The custody drama stars Ane Dahl Torp (Home Ground) as Alice (40) who realises she is about to lose custody of her two children. In a last attempt to win them back, she abducts them and ventures on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands, hoping that the distance between the frozen northern Sweden and the Canaries will buy her just enough time to reconnect with her children and possibly change the verdict of the custody case. Before she knows it, she is wanted for kidnapping and both the authorities and her ex-husband are chasing after her.

Borg vs McEnroe’s Sverrir Gudnason plays the father. 

The film is produced by Lars Lindström of Nordisk Film Production Sweden, in co-production with Nordisk Film Production Denmark, Nordisk Film Production Norway, SVT, TV2 Norge, with support among others from Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

TrustNordisk handles sales. The domestic release is set for March 13, 2020. 

Two Nordic documentaries have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary competition section: 

  • Into the Deep (World Premiere, Denmark)
    The film is directed by Emma Sullivan for Danish producer Mette Heide (The Queen of Versailles, Amanda Knox) of Plus Pictures.  Sullivan had started researching in 2016 the possibility to film Danish ‘inventor’ Peter Madsen and his goal to become the first amateur astronaut. But one year into the shooting, the events took a dramatic turn when Madsen murdered Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine.The film is an unprecedented revelation of a killer, and the journey his young helpers take as they reckon with their own complicity and prepare to testify.  It will premiere on Netflix in 2020.  
  • The Painter and the Thief (World Premiere, Norway)
    The film follows up on Benjamin Ree’s multi-awarded Magnus.

    Ingvil Giske produces for Medieoperatørene.  Ree has spent over three years filming the unusual friendship between artist Barbara ‘Barbar’ Kysolkova and the thief and drug addict who stole two of her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.

    The film is co-produced by Norway’s leading web channel VGTV. It will premiere in Norwegian cinemas in the spring 2020.  

The fourth Nordic Sundance entry is Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced, selected for the festival’s Spotlight Programme, dedicated to acclaimed films from 2019. Sweden’s Oscar candidate for Best International Feature Film will be released on February 7, 2020 in the US via Music Box. 

The leading US independent Film Festival in Park City, Salt Lake City, unfolds this year January 23-February 2, 2020.

In recent years several Nordic films have triumphed at the festival, the flagship programme of Robert Redford’s non-profit Sundance Institute.

Last year, May el-Toukhy’s Queen of Hearts scooped the Sundance Audience Award-World Cinema Dramatic Competition, while Mads Brügger was voted Best Director - World Docs for Cold Case Hammarskjöld. In 2018 Gustav Möller’s The Guilty won the Audience Award -World Cinema Dramatic, and the Icelandic film And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir won Best Director from the same section.

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