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

Nordisk Film & TV Fond (NFTVF) granted NOK 14,400,000 to the production of seven films, 8,200,000 for four drama series, and 1,500,000 to two documentaries in Q3. In addition, NFTVF granted NOK 1,490,000 for distribution of nine Nordic films, and NOK 1,050, 000 for industry initiatives in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden.

TOP FINANCING

Feature films

The Closed Book (Den Lukkede Bog)
Support: NOK 3,400,000 Country: Denmark
Production company: SF Studios Production
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: Charlotte Sieling
Pitch: Copenhagen, 1880. Frederikke is set to marry a priest, when she happens to meet a handsome and visionary doctor. Frederik, who is vocal about women’s rights and helping the poor, opens her eyes to a modern way of life. When he proposes, Frederikke is thrown for a loop. Mesmerised and blindsighted, she breaks her engagement and gives him her yes, not knowing that freedom will come at a price…

Love and Other Diagnoses (Kärlek och andra diagnoser)
Support: NOK 1,000,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Anagram
Director: Daniel Sawka
Writer: Daniel Sawka
Pitch: A romantic dramedy about a young couple on the autism spectrum who try to answer life’s most difficult question: What the hell do you do when you fall in love?

The Earth is a Sinful Song (Maa on syntinen laulu)
Support: NOK 1,800,000
Country: Finland
Production company: Solar Films
Director: Mika Ronkainen
Writers: Mika Ronkainen, Venla Aakko
Pitch: In late 1940s Lapland, a young girl discovers her sexuality and begins to defy her father, with tragic consequences.

PLANEN
Support: NOK 2,000,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Toolbox Film
Director: Anders Ølholm
Writers: Anders Ølholm, Morten Pape
Pitch: PLANEN is based on Morten Pape's autofictional bestselling novel. A story about a time of unrest, seen through the bespectacled eyes of a 15 year old boy – taking place in the pivotal year of 2001 when two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center. After this, the world was divided into an us and a them, and having a foot in both camps could have serious consequences.

Somewhere Out There (Et Sted Derude)
Support: NOK 2,500,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Scanbox EntertainmentProduction
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Erlend Loe
Pitch: Lars and Klaus have had a lifelong friendship and are both in the winter of their lives. One day they have a major fallout, and before they have a chance to reconcile, Klaus dies. This leaves Lars behind with a lot of thoughts about their lives together as friends. He returns to that defining day in their youth when something happened that changed both their lives and the nature of their friendship.

Millie and the Secret of the Crocodile (Millie och krokodilens hemlighet)
Support: NOK 1,700,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Snowcloud Films
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Writer: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Pitch: The mouse Millie is scared of everything, but when her friend Morten falls into the river, she has to overcome her fears to save him. Archimedes the frog helps her. The adventure leads her to Crocodile Island, where she is captured. She refuses to give up. With new courage she frees all the animals on the island. The crocodile’s secret is fear of being alone, and Millie helps her so they can all live together.

The Trip to Piedmont (Resan till Piemonte)
Support: NOK 2,000,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: SF Studios Production
Director: Alexandra Therese Keining
Writer: Alexandra Therese Keining Pitch: Four newly retired friends go together to Italy, where Eva has inherited an olive farm. The idea is initially to sort out the legal aspects and sell the farm. But once there, the question arises: What do they really have to return to in Sweden?

Drama series

Team Nuggets (Karlas Fantalastiske Klasse)
Support: NOK 1,000,000
Country: Denmark
Production company: Sparre Productions
Directors: Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner
Writers: Tor Fruergaard, Michael Hegner
Pitch: Team Nuggets is a fast paced primary school comedy starring a fun line-up of very volatile and diverse classmates with all the craziness this implies. Navigating school life is a huge deal for these kids, emotions run high, lessons & schoolyard games often spill into chaos which can only be calmed by working out the important stuff; like friendship, understanding, and self-control.

Burden of Justice (Försvararna)
Support: NOK 2,000,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Strive Stories
Director: Lisa Linnertorp
Writer: Frans Milisic Wiklund
Pitch: Sasha and Kalle, top defence attorneys in Stockholm, have always prioritised success - Sasha for status and wealth, Kalle for excellence and justice. When Sasha gets personally involved in a rape case and Kalle takes on a major gang trial, their worlds are shaken. Facing ethical and personal dilemmas, they must reconsider what kind of lawyers - and people - they truly want to be.

Summer of 1985 (Svärtan)
Support: NOK 2 700 000
Country: Sweden
Production company: MR Studio International
Directors: Amy Deasismont, Björn Stein
Writer: Amy Deasismont
Pitch: When a group of teenagers gather to spend another summer in the archipelago, expectations run high. It is the summer of 1985, the Live Aid summer. But a mysterious drowning accident and a dying mermaid suddenly turn the idyllic summer into something completely different - something that threatens both their friendship and their survival…

Death of a Horse (Bless bless Blesi)
Support: NOK 2,500,000
Country: Iceland
Production company: Act4
Directors: Oskar Thor Axelsson, Álfheiður Marta Kjartansdóttir, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Writers: Birkir Blær Ingólfsson, Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson, Judith Angebauer
Pitch: Blesi is found dead. He had unexpectedly become the frontrunning horse in the National Championship, making his value a life-changing-amount for the owner, AUÐUR. As the police refuse to help her, she must run her own investigation in the eccentric community of Icelandic horse-riders, unearthing old secrets and secret aspirations. Soon lives are at stake - some of them human.

Documentary

The Whale Mystery (Hvalmysteriet)
Support: NOK 900,000
Country: Norway
Production company: Von Mørner AS
Director: Tonje Hessen Schei
Pitch: Every year, thousands of whales beach themselves in mass strandings. A group of scientists and technologists go on a worldwide quest for answers. Using artificial intelligence, they set out to decode interspecies communication that could forever alter our understanding of the natural world.

The Standard Man

Support: NOK 600,000
Country: Sweden
Production company: Mantaray Film
Directors: Weronika Mliczewska, Erik Lavesson, Tomas Stark
Pitch: A factory outside Hamburg produces the world’s best-selling anatomical skeleton model. They call it "Stan - The Standard Man". All the copies are reproduced from the same human remains: an unknown man stored in the basement of the factory. Who was this young man who continues to haunt our classrooms and hospitals today? The trail leads back to the dark history of anatomy during the Nazi era.

DISTRIBUTION FINANCING

A Mouse Hunt for Christmas (Hvis ingen går i fella)
Support: NOK 200,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Date of premiere: 6.11.2025
Distribution company: Nordisk Film Distribution

Fleak
Support: NOK 440,000
Distribution countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Date of premieres: 25.9.2025, 12.9.2025, 12.9.2025
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

Never Alone (Ei koskaan yksin)
Support: NOK 60,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Date of premiere: 25.9.2025
Distribution company: Studio Show Entertainment

Love (Kjærlighet)
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Denmark
Date of premiere: 14.8.2025
Distribution company: Camera Film

Eagles of the Republic
Support: NOK 140,000
Distribution country: Norway
Date of premiere: 14.11.2025
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

Sauna
Support: NOK 90,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Date of premiere: 22.9.2025
Distribution company: Bioparadis

The Last Viking (Den sidste viking)
Support: NOK 60,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Date of premiere: 30.10.2025
Distribution company: Smarabio

Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi)
Support: NOK 60,000
Distribution country: Iceland
Date of premiere: 6.11.2025
Distribution company: Smarabio

Sentimental Value
Support: NOK 150,000
Distribution country: Sweden
Date of premiere: 26.9.2025
Distribution company: Triart Film

The Dance Club
Support: NOK 140,000
Distribution country: Norway
Date of premiere: 10.10.2025
Distribution company: Svensk Filmindustri

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FINANCING

Nordisk Panorama Industry 2025
Support: NOK 600,000
Country: Sweden

Reykjavik International Film Festival Industry Days 2025
Support: NOK 100,000
Country: Iceland

Copenhagen TV Festival
Support: NOK 100,000
Country: Denmark

Finnish Film Affair (Helsinki International Film Festival)
Support: NOK 250,000
Country: Finland

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