The drama by Austrian director Jessica Hausner focuses on a single mother and plant breeder who develops a new species capable of changing the personalities of those inhaling its pollen. Little Joe will complete Folkets Bio’s Hausner collection including Amour fou, Lourdes and Hotel. 

Folkets Bio also acquired the Un Certain Regard entries A Brother’s Love and Adam directed respectively by newcomers Monia Shokri from Quebec and Maryam Touzani from Morocco. 

A Brother’s Love which focuses on sibling relationships, won the Un Certain Regard Jury’s Coup de Coeur (ex aequo). 

Adam is a tale of women’s friendship, rebirth and oppression set in contemporary Casablanca. 

Folkets Bio had pre-bought three films that were selected in Cannes: the hot competition title Portrait of a Lady on Fire for which writer/director Cecile Sciamma won Best Screenplay, the Icelandic drama A White, White Day by Hlynur Pálmason, winner of the Critics’ Week Acting Award for Ingvar Sigurdsson, and the life-affirming comedy Give Me Liberty by Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky, which screened at the Directors’ Fortnight.

Folkets Bio’s latest Swedish releases include The King of Atlantis by Marina Nyström and Soni Jorgensen, The Unpromised Land by Victor Lindgren, the award-winning documentaries Hamada by Eloy Dominguez Sirén and Transnistra by Anna Eborn, as well as the Finnish film Stupid Young Heart by Selma Vilhunen.