Ole Bornedal, Charlotte Sieling, Carl Olsson among latest Fund recipients

PRODUCTION SUPPORT

Feature films

• Nightwatch-Demons are Forever (Nattevagten-Dæmoner går i arv)
  Grant: NOK 1.5 million
  Recipient: Nordisk Film Production Denmark
  Producer: Thomas Heinesen
  Writer/director: Ole Bornedal
  Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulf Pilgaard, Fanny Bornedal, Paprika Steen Sonja Richter, Alex Høgh Andersen, Christopher Læssø.
  Logline: The sequel to Bornedal’s 1994 hit centres on Emma, a medical student, who takes on a night watch job in a forensic department. While investigating a dark chapter in her parents’ lives 30 years earlier, she awakens from his coma the psychopathic inspector Wörmer who almost killed them. The psycho-thriller is currently filming, with a delivery set for December 25, 2023. The film is co-produced by DR, ZDF, Nadcon, with support from the Danish Film Institute, and the West Danish Film Fund. Nordisk Film handles distribution in the Nordics and TrustNordisk global sales.

• Solitude (Working title) (Einvera)
  Grant: NOK 900,000
  Recipient: Pegasus Film, Iceland
  Producer: Lilja Osk Snorradóttir
  Writer: Rúnar Rúnarsson
  Director: Ninna Palmadóttir
  Domestic distribution: Samfilm
  Logline: An aged farmer moves to the city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighbourhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives. Palmadóttir’s feature debut won the ArteKino International Prize for Best Project at the Copro Village of Les Arcs European Film Festival 2021. The film is co-produced with Croatia’s MP Films.
• Way Home (Vejen hjem)
  Grant: NOK1.8 million
  Recipient: Toolbox Film, Denmark
  Producers: Signe Leick Jensen, Morten Kaufmann
  Writer: Nagieb Khaja, Jesper Fink
  Director: Charlotte Sieling
  Domestic distribution: Scanbox
  Logline: Suspense drama about a father in search of his son.
  Sieling’s next major feature film after Margrete-Queen of the North is co-produced by Norway’s Hummelfilm and Germany’s Tamtam Film. Further details will be announced at a later date.

DRAMA SERIES

• As Long as We Live (Svo lengi sem vid lifum)
  Format: 6x45’
  Grant: NOK 1.2 million
  Recipient: Glassriver, Iceland
  Producer: Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir, Hordur Rúnarsson
  Creator/writer: Anita Briem
  Director: Katrín Björgvinsdóttir
  Cast: Anita Briem, Martin Wallström
  Commissioners: Stöð 2, Iceland, C More/TV4 Sweden
  Global sales: Eccho Rights
  Logline: The series about love, lust and longing is Briem’s debut as series writer/director. Beta who was once a promising musician, finds herself in a stale marriage, struggling to be the mother she wants to be. When her new au-pair, a young boy, introduces her and her husband to flirting games, the couple’s relationship gets rekindled, but their marriage is put to test. The relationship drama which just wrapped filming, is due to premiere in Iceland early 2023. Lunanime in the Benelux is co-producing.

Documentaries

• Storm Alerts
  Grant: NOK 400,000
  Recipient: Firnindi Films, Iceland
  Producer: Magnús Árni Skúlason
  Director: Bergur Bernburg
  Domestic distribution: Síminn
  Logline: Forensic investigation into the mind of an Icelandic scholar in Copenhagen who all of a sudden finds himself at crossroads. A storm is brewing and he senses the change coming. Racing to escape, he finds himself in a state of mania.
• Soviet Barbara (working title)
  Grant: NOK 400,000
  Recipient: Ofvitinn, Iceland
  Producers: Guðrún Olsen, Gaukur Úlfarsson, Guðni Tómasson
  Director: Gaukur Úlfarsson
  Domestic distribution: RÚV
  Logline: In 1992, only a week after the fall of the Soviet Union, the American soap opera Santa Barbara became for ordinary Russians, a window into the western way of life and immensely popular with the nation. Thirty years later, Icelandic visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson creates a Russian living sculpture out of Santa Barbara and takes on the story of the fall of the Soviet Union.
  
  "My vision was always to try and capture Ragnar in a capsule of time where we would see him in his element. So opening an exhibition in a place like Moscow spelled out a tension that made me pursue this project. Then of course the war broke out and we, like everyone else, had to adapt our work accordingly,” said the director.
  
  The film which received support from the Icelandic Film Centre and private investors will be delivered later this year, with a premiere scheduled for 2023.
• Vintersaga
  Grant: NOK 500,000
  Recipient: Ginestra Film, Sweden
  Producer: Antonio Russo Merenda
  Director Carl Olsson
  Domestic distribution: SVT
  Logline: A song-structured tribute to the Swedish melancholy. Through 24 stanzas, the film observes a mosaic of situations and individuals, each with their own doubts, memories and dreams, shaping a picture of a land tinged by the bitter cold wind.

DISTRIBUTION AND DUBBING SUPPORT

• NOK 170,000 to SF Norge for the theatrical release in Norway of the Palme d’or winning Swedish film Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund.
• NOK 100,000 dubbing support to Copenhagen Bombay, Denmark for the dubbing in Danish of the Norwegian animation film Three Robbers and a Lion.

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES

• NOK 70,000 to Mirage DocFest, Oslo, a new international film festival for ‘the art of the real’, dedicated to artistic films with highly cinematic ambitions.