Two years after The Penultimate’s premiere in competition at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival, producer Rikke Tambo Andersen and writer/director Kærup Hjort will be back in the Estonian capital next week, for the pitching of Levitating Skin at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market.

The story focuses on a mysterious man, who gets a group of women to follow him on a surreal journey into madness. During the process, the women mysteriously transform their genders, turning them into men. But when one of them kills the man and flees, it ultimately leads to a bloody gender battle.

“Levitating Skin is a surrealistic allegory about the consequence of the behavioural influence societal norms have on our lives,” said the director in his intention notes.

“Jonas will use his typical absurd filmmaking style to describe our society’s shortcomings in dealing with contemporary issues such as gender norms,” adds Tambo Andersen. “He grew up with anxieties and perhaps an OCD disorder never diagnosed, which makes him see the world in a heightened way, a unique vision which permeates in his filmmaking style,” notes the producer who hopes to start filming late 2023 in Estonia.

Tambo Andersen said she and Kærup Hjort were ‘intrigued’ by the Baltic state in 2020 when they attended the Black Nights Film Festival and found affinities between the director’s style and Central-European architecture and awe-inspiring nature. So far the producer has raised around 15-20% of the €2.4m budget. She will next submit her project to public funders.

Also on Tambo Film’s line up is Anything for Her which Tambo Andersen and Faroese director Andrias Høgenni are pitching online at this week’s Stockholm Industry Days. The feature film has just secured distribution via Scandinavian Film Distribution and DR, with a start of principal photography set for spring 2023.

Meanwhile Mette Carla Albrechtsen has just wrapped the final shooting sequence for her anticipated documentary Resorts. The film co-produced by Denmark’s Bullitt Film and Sweden’s Plattform will be delivered late next spring.