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Head of International DepartmentSteffen Andersen-MøllerPhone: +46 76 051 36 97 sam@sfi.se

Festivals, docs & shortsJosefina Mothander Phone: +46 70 972 93 52 josefina.mothander@sfi.se

Festivals, featuresPetter MattssonPhone: +46 70 607 11 34petter.mattsson@sfi.se

Festivals, shorts & docsJing HaasePhone: +46 70 420 32 74 jing.haase@sfi.se

International co-productions Lina Norberg Johansson Phone: +46 70 251 91 72lina.norberg@sfi.se

Administrator Melissa Jonsson+46 70 010 11 52melissa.jonsson@sfi.se

Festivals, docs & shortsSara RüsterPhone: +46 76 117 26 78sara.ruster@sfi.se

Festivals, features Theo TsapposPhone: +46 76 779 11 33 theo.tsappos@sfi.se

Press OfficerJan GöranssonPhone: +46 70 603 03 62jan.goransson@sfi.se

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Welcome to the world of Swedish films

Contents 5 The Ape Star

6 Be My Voice

7 Bellum

8 Bert’s Diary

9 Breaking Surface

10 Charter

11 Children of the Enemy

12 The Choir

13 Corona Film Club – My Life as a Film

14 Fly So Far

15 Idomeni

16 Inland

17 The Jonsson Gang

18 Joyce Carol Oates

19 Knocking

20 Mamma Moo Finds Her Way Home

21 The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

22 Most Unwanted

23 My Father Marianne

24 Nelly & Nadine

25 Nelly Rapp Monster Agent

26 Orca

27 The Other Side

28 Passion

29 Pleasure

30 Psychosis in Stockholm

31 Sabaya

32 Run Uje Run

33 The Scars of Ali Boulala

34 Stories from the Debris

35 Sune – Best Man

36 Sune – Mission: Midsummer

37 Tigers

38 Til the Sun Rises

39 White Trash

40 Amina

41 Boy From Heaven

42 Bullets

43 Calendar Girls

44 Clara Sola

45 Day by Day

46 Diorama

47 Dogborn

48 The Emigrants

49 Eva & Adam - To Be or Not to Be Together

50 Excess Will Save Us

51 The Hypnosis

52 I am Zlatan

53 Just So-o Easy Going

54 A Christmas Tale

55 Off Track

56 The Opponent

57 Sagres

58 The Schoolmaster Games

59 Triangle of Sadness

60 Tuesday Club

61 Anyway

62 Grab Them

63 The Great Overflow

64 The Hearing

65 Huldra

66 I, Julia

67 Land of the Free

68 Man with Doves

69 The Night Train

70 Not Until Now

71 Punani Steam

72 Sonata

73 Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency

74 Swimmer

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75 Production Companies

78 Sales Companies

79 Distributors

79 Film Festivals

80 Organizations

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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 incommon 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.

Screenwriter Janne VierthPrincipal voices Pernilla August, Rebecca Gerstmann, Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda KinnamanProduced by LEE Film Stockholm/Linda Hambäck, Petter Lindblad, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 72 min

National release Spring 2021International premiere TBASales Attraction Distribution

Linda Hambäck, born 1974, is a Swedish film director and owner of the production company LEE Film. She works mainly with animated films for children and her first highly recognized feature Gordon & Paddy had its world premiere at

Berlinale 2018. She has now her second feature The Ape Star. Previous films she directed are The World of Dolores and Gunellen (2016), What If… (2014), that was co-directed with Marika Heidebäck. She has also directed a short documenta-ry, Fighting Spirit (2013). Before her directing debut she had a long background with producing highly acclaimed shorts and working as a producer at Filmtecknarna.

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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 regimedesperately tighten its grip to regain control over the people.

Screenwriter Nahid PerssonProduced by RealReel/Setareh Lundgren, Nahid Persson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 90 min Release 2021Sales Autlook Filmsales

Born in Shiraz, Iran, Nahid Persson took political asylum in Sweden as a result of her political activism during and after the revolution in Iran 1979. Since 2000 Nahid has pursued a successful career as a documentary filmmaker in Sweden. Nahid’s social-political films have been harshly critical of the position of women under the Islamic Republic regime. Among her critically acclaimed films marks Prostitution Behind the

Veil (2004), The Queen and I (2008) and My Stolen Revolution (2013).

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

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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.

Screenwriters David Herdies, Georg GötmarkProduced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara GrunningDuration 88 minRelease 2021Sales Deckert Distribution

David Herdies is a Swedish producer, director and the founder of Momento Film. He has directed three feature documentaries; Citizen Oketch (2009), The Guerilla Son (2011), and While No One is Watching (2013) which have been screened and awarded at festivals around the world and together sold to more than 10 territories. Furthermore, Herdies is one of Sweden’s most established documentary producers with several award-winning titles in his catalogue, screened at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and IDFA.

Georg Götmark is a producer and director. He has worked with documentaries and TV since 2001. During this period, he has worked on a number of international documentary projects, such as The Last Lacandones by Peter Torbiörnsson, Transit Tanger and the feature documentary Citizen Oketch (2009). Georg has also produced a number of TV-series and reportages in many different countries for Swedish Televi-sion/UR.

Bellum(Bellum) Directed by David Herdies, Georg Götmark

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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.

Screenwriter Tapio LeopoldPrincipal cast Hugo Krajcik, Julia Pirzadeh, Frank Dorsin, Yussra El Abdouni, Arvid Bergelv, Frode Östlin, Helena Lindegren, David Wiberg, Isa Aouifia, Suzanne Reuter, Björn GustafssonProduced by FLX/Rebecka Lafrenz, Anna Anthony, with support from the Swedish Film InstituteDuration 90 min

National release August 8, 2020International premiere Cinekid, October 2020Sales REinvent Studios

The director, producer, screenwriter and actor Michael Lindgren has been on stage ever since his early shool days. His breakthrough to a broader audience, came with comedy and satire collective Grotesco in 2007. Their show

Flyktingkrisen – en musikal won the Best Comedy award at the Rose d’Or awards ceremony in 2018. Michael has directed and created several other very popular and awarded programs for TV, most notably Svenska Nyheter. As an actor he has played in films like Johan Kling’s Darling (2007) and Rojda Sekersöz’ Beyond Dreams (2017). Bert’s Diary is Michael’s feature film directorial debut.

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

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A few days after Christmas, half-sisters Ida and Tuva set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline. Towards the end of the dive, a rockslide traps Tuva under water. As Ida surfaces to call for help, she discovers that the rockslide has struck above water as well, burying their equipment, phones and car keys - they are completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue. As the frantic race for survival unfolds, Ida is put to the ultimate test of character and forcefulness. During Ida’s fight to save Tuva a fractured sister-hood is exposed, and when all seems lost, the stakes have risen beyond simple survival.

Screenwriter Joachim HedénPrincipal cast Moa Gammel, Madeleine Martin Produced by Way Creative Films/Julia Gebauer, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine EkmanDuration 82 minNational release February 14, 2020International premiere Neuchâtel, 2020Sales TrustNordisk

Born in 1967, Joachim Hedén has previously directed the Tribeca Film Festival selected New York Waiting (2006) and English-speaking feature Framily (2010), as well as comedy feature 10 000 timmar (2014).

Breaking Surface(Breaking Surface) Directed by Joachim Hedén

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Alice hasn’t seen her two children in months. After a recent and difficult divorce, her ex-husband keeps them from seeing her, awaiting the final custody verdict in Northern Sweden. When her son calls her in the middle of the night weeping helplessly, Alice takes action. She travels on the night train to the North and in a last desperate attempt to win them over, she abducts the children and venture on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands. With the idea that the distance between the frozen Northern Sweden and The Canaries could buy her just enough time to reconnect with her children and possibly change the verdict on the custody case. But before she knows it, she is wanted for kidnapping, and both the authorities and her ex-husband are chasing after her.

Screenwriter Amanda KernellPrincipal cast Ane Dahl Torp, Sverrir Gudnasson, Tintin Poggats Sarri, Troy Lundkvist Produced by Nordisk Film Production Sverige/Lars G Lindström, Eva Åkergren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 94 min

National release March 13, 2020International premiere Sundance Film Festival, 2020Sales TrustNordisk

Amanda Kernell was born in Umeå 1986 and studied directing at the National Film School of Denmark. Her debut feature Sami Blood (2016) premiered at the Venice

International Film Festival and won the Europa Cinemas Label for best European film. The film has won several awards including The Special Jury Prize at Tokyo International Film Festival, Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at Göteborg Film Festival, the Lux Film Prize and several Swedish Guldbagge Awards.

Charter(Charter) Directed by Amanda Kernell

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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 on the children, grandpa Patricio is forced to take it upon himself to try to get them out.

Screenwriter Gorki Glaser-MüllerProduced by Cinenic Film/Kristofer Henell, Erika Malmgren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara GrunningDuration 90 minRelease 2021Sales TBC

Gorki Glaser-Müller is a filmmaker, writer for film, tv and radio and a multi artist working with experimental formats such as VR. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1973 and came to Sweden as a 13-year-old. Since graduating from Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, he has experiment-ed with audiovisual storytelling in various forms. His first feature film was the critically acclaimed Once a Year (2013). Children of the Enemy is his feature documentary debut.

Children of the Enemy(Children of the Enemy) Directed by Gorki Glaser-Müller

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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.

Screenwriter Amanda Pesikan Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, Anna Weitz, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 75 min/58 minRelease 2021Sales East Village Entertainment

Amanda Pesikan is making her directorial debut with The Choir but has over 17 years’ experience of TV production as producer, developer and editor, with productions such as the Swedish Guldbagge Awards, Gympaläraren and Vänligen Lars Lerin to her credit. Gympaläraren won the 2016 Kristall Award for Program of the Year.

The Choir (Kören) Directed by Amanda Pesikan

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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, Aki Kärismäki and many others. A film about the film’s ability to travel into other worlds and give us the strength to endure our own difficult existence.

Screenwriter Stina GardellProduced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart Duration 75 minRelease 2021Sales TBC

Stina Gardell is a producer and CEO of the production company Mantaray Film that she founded in 2005. She has produced 25 feature documentaries among them; Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words (also scriptwriter and produc-er), Silvana, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Joyce Carol Oates. Corona Film Club is her first feature length documen-tary as a director.

Corona Film Club – My Life as a Film(Corona Film Club) Directed by Stina Gardell

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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.

Screenwriter Celina Escher Produced by Pråmfilm/Mónica Hernández Rejón, Sugar Rush Productions/Maria Åkesson, Chimbolo Films/ Saúl Callejas, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart Duration 87 minRelease 2021 Sales CAT&Docs

Celina Escher is a Swiss-Salvadoran filmmaker. She studied documentary film at the International Film School in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba. In 2016 she was part of the student competition at IDFA with her short film Motriz. Her film Verde Olivo (2017) was shown at the Film des Femmes in Créteil and also at festivals in Scotland and El Salvador. In 2018 Celina’s short film Luz Para Ellas was screened at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in La Habana, Cuba. Fly So Far is Celina’s first documentary feature.

Fly So Far(Nuestra libertad) Directed by Celina Escher

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It is a place that is suspended in time. Outside the Greek border village Idomeni a camp has emerged. When Nadia, Nawaf and their children arrive there the border has closed. Nawaf meets Yasir, also a Yazidi from Iraq, whose wife is a captive of ISIS. They are all moved to a new camp. The monotonous life there is broken by an accident, two boys drown in a water- reservoir. One of Nadia and Nawaf’s sons was friends with the two boys. The child-ren try to cope with the tragedy and they talk about their grief and hopes for a new life. The parallel lives of the children and the adults are moments of waiting and reflection.

Screenwriter David AronowitschProduced by Story/Tobias Janson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara GrunningDuration 90 minRelease January 2020Sales First Hand Films

David Aronowitsch has since the 90s made documenta-ries. The animated short documentaries Hidden (2002), Slaves (2008) and Sharaf (2012), (co-director Hanna Heilborn) have been screened all over the world and received many awards. I am Dublin (2015) was at IDFA and many other festivals 2015–16. Facing Genocide (2010, co-director Staffan Lindberg) is a close portrait of Khieu Samphan, one

of the leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. David Aronowitsch is one if the founders of the production company Story.

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A young woman from Stockholm moves to her boyfriend’s home town in northern Sweden, but the relationship ends before they get there. She finds a job and stays, for reasons she doesn’t even get herself. The town has other unknown codes. How do you become part of something new? Based on the Swedish novel Inlandet by Elin Willows.

Screenwriter Jon BlåhedPrincipal Cast Irma von Platen, Albin Grenholm, Eva Melander, Ann PetrénProduced by Bd Film/Andreas Emanuelsson, Tony Österholm, with support from the Swedish film Institute/Helen Ahlsson

Duration 88 minNational release October 2020Sales TBC

Jon Blåhed, born in Tornedalen in 1987, a part of the arctic region in Sweden. Jon has been working in the Swedish film industry for over ten years. In 2018 Jon directed the feature documentary Maj Doris about the legendary sámi woman Maj Doris Rimpi. In 2019 his mid lenght fictionfilm Turpa Kiini Minun Haters premiered. Inland is Jon’s fiction feature debut.

Inland(Inland) Directed by Jon Blåhed

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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. Jönssonligan is one of Scandinavia’s most beloved film-series.

Screenwriters Tomas Alfredson, Henrik Dorsin, Rikard UlvshammarPrincipal cast Henrik Dorsin, Hedda Stiernstedt, Anders Johansson, David SundinProduced by FLX/Anna Carlsten, Pontus Edgren, Joshua Mehr, Fatima Varhos, Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders Nylander Duration 115 min

National release December 25 2020International premiere TBCSales StudioCanal

Tomas Alfredson was born in Stockholm. He is an autodidact filmmaker and has directed several TV-series as well as feature films, most notably Four Shades of Brown (2004), for which he received four National Film Awards, Let

the Right One In (2008) that received no less than five National Film Awards, Tribeca Film Festival’s Jury Award among many others and was nominated to BAFTA and European Film Awards. He then went on to direct Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) which was nominated to three Academy Awards, won two BAFTA Awards and two European Film Awards among numerous others.

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

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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.

Screenwriters Stig Björkman, Dominika Daubenbüchel, Stina Gardell Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 90 min/58 minRelease 2021Sales East Village Entertainment

Stig Björkman is known for Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words (2015) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it received the Golden Eye Special Mention. He is also known for his films on Ingmar Bergman ... but Film is My Mistress (2010) and Images from the Playground (2009). In addition, Björkman has directed seven feature length fiction 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).

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

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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.

Screenwriter Emma BroströmPrincipal cast Cecilia MiloccoProduced by Läsk/Erik Andersson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen AhlssonDuration 78 min National release TBCInternational premiere Sundance Film Festival, 2021Sales Bankside Films

Frida Kempff’s films range from documentaries to narrative dramas. Her work has been screened and won awards at some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, including Cannes, IDFA, London, Hot Docs, and Telluride. Frida’s feature documentary debut, Winter Buoy, premiered at festivals and cinemas in 2015 and garnered rave reviews and several international awards.

Knocking(Knackningar) Directed by Frida Kempff

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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 philo-sophical tale about what constitutes a home. Is a home just a place you live, or is it something more than that?

Screenwriter Peter ArrheniusPrincipal cast Rachel Mohlin, Johan Ulveson and Tiffany KronlöfProduced by SF Studios/Filippa Torstensson, Jon Nohrst-edt, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 60 minNational release September 10 2021

International premiere TBCSales REinvent Studios

Christian Ryltenius started his career in animation working on the Swedish feature film Voyage to Melonia (1989). He has since then worked in Germany, England and Asia. In 2004 he launched the Swedish animation production company Sluggerfilm and has directed the Bamse trilogy

(2011-2018), the most successful feature films in Swedish animation history. In 2020, Pelle No-Tail was released. In addition, he worked as an animation director on Tarik Saleh’s Metropia (2009).

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

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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.

Screenwriters Kristina Lindström, Kristian PetriProduced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 90 min/52 minRelease January 2021Sales Films Boutique

Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri, both filmmakers, journalists, and writers. Kristina has directed highly acclaimed documentaries about some of Sweden’s most famous names and faces, including Astrid (2014) and Palme (2012). Kristian won Best Director at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards for his 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.

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

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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.

Screenwriters Johan Wiman, Simon Garshasebi, Babak Yousefi, Sara Young 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, 2021Sales Story Studio One

Sara Young, director, writer and standup-comedian. Most Unwanted is her film directorial debut

Most Unwanted(Snälla kriminella) Directed by Sara Young

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After breaking up with her boyfriend, 28-year-old Hanna returns to her hometown for a temporary position at the local news station. Her world is soon turned even more upside down when her beloved father, the local priest with the big beard, reveals that his greatest desire is to be Mary Anne. From this point on there is no going back for father Mary Anne, who insists on being her true self. It’s a tumultuous journey for Hanna, who didn’t know herself or her father as well as she thought she did. A warm-hearted story about the courage to be yourself and the joy of being loved for the person you are. Based on the novel Min pappa Ann-Christine by Ester Roxberg

Screenwriters Daniel Karlsson, Ida Kjellin, Cilla Jackert Principal cast Rolf Lassgård, Hedda Stiernstedt, Lena Endre Produced by Avanti Film/Charlotta Denward, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine EkmanDuration 110 minNational release February 21, 2020International premiere July 31 2020Sales TrustNordisk

Mårten Klingberg is an actor who early on became interested in the work behind the camera. He has completed both screenwriting and directing education for film and television at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. His graduation film Viktor and His Brothers (2002) won over 40 international film awards, as well as a Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Short Film. Since then he has directed the feature films Offside (2006) and Cockpit (2012), and has also written and directed a number of Beck films.

My Father Marianne(Min pappa Marianne) Directed by Mårten Klingberg

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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 Bianchi, has decided to open Nelly and Nadine’s unseen personal archives and finally read Nelly’s personal diary from the Nazi camps. Gradually Sylvie uncovers their remarkable love story.

Screenwriter Magnus GerttenProduced by Auto Images/Ove Rishøj Jensen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara GrunningDuration 90 minRelease 2021Sales Rise and Shine World Sales

Magnus Gertten has directed more than 15 feature documentaries. His films have been awarded and screened at over 60 countries. Among them are Only the Devil Lives Without Hope (2020) and Every Face Has a Name (2015), which was pre-sold to 11 countries. Gertten has also 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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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 Frankensteinare, and is soon caught up in a thrilling adventure where everything she once believed in is put to the test.

Screenwriter Sofie ForsmanPrincipal cast Matilda Gross, Lily Wahlsteen, Marianne Mörck, Johan Rheborg, Björn Gustafsson, David Wiberg, Josefine Johansson, Amy DeasismontProduced by SF Studios/Jon Nohrstedt, Niklas Larsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 90 minutes

National release October 23, 2020International premiere Berlinale Generation Kplus, 2021Sales REinvent Studios

Amanda Adolfsson has directed TV-series such as the drama comedy Bonus Family, SVT; the youth drama Eagles, SVT; and the crime series Bäckström, TV4/CMORE. She has a BA in film directing from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2008, her short film Spending Night was selected to compete at the Berlinale. Her debut feature Young Sophie Bell (2015) received a Guldbagge nomination for Best actress in a leading role.

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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…

Screenwriters Josephine Bornebusch, Gunnar A.K. JärvstadPrincipal cast Josephine Bornebusch, Johan Rheborg, Erik Johansson, Vera Vitali, Gustav LindhProduced by Warner Bros. Sweden/Sofie PalageDuration 105 minNational release October 30, 2020International premiere TBASales TBA

Josephine Bornebusch is an actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. Josephine co-created and wrote for the sitcom Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015) which aired on Swedish TV4 and NBC in the US. She wrote, directed and starred in the critically acclaimed comedy series Rachel och Jossan (TV3, 2015). Her debut in directing a feature film came with the family film JerryMaja’s Detective Agency - The First Mystery (2018). Josephine’s latest work is the drama series Love Me which has dominated the Viaplay viewing charts

since premiering in 2019, and a second season is coming this autumn. She has created, written, directed and played a lead role in the show. Orca will be her second feature film.

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New to her role as a stepmom Shirin moves into a duplex with her partner, Fredrik, and his son, Lucas. The new home feels like the right place to start becoming a family. But when Fredrik leaves for work, strange things are heard from the other, uninhabited side of the building. Also, who is Lucas’ new best friend?

Screenwriters Tord Danielsson, Oskar MellanderPrincipal cast Dilan Gwyn, Linus WahlgrenProduced by Breidablick Film/Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen AhlssonDuration 100 min National release Halloween 2020Sales REinvent Studios

Tord Danielsson, born in 1980 in Sweden and Oskar Mellander, born in 1979, first met as they co-created an eight-episode horror series for broadcaster TV6 in 2012. They have since written and directed prime time drama for all major broadcasters in Sweden. Working as a duo, they share a love for highly visual storytelling that moves beyond Swedish unassuming realism. The Other Side is their feature debut.

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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.

Screenwriter Maja Borg Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara GrunningDuration 96 min Release 2021Sales TBC

Maja Borg is an artist and film director, working with both documentary and fiction. Their work is as likely to be exhibited on cinema as in art galleries. Borg’s work explores political alternatives and personal ‘otherness’ and is often focussed on the deconstruction of culture, economy, sexuality, mythology and language itself.

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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.

Screenwriter Ninja Thyberg, co-writer Peter ModestijPrincipal cast Sofia Kappel, Revika Reustle, Dana DeArmondProduced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Yaba HolstDuration 109 minNational release TBCInternational premiere Sundance Film Festival, 2021Sales Versatile

Ninja Thyberg won the Canal+Award for Best International Short Film in Cannes 2013 with her film Pleasure, which then went on to compete in Sundance the next year. Her short Hot Chicks won the 1 km film-scholarship at Stockholm Film Festival in 2014, and Catwalk won the Student Visionary Award at Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2015. Pleasure is Ninja’s feature film debut.

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A mother and daughter are on their way to Stockholm to celebrate the daughter’s 14th birthday. On the train, the mother starts acting weird and the daughter fears that another psychotic episode is about to take possession of her mother. Despite the symptoms, they try to continue the vacation as planned. When the mother’s condition worsens, the daughter is left by herself and gets to explore Stockholm on her own for a few magical, solo days and nights. Psychosis in Stockholm is a heightened drama about a fantastic and unconditional mother-daughter relationship.

Screenwriter Maria Bäck Principal cast Josefine Strofkoper, Josefin NeldénProduced by Garagefilm International/Anna-Maria Kantarius, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen AhlssonDuration 100 min National release August 7, 2020 International premiere TBCSales LevelK

Director and writer Maria Bäck was born and raised in Göteborg, Sweden. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2013 and was the winner of Nordic Talents the same year, with her short Mother is God. Her documentary feature I Remember When I Die was in competi-tion at CPH:DOX and won an Honorary Mention at Göteborg Film Festival in 2016 for its brave artistic choices in both cinematography, sound design, editing and directing. Based in Stockholm and Copenhagen, she works freely, combining

different methods, format and genres, always with a close and early collaboration with her team. She was the pitch prize winner of Eurimages co-production award for Psychosis in Stockholm.

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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.

Screenwriter Hogir HiroriProduced by Lolav Media/Hogir Hirori, Ginestra Film/Antonio Russo Merenda, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 90 minRelease January 2021Sales Dogwoof

Hogir Hirori was born in 1980 in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1999, he fled to Sweden and has lived since then in Stockholm. He works as a freelance photographer, editor and director and runs his own production company, Lolav Media. Hogir’s most recent work, The Deminer, had its world premiere at IDFA 2017, where it received the Special Jury 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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Run Uje Run is an autobiographical pop music drama comedy by Uje Brandelius. About how life takes turns you couldn’t fantasize about when you get diagnosed with a disease. About what you have to catch up with before you die. And what you don’t have to do. And about the very ordi-nary, dreary, gray but also lovely everyday life.

Screenwriter Uje BrandeliusPrincipal cast Uje Brandelius, Therese Hörnqvist, Bixi Brandelius, Vega Brandelius Produced by Filmlance International/Tomas Michaelsson, Anna-Klara Carlsten, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders NylanderDuration 80 minNational release December 18, 2020

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Henrik Schyffert is a well-known Swedish comedian who has done countless stand-ups and even played on the largest stage at Sweden´s Royal Dramatic Theatre. But he is also a well-established film and TV actor, singer, screenwriter and

director. He has participated in numerous radio and television programs and was part of the production of the feature film Four shades of brown (2004). Henrik has also directed the TV series Jättebästisar and Allt faller. Run Uje Run won Best Film and Best Male Actor in a Leading Role at the 2021 Swedish Gulbagge Awards.

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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.

Screenwriters Max Eriksson, Mikel Cee KarlssonProduced by Sisyfos Film Production/Mario Adamson, Ashley Smith, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration 100 minRelease 2021Sales Charades

Max Eriksson is always looking for new stories and new ways to tell them. Through the medium of film and storytelling he tries to change our perception of things and open our eyes to see the world in a different light. Since completing his two short documentaries Tivoliland (2013) and Shut Eyes (2011) Max has worked as a documentary editor.

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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.

Screenwriter Jennifer RainsfordProduced by Momento Film/David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski, Mirjam Gelhorn, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo LibossartDuration approx. 90 minRelease 2021Sales TBC

Jennifer Rainsford, is a visual artist and director, educated at The Royal Institute of Art, and based in Stockholm. Her short films and installations have been shown at festivals such as Oberhausen, Berlinale, Rotterdam and CPH:DOX. Her latest film Lake on Fire was selected for the main short film competition at Göteborg Film Festival 2020.

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Sune’s class is going on a secret class trip. Sune and Sophie are really looking forward to going together, but then Sune realizes that the class trip is the same weekend as his grandpa’s wedding. Panic! Should he choose the class trip together with his great love Sophie, or should he choose grandpa, his best friend? Sune has a hard time deci-ding, and eventually chooses both - or maybe neither. At the same time, Sune s dad Rudolf is having trouble with the bride. Does grandpa’s new wife just want his money? And Karin meets a love from the past who is all that Rudolf is not. Welcome back to the Andersson family!

Screenwriter Jon HolmbergPrincipal cast Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Lily Wahlsteen, Sissela Benn, Fredrik Hallgren, Tomas von Brömssen, Marika LindströmProduced by Unlimited Stories/Linus Stöhr Torell, Malin Söderlund, with support from the Swedish Film Institute Duration 75 minNational release December 20, 2019

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Jon Holmberg was born 1974 in Sweden. After finishing acting school in Stockholm it was all about theatre. While producing his own plays he worked for different production companies writing and directing for television; mainly comedy.

Since then a large number of Jon’s series and shows has aired in Sweden as well as in other countries. Sune - Best Man is the second feature film Jon has written and directed. The first, Sune vs Sune, was the most seen Swedish film in cinemas in 2018, and also achieved international acknowl-edgement - attending more than 20 international festivals, among them Berlin International Film Festival in 2019.

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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...

Screenwriters Sören Olsson, Tobias Hoffmén, Christoffer SandlerPrincipal cast Sissela Benn, Fredrik Hallgren, Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Tea Stjärne, Lily Wahlsteen Produced by Unlimited Stories/Linus Stöhr Torell, Malin Söderlund, with support from the Swedish Film InstituteDuration 86 minNational release June 11, 2021 (TBC)Sales Global Screen

Erland Beskow has a long and solid background in TV and drama, spanning since the 90s. He has won the Swedish national TV award Kristallen twice (2008, 2019), Nordisk Barne TV Festival 2005 and Prix Jeunesse 2006. He also produced Melodifestivalen (the national qualification contest for the Eurovision Song Contest) in 2009.

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Tigers is a life and death rollercoaster ride through the modernday football industry. With a unique perspective on the world of professional sports, Ronnie Sandahl tells the true story of how 16-year-old football prodigy Martin Bengtsson was sold to an Italian top club - a childhood dream turned nightmare. A coming-of-age drama about a young man’s burning obsession in a world where everything, and everyone, has a price tag.

Screenwriter Ronnie SandahlPrincipal cast Erik Lönngren, Frida Gustavsson, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Maurizio Lombardi, Liv Mjönäs, Antonio Bannó, Johannes KuhnkeProduced by Black Spark Film & TV/Piodor Gustafsson, Johanna Lind, Francesca Feder, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson Duration 112 minNational release August 27, 2021

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Ronnie Sandahl is a Swedish screenwriter and director. Tigers (2020) marks the second installment in Sandahl’s ”sports trilogy”, focusing on the psychological, financial and political aspects of the world of sports. The first film was Borg/McEnroe (2017), and the recently announced Perfect (2021), set in the world of female gymnastics, will be the last film of the trilogy.

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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.

Screenwriter Peter DallePrincipal cast Mikael Persbrandt, Vanna Rosenberg, Peter Dalle, Helen Sjöholm Produced by Unlimited Stories/Patrick Ryborn, with support from the Swedish Film InstituteDuration 98 minNational release December 25, 2021Sales TBC

Peter Dalle is an actor, screenwriter and director working with The Royal Theatre in Stockholm, TV series and feature films. He created one of the most renowned comedy TV shows in Sweden called Lorry and has directed several Swedish box-office successes such as The Dream House (1993), Yrrol (1994), Unmarried Couples (1997), Illusive tracks (2003), An Enemy to Die For (2012), and Lyrro – Kingdom of Sweden (2018).

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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.

Screenwriters Anton Hagwall, Andreas Doyle, Joel ForssellPrincipal cast Ola Rapace, Ida Engvoll, Peter Viitanen, Erik Bolin, Donald Högberg, Peter ErikssonProduced by Mikael Cross Films, Merix Media/Mikael Cross, Eiffel MattsonDuration 106 minNational release 2021Sales TBC

After receiving a BA in Theater Arts from San Diego State University, Tobias Nordquist started his profession as a cinematographer and editor in 2006. Tobias has directed and produced award-winning short films, documentaries and television production. White Trash is Tobias’ debut feature film.

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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.

Screenwriter Mona MasriPrincipal cast Nimo Ahmed AliProduced by Art & Bob Film & Drama/Veronika Öhnedal, with support from the Swedish FilmInstitute/Helen AhlssonDuration 90 minNational release Fall 2022Sales TBC

Ahmed Abdullahi is a Swedish scriptwriter and director born in Somalia. He has directed a number of acclaimed and award-winning documentaries and short films, including the documentary I’m Dublin and Swedish Guldbagge Award winning The Martyr. Ahmed is educated at Stockholm’s Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated with the short Francis, which was nominated for the Foreign Student Academy Award. The European Film Promotion Future

Frames selected Ahmed as one of ten most interesting new filmmakers to keep an eye on. Amina is Ahmed Abdullahis feature film debut.

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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 start of who will be the next man in the position. 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 need a new one without connections or contacts. Adam fits the part perfect.

Screenwriter Tarik SalehPrincipal cast Fares FaresProduced by Atmo Rights/Kristina Åberg, Fredrik Zander, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine Ekman, Hanna LejonqvistDuration Appr. 100 minNational release Autumn 2022Sales Memento Films International

Tarik Saleh, born 1972. The Nile Hilton Incident won the 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and received five Swedish Guldbagge Awards. The thriller Tommy premiered 2014. Metropia, an animation feature with Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis premiered in Venice 2009. Tarik has directed an episode of Westworld, co-directed several award-winning documentaries and a number of music videos with Lykke Li.

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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.

Screenwriter Peter PontikisPrincipal cast TBAProduced by Patrick Sobieski/Thin Skin Films with support from the Swedish Film institute /Helen AhlssonDuration 90 minNational release Fall 2022Sales TBC

Peter Pontikis studied psychology before shifting into art studies at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He has directed numerous award-winning shorts and worked with installation projects bordering art and cinema. He is currently working on his second feature Bullets with support from the Swedish Film Institute and in co-production with SVT.

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They are magical reindeers at parties and churches, pink fluffy unicorns at air force reunions and zombies at retirement homes. They are Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60. Calendar Girls is a coming of old age story about being a woman past retirement. It’s about breaking free and finding the person you’ve always wanted to be. Before it’s too late.

Screenwriters Maria Loohufvud, Love MartinsenProduced by Pink Dolphin/Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anna WeitzDuration 85/58 minRelease 2021Sales TBC

Love Martinsen and Maria Loohufvud are making their feature debut with Calendar Girls, both as directors and producers. Love Martinsen has long experience as a film composer and Maria Loohufvud’s background is in an art direction and design.

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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

Screenwriters Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, Maria Camila Arias Principal Cast Wendy Chinchilla, Daniel Castañeda, Flor Vargas, Ana Julia PorrasProduced by HOBAB/Nima Yousefi, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Madeleine EkmanDuration 106 minNational release TBCSales Luxbox

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén is a Costa Rican-Swedish screenwriter/director with an M.F.A. from Columbia University. An alumna of the Berlinale Talents, TIFF Filmmaker Lab and NYFF Artist Academy, Nathalie’s films have screened at film festivals all over the world. Her short, Filip, won Best Film at the 2016 Palm Springs Shortfest, and Asunder, screened at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival. She also co-wrote Entre Tú Y Milagros, winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Short in the Venice Film Festival 2020. Clara Sola is her feature film debut.

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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 fulfil an elderly man’s last wish. Cross-generational friendships blossom, an autumn romance awakens and life-changing decisions are made.

Screenwriter Tapio LeopoldPrincipal cast Sven Wollter, Marianne Mörck, Tomas von Brömssen, William Spetz, Martina Haag, Felix Herngren, Peter MagnussonProduced by FLX/Anna Carlsten, Anna Anthony, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/konsulentDuration approx. 100 minNational release Fall 2021Sales TBC

Felix Herngren is a Swedish filmmaker and founder of production company FLX. Felix is behind some of Sweden’s most well known TV series such as Solsidan, Bonusfamiljen, and feature Solsidan The Movie (2017). In 1999, he made his feature debut with comedy Adult Behavior. His second feature, comedy Every Other Week, was released in 2006. In 2010, Solsidan premiered with the broadcaster’s highest number of viewings of the decade and won multiple awards. In 2013, the feature adaptation of bestselling novel The

100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, which Felix wrote and directed, premiered on Christmas Day, and is one of the all-time highest grossing films in Sweden. Currently, Felix is in pre-production on the adaption of Fredrik Backman’s novel Anxious People for Netflix. His most recent feature, Day by day, is set to premiere in 2021.

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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.

Screenwriter Tuva NovotnyPrincipal cast Pia Tjelta, David DencikProduced by Nordisk film Production Svergie AB, René Ezra, Eva Åkergren, Matilda Appelin with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders NylanderDuration Appr 100 minNational release March 2022Sales TrustNordisk

Tuva Novotny started acting at the age of 16 and has since been cast in a long list of movies and series across the globe. Since her directorial debut on the series DAG she has directed episodes of the Netflix-series Lilyhammer, and written and directed the two feature films Blindspot (Best Script, Best Director at Kanon Awards etc) in 2018 and Britt Marie Was Here in 2019.

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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.

Screenwriter Isabella Carbonell Principal cast Silvana Imam, Philip Oros, Emma Lu, Mia Liu, Henrik Norlén, Lukas MalinauskasProduced by Momento Film/Farima Karimi, David Herdies, Erik Andersson with support from the Swedish Film InstituteDuration 90 minNational release 2022Sales TBC

Isabella Carbonell has written and directed several short films. Her film Boys was selected for Semain de la Critique in Cannes and won the Grand Jury Award at the AFI Film Fest in 2015.

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The Emigrants is the story of Kristina Nilsson, a mother who leaves a poverty-stricken Sweden with her family in the 1850s and set 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.

Screenwriter Anna Bache-Wiig, Siv Rajendram EliassenPrincipal cast Gustaf Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Laurence Kinlan, Lisa Carlehed, Diana Bermudez, Tove Lo, Florin ZhangProduced by SF Studios Production/Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration approx.. 135 minNational release Christmas 2021Sales ReInvent Studio

Erik Poppe, born 1960, is a Norwegian film director, producer and screenwriter. Poppe is regarded as one of Scandinavia's most experienced and compelling film directors recognized for his work with actors and multi-pronged narratives. His movies are often built around ensemble casts, sharp writing, impres-sive camera work and an uncanny knack for rhythm and music in the editing. He is best known for directing critically acclaimed films including Hawaii, Oslo (2004), A Thousand Times Good Night (2013) and The King's Choice (2016).

The Emigrants(Utvandrarna) Directed by Erik Poppe

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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.

Screenwriters Måns Garthon, Johan UnengePrincipal cast Sonja Holm, Olle Cardell, Stella Klintberg, Lukas Wetterberg, Liv Mjönäs, Rakel WärmländerProduced by Filmlance International/Francy Suntinger with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 78 min National release Autumn, 2021Sales REinvent Studios

Caroline Cowan has directed numerous acclaimed short films and TV-series. Her short film Departure was nominated for Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival, 2007. The children’s drama series Joy, written and directed by Cowan, was release 2014 and nominated at the Prix Jeunesse, the world’s most esteemed children’s TV festival. Eva & Adam is her first feature film.

Eva & Adam - To Be or Not to Be Together(Eva & Adam – Att vara eller inte vara – ihop) Directed by Caroline Cowan

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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.

Screenwriter Morgane Dziurla-Petit Principal Cast Partick Petit, Marie Christine Carlier, Roger Petit, Jean-Benoit Ugeux, Kim TruongProduced by Vilda Bomben Film/ Fredrik Lange, supported by the Swedish Film Institute/Helen Ahlsson, in Co-produc-tion with Film i Väst/Jenny Luukkonen and in collaboration with SVT/Andra Lasmanis with support from Gothenburg CityDuration approx. 100 min

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Morgane Dziurla-Petit was born in France in 1996 and moved to Sweden in 2017 after film studies in Paris and Cannes. She has written and directed several short films including the Swedish Guldbagge Awarded Excess Will Save Us - the short. Her works often explore the boundary between documentary and fiction.

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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.

Screenwriters Ernst De Geer, Mads SteggerPrincipal cast Herbert Nordrum, Asta AugustProduced by Garagefilm International/Mimmi Spång, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen AhlssonDuration Approx 85 minNational release TBA/Fall 2022Sales TBA

Ernst De Geer (b. 1989, Stockholm) studied directing at The Norwegian Film School and screenwriting at Biskops Arnö. His graduation film The Culture won national and international awards and was nominated for the Norwegian national film award, Amanda. He also made numerous other shorts, and wrote and directed the drama series Nach for Discovery+ Norway.

The Hypnosis(Hypnosen) Directed by Ernst De Geer

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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.

Screenwriter David Lagerkrantz, Jakob BeckmanPrincipal cast Dominic Andersson Bajraktati, Granit Rushiti, Cedomir Glisovic, Merima Dizdarevic Produced by BRF/Mattias Nohrnborg, Frida Bargo, Fredrik Heinig, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonDuration 105 minNational release Fall/winter 2021Sales TrustNordisk

Jens Sjögren has won many awards for his often humorous, heartfealt and humane commercials. In 2012 he made his first feature, Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other. He has created and directed several popular TV series as well as directed for the theatre. I am Zlatan is Jens’ second feature film.

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Joanna’s mind is like a flashing amusement park at peak season. She is 18 years old and needsADHD 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.

Screenwriters Christoffer Sandler, Lina Åström, Linda-Maria Birbeck, Jessika Jankert (based on a book by Jenny Jägerfeld)Principal cast Nikki Hanseblad, Melina Benett Paukkonen, Shanti RoneyProduced by Cinenic Film/Annika Hellström, Erika Malmgren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny Gilbertsson

Duration Appr. 90 minNational release Spring 2022Sales TBA

Christoffer Sandler has worked in TV for the last nine years, and with screenwriting and directing since 2013. In 2018, he wrote and directed the comedy series Sjukt oklar for SVT. The series was very successful within its target group

13-18 years old, with half a million views. Christoffer has also co-written the script for Sune – Mission: Midsummer . Just So-o Easy Going is Christoffer’s feature debut.

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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 “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 dress up as Santa and heads for the slums to give away Christmas presents to the poor.

Screenwriter Hannes Holm based on a story developed by Tre Vänner based, on a short story by Tage DanielssonPrincipal cast Simon Larsson, Sonja Holm, Jonas Karlsson, Jennie Silfverhjelm, Vanna RosenbergProduced by SF Studios Producion AB, Henrik Widman/ Anna Odenhall, with support from the Swedish Film InstituteDuration Appr. 100 minNational release November 12 2021Sales REinvent Studios

Hannes Holm was born in 1962 in Stockholms, Sweden. He have directed several acclaimed films such as Behind Blue Skies (2010), Ted - Show Me Love (2018) and A Man Called Ove (Oscar® Nomination for Best Foreign Film in 2018).

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

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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.

Screenwriter Maria Karlsson Principal cast Katia Winter, Fredrik Hallgren, Rakel Wärmländer, Susanne Thorson, Torkel Pettersson, Ulf Stenberg, Chatarina Larsson, Peter Perski Produced by Jarowskij and Yellowbird/Cecilia Forsberg Becker, Emma Nyberg with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders Nylander Duration 108 min

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Mårten Klingberg graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1993 and started as an actor in Petri Tears (1995). In 2002, he made his directorial debut with the short film Viktor and His Brothers, for which he received a Swedish Guldbagge Award. His best-known

featurefilms are Offside (2006), Cockpit (2012) and My Father Marianne (2020). He received the Ingmar Bergman Prize in 2001.

Off Track(Ur Spår) Directed by Mårten Klingberg

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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.

Screenwriter Milad AlamiPrincipal cast TBAProduced by Tangy/Annika Rogell with support from the Swedish Film Institute, Duration approx. 100 min. National release 2022Sales TBC

Milad Alami graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011. His short films Void premiered at Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2014 and Mommy won the Danish Film Awards Robert Prize 2015. Alami’s first feature The Charmer has been screened at 30 festivals worldwide and is multi-awarded. Alami was the conceptualising director for DR series When The Dust Settles, sold worldwide to rave reviews.

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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.

Screenwriter Lovisa Sirén, Peter ModestijPrincipal cast Bahar Pars, Zhala Rifat Pehrsson, Nadja RosenbergProduced by [sic] film/Siri Hjorton Wagner, with support from the Swedish Film Institute /Madeleine Ekman, Hanna LejonqvistDuration 110 minutesNational release TBCSales Totem Films

Lovisa Sirén is a screenwriter/director/editor based in Stockholm. Her film Pussy Have The Power (2014) won best short film at Gothenburg International Film Festival, and short films Audition (2015) and Baby (2016) where both nominated for a Swedish Guldbagge Award. Baby also won best Swedish short at Uppsala Short Film Festival. She has screened at festival such as Locarno and Sundance, and is currently working on her feature film debut - Sagres.

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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 myste-rious 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 selec-tion of the ”Winter Procession”. But the competition blow deep cracks between them and threaten their unity.

Screenwriter Ylva FornerPrincipal cast Johan Ehn, Christian Arnold, Johan Charles, Joel Valois, Simon KlingProduced by Northern Fable/Sofia Ferguson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Helen AhlssonDuration approx. 95 minNational release TBCSales LevelK

Ylva Forner is a director and screenwriter. Forner has written and directed five short films during 2001 and 2012, amongst them Greetings from Slussen (2008, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival), Time Out of Place (2010, Göteborg Film Festival, Ankara Womens Festival) and Gaming (2013, Montreal Film Festival, Plam Springs International Short Film Festival, Sao Paolo Short Film Festival). She went to Stockholm Academy of

Dramatic Arts and has a bachelor's degree in directing at Centre D’estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. In 2009 she got the SWEA Los Angeles Film Scholarship and the same year she was a part of Berlinale Talent Campus.

The Schoolmaster Games(Magisterlekarna) Directed by Ylva Forner

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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 desert island. Tables are turned in the ensuing struggle for survival, and a middle-aged Filipino cleaning lady comes out on top.

Screenwriter Ruben ÖstlundPrincipal cast Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek, Woody HarrelsonProduced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Anders NylanderDuration TBC

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Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Styrsö, has become well known for his humorous and accurate portrayals of human social behaviour. His Force Majeure (2014) was awarded with the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes,

and won several Best Foreign Film awards, was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. The Square was the fourth of Östlund’s films to premiere in Cannes and his first feature to be selected to compete for the Palme d’Or. It won the Palme d’Or in 2017 and was an Oscar® Nomination for Best Foreign Film in 2018.

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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?

Screenwriter Anna FredrikssonPrincipal cast Marie Richardson, Peter Stormare, Björn Kjellman, Ida Engvoll, Sussie Eriksson, Carina M Johansson, Maria SidProduced by Anagram Sweden AB / Jessica Ask & Åsa Karlsson with support from the Swedish FilminstituteDuration Appr. 100 minNational release February 18, 2022Sales Beta Cinema

Annika Appelin turned to directing after an immensely productive career as a Script Supervisor and 1st Assistant Director. She’s directed shorts and episodes of series such as HUSS, to premier in 2021 on Viaplay and ZDF. She’s been highly sought after as Technical and Second Unit Director working on and supporting some of Scandinavia’s most well-established Directors. Tuesday Club is Appelin’s directorial feature debut.

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

Screenwriter Jo WiderbergProduced by Verket Produktion/Frida Mårtensson, Jerry Carlsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami EkströmRelease March 2020Genre DramaDuration 8 min

Jo Widerberg (b. 1990) is a writer and director. She has a bachelor’s degree in filmmaking from Valand Academy (2016). During her education she directed award-winning short films such as For Your Girlfriend (2015) and I’ll Try Again (2016). In 2020, she graduated from the esteemed Alma Löv Script Academy and is currently developing a feature length film, writing about the project of love.

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60-year-old Sally is longing for happiness, and love. Lately her searching has been complicated by the fact that she resembles the newly-elected American president. Join Sally in the film Grab Them, as one man’s crazy tour around the world becomes a lonely woman’s heavy burden to bear.

Screenwriter Morgane Dziurla-PetitProduced by GötaFilm/Paul Blomgren DoVan, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami EkströmRelease January 2020 Genre Comedy, DramaDuration 13 minSales Premium Films

Morgane Dziurla-Petit studied cinema in Paris and Cannes and works with film and art video. She moved to Sweden in 2017 where she keeps on moving borders between documentary and fiction. Her short film Le Jour (2017) was screened at Göteborg Film Festival. Her second short film Excess Will Save Us (2019) premiered at Clermont-Ferrand and has since travelled the world and won numerous awards.

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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.

Screenwriters Johan F. Niemi, Magnus FredrikssonProduced by Bortbyting/Magnus Fredriksson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Jenny GilbertssonRelease Spring 2021Genre Animation, ChildrenDuration 15 min

Born in 1977, Magnus Fredriksson is an animator and filmmaker from Kiruna in the north of Sweden. After studying film at Högskolan på Gotland, Magnus started a small animation studio, Bortbyting, together with, among others, frequent collaborator, actor Anton Hennix Raukola. 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.

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

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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?

Screenwriter Jakob Marky, based on a book by Magnus DahlströmProduced by Singular Vision/Jakob Marky Release January 2021Genre Drama Duration 10 min

Jakob Marky, born 1978 in Göteborg, Sweden. Educated in Sydney, Australia before returning back to Sweden. Awarded The Ingmar Bergman Prize 2013 for Best Screenplay. Commercial Director of the Year 2019, in both Sweden and Norway. The Hearing is Jakob’s 5th short film.

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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.

Screenwriter Björn FävremarkProduced by Is This It/John Boisen, Björn FävremarkRelease Spring 2021Genre Horror, Drama Duration 15 min

Swedish director duo John Boisen and Björn Fävremark met at a film production company and connected through a shared music interest. However, instead of starting a band they began shooting promos for bands and artists, finding success with award-winning music videos and documenta-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

genre. The Effect Will Last Forever (2015), Let Me Run (2016) and Paralys (2017) are all suspenseful short films with a dark visual mood. Huldra (2021) is their latest horror short, which is also being developed into a feature project.

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Julia is a 14-year-old girl living what seems on the surface to be an idyllic life. However, a darkness grows inside of her. Her father controls their family through physical and mental abuse. Julia doesn’t want to be a victim anymore, and she uses her camera-phone to handle the situation.

Screenwriters Arvin Kananian, Mistre Tesfaye Produced by Makeriet/Mistre Tesfaye Release January 2020 Genre Drama Duration 15 minSales MAGNETFILM

Arvin Kananian is a Swedish-Iranian filmmaker and actor. He has written and directed short films that have been screened and competed at festivals internationally, and acted in award-winning features and tv-shows.

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A group of people laugh at two young men kissing while walking by. But was the laugh really directed at them? Was the intention to be homophobic? Land of the Free discusses who owns the truth of what actually happened.

Screenwriter Dawid Ullgren Produced by Crisp Film/Manne Indahl, Alina Rydbeck, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami EkströmRelease January 2020 Genre Fiction Duration 11 min

Dawid Ullgren graduated in 2018 from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts as a film director with his exam film Crash and Burn, Honey. He was selected for the European Film Promotions programme FUTURE FRAMES: Ten filmmakers to follow at Karlovy Vary IFF with his film 1981. The film had its premiere at Göteborg IFF 2018 and

was in competition at Clermont-Ferrand IFF 2019. His earlier works such as Freak (2017) and Mr. Sugar Daddy (2016) have been screened in Oberhausen and Toronto IFF. He has previously studied at Alma Löv Script Academy.

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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.

Screenwriter Lina Maria MannheimerProduced by Mannheimer Produktion/Lina Maria Mannheimer, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart Release March 2021Genre DocumentaryDuration 14 min

Award-winning director Lina Maria Mannheimer started her first film project in Paris in 2009. Mannheimer works in different forms and formats, but her profound interest in portraiture is constant. She excels in illuminating vastly different but always complex and multi-layered human lives.

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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.

Screenwriter Jerry CarlssonProduced by Verket Production/Frida Mårtensson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Patrik Axén Release September 2020Genre DramaDuration 15 minSales Premium Films

Jerry Carlsson (b. 1987) graduated from Valand Academy in 2014. His award-winning short films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Tribeca and Clermont-Ferrand, where his short film Shadow Animals received both the Special Jury Prize and the Canal+ Award in 2018.

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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?

Screenwriter Clara BodénProduced by Vapen och Dramatik/Clara BodénRelease January 2021Genre Documentary, Essay filmDuration 7 min

Clara Bodén (1983) is a Swedish filmmaker and producer living outside Östersund in the northen parts of Sweden. Since 2011 she runs the small production company Vapen och Dramatik.

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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 intelligible anymore.

Screenwriter Emma Pål BrunzellProduced by Carbs Film/Gilda Naumanen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami EkströmRelease January 2021Genre Drama, ComedyDuration 15 min

Emma Pål Brunzell is a director, screenwriter and editor based in Malmö, Sweden. Punani Steam is her second short film after her film studies. Her debut short film Upload to Story had its World Premiere at Göteborg International Film Festival in 2019 and has traveled the world since, screening at both Palm Springs International ShortFest and Encounters Film Festival among others.

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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.

Screenwriter Jonas Selberg AugustsénProduced by Bd Film/Andreas Emanuelsson, Tony Österholm, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Ami EkströmRelease January 2021Genre Drama Duration 15 min

Writer/director Jonas Selberg Augustsén hails from the city of Boden, in Norrbotten County, Sweden. With his own distinctive and humorous voice, Jonas tells stories about people and places that seem to exist in a borderland. He has a rare ability to use the most mundane situations to pose existential questions, yet at the same time 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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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.

Screenwriter Maria FredrikssonProduced by Ballad Film/Ina Holmqvist, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning Release October 2020Genre DocumentaryDuration 5 min

Maria Fredriksson is a documentary filmmaker of Sámi descent and the co-founder of the Stockholm based production company Ballad Film. She has a Master of Fine Arts at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and has also studied film directing at the New York Film Academy. Maria Fredriksson has made several short documentaries and competed at festivals such as Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc Fest,

Visions du Reél, Nordisk Panorama, Palm Springs Interna-tional ShortFest and San Francisco Short Film Festival and is currently working on her first feature length documentary.

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

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There’s a man floating around in an indoor swimming pool. The police order him to get out, in order to arrest him, but the man refuses. Swimmer is a humorous short film about a dramatic arrest that turns into an anticlimax.

Screenwriter Jonatan Etzler Produced by French Quarter Film/Isabella Rodriguez, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Patrik AxénRelease January 2020 Genre Comedy, Drama Duration 13 minSales interfilm Berlin Sales & Distribution

Jonatan Etzler (b. 1988) graduated from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2018. His graduation film Get Ready with Me won Gold at the Student Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2018. His other shorts have toured the festival world over the last five years, screening at SXSW, Palm Springs and Aspen Shortfest among others.

Swimmer(Badaren) Directed by Jonatan Etzler

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Jarowskij Sverigeinfo@jarowskij.sewww.jarowskij.se

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Norrdansinfo@norrdans.sewww.norrdans.se

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Plattform Produktionmail@plattformproduktion.sewww.plattformproduktion.se

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SALES COMPANIES

Attraction Distributioninfo@attractiondistribution.cawww.attractiondistribution.caCanada

Autlook Filmsaleswelcome@autlookfilm.comwww.autlookfilms.comAustria

Bac Filmscontact@bacfilms.frwww.bacfilms.comFrance

Bankside Filmsfilms@bankside-films.comwww.bankside-films.comUK

CAT&Docsinfo@catndocs.comwww.catndocs.comFrance

Celluloid Dreamsinfo@celluloid-dreams.comwww.celluloid-dreams.comFrance

Charades sales@charades.euwww.charades.euFrance

Cinephilinfo@cinephil.comwww.cinephil.comIsrael

Cinetic Mediaoffice@cineticmedia.comwww.cineticmedia.comUS

Copenhagen Bombay Salesinfo@copenhagenbombay.comwww.copenhagenbombay.comDenmark

Coproduction Officeinfo@coproductionoffice.euwww.coproductionoffice.euDenmark/France/Germany

Deckert Distributioninfo@deckert-distribution.comwww.deckert-distribution.comGermany

Dogwoofinfo@dogwoof.comwww.dogwoof.comUK

DR International Salesdrsales@dr.dkwww.dr.dk/SalgDenmark

East Village Entertainmentwww.eastvillageentertainment.comUS

Eyewellm.werner@eyewell.sewww.eyewell.seSweden

Feel Salesinfo@feelsales.comwww.feelsales.comSpain

Films Boutiquecontact@filmsboutique.comwww.filmsboutique.comGermany

Films Transit Internationalinfo@filmstransit.comwww.filmstransit.comCanada

Film Republicinfo@filmrepublic.bizwww.filmrepublic.bizUK

First Hand Filmsesther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.comwww.firsthandfilms.comSwitzerland

Global Screeninfo@globalscreen.dewww.globalscreen.de/mm/enGermany

Great Point Mediainfo@greatpointmedia.comwww.greatpointmedia.comUK

Green Lighting Studiosales@greenlightingstudio.comwww.greenlightingstudio.comSweden

Indie Salesinfo@indiesales.euwww.indiesales.euFrance

interfilm Berlin Sales & Distributionsales@interfilm.dewww.interfilm.deGermany

KurzFilmAgentur Hamburgsales@shortfilm.comwww.shortfilm.comGermany

LevelKtine.klint@levelk.dkwww.levelk.dkDenmark

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m-appeal world sales berlinoffice@m-appeal.comwww.m-appeal.comGermany

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New Europe Films Salesjan@neweuropefilmsales.comwww.neweuropefilmsales.comPoland

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Premium Filmscontact@premium-films.comwww.premium-films.comFrance

REinvent Studiosinfo@reinvent.dkwww.reinvent.dkDenmark

Rise and Shine World Salesinfo@riseandshine-berlin.dewww.riseandshine-berlin.comGermany

Stray Dogssales@stray-dogs.comwww.stray-dogs.bizFrance

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Storyfiretobias.bringholm@storyfire.sewww.storyfire.seSweden

StudioCanalwww.studiocanal.comFrance

Submarineinfo@submarine.comwww.submarine.comUS

SVT Salessales@svt.sewww.svtsales.comSweden

Syndicado Film Salesgreg@syndicado.comwww.syndicado.comCanada

Taskovski Filmssales@taskovskifilms.comwww.taskovskifilms.comUK

Telepicture Marketingcharlotta.bjuvman@dial.pipex.comwww.telepicturemarketing.comUK

Totem Filmshello@totem-films.comwww.totem-films.comFrance

TrustNordiskinfo@trustnordisk.comwww.trustnordisk.comDenmark

UR Internationalanna.birgersson-dahlberg@ur.sewww.ur.seSweden

Versatileinfo@versatile-films.comwww.versatile-films.comFrance

Wideinfos@widemanagement.comwww.widemanagement.comFrance

Wide Houseac@widehouse.orgwww.widehouse.orgFrance

Wild Bunch International Salesediederix@wildbunch.euwww.wildbunch.bizFrance/UK

The Yellow Affairsteven@yellowaffair.comwww.yellowaffair.comFinland/Sweden

Zodiak Rightscontactus@zodiakrights.comwww.zodiakrights.comUK

DISTRIBUTORS

Edge Entertainmentinfo@edgeentertainment.sewww.edgeentertainment.se

Folkets Bioinfo@folketsbio.sewww.folketsbio.se

Lucky Dogsanna@lucky-dogs.sewww.lucky-dogs.se

Njutafilmsnicolas.debot@njutafilms.comwww.njutafilms.com

Noble Entertainmentinfo@nobleentertainment.comwww.nobleentertainment.com

NonStop Entertainmentinfo@nonstopentertainment.comwww.nonstopentertainment.com

Nordisk Film contact@nordiskfilm.comwww.nordiskfilm.com

Novemberfilminfo@novemberfilm.comwww.novemberfilm.com

Scanbox Entertainment Sweden info@scanbox.comwww.scanbox.com

SF Studiosinfo@sfstudios.sewww.sfstudios.se

Studio S Entertainmentseo@studiosentertainment.sewww.studiosentertainment.se

TriArt Filminfo@triart.sewww.triart.se

United International Picturessandra_norden@uip.sewww.uip.se

Walt Disney Company Nordicmattias.vestin@disney.com

FILM FESTIVALS

Arctic Light Film Festivalinfo@articlight.orgwww.arcticlight.orgNovember, 2021

Bergman Week, Digital/Onlineinfo@bergmanveckan.sewww.bergmancenter.se/bergman-veckanJune 29 - July 3, 2021

BUFF – The International Children and Young People’s Film Festivalinfo@buff.sewww.buff.seMarch 13-19, 2021

CinemAfricainfo@cinemafrica.sewww.cinemafrica.seOctober, 2021

Cinema Queerinfo@cinemaqueer.sewww.cinemaqueer.seOctober 4-10, 2021

Göteborg Film Festival (GIFF)info@goteborgfilmfestival.sewww.goteborgfilmfestival.seJanuary/February, 2022

Lund Fantastic Film Festivalmaritte@fff.sewww.fff.seAutumn, 2021

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Monsters of Filminfo@monstersoffilm.sewww.monstersoffilm.seAutumn, 2021

Novemberfestivalennovemberfestivalen@trollhattan.sewww.novemberfestivalen.seNovember, 2021

Stockholm International Film Festival (SIFF) & Stockholm International Film Festival Junior (SIFF J)info@stockholmfilmfestival.sewww.stockholmfilmfestival.seSIFF November 10-21, 2021SIFF J April 19-24, 2021

Tempo Documentary Festivallisa.taube@tempofestival.sewww.tempofestival.seMarch 8-14, 2021

Uppsala International Short Film Festivalinfo@shortfilmfestival.comwww.shortfilmfestival.comOctober 25-31, 2021

Way Out Westfilm@wayoutwest.sewww.wayoutwest.seAugust 12-14, 2021

ORGANIZATIONS

Creative Europe Desk MEDIASwedish Film Institutekreativaeuropa@filminstitutet.sewww.kreativaeuropa.eu

Film i Skåneinfo@filmiskane.sewww.filmiskane.se Film i Västinfo@filmivast.sewww.filmivast.se Filmpool Nordsandra.warg@fpn.sewww.filmpoolnord.se

Film Capital Stockholm beata@filmcapitalstockholm.sewww.filmcapitalstockholm.se

Independent Film Producers’ Associationkansliet@off.sewww.off.se

The Ingmar Bergman Foundationinfo@ingmarbergman.sewww.ingmarbergman.se

International Sámi Film Instituteinfo@isfi.nowww.isfi.no/en

Nordisk Film & TV Fondinfo@nordiskfilmogtvfond.comwww.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com

Swedish Arts Grants Committeeinfo@konstnarsnamnden.sewww.konstnarsnamnden.se

Swedish Film & TV Producers Associationinfo@filmtvp.sewww.filmtvp.se

Swedish Institutesi@si.sewww.si.se

Visit Swedenreception@visitsweden.comwww.visitsweden.com

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