Swedish films at Toronto Film Festival

Tomorrow, Thursday, September 5, the 34th edition of the Toronto Film Festival starts.

Sweden is represented this year with three films, one TV series and five co-productions.

 

Directors, producers, actors and representatives from the Swedish Film Institute are present.

Read more about the films below.

 

 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

 

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

 

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 Agentur Hamburg

 

 

World Premiere in Primetime

Faithless (tv-series)

Acclaimed Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) helms this simmering adaptation of Liv Ullmann 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:  

 

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, Ann Lundberg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute

Sales: The Match Factory

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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