– The Danish sales agent presents a broad line-up spanning market screenings, genre titles and socially driven dramas, alongside key projects in post-production
Unraveled by Pernille Fischer Christensen
Danish international sales agent TrustNordisk returns to the Cannes Film Festival with a sizeable and genre-spanning slate for the Marché du Film (12-20 May), combining award-season titles, audience-driven genre films and character-led Nordic dramas. Several films will screen for buyers in completed form, while others are presented in post-production or at early financing stages.
Leading the market screenings is Frank & Louis, the English-language prison drama by Swiss director Petra Volpe (Late Shift), which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Also screening is Unraveled by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Becoming Astrid), a psychological drama following Maria, a former swimming champion turned successful commentator, whose carefully constructed life begins to collapse when a controversial novel appears to mirror her past (read the news). Scenes from Woman, Unknown by May el-Toukhy (Queen of Hearts, The Crown) will also be presented (read the news).
Among the upcoming titles, in the Nordic genre space, TrustNordisk presents Vampyr by Arild Fröhlich (Fatso, Wisting), a thriller blending murder mystery and art-world mythology, following a writer obsessed with Edvard Munch who becomes entangled in a case that begins to distort historical narratives. Danish drama What Lies Between Us (formerly Good Mothers) by Amalie Næsby Fick explores moral fractures within a suburban town after a teenage assault allegation destabilises a close-knit community. The cast includes Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sofie Gråbøl and Asta Kamma August (read the news).
Among the recent acquisitions is another social drama currently in post-production; Lionheart by Nagieb Khaja, which follows a young man attempting to leave behind a life of organised crime. As he tries to build a new future, loyalty, friendship and structural violence pull him back towards the environment he is trying to escape. On the lighter, high-concept side, Arne Goes to Space by Lars Vega offers a Scandinavian sci-fi dramedy about two ageing brothers in northern Sweden whose quiet rural life is disrupted when an alien crash-lands in their forest (read the news).
Among the standout upcoming titles is Amanda Kernell’s (Charter, Sámi Blood) Sámi-language drama Brace Your Heart, set in a remote reindeer-herding community where inheritance, desire and social pressure collide (read the news). Swedish director Rojda Sekersöz (My Life as a Comedian) presents Will You Care If I Die?, which follows the fragile relationship between a youth worker and a troubled teenager with exceptional basketball talent (read the news). My Fairytale Life, the latest feature by Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), reimagines the early life of Hans Christian Andersen in 19th-century Copenhagen (news).
Rounding off the slate, TrustNordisk will also feature a sneak peak of the Dogma25 project MR. NAWASHI by Swedish writer-director Isabella Eklöf (Holiday, Kalak), currently in production (read the news).
