Summer/Autumn 2019 438 Days • About Endlessness • Alone in Space • And Then We Danced • Aniara • A Piece of My Heart Bamse and the Thunderbell • Bitter Love • Britt-Marie Was Here • Charismatic Megafauna • The Comeback • Everybody Loves Madeline The Feminister • Goliath • Halvdan: Almost a Viking • The Heart is a Drum • I’ll Be Home for Christmas • Ninosca, the Return to San Fernando JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – The First Mystery • Josefin & Florin • Jozi Gold • Koko-Di Koko-Da • King of Atlantis • The Longest Day • Lucky One • Mating My Life as a Comedian • The Perfect Patient • Pity the Lovers • PUSH • Reconstructing Utøya • Ridge • Scheme Birds • Sune vs. Sune • Swoon Tiny Tim – King for a Day • Transnistra • The Unpromised Land • The Writer – 10 Chapters with Joyce Carol Oates • X&Y + 15 shorts Welcome to the world of Swedish films. Swedish films in 2019 display an impressively wide In Production, listing lots of exciting new titles such as variety of genres, themes and outlooks on the world. Lisa Aschan’s Call Mum!, Ninja Thyberg’s Jessica and From Levan Akin’s Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Göran Hugo Olsson’s La Société du Spectacle, selected love drama And Then We Danced to Rojda co-directed with Roxy Farhat, to name but a few. We Sekersöz’ My Life as a Comedian. From the musical can guarantee that Sundance screened Koko-Di A Piece of my Heart by debuting director Edward af Koko-Da and Berlin dito kids film Sune vs. Sune was Sillén to Jesper Ganslandt’s political thriller 438 Days. just the beginning of a great year for Swedish films! The success of Swedish short films continues as well, Oh, and don’t miss Mikael Håfström’s journalistic one of them being Elin Övergaard’s Who Talks in the thriller The Perfect Patient, Patrik Eklund’s absurd Cannes Short Film Competition. Other highlights comedy The Comeback or … Well, just read the include Stig Björkman’s documentary The Writer – 10 catalogue and see the films! Chapters with Joyce Carol Oates and long-awaited About Endlessness by Swedish master Roy Andersson. In order to give you more info on what’s coming in Please go to filminstitutet.se for updated 2020, we have a new section in the catalogue called ­information on Swedish features, docs and shorts.

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438 Days (438 DAGAR) DIRECTED BY JESPER GANSLANDT

On the eve of June 28th 2011, Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at

FEATURES stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. There, as their initial reportage died, another story began. FEATURES ©MISO FILM ©MISO

Screenwriter Peter Birro Jesper Ganslandt Principal cast Gustaf Skarsgård, Matias Varela Jesper Ganslandt, born 1978 in Falkenberg, Sweden. He shot his feature Produced by Miso Film/Sandra Harms, Karl Fredrik Ulfung, with support from debut Falkenberg Farewell in 2003 with family and friends acting as the Swedish Film Institute/Calle Marthin, Jenny Gilbertsson themselves. Falkenberg Farewell, The Ape (2009) and Blondie (2012) all Duration approx. 120 min premiered at Venice International Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival. In his National Release August 31, 2019 filmJimmie he stars together with his son Hunter. Jimmie, and Ganslandt’s Sales SF Studios first English-speaking feature Beast of Burden, starring Daniel Radcliffe, premiered in 2018.

6 • SWEDISH FILM About Endlessness (OM DET OÄNDLIGA) DIRECTED BY ROY ANDERSSON FEATURES AND DOCS

Cologne lies in ruins, a father ties his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain, a midwife drinks champagne. With his new project, About Endlessness, Roy Andersson continues his cinematic oevre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality, its endeavours and mishaps. Once more, we gain admission into Andersson’s FEATURES singular world, one in which we are granted a fleeting reflection of our human existence. ©ROY ANDERSSON FILMPRODUKTION AB FILMPRODUKTION ANDERSSON ©ROY

Screenwriter Roy Andersson Roy Andersson FEATURES Principal cast Jan-Eje Ferling, Martin Serner, Tatiana Delaunay, Bengt Bergius Born in Gothenburg in 1943. Feature-length film debut with A Swedish Love Produced by Roy Andersson Filmproduktion/Pernilla Sandström, Johan Story (1970), followed by Giliap (1975). After this, numerous award-winning Carlsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson advertising films, the anthology Successful Freezing of Mr. Moro (1995), and Duration 80 min the exhibition Sweden and the Holocaust. In 2014 the last part of The Living National release Fall 2019 Trilogy, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence(2014), was Sales Coproduction Office awarded The Golden Lion for Best Film at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 7 FEATURES AND DOCS AND FEATURES

Alone in Space (ENSAMMA I RYMDEN) DIRECTED BY TED KJELLSSON FEATURE DEBUT

In a not too distant future, the giant spacecraft Svea travels with only two passengers – 12-year-old Gladys and her little brother Keaton. The children have fled from a broken Earth and are heading towards the planet Vial, but never seem to arrive. They spend their days exploring the giant ship and the only one they can talk to is the Japanese A.I. Otosan. But everything changes when something unknown crashes into Svea – suddenly they are not alone in space anymore... Alone in Space is an epic, warm and entertaining space adventure for the whole family. ©NICE DRAMA ©NICE

Screenwriters Ted Kjellsson, Henrik Ståhl Ted Kjellsson Principal cast Ella Rae Rappaport, Dante Fleischanderl Ted Kjellsson has directed the tv-series The Junkyard Kids (2013) for SVT as Produced by Nice Drama/Anna Knochenhauer, Sonja Hermele, with support well as the documentary Alla bara försvinner (2004) and the short films from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Tompta Gudh (2002) and Captain Sweden (2014). Ted also has an extensive Duration 83 min background directing commercials and as a production designer. Alone in National Release September 21, 2018 Space is Ted’s first feature film. Sales TrustNordisk

8 • SWEDISH FILM And Then We Danced Cannes (AND THEN WE DANCED) DIRECTED BY LEVAN AKIN FEATURES AND DOCS

A struggling young dancer faces the challenge of his life when he finds himself falling in love with an ambitious rival, threatening to destroy everything he’s fought for. © ANKA GUJABIDZE/FRENCH FILM QUARTER FILM GUJABIDZE/FRENCH ANKA ©

Screenwriter Levan Akin Levan Akin Produced by French Quarter Film/Mathilde Dedye, with support from the Leva Akin is a Swedish born filmmaker whose work often plays on class and Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart, Madeleine Ekman gender. He most recently directed The Circle (2015, world premiere at the Duration 105 min Berlin International Film Festival) based on the bestselling book with the same National release Fall 2019 title. He has also directed the feature film Certain People (2012) which had its Sales Totem Films international premiere at Tribeca Film Festival to rave reviews. He also directed several TV- series for SVT Drama most notably Real Humans (2012). Currently Levan Akin is writing and directing a new TV-series for SVT titled Dough, set to premiere in the spring of 2021.

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Aniara (ANIARA) DIRECTED BY PELLA KÅGERMAN, HUGO LILJA FEATURE DEBUT

An adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author Harry Martinson’s Aniara. Aniara is one of the many space- ships used for transporting Earth’s population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as Aniara leaves the ruined Earth, she collides with space junk and is knocked off her course. Aniara’s passengers slowly realize that they’ll never be able to return; they will continue onwards forever, through an empty and cold universe. ©RUTGER SJÖGRIM ©RUTGER

Screenwriters Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja Principal cast Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, Arvin Kananian Pella Kågerman (born in 1982, educated at the Royal Institute of Art, Produced by Meta Film Stockholm/Annika Rogell, with support from the Stockholm) and Hugo Lilja (born in 1979, educated at the Stockholm Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim, Calle Marthin Academy of Dramatic Arts) have collaborated since 2009. Together they Duration 106 min wrote Hugo Lilja’s graduation film The Unliving (2010), that has won awards National release February 1, 2019 at – amongst other places – Berlinale, Stockholm International Film Festival Sales Film Constellation and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. In addition, they have directed the short films A Day in the Country (2010), and The Swedish Supporter (2011).

10 • SWEDISH FILM A Piece of My Heart (EN DEL AV MITT HJÄRTA) DIRECTED BY EDWARD AF SILLÉN FEATURE DEBUT FEATURES AND DOCS

Isabella returns to the small town where she grew up, to celebrate her dad’s birthday. She runs into her childhood friend Molly who is getting married to Isabella’s ex Simon! This marks the beginning of a series of unexpected surprises that unfold after Isabella’s return. © NIKLAS© MAUPOIX

Screenwriter Lars Johansson Edward af Sillén Principal cast Malin Åkerman, Christian Hillborg, Jonas Karlsson, Marie Edward Af Sillén is one of Sweden´s most in demand show directors with Richardson, Johan Ulvesson, Shima Niavarani, Per Andersson several big musicals and stage productions to his credit. He also wrote the Produced by Unlimited Stories/Patrick Ryborn, with support from the Swedish screenplays for A Holy Mess (2015) and Medicine (2014). Film Institute/Yaba Holst Duration 112 min National release December 25, 2019 Sales Picture Tree International

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Bamse and the Thunderbell (BAMSE OCH DUNDERKLOCKAN) DIRECTED BY CHRISTIAN RYLTENIUS

In the quest for the Thunderbell, the secret ­ingredient that makes Bamse the strongest bear in the world, Bamse needs to learn something of utmost importance: that being true to yourself takes you further than you’d think. A truth that might also help Reinard the Fox get the girl of his dreams… ©SF STUDIOS ©SF

Voice director Maria Blom Christian Ryltenius Screenwriters Tomas Tivemark, Fabian Nordlander Christian Ryltenius has worked as an animator on many productions, e.g. Principal cast Peter Haber, Morgan Alling, Steve Kratz, Ia Langhammer ABC, Alfie Atkinsand Dogdays. For many years, he worked in Asia as (voices) Overseas Supervisor before he launched Sluggerfilm in Sweden in 2004. He Produced by SF Studios/Jon Nohrstedt, Ina Sohlberg, with support from the worked as animation director on Tarik Saleh’s Metropia (2009) and directed Swedish Film Institute two of the most successful feature films in Swedish animation history; Bamse Duration 65 min and the City of Thieves (2014) and Bamse and the Witch’s Daughter (2016). National release December 21, 2018 Sales SF Studios

12 • SWEDISH FILM Bitter Love Doc (BITTER LOVE) DIRECTED BY JERZY SLADKOWSKI FEATURES AND DOCS

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 Produced by Ginestra Film/Antonio Russo Merenda, with support from the Jerzy Sladkowski was born in Poland in 1945. He immigrated to Sweden in Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning 1983. Since then he has worked as a freelance director and producer making Duration approx. 90 min over fifty documentaries. Recipient of several prestigious prizes including the National release TBA European Film Award for Vendetta (1996), the IDA Award for Swedish Tango Sales TBA (1999), the Golden Dove for Vodka Factory (2011) and the VPRO IDFA Award for Don Juan (2016).

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Britt-Marie Was Here (BRITT-MARIE VAR HÄR) DIRECTED BY TUVA NOVOTNY SECOND FEATURE

When Britt-Marie leaves her husband after 40 years of marriage, she ends up in the town of Borg, where life seems to be over for the few people that are still around. However, there are bigger dreams in Borg and they breathe new life into Britt-Marie’s belief in the future. ©JOSEF PERSSON ©JOSEF

Screenwriters Tuva Novotny, Anders August, Øystein Karlsen Tuva Novotny Principal cast Pernilla August, Peter Haber, Anders Mossling, Malin Levanon, Tuva Novotny is a Swedish director and actress. She has previously directed Stella Oyoko Bengtsson episodes of the popular Norwegian TV series Dag and Lillyhammer (2014) as Produced by SF Studios/Nicklas Wikström Nicastro, Gustav Oldén, with well as her first feature the Norwegian Blind Spot (2018). support from the Swedish Film Institute/Yaba Holst, Calle Marthin Duration 97 min National release Januari 25, 2019 Sales SF Studios

14 • SWEDISH FILM Charismatic Megafauna Doc (CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA) DIRECTED BY FREDRIK WENZEL, JESPER KURLANDSKY FEATURES AND DOCS

Charismatic Megafauna is a globe spanning odyssey, steeped in the tempo of the contemplative traditions. Through the eye of the free-floating witness, we observe life at work and leisure, in play and through hardships, from the shanty towns of Cape Town, to the Waura Tribe by the Xangu river, through the mist of the Atlas Mountains to the coloured night skies of Beijing. ©FASAD

Screenwriters Fredrik Wenzel, Jesper Kurlandsky Fredrik Wenzel and Jesper Kurlandsky Produced by Fasad/Erik Gandini, Jesper Kurlandsky, Malin Hüber, with Fredrik Wenzel (born in 1978) is the director of Burrowing (2010) and the support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard cinematographer on Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (2014) as well as his Duration 70 min Palme d’Or winner The Square (2017). Fredrik also directed As We’re Told National Release TBA (2017) winner of IDFA Special Jury Award. Sales Cinetic/Wide House Jesper Kurlandsky (born in 1977) produced the award-winning Avalon (2012), directed by Axel Petersén as well as Jesper Ganslandt’s Jimmie (2018).

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The Comeback (REVANSCH) DIRECTED BY PATRIK EKLUND SECOND FEATURE

When the young and promising badminton player Annbritt loses the Swedish championship finals in 1983, her life collapses. Convinced that the loss was based on an incorrect judicial decision, she can’t neglect the defeat – not even today, 35 years later. © GUSTAV DANIELSSON GUSTAV ©

Screenwriter Patrik Eklund Patrik Eklund Principal cast Anki Larsson, Jimmy Lindström, Olle Sarri, Mikael Almqvist, Writer and director Patrik Eklund has received global recognition for Bengt CW Carlsson his films, including the Critics Week Award in Cannes for Seeds of Produced by Art & Bob Film & Drama/Andreas Emanuelsson the Fall (2009) and an Oscar nomination for the short film Instead of Duration 103 min Abracadabra (2008). National release TBA Sales TBA

16 • SWEDISH FILM Everybody Loves Madeline Doc (EVERYBODY LOVES MADELINE) DIRECTED BY JANE MAGNUSSON FEATURES AND DOCS

Everybody Loves Madeline follows Madeline Stuart on her journey to becoming the World’s only ­professional model with Down syndrome, challenging our perception of identity, beauty and disability. ©KALLE LINDBERG ©KALLE

Screenwriter Jane Magnusson Jane Magnusson Produced by BR•F/Cecilia Nessen, with support from the Swedish Film Jane Magnusson (born in 1968) is an award-winning Swedish director and Institute/Klara Grunning journalist. Her documentary Bergman – A Year in a Life premiered in Cannes Duration approx. 90 min Classics in 2018 and her short Vox Lipoma (2018) competed at Sundance National release Fall 2019 Film Festival. Trespassing Bergman (2013), directed by Magnusson, screened Sales Autlook Filmsales at the Venice International Film Festival. Her documentary Ebbe – The Movie (2009) received an award for Best Documentary at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards in 2009. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.

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The Feminister Doc (UTRIKESMINISTERN) DIRECTED BY VIKTOR NORDENSKIÖLD SECOND FEATURE

Incredible coverage of 4 years in the office of the Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallström, known for her fearless feminist agenda and sharp, empathic mind. We witness her arduous negotiations with Saudi Arabia, Israel and North Korea, as well as a highly competitive campaign for a seat in the UNSC, followed by a crash course in keeping it cool in the face of death threats and intimidation. ©VIKTOR NORDENSKIÖLD/FREETOWNFILMS ©VIKTOR

Screenwriter Viktor Nordenskiöld Viktor Nordenskiöld Produced by Freetownfilms/Viktor Nordenskiöld, Malcolm Dixelius Viktor Nordenskiöld (born in 1969) is an award-winning Swedish director, Duration 86 min producer and journalist. He has a Master of Arts from Stockholm University of National release December 21, 2018 the Arts. His short Out of This World (2014) premiered at Berlinale Sales Autlook Filmsales Generation.

18 • SWEDISH FILM Goliath (GOLIAT) DIRECTED BY PETER GRÖNLUND SECOND FEATURE FEATURES AND DOCS

Goliath takes place in a forgotten industrial community in Sweden. When Roland, a family father, gets ­sentenced to jail, his sixteen-year-old son Kimmie is expected to take over the criminal affairs and the responsibility of the family, tasks he is not really ready for. The film depicts a boy’s brutal entry into adulthood and investigates aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, in a time when the welfare state is collapsing and Swedish society is changing. ©BR•F

Screenwriter Peter Grönlund Peter Grönlund Principal cast Sebastian Ljungblad, Joakim Sällquist In his two short films Jaukka Brothers (2010) and Gläntan (2011) and recently Produced by BR•F/Frida Bargo, Mattias Nohrborg, with support from the in the feature film debut Drifters (2014), Peter Grönlund shows a unique touch Swedish Film Institute/Calle Marthin and an outstanding sense of stories from society’s bottom layers. With a Duration 85 min consistent and enthralling image storytelling, Peter Grönlund has managed to National release October 5, 2018 merge amateur actors with professional actors, thus forming a universe with Sales Wild Bunch great authenticity and true naturalism.

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Halvdan: Almost a Viking (HALVDAN VIKING) DIRECTED BY GUSTAV ÅKERBLOM SECOND FEATURE

Halvdan is but half a Viking. He has a limp and the other kids regard him a strange loner. The village blacksmith has taken him in since his parents left to go plunder. One day, Halvdan bumps into Maia only to find out she’s the daughter of the ruler in the enemy village. Their meeting sets off an adventure about bridging differences and forbidden friendship. © ANAGRAM© SVERIGE

Screenwriter Gustav Åkerblom Gustav Åkerblom Principal cast Vilgot Hedtjärn, Ellinea Siambalis, Peter Haber, Claes Månsson Gustaf Åkerblom’s feature debut was the family movie Sune i fjällen (2014), Produced by Anagram Film/Jessica Ask, Magdalena Jangard with support which had close to 600,000 admissions in Swedish cinemas and the most from the Swedish Film Institute/Calle Marthin popular Swedish film to open in 2014. Besides film, he also directed high end Duration 97 min music videos, written and directed comedy sketches. Halvdan: Almost a Viking National release October 26, 2018 is the first feature he’s made as both sceenwriter and director. Sales SF Studios

20 • SWEDISH FILM The Heart is a Drum Doc (THE HEART IS A DRUM) DIRECTED BY JACOB FRÖSSÉN FEATURES AND DOCS

After a botched relationship with a Swedish girl in 1971, Klaus Dinger, a young drummer from Düsseldorf resorts to his drums in the band NEU!. By relapsing into a repetitive beat he is smitten by an overwhelming sensation of not giving up the attempt to regain his lost love. But his beat also throbs with post-war geist, and as a symbol of the new Germany, it progresses towards something new. NEU! ©JACOB FRÖSSÉN FRÖSSÉN ©JACOB

Screenwriter Jacob Frössén Jacob Frössén Produced by Backflip Media/Dylan Williams Jacob Frössén (born in 1975) is a Swedish director and musician. His first Duration 65 min feature documentary, the critically acclaimed En film om Olle Ljungström National release March 2019 (2009), was produced by Story for SVT K Special and distributed theatrically Sales TBA by Folkets Bio. It was followed by the films Henric de la Cour (2013) and Sara-Vide Ericson (2014), in co-production with SVT.

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I’ll Be Home for Christmas (JAG KOMMER HEM IGEN TILL JUL) DIRECTED BY ELLA LEMHAGEN

The world-renowned singer Simon is coming home to his native Sweden to celebrate Christmas. His brother Anders is arranging the annual Christmas concert in the small town where they grew up, and Simon has been talked into participating in the show. Having spent his whole life in the shadow of his more talented brother, Anders is not pleased. Simon on the other hand takes everything with ease, until old memories from his childhood are brought up to the surface and he is confronted with buried family secrets. © MISO FILM MISO ©

Screenwriter Daniel Karlsson Ella Lemhagen Principal cast Peter Jöback, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Suzanne Reuter Ella Lemhagen made her feature film directorial debut in 1996 with Produced by Miso Film Sweden/Sandra Harms, Rachel Bodros Wolgers with Drömprinsen – filmen om Em and had her big breakthrough in 1999 with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine Ekman Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen for which she won a Guldbagge award for Best Duration 95min Director. Since then she has directed several feature films including Patrik, National release TBA Age 1.5 (2008), The Crown Jewels (2011) and her first English language film Sales SF Studios All Roads Lead to Rome (2016) starring Sarah Jessica Parker. In 2013, Ella was awarded the Guldspira Children’s Film Award for her contributions to Swedish youth film.

22 • SWEDISH FILM JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – the First Mystery (LASSEMAJAS DEKTEKTIVBYRÅ – DET FÖRSTA MYSTERIET) DIRECTED BY JOSEPHINE BORNEBUSCH FEATURE DEBUT FEATURES AND DOCS

What actually happened when Jerry and Maya met for the first time? Come along for the very first case that JerryMaya’s Detective Agency have to solve – an exciting adventure that begins when the Hammarabi sisters’ book is stolen from Valleby School. The book has a mysterious secret, and suddenly everyone in the school is under suspicion: the shifty caretaker, the gym teacher with the tight overalls, the strange librarian?... Yes, even head teacher Brynolfsson herself! So, which one is the thief? And will JerryMaya’s Detective

©PATRICK REDMON/SF STUDIOS ©PATRICK Agency manage to solve their very first mystery?

Screenwriter Henrik Engström, Mattias Grosin Josephine Bornebusch Principal cast Frank Dorsin, Ester Vuori, Katrin Sundberg, Jonas Karlsson, The film is Josephine Bornebusch’s feature film debut as a director. In addition Tomas Norström to her successful acting career, her earlier work includes directing TV series Produced by SF Studios/Pontus Sjöman, with support from the Swedish Film (Rachel and Jossan, 2015) and writing children’s books (Keep off the white Institute/Calle Marthin sofa, Born Phenomenal). Duration 90 min National release June 1, 2018 Sales SF Studios

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Josefin & Florin Doc (JOSEFIN & FLORIN) DIRECTED BY ELLEN FISKE, JOANNA KARLBERG FEATURE DEBUT

Despite their cultural differences, Romanian beggar Florin and Swedish single mother Josefin share a deep longing for love and a better life and get married. Moving into a house in a Swedish village, they create a norm-beating life complete with chicken, pigs and a scrapyard. Florin’s friends and family visit from Romania, begging in the town center, and the locals start referring to their home as Little Romania. Florin studies Swedish and looks for work, but as the pressure from his family to send home money mounts, the relationship and their hopes for the future are put

© MANTARAY FILM MANTARAY © to the test.

Produced by Mantaray Film/Anna Weitz, with support from Ellen Fiske and Joanna Karlberg the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning Ellen Fiske and Joanna Karlberg met during their documentary film studies at Duration 74 min Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Joanna has made several films about National release September 20, 2019 migrants and Ellen’s films have often dealt with dysfunctional families. They Sales TBA now continue exploring these themes in their first joint feature documentary, Josefin & Florin.

24 • SWEDISH FILM Jozi Gold Doc (JOZI GOLD) DIRECTED BY FREDRIK GERTTEN, SYLVIA VOLLENHOVEN FEATURES AND DOCS

Grandmother and environmental activist Mariette Liefferink is up against the richest mining corporations in Africa. The golden era has left 1,6 million people living on radioactive grounds, but she is on a mission to force the gold industry to clean up. ©WG FILM

Screenwriter Stefan Sundlöf, Fredrik Gertten Fredrik Gertten and Sylvia Vollenhoven Produced by WG Film/Margarete Jangård, with support from the Swedish Fredrik Gertten is an award-winning director and journalist based in Malmö, Film Institute/Klara Grunning Sweden. After founding WG Film in 1994 he has directed films such as Duration 90 min & 60 min BANANAS!* (2009), Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011), Bikes vs Cars (2015) National release TBA and Becoming Zlatan (2016). His films have met audiences in 100 countries, Sales Autlook Filmsales including leading festivals. Sylvia Vollenhoven is a writer, award-winning journalist, founder of the media organisation Vision in Africa (VIA) and filmmaker, who has received two nominations at the 2016 SA Film & TV Awards. Producer and designer of a 26-part TV series for the SA Channel Via, using viewer created content to tell stories about South Africans in the Diaspora.

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King of Atlantis (KUNGEN AV ATLANTIS) DIRECTED BY MARINA NYSTRÖM, SONI JORGENSEN

Since childhood, Samuel has been taking care of his schizophrenic father. When he meets Cleo, a young woman with an overbearing mother, he realises that there is no guilt in living his own life, but the love and compassion of his eccentric father hold him back and make it hard for him to leave. A drama-comedy based on a true story. © FILMWEAVER©

Screenwriter Simon Settergren, Ursula Fogelström Simon Settergren Principal cast Simon Settergren, Philip Zandén, Happy Jankell Simon Settergren is the screenwriter behind King of Atlantis, a film based Produced by Filmweaver/Emma Creed, Simon Settergren, Soni Jorgensen on his own personal story. He is both the screenwriter, producer and plays Duration 90 min the leading role in the film. As an actor he has appeared in both film and National release March 1, 2019 TV, inc. Modus (2015), Girls Lost (2015) and The Girl, the Mother and the Sales TBA Demons (2016).

26 • SWEDISH FILM Koko-Di Koko-Da (KOKO-DI KOKO-DA) DIRECTED BY JOHANNES NYHOLM SECOND FEATURE FEATURES AND DOCS

A couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other. A sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. A vicious tale of dark woods, an old man in a straw hat and a bunny family shattered to pieces. ©JOHANNES NYHOLM PRODUKTION NYHOLM ©JOHANNES

Screenwriter Johannes Nyholm Johannes Nyholm Principal cast Leif Edlund, Ylva Gallon, Peter Belli Johannes Nyholm is a Swedish, Gothenburg-based, writer and director, Produced by Johannes Nyholm Produktion/Johannes Nyholm, with support managing his own production company. He has made a bunch of music from the Swedish Film Institute/Yaba Holst, Andreas Foch, Andra Lasmanis videos, some short films and one feature (The Giant, 2016). With a Duration 84 min background in classical animation he often mixes different styles and National release August 23, 2019 cinematic universes, moving freely on the border between dream and reality. Sales Stray Dogs

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The Longest Day (DEN LÄNGSTA DAGEN) DIRECTED BY JONAS SELBERG AUGUSTSÉN

Midsummer in Sweden, somewhere above the Arctic Circle. The people of a small Finnish speaking community bravely soldier on with their pursuits under the merciless never setting sun. But it sure is hard to keep feeling bad on the brightest day of the year… ©ART & BOB FILM & DRAMA & FILM BOB & ©ART

Screenwriter Jonas Selberg Augustsén Jonas Selberg Augustsén Principal cast Maria Heiskanen, Ville Virtanen, Bianca Kronlöf, Sara Melleri, With his own distinctive and humorous voice, Jonas Selberg Augustsén tells Marja Packalén, Asko Sarkola, Timo Nieminen, Peter Viitanen, Henna stories about people and places that seem to exist in a borderland. The Tanskanen, Kari Hietalahti Longest Day is the fourth in a suite of five films, each featuring one of Produced by Art & Bob Film & Drama/Andreas Emanuelsson with support Sweden’s official minority languages. from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Duration 120 min National release Autumn 2019 Sales TBA

28 • SWEDISH FILM Lucky One (LUCKY ONE) DIRECTED BY MIA ENGBERG SECOND FEATURE FEATURES AND DOCS

Gangster Vincent works long nights and dreams of another life. When he unexpectedly gets to take care of his teenage daughter Adina, his existence starts to change. The film tells the story in a cinematic language approaching silence and darkness. This is the second part in Mia Engberg’s trilogy that begins with Belleville Baby (2013). ©STORY

Screenwriter Mia Engberg Mia Engberg Principal cast Olivier Loustau, Lorette Nyssen, Diana Rudychenko Mia Engberg is a director and producer known for her cutting edge shorts and Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, with support from the Swedish Film documentaries. She was the producer of Dirty Diaries (2009) – 12 shorts of Institute/Magdalena Jangard feminist porn, which gained a lot of international attention. Her previous film Duration 80 min Belleville Baby premiered in Berlinale 2013 and was awarded with a National release March 15, 2019 Guldbagge Award and several international awards. Sales TBA

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Mating Doc (PARNING) DIRECTED BY LINA MARIA MANNHEIMER

For a year, Naomi and Edvin film themselves, the result is an intimate and raw portrait of their lives. They meet, fall in love and break up. However, they don’t give up on each-other, and a unique friendship emerges. Their filming allows us behind the social media - or any facade. We get to take part in two 20-year old’s uncensored thoughts about life’s challenges and relationships. ©FRENCH QUARTER FILM QUARTER ©FRENCH

Screenwriter Lina Maria Mannheimer Lina Maria Mannheimer Produced by French Quarter Film/Mathilde Dedye, Isabella Rodriguez with After studying Film and Art History at Universidad de Nebrija in Madrid, support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning Mannheimer embarked on the Master’s and Science program at Stockholm Duration 90 min School of Economics. She also has a Master’s Degree from the Gothenburg National release March 29, 2019 Film School. Her film The Ceremony premiered at CPH:DOX 2014 and got Sales Film Republic selected at SXSW 2015.

30 • SWEDISH FILM My Life as a Comedian (EN KOMIKERS UPPVÄXT) DIRECTED BY ROJDA SEKERSÖZ SECOND FEATURE FEATURES AND DOCS

Juha, 12, class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm 1975. To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When Juha performs the show My Life as a Comedian to sold out theatres in 2019 and tells the horrid and funny stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an unexpected visit from an old friend from school which makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past. ©ANAGRAM

Screenwriter Jonas Gardell Rojda Sekersöz Principal cast Johan Rheborg, Loke Hellberg, Jakob Eklund, Klara After filmschool, Rojda Sekersöz (born 1989) directed short films and made Zimmergren, Fredrik Hallgren, Ulla Skoog, Maria Sid, Gizem Erdogan, Cilla her feature film debut Beyond Dreams (2017) which won the Angelos Award Thorell at Göteborg Film Festival. She won the prestigious Swedish film award Produced by Anagram/Martin Persson, with support from the Swedish Film Guldbaggen for Best Newcomer 2017. Institute/Calle Marthin Duration 90 min National release Fall 2019 Sales The Yellow Affair

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Ninosca, the Return to San Fernando Doc (NINOSCA, THE RETURN TO SAN FERNANDO) DIRECTED BY PETER TORBIÖRNSSON

A dramatic Central American story from one woman’s point of view told over almost 40 years. Ninosca, the Return to San Fernando continues filmmaker Peter Torbiörnsson’s intimate portrait of Ninosca, who after years of struggling for her independence sets off as an undocumented worker in Europe. ©GÖRAN GESTER

Screenwriter Peter Torbiörnsson Peter Torbiörnsson Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Peter Torbiörnsson has made more than 20 documentaries from Central Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart America, Africa, Bosnia and Sweden, including a series of films about the Duration: 115 min & 3 x 52 min Nicaraguan village San Fernando: The Border (1985), Reyno (1987), The National release TBA Ceasefire (1988), The Lovers of San Fernando (2001), The Last Chapter Sales TBA (2010) and now Ninosca, the Return to San Fernando.

32 • SWEDISH FILM The Perfect Patient (QUICK) DIRECTED BY MIKAEL HÅFSTRÖM FEATURES AND DOCS

The Perfect Patient is the captivating story about the biggest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the reporter who questioned an entire legal system and a journalistic thriller about a man who sacrificed everything in his search for truth. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving the innocence of convicted serial killer Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison. However, no one was interested in exonerating and freeing the worst serial killer in Sweden, a cannibalistic rapist who had been sentenced for eight murders and confessed to another

©BRAIN ACADEMY twenty-five.

Screenwriter Erlend Loe Mikael Håfström Principal cast David Dencik, Jonas Karlsson, Alba August Mikael Håfström is an award winning director and screenwriter, born in Lund, Produced by Brain Academy/Helena Danielsson with support from the Sweden 1960. He has studied film at the University of Stockholm and Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson attended the School of Visual Arts in New York. Mikael made his directing Duration 110min debut with Swedish crime films Hassel in the early nineties which led to National release September 20, 2019 several feature films as well as tv-series, and eventually landing him the Oscar Sales TrustNordisk nominated Evil (2003). The film opened up many doors and Mikael continued his work overseas. He went on to direct such movies as Derailed (2005) with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen, 1408 (2007) with John Cusack, The Rite (2011) with Anthony Hopkins and several episodes of the hit Netflix series Bloodline (2016).

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Pity the Lovers (VESALINGS ELSKENDUR/STACKARS ÄLSKANDE) DIRECTED BY MAXIMILIAN HULT SECOND FEATURE

Brothers Óskar and Maggi are longing for love but have a difficult time with close relationships. A problem they exhibit in opposite ways. Anna is facing a decision that Óskar unwittingly influences, while 13-year-old friends Danni T and Danni M’s daily life increasingly takes place in Óskars house. ©LITTLEBIG PRODUCTIONS ©LITTLEBIG

Screenwriter Maximilian Hult Maximilian Hult Principal cast Björn Thórs, Jóel I Sæmundsson, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir Born in November 1982, grown up in Stockholm, Maximilian’s journey in Produced by LittleBig Productions/Anna G Magnusdottír filmmaking began in his early teens with his parent’s video camera. After high Duration 105 min school graduation he went straight to film school and has since worked in National release TBA many fields of film before beginning to write and direct his own material. Sales Green Lighting Studio

34 • SWEDISH FILM PUSH Doc (PUSH) DIRECTED BY FREDRIK GERTTEN FEATURES AND DOCS

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities worldwide. Incomes are not. The working and middle classes are getting pushed out of cities, while financial powerhouses use housing as a place to park money. Following Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, PUSH sheds light on why it has become so expensive to live in our cities and who’s getting rich in the process. ©WG FILM

Screenwriter Fredrik Gertten Fredrik Gertten Produced by WG Film/Margarete Jangård, with support from the Swedish Fredrik Gertten is an award-winning director and journalist based in Malmö, Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart Sweden. After founding WG Film in 1994 he has directed films such as Duration 90 min & 60 min BANANAS!* (2009), Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011), Bikes vs Cars (2015) National release TBA and Becoming Zlatan (2016). His films have met audiences in 100 countries, Sales Autlook Filmsales including leading festivals.

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Reconstructing Utøya Doc (REKONSTRUKTION UTØYA) DIRECTED BY CARL JAVÉR

Four survivors from the Utøya massacre of 2011 reconstruct their memories in a black box studio together with twelve young participants in order to share and remember their experiences. ©VILDA BOMBEN FILM AB FILM BOMBEN ©VILDA

Screenwriters Carl Javér, Fredrik Lange Carl Javér Produced by Vilda Bomben Film/Fredrik Lange, with support from the Carl Javér (born in 1972), is a documentary director and editor. Since leaving Swedish Film Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda, Juan Pablo Libossart film school (Biskops Arnö, 1993–94), he has directed seven documentaries Duration 94 min including three major documentary series. His latest documentary Freak Out National release October 19, 2018 (2014) was released on cinema in Sweden and was awarded on several Sales Cinephil festivals as well as broadcasted on ARTE and in several other countries.

36 • SWEDISH FILM Ridge (SÄSONG) DIRECTED BY JOHN SKOOG FEATURE DEBUT FEATURES AND DOCS

Ridge portrays people living at the foot of the ridge Söderåsen in the most southern province of Sweden. It takes place from May to September: one season, one summer. ©PLATTFORM PRODUKTION ©PLATTFORM

Screenwriters John Skoog, Anna Karisinska John Skoog Principal cast Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Artur Krajewski, Mateusz Wieclawek, John Skoog has previously made a number of short films, which have been Grzegorz Falkowski, Aron Skoog, Billie Åstrand featured at film festivals and art museums around the world, including the Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, with support from the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival and the museums of modern Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson and contemporary art in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main to name a few. Duration 71 min National release May 3, 2019 Sales Plattform Produktion

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Scheme Birds Doc (SCHEME BIRDS) DIRECTED BY ELLEN FISKE, ELLINOR HALLIN FEATURE DEBUT

Scheme Birds is the story of Gemma, a teenage troublemaker, growing up in a world of pigeons and violence. From childhood to motherhood, her life unfolds as innocent games turn towards serious crime. ©SISYFOS FILM PRODUCTION/GID FILMS LTD. FILMS PRODUCTION/GID FILM ©SISYFOS

Screenwriter Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin Produced by Sisyfos Film Production/Mario Adamson, GID Film Production/ Ellen Fiske studied Documentary Film Directing at the Stockholm Academy of Ruth Reid, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart Dramatic Arts. She directed the award-winning and criticaly acclaimed short Duration 89 min filmsKeep Me Safe (2014) and Lone Dads (2015). She co-directed the National release TBA documentary Josefin & Florin (2019). Sales Syndicado Film Sales Ellinor Hallin is a director and cinematographer with a background in documen- tary. She worked on numerous productions, moving freely between documentary and fiction working often with Swedish Television SVT and Zentropa Sweden. She currently works on Lukas Moodysson’s Gösta, the first ever Swedish original HBO series, premiering in the autumn 2019. Scheme Birds is the third film co-directed by Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin and their first feature.

38 • SWEDISH FILM Sune vs. Sune (SUNE VS. SUNE) DIRECTED BY JON HOLMBERG FEATURE DEBUT FEATURES AND DOCS

On his first day as a fourth-grader, Sune is welcomed by an unwanted surprise. A new boy is in his seat, and he’s everything Sune wants to be. Not only that, but his name is also Sune - it’s the worst possible start to the fourth grade. ©UNLIMITED STORIES ©UNLIMITED

Screenwriters Jon Holmberg, Daniella Mendel Enk Jon Holmberg Principal cast Fredrik Hallgren, Sissela Benn, Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Tea Sune vs. Sune is Jon Holmbergs first feature, after working mainly with Stjärne television comedies, both as director and scriptwriter. He has also directed Produced by Unlimited Stories/Malin Söderlund, Linus Stöhr Torell, with several theatrical plays based on his own scripts. In 2019 Jon Holmberg will support from the Swedish Film Institute shoot a new feature about Sune. Duration 86 min National release November 30, 2018 Sales Global Screen

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Swoon (ELD & LÅGOR) DIRECTED BY MÅNS MÅRLIND, BJÖRN STEIN

Swoon is the story about two rivaling amusement parks in a raging feud. Gröna Lund is the respected and bourgeois alternative in contrast to Nöjesfältet across the alley that offers cheap beer, strippers and run-down attractions. The two families, ruling their miniature nations of rides, fortune wheels and cotton candy are determined to destroy one another when their young heirs Ninni and John unexpectedly fall in love. In the shadow of the Second World War, the conflict escalates between the families in a magical and swirling tale of war, treachery and forbidden love. ©ATMO RIGHTS©ATMO

Screenwriter Måns Mårlind Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein Principal cast Frida Gustavsson, Albin Grenholm, Robert Gustafsson, Pernilla Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein live and work in Stockholm and Los Angeles. August, Helena af Sandeberg, Lennart Jähkel, Edvin Endre Over the last decade, they have co-directed several award-winning feature Produced by Atmo/Kristina Åberg, with support from the Swedish Film films and TV series. Their latest creation was the award-winning TV-series Institute/Calle Marthin Midnight Sun (2016), which has been sold to more than 90 territories. Their Duration 100 min feature Shed No Tears (2013) won two Guldbagge Awards. They directed the National release February 14, 2019 successful Hollywood production Underworld: Awakening (2012) with box Sales TrustNordisk office receipts of over $160 million, as well as the thriller Shelter (2010) with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Mårlind and Stein are also two of the creators of the critically acclaimed TV series The Bridge, sold to 161 countries with two remakes already produced.

40 • SWEDISH FILM Tiny Tim – King for a Day Doc (TINY TIM – KING FOR A DAY) DIRECTED BY JOHAN VON SYDOW FEATURES AND DOCS

Once Tiny Tim was one of the most famous persons on four continents. His rise is the ultimate fairy tale. And so is his downfall. Through his intense diaries and interviews with family and friends, this film paints an intimate portrait of one of the oddest careers in showbiz, ever. ©BARON WOLMAN

Screenwriter Martin Daniel Johan von Sydow Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, with support Johan von Sydow is a director and producer at SVT. His first two documenta- from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart ries Mare Kandre (2009) and The Jussi Bjoerling Saga (2011, nominated as Duration approx. 80 min Best Documentary in the Swedish TV-award Kristallen) were called “the two National release Spring 2020 best Swedish cultural docs in the 2000s” by a leading tv-critic, and his latest, Sales DR Sales Ratata through the 80s (2013) “a benchmark for future Swedish pop music documentaries”.

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Transnistra Doc (TRANSNISTRA) DIRECTED BY ANNA EBORN

Atmospherically shot on 16mm film,Transnistra is an intimate and vital account of love and friendship in a complex, contradictory world. Award-winning director Anna Eborn intimately follows a group of young people as they move from a sweltering, carefree summer through an unforgiving winter in the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. ©MOMENTO FILM ©MOMENTO

Screenwriter Anna Eborn Anna Eborn Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, with support Anna Eborn was born in 1983 on the island Skaftö in Sweden. Her debut and from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning self-edited film Pine Ridge (2013) premiered at Venice Film Festival and won Duration 95 min the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg Film Festival in National release April 17, 2019 2014. Her second feature Epifanía (2016) premiered at Busan Film Festival Sales CAT&Docs and her latest film Transnistra (2019) won the VPRO Award at Rotterdam Film Festival and the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg Film Festival.

42 • SWEDISH FILM The Unpromised Land (TILL DRÖMMARNAS LAND] DIRECTED BY VICTOR LINDGREN FEATURE DEBUT FEATURES AND DOCS

Sabina has traveled with her Roma brothers from Romania to the small Swedish town of Holmsund. She is looking for a job. Summer is about to start and Sabina will get to know Elin. Together they will revolt against the old ways and find something new in each other. At the same time society around them collapses in fear and Elin’s dad becomes insane by sorrow. ©RASMUS WEST

Screenwriter Victor Lindgren Victor Lindgren Principal cast Andreea Petre, Elin Marklund, Mattias Fransson, Ingrid Nyström, Victor Lindgren (born in 1984) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He Christian-Victor Priboi, Madalin Mandin grew up in Holmsund, a small industrial society in northern Sweden, in a family Produced by Bautafilm/Therese Högberg, with support from the Swedish Film without university education tradition. Victor’s recent short films have been Institute/Helen Ahlson well received internationally, i.e nominated for a Golden Bear and awarded Duration 87 min with a Teddy Award. The Unpromised Land is his feature debut. National release March 22, 2019 Sales TBA

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The Writer – 10 Chapters with Joyce Carol Oates Doc (THE WRITER – 10 CHAPTERS WITH JOYCE CAROL OATES) DIRECTED BY STIG BJÖRKMAN

Imagine if we could have made a documentary about the iconic writers Jane Austin, Virginia Wolff, or Ernest Hemingway while they were still alive. Joyce Carol Oates is, and she has invited us into her world. ©MANTARAY FILM ©MANTARAY

Screenwriters Stina Gardell, Stig Björkman, Dominika Daubenbüchel Stig Björkman Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Known for Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words (2015) which premiered at Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart the Cannes Film Festival where it received the Golden Eye Special Mention. Duration 90 min/58 min He is also known for his films about Ingmar Bergman …but Film is My National release 2019/2020 Mistress (2010) and Images from the Playground (2009). In addition, Sales East Village Entertainment Björkman has directed seven feature films.

44 • SWEDISH FILM X&Y (X&Y) DIRECTED BY ANNA ODELL SECOND FEATURE FEATURES AND DOCS

Swedish director and visual artist, Anna Odell (The Reunion, 2013), conducts a social experiment in which she aims to challenge the gender roles that men and women have in the society of today. In a purpose-build warehouse set she confronts herself with the Swedish actor and masculine icon Mikael Persbrandt, and invites seven other top Scandinavian actors to live with them and act as alter egos of herself and Mikael. The group embarks on a game without rules, which leads to real conflicts and funny, absurd and emotional situations. ©BR•F

Screenwriter Anna Odell Anna Odell Principal cast Anna Odell, Mikael Persbrandt, Vera Vitali, Shanti Roney, Sofie Anna Odell is an original and unique talent in the world of Swedish art and Gråbøl, Jens Abinus, Thure Lindhart, Trine Dyrholm, Ville Virtanen cinema. What has primarily shaped her is her willingness to take risks, to dare Produced by BR•F/Frida Bargo, Mattias Nohrborg, with support from the to challenge and to push boundaries. This is reflected in her art installations Swedish Film Institute/Yaba Holst and her films. Anna Odell’s feature film debut The Reunion (2013) shocked Duration 100 min and surprised the Swedish establishment and the film world. Her second National release November 23, 2018 feature takes a firm view of the male and the female identity. Sales New Europe Film Sales

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Always Amber Breaking Surface (ALWAYS AMBER) DIRECTED BY LIA HIETALA, (BREAKING SURFACE) DIRECTED BY JOACHIM HEDÉN HANNAH REINIKAINEN BERGENMAN FEATURE DEBUT Two sisters fight for their lives when they suffer an Amber and Sebastian are 17, best friends and

WFEATURES accident during a winter dive in the north of Norway, ­transgender. They share a world far away from the leaving one of them trapped under water. judging eyes of society. But when Sebastian falls in love with Ambers girlfriend everything falls apart. Screenwriter Joachim Hedén Principal cast Moa Gammel, Madeleine Martin Screenwriter Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen Bergenman Produced by Way Creative Films/Julia Gebauer, with support from the Produced by Story/Göran Hugo Olsson Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine Ekman Duration 85 min Duration 90 min National release TBA National release TBA Sales TBA Sales TrustNordisk FEATURES

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Call Mum! Charter IN PRODUCTION (RING MAMMA!) DIRECTED BY LISA ASCHAN (CHARTER) DIRECTED BY AMANDA KERNELL SECOND FEATURE

Parents wait all their lives for their children to say thank Charter tells the story of Alice who realizes she is about you and children wait all their lives for their parents to to lose custody of her two children. In a last desperate say I’m sorry. This impossible equation is the starting attempt to win them over she abducts them, taking point for Call Mum! them on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.

Screenwriter Lisa Aschan Screenwriter Amanda Kernell FEATURES Principal cast Sanna Sundqvist, Nina Gunke, Alexander Karim, Jonatan Principal cast Ane Dahl Torp, Sverrir Gudnasson, Tintin Poggats Sarri, Rodriguez, Evin Ahmad, Eric Ericson, Julia Corti Kopp Troy Lundkvist Produced by Garagefilm International/Anna-Maria Kantarius with support Produced by Nordisk Film Production Sverige/Lars G Lindström from the Swedish Film Institute/Calle Marthin with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Duration approx. 90 min Duration approx. 100 min. National release 2020 National release TBA Sales TBA Sales TrustNordisk FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 47 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES JIMMY SUNDIN JIMMY ©

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Clara Sola Inland (CLARA SOLA) DIRECTED BY NATHALIE ÁLVAREZ MESÉN (INLAND) DIRECTED BY JON BLÅHED SECOND FEATURE FEATURE DEBUT A young woman from Stockholm moves to her In a mountain village in Costa Rica, Clara, a 30-year-old

WFEATURES boyfriend’s home town, but the relationship ends before woman, takes off on a journey to break free from social they get there. She finds a job and stays, for reasons and religious conventions and become the master of she doesn’t even get herself. The town has other, her sexuality and newfound powers. unknown, codes. How do you become part of ­something new? Based on the Swedish novel Inlandet Screenwriters Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Maria Camila Arias Produced by HOB AB/Nima Yousefi with support from the Swedish Film by Elin Willows. Institute/Madeleine Ekman Duration 110min Screenwriter Jon Blåhed National release TBA Principal cast Irma von Platen, Albin Grenholm Sales TBA Produced by Bd Film AB/Andreas Emanuelsson, Tony Österholm with FEATURES support of from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Duration TBA National release TBA Sales TBA 48 • SWEDISH FILM FEATURES SF STUDIOS SF ©

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­Director Moa Gammel.

JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – Jessica IN PRODUCTION The Secret of the Train Robber (JESSICA) DIRECTED BY NINJA THYBERG FEATURE DEBUT (LASSEMAJAS DETEKTIVBYRÅ – TÅGRÅNARENS HEMLIGHET) ­DIRECTED BY MOA GAMMEL FEATURE DEBUT Ambitious 20-year-old Jessica moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles for a shot at a career in Clara, daughter of imprisoned murderer Ferdinand the adult industry. She shares a house with three other Fransson escapes from an orphanage. Now she wants girls in the same profession. Jessica’s goal is to “reclaim help to prove that her father is innocent. Jerry and Maya

the slut” and become a contracted girl, a real porn star. FEATURES see a chance to prove that children can solve mysteries and crimes. Screenwriter Ninja Thyberg Principal cast Sofia Kappel, Revika Reustle, Dana DeArmond Screenwriters Henrik Engström, Mattias Grosin Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Principal cast Polly Stjärne, Nils Kendle, Rani Pyne, Tomas von Brömssen, Waltå with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Yaba Holst Alexej Manvelov, Anna Bjelkerud ocn Tomas Norström Duration approx. 120 min Produced by SF Studios/Filippa Torstensson, Annika Sucksdorff with support National release TBA from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Sales Versatile Duration 90 min National release February 2020 FEATURES Sales SF Studios SWEDISH FILM • 49 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES ©FLX STORY ©

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Doc ­Director Tomas Alfredson.

Jönssonligan La Société du Spectacle (JÖNSSONLIGAN) DIRECTED BY TOMAS ALFREDSON (LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE) DIRECTED BY ROXY FARHAT, GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON After a failed heist, gang-leader Charles Ingvar ’Sickan’ A discussion on Guy Debord’s 1967 classic essay,

WFEATURES Jönsson ends up in jail. When released, his gang have given up their criminal life and Sickan has to continue unpacking the fucktangular dynamics of alienation, on his own. Directed by Tomas Alfredson, Jönssonligan powerlessness and emptiness under the tr(i)ump(h) of is one of Scandinavia’s most beloved film-series. information technology and capitalism.

Screenwriters Roxy Farhat, Göran Hugo Olsson, Joslyn Barnes Screenwriter Tomas Alfredson, Henrik Dorsin, Rikard Ulvshammar Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, Louverture Films/Joslyn Barnes, Final Cut Principal cast Henrik Dorsin, Hedda Stiernstedt, Anders Johansson, David For Real/Monica Hellström Sundin Duration 90 min Produced by FLX/Pontus Edgren, Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, Joshua Mehr, National release TBA Fatima Varhos, Anna Carlsten with support from the Swedish Film Institute Sales TBA Duration TBA FEATURES National release 2019 Sales TBA

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­Director Mårten Klingberg.

My Father Mary Ann Pelle No-tail IN PRODUCTION (MIN PAPPA MARIANNE) DIRECTED BY MÅRTEN KLINGBERG (PELLE SVANSLÖS) DIRECTED BY CHRISTIAN RYLTENIUS

After breaking up with her boyfriend, 28-year-old Pelle No-tail lives a quiet life in the countryside when a Hanna returns to Alingsås, Sweden, for a temporary storm takes him to the big city of Uppsala. There he position at the local news station. Her world is soon finds out that it takes guts to be the new cat in town, turned even more upside down when her beloved especially when you have no tail. father, the local priest with the big beard, reveals that his FEATURES greatest desire is to become Mary Ann. Screenwriter Johan Bogaeus Principal cast TBA Produced by SF Studios/Jon Nohrstedt, Gila Berqqvist Ulfung with support Screenwriters Daniel Karlsson, Ida Kjellin, based on the novel Min pappa from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Ann-Christine (2014) by Ester Roxberg and a screenplay by Cilla Jackert Duration approx. 70 min Principal cast Rolf Lassgård, Hedda Stiernstedt, Lena Endre National release January 2020 Produced by Avanti Film/Charlotta Denward, with support from the Swedish Sales SF Studios Film Institute/Madeleine Ekman Duration approx. 100 min National release February 2020 Sales TrustNordisk FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 51 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES ©SOPHIE WINQVIST ©SOPHIE IN PRODUCTION GARAGEFILM INTERNATIONAL ©

Psychosis in Stockholm Sagres (PSYKOS I STOCKHOLM) DIRECTED BY MARIA BÄCK (SAGRES) DIRECTED BY LOVISA SIRÉN FEATURE DEBUT

Psychosis in Stockholm is a surrealist drama set in Two sisters - uptight Nilo and fucked up Maya - have to

WFEATURES Sweden and outer space. The film is based on four drive through Europe when their mother gets sick. On illusive days in the director’s life, when at the age of 14 the road they face their own failures and eachother’s. she was supposed to go on holiday with her mother. Screenwriters Lovisa Sirén, Peter Modestij Screenwriter Maria Bäck Principal cast Bahar Pars, Zhala Rifat, Nadja Rosenberg Principal cast Josefine Strofkoper, Josefin Neldén Produced by [sic] film/Siri Hjorton Wagner with support from the Swedish Produced by Garagefilm International/Anna-Maria Kantarius, with support Film Institute from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Duration 100 min Duration approx. 90 min National release TBA National release 2020 Sales TBA Sales TBA FEATURES

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Stories From The Debris Sune Untitled IN PRODUCTION (STORIES FROM THE DEBRIS) DIRECTED BY JENNIFER RAINSFORD (SUNE UNTITLED) DIRECTED BY JON HOLMBERG SECOND FEATURE Stories From the Debris is a staggering odyssey told as a philosophical and emotional essay on grief and loss, Sune is in love, and so is his Grandfather. Everything and how humans and nature rebuild after the tsunami could have been fine, but grandpa’s wedding and Sunes that struck Japan in 2011. class trip is on the same day…

Screenwriter Jon Holmberg FEATURES Screenwriter Jennifer Rainsford Principal cast Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Lily Wahlsteen, Sissela Benn, Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski , Les films du Fredrik Hallgren, Tomas von Brömsen, Marika Lindström. balibari/Estelle Robin You with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Produced by Unlimited Stories/Linus Stöhr Torell, Malin Söderlund with Pablo Libossart support from the Swedish Film Institute Duration 90 min Duration 90 min National release Fall 2020 National release December 2019 Sales Syndicado Sales TBA FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 53 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES

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Tigers Uje (TIGRAR) DIRECTED BY RONNIE SANDAHL (UJE) DIRECTED BY HENRIK SCHYFFERT

Tigers is a life and death journey through the modern- About running through life and how that all changes the

WFEATURES day football industry, a world where everything can be second a doctor say those “I’m afraid you have...” words. bought. It’s the story of a childhood dream becoming a About what to keep running for, what to rebel against chilling nightmare. And a young man who breaks free. and what to let go of.

Screenwriter Ronnie Sandahl Screenwriter Uje Brandelius Principal Cast Erik Lönngren, Frida Gustavsson, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Principal Cast TBA Maurizio Lombardi, Liv Mjönäs, Antonio Bannó, Johannes Bah Kuhnke Produced By Filmlance International/Tomas Michaelsson, Anna-Klara Produced By Black Spark Film/Piodor Gustafsson with support of from the Carlsten with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders Nylander Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Duration approx 80 min Duration 100min National release 2020 National release October 2020 Sales TBA FEATURES Sales Wild Bunch

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With Love Yung Lean IN PRODUCTION (WITH LOVE) DIRECTED BY MAGNUS GERTTEN (YUNG LEAN) DIRECTED BY HENRIK BURMAN

With Love is a documentary thriller about love, betrayal, This contemporary tale is about a young boy’s passage spies and the longing for a brother, lost in a desert into adulthood: his journey through fame, money, drugs prison called The Place of No Return. and friendship. A success story of a magnitude never before enjoyed by a Swedish hip hop artist. Screenwriter Magnus Gertten Produced by Auto Images/Ove Rishøj Jensen with support from Screenwriters Henrik Burman, Clara Mannheimer, Agnes-Lo Åkerlind FEATURES the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, RMV Film/ Duration 79 min Ludvig Andersson with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning National release Early 2020 Duration 90 min Sales Auto Images National release Spring 2020 Sales TBA FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 55 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES

Among the Birds The Bear Bermuda The Collective Our world spins and spins in its A successful woman at the top of her Jonna, a young waitress, is compelled A group of freelance actors are gigantic cycle. Vibrates. Constant career is fed up with being a human by her boss to make small talk with rehearsing an unconventional version progress. Over the past hundred being, buys herself a bear suit and the only customer of the day. A of Euripides’ Medea. When they get years, humanity has faced enormous emigrates to the wilderness. When conversation that rapidly develops interrupted by a group of teenage changes. Inventions have changed civilization finally catches up, she has from harmless to something absurd girls they need to realize that they Man’s living conditions forever. Can to choose which world to belong to. and potentially life changing. might not be as progressive as they we, with the aid of a longer think. perspective, gain greater under- Original title The Bear Original title Bermuda standing of each other? Director/Screenwriter Johannes Director/Screenwriter Erik Warolin Original title Kollektivet Stjärne Nilsson Produced by Social Club Film/ Director Siri Hjorton Wagner, Nadja Original Title Bland fåglar mång Produced by Kostr-Film/Johannes Henrik Lagercrantz, Sam Safinia Hjorton SHORTS Director/Screenwriter/Producer Stjärne Nilsson, Katja Brigge Production year 2019 Screenwriter Nadja Hjorton David Gülich Production year 2018 Genre Dark comedy, drama Produced by [sic] film/Siri Hjorton Production year 2019 Genre Drama Duration 8 min Wagner, Nadja Hjorton Genre Documentary, Duration 19 min Sales interfilm Berlin Sales & Production year 2019 Experimental Distribution Genre Drama, Comedy Duration 15 min Duration 13 min Doc FEATURES

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Elsa and the Night Excess Will Save Us Involuntary Activist Jamila Elsa has not slept a wink for thirty In a small village of the North of A married, openly gay teacher in Jamila and her friends are practising years. Early one morning when she’s France, an attack alert has been set Wales faces the choice of betraying for the talent show, and nothing can sitting at the kitchen table, she finds off due to the combination of two his family or his core values when his get in the way of Jamila’s focus. Not an unwelcome guest underneath her events: the beginning of the dove older sister asks him to step back into even her little sister Leila’s question sofa. The creature turns out to be hunting season and an argument the closet for her wedding in Turkey. about the family’s asylum case. But IN PRODUCTION none other than the Night itself. between drunk Polish workers. when the police suddenly appear at Elsa tells it of her life, and of the death Original title Den ofrivilliga aktivisten school, Jamila starts to worry. Will of her best friend – an elephant Original title Excess Will Save Us Director/Screenwriter Mikael performing risk the safety of Leila named Olaf. The Night accompanies Director/Screenwriter Morgane Bundsen and herself, or should she skip the her on a moving journey that tells the Dziurla-Petit Produced by French Quarter Film/ talent show and disappoint her new story of an extraordinary friendship. Produced by Vilda Bomben Film Isabella Rodriguez, Grant Vidgen friends. Finally the Night carries her – sleep- AB/Fredrik Lange Production year 2019 ing – through the town in its arms. Production year 2019 Genre Drama Original title Jamila Genre Documentary Duration 20 min Director/Screenwriter Sophie SHORTS Original title Sigrid och Natten Duration 14 min Vuković Director Jöns Mellgren Doc Produced by Grand Slam Film/Eliza Screenwriter Hans-Åke Jones, Markus Waltå ­Gabrielsson Production year 2019 Produced by HOB AB/Nima Genre Drama Yousefi Duration 13 min Production year 2019 Genre Animation, Drama Duration 9 min FEATURES SWEDISH FILM • 57 IN DEVELOPMENT IN FEATURES

My World in Yours Psychic Sorry Not Sorry Tomorrow the Birds Shams and Stella are in love. Shams The neon signs of the Psychics cut Feride is on her way home from a Will Sing hasn’t told Stella that she seeks through the darkness. Beckoning, party when she meets a group of A blindly striving individual entering asylum, nor about Hanine who’s still in like temples of a secular religion young choir singing boys in a wooden the dark and amusing state of the Palestine waiting for Shams to help promising guidance through the boat. When she helps them with their nameless artist, inside an officially her come to Sweden. Stella works at confusion that is life. A lost soul in a motor problems she is unwillingly beautiful world of art and creativity. the Swedish Migration Office. When strange post-consumer empire, taken out for a ride in the Swedish Her desperate aspiration turns it into Shams has her interview with the stripped of inhabitants, a society summer night. her own purgatory of bitter Swedish Migration Board, Stella where everything is suspended in competition and constant crave for shows up as the assistant judge. limbo. In search of belonging. To be Original title Sorry Not Sorry validation. The proud artist is reduced Shams has to tell the truth to get defined is to be erased, a new Director/Screenwriter Julia Thelin to desperate pettiness. asylum. beginning. Produced by Grand Slam Film/Eliza SHORTS Jones, Markus Waltå Original title Tomorrow the Birds Will Original title Min värld i din Original title Psychic Production year 2019 Sing Director Jenifer Malmqvist Director/Screenwriter Tova Mozard Genre Drama Director/Screenwriter Arvin Screenwriter Figge Heurlin, Jenifer Produced by Picky Pictures/Daniel Duration 15 min Kananian Malmqvist, Mariam Altamimi Pynnönen Produced by Makeriet/Petter Produced by Anagram Sverige/ Production year 2019 Selvehed, Vilma Ljunggren Emma Åkesdotter Ronge Genre Documentary Production year 2019 Production year 2019 Duration 16 min Genre Drama Genre Drama Sales Filmform Duration 12 min Duration 29 min Doc

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True Tales Who Talks Zlatan in the Slopes A poetic short film about the fear that The new refugee home for children is The snow falls on the ski slope while religious doctrines can create in being discussed at a public council Zlatan is dragging a snow-blind lady. children growing up in religious meeting. Two people standing on “Madam, what’s your plan?” he homes. About children’s exposure to, opposite sides try to get heard. Who shouts, “You are heavy!” One of the and difficulty of dealing with, abstract Talks raises questions about whose worlds biggest sports star has gone IN PRODUCTION religious messages at a young age. opinions actually matter and what on a ski vacation, but it doesn’t turn creates polarization. out the way he expected. About what Original title Sanningssagor can happen when our given Director Ida Lindgren Original title Ingen lyssnar prerequisites change and get Screenwriters My Roman Fagerlind, Director Elin Övergaard replaced by new rules of the game. Ida Lindgren Screenwriters Elin Övergaard, Produced by Idali Images/Ida Manne Indahl Original title Zlatan i Alperna Lindgren Produced by Elin Övergaard, Manne Director Monne Lindström Production year 2019 Indahl Screenwriters Monne Lindström, SHORTS Genre Hybrid Production year 2019 Kristina Meiton Duration 10 min Genre Drama Produced by MigDig/Kristina Duration 15 min Meiton Cannes Production year 2019 Genre Animation Duration 14 min

SWEDISH FILM • 59 Classics The Swedish film heritage digitized

In 2013, the Swedish Film Institute­ ­previews, digital still images and THE FILMS ­initiated the work of digitizing the posters, as well as text materials Loving Couples Swedish film heritage – everything from available along with the films. Original title Älskande par silent era films to films from the 2010s, For the autumn 2019 we especially Director May Zetterling including world famous classics to present the pioneering feminist work Production Year 1964 Duration 118 min lesser known gems that are worth Loving Couples – the debut of Mai discovering or being rediscovered. Zetterling, Duet for Cannibals, by the Duet for Cannibals In our “Classics” series we present writer, filmmaker and activist Susan Original title Duett för kannibaler Director Susan Sontag recently digitized films that we want to Sontag, and finally the extensive work Production Year 1969 offer to the international audiences. In by artist Marie-Louise Ekman, among Duration 106 min addition to providing new ways of them The Secret Friend, an absurd The Secret Friend accessing Swedish cinematic history, chamber piece which draws gender Original title Den hemliga vännen our hope is that the Classics series will roles into question. Director Marie-Louise Ekman generate an interest and curiosity Production Year 1990 Duration 79 min around the Swedish film heritage. For more information and films, see The films are available on DCP, with filminstitutet.se/digitized-films English subtitles. We also offer Contact: [email protected] ©MATS WIDÉN ©MATS

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