WRITTEN BY: Annika Pham
Berlinale: The Danish comedy hit by Paprika Steen is one of the buzzy titles on LevelK’s European Film Market line-up, alongside Four Little Adults and the Generation selected Dancing Queen.
Berlinale: The Danish comedy hit by Paprika Steen is one of the buzzy titles on LevelK’s European Film Market line-up, alongside Four Little Adults and the Generation selected Dancing Queen.
Fathers and Mothers produced by Nordisk Film Production has been snapped by Palace Enterprises for Australia and New Zealand, Alfa Pictures for Spain and Andorra, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, Vertigo Media for Hungary and Estin Film for Estonia, with further deals pending.
The comedy about parenting led by a stellar Danish ensemble cast including Jacob Hauberg Lohmann, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Amanda Collin among others, was last year’s 8th biggest film at the Danish box office, and has now passed 360,000 admissions.
"I’m glad to see the film travelling, as I hoped to make a funny, moving, dynamic and painfully honest film, which reflects who we are and what we do, to perform as the perfect parents, which can be hard, funny and rarely goes as planned," said Steen.
Also headlining LevelK’s EFM slate are two family films world premiering at the Generation Kplus: the Norwegian film Dancing Queen produced by The Worst Person in the World’s Thomas Robsahm, to be introduced Saturday in Berlin by director Aurora Gossé, as well as the Dutch film Sea Sparkle by Domien Huyghe
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The third feature having its market premiere is Selma Vilhunen’s story about polyamory relationships Four Little Adults for which Alma Pöysti won a Best Acting award in Göteborg.
LevelK’s managing director Tine Klint will also discuss Göteborg’s Swedish opener Exodus by Abbe Hassan, the Danish animation family film Rosa & the Stone Troll which opened February 9 in Denmark, and the upcoming Iceland crime thriller Cold by Erlingur Thoroddsen.