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Swedish films at festivals

Swedish films are travelling the world on festivals and markets. Here you find the latest news on where and when. Enjoy!

Swedish films at TIFF (September 5 – 15)  

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World Premiere in Centrepiece –
The Swedish Torpedo  

Summer of 1939. The outbreak of war in Europe is drawing ever closer, but Sally Bauer, a 30-year-old single mother, can’t tear herself away from the sea and her longing to swim the English Channel. To achieve her dream she must defy her family, society's expectations, and risk losing her young son. 

Directed by Frida Kempff   
Produced by Momento Film / Erik Andersson, David Herdies and Michael Krotkiewski, with funding from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales Urban Sales

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World Premiere in Short Cuts –
Deck 5B 

We meet a mother full of desire, on the parking deck of a ferry she is forced to make a choice between her parental duty and the love she’s been waiting for. 

Directed by Malin Ingrid Johansson 
Produced by Pine / Joel Rostmark, Adam Holmström Meinking, Andrea Gyllenskiöld, with support from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales TBA

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World Premiere in Short Cuts –
Fuck Me  

A film about gender norms, power and femininity. It's about how hard it is to stop playing a role you’ve spent all your life learning. 

Directed by Anette Sidor 
Produced by Verket Produktion / Frida Mårtensson, Lova Lilliemarck, with support from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales
Kurzfilm Sales

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World Premiere in Primetime –
Faithless 

Acclaimed Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One InTinker Tailor Soldier Spy) helms this simmering adaptation of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman’s classic about infidelity and the emotional wreckage created in its wake.

Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Produced by Miso Film Sweden AB, SVT
Sales Fremantle

Swedish Co-Productions at TIFF 

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Canadian Premiere in Special Presentations – The End
(DK, DE, IE, UK, SE)

A wealthy family survives in a palatial bunker, two decades after the end of the world to which they contributed through their involvement in the oil industry.

Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Swedish co-producer Anagram Sverige / Martin Persson och Ann Lundberg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute 
Sales The Match Factory

 

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North American Premiere in Special Presentations
 
The Girl with the Needle (DK, PO, SE) 

Karoline a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WW1 Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar a charismatic woman running a secret adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers find foster homes for their unwanted children. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces. 

Directed by Magnus von Horn 
Swedish Co-producer Madeleine Ekman / Nordisk Film Sverige, Film i Väst, with support from the Swedish Film Institute 
Sales The Match Factory 

 

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International Premiere in Special Presentations
Quisling - The Final Days
(NO, SE) 

A priest seeks a measure of contrition from one of the Second World War’s most infamous traitors in this bold and bracing historical drama by Norway’s Erik Poppe.

Directed by Erik Poppe
Swedish Co-producer Film i Väst, SF Studios
Sales REinvent

 

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World Premiere in Discovery
The Quiet Ones
(DK, SE, FR) 

In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.

Directed by Frederik Louis Hviid
Swedish Co-producer Lizette Jonjic / Zentropa Sweden, Film i Väst, with support from The Swedish Film Institute
Sales TrustNordisk

 

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Short Cuts
- O (IS, SE) 

O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself. 

Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Swedish co-producer [sic] film / Siri Hjorton Wagner, SVT, Film i Väst with support from Swedish Film Institute.  
Sales The Party Film Sales 


Swedish films in Venice (August 28 – September 7)

 

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World Premiere in
Official Selection Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989 

Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is the definitive cinematic account of the background to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through unique and immersive footage, for long buried in the vaults of the Swedish Television archives. Four years in the making, this film unfortunately has become heartbreakingly timely. From the director of The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 and Concerning Violence. 

Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson 
Produced by Story / Tobias Janson with support from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales Urban Sales  

Swedish Co-Productions in Venice

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World Premiere in
Official Selection – Songs of Slow Burning Earth (UA, DE, SE, FR) 

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia's full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.   

Directed by Olha Zhurba 
Swedish Co-producer We Have a Plan / Kerstin Übelacker, Film i Skåne, with support from the Swedish Film Institute 
Sales Filmotor  

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World Premiere in Official Selection
 –  Families Like Ours / ep 1-7 (DK, FR, SE, CZ, BE, NO, DE) 

Countries disappear, love remains. In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels. As the nation prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she’s fallen in love with.

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Swedish co-producer Film i Väst
Sales StudioCanal

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World Premiere in
Orizzonti
Quiet Life (FR, DE, SE, GR, ES, FI) 

Sergei and Natalia are political asylum-seekers who fled to Sweden with their two daughters, hoping for a new life. When their application is rejected, their youngest daughter, traumatised, falls into a coma, a condition known as apathy.   

Directed by Alexandros Avranas 
Swedish Co-producer Fox in the Snow / Olivier Guerpillon, Frida Hallberg, Film i Väst, with support from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales Elle Driver  

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World Premiere in Orizzonti Corti –
O (IS, SE) 

O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself. 

Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson 
Swedish co-producer [sic] film / Siri Hjorton Wagner, SVT, Film i Väst with support from Swedish Film Institute
Sales The Party Film Sales 

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World Premiere in Giornate degli Autori - Basileia (IT, SE, DK) 

In the rugged, fog-shrouded mountains of Aspromonte, Italy,  an archaeologist and his assistants are seeking an ancient treasure. But their digs release mysterious mythological creatures who will change the lives of the inhabitants of this remote village forever.

Directed by Isabella Torre
Swedish co-producer Film i Väst
Sales Luxbox

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World Premiere in Giornate degli Autori
 –  Possibility of Paradise (RS, SE) 

Schoolkids living on the top of the paradise island wait for the rain to stop. A former advertising executive is closing a land deal for her new villa. An entrepreneur battles nature while building a resort in the jungle. A veterinarian works cleaning snakes from the gardens of the foreigners. 

Directed by Mladen Kovačević 
Swedish co-producer  MDEMC Produktion / Elin Lilleman Eriksson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute
Sales Taskovski Films Sales

 

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