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Rocketman is produced by Baltasar Kormákur and Agnes Johansen for Blueeyes Production. Kári has written the original script for this ‘coming of age' movie about Fusi, a 43-year old single man still living with his mother. Content, he sleepwalks through his everyday life where routine is essential. When a young girl and a bubbly woman about his age unexpectedly enter his world, Fusi has to take control of his life.

The Icelandic comedian Gunnar Jónsson will play the main role and Danish cinematographer Rasmus Videbæk (A Royal Affair) will collaborate for the third time with Kári after Noi Albinoi and The Good Heart. The €2 million project co-produced with Denmark's Nimbus Film was granted €320,000 from Eurimages. Filming is schedule to start in February 2013.

With A Patriotic Man, the established documentary filmmaker Arto Halonen will continue to explore sports doping culture, a subject he researched at length for the documentary When Heroes Lie which screened at IDFA last November. "With fiction, I can play with the characters and bring in empathy and humour. I want to help people think of doping in a different way, from the angle of people outside the system," said the director who intends to start filming in February in Finland, Croatia and Slovenia.

The €1.7m project produced by Halonen's Art Films Production in co-production with Croatia's MP Film Production was granted €200,000 from Eurimages. Halonen's previous feature film Princess was a major box office success in Finland with over 300,000 admissions.