sigurdardottir, Eva Producer, Askja Films [email protected] May, Sara International Sales, Alma Cinema [email protected] Uggadottir, Isold Director, No 9 Productions Mayer-Lhomme, Johanna Buyer/Distributor, Pretty Pictures [email protected] Piel, Alexandre Broadcaster, Arte France Cinema [email protected] Italy Reveyrand-de Menthon, Alexandra International Sales, Charades [email protected] Kristensson, Anders Producer, The Kennedy/Marshall Company [email protected] Slot, Marianne Producer, Slot Machine [email protected] Maiorino, Gaetano International Sales, True Colours [email protected] Tavitian, Eric Film Fund, Logical Pictures [email protected] Pollacchi, Elena Festival, Venice Film Festival [email protected] Touboul, Charles Buyer/Distributor, AB International Distribution [email protected] Valerio Fusco, Marco International Sales, Intramovies [email protected] Vallé, Marie-Pierre Buyer/Distributor, Wild Bunch [email protected] Vecchiato, Dario International Sales, Gapbusters [email protected] Japan Vincent, Bérénice International Sales, Les Films Du Losange [email protected] Watanabe, Yoshiko Festival, Solveig Ltd., [email protected] Zelnik, Jeremy Festival, Les Arcs European Film Festival [email protected] Zimmermann, Klaus Co-Producer, Dynamic Television [email protected] Lithuania Arlickaite, DR. Grazina Festival, European Film Forum Scanorama [email protected] Germany Ramaska, Algirdas Festival, KINO [email protected] Azizi, Solmaz Festival, Berlin International Film Festival [email protected] Bankuti, Zsuzsi International Sales, The Match Factory [email protected] Netherlands Djin-Koei Tjio, Rudy Buyer/Distributor, RTC Media [email protected] Buwalda, Fredau Festival, Noordelijk Film Festival [email protected] Franke, Robert Buyer/Distributor, ZDF Enterprises GmbH [email protected] Kuindersma, Fulko International Sales, Dutch Features Global Entertainment [email protected] Fröhlich, Linde Festival, Nordic Film Days Lübeck [email protected] Matits, Aranka Buyer/Distributor, Nine Film & Featurette [email protected] Glasl, Sofia Festival, Munich Filmfestival [email protected] van der Vloed, Jacobine Organisation, ACE producers [email protected] Greiner, Gabor International Sales, Films Boutique [email protected]
62 Participants NFM Participants NFM 63 Norway Sweden Asbjørnsen, Dag Film Institute, Norweigan Film Institute [email protected] Ahlgren, Niklas Broadcaster, SVT [email protected] Berg, Christin Festival, Nordisk Film [email protected] Ahlsson, Helen Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Birkenes, Ann-Sophie W. Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Apelgren, Stephan Film Fund, Filmpool Nord AB [email protected] Ekerhovd, Maria Producer, Mer Film [email protected] Appelin, Matilda Producer, Nordisk Film [email protected] Eriksen, Tone Broadcaster, NRK [email protected] Bargo, Frida Producer, B-Reel Feature Films [email protected] Fosse, Tor Buyer/Distributor, Tour de Force AS [email protected] Baron, Stefan Production, Nice Drama [email protected] Fossum, Cato Festival, Oslo Pix [email protected] Beckman, Rebecka Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Fyllingsnes, Kristian Festival, BIFF [email protected] Bennet Crafoord, Nina Other, Advokatfirman Christianson & Co [email protected] Golimo, Sveinung Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute [email protected] Bergdahl, Gunnar Director, Vilda Bomben Film Ab [email protected] Hardersen, Tonje Festival, Kino [email protected] Björk, Cecilia Director, Plattform Prdoduktion [email protected] Hauge, Torleif Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Blomgren DoVan, Paul Producer, Gothenburg Film Studios [email protected] Haugerud, Dag Johan Director Breedh, Ulrika Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Helgeland, Stine Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute [email protected] Börjeson, Kristina Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Hummelvoll, Gudny Producer, Hummelfilm/Yellow Bird [email protected] Chennaya, Dominic Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Hvistendahl, Thea Director Christianson, Johan Other, Advokatfirman Christianson & Co [email protected] Hørsdal, Synnøve Producer, Maipo Film [email protected] Colliander, Kristina Film Institutem Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Jensen, Svend Buyer/Distributor, Arthaus [email protected] Croneman, Anna Broadcaster, SVT [email protected] Jensen, Kåre Film Institute, MEDIA Desk Norway [email protected] Dahlstedt, Sofie Buyer/Distributor, Njutafilms [email protected] Kemppinen, Petri Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Danielson, Axel Producer, Plattform Produktion [email protected] Lidin, Karolina Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Debot, Nicolas Buyer/Distributor, Njutafilms [email protected] Lindrup, Mia Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute [email protected] Eklöf, Isabella Director Løwholm, Lise Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Ekström, Ami Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Myklebust, Gyda Velvin Festival, Kino [email protected] Eriksdotter, Martina Film Fund, Göteborgs Stad Kulturförvaltning [email protected] Næss, Silje Riise Film Institute, Norweigan Film Institute [email protected] Eskilsson, Tomas Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Oppegaard, Stine Film Institute, Norwegian Film Institute [email protected] Feeney, Jakob Broadcaster, Film Finances Scandinavia AB [email protected] Pirir Ruiz, Elisa Fernanda Producer, Mer Film [email protected] Fellenius, Mikael Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Refseth, Øistein Buyer/Distributor, Mer Filmdistribusjon [email protected] Fransson, Cattrine Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Reiermark Karoliussen, Salma Film Fund, Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Gandini, Erik Producer, Fasad [email protected] Skistad, Vibeke Buyer/Distributor, Euforia film [email protected] Ganslandt, Jesper Director, Fasad [email protected] Stein Berg, Ståle Film Institute, Norska Filminstitutet [email protected] Gebauer, Julia Producer, Way Creative Films [email protected] Strøm Henriksen, Camilla Director Gilbertsson, Jenny Film Commissioner, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Sæther, Yngve Producer, Motlys A/S [email protected] Glansborg, Suzanne Broadcaster, Bonnier Broadcasting AB [email protected] Vold, Marte Director Glaumann, Johannes Buyer/Distributor, NonStop Entertainment [email protected] Granqvist, Helene Producer, Nordic Factory Film [email protected] Poland Grewin Wallqvister, Karin Production, Filmfinances.se [email protected] Kanafa, Luke Buyer/Distributor, Vivarto [email protected] Grunning, Klara Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Naszewski, Jan International Sales, New Europe Film Sales [email protected] Grönèrus, Ulrika Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Oryl, Agnieszka Festival, Warsawa Int. Film Festival [email protected] Gunnarsson, Clas Buyer/Distributor, Scanbox Sweden [email protected] Pienowski, Marcin Festival, T-mobile New Horizons [email protected] Hakeröd, Clas Post Production, CAN Film AB [email protected] Harms, Sandra Producer, Miso Film Sverige AB [email protected] Russia Hedenstedt, Lars Organisation, Svenska Institutet [email protected] Shepotinnik, Peter Festival, Moscow Film Festival, Venice Film Festival [email protected] Hellström, Annika Producer, Cinenic Films [email protected] Hemmendorff, Erik Producer, Plattform Produktion [email protected] South Korea Jegerhjelm, Ville Film Commissioner, Gotlands Filmcentrum [email protected] D. Lee, Bruce Buyer/Distributor, EnterMode Corp. [email protected] Kaage, Gus Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Rhee, Soue-Won Festival, Busan International Film Festival [email protected] Kapla, Marit Moderator [email protected] Karlsson, Emma Film Fund, Filmpool Nord AB [email protected] Spain Karlsson, Mikel Cee Director, Plattform Produktion Guinnot, Nuria Film Commissioner, Gran Canaria Film Commission [email protected] King, Tim Producer, SF Studios [email protected] Koljonen, Johanna Analyst, Participation Design [email protected] Krave, Katarina Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected]
64 Participants NFM Participants NFM 65 Leung Carlson, Man Chiu Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Widén, Lisa Film Fund, Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen [email protected] Libossart, Juan Pablo Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Åberg, Kristina Producer, Atmo AB [email protected] Lindeen, Marcus Director [email protected] Åkesson, Henrik JP Festival, Carl International Film Festival [email protected] Lindström, Karin Broadcaster, Bonnier Broadcasting AB [email protected] Österling, Martina Agent, Albatros Agency [email protected] Lundberg, Susanne Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Lundberg, Pia Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Sweden/Russia Lundgren, Hedvig Producer, Fasad [email protected] Klebanov, Sam Buyer/Distributor, Maywin Media AB [email protected] Magnusson, Jane Director, Gädda Five AB Mathsson, Katrina Buyer/Distributor, Folkets Bio [email protected] Switzerland Mattsson, Anette Film Fund, Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen [email protected] Esposito, Lorenzo Festival, Locarno Festival [email protected] Mattsson, Petter Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Guetg, Reta Festival, Zurich Film Festival [email protected] Merits, Niclas Post Production, CloudBerry Post [email protected] Gutscher, Iria Festival, Zurich Film Festival [email protected] Muir, Anthony Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Thurston, Cyril Buyer/Distributor, Xenix Filmdistribution GMBH [email protected] Mårdsjö, Agneta Organisation, Västra Götalandsregionen [email protected] Treichler, Daniel Buyer/Distributor, Frenetic Films [email protected] Möller, Gustav Director, Gustav Möller [email protected] Naucler, Per Post Production, Nordisk Undertext [email protected] Taiwan Nerman, Eva Buyer/Distributor, Nordisk Film [email protected] Hsu, Gino Buyer/Distributor, Cineplex Development Co. [email protected] Nisell, Ulrika Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Yao, Albert Buyer/Distributor, Swallow Wings Films [email protected] Nohrborg, Mattias Buyer/Distributor, TriArt Film/B-Reel [email protected] Norberg Johansson, Lina Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Turkey Nordqvist, Kia Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Sahin, Tunc Buyer/Distributor, Bir Film [email protected] Norstedt, Maritha Production, Filmfinances Scandinavia [email protected] Nylund, Isabel Buyer/Distributor, SF Studios [email protected] Ukraine Odell, Anna Director Shestopalov, Igor Festival, Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival [email protected] Olsson, William Producer, Astrakan Film AB [email protected] Shkabar, Khrystyna Producer, 1+1 Production [email protected] Perman, Agneta Buyer/Distributor, SVT [email protected] Petersson, Jon Buyer/Distributor, Discovery Networks Sweden AB [email protected] United Kingdom Pichler, Gabriela Director Adams, Mark Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival [email protected] Possne, Peter Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Harvey, Frances Buyer/Distributor, Thunderbird Releasing [email protected] Rang Strand, Joakim Film Fund, Film i Skåne [email protected] Lutton, Sarah Festival, BFI London Film Festival [email protected] Rüster, Sara Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Mitchell, Wendy Journalist, Screen International [email protected] Sandström Lundh, Elin Albatros Agency [email protected] Pham, Annika Journalist, nordicfilmandtvnews.com [email protected] Sekund, Nina Film Fund, Film i Väst [email protected] Wikander ,Christian Producer, Twelve Town [email protected] Serner, Anna Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Wood, Katrina Agent, MediaXchange [email protected] Shulman, Boris Buyer/Distributor, Maywin Films AB; Media Promotion [email protected] McCurry, Camille Agent, United Agents [email protected] Sigvardson, Ulf Film Fund, Göteborgs Stad Kulturförvaltning [email protected] Simovic, Anita International Sales, SF Studios [email protected] United States Stein, Björn Director J D Producer, VEZHA [email protected] Strauss, Marie Buyer/Distributor, Folkets bio [email protected] Devort, Bertrand Buyer/Distributor, 97 Film Production & Distribution [email protected] Sturegård, Lisa Broadcaster, Viaplay Viasat Film (MTG) [email protected] Flynn, David Agent, United Talent Agency [email protected] Stål, Torkel Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Reinhart, Kyle Festival, Scandinavia House [email protected] Sucksdorff, Annika Producer, SF Studios [email protected] Simon, Alissa Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival [email protected] Svensson, Mikael Film Fund, Film i Skåne [email protected] Uimonen Ballesteros, Kirpi Journalist, The Hollywood Foreign Press [email protected] Svensson, Martin Film Fund, Lindholmen Science park [email protected] Tengblad, Josefine Broadcaster, Bonnier Broadcasting AB [email protected] Tidholm, Svante Festival, Way Out West [email protected] Toll, Bengt Consultant [email protected] Tsappos, Theo Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute [email protected] Ulfung, Karl Fredrik Producer, Miso Film Sverige AB [email protected] Van Aertryck, Maximilien Producer, Plattform Produktion [email protected] Wallentin, Rickard Other, Advokatfirman Christianson & Co [email protected] Werner, Michael International Sales, Eyewell [email protected]
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