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5 The Ape Star 30 Nelly & Nadine 44 Amina (Working title) 66 Anyway 6 Be My Voice 31 Nelly Rapp – Monster Agent 45 Bamse and the Vulcano Island 67 Beauty Rules 7 Bellum 32 Nota Bene 46 Boy From Heaven 68 Farewell 8 Bert’s Diary 33 Orca 47 Bullets 69 The Great Overflow 9 Calendar Girls 34 Passion 48 Comedy Queen 70 The Hearing 10 Children of the Enemy 35 Pleasure 49 Diorama 71 High Sky Low Land 11 The Choir 36 Sabaya 50 Dogborn 72 Huldra 12 A Christmas Tale 37 The Scars of Ali Boulala 51 The Emigrants 73 LTMUC (*Letter To My Unborn 13 Clara Sola 38 The Schoolmaster Games 52 The Hypnosis Child) 14 Day by Day 39 Stories from the Debris 53 The Life and Times of Omar 74 Man with Doves 15 Eva & Adam 40 Sune – Mission: Midsummer Sharif (Working title) 75 The Night Train 16 Excess Will Save Us 41 Til the Sun Rises 54 Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling 76 Not Until Now 17 Fly So Far 42 Tuesday Club 55 Off Track 77 Punani Steam 18 Gabi, Between Ages 8 and 13 43 You Are the Days to Come 56 One Day All This Will Be Yours 78 Smile 19 Geared Up 57 The Opponent 79 Sonata 20 I am Zlatan 58 Sagres (Working title) 80 Successful Thawing of Mr Moro 21 Imad’s Childhood 59 Second Act 81 Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency 22 The Jonsson Gang 60 So Damn Easy Going 23 Joyce Carol Oates 61 La Société du Spectacle 62 Stammisar (Working title) INDUSTRY 24 Julia & I CONTACTS SWEDEN 25 Knocking 63 The Store 26 Mamma Moo Finds Her Way 64 Triangle of Sadness 82 Production Companies Home 65 The Year I Started Masturbating 85 Sales Companies 27 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 86 Distributors 28 Most Unwanted 87 Film Festivals 29 Movie Man 87 Organizations FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #3

Second Annecy The Ape Star Feature (Apstjärnan) Directed by Linda Hambäck

The eight-year-old orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out steps a gorilla who picks Jonna for adoption. It soon becomes clear that they have more things in common than they initially thought. When they start becoming a family, Tord from the local authorities shows up and threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage. © LEE FILM

Screenwriter Janne Vierth National release Spring 2021 Berlinale 2018. Previous films she directed are The World of Principal voices Pernilla August, Rebecca Gerstmann, International premiere Zlin International Film Festival for Dolores and Gunellen (2016), What If… (2014), that was Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda Kinnaman Children and Youth, May 2021 co-directed with Marika Heidebäck. She has also directed a Produced by LEE Film Stockholm/Linda Hambäck, Petter Sales Attraction Distribution short documentary, Fighting Spirit (2013). Before her Lindblad, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny directing debut she had a long background with producing Gilbertsson Linda Hambäck, born 1974, is a Swedish film director and highly acclaimed shorts and working as a producer at Duration 72 min owner of the production company LEE Film. She works Filmtecknarna. The Ape Star, Linda's second feature, had its mainly with animated films for children and her first highly world premiere in Main Competition at Annecy. recognized feature Gordon & Paddy had its world premiere at

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Be My Voice DOC (Be My Voice) Directed by Nahid Persson

Journalist and activist Masih Alinejad has over 4.6 million followers on Instagram after urging Iranian women to rebel against the forced hijab on social media. Her call to action has grown into one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in today’s Iran. Something that has made the regime desperately tighten its grip to regain control over the people. ©REALREEL

Screenwriter Nahid Persson Born in Shiraz, Iran, Nahid Persson took political asylum in Veil (2004), The Queen and I (2008) and My Stolen Produced by RealReel/Setareh Lundgren, Nahid Persson, Sweden as a result of her political activism during and after ­Revolution (2013). with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo the revolution in Iran 1979. Since 2000 Nahid has pursued a Libossart successful career as a documentary filmmaker in Sweden. Duration 90 min Nahid’s social-political films have been harshly critical of the Release 2021 position of women under the Islamic Republic regime. Among Sales Autlook Filmsales her critically acclaimed films marks Prostitution Behind the

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Visions DOC Bellum du Réel (Bellum) Directed by David Herdies, Georg Götmark

It’s often said that war is inhumane. In Bellum this assumption is flipped around, because maybe there is nothing more humane than war. Humanity has always been at war, and it seems that going to war over abstract ideas such as borders, religion or freedom is something that distinguishes us from all animals on the planet. ©MOMENTO FILM ©MOMENTO

Screenwriters David Herdies, Georg Götmark David Herdies is a Swedish producer, director and the Georg Götmark is a producer and director. He has worked Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael founder of Momento Film. He has directed three feature with documentaries and TV since 2001. During this period, Krotkiewski, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ documentaries; Citizen Oketch (2009), The Guerilla Son he has worked on a number of international documentary Klara Grunning (2011), and While No One is Watching (2013) which have projects, such as The Last Lacandones (2013) by Peter Duration 88 min been screened and awarded at festivals around the world and Torbiörnsson, Transit Tanger (2004) and the feature Release April 2021 together sold to more than 10 territories. Furthermore, documentary Citizen Oketch (2009). Georg has also Sales Deckert Distribution Herdies is one of Sweden’s most established documentary produced a number of TV-series and reportages in many producers with several award-winning titles in his catalogue, different countries for Swedish Television/UR. screened at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and IDFA. 7 MOMENTO FILM • DECKERT DISTRIBUTION FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #3

Feature Bert’s Diary Debut (Berts dagbok) Directed by Michael Lindgren

Bert is a 13-year-old boy about to start eighth grade. One of his new classmates is Leila’s younger sister Amira. Leila is the 15-year-old that the entire school has a crush on, including Bert. He sees his chance to get close to Leila by befriending Amira. When Bert finds a secret diary at the sisters’ home a rollercoaster takes off filled with mix-ups, emotions, betrayal and heart- break. JOHAN PAULIN ©

Screenwriter Tapio Leopold National release August 8, 2020 Flyktingkrisen – en musikal won the Best Comedy award at Principal cast Hugo Krajcik, Julia Pirzadeh, Frank Dorsin, International premiere Cinekid, October 2020 the Rose d’Or awards ceremony in 2018. Michael has Yussra El Abdouni, Arvid Bergelv, Frode Östlin, Helena Sales REinvent Studios directed and created several other very popular and awarded Lindegren, David Wiberg, Isa Aouifia, Suzanne Reuter, Björn programs for TV, most notably Svenska Nyheter. As an actor Gustafsson The director, producer, screenwriter and actor Michael he has played in films like Johan Kling’s Darling (2007) and Produced by FLX/Rebecka Lafrenz, Anna Anthony, with Lindgren has been on stage ever since his early shool days. Rojda Sekersöz’ Beyond Dreams (2017). Bert’s Diary is support from the Swedish Film Institute His breakthrough to a broader audience, came with comedy Michael’s feature film directorial debut. Duration 90 min and satire collective Grotesco in 2007. Their show

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Feature DOC Calendar Girls Debut (Calendar Girls) Directed by Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen

A coming-of-age story about Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60 – the Calendar Girls. A dance documentary that shakes up the outdated image of “the old lady” and shows the deep human need for creativity and friendship. ©LOVE MARTINSEN©LOVE

Screenwriters Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen Love Martinsen and Maria Loohufvud are making their Produced by Pink Dolphin/Maria Loohufvud, Love feature debut with Calendar Girls, both as directors and Martinsen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ producers. Love Martinsen has long experience as a film Anna Weitz composer and Maria Loohufvud’s background is in an art Duration 85/58 min direction and design. Release 2021 Sales CAT&Docs, Juno Films (US)

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Second DOC CPH:DOX Children of the Enemy Feature (Children of the Enemy) Directed by Gorki Glaser-Müller

Children of the Enemy is the story of ­bohemian musician Patricio whose daughter married one of Europe’s most notorious ISIS terrorists. They left for Syria in 2014 and, as the Caliphate crumbles five years later, both get killed. Their seven small children survive and are placed in the monstrous refugee camp Al-Hol. When the Swedish authorities neglect to act on behalf of the children, grandfather Patricio is forced to take it upon himself to try to get them out. ©RENA EFFENDI ©RENA

Screenwriter Gorki Glaser-Müller Gorki Glaser-Müller is a filmmaker, writer for film, tv and Produced by Cinenic Film/Kristofer Henell, Erika radio and a multi artist working with experimental formats Malmgren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ such as VR. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1973 and Klara Grunning came to Sweden as a 13-year-old. Since graduating from Duration 90 min Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, he has experiment- Release April 2021 ed with audiovisual storytelling in various forms. His first Sales Cinephil feature film was the critically acclaimed Once a Year (2013). Children of the Enemy is his feature documentary debut.

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Feature DOC The Choir Debut (Kören) Directed by Amanda Pesikan

The Choir is a film about a gospel choir in one of the world’s most secular countries. An immersive musical documentary that raises questions about the human need for togetherness and spirituality. In the film we follow Tensta Gospel Choir, Sweden’s most famous choir, during a defining period when Christian values and social engagement are set against the prospects of success and celebrity. ©MANTARAY FILM ©MANTARAY

Screenwriter Amanda Pesikan Amanda Pesikan is making her directorial debut with The Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, Anna Weitz, with Choir but has over 17 years’ experience of TV production as support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo producer, developer and editor, with productions such as the Libossart Swedish Guldbagge Awards, Gympaläraren (2016) and Duration 75 min/58 min Vänligen Lars Lerin (2016) to her credit. Gympaläraren won Release 2021 the 2016 Kristall Award for Program of the Year. Sales East Village Entertainment

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A Christmas Tale (Karl Bertil Jonssons Julafton) Directed by Hannes Holm

Karl-Bertil’s future is predestined by his rich father. But one day he meets Vera, a poor girl living at an orphanage in the slum, and realizes that some people are less fortunate than his family... Inspired by Robin Hood, Karl-Bertil decides to “steal from the rich and give to the poor”. At his job in the post office he puts aside Christmas packages from rich people and hides them away. On Christmas eve he dresses up as Santa and heads for the slum to give away Christmas presents to the poor. SF STUDIOS SF ©

Screenwriter Hannes Holm based on a story developed by Hannes Holm was born in 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden. He Tre Vänner based, on a short story by Tage Danielsson has directed several acclaimed films such as Behind Blue Principal cast Simon Larsson, Sonja Holm, Jonas Karlsson, Skies (2010), Ted - Show Me Love (2018) and A Man Called Jennie Silfverhjelm, Vanna Rosenberg Ove (Oscar® Nomination for Best Foreign Film in 2018). Produced by SF Studios Production/Henrik Widman, Anna Odenhall, with support from the Swedish Film Institute Duration Appr. 100 min National release November 12 2021 Sales REinvent Studios

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Feature Cannes Clara Sola Debut (Clara Sola) Directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

In a remote village in Costa Rica, Clara, a 40-year-old woman, takes off on a journey to break free from social and religious conventions and become the master of her sexuality and newfound powers. ©HOBAB

Screenwriters Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Maria Camila Arias Nathalie Álvarez Mesén is a Costa Rican-Swedish Principal Cast Wendy Chinchilla, Daniel Castañeda, Flor screenwriter/director with an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Vargas, Ana Julia Porras An alumna of the Berlinale Talents, TIFF Filmmaker Lab and Produced by HOBAB/Nima Yousefi, with support from the NYFF Artist Academy, Nathalie’s films have screened at film Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine Ekman festivals all over the world. Her short, Filip, won Best Film at Duration 106 min the 2016 Palm Springs Shortfest, and Asunder, screened at National release TBC the 2016 Telluride Film Festival. She also co-wrote Entre Tú Y International premiere Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, July Milagros, winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short in the 2021 Venice Film Festival 2020. Clara Sola is her feature film debut. Sales Luxbox 13 MORE INFO • LUXBOX FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #3

Day by Day (Dag för dag) Directed by Felix Herngren

Day by Day is a life-affirming dramedy showing us it’s never too late to change one’s life. On a RV journey from Sweden to Switzerland, five unlikely characters come together to fulfill an elderly man’s last wish. Cross-generational friendships blossom, an autumn romance awakens and life-changing decisions are made. ©DANIEL MATSUDA ©DANIEL

Screenwriter Tapio Leopold Felix Herngren is a Swedish filmmaker and founder of 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Principal cast Sven Wollter, Marianne Mörck, Tomas von production company FLX. Felix is behind some of Sweden’s Disappeared, which Felix wrote and directed, premiered on Brömssen, William Spetz, Martina Haag, Felix Herngren, most well known TV series such as Solsidan, Bonusfamiljen, Christmas Day, and is one of the all-time highest grossing Peter Magnusson and feature Solsidan The Movie (2017). In 1999, he made films in Sweden. Currently, Felix is in pre-production on the Produced by FLX/Anna Carlsten, Anna Anthony, with his feature debut with comedy Adult Behavior. His second adaption of Fredrik Backman’s novel Anxious People for support from the Swedish Film Institute feature, comedy Every Other Week, was released in 2006. In Netflix. Duration approx. 100 min 2010, Solsidan premiered with the broadcaster’s highest National release Autumn 2021 number of viewings of the decade and won multiple awards. Sales TBC In 2013, the feature adaptation of bestselling novel The

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Feature Eva & Adam Debut (Eva & Adam) Directed by Caroline Cowan

Falling in love for the first time. How do you know? What do you do? When Adam starts a new school, he meets Eva. Suddenly, everything is different. Eva just sealed an anti-boy pact with her best friend Annika, because boys are all so immature. But nothing is as wonderful as your first love. And nothing is as hard. When Eva and Adam meet at Ryska Posten, they can’t stop their flood of emotions. Maybe it’s all impos- sible. Finally, they find the courage to choose what they want most of all. Love and each other. ©FILMLANCE INTERNATIONAL, NIKLAS MAUPOIX

Screenwriters Måns Garthon, Johan Unenge Caroline Cowan has directed numerous acclaimed short Principal cast Sonja Holm, Olle Cardell, Stella Klintberg, films and TV-series. Her short film Departure was nominated Lukas Wetterberg, Liv Mjönäs, Rakel Wärmländer for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival, 2007. The Produced by Filmlance International/Francy Suntinger with children’s drama series Joy, written and directed by Cowan, support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson was released 2014 and nominated at the Prix Jeunesse, the Duration 78 min world’s most esteemed children’s TV festival. Eva & Adam is National release August 27, 2021 her first feature film. Sales REinvent Studios

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Feature Excess Will Save Us Debut (Excess Will Save Us) Directed by Morgane Dziurla-Petit

A director makes a film about her family in the little village Villereau in northern France, just by the border to Belgium. She follows what happens in the village during a time of severe crisis, where lack of information creates fear, paranoia and excesses among the villagers and her family. Based on the award winning short documentary Excess Will Save Us, the universe established in that film expands into a feature hybrid film depicting life in the countryside at a time of fundamental crisis in Europe and the Western world. This new account will retain its humor and visual force, but give a deeper understanding of the people that live there and the meaning of returning. ©VILDA BOMBEN ©VILDA

Screenwriter Morgane Dziurla-Petit Morgane Dziurla-Petit was born in France in 1996 and Principal Cast Partick Petit, Marie Christine Carlier, Roger moved to Sweden in 2017 after film studies in Paris and Petit, Jean-Benoit Ugeux, Kim Truong Cannes. She has written and directed several short films Produced by Vilda Bomben Film/ Fredrik Lange, supported including the Swedish Guldbagge Awarded Excess Will Save by the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Us - the short. Her works often explore the boundary between Duration 105 min documentary and fiction. National release Autumn 2021 Sales Cinephil

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Feature DOC Hot Docs Fly So Far Debut (Nuestra libertad) Directed by Celina Escher

Fly So Far follows Teodora Vásquez, the spokesperson of the women accused of aggravated homicide and imprisoned in El Salvador for having had a miscarriage. Teodora’s case has become a symbol of the extremism in the criminalization of abortion and the cruelty against women within the Salvadoran system. But also, of sorority, resilience and solidarity. ©AUDUN FJELDHEIM ©AUDUN

Screenwriter Celina Escher Celina Escher is a Swiss-Salvadoran filmmaker. She Produced by Pråmfilm/Mónica Hernández Rejón, Sugar studied documentary film at the International Film School in Rush Productions/Maria Åkesson, Chimbolo Films/ Saúl San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba. In 2016 she was Callejas, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan part of the student competition at IDFA with her short film Pablo Libossart Motriz. Her film Verde Olivo (2017) was shown at the Film Duration 87 min des Femmes in Créteil and also at festivals in Scotland and El Release April 2021 Salvador. In 2018 Celina’s short film Luz Para Ellas was Sales CAT&Docs screened at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in La Habana, Cuba. Fly So Far is Celina’s first documentary feature. 17 TRAILER • PRÅMFILM • CAT&DOCS FEATURE SWEDISH FILM #3

Feature DOC CPH:DOX Gabi, Between Ages 8 and 13 Debut (Gabi, mellan åren 8 till 13) Directed by Engeli Broberg

Gabi just wants to be Gabi. But this is not as easy as it sounds. Debut filmmaker Engeli Broberg has followed Gabi during the five formative years between the ages of 8 and 13, as she transforms herself even more than most children. Even as a young child, she does not believe that there is a difference between boys and girls, and as the years go by, she feels less and less at home in the two genders on offer. ©HOUSE OF REAL OF ©HOUSE

Screenwriter Engeli Broberg Engeli Broberg was born 1985 in Varberg, Sweden. She Produced by House of Real/Anna J Ljungmark, Jakob has a background as a dancer and filmmaker of short films. Eklund, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Engeli studied filmmaking at Skurups folkhögskola and Gabi, Grunning Between Ages 8 and 13 is her feature film debut. Duration 75 min Release April 2021 Sales TBC

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Feature Geared Up Debut (Vitt skräp) Directed by Tobias Leo Nordquist

The plot takes place in the early 80’s and revolves around the wandering Sami who in his search for reconciliation of his past ends up in a small town where he meets Kim. Together, they are drawn into a tangle of drugs with dangerous consequences as a result. © JOAKIM ERIKSSON/MIKAEL FILMS CROSS JOAKIM ©

Screenwriters Anton Hagwall, Andreas Doyle, Joel Forssell After receiving a BA in Theater Arts from San Diego State Principal cast Ola Rapace, Ida Engvoll, Peter Viitanen, Erik University, Tobias Nordquist started his profession as a Bolin, Donald Högberg, Peter Eriksson cinematographer and editor in 2006. Tobias has directed and Produced by Mikael Cross Films, Merix Media/Mikael produced award-winning short films, documentaries and Cross, Eiffel Mattson television production. Geared Up is Tobias’ debut feature film. Duration 106 min National release 2021 Sales The Yellow Affair

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Second I am Zlatan Feature (Jag är Zlatan) Directed by Jens Sjögren

A coming-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reli- ance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United. BRF ©

Screenwriter David Lagerkrantz, Jakob Beckman Jens Sjögren has won many awards for his often humorous, Principal cast Dominic Andersson Bajraktati, Granit Rushiti, heartfealt and humane commercials. In 2012 he made his Cedomir Glisovic, Merima Dizdarevic first feature, Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other. He Produced by BR•F/Mattias Nohrnborg, Frida Bargo, has created and directed several popular TV series as well as Fredrik Heinig, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ directed for the theatre. I am Zlatan is Jens’ second feature Jenny Gilbertsson film. Duration 105 min National release September 17, 2021 Sales TrustNordisk

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Imad’s Childhood DOC Hot Docs (Imads barndom) Directed by Zahavi Sanjavi

Imad, a five-year-old Yazidi child, is released from ISIS captivity after two and a half years. During this time, ISIS has brain­ washed Imad and he considers himself one of the ISIS fighters. His eyes still emanate innocence, but he shows no other feelings than hatred for his mother and resentment towards those around him. Will Imad’s family be able to help him overcome his trauma and become again the child he was? ©AVB PRODUCTION ©AVB

Screenwriter Zahavi Sanjavi Zahavi Sanjavi was born in 1967 in Arbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. Produced by AVB Production/Zahavi Sanjavi, with support Since 1990 he lives in Sweden and works as a director, from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart scriptwriter and producer of documentary and feature films. Duration 78 min Zahavi pursued his studies in the fields of scriptwriting and Release April 2021 filmmaking at All-Russian State University of ­Cinematography­ Sales TBC in Moscow. For nine years he worked for TV in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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The Jonsson Gang (Se upp för Jönssonligan) Directed by Tomas Alfredsson

After a failed heist, gang-leader Charles Ingvar ’Sickan’ Jönsson ends up in jail. When released, his gang has given up their criminal days of crime and Sickan has to continue heisting on his own. The Jonsson Gang is one of Scandinavia’s most beloved film-series. ©FLX

Screenwriters Tomas Alfredson, Henrik Dorsin, Rikard National release December 25 2020 National Film Awards, Tribeca Film Festival’s Jury Award Ulvshammar Sales StudioCanal among many others and was nominated to BAFTA and Principal cast Henrik Dorsin, Hedda Stiernstedt, Anders European Film Awards. He then went on to direct Tinker Tailor Johansson, David Sundin Tomas Alfredson was born in Stockholm. He is an Soldier Spy (2011) which was nominated to three Academy Produced by FLX/Anna Carlsten, Pontus Edgren, Joshua autodidact filmmaker and has directed several TV-series as Awards, won two BAFTA Awards and two European Film Mehr, Fatima Varhos, Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, with support from well as feature films, most notably Four Shades of Brown Awards among numerous others. the Swedish Film Institute/Anders Nylander (2004), for which he received four National Film Awards, Let Duration 115 min the Right One In (2008) that received no less than five

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Joyce Carol Oates DOC (Joyce Carol Oates) Directed by Stig Björkman

After her great success of Blonde, director Stig Björkman sought out acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates. After 16 years she finally said yes to this documentary, the first ever about her and we get to meet the woman behind over 100 books. ©MANTARAY FILM ©MANTARAY

Screenwriters Stig Björkman, Dominika Daubenbüchel, Stig Björkman is known for Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Stina Gardell Words (2015) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support where it received the Golden Eye Special Mention. He is also from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart known for his films on Ingmar Bergman ... but Film is My Duration 90 min/58 min Mistress (2010) and Images from the Playground (2009). In Release 2021 addition, Björkman has directed seven feature length fiction Sales East Village Entertainment films as well as published a series of books on film including Bergman on Bergman (1973), Trier on von Trier (2002) and a portrait book on Michelangelo Antonioni (2018).

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Feature DOC CPH:DOX Julia & I Debut (Julia & jag) Directed by Nina Hobert

With the intimacy of a personal diary, filmmaker Nina films her friend Julia and their beautiful friendship. Shot over a period of a few years, this is a sincere portrait of two young women struggling with addiction, self-hatred and identity crises. ©NINA HOBERT ©NINA

Screenwriter Nina Hobert Nina Hobert is a Swedish multidisciplinary artist who works Produced by Nina Hobert Universe/Nina Hobert, with as a filmmaker, composer, author, and photographer. She has support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning directed numerous short films and music videos and has Duration 80 min contributed to various international magazines with her Release April 2021 photography and writing. Julia & I is her first feature. Sales TBC

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Feature Sundance Knocking Debut (Knackningar) Directed by Frida Kempff

Molly is moving into her new apartment after a tragic accident when a strange noise from upstairs turns everything upside down. The ever-increasing knocking almost sounds like morse code, but when she confronts her neighbors, no one can hear what she is hearing. Everyone starts ­questioning Molly, and before she knows it, she is thrust into a quest for the truth. ©HANNES KRANTZ

Screenwriter Emma Broström Frida Kempff’s films range from documentaries to narrative Principal cast Cecilia Milocco dramas. Her work has been screened and won awards at Produced by Läsk/Erik Andersson, with support from the some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson including Cannes, IDFA, London, Hot Docs, and Telluride. Duration 78 min Frida’s feature documentary debut, Winter Buoy, premiered at National release TBC festivals and cinemas in 2015 and garnered rave reviews and International premiere Sundance Film Festival, January several international awards. 2021 Sales Bankside Films

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Mamma Moo Finds Her Way Home (Mamma Mu hittar hem) Directed by Christian Ryltenius

Mamma Moo wants to see the world. Crow has already seen everything. When Stork shows up at the Farm and starts building a nest, Crow is challenged by someone who actually travelled the whole world. Mamma Moo gets the feeling that there is so much more out there to see than her usual pasture, Crow tries his hardest to convince her to stay where she belongs – like a normal cow. On the surface, Mamma Moo Finds Her Way Home is a story about how Mamma Moo together with her friend Crow try to have a vacation. But it’s also a ­philosophical tale about what constitutes a home. Is a home just a place you live, or is it something more than that? ©SLUGGER FILM ©SLUGGER

Screenwriter Peter Arrhenius Christian Ryltenius started his career in animation working Principal cast Rachel Mohlin, Johan Ulveson and Tiffany on the Swedish feature film Voyage to Melonia (1989). He Kronlöf has since then worked in Germany, England and Asia. In Produced by SF Studios/Filippa Torstensson, Jon 2004 he launched the Swedish animation production ­Nohrstedt, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ company Sluggerfilm and has directed the Bamse trilogy Jenny Gilbertsson (2011-2018), the most successful feature films in Swedish Duration 60 min animation history. In 2020, Pelle-No-Tail, that he directed, was National release September 10 2021 released. In addition, he worked as an animation director on Sales REinvent Studios Tarik Saleh’s Metropia (2009).

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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World DOC Sundance (Världens vackraste pojke) Directed by Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life. A film about a dark family history and the price of beauty. A drama that takes us to Japan, Italy, France and Denmark. ©MARIO TURSI

Screenwriters Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, both filmmakers, Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support journalists, and writers. Kristina has directed highly acclaimed from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart documentaries about some of Sweden’s most famous names Duration 90 min/52 min and faces, including Astrid (2014) and Palme (2012). Kristian Release January 2021 won Best Director at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards for his Sales Films Boutique first feature film, Between Summers (1995), which was selected for Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes. His latest film is L136 (2018) about Ingmar Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman.

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Feature Most Unwanted Debut (Snälla kriminella) Directed by Sara Young

Two losers – one in need of an expensive operation to save his dog, the other looking for street-cred to kick off his rap career – decide to become criminals. When the cops are closing in and they find themselves in debt to a dangerous gang of killers, they need to step up their game and perform a spectacular heist to save their own lives. © STORY STUDIO ONE STUDIO STORY ©

Screenwriters Johan Wiman, Simon Garshasebi, Babak Sara Young, director, writer and standup-comedian. Most Yousefi, Sara Young Unwanted is her film directorial debut. Principal cast Simon Garshasebi, Babak Yousefi, Johan Glans, Sanna Bråding Produced by Story Studio One/Johan Wiman with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Duration 90 min National release April 30, 2021 Sales Story Studio One

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Feature DOC Movie Man Debut (Movie Man) Directed by Stina Gardell

What does a man do who has dedicated over 70 years of his life to live in the world of movies when that whole world suddenly shuts down? When film productions stop and cinemas are closing. In this new ­restricted world of his, he spends his time going through his rich film archive and calls directors and actors around the whole world: Isabella Rossellini, John Sayles, Oliver Assayas and many more. A film about the film’s ability to travel into other worlds and give us the strength to endure our own difficult existence. ©MANTARAY FILM ©MANTARAY

Screenwriter Stina Gardell Stina Gardell is a producer and CEO of the production Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support company Mantaray Film that she founded in 2005. She has from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart produced 25 feature documentaries, among them: Ingrid Duration 75 min Bergman - In Her Own Words (2015, also scriptwriter and Release 2021 producer), Silvana (2017), The Most Beautiful Boy in the Sales TBC World (2021), Joyce Carol Oates. Movie Man is her first feature length documentary as a director.

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Nelly & Nadine DOC (Nelly & Nadine) Directed by Magnus Gertten

Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years Nelly and Nadine’s lifelong relationship was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family. Now Nelly’s grandchild, Sylvie, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and finally read Nelly’s personal diary from the Nazi camps. Gradu- ally Sylvie uncovers their remarkable love story. ©AUTO IMAGES ©AUTO

Screenwriter Magnus Gertten Magnus Gertten has directed more than 15 feature Produced by Auto Images/Ove Rishøj Jensen, with support documentaries. His films have been awarded and screened in from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning more than 60 countries. Among them are Only the Devil Lives Duration 90 min Without Hope (2020) and Every Face Has a Name (2015), Release 2021 which was pre-sold to 11 countries. Gertten has also Sales Rise and Shine World Sales co-directed the two box office hits Becoming Zlatan (2016) and Tusen bitar (2014). Magnus Gertten runs Auto Images in Malmö. He is a former radio and TV journalist, including several years as a music journalist.

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Second Berlinale Nelly Rapp – Monster Agent Feature (Nelly Rapp – monsteragent) Directed by Amanda Adolfsson

Nelly Rapp, and her basset hound London, is going to spend her autumn vacation at her uncle Hannibal’s place. What seems like a calm vacation with her uncle turns out to be something completely different when she finds out that he is a monster agent! Nelly immerses into the world of vampires, ghosts, werewolves and Frankensteiners, and is soon caught up in a thrilling adventure where everything she once believed in is put to the test. ©SF STUDIOS/PER LARSSON STUDIOS/PER ©SF

Screenwriter Sofie Forsman National release October 23, 2020 Amanda Adolfsson has directed TV-series such as the Principal cast Matilda Gross, Lily Wahlsteen, Marianne International premiere Berlinale Generation Kplus, 2021 drama comedy Bonus Family, SVT; the youth drama Eagles, Mörck, Johan Rheborg, Björn Gustafsson, David Wiberg, Sales REinvent Studios SVT; and the crime series Bäckström, TV4/CMORE. She has Josefine Johansson, Amy Deasismont a BA in film directing from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Produced by SF Studios/Jon Nohrstedt, Niklas Larsson, Arts. In 2008, her short film Spending Night was selected to with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny compete at the Berlinale. Her debut feature Young Sophie ­Gilbertsson Bell (2015) received a Guldbagge nomination for Best Duration 90 minutes actress in a leading role.

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Feature DOC Nota Bene Debut (Nota Bene) Directed by Jeroen Pool

Genoa, Italy. Tucked away in the hills just outside the city the Genoese bury their dead at the vast, monumental cemetery of Staglieno. But alongside the cemetery’s graves, through its arcades, galleries and foresty parts, all kinds of people work and wander. At Staglieno the everyday and eternal continuously face each other through mundane acts of living. Indeed, for a place that at first glance seems all about death, Staglieno is curiously alive. ©GINESTRA FILM ©GINESTRA

Screenwriter Jeroen Pool Jeroen Pool (1986, NL) is based in Stockholm and works Produced by Ginestra Film/Antonio Russo Merenda, with as a director and editor. He spent his earlier years studying support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, during Libossart which he started to work as documentary researcher. Over Duration 75 min the past years Jeroen moved into his own film work, exploring Release 2021 how people relate to time, space and each other. Jeroen Sales TBC graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2020 and has an MFA in Film & Media.

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Second Orca Feature (Orca) Directed by Josephine Bornebusch

Eleven characters are isolated from the outside world and communicating via screens. Their individual destinies are woven together through connections from one person to another. A son can’t hold his mother’s hand as she lies on her deathbed. A pregnant woman finds love. A broken husband tries to find his way back to a sense of optimism. An older brother gives his sister hope. A mother has abandoned her family when they need her most. A therapist gives his client advice, as he stands on the edge of ruin himself. A daughter bonds with her mother. Two friends discover they have different feelings for each other… ©RAGNA JORMING ©RAGNA

Screenwriters Josephine Bornebusch, Gunnar A.K. Josephine Bornebusch is an actor, director, screenwriter since premiering in 2019, and a second season is coming Järvstad and novelist. Josephine co-created and wrote for the sitcom this autumn. She has created, written, directed and played a Principal cast Josephine Bornebusch, Johan Rheborg, Erik Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015) which aired on Swedish lead role in the show. Orca is her second feature film. Johansson, Vera Vitali, Gustav Lindh TV4 and NBC in the US. She wrote, directed and starred in Produced by Warner Bros. Sweden/Sofie Palage the critically acclaimed comedy series Rachel och Jossan Duration 105 min (TV3, 2015). Her debut in directing a feature film came with National release October 30, 2020 the family film JerryMaja’s Detective Agency - The First Sales Nordic Entertainment Group Mystery (2018). Josephine’s latest work is the drama series Love Me which has dominated the Viaplay viewing charts

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Second DOC CPH:DOX Passion Feature (Passion) Directed by Maja Borg

A film about longing, healing, and belonging. Adopting rituals and play from queer BDSM practice and their own Christian heritage, filmmaker Maja Borg seeks to reclaim intimacy and re-establish boundaries in the wake of a destructive relationship. Through stories of queer BDSM communities, Borg portrays the humanity at the heart of the practise, illuminating its similarities with Christianity. ©MANTARAY FILM ©MANTARAY

Screenwriter Maja Borg Maja Borg is an artist and film director, working with both Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support documentary and fiction. Their work is as likely to be from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning exhibited on cinema as in art galleries. Borg’s work explores Duration 96 min political alternatives and personal ‘otherness’ and is often Release April 2021 focussed on the deconstruction of culture, economy, Sales TBC sexuality, mythology and language itself.

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Feature Cannes Sundance Pleasure Debut Label 2020 (Pleasure) Directed by Ninja Thyberg

A young and ambitious 20-year-old travels from Sweden to Los Angeles to become the next big porn star. It is the first film role for Sofia Kappel (20) who plays the lead accompanied with an authentic cast from the adult film industry. It is a film about ambition, sacrifice and feminism, set in one of the strongest patriarchal structures. ©PLATTFORM PRODUKTION ©PLATTFORM

Screenwriter Ninja Thyberg, co-writer Peter Modestij Duration 109 min Ninja Thyberg won the Canal+Award for Best International Principal cast Sofia Kappel, Revika Reustle, Dana National release TBC Short Film in Cannes 2013 with her film Pleasure, which then DeArmond International premiere Sundance Film Festival, January went on to compete in Sundance the next year. Her short Hot Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, 2021 Chicks won the 1 km film-scholarship at Stockholm Film Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, with support from the Swedish Sales Versatile Festival in 2014, and Catwalk won the Student Visionary Film Institute/Yaba Holst Award at Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2015. Pleasure is Ninja’s feature film debut.

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Sabaya DOC Sundance (Sabaya) Directed by Hogir Hirori

With just a mobile phone and a gun Mahmud, Ziyad and their group risk their lives trying to save as many Yazidi women and girls as possible being held by ISIS as Sabaya (sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria. Meanwhile at home, Mahmud’s wife, Siham, and his mother, Zahra, help the traumatized girls with loving care to shed off the black garments of an ideology that tolerates nothing but itself. ©LOLAV MEDIA©LOLAV

Screenwriter Hogir Hirori Hogir Hirori was born in 1980 in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. In Produced by Lolav Media/Hogir Hirori, Ginestra Film/ 1999, he fled to Sweden and has lived since then in Antonio Russo Merenda, with support from the Swedish Film Stockholm. He works as a freelance photographer, editor and Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart director and runs his own production company, Lolav Media. Duration 90 min Hogir’s most recent work, The Deminer, had its world Release January 2021 premiere at IDFA 2017, where it received the Special Jury Sales Dogwoof Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film has since travelled to more than 50 international film festivals and aired on more than 30 broadcasters worldwide.

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Feature DOC Tribeca The Scars of Ali Boulala Debut (The Scars of Ali Boulala) Directed by Max Eriksson

Ali Boulala became legendary in the 90s for being the wildest and most eccentric skate- boarder of his time. In 2007, after a tragic motorcycle accident in Australia, Ali ended up in a coma and his friend, Shane Cross, was killed. Following rehab and time in prison, Ali got lost in years of drug abuse. Against all odds, he manages to get sober and live a “normal” life while carrying the scars on his body and in his psyche. An opportunity now opens up for Ali to face his emotional demons head on. @PATRICK O’DELL @PATRICK

Screenwriters Max Eriksson, Mikel Cee Karlsson Max Eriksson is always looking for new stories and new Produced by Sisyfos Film Production/Mario Adamson, ways to tell them. Through the medium of film and storytelling Ashley Smith, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ he tries to change our perception of things and open our eyes Juan Pablo Libossart to see the world in a different light. Since completing his two Duration 100 min short documentaries Tivoliland (2013) and Shut Eyes (2011) Release June 2021 Max has worked as a documentary editor. Sales Charades

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Feature The Schoolmaster Games Debut (Magisterlekarna) Directed by Ylva Forner

At St Sebastian University, where everyone are gay men and everything pulsates of eroticism and power games, the strict Schoolmaster works. In his secret affair with his pupil Charles, he's developed the Schoolmaster Games, a BDSM game where Charles makes mischief and the Schoolmaster punishes. Suddenly a ­mysterious carving on his office door reminds him of a past trauma and causes his orderly existence to crumble. There is also the boy quartet; Tim, Paul, Noak and Fred, who are engulfed by the ­selection of the ”Winter Procession”. But the competition blows deep cracks between them and threaten their unity. ©ROBERT ELDRIM ©ROBERT

Screenwriter Ylva Forner Ylva Forner is a director and screenwriter. Forner has Dramatic Arts and has a bachelor's degree in directing at Principal cast Johan Ehn, Christian Arnold, Johan Charles, written and directed five short films between 2001 and 2012, Centre D’estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. Joel Valois, Simon Kling amongst them Greetings from Slussen (2008, Palm Springs In 2009 she got the SWEA Los Angeles Film Scholarship Produced by Northern Fable/Sofia Ferguson, with support International Short Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival), and the same year she was a part of Berlinale Talent Campus. from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson Time Out of Place (2010, Göteborg Film Festival, Ankara Duration 82 min Womens Festival) and Gaming (2013, Montreal Film Festival, National release TBC Plam Springs International Short Film Festival, Sao Paolo Sales LevelK Short Film Festival). She went to Stockholm Academy of

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Feature DOC Stories from the Debris Debut (Stories from the Debris) Directed by Jennifer Rainsford

With the 2011 Tsunami as a backdrop, Stories from the Debris is a staggering odyssey told as an essay on grief, and on how humans and nature rebuild after a trauma. It moves from the shores of Japan where Sashiko, Yasu and Satoko try to find ways to accept their loss; via rarely seen places thousands of meters below the sea level where new life-forms thrive; to one of the Hawaiian Islands where a group of volunteers gather to clean a beach from Japanese trash floating in from the Ocean. ©MOMENTO FILM FILM ©MOMENTO

Screenwriter Jennifer Rainsford Jennifer Rainsford is a visual artist and director, educated Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael at The Royal Institute of Art, and based in Stockholm. Her Krotkiewski, Mirjam Gelhorn, with support from the Swedish short films and installations have been shown at festivals Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart such as Oberhausen, Berlinale, Rotterdam and CPH:DOX. Duration 80 min Her latest film Lake on Fire was selected for the main short Release 2021 film competition at Göteborg Film Festival 2020. Sales TBC

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Feature Sune – Mission: Midsummer Debut (Sune – Uppdrag: Midsommar) Directed by Erland Beskow

The Anderson’s are going away to Karin’s aunt Hulda to celebrate an epic midsummer. But just as they are about to leave, Sophie breaks up with Sune! Things can’t get much worse. Sune decides to do whatever he can to win Sophie’s heart back by celebrating a truly romantic midsummer with her – just like Mum and Dad did 20 years ago. ­Unfortunately, he goes to his little brother Håkan for advise… and that is a very, very bad idea... ©NIKLAS MAUPOIUX

Screenwriters Sören Olsson, Tobias Hoffmén, Christoffer Erland Beskow has a long and solid background in TV and Sandler drama, spanning since the 90s. He has won the Swedish Principal cast Sissela Benn, Fredrik Hallgren, Elis Gerdt, national TV award Kristallen twice (2008, 2019), Nordisk Baxter Renman, Tea Stjärne, Lily Wahlsteen Barne TV Festival 2005 and Prix Jeunesse 2006. He also Produced by Unlimited Stories/Linus Stöhr Torell, Malin produced Melodifestivalen (the national qualification contest Söderlund, with support from the Swedish Film Institute for the Eurovision Song Contest) in 2009. Duration 86 min National release June 11, 2021 Sales Global Screen

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Til the Sun Rises (Tills solen går upp) Directed by Peter Dalle

When Peder runs into his old flame, Hanna, many years have passed and they are both now happily married. Nevertheless, they are still attracted to each other, though neither of them want to break up their marriage. By chance, they come across an ancient book about dreams. With the help of this book they enter the dream-world, living a life together where everything is possible, whilst continuing to live their normal lives during their waking days. But as their dreams start to enter reality, they experience some ­unforeseen consequences. ©UNLIMITED STORIES ©UNLIMITED

Screenwriter Peter Dalle Peter Dalle is an actor, screenwriter and director working Principal cast Mikael Persbrandt, Vanna Rosenberg, Peter with The Royal Theatre in Stockholm, TV series and feature Dalle, Helen Sjöholm films. He created one of the most renowned comedy TV Produced by Unlimited Stories/Patrick Ryborn, with shows in Sweden called Lorry and has directed several support from the Swedish Film Institute Swedish box-office successes such as The Dream House Duration 98 min (1993), Yrrol (1994), Unmarried Couples (1997), Illusive National release December 25, 2021 tracks (2003), An Enemy to Die For (2012), and Lyrro Sales Picture Tree International – Kingdom of Sweden (2018).

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Feature Tuesday Club Debut (Tisdagsklubben) Directed by Annika Appelin

Karin and Sten are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary with a bash when Karin discovers that Sten’s been unfaithful. Karin has spent her life taking care of her family and now all is shattered. A friend makes her join a cooking class led by a renowned chef. In the hot kitchen, among spices, food and friends, more than one of Karin's passions are reborn. But can she give up her life to pursue her dreams? And is it too late for love? ©ANAGRAM ANDERS NICANDER ANDERS ©ANAGRAM

Screenwriter Anna Fredriksson Annika Appelin turned to directing after an immensely Principal cast Marie Richardson, Peter Stormare, Björn productive career as a Script Supervisor and 1st Assistant Kjellman, Ida Engvoll, Sussie Eriksson, Carina M Johansson, Director. She has directed shorts and episodes of series such Maria Sid as HUSS, to premier in 2021 on Viaplay and ZDF. She’s been Produced by Anagram Sweden/Jessica Ask, Åsa highly sought after as Technical and Second Unit Director Karlsson, with support from the Swedish Filminstitute working on and supporting some of Scandinavia’s most Duration 100 min well-established Directors. Tuesday Club is Appelin’s National release February 18, 2022 directorial feature debut. Sales Beta Cinema

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You Are the Days to Come DOC Hot Docs (You Are the Days to Come) Directed by Yang Yang

We know the heart-breaking images from Tiananmen Square in 1989, but the story of the 1980’s that changed a whole genera- tion, is erased in China and is still to be told. You Are the Days to Come unfolds the story of a decade exploding in hope and free expression. Uncovering the story of six artists and front figures who fought for political emancipation and artistic freedom before their dreams were dashed to pieces in 1989. A cinematic film beginning with Mao Zedong’s death and ending in 1989. You Are the Days to Come puts Tiananmen Square in a new perspective and reveals the power of art. ©XAIO LU

Screenwriter Yang Yang Yang Yang was born in Beijing but lives since 1989 in Produced by House of Real/Anna J Ljungmark, with Sweden. She studied documentary filmmaking at Stockholm support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Academy of Dramatic Arts and works now as a director and Libossart photographer. Yang Yang is always looking for contemporary Duration 75 min and timeless stories that will touch us all. Release April 2021 Sales TBC

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Feature Amina (Working title) Debut (Amina) Directed by Ahmed Abdullahi

The young, talented woman Amina is a former MMA-fighter who is fighting to get back to her passion. With no support from her parents, she battles with raising her seven-year-old daughter. Against all odds she’s selected for the world ­championship, but struggle with handling her role as a mother. She’s facing her worst ultimatum - to be a successful athlete or an unsuccessful mother.

Ahmed Abdullahi ©JOHAN HANNU

Screenwriter Mona Masri Ahmed Abdullahi is a Swedish scriptwriter and director Frames selected Ahmed as one of ten most interesting new Principal cast Nimo Ahmed Ali born in Somalia. He has directed a number of acclaimed and filmmakers to keep an eye on. Amina is Ahmed Abdullahis Produced by Art & Bob Film & Drama/Veronika Öhnedal, award-winning documentaries and short films, including the feature film debut. with support from the Swedish Film documentary I’m Dublin and Swedish Guldbagge Award Institute/Helen Ahlsson winning The Martyr. Ahmed is educated at Stockholm’s Duration 90 min Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated with the short National release Autumn 2022 Francis, which was nominated for the Foreign Student Sales TBC Academy Award. The European Film Promotion Future

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Bamse and the Vulcano Island (Bamse och vulkanön) Directed by Christian Ryltenius

Bamse, Lille Skutt and Skalman on a new exciting adventure – this time to the middle of the earth. They must rescue the scientist Beanka, a dear old friend of Skalman, who mysteriously disappeared during an expedition. The adventure includes wolves, life-threatening climbs up mountains, and a journey to the center of the earth. To find the most valuable - a treasure, which means different things to different people. ©NORDISK FILM PRODUCTION SVERIGE 2021 SVERIGE PRODUCTION FILM ©NORDISK

Screenwriter Calle Marthin Christian Ryltenius started his career in animation working Principal cast TBA on the Swedish feature film Voyage to Melonia (1989). He Produced by Nordisk Film Production/Johanna has since then worked in Germany, England and Asia. In ­Bergenstråhle, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ 2004 he launched the Swedish animation production Jenny Gilbertsson company Sluggerfilm and has directed numerous Swedish Duration 64 min animation blockbusters. 2020, he was rewarded with the National release Christmas 2021 award Gullspira, the Swedish most prestigious prize for Sales TrustNordisk contributions for film appointing children.

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Boy From Heaven (Boy From Heaven) Directed by Tarik Saleh

Adam, son of a fisherman, is granted a scholarship to the Al-Azhar university in Cairo. When Sheikh Al-Azhar suddenly dies, a power struggle of who will be the next man in hte position starts. At State Security, investigator Ibrahim has been ordered to make sure it will be the one the president wants. When his informer at the Al-Azhar gets killed, Ibrahim’s needs a new one without connections or contacts. Adam fits the part perfect.

Tarik Saleh MORGAN NORMAN MORGAN ©

Screenwriter Tarik Saleh Tarik Saleh, born 1972. The Nile Hilton Incident won the Principal cast Fares Fares 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and received five Swedish Produced by Atmo Rights/Kristina Åberg, Fredrik Zander, Guldbagge Awards. The thriller Tommy premiered 2014. with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine Metropia, an animation feature with Vincent Gallo and Juliette Ekman, Hanna Lejonqvist Lewis premiered in Venice 2009. Tarik has directed an Duration Appr. 100 min episode of Westworld, co-directed several award-winning National release Autumn 2022 documentaries and a number of music videos with Lykke Li. Sales Memento Films International

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Second Bullets Feature (Bullets) Directed by Peter Pontikis

Bullets is a story about a gifted 10-year-old boy growing up in a disadvantage area outside Stockholm. With the help of a supporting teacher, he tries to do good in school but is drawn into a local gang war when trying to help out a friend in trouble. THIN SKIN FILMS SKIN THIN ©

Screenwriter Peter Pontikis Peter Pontikis studied psychology before shifting into art Principal cast TBA studies at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He has Produced by Thin Skin Films/Patrick Sobieski, with support directed numerous award-winning shorts and worked with from the Swedish Film institute /Helen Ahlsson installation projects bordering art and cinema. He is currently Duration 90 min working on his second feature Bullets with support from the National release Autumn 2022 Swedish Film Institute and in co-production with SVT. Sales TBC

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Second Comedy Queen Feature (Comedy Queen) Directed by Sanna Lenken

Comedy Queen is about 13-year-old Sasha. Sasha suffers from immeasurable grief but she is determined to save both herself and her father from the sorrow. Her plan is to make everyone laugh again, she wants to become a stand-up comedian – a Comedy Queen! ©OLA KJELBYE

Screenwriter Linn Gottfridsson, based on Jenny Jägerfeld’s Sanna Lenken’s latest work is the critically acclaimed and novel hugely popular tv-series Thin Blue Line for SVT. Lenken also Principal cast Sigrid Johnson, Oscar Töringe. Ellen Taure, directed episodes of the current series Thunder In My Heart. Anna Bjelkerud, Iggy Malmborg She was Guldbagge Award-nominated for her short films Produced by FLX/Rebecca Lafrenz, with support from the Eating Lunch (2014) and Night Child (2018) and made her Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson feature film debut with My Skinny Sister (2015), for which she Duration approx. 100 min was awarded with the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival National release 2022 as well as the Audience Award at the Göteborg Film Festival. Sales REinvent Studios

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Diorama (Diorama) Directed by Tuva Novotny

Diorama is about togetherness, monogamy, and all the chemical processes we go through in a relationship – love, passion, jealousy, etc. It’s about evolutionary repro- ductive theory and religious condemnation, the animal kingdom vs humanity, and how an average couple truly behaves. How life affirming and yet destructive love can be, and how we seek it again and again, no matter how much it hurts.

Tuva Novotny ©HENRIK ADAMSEN ©HENRIK

Screenwriter Tuva Novotny Tuva Novotny started acting at the age of 16 and has since Principal cast Pia Tjelta, David Dencik been cast in a long list of movies and series across the globe. Produced by Nordisk Film Production Svergie/René Since her directorial debut on the series DAG she has Ezra, Eva Åkergren, Matilda Appelin, with support from the directed episodes of the Netflix-series Lilyhammer, and Swedish Film Institute/Anders Nylander written and directed the two feature films Blindspot (Best Duration Appr 100 min Script, Best Director at Kanon Awards etc) in 2018 and Britt National release March 2022 Marie Was Here in 2019. Sales TrustNordisk

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Feature Dogborn Debut (Dogborn) Directed by Isabella Carbonell

Brother and Sister. Despite being homeless they aim for another life. Poverty is what stands between them and a chance for a brighter future. Their desperation leads them into a criminal industry of ”Import-­ Export”. It's a world of its own where your lineage and your education doesn’t deter- mine your fate. Things take a radical turn when the merchandise they’re supposed to transport turns up in the form of two young girls. They are now forced to make a deci- sion; do they become the people they used to fear? Or do they return to the streets? We follow the twins during two intense days where all our notions of self-evident moral are turned upside down. IGA MIKLER IGA ©

Screenwriter Isabella Carbonell Isabella Carbonell has written and directed several short Principal cast Silvana Imam, Philip Oros, Emma Lu, Mia Liu, films. Her film Boys was selected for Semaine de la Critique Henrik Norlén, Lukas Malinauskas in Cannes and won the Grand Jury Award at the AFI Film Produced by Momento Film/Farima Karimi, David Herdies, Fest in 2015. Erik Andersson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute /Helen Ahlsson Duration 90 min National release 2022 Sales TBC

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The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) Directed by Erik Poppe

The Emigrants is the story of Kristina ­Nilsson, a mother who leaves a ­poverty-stricken Sweden with her family in the 1850s and sets out on a long, ­dangerous journey, hoping to find a better life for herself and her children in America. The film is based on Vilhelm Moberg’s much loved suite of novels The Emigrants, and the story is now being told on film for the first time from Kristina’s perspective. BALDUR BRAGASON BALDUR ©

Screenwriter Anna Bache-Wiig, Siv Rajendram Eliassen Erik Poppe, born 1960, is a Norwegian film director, producer Principal cast Gustaf Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Laurence and screenwriter. Poppe is regarded as one of Scandinavia's Kinlan, Lisa Carlehed, Diana Bermudez, Tove Lo, Florin Zhang most experienced and compelling film directors recognized for Produced by SF Studios Production/Fredrik Wikström his work with actors and multi-pronged narratives. His movies Nicastro, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny are often built around ensemble casts, sharp writing, impres- Gilbertsson sive camera work and an uncanny knack for rhythm and music Duration approx. 135 min in the editing. He is best known for directing critically National release Christmas 2021 acclaimed films including Hawaii, Oslo (2004), A Thousand Sales REinvent Studio Times Good Night (2013) and The King's Choice (2016).

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Feature The Hypnosis Debut (Hypnosen) Directed by Ernst De Geer

Vera and André are a couple who get the chance to pitch their business at a prestigi- ous competition. Before the competition, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking, with an unexpected side effect: she loses all social inhibitions. André has a hard time dealing with this. When it risks ruining his career, he's torn between accepting her new personality and taking drastic measures to make her stop. JONATHAN BJERSTEDTJONATHAN ©

Screenwriters Ernst De Geer, Mads Stegger Ernst De Geer studied directing at The Norwegian Film Principal cast Herbert Nordrum, Asta August School and screenwriting at Biskops Arnö. His graduation Produced by Garagefilm International/Mimmi Spång, with filmThe Culture (2018) won national and international support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson awards and was nominated for the Norwegian national film Duration Approx 85 min award, Amanda. He also made numerous other shorts, and National release TBA/Autumn 2022 wrote and directed the drama series Nach for Discovery+ Sales TBA Norway.

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The Life and Times of Omar Sharif (Working title) DOC (The Life and Times of Omar Sharif, working title) Directed by Axel Petersén, Mark Lotfy

The film depicts and dissects the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, the hundreds of ­characters he took on – on and off screen, via glitz, glamour and gambling, playboy ideals and post-colonial ideas, through the changing political landscapes of Egypt and Hollywood from 1932–2015. ©JILL KENNINGTON/HULTON ARCHIVE, GETTY IMAGES

Screenwriters Axel Petersén, Mark Lotfy Axel Petersén, Swedish visual artist and filmmaker who has Produced by Fedra/Sigrid Helleday, with support from the made a variety of fiction features, documentaries and Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart installations; exhibiting in galleries, film festivals and cinemas Duration 90 min worldwide. Axel’s latest feature The Real Estate, had its world Release 2022 premiere in Berlinale Competition 2018. Mark Lotfy, Egyptian Sales TBC filmmaker and founder of production company Fig Leaf Studios. Mark has directed and produced several award-win- ning films, exploring the boundaries between fictional narratives, documentaries and new media art.

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Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling (Lill-Zlatan och farbror Raring) Directed by Christian Lo

All is set for the perfect stay with Tommy, Ella’s favorite uncle and best friend. But soon it’s all interrupted by the doorbell, and an unexpected visitor. His name is Steve and he’s from the Netherlands. The super fun week Ella has envisioned turns into an adventurous disaster where Ella and her classmate Otto in every possible way try to get rid of Steve, Tommy’s new boyfriend! ©VICTOR ACKERHEIM, SNOWCLOUD FILMS ACKERHEIM, SNOWCLOUD ©VICTOR

Screenwriters Ella Lemhagen, Jan Vierth, Sara Sjöö Christian Lo is a well-established Norwegian director of Principal cast Agnes Colliander, Simon J Berger, Tibor children & family films, with a degree from UCA in the UK. He Lukacs, William Spetz aims to tell entertaining, challenging, dramatic and charac- Produced by Snowcloud Films/Petter Lindblad, Sara Sjöö, ter-driven stories for children, at their own eye-level, filled with with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny compassion and drive. Two of Christian’s films have ­Gilbertsson premiered at the Berlinale – Rafiki (2010) and Los Bando Duration 75 min (TBC) (2018). National release Autumn 2022 Sales Dutch Features

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Off Track (Ur Spår) Directed by Mårten Klingberg

Fredrik Isaksson is MD of an IT consultant’s agency during the day, but during evenings, mornings and weekends, he trains in the manner of an elite sportsman for one of Sweden’s biggest sporting competitions, the cross-country ski race, Vasaloppet. Meanwhile Fredrik’s sister Lisa hits rock bottom. Unemployed and divorced she devotes more time and energy to the pub than to herself and her daughter, Elvira. When Lisa promises her daughter to get her life together and even ski the Vasaloppet, it becomes her and Fredrik’s common objective to see it through. As the day of the race approaches it becomes clear that this is about something much greater than just a skiing competition. © JAROWSKIJ, YELLOWBIRD,© SF STUDIOS

Screenwriter Maria Karlsson Duration 108 min with the short film Viktor and His Brothers, for which he Principal cast Katia Winter, Fredrik Hallgren, Rakel National release January 2022 received a Swedish Guldbagge Award. His best-known Wärmländer, Susanne Thorson, Torkel Pettersson, Ulf Sales REinvent Studios feature films are Offside (2006), Cockpit (2012) and My Stenberg, Chatarina Larsson, Peter Perski Father Marianne (2020). He received the Ingmar Bergman Produced by Jarowskij and Yellowbird/Cecilia Forsberg Mårten Klingberg graduated from the Stockholm Prize in 2001. Becker, Emma Nyberg, with support from the Swedish Film Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1993 and started as an actor in Institute/Anders Nylander Petri Tears (1995). In 2002, he made his directorial debut

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One Day All This Will Be Yours (En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt) Directed by Andreas Öhman

30-something illustrator Lisa and her siblings meet at their parents’ farm for the first time in a decade, to find out that their father wants only one to inherit the forest that’s been in the family for generations. Is anyone willing to move back home? ©ARI WILLEY

Screenwriter Andreas Öhman Andreas Öhman, born 1985 is a writer/director from the Principal cast TBA North of Sweden. After making several award-winning short Produced by Grand Slam Film/Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, films he made his first feature in 2010 – Simple Simon. The Breidablick Film/Gila Bergqvist & Naïve, with support from film was nominated for several Guldbaggen (Swedish Film the Swedish Film Institute Awards) and shortlisted as Best Foreign Feature at the Duration 100 min Oscars 2011. Since, he has written and directed three National release 2022 feature films. Sales TBC

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Second The Opponent Feature (Motståndaren) Directed by Milad Alami

In the aftermath of a violent assault, a couple decides to leave everything and start over in another country, but their past won’t let go of them. ©SEBASTIAN WINTERØ

Screenwriter Milad Alami Milad Alami graduated from the National Film School of Principal cast TBA Denmark in 2011. His short films Void premiered at Directors Produced by Tangy/Annika Rogell, with support from the Fortnight in Cannes 2014 and Mommy won the Danish Film Swedish Film Institute Awards Robert Prize 2015. Alami’s first feature The Charmer Duration approx. 100 min. has been screened at 30 festivals worldwide and is National release 2022 multi-awarded. Alami was the conceptualising director for DR Sales TBC series When The Dust Settles, sold worldwide to rave reviews.

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Feature Sagres (Working title) Debut (Sagres) Directed by Lovisa Sirén

In Sagres we follow the humourous and dramatic journey of two sisters and a teenage daughter in a car from cold and grey Stockholm to the cliffs of Sagres, the most southwest part of Europe, also called “The end of the world”. © SLOAN LAURITS SLOAN ©

Screenwriter Lovisa Sirén, Peter Modestij Lovisa Sirén is a screenwriter/director/editor based in Principal cast Bahar Pars, Zhala Rifat Pehrsson, Nadja Stockholm. Her film Pussy Have The Power (2014) won best Rosenberg short film at Gothenburg International Film Festival, and short Produced by [sic] film/Siri Hjorton Wagner, with support filmsAudition (2015) and Baby (2016) where both nominated from the Swedish Film Institute /Madeleine Ekman, Hanna for a Swedish Guldbagge Award. Baby also won best Swedish Lejonqvist short at Uppsala Short Film Festival. She has screened at Duration Approx. 110 min festival such as Locarno and Sundance, and is currently National release TBC working on her feature film debut - Sagres. Sales Totem Films

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Second Act (Andra akten) Directed by Mårten Klingberg

Eva’s life isn’t great; she’s divorced, her son doesn’t need her and she’s newly retired. When she accepts a job to help rehabilitate a stroke patient, things change. She soon realises that life might not be over. In fact, it may only just have begun…

Mårten Klingberg ©NORDISK FILM PRODUCTION SVERIGE 2021 SVERIGE PRODUCTION FILM ©NORDISK

Screenwriters Vera Kiiskinen, Anna Heinämaa Mårten Klingberg is an actor who early on became Principal cast TBA interested in the work behind the camera. He has completed Produced by Nordisk Film Production/Johanna both screenwriting and directing education for film and ­Bergenstråhle, with support from the Swedish Film Institute television at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. His Duration 100 min graduation film Viktor and His Brothers (2002) won over 40 National release Autumn 2022 international film awards, as well as a Swedish Guldbagge Sales TrustNordisk Award for Best Short Film. Since then he has directed the feature films Offside, Cockpit and the 2020 box office hit (despite corona!) My father Marianne.

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Feature So Damn Easy Going Debut (Så jävla easy going) Directed by Christoffer Sandler

Joanna’s mind is like a flashing amusement park at peak season. She is 18 years old and needs ADHD meds to keep her buzzy brain in order. With a depressed father whose sick pay is barely covering the rent, money runs out and Joanna can’t afford her medication. To not become a disturbing and unfiltered version of herself, Joanna has to be creative in her hunt for money. In the midst of the chaos the charming and ­confident Audrey appears. Now Joanna’s got both a bursting mind and an exploding heart to deal with. OLA KJELBYE ©

Screenwriters Christoffer Sandler, Lina Åström, Duration Appr. 90 min 13-18 years old, with half a million views. Christoffer has ­Linda-Maria Birbeck, Jessika Jankert (based on a book by National release Spring 2022 also co-written the script for Sune – Mission: Midsummer. Jenny Jägerfeld) Sales TBA So Damn Easy Going is Christoffer’s feature debut. Principal cast Nikki Hanseblad, Melina Benett Paukkonen, Shanti Roney Christoffer Sandler has worked in TV for the last nine Produced by Cinenic Film/Annika Hellström, Erika years, and with screenwriting and directing since 2013. In Malmgren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ 2018, he wrote and directed the comedy series Sjukt oklar Jenny Gilbertsson for SVT. The series was very successful within its target group

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La Société du Spectacle DOC (La Société du Spectacle) Directed by Roxy Farhat, Göran Hugo Olsson

A discussion on Guy Debord’s 1967 classic essay, unpacking the fucktangular dynamics of alienation, powerlessness and emptiness under the tr(i)ump(h) of information ­technology and capitalism. ©STORY

Screenwriters Roxy Farhat, Göran Hugo Olsson, Joslyn Roxy Farhat, born 1984 in Teheran, is a feminist artist and Göran Hugo Olsson, born 1965 in Lund, is the founder of Barnes director whose work mixes politics, kitsch and popular culture the production company Story. His films include The Black Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, Melissa Lindgren, with both humor and dead seriousness. Her art focuses on Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011) and Concerning Violence Louverture Films/Joslyn Barnes social and political issues of gender, race, and immigration (2014), awarded at Sundance and Berlinale. His latest Duration 90 min using video and live performance. Farhat is also an feature That Summer (2017) premiered at Telluride and was National release 2022 award-winning music video director and has worked with sold worldwide. Sales TBC artists such as The Knife, Zhala and Gnucci.

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Stammisar (Working title) (Stammisar) Directed by Måns Nyman

Stammisar follows an ensemble of normal people trying to keep their relationships alive without losing themselves. The film takes place in bars, cafés and restaurants during a summer evening in Stockholm. Someone wants to find out if she’s in a couple or not. Someone is accused of being whipped. Someone has to be stopped by a friend from calling his ex. Someone gets an introduction to how to market yourself on dating apps. Through playful dialogue on rhyming verse, they reveal their short­ comings and weaknesses, their frustration and their unsatisfied desires. ©ERIK PERSSON

Screenwriters Måns Nyman, Kristoffer Malmsten With a background as a music video director, director Principal cast Carla Sehn, Linda Pira, Mona Mansour, Joel Måns Nyman has worked with many of the greatest rap Spira artists, such as Linda Pira, Timbuktu and Erik Lundin. Since Produced by Grand Slam/Markus Waltå, Eliza Jones, with then, he has refined his audiovisual language and moved far support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlson away from the music video aesthetic, to instead build a new Duration TBC style of dialogue and personal direction with several National release TBC acclaimed short films. Sales TBC

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Second The Store Feature (Butiken) Directed by Hanna Sköld

Homeless women steal food from a dumps- ter behind a discount grocery store, whose employees struggle to maximize profits while preserving their own private lives. Conflicts and relationships take place between the employees and the homeless. ©PER LARSSON, TANGRAM FILM TANGRAM LARSSON, ©PER

Screenwriter Hanna Sköld Hanna Sköld founded Tangram Film in 2007, and has Principal cast Eliza Sica, Daysury Valencia, Arbi Alviati, subsequently written, directed, and animated two feature- Eleftheria Gerofoka, Linda Hellström, Lana Chahto, Alisa length films and numerous short films. Granny’s Dancing on Sofia Paulsen, Fredrik Evers. the Table premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and Produced by Tangram Film/Lovisa Charlier, with support San Sebastian in 2016. The film was nominated for a Dragon from the Swedish Film Institute/Hanna Leijonqvist Award at the Göteborg Film Festival, and Hanna was Duration TBC nominated for a Swedish Academy Award in 2017 for Best National release Autumn 2022 Director and won WIFT’s international prize for Best Female Sales TBC Director in 2016.

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Triangle of Sadness (Triangle of Sadness) Directed by Ruben Östlund

Triangle of Sadness starts out in the fashion universe. In the company of two models, Carl and Yaya, we find ourselves on an exclusive yacht cruise, surrounded by the crème de la crème of society and a Marxist sea captain. When the yacht is caught in a storm and sinks, a handful of the passengers are washed ashore on a deserted island. Tables are turned in the ensuing struggle for survival, and a middle-aged Filipino cleaning lady comes out on top.

Woody Harrelson and Ruben Östlund ©PLATTFORM PRODUKTION ©PLATTFORM

Screenwriter Ruben Östlund National release TBC and won several Best Foreign Film awards, was nominated Principal cast Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek, Woody Sales Coproduction Office for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. The Square was the fourth Harrelson of Östlund’s films to premiere in Cannes and his first feature Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Styrsö, has become to be selected to compete for the Palme d’Or. It won the Philippe Bober, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ well known for his humorous and accurate portrayals of Palme d’Or in 2017 and was an Oscar® Nomination for Best Anders Nylander human social behaviour. His Force Majeure (2014) was Foreign Film in 2018. Duration TBC awarded with the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes,

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Feature The Year I Started Masturbating Debut (Året jag började onanera) Directed by Erika Wasserman

Ambitious over achiever Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly, she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being set for victory, Hanna refuses to give up and decides to win him back. But to get there means having to win something much more important, love and desire for herself and who she is. ©GIMME A BREAK A ©GIMME

Screenwriter Christin Magdu, Erika Wasserman Erika Wasserman was most recently the executive Principal cast Katia Winter producer for Border by Ali Abbasi, Un Certain Regard prize in Produced by Gimme a break/Frida Mårtensson, Erika Cannes 2018. She also produced Avalon (Fipresci Toronto Wasserman 2011) and the American feature film Bluebird (Tribeca/ Duration approx 100 min Karlovy Vary), among other critically praised films. She has National release Autumn 2022 served as a film commissioner for The Swedish Film Institute, Sales TBC was selected as Sweden’s Producer on the Move in Cannes 2013 and runs the production company Gimme a break.

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Anyway (Litegrann) Directed by Jo Widerberg

In a bed at night a girl wants to tell her boyfriend that she loves him, but she wants him to say it first. ©ZOE QUE ©ZOE

Screenwriter Jo Widerberg Jo Widerberg (b. 1990) is a writer and director. She has a Produced by Verket Produktion/Frida Mårtensson, Jerry bachelor’s degree in filmmaking from Valand Academy Carlsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami (2016). During her education she directed award-winning Ekström short films such as For Your Girlfriend (2015) and I’ll Try Again Release March 2020 (2016). In 2020, she graduated from the esteemed Alma Löv Genre Drama Script Academy and is currently developing a feature length Duration 8 min film, writing about the project of love.

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Beauty Rules (Skön-Hets-Byrån) Directed by Anna Erlandsson

A reflection on the beauty industry. We let ourselves be fooled into a dream to become more beautiful and look a little younger. The film wants to convey the feeling of entering a store as a person but turning into a wandering disaster. But help is available. ©ANNAMOTION ANIMATION

Screenwriter Anna Erlandsson Anna Erlandsson started working as an artist and illustra- cartoonist Silver Award, Association animation, in 2007. Her Produced by Annamotion animation/Anna Erlandsson, with tor in 1982. She graduated as an animator in 1989 and has films often reflect on various social issues. She writes the support from the Swedish Film Institute/Patrick Axén since then made 11 animated short films in cell animation script for all her films. Release Autumn 2021 and stop motion. The film Glenn the Great Runner gave Anna Genre Animation a Guldbagge Award for Best Swedish Short in 2004 as well Duration 8 min as the Audience Award at the Göteborg Film Festival the same year. The film Mail Tracks received the Swedish

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Farewell (Avsked) Directed by Maria Åkesson

Agnes and Ellen fell in love and spent the following 50 years together. One day Ellen dies and their dreams of moving on together shatters. This is where the story of ­determined Agnes starts. ©SUGAR RUSH PRODUCTIONS RUSH ©SUGAR

Screenwriter Maria Åkesson Maria Åkesson is a Swedish producer, director and Produced by Sugar Rush Productions/Maria Åkesson, with cinematographer. With a background in documentary films support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami Ekström and fine arts, she created and runs Sugar Rush Productions. Release March 2021 Maria has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2007, Genre Animation, Drama her main interest is to work with feminism, anti-racism and Duration 5 min environmental questions.

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The Great Overflow (Det stora överflödet/Iso ylimäärä) Directed by Magnus Fredriksson

After a great flood, Pää floats down the river on the roof of his house. Soon he is joined by Nif and together they travel downstream and out into the ocean. Along the way they meet many peculiar creatures and befriends some of them. They also bear witness to the effects of pollution. ©MAGNUS FREDRIKSSON ©MAGNUS

Screenwriters Johan F. Niemi, Magnus Fredriksson Born in 1977, Magnus Fredriksson is an animator and Produced by Bortbyting/Magnus Fredriksson, with support filmmaker from Kiruna in the north of Sweden. from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson After studying film at Högskolan på Gotland, Magnus started Release March 2021 a small animation studio, Bortbyting, together with his Genre Animation, Children frequent collaborator, actor Anton Hennix Raukola and Duration 15 min others. Magnus’ films are inspired by the nature and culture of the north, as well as his love for eastern European animation and anime. Many of his films are made in the Meänkieli minority language.

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The Hearing (Förhör) Directed by Jakob Marky

A woman accuses her husband of sexual abuse. The frustration and tension peaks as the police officer does not seem to take her testimony seriously. It’s one person’s word against the other. What has really happened? ©JOSEPHINE OWE ©JOSEPHINE

Screenwriter Jakob Marky, based on a book by Magnus Jakob Marky, born 1978 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Educated Dahlström in Sydney, Australia before returning back to Sweden. Produced by Singular Vision/Jakob Marky Awarded The Ingmar Bergman Prize 2013 for Best Screen- Release January 2021 play for Fuga. Commercial Director of the Year 2019, in both Genre Drama Sweden and Norway. The Hearing is Jakob’s 5th short film. Duration 10 min

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High Sky Low Land (Alvaret) Directed by Maria Eriksson-Hecht

Under the summer high sky, on the low land of a barren island, a young girl tries to force her father not to give up on what’s left of their family. ©JOSUA ENBLOM ENBLOM ©JOSUA

Screenwriter Pelle Rådström Maria Eriksson-Hecht is a Swedish filmmaker with a Produced by Zentropa Sweden/Ronny Fritsche, master degree in film directing from Stockholm Academy of Engelbrekt Krantz, with support from the Swedish Film Dramatic Arts. Her award-winning short films have been Institute/Ami Ekström screened at film festivals such as Karlovy Vary and Clermont Release Autumn 2021 Ferrand. Schoolyard Blues (Skolstartssorg, 2017) won over Genre Drama 40 international awards and screened at more than 100 Duration 20 min festivals. She is a Berlinale Talent 2021 alumni.

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Huldra (Huldra) Directed by John Boisen, Björn Fävremark

Emil is staying at a lakeside cabin with his infant daughter, where he is waiting for the missing cat to return home. But there is something else moving outside at night - something sinister that is trying to find a way under his skin, into his head and inside the house. A modern horror story based on a dark Scandinavian folktale. ©IS THIS IT

Screenwriter Björn Fävremark Swedish director duo John Boisen and Björn Fävremark genre. The Effect Will Last Forever (2015), Let Me Run Produced by Is This It/John Boisen, Björn Fävremark met at a film production company and connected through a (2016) and Paralys (2017) are all suspenseful short films Release Autumn 2021 shared music interest. However, instead of starting a band with a dark visual mood. Huldra (2021) is their latest horror Genre Horror, Drama they began shooting promos for bands and artists, finding short, which is also being developed into a feature project. Duration 15 min success with award-winning music videos and documenta- Sales Magnetfilm ries. Creating their own production company Is This It and shifting their focus toward narrative projects, they started to write and direct short films, mainly in the thriller and horror

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LTMUC (*Letter To My Unborn Child) BTMOB (*Brev till mitt ofödda barn) Directed by Ida Åkesson

The pain after another failed pregnancy can be difficult to manage and a coun- selor urges a woman to write a letter to her unborn child. Several years later, the woman finds a forgotten document, ltmuc.doc, on her laptop. LTMUC depicts what was then too difficult to type out in words. © BCD FILM BCD ©

Screenwriter Ida Åkesson Ida Åkesson is a screenwriter, director and producer. She Produced by BCD Film /Caroline Drab, with support from lived for 20 years in London and directed several shorts, the Swedish Film Institute/Ami Ekström including The Holiday (2010) which was nominated for 1km Release Autumn 2021 Film Award at Stockholm Film Festival and Moments (2011) Genre Drama which won Film London Best of Borough's Jury Award. Ida is Duration 3 min now based in Southern Sweden, and recently directed the documentary Crossroads (2020). She holds a B.A. in Fine Art from Central St Martin's College of Art and an M.A. in Screenwriting från London College of Communications.

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Man with Doves (Man med duvor) Directed by Lina Maria Mannheimer

In the middle of the iconic neighborhood around Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, known for its creativity and beauty, a fascinating daily art brut performance takes place. Thousands of pigeons ­migrate at sunset to the plaza in front of the museum. Man with Doves is a film about tenderness, disgust and, one might argue, fanatical devotion. ©MANNHEIMER PRODUKTION ©MANNHEIMER

Screenwriter Lina Maria Mannheimer Award-winning director Lina Maria Mannheimer started Produced by Mannheimer Produktion/Lina Maria her first film project in Paris in 2009. Mannheimer works in Mannheimer, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ different forms and formats, but her profound interest in Juan Pablo Libossart portraiture is constant. She excels in illuminating vastly Release March 2021 different but always complex and multi-layered human lives. Genre Documentary Mannheimer's previous films includes The Ceremony (2015) Duration 14 min and Mating (2019).

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The Night Train Venice (Nattåget) Directed by Jerry Carlsson

Oskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does. ©MARCUS DINEEN ©MARCUS

Screenwriter Jerry Carlsson Jerry Carlsson (b. 1987) graduated from Valand Academy Produced by Verket Production/Frida Mårtensson, with in 2014. His award-winning short films have been screened support from the Swedish Film Institute/ at numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Patrik Axén Tribeca and Clermont-Ferrand, where his short film Shadow Release September 2020 Animals received both the Special Jury Prize and the Canal+ Genre Drama Award in 2018. Duration 15 min Sales Premium Films

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Not Until Now (Först här) Directed by Clara Bodén

The American author Wendell Berry wrote: “The connection to the land, to the source of the local communities and agricultural economies, becomes increasingly abstract and increasingly characterized by a lack of awareness.” What does this lack of aware- ness do to our perception of the forest? ©VAPEN OCH DRAMATIK OCH ©VAPEN

Screenwriter Clara Bodén Clara Bodén (1983) is a Swedish filmmaker and producer Produced by Vapen och Dramatik/Clara Bodén living outside Östersund in the northen parts of Sweden. Release January 2021 Since 2011 she runs the small production company Vapen Genre Documentary, Essay film och Dramatik. Duration 7 min

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Punani Steam (Punani Steam) Directed by Emma Pål Brunzell

The influencer Isabell records a video where she advertises the controversial product Punani Steam, as it takes an unexpected turn: she spills boiling water on her genitals. When she has to explain the accident to a confused nurse at a help line, nothing feels intelligibly anymore. ©MILJA-ROSSI

Screenwriter Emma Pål Brunzell Emma Pål Brunzell is a director, screenwriter and editor Produced by Carbs Film/Gilda Naumanen, with support based in Malmö, Sweden. Punani Steam is her second short from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami Ekström film after her film studies. Her debut short film Upload to Story Release January 2021 had its World Premiere at Göteborg International Film Festival Genre Drama, Comedy in 2019 and has traveled the world since, screening at both Duration 15 min Palm Springs International ShortFest and Encounters Film Festival among others.

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Smile (Smile) Directed by Jonas Forsman

GroM wakes up one morning to find that his mouth is stuck in a sour face. He, who wants to be happy and smile! His friend LobO comes visiting and together they embark on a journey to find GroM’s smile. They try with a circus visit and with magic potions but in the end a hug from a good friend was all that was needed. ©MENADO

Screenwriter Jonas Forsman Jonas Forsman has worked with animation at many Produced by Menado/Anders Wilhelmsson, with support productions around the world, such as The Hobbit: The from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Desolation of Smaug (2013), Dawn of Planet of the Apes Release July 2021 (2014), Happy Feet 2 (2011), The Great Wall (2017). In Genre Animation, Children 2018 he completed his first film as director with the short Duration 7 min animation Robot & The Whale. Sales Premium Films

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Sonata (Sonata) Directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén

A woman finds out that her 7-year-old son has stolen from her. She tries to get him to understand that it was wrong but has difficulties conversing at a level the boy can understand. While telling a bedtime story she gets the chance to improvise her message. Based on a novel by Anton Chekhov. ©ANDERS BOHMAN ©ANDERS

Screenwriter Jonas Selberg Augustsén Writer/director Jonas Selberg Augustsén hails from the Produced by Iris Film/Andreas Emanuelsson, Tony city of Boden, in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Österholm, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami With his own distinctive and humorous voice, Jonas tells Ekström stories about people and places that seem to exist in a Release January 2021 borderland. He has a rare ability to use the most mundane Genre Drama situations to pose existential questions, yet at the same time Duration 15 min inspire an entertaining train of thought. Jonas studied film at Kalix Folkhögskola and The School of Film Directing at Gothenburg University.

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Successful Thawing of Mr Moro (Lyckad upptining av herr Moro) Directed by Jerry Carlsson

Milo Moro finds out that his ex-partner Adrian, who has been cryopreserved for the past 43 years, can be thawed and brought back to life. When the staff from ­ScandiCryonics arrives to pick up the ­cryocontainer with Adrian’s body, Milo ­realizes he might not be ready for Adrian to return. ©JOSUA ENBLOM ©JOSUA

Screenwriter Jerry Carlsson Jerry Carlsson (b. 1987) graduated from Valand Academy Produced by Verket Produktion/Frida Mårtensson, with in 2014. His award-winning short films have been screened support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami Ekström at numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Release January 2021 Tribeca and Clermont-Ferrand, where his short film Shadow Genre Drama, Sci-Fi Animals received both the Special Jury Prize and the Canal+ Duration 14 min Award in 2018. Sales Premium Films

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Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency (Svonni vs Skatteverket) Directed by Maria Fredriksson

A Sámi woman tries to convince the Swedish Tax Agency that she has the right to make a tax deduction for the purchase of a dog. Why doesn’t the Swedish authority understand that Rikke is a herding tool and not a pet? A humorous short doc about cultural clashes and the struggle to practice Sámi culture in today’s Sweden. ©BALLAD FILM©BALLAD

Screenwriter Maria Fredriksson Maria Fredriksson is a documentary filmmaker of Sámi Visions du Réel, Nordisk Panorama, Palm Springs Interna- Produced by Ballad Film/Ina Holmqvist, with support from descent and the co-founder of the Stockholm based tional ShortFest and San Francisco Short Film Festival and is the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning production company Ballad Film. She has a Master of Fine currently working on her first feature length documentary. Release October 2020 Arts at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has also Genre Documentary studied film directing at the New York Film Academy. Maria Duration 5 min Fredriksson has made several short documentaries and competed at festivals such as Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc Fest,

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