UFOs, MMA and Mediterranean film noir

Anders Hazelius directs Forever, scripted by Jessika Jankert. The film follows Mila and Kia best friends and soccer teammates. When the team get a new coach, the girls slowly start to slip apart. Mila who dreams of becoming a professional finally sees her chance to succeed - but is it worth sacrificing her best friend?

The comedy The Hypnosis (Hypnosen), directed by Ernst De Geer, scripted by De Geer and Mads Stegger, follows Vera and André, who are about to pitch their newly started company. Before they go there, Vera goes into hypnotherapy which makes her let go of all social barriers. This is difficult for André to handle.

Burn All My Letters (Bränn alla mina brev), scripted by Veronica Zacco and based on the Alex Schulman novel of the same name, is a love story across generations. The film follows a painful relationship drama spanning from the 1930s, through the ’80s and into the present day. Asta Kamma August, Bill Skarsgård and Gustav Lindh are in the leads.

The collective force Crazy Pictures follows up the success The Unthinkable (Den blomstertid nu kommer) with sci-fi adventure UFO Sweden. When a teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she enlists the help of a UFO association to find out the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the law and into a world filled with UFO expeditions, conspiracies, and alternative science.

From Malta to Oblivion is an energetic, sensual Mediterranean film noir about guilt, escape and forgiveness, in the shadow of the Swedish online gaming colony in Malta. The film is written and directed by Axel Petersén and features Joel Spira (Bergman Island) in one of the lead roles. Petersén’s latest film The Real Estate (Toppen av ingenting, 2018, co-directed with Måns Månsson) competed at the Berlinale.

Daughters (Döttrar) is Jenifer Malmqvist’s feature film debut, following shorts that have won awards in Berlin as well as at the Guldbagge Awards. The documentary follows three sisters who have grown up mourning their mother’s suicide. In the film we meet the sisters both as children, and now as young adults, as they reflect on what it’s like growing up in the wake of a trauma. Guldbagge Award winner Ita Zbroniec-Zajt is the cinematographer.

Vem är du, Mamma Mu (English title TBA), directed by Christian Ryltenius with screenplay by Peter Arrhenius, is an adventure for young children. Mamma Moo the cow wants to make her very own moo-sical, but Little Brother’s teddy bear disappears under mysterious circumstances – and it’s Mamma Moo’s fault.

Successful athlete or good mother? In the drama Amina, scripted by Mona Masri (TV series Snabba Cash) and directed by Guldbagge Award winner Ahmed Abdullahi, Amina is forced to make a tough choice. Her passion for Mixed Martial Arts clashes with her responsibility for her daughter.

Erika Wasserman, also the screenwriter alongside Christin Magdu, makes her directorial debut with the comedy The Year I Started Masturbating (Året jag slutade prestera och började onanera). Results-driven 39-year-old career woman Hanna suddenly finds herself homeless, jobless and without a family. She refuses to give up though, but first she must learn to love herself. The cast includes Katia Winter (TV series The Boys and Dexter) and Henrik Dorsin (also in Ruben Östlund’s upcoming Triangle of Sadness).

Maja Borg works with cross-border issues relating to longing, vulnerability and power in the Swedish-Spanish documentary Passion. Through play and rituals taken from queer, BDSM and religion, she explores intimacy and boundaries. The project, which is being launched as a film and artwork in one, is already well received at international film festivals.

Market funding
Håkan Bråkan (English title tba) by Ted Kjellsson (Alone in Space/Ensamma i rymden) is a spinoff from the Tosh/Anderssons films, where Tosh’s little brother Håkan wants to win a video game competition. He has to escape from the babysitter and ends up on a collision course with a gang of burglars. Market funding has also been awarded to Burn All My Letters and UFO Sweden.

Features

Amina
Director Ahmed Adullahi
Screenplay Mona Masri
Producer Veronika Öhnedal
Funding recipient Art & Bob Film & Drama AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Helen Ahlsson
Funding granted 3 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Amina is a young woman, and already a has-been in MMA. She fights to get back to her passion, but is pressured by her parents who threaten to stop helping look after her daughter. Amina manages to get a match in the world championships, but finds it harder and harder to deal with motherhood. Eventually things come to a head and she has to make a decision: successful athlete or good mother?

Behind the Swedish Model. Photo: FreetownFilms AB

Behind the Swedish Model (Bakom den svenska modellen)
Director Viktor Nordenskiöld
Screenplay Viktor Nordenskiöld, Dylan Williams
Producers Viktor Nordenskiöld, Dylan Williams
Funding recipient FreetownFilms AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 1 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation A unique behind the scenes documentary following Sweden's suddenly world famous State Epidemiologist Tegnell and Health Minister Hallengren during their controversial no lockdown-fight vs Corona, examining how to deal with worship, hate and doubt.

Burn All My Letters (Bränn alla mina brev)
Director Björn Runge
Screenplay Veronica Zacco
Producers Annika Sucksdorff, Jonathan Ridings
Funding recipient SF Studios Production AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anders Nylander
Funding granted 10 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation It is based on the impact of passion, jealousy and anger across 70 years in a relationship, involving different generations.

The Count (Greven)
Director Jon Blåhed
Screenplay Jon Blåhed
Producers Andreas Emanuelsson, Tony Österholm
Funding recipient Iris Film AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Liva action
Film commissioner Juan Pablo Libossart
Funding granted 1 100 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: The Count is director Jon Blåhed’s deconstruction of the true crime genre. The story revolves around Jon’s father’s cousin, known as ‘The Count’, an infamous criminal (and at one time one of the richest people in Sweden). This documentary follows The Count’s crime journey (including several murder charges), but also questions our modern fascination for stories involving violence, crime and criminals. This is real Nordic noir, and it asks where this apparently unquenchable thirst for depictions of violence comes from.

Daughters (Döttrar)
Director Jenifer Malmqvist
Screenplay Jenifer Malmqvist
Producers Margarete Jangård, Hanna Markkanen
Funding recipient WG Film AB
Target group Youth 13-18 age
Film type Fiction
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Jenny Gilbertsson
Funding granted 1 800 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Sofia, Hedvig and Maja grew up with grief. They were only 8, 10 and 17 years old when their mother committed suicide. In Daughters, we meet the sisters as children as well as in their early adult years, as they reflect on what it is like to come of age in the aftermath of trauma.

Anders Hazelius, director, Judith Sigfridsson, actress playing Kia and Flutra Cela, actress playing Mila. Photo: Erik Persson

Forever
Director Anders Hazelius
Screenplay Jessika Jankert
Producers Stefan H. Lindén, Emilia Widstrand
Funding recipient SF Studios Production AB
Target group Children age 7-12
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Jenny Gilbertsson
Funding granted 6 500 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Mila and Kia have been best friends and team-mates as long as they can remember. When the girls get a new football coach in the shape of demanding Lollo, they gradually start drifting apart. Mila dreams of being a pro footballer and can finally see her chance to make it – but is it worth losing your best friend just to win at any cost?

The Foster Family, director Julia Dinome as a child. Photo: Lennart Johansson

The Foster Family (Fosterfamiljen)
Director Julia Dinome
Screenplay Julia Dinome
Producer Petra Jönsson
Funding recipient Kärnfilm AB
Target group Adult
Film type Dpcumentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 1 650 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation In this film we meet Ewa, her biological child Julia and foster child Patrik: three members of one family who are now ready to talk about the tumultuous events that changed their lives when they lived as a foster family more than 30 years ago.

Four Little Adults
Director Selma Vilhunen
Screenplay Selma Vilhunen
Producer Nima Yousefi
Funding recipient HOB AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Helen Ahlsson
Funding granted 1 200 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation A middle-aged couple who, in the middle of an infidelity crisis, decide to open their marriage and venture into polyamory.
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Tuffi Films, Venla Helstedt, Elli Toivoniemi, Finland

From Malta to Oblivion. Photo: Axel Petersén

From Malta to Oblivion
Director Axel Petersén
Screenplay Axel Petersén
Producer Sigrid Helleday
Funding recipient Fedra AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Hanna Lejonqvist
Funding granted 7 600 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation From Malta to Oblivion is an energetic, sensual Mediterranean film noir about guilt, escape and forgiveness, in the shadow of the Swedish online gaming colony in Malta.

Britta Marakatt-Labba in Historjá. Photo: Jonas Rudström

Historjá
Director Thomas Jackson
Screenplay Thomas Jackson
Producers Mattias Norhborg, Pelle Nilsson
Funding recipient B-Reel Films AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Juan Pablo Libossart
Funding granted 2000000 SEK
Production company’s presentation HISTORJÁ is a poetic and striking told story of the sami female artist Britta Marakatt- Labba. Her art describes the sami culture, today and historically, and the reindeer husbandry, threatened by the global climate crise.

From the pilot for The Hypnosis. Photo: Jonathan Bjerstedt

The Hypnosis (Hypnosen)
Director Ernst De Geer
Screenplay Ernst De Geer, Mads Stegger
Producer Mimmi Spång
Funding recipient Garagefilm International AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Comedy
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Helen Ahlsson
Funding granted 3000000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Vera and André have won a place in a prestigious competition where they can pitch their new business idea. Before they go, Vera undergoes hypnosis therapy and loses all her social filters – something André finds hard to handle.

Ole Giæver directs Let the River Flow. Photo: Karin Gravdahl

Let the River Flow (La Elva Leve)
Director Ole Giæver
Screenplay Ole Giæver
Producer Lizette Jonjic
Funding recipient Zentropa Sweden AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Madeleine Ekman
Funding granted 1 500 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Let the River Flow is a historical drama based on the real events of the Alta case and the fight for the Sámi rights in the late 70’s. In the middle of the dramatic events is the young Sámi woman Ester.
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Mer Film AS, Maria Ekerhovd, Norway

Nelly and Nadine. Photo: Copyright, Auto Images

Nelly and Nadine
Director Magnus Gertten
Screenplay Magnus Gertten
Producer Ove Rishöj Jensen
Funding recipient Auto Images AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Klara Grunning
Funding granted 1 900 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely story of love between two women, who fell in love on Christmas Eve 1944 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Nelly’s granddaughter Sylvie decides to read her grandmother’s diary, and discovers a lifelong love relationship shaped by the events at the camp.

Passion. Photo: Patriez van der Wens

Passion
Director Maja Borg
Screenplay Maja Borg
Producer Stina Gardell
Funding recipient Mantaray Film AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Mixed
Film commissioner Klara Grunning
Funding granted 2 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Through play and rituals taken from queer BDSM and her own Christian background, filmmaker Maja Borg tries to find new opportunities for intimacy and re-establishing her own boundaries following a destructive relationship. With personal stories from followers of both BDSM rituals and Christian faith, Borg depicts boundary-crossing issues of longing, vulnerability and power.

Spas
Director Maksym Nakonechnyi
Screenplay Maksym Nakonechnyi, Iryna Tsilyk
Producer Mario Adamsson
Funding recipient Sisyfos Film Production AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Helen Ahlsson
Funding granted 700000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Drone pilot and soldier Lilya (age 29) returns to her family and boyfriend in Kiev, Ukraine following two months being held captive by the separatists from the front in Donbass. While trying to deal with her traumas, Lilya soon discovers she is pregnant after being raped by the prison guards. A struggle begins to save the child, and to get reparation and support for her experience, in a community that is not ready for either her or the baby. 
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Tabor LLC, Darya Bassel, Ukraine

This World is Not My Own
Director Petter Ringbom
Screenplay Petter Ringbom, Ruchi Mital
Producers Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå
Funding recipient Grand Slam Filmproduktion AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Mixed
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 500 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Mythical forest creatures, chewing gum sculptures, handmade dolls, a firebrand wrestler, a Kuwaiti art school for kids, a wealthy arts patron, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s fantastical universe. This World is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist’s world and her life spanning the 20th century.
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: OpenDox LLC, Ruchi Mital, USA

Tsumu
Director Kasper Kiertzner
Screenplay Kasper Kiertzner
Producers Michael Krotkiewski, David Herdies
Funding recipient Momento Film AB*
Target group Youth age 13-18 
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Jenny Gilbertsson
Funding granted 550 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Over a two-year period, the three young friends Lars, Eino and Thomas have filmed their lives full of vibrant energy, creativity, eccentricity and love. But their upcoming adult life and the harsh realities of Greenland threaten their friendship. Should they give up their dreams and remain in an environment of alcoholic parents, suicide and lack of opportunities, or leave and as a result make life even worse for their already vulnerable families and friends?
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Playground Production ApS, Jannik Splidsboel, Denmark

UFO Sweden
Director Crazy Pictures
Screenplay Jimmy Nivrén Olsson, Crazy Pictures
Producer Crazy Pictures
Funding recipient Crazy Pictures Productions AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Adventure
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anders Nylander
Funding granted 5 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: When a teenage rebel placed in a foster home suspects her father is not dead but has been kidnapped by UFOs, she turns to a UFO society to find out the truth.

Uncontrollable (Ustyrlig, Danish title)
Director Malou Reymann
Screenplay Malou Reymann, Sara Jønsson
Producers Anna Warfvinge, Eva Åkergren
Funding recipient Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Helen Ahlsson
Funding granted 750 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation It’s 1931. Seventeen-year-old Maren is uncontrollable and is sent to the women’s institution in Sprogø. Her time there doesn’t have the desired effect, and Maren’s growing friendship and close connection with Sørine will have devastating consequences for them both.
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Nordisk Film Production A/S, Matilda Appelin, Denmark

Vem är du, Mamma Mu (English title tba)
Director Christian Ryltenius
Screenplay Peter Arrhenius
Producer Filippa Torstensson
Funding recipient SF Studios Production AB
Target group Children age 0-6 
Film type Fiction
Genre Adventure
Technique Animerad
Film commissioner Jenny Gilbertsson
Funding granted 7 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation When Mamma Moo is inspired by the children and wants to make her own moo-sical, she accidentally messes things up. Little Brother’s teddy bear disappears under mysterious circumstances – and it’s Mamma Moo’s fault. “Why can’t you just be an ordinary cow?” asks her friend Crow. “That way nothing happens!” But that’s exactly what Mamma Moo wants to avoid. She loves it when things happen! Just not sad things like this.

What We Are. Photo: Sant & Usant AS

What We Are
Director Gunhild Westhagen Magnor
Screenplay Gunhild Westhagen Magnor
Producer Antonio Russo Merenda
Funding recipient Ginestra Film AB*
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Juan Pablo Libossart
Funding granted 400 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation "What we are" is about the seemingly small, but extremely important steps children take to become grown-up, empathetic people. The documentary follows the day-to day life of Balder and Haakon (2) over the course of a year in a kindergarten.
* Swedish coproducer. Main producer: Sant & Usant AS, Anita Rehoff & Helen Prestgard, Norway

Photo: Stêrk Production AB

Who the Fuck is Bobby?
Director Nisti Stêrk
Screenplay Nisti Stêrk
Producer Nisti Stêrk
Funding recipient Stêrk Production AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 650 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: A film for the teenage boy who’s not like ‘everyone else’, whose body longs for love and touch. This is a story for everyone with an LGBTQ+ identity living with double vulnerability in an honour context. A film for those who have lost someone they love, and a film that Nisti and Bobby hope will provoke thought and understanding among families who wish to deny people the right to love who they want.

Winners of the War
Director Manal Masri
Screenplay Manal Masri
Producer Ove Rishøj Jensen
Funding recipient Auto Images AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 1 900 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation In 2014 the Kurdish students Jenkidar and Hussein starts documenting the Kurdish resistance against ISIS. From inside the war, they film what now one else has filmed. One by one their family and friends become victims in the defence of their home city, Kobane. This is their story.

The Year I Started Masturbating (Året jag slutade prestera och började onanera)
Director Erika Wasserman
Screenplay Christin Magdu, Erika Wasserman
Producers Frida Mårtensson, Erika Wasserman
Funding recipient Gimme a break AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Comedy
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anders Nylander
Funding granted 8 400 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Goal-oriented 39-year-old career woman Hanna wants another child before it’s too late. But rather than making babies, her boyfriend suddenly breaks up with her. Hanna’s world and everything she has built up collapses. Suddenly she finds herself homeless, jobless and without a family. But Hanna the winner refuses to give up, she has decided to get her boyfriend back. But to get there, she has to gain something far more important: her love of herself and who she is.

Short film

Producer Lova Lilliemarck and SaraKlara Hellström, director and screenplay. Photo: Lova Lilliemarck

Bromance
Director SaraKlara Hellström
Screenplay SaraKlara Hellström
Producer Lova Lilliemarck
Funding recipient Verket Produktion AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 350 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Räkan and Fabbe are bro's for life. But when Räkan is forced to join a “girls night out” with Fabbe he suddenly feels alienated from the group. Fabbe disappears with his girlfriend and Räkan, who is left without his bro, gets to experience exclusion from a first-hand point of view. The boys different relations to the girls starts to drift them apart.

Dissonans
Director Torbjörn Martin
Screenplay Diana Rafiei Martin, Torbjörn Martin
Producer Mathias Nohrborg
Funding recipient B-Reel Films AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 430 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Heavily pregnant Farah suffers with severe fear of childbirth. She and her boyfriend Johan go to his family’s house in the country for some peace and quiet. While they’re there, Farah meets a pregnant cow. To begin with the unusual meeting is calm and harmonic, but it soon becomes an unsettling, hallucinatory experience.

Donkeyland (Åsnelandet)
Director Bahar Pars
Screenplay Bahar Pars
Producer Brynhildur Pórarinsdóttir
Funding recipient (sic) film AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 400000 SEK
Production company’s presentation In the last part of scriptwriter´s and director´s Bahar Pars appreciated trilogy on racism and microaggressions the audience is invited to join two women on their journey of discussing, avoiding, expressing, and ultimately fighting about these issues and the way those affect their everyday life. 

Family Entertainment (Familjeunderhållning)
Director Johanna Ställberg
Screenplay Johanna Ställberg
Producer Beata Mannheimer
Funding recipient Robotmilk AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 430000 SEK
Production company’s presentation The entertainment at the all-inclusive hotel provokes some uncomfortable questions for Jonna when the musician gets up on stage to “warm up” the guests with a gospel slave song sing-a-long.

Gmn (English title tba)
Director EliSophie Andrée
Screenplay EliSophie Andrée
Producer Tove Myrne Widfors
Funding recipient Nallis Productions
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Comedy
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 210 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Alone in a trashy car sits Linnea and chain smokes. Convinced her on and off-boyfriend is cheating on her she has finally decided to find him and end the relationship for good. Soon the car is filled with all of her friends with a thirst for blood and vengeance…

The Story of Bodri (Historien om Bodri)
Director Stina Wirsén
Screenplay Stina Wirsén
Producer Peter Krupenin
Funding recipient HOB AB
Target group Children age 7-12 
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Animated
Film commissioner Jenny Gilbertsson
Funding granted 1 450 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation An animated short film project based on the Hédi Fried/Stina Wirsén children’s book of the same name.

Incappucciati, foschi - poster sketch by Carla Camoglio.

Incappucciati, foschi
Director Nicola Camoglio
Screenplay Nicola Camoglio
Producer Nicola Camoglio
Funding recipient Ominous Pictures
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Thriller
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 250 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: “Incappucciati, Foschi” is a thriller with western overtones, set during the 1970s in the Italian region of Sardinia. Clotilde and Mondino are a couple driving through the mountainous centre of the Italian island of Sardinia, at the height of the paranoia-charged era in Italian history known as the “Years of Led”. They are driving towards Nuoro, where they are to deliver a car that belongs to Mondino’s employer. But during this fateful journey, along dark and treacherous roads, they encounter a group of bandits and kidnappers, coming face to face with the terrifying reality of the time. Through the eyes of regular people and their differing views on the bandits, the film aims to analyse class and cultural conflict. The actions of the bandits arose as a form of protest and rebellion against the rich and powerful figures of Italy, at a time when regional identity was being erased in the name of unifying Italy under a homogenised cultural umbrella.

Behind the scenes of Josef. Photo: Två Träd

Josef
Director Aman Niel
Screenplay Aman Niel
Producer Svante Tidholm
Funding recipient Två Träd
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 350 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Josef is unexpectedly invited to a party in an apartment with Cissi & Maria, two middle-aged women who party on the weekends when they don't have their kids, with the younger men Hamza and Adam. Slowly, Joseph understands what is going on in the apartment and what is expected of him.

The Lovers. Photo: Carolina Sandvik

The Lovers
Director Carolina Sandvik
Screenplay Carolina Sandvik
Producer Kerstin Übelacker
Funding recipient We Have a Plan AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Animated
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 240 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation A man and a woman are having a romantic dinner at a restaurant. Suddenly the skin on the man's face begins to fall off. The Lovers is a stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.

One Minute
Director Matilde Sköld, Marcus Svanberg
Screenplay Matilde Sköld, Marcus Svanberg
Producer Alexandra Malmqvist
Funding recipient Bleck Film AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Thriller
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 300 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Two girls spot their doppelgangers in an apartment across the street, in what seems to be a parallel universe, but one minute ahead in time.

Johan Rabaeus in Royal theatre. Photo: Jan Malmström

Royal Theatre (Stora scen)
Director Jakob Márky
Screenplay Jakob Márky
Producer Agnes Parkrud
Funding recipient Zentropa Sweden AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Comedy
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 300 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation One late night, Johan Rabaeus meets two young actor students. He says he can tell who has "it" or not just by seeing someone walking across Dramaten’s big stage. The young actors are now in for a test run.

The lead role in Silviana Deluxe 250. Photo: Frida E Elmström

Silviana Deluxe 250
Director Frida E Elmström
Screenplay Frida E Elmström
Producer Signe Höeg
Funding recipient Garagefilm International AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Romance
Technique Mixed
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 430000 SEK
Production company’s presentation Silviana is a toaster, deeply in love with her owner. Each morning she is browning the bread to perfection, until the day when a woman suddenly appears in the kitchen.

Sire och den sista sommaren. Photo: Liselotte Wajstedt

Sire och den sista sommaren (English title tba)
Director Liselotte Wajstedt
Screenplay Liselotte Wajstedt
Producer Liselotte Wajstedt
Funding recipient Vaja Filmproductions AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Mixed
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 300 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: This is a family story I’ve been told my whole life. My maternal grandfather’s mother Sire died young somewhere in the mountains between Nedre Soppero on the Swedish side and Dividalen on the Norwegian side. The film is set in 2020 and 1916, in a Sami setting. It was said: Sire died in the mountains from hyperthyroidism, she suffocated slowly. She had all her children around her and she was pregnant. Despite its theme, this is a beautiful, sensuous film that provides comfort and coping mechanisms for our fears during this age of Covid-19.

Sista dagen på jobbet. Photo: Mariedamfilm AB

Sista dagen på jobbet (English title tba)
Director Marcus Carlsson
Screenplay Marcus Carlsson
Producer Stina Eriksson
Funding recipient Mariedamfilm AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 150 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: A film about the unsung heroes, who keep society running.

Johan Jan Jonason director and writer for Under bron. Photo: Peter Algö

Under the Bridge (Under bron)
Director Johan Jan Jonason
Screenplay Johan Jan Jonason
Producer Frida Bargo
Funding recipient B-Reel Films AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Ami Ekström
Funding granted 300 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: A bourgeois couple is on their way back from a mansion soiré when an employee dressed as a savage decides not to play along in the role play that's been agreed on. The interaction between the couple and the employee develops into an absurd situation that completely swings the balance of power and class.

Voubme / Tjahtje. Photo: Jannie Staffansson

Vuobme / Tjahtje (working title)
Director Jimmy Sundin, Jonah Senften
Screenplay Jonah Senften
Producers Jimmy Sundin, Jonah Senften
Funding recipient Tajgan Productions AB
Target group Adult
Film type Documentary
Technique Live action
Film commissioner Anna Weitz
Funding granted 200 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: The continuation of the film Badjelannda. In two parts the viewer is shown the value and importance of forests, lakes and water for indigenous sami community.

Market funding

Burn All My Letters (Bränn alla mina brev)
Director Björn Runge
Screenplay Veronica Zacco
Producers Annika Sucksdorff, Jonathan Ridings
Funding recipient SF Studios Production AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Drama
Technique Live action
Funding granted 2 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation It is based on the impact of passion, jealousy and anger across 70 years in a relationship, involving different generations.

Team Håkan Bråkan - producer Malin Söderlund with director Ted Kjellsson (stairs in the back) and producer Isaac Inger. Photo: Unlimited Stories AB

Håkan Bråkan
Director Ted Kjellsson
Screenplay Thobias Hoffmén
Producers Malin Söderlund, Isaac Inger
Funding recipient Unlimited Stories AB
Target group Children 7-12 age
Film type Fiction
Genre Comedy
Technique Live action
Funding granted 7 000 000 SEK
Production company’s presentation: Håkan is stuck with the world’s most boring babysitter, and runs away to get home so he can win the most important video game contest of the year! This marks the start of all kinds of complications, with Håkan on collision course with a gang of marauding burglars. To win, he has to take knowledge gained from video games out into the real world. If he manages, he won’t only get a chance to game – he might just save the whole neighbourhood.

UFO Sweden
Director Crazy Pictures
Screenplay Jimmy Nivrén Olsson, Crazy Pictures
Producer Crazy Pictures
Funding recipient Crazy Pictures Productions AB
Target group Adult
Film type Fiction
Genre Adventure
Technique Live action
Funding granted 5 000 000 SEK