Swedish Film #2 2020
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#2 • 2020 FEATURES • DOCS • SHORTS • FILMS IN PRODUCTION ON THE COVER: PLEASURE BY NINJA THYBERG 1 Contacts Head of International Festivals, shorts & docs Administrator Department Jing Haase Signe-Annie Lindstedt Steffen Andersen-Møller Phone: +46 70 420 32 74 Phone: +46 70 766 12 41 Phone: +46 76 051 36 97 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Festivals, features Festivals, docs & shorts International co-productions Petter Mattsson Sara Rüster Lina Norberg Johansson Phone: +46 70 607 11 34 Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 Phone: +46 70 251 91 72 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Festivals, docs & shorts Festivals, features Press Officer Josefina Mothander Theo Tsappos Jan Göransson Phone: +46 70 972 93 52 Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Swedish Film Institute International Department P.O Box 27 126 Art Director: Markus Edin SE- 102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Cover photo: Pleasure Phone +46 8 665 11 00 filminstitutet.se ©Plattform Produktion Fax +46 8 661 18 20 instagram.com/swedishfilm Welcome to the world of Swedish films Contents FEATURES AND DOCS FILMS IN PRODUCTION SHORTS 5 Always Amber 29 Merry Christmas, Yiwu 45 The Ape Star 58 Anyway 6 The Beautiful Game 30 The Most Beautiful Boy 46 Clara Sola 59 DON’T, KISS .mov 7 Bellum in the World 47 Eva & Adam – To Be or Not to Be 60 A Film 8 Bert’s Diary 31 My Father Marianne – Together 61 Grab Them 9 Bitter Love 32 Nelly Rapp Monster Agent 48 Excess Will Save Us 62 I, Julia 10 Breaking Surface 33 Only the Devil Lives 49 The Life and Times of Omar 63 Land of the Free Without Hope Sharif 11 Catwalk – From Glada Hudik to 64 A Legacy of Horses 34 The Other Side 50 Mamma Moo Finds New York 65 Life-Giver 35 Passion Her Way Home 12 Charter 66 Magnus is a Sexist 36 Pelle No-Tail 51 Most Unwanted 13 Children of the Enemy 67 Mamman 37 Pleasure 52 Off Track 14 The Choir 68 The Night Train 38 Psychosis in Stockholm 53 Orca 15 The Comeback 69 Snip, Snap, Snut and the Colours 39 Run Uje Run 54 The Schoolmaster Games 16 Day by Day 70 Something to Remember 40 Se upp för Jönssonlingan 55 La Société du Spectacle 17 Fly So Far 71 Sonata 41 Sune – Best Man 56 Stories from the Debris 18 For Somebody Else 72 Swimmer 42 Tigers 57 Sune – Midsummer 19 Greta 73 Whatever Happened 20 I’ll Be Home for Christmas 43 Tiny Tim – King for a Day to Ms Longstocking 21 Idomeni 44 The Writer – Joyce Carol Oates 22 Inland 23 JerryMaya´s Detective Agency INDUSTRY CONTACTS – The Mystery of The Train SWEDEN Robber 24 Jozi Gold 74 Production Companies 25 Knocking 77 Sales Companies 26 The Longest Day 78 Distributors 27 Maddy the Model 78 Film Festivals 28 Meanwhile on Earth 79 Organizations FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #2 Feature DOC Berlinale Hot Docs Always Amber Debut (Alltid Amber) Directed by Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen Amber is a 17-year-old teen. Together with best friend Sebastian, they share a world far away from the judging eyes of the society as two queer youngsters. But when Sebas- tian falls in love with Amber’s girlfriend everything starts to fall apart. A story about trust issues starts to reveal itself and in the midst of it all Amber has to face going through their transition alone. In Always Amber we get a unique insight into a new generation. ©LIA HIETALA ©LIA Screenwriters Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen Lia Hietala (born in 1993) started out as director’s assistant Hannah Reinikainen (born in 1992) has been studying Produced by Story/Göran Hugo Olsson, Melissa Lindgren, to Swedish director Ninja Thyberg in 2014. She has since journalism at the University of Stockholm and documentary with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo then studied documentary filmmaking at Ölands Folkhögsko- filmmaking at Biskops Arnö. She has also been working as an Libossart la and directed two fictional short films; If I Say No (2016) and editor and directed two short films; Nybohovsbacken (2016) Duration 76 min My Gay Sister (2017). My Gay Sister became a big interna- and She Only Beat the One She Loves (2017). Always Amber Release February 2020 tional success and won the prestigious TEDDY Award at the is their feature debut. Sales Wide House Berlinale, the world’s biggest queer film award. 5 TRAILER • STORY • WIDE HOUSE FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #2 Feature DOC CPH:DOX The Beautiful Game Debut (Det vackra spelet) Directed by Olof Berglind To many young Ivorians, football is a ticket to a brighter future. The dream suddenly comes true for one of them when a Swedish agent takes the merely 17-year-old talent Odilon Kossounou to a club in Stockholm. From the moment he is scouted to his arrival in the cold North, the expectations are enormous. A film about about integra- tion, globalisation and the many faces of modern football. ©BR•F Screenwriter Olof Berglind Olof Berglind’s latest projects include a feature length nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2018 he Produced by BR•F/Fredrik Heinig documentary and four-part series about the iconic also developed and wrote the one-hour documentary Duration 78 min Millennium-author Stieg Larsson, called The Man Who Zlatan – for Sweden with the Times for pubcaster SVT Release March 2020 Played with Fire (2018). The movie made a big buzz and was featuring Zlatan Ibrahimovic speaking, nominated for Prix Sales TBA officially screened in the Swedish parliament, and was Europa. 6 TRAILER • BR•F FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #2 Bellum DOC (Bellum) Directed by David Herdies, Georg Götmark It’s often said that war is inhumane. In Bellum this assumption is flipped around, because maybe there is nothing more humane than war. Humanity has always been at war, and it seems that going to war over abstract ideas such as borders, religion or freedom is something that distinguishes us from all animals on the planet. ©STEVE MC CURRY/TT Screenwriters David Herdies, Georg Götmark David Herdies is a Swedish producer, director and the Georg Götmark is a producer and director. He has worked Produced by Momento Film/Michael Krotkiewski, with founder of Momento Film. He has directed three feature with documentaries and TV since 2001. During this period, support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning documentaries; Citizen Oketch (2009), The Guerilla Son he has worked on a number of international documentary Duration approx. 80 min (2011), and While No One Is Watching (2013) which have projects, such as The Last Lacandones by Peter Torbiörnsson, Release 2021 been screened and awarded at festivals around the world and Transit Tanger and the feature documentary Citizen Oketch Sales Autlook Film Sales together sold to more than 10 territories. Furthermore, Herdies (2009). Georg has also produced a number of TV-series and is one of Sweden’s most established documentary producers reportages in many different countries for Swedish with several award-winning titles in his catalogue, screened at Television/UR. festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and IDFA. 7 MOMENTO FILM • AUTLOOK FILM SALES FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #2 Feature Bert’s Diary Debut (Berts dagbok) Directed by Michael Lindgren Bert is a 13-year-old boy about to start eighth grade. One of his new classmates is Leila´s younger sister Amira. Leila is the 15-year-old that the entire school has a crush on, including Bert. He sees his chance to get close to Leila by befriending Amira. When Bert finds a secret diary at the sisters’ home a rollercoaster takes off filled with mix-ups, emotions, betrayal and heartbreak. ©JOHAN PAULIN Screenwriter Tapio Leopold The director, producer, screenwriter and actor Michael As an actor he has played in films like Johan Kling’s Darling Principal cast Hugo Krajcik, Julia Pirzadeh, Frank Dorsin, Lindgren has been on stage ever since his early shool days. (2007) and Rojda Sekersöz’ Beyond Dreams (2017). Bert’s Yussra El Abdouni, Arvid Bergelv, Frode Östlin, Helena Lindegren, His breakthrough to a broader audience, came with comedy Diary is Michael’s feature film directorial debut. David Wiberg, Isa Aouifia, Suzanne Reuter, Björn Gustafsson and satire collective Grotesco in 2007. Their show Produced by FLX/Rebecka Lafrenz, Anna Anthony, with Flyktingkrisen – en musikal won the Best Comedy award at support from the Swedish Film Institute the Rose d’Or awards ceremony in 2018. Michael has Duration 90 min directed and created several other very popular and awarded National release Autumn 2020 programs for TV, most notably Svenska Nyheter. International premiere TBA Sales TBA 8 FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #2 Bitter Love DOC CPH:DOX (Bitter Love) Directed by Jerzy Sladkowski A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a doubtful young couple meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise on Volga. What does fate have in store for them? ©GINESTRA FILM ©GINESTRA Screenwriter Jerzy Sladkowski Jerzy Sladkowski was born in Poland in 1945. He Produced by Ginestra Film/Antonio Russo Merenda, with immigrated to Sweden in 1983. Since then he has worked as support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning a freelance director and producer making over fifty documen- Duration 86 min taries. Recipient of several prestigious prizes including the Release March 2020 European Film Award for Vendetta (1996), the IDA Award for Sales CAT&Docs Swedish Tango (1999), the Golden Dove for Vodka Factory (2011) and the VPRO IDFA Award for Don Juan (2016).