Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s supports during the second quarter of 2025

Nordisk Film & TV Fond granted NOK 46,900,000 for 21 fiction productions and 7 documentaries in Q2. In addition, NFTVF granted NOK 2,775,000 for 21 distribution & dubbing-projects, and NOK 870,000 for 4 industry initiatives.

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Feature films

DAMN MEN (JÄVLA KARLAR)
Support: 2,500,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: B-Reel Films
Director: Jens Sjögren
Writer: Jakob Beckman
Pitch: "Once I had seven fathers in seven years”. This is the foundation in the story of a young boy’s attempt to navigate a world where father figures constantly disappear and where the longing for his real father runs like a common thread throughout his life.

The Rumour (Dobbeltfejl)
Support: 2,600,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Zentropa Entertainments
Director: Amalie Næsby Fick
Writers: Nikolaj Arcel & Sara Jønsson
Pitch: After an alleged sexual assault involving three teenage boys, Anne Sofie decides to protect her son and the family’s reputation - at any cost. As evidence begins to point to him, she goes to great lengths to shift the blame, confronting the limits of morality, parental love, and the price of ambition.

Pikkuli and Starlight Reindeer (Pikkuli ja Tähtipeura)
Support: 2,000,000
Country: Finland
Production company: AittoFlow coop.
Director: Metsämarja Aittokoski, Antti Aittokoski
Writer: Metsämarja Aittokoski
Pitch: Party preparations are in full swing, but suddenly adults cancel Christmas! Pikkuli and his friends set out on a secret mission to find the mythical Starlight Reindeer and save Christmas. They meet many obstacles and dangers, and finally find Starlight Reindeer - only to realise that what makes Christmas special is that they are all together. The kids return home, and the adults uncancel Christmas!

Will You Care If I Die? (Innan vi lyfter)
Support: 2,000,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Nordic Drama Queens
Director: Rojda Sekersöz
Writer: Wikor Ericsson
Pitch: Will You Care If I Die (working title) is a heartwarming drama filled with hope and courage. It tells the true story of the unexpected friendship between youth leader Nic and Elijah, a young basketball talent from a troubled background. The film honestly portrays the power that comes from having another human being believe in you.

Push the Button! (Tryck på Knappen!)
Support: 800,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: ÖGAT Film
Director: Anton Källrot
Writer: Anton Källrot
Pitch: Johanna’s journalistic career is going nowhere, she struggles with lack of focus and screen addiction. By chance, she comes across a tech-resistant movement and decides to write an article on its mysterious leader’s crusade against the internet. She joins a burnt-out influencer, a shaman, and two blasé advertisers on a wild road trip, changing the course of her life and perhaps the future of humanity.

The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands
Support: 2,000,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: HOBAB
Director: Nathalie Alvarez Mesen
Writers: Sjón & Nathalie Alvarez Mesen
Pitch: In 19th-century rural North America, Isabel, a Native American governess, grapples with her lost heritage and Christian upbringing while educating two white sisters. As household tensions arise with a forced marriage and an obsessive wolf hunt, mystical elements surface, prompting Isabel to question the patriarchal traditions that she is instilling.

Bad Moon Rising
Support: 1,200,000
Country: Norway
Production company: PARADOX RETTIGHETER
Director: Erik Poppe
Writer: Jon Fosse
Pitch: Jon Fosse’s hidden film gem. The Nobel Prize-winning author’s only original screenplay is finally becoming a feature film. With Erik Poppe at the helm, Bad Moon Rising unfolds in a majestic Norwegian landscape - a lyrical and heartfelt story of love, distance and silence. Gerd longs for closeness. Asle drifts toward the sea. And love slowly unravels.

Bloodsuckers
Support: 900,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Mylla Films
Director: Elin Grönblom
Writers: Elin Grönblom, Josefin Sonck
Pitch: Johanna (38) is heading off on a well-deserved vacation with her family. A visit to the deep Scandinavian forest leaves her drawn to a mesmerising dark marsh where relentless mosquitoes seem to awaken something within her. As their bites take hold, her selfish instincts emerge, driving a disturbing transformation of her as a mother.

Fjord
Support: 2,000,000
Country: Norway
Production company: EYE EYE PICTURES
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Writer: Cristian Mungiu
Pitch: Mihai and Lisbet, religious parents of five, move from Romania to a small Norwegian village and befriend their neighbours, whose daughter is the same age as their eldest. When the school suspects them of disciplining their children with slaps, actions are taken, sparking a debate on cultural differences, tolerance, freedom, and intimacy in an increasingly progressive world.

The Swindle (Svindler)
Support: 1,700,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: The Bunch
Director: Mikkel Serup
Writers: Thor Bjørn Krebs, Mikkel Serup
Pitch: A lonely police investigator is determined to expose a corrupt businessman, but his case is going nowhere. That is, until he meets a charming woman - only to realise she’s using him in her own scheme to con the same businessman. An unlikely partnership is formed between the righteous cop and the con artist. She wants money. He wants justice. Maybe they can have each other?

Blue Baby (Hetki ennen valoa)
Support: 1,500,000
Country: Finland
Production company: Making Movies
Director: Klaus Härö
Writers: Kirsi Vikman, Jimmy Karlsson
Pitch: A drama about two women, motherhood and a new fragile life in the middle of care crisis and nurses’ strike.

Almost There (Suser avgårde)
Support: 800,000
Country: Norway
Production company: Motlys
Director: Rikke Gregersen
Writer: Rakel Kraft Biørnstad
Pitch: Almost There follows the tragicomic yet endearing Agnes (29), as she desperately tries to hold on to her youth in a world that refuses to stand still, capturing the chaos, pressure, humour, and melancholy that come with it. Through Agnes and her circle of friends, the film paints a razor-sharp generational portrait of young adults.

Vampyr
Support: 2,000,000
Country: Norway
Production company: Maipo Film
Director: Arild Fröhlich
Writers: Jørgen Færøy Flasnes, Aleksander Kirkwood Brown
Pitch: A struggling author, who is obsessed with Edvard Munch, finds himself on the verge of madness when he’s dragged into a dangerous murder mystery that uncovers a horrifying truth about the world-famous painter and rewrites history as we know it.

DANSKER
Support: 3,500,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Ja Film
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Writers: Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Eskil Vogt
Pitch: James has fled to Denmark from a dark past filled with trauma and violence in Turkey. He dreams of starting over, building a meaningful life, and creating a family. But violence follows him, gradually drawing him into the criminal underworld. To save what remains of his family, James must confront both his past and the cycle of violence.

The Kidnapping of a President (Kyyditys)
Support: 1,400,000
Country: Finland
Production company: TACK Films
Director: Samuli Valkama
Writers: Samuli Valkama, John Lundsten
Pitch: In 1930s Finland, a group of far-right extremists, fueled by nationalism, incompetence and alcohol, kidnap the first president of Finland in an attempt to spark a political uprising. Their poorly planned coup spirals into chaos. Based on true events.

Journey to the Christmas Star (Reisen til julestjernen)
Support: NOK 3,500,000
Country: Norway
Production company: STORM FILMS
Director: John Andreas Andersen
Writers: Philip Lazebnik, Kamilla Krogsveen
Pitch: A spectacular animated musical, based on Norway’s most beloved holiday play. Written by Philip LaZebnik (Pocahontas, Mulan) and directed by John Andreas Andersen (#24), this high-end co-production follows Sonja on a quest to restore the lost Christmas Star, facing magic, adventure, and thrilling challenges. The film delivers soaring melodies, making it a cross-generational holiday event.

Santa’s workshop (Julenissens verksted)
Support: 2,500,000
Country: Norway
Production company: Qvisten Animation
Director: Mette Rank Tange, Rasmus A. Sivertsen
Writers: Ingrid Haukelidsæter, Mina Stenebråten, Karsten Fullu
Pitch: Before Christmas, Mari's Christmas list vanishes - but she finds a strange glove in her room. The glove sends Mari, her father & her grandma on a wild journey to find Santa's workshop. The glove belongs to Stubby, an elf who must stop Mari from finding Santa's workshop! Their trip through snowy landscapes & encounter with the elves opens their eyes to each other, and to the real magic of Christmas.

Drama series

Vanished
Support: NOK 1,500,000
Country: Iceland
Production company: Zik Zak Filmworks
Director: Oskar Thor Axelsson
Writer: Mikael Torfason
Pitch: Her father vanished in the aftermath of Communism's collapse in East Germany. His body is found twenty years later, after capitalism has collapsed in Iceland. This is the story of three generations of women rising up against the old systems, built by men, to reclaim their voices and write a new story of their own.

Rivals
Support: NOK 2,100,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Apple Tree Productions
Director: Roni Ezra
Writer: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Pitch: A biologist’s fight to rewild a river causes deep division in the town of Elverkilde. As her struggle for the river intensifies, she loses her husband and is left alone with their five children. At the same time, a journalist settles in town to explore the history of his ancestors. An exploration, which unveils a hidden mystery from the past and ignites new rivalries in the town of Elverkilde.

Avalanche (Flóðið)
Support: NOK 2,000,000
Country: Iceland
Production company: Glassriver
Director: Þórður Pálsson
Writer: Ottar M. Norðfjord
Pitch: Avalanche follows Freyja, a sharp meteorologist who returns to her northern Icelandic hometown, convinced an avalanche could breach its defenses. She hasn’t been back in 14 years - not since she accidentally killed her best friend by drunkenly driving into the harbour. Shunned by the community and burdened with an inconvenient truth, Freyja must confront both the looming disaster and her own past.

Still Breathing (LIS)
Support: NOK 3,500,000
Country: Norway
Production company: Rubicon Produksjon
Director: Eirik Svensson
Writer: Karianne Lund
Pitch: In a medium-sized Norwegian city, at a somewhat worn hospital, Petra (26) has just started her internship. Together with hopeful interns Joakim, Ashan, and Kissy, she will be thrown into a job where the days are long, the patients are many, and the medical cases are complicated. Petra is conscientious and ambitious, and aims to become the very best doctor - and still be in the job for the future.

Documentaries

Frost Without Snow and Ice (Frost uten Snø og Is)
Support: NOK 700,000
Country: Norway
Production company: ARTIC LIGHT
Director: Asgeir Helgestad
Pitch: Over a decade on Svalbard, the fastest warming place on earth, Norwegian filmmaker Asgeir follows the extraordinary life of a polar bear named Frost – a mother struggling to raise her cubs in a melting Arctic. This intimate journey transforms him from observer to storyteller, driven by his passion to connect with nature and reveal the devastating impact of climate change on this fragile ecosystem.

ORSOQ - Seasons of Solitude (ORSOQ)
Support: NOK 650,000
Country: Greenland
Production company: Ánorâk Film
Director: Inuk Silis Høegh
Pitch: ORSOQ is an exploration of man’s longing for solitude. In an ambitious cinematic form, the film zooms in on people who have voluntarily chosen a life of loneliness. But who – no matter what they do – remain caught between the calmness of isolation and the need for community.

Godmother (Gudmor)
Support: NOK 850,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Danish Documentary Production
Directors: Adam Nielsen, Andreas Koefoed
Pitch: It looks like love, but it’s manipulation. That’s how life inside the sect House of the Holy Father is described in this emotionally charged story of psychological control. Three defectors reenact their experiences from behind the walls of the sect in collaboration with some of the most acclaimed actors in the Nordic region. How to surrender to another person? What is the anatomy of manipulation?

Good Girls
Support: NOK 500,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Story
Director: Ania Winiarska
Pitch: In a correctional centre for girls, teens are kept safe from the society and themselves, getting reprogrammed to become good female citizens in today’s Poland. But what does it take to become a “good girl”? And is that even something they want?

Menopause Revolution
Support: NOK 850,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Hansen & Pedersen
Director: Louise Unmack Kjeldsen
Pitch: Menopause Revolution is a documentary about the complex anatomy of menopause and the scientific struggle to understand it. Through her own experience with severe menopause symptoms, the director brings us close to four scientists and their efforts to produce new knowledge that can improve women's lives and change society’s view on menopause.

Louder than Silence
Support: NOK 700,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Elk Film
Director: Camille Bildsøe
Pitch: In war-torn Afghanistan, a vibrant circus becomes a refuge for hundreds of children. Told through the eyes of two young protagonists, the film gives an intimate insight into life under the Taliban, exploring the harsh transition from childhood to adulthood. The film portrays the stark realities faced by both girls and boys but also an unquenchable ability to create space for hope and for dreams.

The Beauty of Errors (Kappale Kauneinta Suomea)
Support: NOK 650,000
Country: Finland
Production company: Mouka Filmi
Director: Jukka Kärkkäinen
Pitch: The Beauty of Errors shows the importance of a family in a rural small village, where your mistakes do not define you.

DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT

The Hypnosis (Hypnosen)
Support: NOK 140,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Distribution company: FILMBAZAR

Honey
Support: NOK 40,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Distribution company: Smorgasbord Picture House

The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren)
Support: NOK 100,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Distribution company: Scanbox Entertainment Sweden

Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel (Kaptein Sabeltann og Grevinnen av Gral)
Support: NOK 100,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Distribution company: Angel Distribution

Lotte & Totte (Lotte & Totte: Min første ven)
Support: NOK 135,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

Super Charlie
Support: NOK 190,000
Distribution country: Finland
Distribution company: Nordisk Film

The Summer Book (Sommarboken)
Support: NOK 140,000
Distribution country: Norway
Distribution company: SF Norge

The Summer Book
Support: NOK 90,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Distribution company: SF Studios

The Ugly Stepsister
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Distribution company: Scanbox Entertainment

When in Rome (Rom)
Support: NOK 90,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Distribution company: Heimili kvikmyndanna ses

The Last Journey (Den sista resan)
Support: NOK 90,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Distribution company: Heimili kvikmyndanna ses

When the Light Breaks (Ljósbrot)
Support: NOK 130,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Distribution company: Njutafilms

Home Sweet Home (Hjem kære hjem)
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Norway
Distribution company: MER FILMDISTRIBUSJON

The Girl With the Needle (Pigen med nålen)
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Norway
Distribution company: MER FILMDISTRIBUSJON

Heavier Trip (Hevimpi reissu)
Support: NOK 85,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Distribution company: Heimili kvikmyndanna ses.

Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi)
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Finland
Distribution company: Nordisk Film Oy

Back to Reality (Den sidste viking)
Support: NOK 100,000
Distribution country: Finland
Distribution company: Nordisk Film Oy

DUBBING SUPPORT

Handbook for Superheroes (Handbok för superhjältar)
Support: NOK 300,000
Language: Swedish
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

Super Charlie
Support: NOK 90,000
Dubbing language: Finnish, Norwegian, Danish
Distribution company: Nordisk Film

Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel
Support: NOK 55,000
Dubbing language: Danish
Distribution company: Angel Distribution

Fleak
Support: NOK 300,000
Dubbing language: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES SUPPORT

Oslo Digital Cinema Conference 2025
Support: NOK 110,000
Country: Norway
Organiser: LATERNA MAGICA Paul Roestad
Pitch: Oslo Digital Cinema Conference (ODCC) is a bi-annual Conference and arena for exchange and transfer of knowledge between cinematographers and international experts, in the latest technological developments in cinematography and film production.

Film Sales Support 2025
Support: NOK 70,000
Country: Germany
Organiser: European Film Promotion
Pitch: FILM SALES SUPPORT (FSS) is a programme for European sales companies. It is designed to help promote and sell European films outside Europe. FSS offers grants of EUR 5,000 or EUR 5,500 (including the Inclusion Top Up Grant) to European sales companies.

New Nordic Films 2025
Support: NOK 580,000
Country: Norway
Organiser: Den Norske Filmfestivalen
Pitch: New Nordic Films is an annual Nordic Film Market and an international Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market. NNF gathers 300 participants and is an efficient place for networking, sales, financing and business within the Nordic film industry.

Nordic Animation - Annecy Hub 2025
Support: NOK 110,000
Country: Norway
Organiser: Mikrofilm
Pitch: Nordic Animation seeks support to coordinate a joint Nordic booth and delegation at Mifa 2025. The initiative will promote Nordic animated content, boost co-productions, and strengthen the region’s global visibility through a unified presence, targeted networking, and shared branding at the world’s leading animation market.

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