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. Swedish Film Institute International Department P.O Box 27 126 ISSN 1654-0050 SE- 102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Art Director: Markus Edin Fax +46 8 661 18 20 Print: Lenanders Grafiska, Kalmar filminstitutet.se Cover photo: And Then We Danced, twitter.com/swedishfilm © French Film Quarter/Anka Gujabidze instagram.com/swedishfilm Contacts Head of International Festivals, docs & shorts Head of Communications Department Sara Rüster & Public Relations Steffen Andersen-Møller Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 Rebecka Ioannidis Lindberg Phone: +46 76 051 36 97 [email protected] Phone: +46 76 501 20 73 [email protected] [email protected] Festivals, features Festivals, docs & shorts Press Officer Petter Mattsson Josefina Mothander Jan Göransson Phone: +46 70 607 11 34 Phone: +46 70 972 93 52 Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Festivals, features Festivals, docs & shorts Theo Tsappos Maria Razakamboly Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 Phone: +46 70 303 12 75 [email protected] [email protected] Administrator Festivals, shorts & docs Ömer Bulduk Jing Haase Phone: +46 76 501 20 71 Phone: +46 70 420 32 74 [email protected] [email protected] Contents p. 6 Features and Documentaries p. 46 In Production p. 56 Shorts p. 60 Classics p. 62 Industry Contacts in Sweden FEATURES AND DOCS 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 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. SWEDISH FILM • 9 FEATURES AND DOCS 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.