Thomas Vinterberg, Katja Gauriloff, Mika Gustafson among latest Fund recipients

Feature Film Support

• COLD (Kuldi)
  Grant: NOK 1,000,000
  Recipient: Compass Film, Iceland
  Producer: Heather Millard
  Writer/Director: Erlingur Thoroddsen
  Domestic distribution: Sena
  Logline: As Óðinn investigates decades-old deaths at a juvenile treatment centre, he begins to suspect that the sinister secrets he uncovers are connected to his ex-wife’s mysterious suicide — as well as his teenage daughter’s strange behaviour.
  
  The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel Kuldi by top crime novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (I Remember You). Genre-oriented writer/director Erlingur Thoroddsen, whose short film Child Eater travelled to numerous festivals, said about his project: “Cold is a post-modern deconstruction of the scandi-noir genre, where expectations are upended multiple times in shocking and thrilling ways.”
  
  Filming in two blocks will be split between summer and winter 2022. The film received support from the Icelandic Film Centre, Iceland’s 25% reimbursement scheme, RÚV, and Belgian Tax Shelter. Scanbox will handle the release in the Nordics outside Iceland, handled by Sena. Delivery is set for late 2023/early 2024.
• JE’VIDA
  Grant: NOK 1,000,000
  Recipient: Oktober, Finland
  Producer: Joonas Berghäll
  Director: Katja Gauriloff
  Domestic distribution: TBA
  Logline: Je’Vida is the first film ever made in the Skolt Sámi language. The story structured in three different time periods centres on a woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation.
  
  Seasoned director Katja Gauriloff (Baby Jane, Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest), has been digging into her own origins and family history for this important film shot in the endangered Skolt Sámi language.
  
  Filming started in March and will continue this summer. Delivery is set for 2023. Gauriloff’s second fiction film received backing from YLE, the Finnish Film Foundation, the International Sami Film Institute. Development and MEDIA Programme.
• Sisters
  Grant: NOK 1,100,000
  Recipient: Hobab, Sweden
  Producer: Nima Yousefi
  Director: Mika Gustafson
  Writers: Mika Gustafson, Alexander Öhrstrand
  Domestic distribution: TriArt
  Logline: The sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7) live alone in a working-class housing suburb in Sweden, as their mother often disappears for lengthy periods. When the social services get in touch, Laura is obliged to find someone to play their mom, to avoid the sisters being placed in foster care and separated.
  
  Rising talent Gustafson who picked up a Special Mention at Nordic Talents 2016 and a Guldbagge - Best Documentary in 2018 for the film Silvana, makes her fiction debut with this female-led drama.
  
  Sisters is produced by auteur-driven Hobab, in co-production with Finland’s Tuffi Films, Denmark’s Toolbox Film and Italy’s Intramovies, with co-financing from pubcasters SVT, DR, Yle, Film Stockholm, support from the Swedish Film Institute, the Danish Film Institute, the Finnish Film Foundation, and the Italian Ministry of Culture. TriArt will handle the release in Sweden, Scanbox in Denmark and Aurora Studios in Finland.

Series Support

• Families Like Ours (Familier som vores)
  Format: 6x45’
  Grant: NOK 3,500,000
  Recipient: Zentropa, Denmark
  Producers: Kasper Dissing, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
  Writers: Thomas Vinterberg, Bo H. Hansen
  Concept director: Thomas Vinterberg
  Commissioner: TV2 Denmark
  Global sales: Studiocanal, excl. France, Benelux, Scandinavia, handled by TrustNordisk
  Logline: The story takes place in summertime in Denmark, where everything seems normal, but is about to be disrupted. After a flood slowly takes over the country, it is gradually being evacuated. People must bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and to who they are. In the coming years, people disperse in all directions: only houses, schools and empty streets are left. Laura, a high school student in love for the first time, is on the brink of graduating, when news of the evacuation breaks out, a reality that will forever change the course of her life, and force her to choose between her divorced parents.
  
  The first series from multi-awarded director Thomas Vinterberg, is co-produced by TV2 Denmark, Studiocanal, Zentropa Sweden, Film i Väst, with co-financing from NRK, TV4/C More, support from the Danish Film Institute’s Public Service Fund, and Creative Europe. France’s Canal+ will platform the series as a Canal+ Création Originale.
  
  Families like Ours is set to shoot on location in Denmark, Sweden, and the Czech Republic in September 2022.

• Detective #24 (Detektiven från Beledweyne)
  Format: 6x45’
  Grant: NOK 2,000,000
  Recipient: B-Reel Films, Sweden
  Producers: Ulf Synnerholm, Olle Wirehed
  Head-writer: Aron Levander
  Concept director: Zaida Bergroth
  Key cast: Malin Levanon, Nasir Dhagole
  Commissioner: SVT
  Global sales: All3Media
  Logline: The story centres on a careless former prosecutor transferred to a job at a refugee detention centre, and an asylum seeker from Somalia who turns out to be a police investigative genius.
  
  The crime series with a twist from The Truth Will Out writer Aron Levander, is due to start in May in Västra Götaland. The show was co-produced by SVT, ZDF, and Film i Väst. The premiere on SVT is set for the spring 2023.

• X22 (working title)
  Format: 6x60 min
  Grant: NOK 2,000,000
  Recipient: Filmlance International, Sweden
  Producers: Mimmi Spång, Anders Landström
  Creator/head-writer/concept director: Jens Östberg
  Episodic writers: Pauline Wolff, Jörgen Hjerdt
  Commissioners: SVT, Viaplay
  Further details TBA

Distribution and Dubbing Support

• NOK 250,000 to Ymer Media, Norway for the release of the Swedish film Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling by Christian Lo.
• NOK 200,000 to Nordisk Film, Denmark for the release of the Swedish film I am Zlatan by Jens Sjögren.
  
• NOK140,000 to Nordisk Film, Denmark for the release of the Norwegian disaster film The North Sea by John Andreas Andersen.
• NOK 150,000 to Cinemanse, Finland for the release of the Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier.
• NOK 100,000 to Ymer Media, Norway for the dubbing of the Swedish film Mini-Zlatan and Uncle Darling by Christian Lo.
• NOK 95,000 to Myndform, Iceland for the dubbing of the Swedish animated film Bamse and the Thunderbell by Christian Ryltenius.
• NOK 90,000 to Myndform, Iceland for the dubbing of the Danish film All I Want for Christmas 2 by Christian Dyekjær.