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Exclusive: Viaplay has lightened the tone of its originals slate with the greenlight of R.S.V.P., a Swedish romcom featuring The Emigrants star Lisa Carlehed as lead.

Airing later this year and based on award-winning Danish feature Long Story Short, the Nent streamer’s latest spans four years and is structured around nine chapters, each of which focuses on a different holiday celebration. At the center of the narrative is Klara (Carlehed), a 37-year-old single nurse whose perpetual search for love is increasingly causing her to question whether it even exists.

Miso Film, who last week revealed it had signed former Dr Head of Drama Christian Rank, is producing, award-winning Jordskott actor Moa Gammel is directing and Ella Lemhagen is writing.

Alongside Carlehed, who was recently nominated for Best Actress at Sweden’s Guldbagge Awards for Erik Poppe’s The Emigrants, the film features Oscar Töringe (Thin Blue Line...

It’s a film starring Sundance Film Fest creator Robert Redford and another film starring Sundance mainstay James Franco that are the latest and last items to officially pad the 2015 edition. Ken Kwapis’ A Walk in the Woods (surely to be discussed as a companion piece to Gus Van Sant’s heavy Cannes contender The Sea of Trees) and Rupert Goold’s directorial debut, True Story – a story that is stranger than fiction close out the Premieres selections. Also announced we find items for New Frontier, Sundance Kids and the From the Collection items. And while the line-up is complete, the actual final piece to the puzzle might actually be a secret screening or two. This year I wager on Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups playing as a non official showing. Here’s the press release.

A Walk in the Woods / U.S.A. (Director: Ken Kwapis, Screenwriters: Rick Kerb,...

Sundance: Robert Redford stars opposite Nick Nolte in Salt Lake City gala

Festival top brass announced on December 15 a volley of 10 additional films and New Frontier installations.

The late arrivals mean the festival will screen 123 features overall from 29 countries culled from 12,166 submissions. A total of 106 of the features will be world premieres and 45 of the total line-up hail from first-time film-makers,

Sundance is set to run from January 22-February 1.

All synopses provided by the festival.

Premieres

A Walk In The Woods (USA)

Ken Kwapis

An aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged high school buddy. Along the way, the duo face off with each other, nature, and an eccentric assortment of characters. Together, they learn that some roads are better left untraveled.

Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal.

World premiere

Salt Lake City Gala Film

True Story (USA)

Rupert Goold

When disgraced New York...

This buzzed-about Canadian drama had its world premiere as part of the Whistler Film Festival this past November. Now we've got the world premiere of the film's very first trailer to share with you.

Mad Ship follows the quixotic depression-era story of a Scandinavian immigrant who, upon the death of his beloved wife, decides to build a huge boat and sail out of the Prairie’s dust-bowl. Behind the camera is first-time director David Mortin and stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Gil Bellows, Line Verndal, Gage Munroe, Martha Burns, Lane Styles, Aidan Devine and Rachel Blanchard.

The preview makes its television debut tonight on Et Canada but we've got it exclusively for you online here at Cineplex.com. Check out the first official trailer, courtesy of D Films, from the Manitoba-based story after the cut!

Mad Ship is loosely based on the depression-era true story of a Scandinavian immigrant who, upon the death of his beloved wife, decided to build a huge boat and sail out of the Prairie’s dust-bowl. A captivating tale that has long caught the eye of many a storyteller, it's first-time director David Mortin who has taken up the challenge to bring the unusual, quixotic Canadian tale to the big screen

Shot in Manitoba, the film stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Gil Bellows, Line Verndal, Gage Munroe, Martha Burns, Lane Styles, Aidan Devine and Rachel Blanchard. Premiering November 30 at the Whistler Film Festival, the film is set for a limited release in early 2013.

Check out the first official poster from the film after the cut, just in time for its festival debut...

(Lena Endre, above. Photo by Marica Rosengard.)

by Terry Keefe

Although best known on the U.S. shores for her role of Erika Berger in the films based on the Stieg Larsson "Millenium Trilogy" books (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest), Swedish actress Lena Endre has been an international star for years, having worked in her home country with the likes of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman. Her newest film, Limbo, contains a richly dramatic character study by Endre that would have been worthy of inclusion in a Bergman film.

Limbo features actress Line Verndal as a Norwegian woman named Sonia, who has been living quite independently in her home country for years, raising her two children. Her husband Jo (Henrik Rafaelsen) works as an oil engineer in Trinidad, and life changes dramatically for Sonia when...