2019 Nordic Film Market

42nd Göteborg Film Festival goteborgfilmfestival.se Jan 25–Feb 4 2019 #gbgfilmfestival Index 5 Welcome 49 Nostradamus 2019 6 Nordic Film Market Schedule 50 Moving Sweden Seminar 8 Nordic Films 51 Valand Academy Works in Progress 33 Works in Progress 54 Nordic Festival Films 43 Discovery 60 Participants Nordic Film Market 48 TV Drama Vision 68 Festival map / Who’s who at NFM

Films, Works in Progress, and Discovery

By Title Swoon 30 Iceland The County 36 438 Days 34 A White, White day 35 The Domestique 37 A Perfectly Normal Family 34 The Deposit 13 The Exception 38 A piece of my heart 35 Echo 38 The Nation 48 A White, White day 35 The County 36 The Perfect Patient 39 After work 45 The Quite Migration 48 Aurora 9 Norway The Spy 40 Britt-Marie Was Here 10 Congo 12 The Store 49 Cold Case Hammarskjöld 11 Disco 36 The Unpromised Land 31 Congo 12 Handling the Undead 46 Valhalla 41 The Deposit 13 Harajuku 17 Where the crows turn 49 Disco 36 Privacy of Wounds 23 Diva of Finland 14 Psychobitch 24 By Country Dogs don’t wear pants 37 Resistance 47 Echo 38 Denmark Sonja 28 Entreprenör 45 A Perfectly Normal Family 34 The Domestique 37 Gods of Molenbeek 15 Cold Case Hammarskjöld 11 The Spy 40 Hamada 16 Ninna 21 Handling the Undead 46 Out of Tune 22 Sweden Harajuku 17 Queen of Hearts 25 438 Days 34 Human Resources 46 Rediscovery 26 A piece of my heart 35 Iron Sky The Coming Race 18 Selvhenter 40 After work 45 Koko-di Koko-da 19 Sons of Denmark 29 Britt-Marie Was Here 10 Lucky One 20 The Exception 38 Entreprenör 45 My Life as a Comedian 39 The Quite Migration 48 Hamada 16 Ninna 21 Valhalla 41 Human Resources 46 Out of Tune 22 Where the crows turn 49 Koko-di Koko-da 19 Privacy of Wounds 23 Lucky One 20 Psychobitch 24 Finland My Life as a Comedian 39 Queen of Hearts 25 Aurora 9 Season 27 Rediscovery 26 Diva of Finland 14 Swoon 30 Dogs don’t wear pants 37 The Nation 48 Nordic Film Market — Göteborg Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival Resistance 47 Gods of Molenbeek 15 The Perfect Patient 39 Editor: Josef Kullengård Olof Palmes Plats 1 Scenes from a Dying Town 47 413 04 Göteborg, Sweden Season 27 Iron Sky The Coming Race 18 The Store 49 Editorial: Cia Edström, Tobias Åkesson Tel: +46 31 339 30 00 Selvhenter 40 Scenes from a Dying Town 47 The Unpromised Land 31 Photo Editor: Carla Orrego Veliz Email: [email protected] Sonja 28 Layout: Gustaf Normark www.goteborgfilmfestival.se Sons of Denmark 29 Printed in Sweden by Billes 2019

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Nordic Film Market celebrating 20 years!

This year marks the 20th edition of Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market, with new and upcoming films, works in progress and projects in development from the Nordics. We are proud to once again present a rich panorama of the quality and talent our region has to offer, and a great list of guests from around the world to share it with. Nordic Film Market starts with TV Drama Vision January 30–31, our two-day conference and co-financing event focusing on drama series from the Nordic and beyond. Nostradamus is our multiyear international initiative to analyze and look into the near future of the fast changing screen industries, releasing its 6th annual report on February 1 during Nordic Film Market. Our market line-up 2019 consists of 48 titles: 23 finished feature films, 15 works in progress and 10 projects in

47th development as a part of our co-funding platform Discovery. 2019 marks the 42nd edition of Göteborg Film Festival, featuring a vast selection of 400 films from 83 countries, seminars, and parties, the films and drama series in competition, and much more. Last but not least, be sure not to miss the social events at Nordic Film Market – the perfect occasion to mingle with friends, get to know new ones, and expand your network!

We welcome you to Göteborg and Nordic Film Market! 17-23 AUGUST 2019 AMANDA AWARDS 17 AUGUST NEW NORDIC FILMS 20–23 AUGUST

Cia Edström, Head of Nordic Film Market Josef Kullengård, Industry Coordinator NEW NORDIC FILMS A NORDIC FILM MARKET AND AN INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION AND FINANCE MARKET 5  Nordic Film Market Schedule

All Nordic Film Market screenings between Thursday Screenings are only open to Nordic Film Market January 31 and Saturday February 2 take place at accredited. Buyers, programmers and sales agents Biopalatset, situated at Kungstorget 2. The screen- have priority to the screenings. No press allowed. ings on Sunday February 3 take place at Göta, situ- Saturday February 02 Avalon Industry ated at Götaplatsen 9. Networking 09.00 BIOP 10 Harajuku (10.25) BIOP 1 Ninna (10.30) January 30 – February 2, 14:00-17:00 Wednesday January 30 10.45 BIOP 5 Koko-di Koko-da (12.15) BIOP 8 The Unpromised Land (10.30) Venue: Avalon Hotel, Kungstorget 9 11:15 STOR TV Drama Vision (17:30) 11.00 BIOP 6 Discovery – Films in Development (12.15) 09.15 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 3 (10.30) Hold your afternoon meeting, network, or just Scenes from a Dying Town The Spy 18:30–23:00 VALAND NIGHTCLUB Entreprenör The Domestique have a drink in the relaxing environment at TV Drama Vision - Dinner party and award Where the Crows Turn The Exception the Avalon Hotel. ceremony for the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Handling the Undead Disco

Prize. Co-hosted by The Norweigan Film After Work A Piece of My Heart Institute. Invitation only. VIP and Industry The Store My Life as a Comedian accredited are welcome from 21.30 Resistance Address: Vasagatan 41 Human Resources 09.15 BIOP 7 Privacy of Wounds (10.25) The Quite Migration The Nation 10.30 BIOP 3 Season (11.45) Thursday January 31 11.00 BIOP 8 Diva of Finland (12.30) 10.45 BIOP 1 Swoon (12.30) Wifi at Biopalatset BIOP 10 Congo (12.45) 09.15 STOR TV Drama Vision (16.15) 11.15 BIOP 9 Rediscovery (12.30) User: NFM2019 12.30 BIOP 7 Psychobitch (14.20) 11.00 BIOP 9 Valand Academy Works in Progress BIOP 8 Sons of Denmark (14.30) 12.30 BIOP 5 Queen of Hearts (14.40) BIOP 8 Lucky One (12.20) Password: NFM2019 BIOP 7 The Deposit (12.30) 13.15 BIOP 9 Sonja – The White Swan (15.10) 12.45 BIOP 8 Hamada (14.15) 12.45 BIOP 8 Koko-di Koko-da (14.15) 14.45 BIOP 8 Aurora (16.35) 13.15 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 1 (14.15) BIOP 1 Iron Sky The Coming Race (14.20) The County 15.30 BIOP 9 Britt-Marie Was Here (17.05) A Perfect Normal Family 13.00 BIOP 7 Diva of Finland (14.30) BIOP 5 The Deposit (17.00) Selvhenter BIOP 10 Out of Tune (14.30) The Perfect Patient 16.00 BIOP 7 Ninna (17.30) 13.30 BIOP 9 Rediscovery (14.45) Industry Ticket Desk for 14.45 BIOP 6 Works in Progress Session 2 (15.45) 17.15 BIOP 8 The Unpromised Land (18.45) 438 Days 15.00 BIOP 7 Sons of Denmark (17.00) festival screenings A White, White Day Attendees with Press, Industry, VIP (purple), 17.30–19.30 CHIMNEY MINGLE Valhalla 15.15 BIOP 9 Psychobitch (17.05) Drinks, foodstuffs and great people! Dogs Don’t Wear Pants or Nordic Film Market accreditation can pick Address: Vallgatan 22 Echo 18.30-22.00 FESTIVALARENAN up tickets for festival screenings that take Dragon Awards 2019. Invitation only. 19.30–23.00 FESTIVALARENAN 14.45 BIOP 8 Sonja – The White Swan (16.40) place the same day or the next day. Please Opening reception Nordic Film Market, SF 22.00 YAKI-DA remember to bring your badge with you to Studios 100 year Party. Invitation only. VIP 15.15 BIOP 5 Lucky One (16.35) Dragon Awards afterparty. and Industry are welcome from 21.30 Free for accredited. obtain tickets. Address: Tredje Långgatan 9 16.00 BIOP 9 Nostradamus release and seminar (17.30) Address: Storgatan 47

17.00 BIOP 8 Aurora (18.50) Ticket Desk opening hours Friday February 01 Sunday February 03 19.00-22.00 VALAND BUFFET DINNER PARTY Jan 25 – Feb 3 08:30–12:30 Hosted by Scandinavian Films and Nordic 09.00 BIOP 9 Moving Sweden Seminar (10.30) Film Market. Invitation only. 08.30 GÖ1 Season (09.45) BIOP 5 Iron Sky The Coming Race (10.35) Address: Vasagatan 41 BIOP 8 Swoon (10.45) 09.00 GÖ3 Queen of Hearts (11.10) 22.00 SCANDIC RUBINEN 09.15 BIOP 1 Out of Tune (10.45) Finnish Party. Invitation only. 09.30 GÖ4 Britt-Marie Was Here (11.05)

09.30 BIOP 10 Harajuku (10.55)

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In this romantic and sometimes melancholy comedy Miia Tervo . Miia Tervo, born , is Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets an award winning writer and director Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lap- from Finnish Lapland. Her short films land. Darian is running from death and Aurora is run- have been screened and awarded ning from love. They need each other in order to finally around the world. The Little Snow stop running. Animal ( ) was EFA- nominated in  . Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness ( ) was also screened around the globe from Palms Springs to Obern- housen and was competing for Prix Europe. Tervo’s other short films include Santra and the Talking Trees and The Seal. Tervo’s debut feature fiction premiers early  .

Finland  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Nordic Films DIRECTOR: MIIA TERVO. PRODUCER: MAX MALKA. SCREENPLAY: MIIA World Sales: TERVO. CINEMATO GRAPHY: ARSEN SARKISIANTS. EDITOR: ANTTI LevelK Aps, GI. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl. REIKKO. MUSIC: LAURA NAUKKARINEN, JAAKKO LAITINEN, VÄÄRÄ RAHA. DK – 1850 Frederiksberg C, Denmark CAST: MIMOSA WILLAMO, AMIR ESCANDARI, OONA AIROLA, HANNU PEKKA BJÖRKMAN, MIITTA SORVALI, CHIKE OHANWE, RIA KATAJA, Sales and contact during NFM: PAMELA TOLA. PRODUCTION: DIONYSOS FILMS OY . Lauren Valmadre, +45 3113 9878, [email protected] Stine Bomholt, +45 2636 4091, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Thursday 31/1, 14.45, Biopalatset 8 Festival contact during NFM: Friday 1/2, 17.00, Biopalatset 8 Jaana Puskala, +358 50 593 20 68, [email protected] Jenni Domingo, +358 40 8412849, [email protected]

From Queen of Hearts Nordic Films 9 Britt-Marie Was Here Britt-Marie var här Cold Case Hammarskjöld Cold Case Hammarskjöld

When Britt-Marie, age , leaves her husband after  Tuva Novotny . Tuva Novotny is an in- In  , Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammar- Mads Brügger. Born , Denmark. years of marriage, she is forced to reconsider her life ternationally acclaimed actress, who skjöld, died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia. He Mads Brügger is a Danish journalist, and break up with old habits in order to meet the real has received several awards for her was en route to ceasefire negotiations between non TV-host, author and filmmaker. He world. Britt-Marie ends up in the miserable backwater acting performances, amongst others combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway has written several books, worked for town of Borg, where life seems to be over for the few the Shooting Star at Berlin Internatio- state of Katanga. He was taking a stance in the fight magazines and newspapers, produ- people that are still around. However, there are bigger nal Film Festival. Most recently she against colonialism in times of instability and the ced award winning radio programmes dreams in Borg as well and they breathe new life into starred in the Netflix sci-fi-thriller Annihilation alongside Cold War. What started as conspiracy theories have and hosted the critically acclaimed late night TV-pro- Britt-Marie’s deeply hidden belief in a future. Perhaps Natalie Portman and Borg McEnroe with Shia LaBeouf evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjöld gramme Den . time (The th hour) as well as the daily there is a second chance in life – perhaps it’s never too and Stellan Skarsgård. Tuva’s directorial debut Blind- and  other people were shot down, inciting the UN news/debate programme Deadline. Furthermore, he has late to start living. spot premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. to reopen the case on the suspicion of assassination. created satirical docu-series as Danes for Bush () Britt-Marie Was Here is her second feature film as di- and the feature-length documentary, Det røde kapel rector. (The Red Chapel), winner at Nordisk Panorama  and Sundance  .Brügger is known for his distinctive methods of ”performative journalism” as he infiltrates various milieus.

Highlighted documentary in Competition. Sweden  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium . Documentary. DCP.  min.

DIRECTOR: TUVA NOVOTNY . PRODUCER: GUSTAV OLDÉN, NICKLAS World Sales: DIRECTOR: MADS BRÜGGER. PRODUCER: PETER ENGEL, ANDREAS World Sales: WIKSTRÖM NICASTRO . SCREENPLAY: TUVA NOVOTNY, ANDERS AUGUST, SF Studios, Sveavägen 56 SE – 111 34, Stockholm, Sweden ROCKSÉN, BJARTE MØRNER TVEIT. SCREENPLAY: MADS BRÜGGER. TBA ØYSTEIN KARLSEN. CINEMATO GRAPHY: JONAS ALARIK. MUSIC: JAN +46 8 409 188 00, [email protected] CINEMATOGRAPHY: TORE VOLLAN, LARS SKREE, JONAS BERLIN. INGE BERENTSEN ANVIK . CAST: PERNILLA AUGUST, MALIN LEVANON, EDITOR: NICOLAS NØRGAARD STAFFOLANI, GÖRAN GESTER. CAST: Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: PETER HABER, ANDERS MOSSLING, VERA VITALI, OLLE SARRI, MAHMUT Sales contact during NFM: GÖRAN BJÖRKDAHL, MADS BRÜGGER. PRODUCTION: WINGMAN, LAIKA. Andreas Rocksén, [email protected] SUVAKCI, LANCE NCUBE . PRODUCTION: SF STUDIOS. Martin Ilievski, +46 72 003 21 75, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during NFM: Friday 1/2, 17:30, Göta 1 Anne Marie Kürstein, [email protected] Thursday 31/1, 15.30, Biopalatset 9 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 15:00, Biop 10 Sunday 3/2, 09.30, Göta 4 Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected] Sunday 3/2, 14:45, Göta 1

10 Nordic Films Nordic Films 11 Congo Mordene i Kongo The Deposit Tryggð

In the spring of , the two Norwegians Joshua Marius Holst. Marius Holst was edu- When Gisella becomes bankrupt, she decides to rent Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir . Ásthildur French and Tjostolv Moland cross the border to East- cated at the London International out her spare bedrooms to two immigrant women. The Kjartansdóttir has written, directed ern Congo. A few days later, the news is out that their Film School. His first feature film Cross arrangement begins well for all parties but gradually and produced dramas, documenta- hired driver has been found murdered. Following sev- my Heart and Hope to Die ( ) was her tenants begin to threaten Gisella’s control of the ries and TV programs. Ásthildur is the eral nights on the run in the mighty Congolese jungle, a box-office success in Norway, and house, her morals and her sanity. owner of Rebella Filmworks, establis- the two of them are apprehended, and sentenced to went on to become an internatio- hed in . Her works have been death. After four long years in prison, Tjostolv Moland nal festival hit, winning numerous awards. His second distributed in the Nordic countries and Canada. Two of is found dead in his cell, and Joshua French is suspect- feature, Dragonflies, was released in  , with Mirush her documentaries have been nominated for Icelandic ed of having killed his best friend. In our meeting with following in . Both films garnered both critical Academy Awards and two of her dramas have been no- the dispirited Joshua French, the film takes us on a acclaim and their share of awards. Holst only added to minated for the DV Cultural Award in Iceland. journey back to a mystery which has been the subject this notion with the release of his biggest undertaking of all kinds of speculations. Dubbed “The Congo Case,” yet, The King of Devils Island, in   – yet again to both the fateful events in the Congolese jungle develop into critical acclaim and box-office success. Holst is also the a politically and diplomatically sensitive symbolic co-founder and co-owner of the successful production issue, which for a long time appears to be unsolvable. company  ½.

Norway  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Closed market screening. No press. Iceland  . Fiction. DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: MARIUS HOLST. PRODUCER: CHRISTIAN FREDRIK MARTIN, World Sales: DIRECTOR: ÁSTHILDUR KJARTANSDÓTTIR . PRO DUCER: EVA World Sales ASLE VATN . SCREEN PLAY: STEPHEN UHLANDER, BASED ON A FILM TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark SIGURDARDÓTTIR, ÁSTHILDUR KJARTANSDÓTTIR . SCREEN TBA STORY BY NIKOLAJ FROBENIUS. CINEMATO GRAPHY: JOHN ANDREAS +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] PLAY: ÁSTHILDUR KJARTANSDÓTTIR. CINEMATO GRAPHY: ÁSGRÍMUR ANDERSEN. EDITOR: SVERRIR KRISTJANSSON, VIDAR FLATAUKAN, GUÐBJARTSSON . EDITOR: ANDRI STEINN . MUSIC: KIRA KIRA . Sales contact during Nordic Film Market OLIVER BUGGE COUTTÈ, SØREN B.EBBE. MUSIC: JOHAN SÖDERQVIST. . Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: CAST: ELMA LÍSA GUNNARSDÓTTIR. ENID MABABAZI, RAFFAELLA Eva Sigurdardóttir, [email protected] CAST: AKSEL HENNIE, TOBIAS SANTELMANN, INE F. JANSEN, DENNIS Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] BRIZUELA SIGURÐARDÓTTIR AND CLAIRE HARPA KRISTINSDÓTTIR, STORHØI, TONE DANIELSEN, ANTHONY OSEYEMI, HAKEEM KAEKAZIM, Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] VALUR FREYR EINARSSON, THEODÓR JÚLÍUSSON, GEORG LEITE, SVEINN Festival contact during Nordic Film Market CHRISTOFFER STAIB.. PRODUCTION: FRILAND AS. ÓLAFUR GUNNARSSON, SÓLVEIG GUÐMUNDSDÓTTIR, NANNA KRISTÍN Sigurrós Hilmarsdóttir, +354 562 3580, Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: MAGNÚSDÓTTIR. PRODUCTION: ASKJA FILMS,. [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 10.45, Biopalatset 10 Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Thursday 31/1, 15.30, Biopalatset 5 Saturday 2/2, 11.00, Biopalatset 7

12 Nordic Films Nordic Films 13 Diva of Finland MC Landebööna Gods of Molenbeek Aatos ja Amine

Henna is fed up with the small rural town. Silja moves Maria K. Mononen . Maria, a graduate The Molenbeek district of Brussels. A believed jihadi Reetta Huhtanen is a filmmaker to town, and seems to excel Henna in everything, and from ELO Helsinki Film School, is the capital to some but familiar home to the  year-old based in Helsinki. She graduated charms her best friends. Henna is struck by envy that mum of such award winning shorts as boys Aatos and Amine. This is where they listen to spi- with a master of arts from the ELO makes her obsessive about Silja. She starts stalking Fear of Heights and Nastassja Kinski ders, discover black holes and quarrel over who gets to Film School Finland at Aalto Univer- her, eventually tripping and falling over, hurting her and My Heart My Bad. Diva of Finland command the flying carpet that is to take them to the sity, majoring in documentary film di- eyes. A temporary blindness follows. Henna spikes is her debut feature. When not writing lands of their ancestors. They live in the same build- recting. Beside her study of film, she Silja’s drink and makes her fall from grace. It seems or directing Maria pens folk songs. She likes to study how ing, yet come from different worlds. Together they graduated with a BA in sociology and philosophy. Cur- to everyone now that Silja has snogged someone our inner lives affect our stories in the world. search for answers to the big questions. Aatos wants rently, alongside filmmaking, she is a doctoral student at else’s boyfriend. Henna knows that this isn’t true, a god of his own, as Amine already has Allah but the Aalto University. As a documentarist she is described to but she keeps quiet about it. Her position is restored question is complicated by his friend Flo’s belief that have “an ability to see the absurd in recent phenomenon and everyone dislikes Silja. Henna’s eyesight returns people who believe in God have gone crazy. through her twisted vision. In social topics she collides and eventually she must show her real alliances and serious with playful”. defend Silja.

Highlighted documentary in Competition. Finland  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Finland/Belgium/Germany . Documentary. DCP.  min.

DIRECTOR: MARIA K. MONONEN . PRODUCER: MIKA RITALAHTI, World Sales: DIRECTOR: REETA HUHTANEN. PRODUCER: HANNUPEKKA VITIKAINEN. World Sales: NIKO RITALAHTI . SCREENPLAY: MARIA K. MONONEN . CINEMATO TBA CINEMATOGRAPHY: HANNUPEKKA VITIKAINEN. EDITOR: JAMIN CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris France, GRAPHY: JOONAS PULKKANEN . MUSIC: RISTO YLIHÄRSILÄ . CAST: SUVI BENAZZOUZ. PRODUCTION: ZONE2. [email protected] TUULI TEERINKOSKI, LINDA MANELIUS, JUTTA MYLLYKOSKI, SONJA Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: SIPPALA, MERI NENONEN . PRODUCTION: SILVA MYSTERIUM OY . Mika Ritalahti, [email protected] Parallel festival screenings Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Friday 1/2, 18:00, Göta 2 Maëlle Guenegues, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 10:15, Göta 2 Friday 1/2, 11.00, Biopalatset 8 Jaana Puskala, +358 50 593 20 68, [email protected] Sunday 3/2, 15:30, Handels Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 13.00, Biopalatset 7 Jenni Domingo, +358 40 8412849, [email protected] Suvi Paavola, +358 40 7088 316, [email protected]

14 Nordic Films Nordic Films 15 Hamada Harajuku Harajuku

With vitality, humor and unexpected situations, this Eloy Domínguez Serén was born in Vilde is a blue-haired teenager girl who has only one Eirik Svensson . Eirik Svensson has film paints an unusual portrait of a group of young  in Simes (Galicia, Spain). Before goal in her young life : to leave sad gray Oslo for Tokyo, directed several short films made friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of the debuting as a filmmaker he worked as the city of her dreams. Dropping school, hanging out his feature debut with En som deg in stony Saharan desert. A minefield and the second a film critic for both radio and press, with her friends, she choosed to live in her fantasies.  . His second feature film Night to largest military wall in the world separates this group becoming a member of the Youth Jury On Christmas Eve, social services come at the train  was nominated for three Amanda of friends from their homeland that they have only at th Biennale di Venezia in  . station where she stays all day and bring her back Awards. Svensson was also the main heard about in their parent’s stories. They are called In   he moved to Sweden, where he made his first to reality: something happened to her mother, she director of the TV series Unge promising. Harajuku is his the Sahrawis and have been abandoned in this refu- short film Pettring. has to contact her father, the man she’s never seen third feature film. gee camp in the middle of a stony desert ever since in  years. Morocco drove them out of Western Sahara forty years ago. Trapped somewhere in between life and death, Sidahmed, Zaara and Taher refuse to be bothered by it. They spend their days fixing cars that can’t really take them anywhere, fighting for political change without response and together they use the power of creativi- ty and play to denounce the reality around them and expand beyond the borders of the camp. Norway  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Highlighted documentary in Competition. DIRECTOR: EIRIK SVENSSON. PRO DUCER: CORNELIA BOYSEN. SCREEN World Sales: PLAY: SEBASTIAN TORNGREN WARTIN . CINEMATO GRAPHY: KARL ERIK Charades, 17 boulevard Jules Ferry Sweden/Norway/Denmark . Documentary. DCP.  min. BRØNDBO. EDITOR: KARSTEN MEINICH, ELISE SOLBERG. MUSIC: FAY +33 6 29 87 45 04, [email protected] DIRECTOR: ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN. PRODUCER: MICHAEL World Sales: WILDHAGEN, ØYVIND MATHISEN . CAST: INES HØYSÆTER ASSERSON . KROTKIEWSKI, DAVID HERDIES. SCREENPLAY: ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ Deckert Distribution GmbH Gottschedstr. 18 04109 Leipzig PRODUCTION: MAIPO FILM. Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: SERÉ. CINEMATOGRAPHY: ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN. EDITOR: ANA Germany, [email protected] Nicolas Rebeschini, [email protected] PFAFF, ELOY DOMÍNGUEZ SERÉN. MUSIC: ANDERS LIND. CAST: AININA Screenings at Nordic Film Market: SIHAMED MOHAMED, SIDAHMED SALEC LABEID, TAHER MULAY ZAIN. Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Friday 1/2, 09.30, Biopalatset 10 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: PRODUCTION: MOMENTO FILM. David Herdies, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 09.00, Biopalatset 10 Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected]

Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Friday 1/2, 12:45, Biop 8 Sara Rüster, +468665 11 41, [email protected]

16 Nordic Films Nordic Films 17 Iron Sky The Coming Race Iron Sky The Coming Race Koko-di Koko-da

Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Timo Vuorensola. Timo Vuorensola, A couple goes on a trip to find their way back to Johannes Nyholm. Koko-di Koko-da Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of man- born , is a Helsinki-based Finnish each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entou- is written, directed and produced kind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but film director, actor, and musician. He rage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring by Johannes Nyholm, a Swedish, buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that is best known for cult classics Iron Sky them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psycho- Gothenburg-based writer and di- could save the last of humanity – or destroy it once ( ) and Star Wreck: In the Pirkin- logical terror and humiliating slapstick. A dreamy tale rector, managing his own production and for all. The truth behind the creation of mankind ning (). Iron Sky won the Silver of dark woods, an old man in a straw hat and a bunny company. He has made a bunch of will be revealed when an old enemy leads our heroes Méliès and Audience Award at the Brussels Internatio- family shattered to pieces. music videos, some short films and one feature. With a on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save hu- nal Fantastic Film Festival and was in official selection background in classical animation he often mixes dif- manity they must fight the Vril, an ancient shape- in film festivals such as Berlinale, Moscow Film Festival, ferent styles and cinematic universes, moving freely in shifting reptilian race and their army of dinosaurs. and Karlovy Vary. Vuorensola is currently directing two the border between dream and reality. big international co-productions for Iron Sky Universe: Iron Sky: The Coming Race (World Premiere January th,  ) and The Ark – An Iron Sky Story, also expected to be out in  .

Finland/Germany/Belgium  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Sweden/Denmark  . Fiction. DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: TIMO VUORENSOLA. PRO DUCER: TERO KAUKOMAA. World Sales: DIRECTOR: JOHANNES NYHOLM. PRODUCER: JOHANNES NYHOLM. World Sales: SCREENPLAY: ANDREAS DROST, DALAN MUSSON, TIMO VUORENSOLA . Myriad Pictures, 11845 West Olympic Blvd, SCREENPLAY: JOHANNES NYHOLM . CINEMATO GRAPHY: JOHAN Stray Dogs, 15 rue Chevert, 75007 Paris, France CINEMATO GRAPHY: MIKA ORASMAA. EDITOR: JAN HAMEEUW, JOONA Los Angeles CA 90064, [email protected] LUNDBORG, TOBIAS HÖIEMFLYCKT . EDITOR: JOHANNES NYHOLM . [email protected] LOUHIVUORI . MUSIC: TUOMAS KANTELINEN, LIBACH. CAST: LARA ROSSI, MUSIC: SIMON OHLSSON, OLOF CORNÉER . CAST: YLVA GALLON, LEIF VLADIMIR BURLAKOV, KIT DALE, TOM GREEN, JULIA DIETZE, EDWARD Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: EDLUND JOHANSSON, PETER BELLI . PRODUCTION: JOHANNES NYHOLM Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: JUDGE, MARTIN SWABEY, EMILY ATACK, UDO KIER, JOHN FLANDERS, Tero Kaukomaa, [email protected] PRODUKTION. Nathan Fisher, [email protected] STEPHANIE PAUL. PRODUCTION: BLIND SPOT PICTURES . Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Jaana Puskala, +358 50 593 20 68, [email protected] Friday 1/2, 10.45, Biopalatset 5 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, Friday 1/2, 09.00, Biopalatset 5 Jenni Domingo, +358 40 8412849, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 12.45, Biopalatset 8 [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 12.45, Biopalatset 1 Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected]

18 Nordic Films Nordic Films 19 Lucky One Ninna

Vincent is working long nights in the Paris underworld. Mia Engberg . Mia Engberg is a film It’s lovely in small town Præstø, especially around Hans Fabian Wullenweber. Award He has long since stopped dreaming of another life, director, producer and researcher. Christmas time, but when you are single mother in a winning Danish writer/director, Fabian but when he unexpectedly has to take care of his teen- Her latest feature film Belleville Baby midlife crisis and your -year-old son announces he Wullenweber, best known internatio- age daughter, Adina, his world starts to change. He was awarded with a Guldbaggen and is moving out - suddenly life is hell on earth. At least nally for his work on The Killing, direc- is torn between his destructive duties at night and several international awards. As a pro- that is how it feels for Ninna, who’s world shatters at ting  of the  episodes. Conceptual his struggle to be a good father. One day something ducer she was the initiator of the fe- the thought of life without her beloved son, Dennis, director of period drama The Seaside happens that alters everything. A film about how love minist art project ”Dirty Diaries -  shorts of feminist by her side. In her own peculiar and sometimes quite Hotel, currently the most successful drama series on and violence can coexist within each of us. The story porn” and she has made several notable short films in- extreme way, Ninna, does everything possible to make Danish television. His feature film credits include Bora is told in a cinematic language approaching silence cluding Manhood and The Stars We Are. Currently, she Dennis change his mind and move back home. While Bora, Cecilie, Catch That Girl and Gemini. Fabian studied and darkness. is conducting a research project at Stockholms Konst- at the same time and much against her will, she starts directing at the Danish Film School. Fabian’s trademark närliga Högskola with the theme The Visual Silence. The to fall in love with her new neighbour, Morten. Su- is his unique ability to tell a story that touches the audi- film Lucky One is part two in a trilogy that began with sanne Juhasz burns through as the title character in ence alongside imaginative and compelling visuals, the Belleville Baby. this bittersweet, energetic dark comedy about life in essence of the iconic Scandi-drama innovative approach. small-town-Denmark. She is equally dreadful, charm- ing and terribly embarrassing when she rides around town on her red moped in a tight miniskirt, at the worst possible moment. Sweden  . Fiction. DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: MIA ENGBERG. PRO DUCER: TOBIAS JANSON. SCREEN World Sales: PLAY: MIA ENGBERG . CINE MATO GRAPHY: DANIEL TAKÁCS . EDITOR: MIA TBA Denmark  . Fiction. DCP .  min. ENGBERG, NEIL WIGARDT. MUSIC: MICHEL WENZER. CAST: OLIVIER LOUSTAU, LORETTE NYSSEN, DIANA RUDYCHENKO, BRUNO LA BRASCA . Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: DIRECTOR: HANS FABIAN WULLENWEBER. PRO DUCER: KASPER World Sales: PRODUCTION: STORY . Tobias Janson, [email protected] GRAVERSEN , JONAS KOOP. SCREENPLAY: SUSANNE JUHASZ. CINEMATO TBA GRAPHY: JACOB KUSK. EDITOR: CARSTEN SØSTED. MUSIC: HALFDAN Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: E . CAST: SUSANNE JUHASZ, PETER GANTZLER, KRISTIAN HALKEN, REX Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Friday 1/2, 15.15, Biopalatset 5 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, LEONARD, ANNEMARIE KLIXBÜLL JESPER ASHOLT . PRODUCTION: MILK Jonas Koop , +45 23 80 35 86, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 11.00, Biopalatset 8 [email protected] & HONEY. Kasper Graversen, +45 50 93 79 76, [email protected] Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Thursday 31/1, 16.00, Biopalatset 7 Lizette Gram Mygind, +45 2482 3758, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 09.00, Biopalatset 1

20 Nordic Films Nordic Films 21 Out of Tune De frivillige Privacy of Wounds

In the comedic drama OUT OF TUNE celebrity fi- Frederikke Aspöck. Fredrikke Aspöck, Set as an experiment in a simulated cell in Oslo, three Dalia Kury (b. ) is a documenta- nancier and jet-setter Markus Føns has been taken director, was born , Denmark. former political prisoners are locked up again for three ry filmmaker and a cultural producer. into custody. Following a brutal assault by a gang She holds an MFA in Filmmaking days to revisit their memories in Syria’s worst deten- Her award winning films deal with the of bikers in connection with some of his more shady from Tisch School of the Arts, New tion facilities. With no film crew on set, Privacy of Arab identity and emerging cultural dealings, Markus opts for voluntary solitary confine- York University, and a BA in Theatre Wounds offers an authentic reflection of the Syrian phenomena in the Arab world. Her ment among the prison’s weakest inmates. This ward Design from Wimbledon School of Art narrative today. latest feature film Possessed by Djinn has a prison choir, of which the inmate Niels is the in London. Aspöck’s thesis film from Tisch, her short film was commissioned by ZDF Arte, and won the first prize unofficial and self-proclaimed leader. Markus decides Happy Now (), won the Premier Prix de la Cinéfon- at the Robert Bosch funding competition  , along to join the choir and before long has his sight set on dation in Cannes. Her first feature Out of Bounds ( ) two funds at the Venice Biennale  . The film was reaching the top of its hierarchy. This battle is not premiered in Cannes and won the Golden Star Award supported by Eurodoc and Sanad and premiered at the fought with muscle, but with cunning, tyranny and at Marrakech Film Festival. Her second feature Rosita prestigious Hot Docs festival in  . Kury holds an MA canonical singing! ( ) won her the Best Director Award at Moscow In- in Screen Documentary, from Goldsmiths University, UK ternational Film Festival, and her third feature, which she and is the author of documentaries that have been is finishing up these days, is the comedic drama Out of screened or commissioned either by Aljazeera, Al Arabiya Tune ( ). Common for all of Aspöck’s films is a great or Arte. Dalia lives in Oslo. belief in human beings and a conviction that comedy and tragedy always go hand in hand. Denmark  . Fiction. DCP .  min. DIRECTOR: FREDERIKKE ASPÖCK. PRODUCER: SENIA DREMSTRUP. World Sales: Highlighted documentary in Competition. SCREENPLAY: LARS HUSUM. CINEMATO GRAPHY: LOUISE MCLAUGHLIN. SF Studios, Sveavägen 56 SE – 111 34, Stockholm, Sweden Norway . Documentary. DCP.  min. EDITOR: MARTIN SCHADE . MUSIC: RASMUS BILLE BÄHNCKE . +46 8 409 188 00, [email protected] CAST: JACOB HAUBERG LOHMANN, ANDERS MATTHESEN, CHRISTOPHER DIRECTOR: DALIA AL KURY. PRODUCER: JONATHAN BORGE LIE. World Sales: LÆSSØ, SØREN MALLING . PRODUCTION: SF STUDIOS PRODUCTION . Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: CINEMATOGRAPHY: DALIA KURY, JONATHAN BORGE LIE, RABE IRAR. TBA Martin Ilievski, +46 72 003 21 75, [email protected] EDITOR: EYAD HAMAM. MUSIC: YOHANN BERNARD. PRODUCTION: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: UPNORTH FILM. Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Friday 1/2, 09.15, Biopalatset 1 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Jonathan Borge Lie, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 13.00, Biopalatset 10 Lizette Gram Mygind, +45 2482 3758, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 09:15, Biop 7 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Toril Simonse, +47 22 47 45 74, [email protected]

22 Nordic Films Nordic Films 23 Psychobitch Queen of Hearts Dronningen

Norway, nowadays, small city of Gjøvik. Frida, Martin Lunds debut short film Home Anne, a brilliant and dedicated lawyer specializing May el-Toukhy . May el-Toukhy ( ) -years-old, totally assumes to be the class outsid- Game was selected for Sundance and in children and young adults, lives what appears to has a production degree The Danish er. In this world of the “Generation Perfect”, the other Clermont Ferrand, played festivals all be the picture perfect life with her doctor-husband, National School of Performing Arts kids at school agree: Frida is so weird. Marius does over the world and won several prices. Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged (), as well as a degree from The pretty much everything he can to be exemplary. When His debut feature Twigson Ties the teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s National Film School of Denmark the two are paired up as study buddies, he sees it as Knot is among the biggest box office escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit (). May has directed several TV another opportunity to show everyone what a great hits in Norway ever, and it played the Generation program hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of series at The Danish National Broadcasting Corpora- guy he is. But Frida has no intention of being “fixed” at the Berlinale  . His second feature, The Almost events that threatens to destroy her world. Queen of tion (DR) and her critically acclaimed feature film debut by the class golden boy. Their study sessions become Man, which he also wrote the script for, world premiered Hearts explores the making of a tragic family secret Long Story Short premiered   and received among the catalyst for a turbulent relationship. Yet in his at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival   and took step by step, as the consequences of hubris, lust and other national awards a Bodil for best script and best fights with Frida, Marius also experiences something home the Crystal Globe for Best film and Best male actor. lies conspire to create an unimaginable dilemma. female lead. exciting, challenging and completely new… He also created the TV-series The Games that won Best Series at Prix Jeunesse   and was nominated for a Kidscreen award in  . The show has been remade with more than  episodes in Canada and sold to more than  countries.

Norway  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Denmark  . Fiction. DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: MARTIN LUND. PRO DUCER: RUBEN THORKILDSEN. World Sales: DIRECTOR: MAY ELTOUKHY. PRODUCER: CAROLINE BLANCO, RENÉ World Sales: SCREENPLAY: MARTIN LUND. CINEMATO GRAPHY: ADAM WALLENSTEN. TBA EZRA . SCREENPLAY: MAY ELTOUKHY, MAREN LOUISE KÄEHNE . CINE TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark EDITOR: CHRISTOFFER HEIE. MUSIC: OHLOGY. CAST: JONAS TIDEMANN, MATOGRAPHY: JASPER SPANNING. EDITOR: RASMUS STENSGAARD +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] ELLI RHIANNON OSBORNE, JANNIKE KRUSE, HENRIK RAFAELSEN. Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: MADSEN. MUSIC: JON EKSTRAND. CAST: TRINE DYRHOLM, MAGNUS PRODUCTION: APE&BJØRN. Ruben Thorkildsen, +47 90935511, [email protected] KREPPER, GUSTAV LINDH, PREBEN KRISTENSEN. PRO DUCTION: NORDISK Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: FILM. Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] Thursday 31/1, 12.30, Biopalatset 7 Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 15.15, Biopalatset 9 Friday 1/2, 12.30, Biopalatset 5 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sunday 3/2, 09.00, Göta 3 Lizette Gram Mygind, +45 2482 3758, [email protected]

24 Nordic Films Nordic Films 25 Rediscovery Genopdagelsen Season Säsong

 children are given a free rein on an abandoned Phie Ambo . Phie Ambo (born ) A story composed of fragments of lives lived in the pe- John Skoog. John Skoog was born in construction site near the center of Copenhagen, was trained at the National Film riphery. Based on stories gathered and formed among  in Kvidinge, Sweden. Skoog gra- a hidden spot where nature has long since taken School of Denmark, graduating as a the people who live in the region, Ridge turns the set- duated from the Städelschule, Frank- over. Here, they will go to school for ten weeks and documentary film director in . ting into the film’s node and main character. But like furt in  . He has already made a discover how and what nature can teach them. The She is renowned for acute sensibility shadows over the landscape, some protagonists are number of short films in northwestern film is told through scenes with the children, but and for creating films with a poetic, distinguished: Beata, a seasonal worker who comes Skåne together with his team. These also with nature’s voice as a continuous narrator: personal and cinematic language. Phie Ambo’s films to Sweden for the first time, Aaron, a young man with films have been featured at countless film festivals and ”For what does it mean to learn from nature? How deal with essential topics such as environmental issues, a broken heart returning to the place where he grew art museums in Sweden and around the world inclu- can you learn from feeling the wind, the rain and family relations and the relationship between humanity up, and Billie, a girl lost in her first summer vacation. ding the Berlin International Film Festival, the Modern the sun on your skin? How can you measure what and technology, consciousness and science, humans and As the film follows their lives, which slowly merge Museum in Vienna, the Rotterdam International Film you sensed in your belly as you sat in the top of nature. Phie has directed a number of award-winning with the landscape, a map is drawn of the confusion Festival, the Modern Museum in Frankfurt am Main and the tallest chestnut tree? Where does the nature films that have screened all over the world. Her work in- between machines, people and animals. It becomes the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. settle in you?” The film is about learning and what cludes …when you look away ( ), Good Things Await clear how they all depend on each other, in this era we already know about nature but have forgotten ( ), Free the Mind ( ) and Mechanical Love (). where the future is obscured by man’s violent imprint through the years… on the planet.

Denmark  . Documentary. DCP .  min. Sweden  . Fiction . DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: PHIE AMBO. PRODUCER: MALENE FLINDT PEDERSEN . CINE World Sales: DIRECTOR: JOHN SKOOG. PRODUCER: ERIK HEMMENDORFF. SCREEN World Sales: MATOGRAPHY: PHIE AMBO & MAGGIE. EDITOR: THEIS SCHMIDT. MUSIC: LevelK Aps, GI. Kongevej 137 B, 3rd Fl. PLAY: JOHN SKOOG, ANNA KARISINKA . CINE MATO GRAPHY: I TA TBA JOHAN CARØE. PRODUCTION: HANSEN & PEDERSEN. DK – 1850 Frederiksberg C, Denmark ZBRONIECZAJT. EDITOR: AGNIESZKA GLINSKA. CAST: AGNIESZKA PODSIADLIK, ARTUR KRAJEWSKI, MATEUSZ WIECLAWEK, GRZEGORZ Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Sales and contact during NFM: FALKOWSKI, ARON SKOOG. PRO DUCTION: PLATTFORM PRODUKTION . Erik Hemmendorff, [email protected] Friday 1/2, 11.15, Biopalatset 9 Lauren Valmadre, +45 3113 9878, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 13.30, Biopalatset 9 Stine Bomholt, +45 2636 4091, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 10.30, Biopalatset 3 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Sunday 3/2, 08.30, Göta 1 [email protected] Lizette Gram Mygind, +45 2482 3758, [email protected] Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected]

26 Nordic Films Nordic Films 27 Sonja – The White Swan Sonja Sons of Denmark Danmarks sønner

Sonja - The White Swan is the true story of one of the Anne Sewitsky. The critically acclai- One year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen Ulaa Salim . Ulaa Salim was born in world’s greatest athletes and the inventor of modern med director Anne Sewitsky has di- radicalisation around the country has intensified and Denmark in , both parents are ori- figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in  rected several features and high-end ethnic tensions are running high. The next parliamen- ginally from Iraq. In his films he uses to become a movie star. Her first film breaks the box TV-dramas. Sewitsky won the Grand tary election is near, and the extremely nationalist his personal experience as inspiration. office by selling the most tickets in the world in . Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival politician leader Martin Nordahl is set for a landslide Last year Ulaa Salim graduated from It is the story of a remarkable, iconic person who sac- with her feature film debut Happy, victory. -year old Zakaria gets involved in a radical The National Film School of Denmark rificed everything to stay in the spotlight. Happy in  . Her latest feature Homesick opened in organisation, where he forms a bond with Ali. The and established Hyæne Film with his partner and pro- Sundance in January  , and was also selected for two men cannot agree with the current state of the ducer Daniel Mühlendorph. Sons of Denmark is Ulaa The Toronto Int. Film Festival that year. In   she pre- country, which is turning on its own citizens because of Salim’s debut film. miered with the TV drama Monster ( episodes for NRK). their migration background, and decide to act. How- ever, they are both just tools in the hands of people with power. As the men try to make their mark, their brotherhood will be tested and their actions will have grave consequences on their lives.

Norway  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Denmark  . Fiction. DCP .  min.

DIRECTOR: ANNE SEWITSKY. PRO DUCER: CORNELIA BOYSEN, SYNNØVE World Sales: DIRECTOR: ULAA SALIM . PRO DUCER: DANIEL MÜHLENDORPH . SCREEN World Sales: HØRSDAL. SCREENPLAY: METTE M.BØLSTAD, ANDREAS MARKUSSON . TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark PLAY: ULAA SALIM. CINEMATO GRAPHY: EDDIE KLINT. EDITOR: JENNA New Europe Film Sales, Czerniakowska 73/79, 00–718, CINEMATO GRAPHY: DANIEL VOLDHEIM. EDITOR: MARTIN STOLTZ, +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] MANGULAD . CAST: ZAKI YOUSSEF, MOHAMMED ISMAIL MOHAMMED, Warsaw, Poland CHRISTOFFER HEIE. MUSIC: RAY HARMAN. CAST: INE MARIE WILMANN, RASMUS BJERG. PRODUCTION: HYÆNE FILM. VALENE KANE, ELDAR SKAR, PÅL SVERRE HAGEN, ANDERS MORDAL, Sales contact during Nordic Film Market: Sales and contact during NFM: AIDAN MCARDLE, MALCOM ADAMS. PRODUCTION: MAIPO FILM. Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Jan Naszewski, +48 600 173 205, [email protected] Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] Thursday 31/1, 12.30, Biopalatset 8 Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 15.00, Biopalatset 7 Festival contact during NFM: Thursday 31/1, 13.15, Biopalatset 9 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Lizette Gram Mygind, +45 2482 3758, [email protected] Friday 1/2, 14.45, Biopalatset 8 Stine Oppegard, +47 90 85 96 38, [email protected]

28 Nordic Films Nordic Films 29 Swoon Eld och lågor The Unpromised Land Till drömmarnas land

This film is based upon real people and real events. Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein . Björn Sabina has traveled from Romania to the small Swed- Victor Lindgren . Victor has worked One hundred attractions. Only one forbidden. Stock- Stein, Måns Mårlind. Måns and Björn ish town Holmsund with her Roma brothers. They work with film since second school. First holm, . Two amusement parks lie opposite each live and work in Stockholm and LA. in a garage and Sabina is looking for a job. Elin, born on the side of his job as a concrete other. Gröna Lund; the respected and bourgeois alter- Over the last decade, they have co-di- and raised in Holmsund, is in the church singing at laborer, then as a TV employee (where native and Nöjesfältet; cheap beer, strippers and live rected several award-winning featu- the graduation ceremony. A summer is about to begin his salary financed his short films), as music. These parks share one dream - the complete res and TV series. Their latest creation and Sabina will get to know Elin. Together they will a “Film consultant for children and annihilation of the other. We are introduced to John was the award-winning Midnight Sun, which has been revolt against the old ways and find something new youths” at Film i Västerbotten, to eventually start up the () the heir of Nöjesfältet (the poor park) and Ninni sold to + territories. In  , their feature Shed No Tears in each other. At the same time the society around production company Bautafilm, where he works today as (), the heir of Gröna Lund. John is an underdog/ won two Guldbagge awards. They directed the successful them collapses in fear and Elin’s dad becomes insane a director and scriptwriter. Victor is eager to tell stories wannabe playboy whose enthusiasm knows no bor- Hollywood production Underworld: Awakening with box by sorrow. Because there is a madness in the Swedish about people. Character-driven drama that does not shy ders and Ninni is a whirlwind of creative ideas. Both office receipts of over $  million, as well as the thriller idyll. The Unpromised Land is an urgent contemporary away from dark matters, but that shows life as it in fact dream of creating the perfect amusement park. The Shelter with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys-Mey- story about the friendship between teenage girls in is, with all its shortcomings, failures and injustices. But two young heirs are set out to spy on each other, but ers. Måns and Björn are also the creators of the critically the shadowland of the Swedish debate on immigra- even the joy, solidarity and struggle for what we believe instead, the most forbidden thing happens, John and acclaimed TV series The Bridge. tion and EU migrants. A story that portrays daily life in. There is often at political undertone – an injustice to Ninni, fall in love. A summer of secrets and lies; of sab- in a small northern town where the locals share the cast light on or a norm to call into question. otage and war, but more than anything a summer of migrants longing for a more hopeful future. magical love.

Sweden  . Fiction. DCP .  min. Sweden  . Fiction. DCP .  min. DIRECTOR: MÅNS MÅRLIND, BJÖRN STEIN . PRODUCER: KRISTINA World Sales: DIRECTOR: VICTOR LINDGREN. PRODUCER: THERESE HÖGBERG. World Sales: ÅBERG, ESTHER TURAN . SCREENPLAY: MÅNS MÅRLIND . CINEMATO TrustNordisk, Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark SCREENPLAY: VICTOR LINDGREN. CINEMATOGRAPHY: RASMUS WEST. TBA GRAPHY: ARIL WRETBLAD. EDITOR: BJÖRN STEIN. MUSIC: NATHANIEL +45 29 74 62 06, [email protected] EDITOR: VICTOR LINDGREN. MUSIC: ANDERS LIND. CAST: ANDREEA MÉCHALY . CAST: ALBIN GRENHOLM, FRIDA GUSTAVSSON, PERNILLA PETRE, ELIN MARKLUND. PRODUCTION: BAUTAFILM AB Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: AUGUST, LENNART JÄHKEL, EDVIN ENDRE, HELENA AF SANDBERG, Sales and contact during Nordic Film Market: Therese Högberg, [email protected] ROBERT GUSTAFSSON, JACOB ERICKSSON, FREDRIK HILLER, SERGEJ Nicolai Korsgaard, +45 2421 4133, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: ONOPKO, ZARA LARSSON . PRODUCTION: ATMO AB, . Silje Glimsdal, +45 24 40 08 02, [email protected] Thursday 31/1, 17.15, Biopalatset 8 Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Saturday 2/2, 09.00, Biopalatset 8 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, [email protected] Screenings at Nordic Film Market: Festival contact during Nordic Film Market: Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected] Friday 1/2, 09.00, Biopalatset 8 Petter Mattsson, +46 706 07 11 34, [email protected] Saturday 2/2, 10.45, Biopalatset 1 Theo Tsappos, +46 76 779 11 33, [email protected]

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On the eve of June th  , Swedish journalists Martin Emma ( ) has a perfectly normal family until one day it Isabella () is a driven business woman in Stockholm´s In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by turns out her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas finance world. When she goes home to the small town to suspect a local man for having an affair with his wife, illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. becomes Agnete both father and daughter struggle to she grew up in to celebrate her father´s sixtieth birthday, who recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obses- They wanted to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil af- hold on to what they had while accepting that everything she feels like a winner, the only one in her old school gang sion for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably fected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden has changed. that things have gone really well for. Isabella´s selfconfi- begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the dence falters when she realizes that Simon, her great love of grief, revenge and unconditional love. desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. Malou Reymann. Malou Leth Reymann from her teen years is going to marry Isabella´s childhood But when their initial reportage died, another story began. born in . Malou started acting in friend Molly. Isabella is accustomed to getting what she Hlynur Pálmason. Hlynur Pálmason started her early teens and was nominated for a wants, and it disturbs her to see Simon so happy with out as a visual artist and evolved his career Danish Academy Award (Robert) and a later into filmmaking by pursuing educa- Jesper Ganslandt. Jesper Ganslandt, born someone else. Unfortunately, there are som feelings that Danish Critics Award (Bodil) for her role in tion at the Danish National Film School, in  in Falkenberg, Sweden. He shot his never go away. Hella Joof’s feature film Hush Little Baby which he graduated from in   with the feature debut Falkenberg Farewell in  (). She has a degree in literature from the University of award-winning short A Painter. Pálmason’s with family and friends acting as them- Edward af Sillén. Edward Af Sillén is one Copenhagen and Master in Directing Fiction at the National feature debut Winter Brothers world premiered   in the main selves. That film, as well as his films The of Sweden´s most indemand show direc- Film & TV School in England ( ). Her short film Interruption, competition of the th Locarno Film Festival, where it won  Ape () and Blondie ( ) all premiered tors with several big musicals and stage funded by the talent programme New Danish Screen, has been awards. The films North American premiere was at the nd at Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. productions to his credit. He also wrote the selected for a number of festivals, including CPH PIX in  . Toronto IFF and since then it has been sold to over  territo- In his film Jimmie, Ganslandt stars together with his son Hunter. screenplays for Holy Mess (En underbar jävla A Perfectly Normal Family is Malou’s first feature film and is ries and continued its festival success, winning over  awards. Jimmie, and Ganslandt’s first English-speaking feature Beast jul,  ) and Medicine (Medicinen,  ). inspired by her own life. of Burden starring Daniel Radcliffe, both premiered in  . DIRECTOR: HLYNUR PÁLMASON. PRODUCER: ANTON MÁNI SVANS DIRECTOR: EDWARD AF SILLÉN. PRODUCER: PATRICK RYBORN. SCREEN DIRECTOR: MALOU REYMANN . PRODUCER: MATILDA APPELIN, RENÉ SON. SCREENPLAY: HLYNUR PÁLMASON. CINEMATOGRAPHY: MARIA DIRECTOR: JESPER GANSLANDT. PRODUCER: SANDRA HARMS & KARL PLAY: LARS JOHANSSON . CINEMATOGRAPHY: TUOMO HUTRI. EDITOR: EZRA. SCREENPLAY: MALOU REYMANN. CINEMATOGRAPHY: SVERRE VON HAUSSWOLFF. EDITOR: JULIUS KREBS DAMSBO . CAST: INGAR E. FREDRIK ULFUNG. SCREENPLAY: PETER BIRRO BASERAT PÅ BOKEN 438 FREDRIK MORHEDEN. SOUND: PETER KVINT & KRISTOFER NERGÅRDH. SØRDAL. EDITOR: IDA BREGNINGE . CAST: MIKKEL BOE FØLSGAARD, SIGURÐSSON, ÍDA MEKKÍN HLYNSDÓTTIR . PRODUCTION: JOIN MOTION DAGAR: VÅR BERÄTTELSE OM STORPOLITIK, VÄNSKAP OCH TIDEN SOM CAST: MALIN ÅKERMAN, CHRISTIAN HILLBORG, JONAS KARLSSON, KAYA TOFT LOHOLT, NEEL RØNOLT, RIGMOR RANTHE. PRODUCTION: PICTURES. COUNTRY: ICELAND. DIKTATURENS FÅNGAR AV MARTIN SCHIBBYE OCH JOHAN PERSSON. MARIE RICHARDSON, JOHAN ULVESSON, SHIMA NIAVARANI, PER AN NORDISK FILM, NORDISK FILM. COUNTRY: DENMARK. CINEMATOGRAPHY: SOPHIA OLSSON. EDITOR: HANNA LEJONQVIST. DERSSON. PRODUCTION: UNLIMITED STORIES. COUNTRY: SWEDEN. CAST: GUSTAF SKARSGÅRD, MATIAS VARELA, FREDRIK EVERS, JOSEFIN NELDÉN. MUSIC: JON EKSTRAND. PRODUCTION: MISO FILM SVERIGE. COUNTRY: SWEDEN.

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34 Works in Progress Works in Progress 35 The County Héraðið Disco Dogs Don’t Wear Pants The Domestique Koirat eivät käytä housuja Hjelperytteren

After Inga, a middle-aged dairy farmer, loses her hus- -year-old Mirjam is the world champion in disco- and Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after Former pro cyclist Kim Karlsen () is on live TV holding a band, she must stand on her own two feet. She decides freestyle dance. She has a unique talent and dancing is he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. press conference to admit extensive us of doping during to start a new life on her own terms and rises up against her passion. Mirjam’s family have dedicated their lives Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything. Dogs her career. This dark comedy gives us a view behind the corruption and injustice in her community. to God and Mirjam is expected to have a bright future Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly humorous story of loss, love scenes of this doping scandal, and we follow Kim while in the church community they belong to. But when and the sweet pain of being. she tackles her fall from grace like a sinking ship that Grímur Hákonarson. The Icelandic director Mirjam has a breakdown during a championship, this refuses to go under. Rather than accepting the conse- Grímur Hákonarson, graduated from FAMU unleashes surpressed memories about her past and her Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää. Jukka-Pekka quences of her actions, she sticks to her guns and refuses in Prague in . His graduate film, Slavek family. She starts to doubt her faith. Unable to dance, Valkeapää was born , is a critically ac- to alter her mindset. Her approach doesn’t go so well, and The Shit, was selected to the Cinefondation she looks for answers with a more fundamentalist Chris- claimed and awarded Finnish film director. it will be her annus horribilis. section of Cannes Film Festival  and His debut feature The Visitor () was tian congregation. won  festival prizes. His next short film, developed at Cannes’ Residence du Festi- Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. Jannicke Wrestling, premiered in Locarno Film Festival  and won val and premiered in Venice. The film was Jorunn Myklebust Syversen. Jorunn Mykle- Systad Jacobsen is educated at FAMU  festival prizes around the world. His most successful film awarded with the prestigious Nordic Film and Best Cinematog- bust Syversen graduated from Bergen Na- and London International Film School. She was Rams, which won the Prix Un Certain Regard in   and raphy Awards at Gothenburg FF . His second feature They tional Academy of the Arts in . She is was first known for her comedic and highly was sold to over  countries, won over  awards including Have Escaped ( ) premiered at Venice and Toronto. both a director and artist and is working in original work in documentary and shorts, key prizes at Cannes, Transilvania IFF, Zurich FF, Palm Springs the field of film, video and photography. She before she debuted with Turn Me On God- FF, and so forth. Rams was Iceland’s Oscar entry and remake DIRECTOR: JUKKAPEKKA VALKEAPÄÄ. PRODUCER: ALEKSI BARDY, has participated in numerous international dammit! In  . It earned her an Amanda Award for best Nor- rights were sold to Australia and South Korea by now. HELEN VINOGRADOV. SCREENPLAY: JUKKAPEKKA VALKEAPÄÄ IDEA festivals, screenings and exhibitions and has received several BY JUHANA LUMME. CINEMATOGRAPHY: PIETARI PELTOLA. EDITOR: wegian feature, Best Script Award at Tribeca and she got on MERVI JUNKKONEN. SOUND: MICHAL NEJTEK. CAST: PEKKA STRANG, DIRECTOR: GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON. PRODUCER: GRÍMAR JÓNSSON. national grants. In   she made her feature film debut, The the Variety Ten Directors to Watch list. The Domestique is KRISTA KOSONEN, ESTER GEISLEROVÁ, ILONA HUHTA. PRODUCTION: SCREENPLAY: GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON . CINEMATOGRAPHY: MART Tree Feller, which became a cult hit in Norwegian cinemas and her second feature. HELSINKIFILMI OY. COUNTRY: FINLAND. TANIEL. CAST: ARNDÍS HRÖNN EGILSDÓTTIR, SIGURDUR SIGURJÓNS was nominated for best actor and best supporting actor at the SON, SVEINN ÓLAFUR GUNNARSSON, RAGNHILDUR GÍSLADÓTTIR. PRO National film awards. DIRECTOR: JANNICKE SYSTAD JACOBSEN. PRODUCER: ISAK EYM DUCTION: NETOP FILMS. COUNTRY: ICELAND. UNDSSON . SCREENPLAY: JANNICKE SYSTAD JACOBSEN. CINEMATO GRAPHY: NILS EILIF BREMDALVINELL. EDITOR: JON ENDRE MØRK, DIRECTOR: JORUNN MYKLEBUST SYVERSEN . PRODUCER: MARIA MARTA SÆVERUD. SOUND: PEDER KJELLSBY. CAST: SILJE SALOMON EKERHOVD. SCREENPLAY: JORUNN MYKLEBUST SYVERSEN . CINE SEN, ESPEN KLOUMAN HØINER, KJERSTI TVETERÅS, AGNES KITTELSEN, MATOGRAPHY: MARIUS MATZOW GULBRANDSEN. EDITOR: MINA NADER KHADEMI. PRODUCTION: APE & BJØRN. COUNTRY: NORWAY. NYBAKKE AND FRIDA EGGUM MICHAELSEN . CAST: TBA. PRODUC TION: MER FILM. COUNTRY: NORWAY.

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36 Works in Progress Works in Progress 37 Echo Bergmál The Exception Undtagelsen My Life as a Comedian The Perfect Patient Quick En komikers uppväxt

Iceland, Christmas time. While Iceland is getting ready Iben, Malene, Anne-Lise and Camilla are four women Juha, , class clown in the suburb of Sävbyholm . The Perfect Patient is the captivating story about the big- for the holidays, a peculiar atmosphere is falling upon working together, in a daily routine marked by power To be funny is the only thing he is good at and all he gest legal scandal in Swedish history, the story about the the country leaving people feeling both excited and con- struggles, whispers and alliances. When Iben and Malene wants is to fit in the social peckingorder at school. When reporter who questioned an entire legal system and a jour- nalistic thriller about a man who sacrificed everything in his cerned. In the middle of the countryside, an abandoned receive death threats, they start to suspect a Serbian war Juha performs the show – My Life As A Comedian- to search for truth. Hannes Råstam was dedicated to proving farm is burning, in a school a children’s choir is singing criminal, whom they have been writing articles about. sold out theatres in   and tells the horrid and funny the innocence of Thomas Quick and unmask the legal chaos Christmas carols, in a slaughterhouse, chicken are pa- However, when a case of bullying in the office escalates, stories from his childhood to the audience he gets an which sentenced Quick to a life in psychiatric prison. How- unexpected visit from an old friend from school which rading along a rail, in a museum, a woman is arguing on they slowly begin to wonder, if the evil could come from ever, no one was interested in exonerating and freeing the the phone, in a living room, a young girl is making her within. The Exception is a nerve-wracking thriller that makes him return to Sävbyholm and deal with his past. worst serial killer in Sweden, a cannibalistic rapist who had grandmother trying on her new virtual reality headset. depicts how calculated bullying among adults can evolve been sentenced for eight murders and confessed to another Through  scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both bitter into a frightening game of life and death. It’s a story Rojda Sekersöz. After studying film at twenty-five. This tale lays out a puzzle for the viewer to put and tender, of modern society. about using manipulation as a weapon, about uncon- Swedish Dramatic Institute Rojda (born together as the incredible story behind the Thomas Quick ) directed shortfilms and made her trollable paranoia and the many faces of evil. case is laid bare piece by piece. feature film debut   at Gothenburg Rúnar Rúnarsson. Rúnar Rúnarsson had his Film Festival where Dröm Vidare (Beyond feature film debut at the Directors Fortnight Jesper W. Nielsen’s latest feature film, the Mikael Håfström. Mikael Håfström is an Dreams) won the audience award for Best in Cannes  with Volcano which was award winning, The Day will Come was a award winning director and screenwriter. He film and the Angelos price. The highly acclaimed drama later nominated for the Camera d’Or. Rúnarsson’s domestic box office hit as well as an inter- studied film at the University of Stockholm won awards for best picture at the Norwegian and at the Duhok second feature Sparrows started its impres- national festival success. It won the FIPRES- and attended the School of Visual Arts in film festivals. She won the prestigious Swedish film award sive festival run by winning the Concha de CI Prize at The Norwegian Film Festival in New York. Mikael made his directing debut Guldbaggen for Best newcomer  . Oro. Since, it has been honored with  international awards. Haugesund. Jesper is known for his strong with Swedish crime films Hassel in the early His Crossroads Trilogy received around  international film character work and has been working as a director around nineties which led to several feature films as well as series, and DIRECTOR: ROJDA SEKERSÖZ. PRODUCER: MARTIN PERSSON. SCREEN awards. Furthermore, Rúnarsson was nominated for an Oscar the world. He conceptualized on the BBC series Red Water PLAY: JONAS GARDELL. CINEMATOGRAPHY: ERIK MOLBERG HANSEN. eventually landing him the the Oscar nominated Evil (). in , the Palme d’Or in Cannes  and the European and most recently he directed four episodes of the critically EDITOR: FREDRIK MORHEDEN . SOUND: NILS SVENNEM LUNDBERG. Mikael went on to direct such movies as Derailed with Jennif- Film Awards in . acclaimed Greyzone for Danish TV . CAST: JOHAN RHEBORG, LOKE HELLBERG, JAKOB EKLUND, KLARA er Aniston and Clive Owen,  with John Cusack, The Rite ZIMMERGREN, FREDRIK HALLGREN, ULLA SKOOG, MARIA SID, GIZEM with Anthony Hopkins and several episodes of the hit Netflix ERDOGAN AND CILLA THORELL. PRODUCTION: ANAGRAM SVERIGE. DIRECTOR: RÚNAR RÚNARSSON. PRODUCER: BIRGITTE HALD, LILJA ÓSK DIRECTOR: JESPER W. NIELSEN. PRODUCER: MARCELLA DICHMANN, COUNTRY: SWEDEN. series Bloodline. SNORRADÓTTIR, LIVE RØRNES HIDE, RÚNAR RÚNARSSON . SCREENPLAY: MILLE BJØRKE, MIRIAM NØRGAARD . SCREENPLAY: CHRISTIAN TORPE. RÚNAR RÚNARSSON. CINEMATOGRAPHY: SOPHIA OLSSON. EDITOR: CINEMATOGRAPHY: ERIK ZAPPON. EDITOR: FREDERIK STRUNK . SOUND: DIRECTOR: MIKAEL HÅFSTRÖM . PRODUCER: HELENA DANIELSSON . JACOB SCHULSINGER. PRODUCTION: NIMBUS ICELAND, PEGASUS HENRIK LINDSTRAND. CAST: DANICA CURCIC, AMANDA COLLIN, SIDSE SCREENPLAY: ERLEND LOE. CINEMATOGRAPHY: RAGNA JORMING. PICTURES. COUNTRY: ICELAND. BABETT KNUDSEN, LENE MARIA CHRISTENSEN, MAGNUS KREPPER . EDITOR: RICKARD KRANTZ. CAST: JONAS KARLSSON, DAVID DENCIK. PRODUCTION: FRIDTHJOF FILM. COUNTRY: DENMARK. PRODUCTION: BRAIN ACADEMY. COUNTRY: SWEDEN.

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38 Works in Progress Works in Progress 39 Selvhenter The Spy Spionen Valhalla

The estranged brothers, Emil and Magnus, travels to Spain to Set in neutral Stockholm  . The Norwegian moviestar The Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an bring home the body of their drunken and now dead father. Sonja Wigert falls in love with the Hungarian diplomat Andor adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the But what Emil doesn’t know is that Magnus only has agreed Gellert while World War II is about to turn into the biggest gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to to go because of his father’s valuable Rolex watch, which can and most destructive war in human history. When she turns be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god’s save his bleeding economy. But when it turns out that the down a dinner invitation at Skaugum from the Reichskom- barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the transportation of the body costs more than DKK ., missar for Norway, Josef Terboven, she makes him lose his gods the two children must fight to save Valhalla from convinces Magnus his reluctant little brother to run away face in front of the Nazi elite. Resulting in him trowing her the end of the world - Ragnarok. with the body hidden in a roof box on top of a way too small Father in the feared Grini detenation camp. Sonja decides rental car. Soon the two brothers find themselves on a wild to cooperate with the Swedish Security Service in trying to escape from the police and their fathers last trip forces them infiltrate the top nazis in Oslo and free her Father. Her mission Fenar Ahmad. Fenar Ahmad graduated from the alternative Danish film school to face their own problems. is based on her trying to get close to Terboven, even making him fall in love with her. But she’s not only risking her own Super  where he made the short film Megaheavy (), which was selected for Magnus Millang. Magnus Millang is a neck, the love of her life is also caught in the undertow of her the Berlinale and was honored with a Danish Danish director, screenwriter, actor and dangerous mission. Robert award for best short film. Flow ( ), comedian. Millang got his breakthrough Fenar’s feature debut about a young man dreaming of becom- in   together with his partner Martin Jens Jonsson. Jens Jonsson has directed TV ing a rapper, premiered at CPH PIX and screened at London Høghsted in Zulu’s comedy series Danish series like God morgon alla barn, Jägarna Film Festival. The revenge drama Darkland ( ), starring Dar Dynamite and won the “Comedian of the and Kristallen-awarded Grotesco and a Salim, was a big box office success that sold worldwide and Year” award in   at Zulu Comedy Gala Awards. Millang has number of award-winning commercials played at festivals such as Sitges, Austin Fantastic Fest, Edin- been writing several television programs and comedy series and feature films. His debut feature film The burgh Int. Film Festival, Moscow Int. film festival among others. such as Mørk&Jul and Gumball . He has acted in numer- King of Ping Pong established him as one of ous critically acclaimed feature films such as Dan-Dream by Sweden’s most internationally sought after filmmakers. Five DIRECTOR: FENAR AHMAD. PRODUCER: JACOB JAREK. SCREENPLAY: Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, The Commune and Kursk years later, he received even more international praise after FENAR AHMAD AND ADAM AUGUST . CINEMATOGRAPHY: KASPER directed by Thomas Vinterberg. His newest directional project directing the third installment of the Swedish blockbuster film TUXEN. EDITOR: KASPER LEICK . SOUND: JENS OLE WOWK MCCOY. Selvhenter ( ) is a comedy feature film, which he co-wrote Easy Money. Apart from feature film The Spy, Jens is currently CAST: CECILIA LOFFREDO, SAXO MOLTKE LETH, ROLAND MØLLER, DULFI ALJABOURI, REZA FORGHANI . PRODUCTION: PROFILE PICTU with his brother Emil Millang. working with the CMore original thriller series Fartblinda with RES. COUNTRY: DENMARK. Matias Varela and Julia Ragnarsson. DIRECTOR: MAGNUS MILLANG. PRODUCER: ELISE LUND LARSEN, CHRISTIAN STEENGAARD POTALIVO. SCREENPLAY: EMIL AND MAGNUS DIRECTOR: JENS JONSSON. PRODUCER: HÅKON ØVERÅS. SCREEN MILLANG. CINEMATOGRAPHY: VALDEMAR COLD WINGE LEISNER. PLAY: HARALD ROSENLØWEEG, JAN TRYGVE RØYNELAND. CINEMATO EDITOR: PER SANDHOLT. CAST: MAGNUS & EMIL MILLANG . PRODUC GRAPHY: ANTON MERTENS. CAST: INGRID BOLSØ BERDAL. PRODUC TION: MISO FILM APS. COUNTRY: DENMARK. TION: SPILLEFILMSKOMPANIET 4 1/2. COUNTRY: NORWAY. 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Discovery, launched in 2013, is a co-funding plattform and a well-developed collaboration between Nordic Film Lab and In a society where most of the work has been automated, Entreprenör is a dark comedy that follows an ambitious Göteborg Film Festival’s marketplace Nordic Film Market. The Agency is an authority providing coaching consul- upper middle class family during an intense Friday. The Discovery was created to offer a unique opportunity for tants to give post-workers hope, goals and new dreams daughter Nina presents French cheeses at school while Nordic talents to present their up-coming projects and receive to build a better society. K. is one of those consultants, the dad Rikard is audited by the tax authorities. The son direct feedback from financiers, sales agents, buyers, festival top ranked, with an unbending faith in the good of The Hugo shoots a rap-video while the mother Mia struggles programmers and potential co-producers. With a special Agency. But something is wrong, K. can’t check in to the to make her hometown’s tourism campaign more hip. thanks to our partners, we wish you welcome to Discovery. agency app, a seeming banal bugg, that will cause K. Eventually, the family’s strive forward end up hurting both to lose faith, grow desperate and increasingly abuse his their self-image and their surroundings. power over the group he’s coaching. Simon Vahlne was born in 1984 in Varberg, The projects will be presented Jonas Eskilsson, producer, director and where his film takes place. His studies / in the following order: screenwriter born 1982 in Helsingborg, work in film has been in Los Angeles, Prague Sweden. He studied at the Filmschool in and Gothenburg where he graduated with Gothenburg (now Valand Academy). His a master from the Valand Academy of Film Scenes From a Dying Town short film A Tremor was nominated in in 2013. Simon’s latest short filmFight on Entreprenör Göteborg Film Festival’s Swedish Shorts a Swedish Beach!! was nominated for the Where the Crows Turn Competition in 2012. Jonas’ production Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Best European Handling the Undead company yxfilm has recently produced the feature filmSum - Short at EFA. Entreprenör is his feature film debut. mer’s End as part of Moving Sweden, witch premiered at Göte- After Work borg Film Fesival in 2016 and screened at SVT the same year. The Store Resistance Frans Huhta, born in Sweden 1982, studied Human Resources at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts The Quiet Migration and Valand Academy in Gothenburg. He The Nation Moderator has previously directed five short and mid- Marit Kapla, Journalist, freelance length films which have been screened at writer, moderator and editor of cultural various internaitonal film festival. His first journal Ord&Bild. Göteborg Film feature length documentary The Language Festival’s Artistic Director 2007–2014, of Silence had its world premiere at Göteborg Film Festival Program Director for the festival’s 2017. digital streaming platform Draken Film 2014–2015. Directors & Screenwriters: World Sales: Director and screenwriter: World Sales: Frans Huhta, Jonas Eskilsson TBA Simon Vahlne TBA

With support from: Producers: Contact during NFM: Producer: Contact during NFM: Hedvig Lundgren, Frans Huhta, Jonas Eskilsson, Axel Danielsson Axel Danielson, Jonas Eskilsson +46 760 51 11 10 +46 708 27 78 48 [email protected] Production company: [email protected] Production: Plattform Produktion Fasad, Yxfilm

44 Discovery Discovery 45 Handling the Undead Human Resources Resistance Scenes From a Dying Town

An electric field hits Oslo and awakens the newly dead; Human Resources (Jag AB) is a poignant and humoris- On a moonlit night, an indigenous Q’eqchi’ youth, Ix- A comedydrama of a small, deteriorating town and it’s living bodies with no soul, only a strong longing to return tic docufiction film, about the people at a job coaching quic wades into the river to rid herself of the stains of inhabitants. By using magical realism this theme-driv- to their families. We follow three characters reuniting company. The film is a study of what happens in a society becoming a woman. Her mother, Marcela, assists her. en story explores various forms of externality in a closed with their loved ones and their hope for them to return where market value trumps human worth. In the distance, they can see some apparent foreigners community where everyone is somewhat of an outsider to normal. This is an odd zombie film about love, sorrow, bulldozing along the riverbanks. A Norwegian company in their own life. This is a film about courage, and even death and accept. The film is based on the novel written Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall is the di- has started the construction of a hydroelectric plant close though most of the characters seem to have long since by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In, Border) rector of award-winning films such asNot to the small village. Ixquic is 14 years old and works to forgotten how to live they still have a great desire to do Panic and documentaries Second Class support her mother and younger sister. While her body is so. and Crisis Document, A Survival Guide. Her Thea Hvistendahl is a Norwegian film di- changing, Ixquic realizes that she does not want to go on films often revolve around work, power and rector (b. 1989). She has established herself growing maize and selling things at the market like her Kaisa El Ramly has a BA-degree in acting the production of images. Together with as a creative and sharp storyteller with a and an MA-degree in film studies and she long-time collaborator Marta Dauliute, mother. Meanwhile, the hydroelectric company is denying strong characteristic visual style. She has works as a freelance director, writer and she co-founded the production company MDEMC in 2009. everybody the access to the river and the local authorities won several prizes for her shorts and music actress both in theatre and in film. Her She holds an MA in film from Valand, Gothenburg University. start kidnapping and killing her people. videos. Her debut feature Adjø Monte-Bello graduation filmBorn Wrong has won prizes premiered in 2017 to great reviews and got and been screened at several international E. Caj Cojoc was born in Coban, Guate- her 4 Amanda Prize Nominations. Her newest short, Children festivals. In addition to writing and working mala. He’d never tried a videocamera of Satan, will be released in 2019. on her debut filmScenes from a Dying Town, she is also devel- before being granted a scholarship from oping a feature film together with screenwriter Mona Masri, the Norwegian Embassy to attend several writing a tv-series and a couple of short films. filmworkshops. Cojoc’s first shortfilm was selected to festivals such as Havana In- ternational Film Festival, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and Icaro International Film Festival. He won a scholarship by Cinépolis, the largest cineplex fran- chise in Mexico to study filmmaking in Mexico at The Mexican Institute of Film and Humanities Research, IMICH.Cojoc is cur- rently selected to take part in Guadalajara Talents, developing his first feature RESISTIR.

Director: World Sales: TBA Director and screenwriter: Contact during NFM: Director & Screenwriter: Contact during NFM: Director & Screenwriter: Contact during NFM: Thea Hvistendahl Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall Cecilia Björk, +46702189058, E. Caj Cojoc Elisa Fernanda Pirir, Kaisa El Ramly Klaus Heydemann, Contact during NFM: [email protected] +47 90735974 +358 400 279 255 Screenwriter: Kristin Emblem, Producer: Cecilia Björk Producer: [email protected] Producer: [email protected] John Ajvide Lindqvist +47 90767176 Elisa Pirir Klaus Heydemann [email protected] Production company: MDEMC Producers: Production company: Production company: Kristin Emblem & Guri Neby Thea Hvistendahl, World Sales: TBA Mer Film Inland Film Company +47 45218957 Production Company: [email protected] World Sales: TBA World Sales: Einar Drama TBA

46 Discovery Discovery 47 The Nation The Quiet Migration The Store Where the Crows Turn

In The Nation, we get to follow two reporters on their Carl, 21, adopted from the Philippines, half-heartedly In this surreal combination of puppets and live action we Where the crows turn is a comedy drama about a woman, search for Jens Cedermalm, an adman who left his job helps out in the stables of the farm that his adoptive meet the employees and their young manager at a low- Laura 29, returning to her hometown as a newly hatched as CEO and bought an abandoned iron mine in the mid- father expects him to one day take over. Meanwhile, his price food market, all struggling to meet the demands author. As the black sheep of the family she has written dle of nowhere. There he founded The Nation, a closed distant cousin, Marie, 22, adopted from China, unpacks of the owners. In the name of maximizing profit, human a revenge novel that reflects badly on the outskirts of society seeking an alternative to the destructive ways of boxes in her new city apartment. Unknowingly, they share relationships are falling apart, a tent camp is growing Denmark and the mentality that prevails here. The book modern civilization. It is a tale of existential anxiety in the a feeling of estrangement and loneliness, and as tensions rapidly next to the store and some people are starting has created great drama amongst the members of her 90’s generation, the loss of spirituality and the need for re- rise at a family event, a new kinship springs up between a movement to challenge the core of the whole system. family and going back to her brother’s wedding is turning inventing religion in the most secular country in the world. them. the whole family upside down. Hanna Sköld has written, directed, ani- Anton Källrot graduated School of Film Malene Choi Jensen (1973) adopted from mated and co-produced two feature films Lisa Jespersen was born in the country- directing in Gothenburg 2010. In 2011 he South Korea grew up in Denmark, and in and several shorts. Her last filmGranny’s side of Denmark in 1988. Her interest for founded the film company ÖGAT togeth- 2005 she graduated from the National Film Dancing on the Table premiered at TIFF film grew as she attended the European er with actors Ylva Olaison and Jonathan School. She has directed 10 short documen- 2016, was nominated for dragon award Film College and later on studied film di- Silén. They work collaboratively, producing taries and fiction films. Her feature debut, at GIFF and went to cinema in Sweden, recting at The National Film School of film and theatre. ÖGAT explores alternate The Return (2018) had its world premiere at France and Spain. Hanna was nominated Denmark. She has made a handful of short ways for the creative process, combining IFF Rotterdam receiving a Special Mention to the Swedish academy award for best directing in 2017, and films all with interest in the comic aspect filmmaking with methods from the theatre field to reach new and has competed at 27 festivals such as Hot Docs, São Paulo received TheWIFTS Foundation -Best Director Award 2015. of people’s existential crises. Her graduation filmSeptember expressions with high originality. The Modern Project (2016) IFF, AFI Fest and Valladolid IFF winning for Best Feature. received a lot of attention for its precis and very emphatic was his feature film debut. portrait of a woman in her 60’s and the difficulties that come with that age.

Director: Production: Ögat Film Director: World Sales: TBA Director and screenwriter: Contact during NFM: Director: World Sales: Anton Källrot Malene Choi Jensen Hanna Sköld Lovisa Charlier Lisa Jespersen TBA World Sales: TBA Contact during NFM: +4670-6428664 Screenwriters: Screenwriters: Maria Møller Kjeldgaard, Producers: [email protected] Writer: Contact during NFM: Anton Källrot, Jonathan Silén, Contact during NFM: Marianne Lentz & Malene Choi +45 61462682 Lovisa Charlier & Hanna Sköld Lisa Jespersen & Sara Isabella Lisa Jespersen, +4553634024, Ylva Olaison Ylva Olaison, +46 735101581, Jensen [email protected] Jønsson [email protected] [email protected] Production Company: Producer: Producer: Tangram Film Producer: Ylva Olaison, Jonathan Silén, Maria Møller Kjeldgaard Daniel Mühlendorph Anton Källrot World Sales: Production Company: TBA Production Company: Manna Film Hyæne Film

48 Discovery Discovery 49 Nominees Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize The New Nurses, Denmark Nominated writers: Claudia For the third consecutive year, the Nordisk Film & Boderke, Lars Mering TV Fond Prize for outstanding writing of a Nordic All The Sins, Finland Drama series, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Nominated writers: Merja Aakko, will be handed out at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Mika Ronkainen Drama Vision. This year six Nordic drama series have The Flatey Enigma, Iceland been announced as nominees for the NOK 200,000 Nominated writer: Margrét (€20,000) award which goes to the series’ main writ- Örnólfsdóttir er(s). Kieler Street, Norway Nominated writers: Stig Frode This year’s Jury consists of Laura Birn, actress, Chris- Henriksen, Jesper Sundnes, Patrik Syversen tina Jeurling Birro, journalist, Alexander Karim, actor, State of Happiness, Norway and Justin Judd, producer and content consultant. Nominated writer: Mette M. Bølstad

Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize Award Ceremony The Inner Circle, Sweden Nominated writer: Valands Nightclub January 30 18:30 Håkan Lindhé From Twin By invitation only

Full programme: For all guests and the full programme Shaping Landscapes check out our website goteborgfilmfestival.se/tv and Moving Mountains – TV Drama Vision 2019

January 31 – February 3 Biopalatset 6, Kungstorget 2

Redrawing the maps of the changing land- The 6th Nostradamus TV Drama Vision moderator: scape of international TV drama and tracking Wendy Mitchell report the swift changes in the commissioners’ wish Biopalatset 9, February 1 16.00-17.30 lists is the main focus of this year’s edition of Moderator: Johanna Koljonen, TV Drama Vision. Which are the stories and analyst and author, Nostradamus TV Drama Vision is supported by Creative Europe Media, The publicly funded arts are in peril, a handful of business models that will shape the coming Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Västra Götalandsregionen, Film i changes and cut through the noise to push the Väst and the Norwegian Film Institute. streaming behemoths will dominate home enter- tainment, and cinemas reorient themselves – it's limits further? Presented by Göteborg Film Festival, in collaboration with What are the current TV world’s disparate time to reboot the industry conversation. Media Lindholmen Science Park and with additional support commissioners currently looking for? Which analyst Johanna Koljonen presents the 6th annual from Region Västra Götaland, Nordisk Film & TV Fond and are the shows that cut through the noise and report of the Nostradamus Project, which moni- Kulturakademin. impact audiences? How can creators build tors and analyses the rapid changes in the screen sustainable businesses while challenging industries. The presentation is followed by a dis- themselves creatively? These are some of the cussion with invited experts. The current report, challenges and questions. as well as the previous editions, is available at Presenting two inspiring days with the most goteborgfilmfestival.se/nostradamus exciting talent and the key executives that are creating the drama of today in the Nordics and Panelists: Tomas Eskilsson, Head of Partner Events: Drama Series Days, Series Mania, beyond. With more than 60 guests on stage, Strategy, Film I Väst; Maria Tanjala, Co-Founder, CineLink Drama and Helsinki Script. In collaboration close to 40 upcoming projects and the best net- with MediaXchange, Chimney, SVT. Music partner: Audio Big Couch and Film Chain; and Glenn O’Farrell, working opportunity in the region. Network. CEO, GroupeMédia TFO.

50 51 Photo: Johan Bergmark Moving Sweden – Seminar: Reflections from the Experts

Biopalatset 9, 09:00–10:30 No fewer than six films supported by Moving Sweden have their world premieres during this year’s Göteborg Film Festival. Moving Sweden has invited four cinematic experts to reflect on these new films, and to show clips from them that highlight creative elements that are of particular interest to them. The filmmakers then join the ex- perts on stage for an in-depth discussion about the artistic choices in the selected scenes. Moving Sweden is a micro-budget scheme in- From Circles of Nataporas tended to give both new and experienced filmma- kers a chance to challenge their creativity and explore new formats. The scheme supports films of various lengths, as well as short series. Since May 2018, Moving Sweden has stepped into wor- Valand Academy king with features, with a focus on first- and second-time filmmakers with proven personal - Works in Progress voices. Supported projects will be aired on SVT. Moving Sweden Screenings: Moving Sweden is a co-operation between the February 2, 11:00–12:00 The Hag Swedish Film Institute and Swedish Television All in (Caroline Eriksson) Biostaden 9 Director: Lisa Forslund 104 Sat Jan 26 17:00 Haga 1 A fictional web series investigating growing old (SVT). Moderator: Ruben Östlund, director and Senior as a woman without loosing your cool. 155 Sun Jan 27 10:00 Haga 2 advisor at Valand Academy 523 Thur Jan 31 10:15 Biop 8 Ett rymdspel Film Graduates from Valand Academy Present Cinephille experts: Marta Balaga (a film journalist wri- Director: Jacquelin Andrèn ting for international publications such as Cineuropa and The BFA in Film is a three-year program studying My World in Yours En smaskig sci-fi saga om kändisskap och tera- Episodi, and collaborating with various European film the practice of film. In the end of spring 2019, seven festivals); Sarah Lutton (Nordic Film Programme Advisor, (Jenifer Malmqvist, Emma Åkesdotter-Ronge) pier. students will graduate, aspiring to create innova- BFI London Film Festival), Kristina Trapp (CEO, EAVE), and 104 Sat Jan 26 17:00 Haga 1 Bérénice Vincent (Partner Totem Films). tive ways of storytelling and content in film and Melanie 155 Sun Jan 27 10:00 Haga 2 imagery. Their ongoing projects are challenging Filmmakers: Jon Blåhed; Anna Charlotte; Caroline Eriks- Director: Lisa Meyer 523 Thur Jan 31 10:15 Biop 8 our view of film as a medium and are presented son; Julius Jorborg; Jenifer Malmqvist; and John Skoog. Melanie, 16, is exploring her identity, avoiding bo- as a selection of works screened and exhibited. Producers: Emma Åkesdotter-Ronge; Catherine Cham- redom as she is conquering a life of her own on pagne; Erik Hemmendorff; Ann Lundberg; Tony Österholm; Recycling and Waste (Julia Jorborg) the countryside. and Johan Seth. Sun Jan 27 12:30 Haga 1 178 Projects presented Moderator: Helen Ahlsson, Film Commissioner – Moving 269 Mon Jan 28 14:30 Haga 1 The Black Dog – When the Mourning Comes Sweden, Swedish Film Institute. Circles of Nataporas Director: Maria Jansson 529 Thur Jan 31 12:00 Biop 1 Director: Shahab Mehrabi It’s about grief. A sudden loss. It´s about different History repeats itself and is often written by the attempts to approach feelings. Meaning. Escape. Shut Up Haters (Jon Blåhed) winner. Let’s rewrite the history through the Na- Consolation. Shame. 178 Sun Jan 27 12:30 Haga 1 taporas identity. 269 Mon Jan 28 14:30 Haga 1 Last Night in Sweden Grown-Up Men & Me Director: Charlie Š. Kronberg 529 Thur Jan 31 12:00 Biop 1 Director: Edvina Koda Sander Lollipop Fuck You Fiction - just another story A hybrid documentary about the need for male about a pregnant trans guy attention

52 53 22.30 Sunday, February 3 Highlighted Nordic Films 697 BIOP 3 I’ll Be Gone (24.10) 696 HAGA 1 Cutterhead (24.00) 09.45 799 BIOP 8 En film om Jörn Donner (10.45) with English Subtitles Saturday, February 2 10.00 For all Festival Screenings, please refer to Industry Guide. 09.45 813 BIOP 3 Moa Martinson – The Mother of the 700 STOR Out of Tune (11.15) Country (11.30) 812 BIOP 2 Before the Frost (11.40) 10.00 811 BIOP 1 Neon Heart (11.30) Thursday, January 31 Friday, February 1 704 CHA The Saint Bernard Syndicate (11.40) 810 GÖ2 Patrimonium (11.15) 805 HAND Sonja – The White Swan (11.55) * CHA Ditte & Louise (11.45) 09.45 10.00 10.15 804 711 GÖ2 Gods of Molenbeek (11.30) 515 BIOP 2 Hamada (11.15) 617 BIOP 7 Heartbound (11.30) 11.45 513 DRA A Fortunate Man (12.30) 616 GÖ2 Patrimonium (11.15) 12.00 4046 GÖ2 Transnistra (13.25) CAP Queen of Hearts (14.10) 12.15 10.30 4086 12.00 533 BIOP 6 Ditte & Louise (14.15) 618 GÖ1 Phoenix (12.00) 12.15 821 AFT A Fortunate Man (14.45) BIOP 3 Season (13.15) 12.30 12.00 721 * 719 HAGA 1 Patrimonium (13.30) 12.30 534 ROY Happier Times, Grump (14.25) 4087 ROY Queen of Hearts (14.10) 4052 BIOP 9 Kvinnor och komedi – förr och nu (13.30) 623 BIOP 1 Patriotic Highway (13.10) 14.45 832 FRÖ Happier Times, Grump (14.25) 14.00 620 CAP Transnistra (13.40) 736 CAP Sonja – The White Swan (16.40) * 829 DRA Swoon (14.15) 541 GÖ3 Boy in Bollywood (16.00) 538 CAP Heartbound (15.30) 14.00 15.00 14.00 632 GÖ2 Anori (15.25) 4020 BIOP 10 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (17.05) 836 GÖ2 Little Moscow (15.00) 14.45 630 DRA Out of Tune (15.30) 74 1 BIOP 8 Phoenix (16.30) 546 BIOP 6 The Unpromised Land (16.15) BIOP 1 En film om Jörn Donner (16.00) 14.15 74 0 14.30 738 FRÖ A Fortunate Man (17.45) 4059 STOR Koko-di Koko-da (15.55) * 15.00 634 BIOP 2 The Deposit (15.45) 737 DRA Swoon (16.45) 551 GÖ2 Season (16.00) * 14.45 548 DRA Before the Frost (16.40) 14.30 16.00 843 GÖ1 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (16.50) 638 BIOP 7 Christian IV (16.00) HAGA 1 Privacy of Wounds (17.10) 17.45 74 6 15.00 570 BIOP 10 The Saint Bernard Syndicate (19.25) 16.45 16.45 847 FRÖ Phoenix (16.30) 569 BIOP 9 Phoenix (19.15) 647 BIOP 1 Before the Frost (18.25) 74 9 AFT Kvinnor och komedi – förr och nu (17.45) 18.15 17.00 15.30 17.30 850 HAND Gods of Molenbeek (16.45) 4047 CAP The Deposit (19.45) 655 BIOP 10 Happier Times, Grump (18.55) 756 GÖ1 Ditte & Louise (19.15) 571 DRA Koko-di Koko-da (19.55) * CAP Harajuku (18.55) 17.30 755 * 16.00 853 BIOP 1 The Deposit (17.30) 18.30 659 GÖ1 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (19.38) 18.30 575 GÖ1 Patrimonium (19.45) AFT Blind Spot (20.15) 17.45 765 * 16.45 4060 STOR Sons of Denmark (18.45) * 18.45 660 FRÖ Heavy Trip (19.20) 19.45 4019 HAGA 1 Anori (20.10) GÖ1 The Deposit (21.15) 18.00 4051 17.45 868 GÖ2 Christian IV (19.15) 19.30 662 GÖ2 Gods of Molenbeek (19.15) 20.00 581 BIOP 3 Transnistra (21.10) 661 HAGA 2 All We Own (19.15) 779 BIOP 10 Neon Heart (21.30) 18.00 HAGA 2 Anori (21.25) BIOP 7 Hamada (19.30) 19.45 18.30 776 873 584 BIOP 5 Christian IV (21.15) 665 DRA Sonja – The White Swan (20.40) * 20.30 19.30 583 BIOP 4 Patriotic Highway (20.55) BIOP 3 Cutterhead (22.00) FRÖ The Saint Bernard Syndicate (21.10) 19.00 780 877 20.00 669 BIOP 3 En film om Jörn Donner (20.00) 20.45 19.45 590 BIOP 9 Neon Heart (21.30) 667 BIOP 1 Season (20.00) * 782 AFT Shake It All About (22.25) 4056 GÖ1 Queen of Hearts (21.55) 585 STOR The Hunt (22.00) CHA Sonja – The White Swan (21.40) 19.30 4042 * 21.30 21.00 673 GÖ3 Boy in Bollywood (21.30) 4041 DRA Koko-di Koko-da (22.55) * 20.00 596 DRA Queen of Hearts (23.10) BIOP 2 Heartbound (21.30) 20.00 890 21.30 4049 GÖ2 Neon Heart (21.30) 20.15 600 BIOP 3 Sons of Denmark (23.30) * ROY I’ll Be Gone (21.55) 21.15 4062 21.45 688 CHA The Saint Bernard Syndicate (22.55) 603 BIOP 4 Out of Tune (23.15)

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54 Highlighted Films Highlighted Films 55 All Nordic Festival Films with English Subtitles

For full programme see program.goteborgfilmfestival.se

A Film About Jörn Donner Cold Case Hammarskjöld Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre The New Nurses Sygeplejeskolen Sonja – The White Swan Sonja En film om Jörn Donner Cold Case Hammarskjöld Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre Denmark 2018 Norway 2019 Sweden/Finland 2019 Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium Finland 2018 Main writers: Claudia Boderke, Director: Anne Sewitsky Directors: Alberto Herskovits, Olavi 2019 Director: Ilja Rautsi Lars Mering Linna Director: Mads Brügger Sons of Denmark Danmarks sønner I’ll Be Gone I’ll Be Gone One Last Deal Tuntematon mestari Denmark 2019 A Fortunate Man Lykke-Per Cutterhead Cutterhead United States/Sweden 2019 Finland 2018 Director: Ulaa Salim Denmark 2018 Denmark 2018 Director: Amelia Trask Director: Klaus Härö Director: Bille August Director: Rasmus Kloster Bro State of Happiness Lykkeland The Inner Circle Den inre cirkeln Out of Tune De frivillige Norway 2018 All the Sins Kaikki synnit The Deposit Tryggð Sweden 2019 Denmark 2019 Main writer: Mette M. B.lstad Finland 2019 Iceland 2019 Main writer: Håkan Lindh Director: Frederikke Aspöck Main writers: Merja Aakko, Mika Director: Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir Swoon Eld och lågor Ronkainen Kieler Street Kielergata Patrimonium Den frelste jord Sweden 2019 Ditte & Louise Ditte & Louise Norway 2018 Denmark 2019 Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein All We Own Allt vi äger Denmark 2018 Main writers: Stig Frode Henriksen, Director: Carl Olsson Sweden 2019 Director: Niclas Bendixen Jesper Sundnes, Patrik Syversen Patriotic Highway Patriotic Highway Transnistra Transnistra Director: Emily Norling Sweden 2019 Sweden/Denmark/Belgium 2019 The Flatey Enigma Flateyjargátan Koko-di Koko-da Director: Caroline Troedsson Director: Anna Eborn Aniara Aniara Iceland 2018 Koko-di Koko-da Sweden 2018 Main writer: Margrét Örnólfsdóttir Sweden/Denmark 2019 Phoenix Føniks The Unpromised Land Directors: Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman Director: Johannes Nyholm Norway/Sweden 2018 Till drömmarnas land Gods of Molenbeek Aatos ja Amine Director: Camilla Strøm Henriksen Sweden 2019 Anori Anori Finland/Belgium/Germany 2019 Kvinnor och komedi – förr och nu Director: Victor Lindgren Greenland 2018 Director: Reetta Huhtanen Sweden 2019 Pity the Lovers Vesalings Elskendur Director: Pipaluk Jørgensen Director: Nisti Stêrk Sweden/Iceland 2018 Hamada Hamada Director: Maximilian Hult Aurora Aurora Sweden/Norway/Germany 2018 Little Moscow Litla Moskva Finland 2019 Director: Eloy Domínguez Serén Iceland 2018 Privacy of Wounds Director: Miia Tervo Director: Grímur Hákonarson Privacy of Wounds Happier Times, Grump Norway 2018 Before the Frost Før frosten Ilosia aikoja, Mielensäpahoittaja Lucky One Lucky One Director: Dalia Al Kury Denmark 2018 Finland 2018 Sweden 2019 Director: Michael Noer Director: Tiina Lymi Director: Mia Engberg Queen of Hearts Dronningen Denmark 2019 Blind Spot Blindsone Harajuku Harajuku Mating Parning Director: May el-Toukhy Norway 2018 Norway 2018 Sweden/Denmark 2019 Director: Tuva Novotny Director: Eirik Svensson Director: Lina Maria Mannheimer The Saint Bernard Syndicate Sankt Bernhard Syndikatet Boy in Bollywood Boy in Bollywood Heartbound Hjärtelandet Moa Martinson – The Mother of the Denmark 2018 Sweden 2019 Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden 2018 Country Moa Martinson – Director: Mads Brügger Director: Mirza Askari, Farahjaan Directors: Janus Metz, Sine Plambech Landsmodern Sheikh Sweden 2019 Season Säsong Heavy Trip Hevi reissu Director: Maj Wechselmann Sweden 2019 Christian IV Christian IV – Finland/Norway 2018 Director: John Skoog Den sidste rejse Directors: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Neon Heart Neon Heart Denmark 2018 Vidgren Denmark 2018 Shake It All About En kort en lang Director: Kasper Kalle Director: Laurits Flensted-Jensen Denmark/Germany 2001 The Hunt Jagden Director: Hella Joof Denmark/Sweden 2012 Director: Thomas Vinterberg

56 Nordic Festival Films Nordic Festival Films 57 The Nordic Film Institutes

Accreditation guide

Danish Film Institute Norwegian Film Institute www.dfi.dk www.nfi.no VIP VIP Nordic Network Press Industry Access Orange Purple Film Market Lizette Gram Mygind Dag Asbjørnsen Festival Consultant Head of International Relations Access to all     Phone: +45 24 82 37 58 Phone: +47 40 22 21 51 public screenings Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Access to all      day screenings Noemi Ferrer Schwenk Stine Oppegaard Manager Head of International International Relations, Feature Films Press screenings Phone: +45 33 74 35 12 Phone: +47 90 85 96 38 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Access to Industry Centre at Hotel Scandic Rubinen

Public and Industry seminars Finnish Film Foundation Swedish Film Institute www.ses.fi www.filminstitutet.se Digital Video Library,      Festival Scope Jaana Puskala Steffen Andersen-Møller, Nostradamus seminar,

Head of Feature Film Promotion +46 76 051 36 97 Nordic Film Market, Feb 1 Phone: +358 505 93 20 68 Head of International Department Opening Recepetion, Nordic Email: [email protected] [email protected]    Film Market , Jan 31

Works in Progress, Nordic Jenni Domingo Petter Mattsson Film Market


Internatioinal Promotion Coordinator, Festival Manager Feature Films Feature Films Phone: +46 706 07 11 34 Selected Festival Events Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced price price price price price price Phone: +358 40 84 12 849 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] TV Drama Vision, Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced Reduced Theo Tsappos price price price price price price Jan 30 – 31 Festival Manager Feature Films Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 Icelandic Film Centre Email: [email protected]  Collect tickets at Hotel Scandic Rubinen from January 25, 08.30–12.30, for public screenings the same day or the next day or on first come served basis and subject to availblity. Not available to VIP Orange. www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

 All the festival week, starting before 15.45, on first come served basis and subject to availability. Christof Wehmeier  Industry and VIP are welcome from 21.00. Head of Festival Promotion

Subject to availblity. More info at goteborgfilmfestival.se Phone +354 662 6066 Email: [email protected]  Only available for Distributor, Festival Programmerrs, TV, VOD, Organisation, Production, International Sales, Press, Exhibition. Sigurrós Hilmarsdóttir  For more information regarding the events, visit goteborgfilmfestival.se Head of Production Phone: +354 562 3580 Email: [email protected]

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Sannegårds- hamnen Festival map 12 The World’s Most Claustrophobic Cinema 8 seats. Gjutjärnsgatan 1. Lindholmsallén 12 The World’s Most Afton- Claustrophobic 13 Fröl FRÖ stjärnan 11 Lindholmen Cinema 220 seats. Frölunda Torg 5A. Cinemas LINDHOLMEN DRA 1 Dra Lindholms- Festival Spots piren 708 seats. The Festival’s main cinema. Mot Klippan Information, café, bar, ticket office. 14 Festivalarena Folkets hus, Heurlins plats 15. Seminars, shops, festival bars och parties. Auktionsverket Kulturarena. Tredje långg. 9. 2 Hagabion HAGA Two screens, 58 & 121 seats. Restaurant. 15 Biograf Nordstan Lilla Bommen n e Linnégatan 21. Nordstadstorget. STIGBERGET d r Mot Lilla Bommen å g s n a m s Handels HAND n 3 16 Scandic Rubinen ä L Mot Lilndholmspiren t 310 seats. Vasagatan 1. Festival hotel. Kungsportsavenyn 24. 16 o M Älvsnabben Capitol CAP Festivalarenan Stenpiren 4 17 17 206 seats. Skanstorget 1. Seminars. Första långgatan 17b. Nordstan Masthuggstorget Dra Norra Hamngatan NORDSTAN 5 Chalmers CHA Stadsbiblioteket 18 Andra Långgatan 1 450 seats. Bar och café. Chalmersplatsen 1. Seminars. Götaplatsen 3. MASTHUGGET Tredje Långgatan 15 Domkyrkan Central- Mot Angered Brunnsparken stationen Göta GÖ Yaki Da Kungsgatan 6 19 Järntorget Four screens 21 – 108 seats. Götaplatsen 9. Final Party. Storgatan 47. Biop 10 2 14 Bio Roy ROY Angered Bio. Blå stället Grönsakstorget Kungsportsplatsen 7 20 Haga Nygata 286 seats. Kungsportsavenyen 45. 220 seats. Angereds torg 13. Hagabion TRÄDGÅRDS- HAGA FÖRENINGEN Prinsgatan Mot Kortedala 8 Akademin Valand VAL Hagakyrkan Stora 48 seats Seminars and screenings. Nya Allén 9 Teatern Ullevi Norra Akademi Valand. Storgatan 43. Viktoriagatan 3 Bio Valand Linnégatan 19 9 Stora Teatern STOR SKANSTORGET Valand Handels HEDEN 347 seats. Seminars, ticket office. Ullevi Södra Handels- 8 Vasagatan Kungsparken 1. högskolan Södra Vägen 4 Kungsportsavenyn Olivedalsgatan Vasaplatsen 10 Biop BIOP Capitol 16 Ten screens, 78–293 seats. Nordic Film Market. Övre Husargatan VASASTAN

SLOTTSSKOGEN Aschebergsgatan Kungstorget 3. Linnéplatsen Aftonstjärnan AFT 11 Bio Roy 7 Scandinavium 180 seats. Plåtslagaregatan 2. 18 LANDALA ANNEDAL Göta 6 Berzeliigatan

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68 Lead Sponsor Main Sponsor: Who’s who at Nordic Film Market?

Cia Edström Mirja Wester Jonas Holmberg Head of Industry Chief Executive Officer Artistic Director, & Nordic Film Market +46 (0) 703 78 73 53 +46 (0) 723 70 26 00 +46 (0) 708 72 23 73 mirja.wester@ jonas.holmberg@ Media Partner: Arena Partner: Sponsors: cia.edstrom@ goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se

Tobias Åkesson Maja Kekonius Josef Kullengård Head of Nordic Acting Head of Nordic Industry Coordinator Programme & Discovery Programme +46 (0) 730 76 60 89 +46 (0)733 50 91 72 +46 (0)704 58 01 47 josef.kullengard@ tobias.akesson@ maja.kekonius@ goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se

Manlin Sterner Tess Tammer Jenny Runsten International Press Industry Guest TV Drama Vision [email protected] Coordinator Coordinator +46 (0) 72 938 30 95 +46 (0) 736 30 83 09 tess.tammaer@ jenny.runsten@ Main Industry Funding Contributors and Sponsors: goteborgfilmfestival.se goteborgfilmfestival.se

Karin Vestlund Signe Stahlénius Gustaf Normark Accreditation Industry Assistant Graphic Designer Coordinator signe.stahlenius@ gustaf.normark@ karin.vestlund@ gotborgfilmfestival.se gotborgfilmfestival.se gotborgfilmfestival.se

Johanna Koljonen Emma Gray Munthe Wendy Mitchell Nostradamus Moderator Moderator Analyst & Author Nordic Film Market TV Drama Vision johanna.koljonen & Nordic Film Market @participation.design

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