Nearly 40 New Nordic Feature Films Screening In Berlin

“The night before EFM still feels like Christmas eve, so many expectations, so much buzz and with the line-up we have this year, we will be sure to have a full schedule, “ said TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis one the eve of  EFM. Heading the company’s slate will be competition entry In Order of Disappearance, out of competition film Nymphomaniac Volume 1and Berlinale Special Someone You Love. The action drama On the Edge is screening at the market as well as the family films The Christmas for Solan & Ludvig, Hocus Pocus Alfie Atkins and much anticipated Doctor Proctors Fart Powder, shown at a closed screening. (For Berlin listing click here.)

Svensk Filmindustri is screening five new titles: a promo of Ole Bornedal’s war epic 1864, Mikael Persbrandt’s vehicle Nobody Owns Me, Tarik Saleh’s Tommy and the children’s films Annabel’s Spectacularities and JerryMaya’s Detective Agency-von Broms Secret. (For Berlin listing click here.)

Balancing their Nordic titles with foreign pick-ups, LevelK (click here) and The Yellow Affair (click here), each who have one Nordic title at the festival’s Generation sidebar (The Contest and Broken Hill Blues [Ömheten - pictured] respectively) and projects in post-production carried by a good buzz from their Gothenburg WiP screenings. Those are Christina Rosendahl’s political thriller The Idealist sold by LevelK and JP Valkeapää’s They Have Escaped sold by The Yellow Affair. Company CEO Miira Pasiliina is also screening at EFM the Finnish drama Heart of a Lion. 

Copenhagen Bombay Sales (click here), who had an excellent Berlin 2012 with the 3D animation film The Great Bear comes back to the Generation section this year with Beyond Beyond by the same director Esben Toft Jacobsen, as well as the coming of age film Songs for Alexis.

Other festival selections and award-winning films making their EFM screening debuts are Blind (Versatile), A Thousand Times Goodnight (Global Screen), Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead (Elle Driver), The Hour of the Lynx (The Match Factory), Of Horses and Men (Film Sharks), XL (Cinemavault), Metalhead (Picture Tree International), The Disciple (Långfilm Production), Antboy (Attraction Distribution), The Quiet Roar (Bac Films), Something Must Break (outplay) and Hotell (MK2).

In the mainstream genre, Studio Canal will be pushing sales on the Scandinavian smash hit The 100 year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared selected for the Berlinale Special and pre-sold to several key territories (such as France, the UK, Germany) and Sola Media the comedy hit The Andersson’s Hit the Road.

Finally within documentary, sales agents will use the festival exposure of several high profile films to try to close sales, such as Films Boutique with Concerning Violence, screening at Berlin’s Panorama after Sundance and Gothenburg, First Hand Films representing Trespassing Bergman and Cinephil handling the world premiere of the ground-breaking international doc-series Cathedrals of Culture co-produced by Denmark and Norway.