Lies, Space and Comedians

Arne Goes to Space. Photo: Christian Karlsen / Istudios

New projects from Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Sofia Norlin, Julia Thelin, Ellen Fiske, Björn Runge among others, with funding from The Swedish Film Institute.

Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s animated short films are always in demand, especially at international film festivals. Her upcoming film The Rose is a story about death set in a large airport.

In Julia Thelin's feature film debut The Patron, a cleaner named Anna pretends to be an art patron and lures two young art students to her employer’s empty house. Thelin’s short films have achieved great acclaim at the Cannes, Berlin and Toronto festivals. The film is produced by Eliza Jones and Markus Waltå of Grand Slam (Pleasure).

Sofia Norlin (Broken Hill Blues, competition in Berlin) writes and directs Riviera, about war refugee and boxer Masa. After being refused asylum in Sweden, he makes his way to France, where he meets the love of his life and encounters the Foreign Legion.

Stellan Skarsgård stars in Joachim Trier’s Norwegian-Swedish co-production Sentimental Value. It follows Nora and her sister Agnes when their eccentric and charismatic father Gustav suddenly appears after a long absence. Gustav was once a renowned film director and now offers Nora the lead role in his new film.

Lars Vega is set to feature debut with Arne Goes to Space, written by Vega and Theodor Österberg. A lost alien crashes in Norrbotten and helps two quarreling brothers with hunting disputes, wood chopping, and fighting cancer. In the short film Kobolt, Björn Runge (The Wife) tells the story of a son trying to get his mother to come home. She doesn’t want to leave until she finishes her cigarette. The son makes a drastic decision.

Mama Goals by Ellen Fiske (Tribeca-awarded Scheme Birds) is a documentary about Charlotta, who quit her job in healthcare to pursue a career as a comedian. But the new life doesn’t turn out quite as she expected. A personal story about being a mother and navigating relationship crises while simultaneously holding on to big dreams. Ina Holmqvist (The Gullspång Miracle) produces.

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