The Danish film “The Venus Effect” unfurls within the deceptively tranquil confines of rural Denmark, where the protagonist, Liv, a woman in her twenties, moves through a life pre-plotted with an agreeable boyfriend and the familial rhythms of an apple orchard.
Hers is a world of expected progressions, of seasons turning reliably. Into this carefully cultivated existence arrives Andrea, an agent of vibrant disruption. Characterized by an artistic spirit and a free, somewhat chaotic energy, Andrea is the antithesis of Liv’s measured reality.
Their immediate, almost perplexing, connection forms the film’s magnetic core, signaling not merely a romantic deviation but the inception of a profound journey into self-understanding. The narrative sets its sights on exploring the often-unforeseen paths to realizing one’s desires, charting the subtle and significant transformations that follow such awakenings.
Charting the Tides of New Desire
The dynamic between Liv and Andrea ignites with a palpable chemistry,...
Hers is a world of expected progressions, of seasons turning reliably. Into this carefully cultivated existence arrives Andrea, an agent of vibrant disruption. Characterized by an artistic spirit and a free, somewhat chaotic energy, Andrea is the antithesis of Liv’s measured reality.
Their immediate, almost perplexing, connection forms the film’s magnetic core, signaling not merely a romantic deviation but the inception of a profound journey into self-understanding. The narrative sets its sights on exploring the often-unforeseen paths to realizing one’s desires, charting the subtle and significant transformations that follow such awakenings.
Charting the Tides of New Desire
The dynamic between Liv and Andrea ignites with a palpable chemistry,...
- 5/27/2025
- by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
- Gazettely
The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the 53 Nordic Films that will take part in the latest edition of the Nordic Film Market, running February 2 – 5. Scroll down for the list.
The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.
The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.
Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.
Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition.
The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.
The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.
Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.
Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition.
- 1/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Deals also for France, Germany, Spain.
Danish drama As In Heaven, which was a prizewinner at San Sebastian 2021 and screens at Rotterdam and Goteborg this week, has added deals in a slew of territories including theatrical buys in France (UFO Distribution) and North America (Juno Films).
LevelK has also sold the film to a number of high-profile platforms, for UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Viaplay); Spain and Portugal (Filmin); and Eastern Europe (HBO).
The film won San Sebastian’s best director and best leading performance awards. It also played at Toronto, BFI London Film Festival, Busan and Hamburg; with current...
Danish drama As In Heaven, which was a prizewinner at San Sebastian 2021 and screens at Rotterdam and Goteborg this week, has added deals in a slew of territories including theatrical buys in France (UFO Distribution) and North America (Juno Films).
LevelK has also sold the film to a number of high-profile platforms, for UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Viaplay); Spain and Portugal (Filmin); and Eastern Europe (HBO).
The film won San Sebastian’s best director and best leading performance awards. It also played at Toronto, BFI London Film Festival, Busan and Hamburg; with current...
- 2/1/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Deals also for France, Germany, Spain.
Danish drama As In Heaven, which was a prizewinner at San Sebastian 2021 and screens at Rotterdam and Goteborg this week, has added deals in a slew of territories including theatrical buys in France (UFO Distribution) and North America (Juno Films).
LevelK has also sold the film to a number of high-profile platforms, for UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Viaplay); Spain and Portugal (Filmin); and Eastern Europe (HBO).
The film won San Sebastian’s best director and best leading performance awards. It also played at Toronto, BFI London Film Festival, Busan and Hamburg; with current...
Danish drama As In Heaven, which was a prizewinner at San Sebastian 2021 and screens at Rotterdam and Goteborg this week, has added deals in a slew of territories including theatrical buys in France (UFO Distribution) and North America (Juno Films).
LevelK has also sold the film to a number of high-profile platforms, for UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Viaplay); Spain and Portugal (Filmin); and Eastern Europe (HBO).
The film won San Sebastian’s best director and best leading performance awards. It also played at Toronto, BFI London Film Festival, Busan and Hamburg; with current...
- 2/1/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The director talks taking inspiration from ‘Carrie’, Islam and motherhood.
Danish director Tea Lindeburg’s feature debut As In Heaven – which receives its European premiere in the main competition at San Sebastian Film Festival today (September 19) – provides an unflinching look at the brutality of motherhood, as told through the eyes of a young teenage girl named Lise (Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl), living in Denmark’s countryside in the late 1800s.
Across the space of a single day, we see Lise’s life change forever when the girl, who is the eldest of a large brood of children, sees her mother...
Danish director Tea Lindeburg’s feature debut As In Heaven – which receives its European premiere in the main competition at San Sebastian Film Festival today (September 19) – provides an unflinching look at the brutality of motherhood, as told through the eyes of a young teenage girl named Lise (Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl), living in Denmark’s countryside in the late 1800s.
Across the space of a single day, we see Lise’s life change forever when the girl, who is the eldest of a large brood of children, sees her mother...
- 9/19/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Lise, 14, walks in a cornfield on a sunny day, her pañm brushing its spikes. Suddenly, the sky darkens and a sinister red cloud builds in the distance, moving ominously towards her, then raining blood on her face.
The next day, Lise, the eldest of eight siblings, will become the first in her family to go away to school. But then a dramatic turn of events puts her future in doubt.
Set on a farmstead in late nineteenth century West Jutland in Denmark, “As in Heaven” marks the feature debut of Tea Lindeburg. Sold by Denmark LevelK, it is based on a literary classic, “En Dødsnat” (“A Night of Death”), the 1912 novel by Marie Bregendahl. Its blood cloud opening sequence turns out to be a premonitory dream, as Lise awakes in her bed on the morning of a day that may change her life altogether.
Which in a way seems to...
The next day, Lise, the eldest of eight siblings, will become the first in her family to go away to school. But then a dramatic turn of events puts her future in doubt.
Set on a farmstead in late nineteenth century West Jutland in Denmark, “As in Heaven” marks the feature debut of Tea Lindeburg. Sold by Denmark LevelK, it is based on a literary classic, “En Dødsnat” (“A Night of Death”), the 1912 novel by Marie Bregendahl. Its blood cloud opening sequence turns out to be a premonitory dream, as Lise awakes in her bed on the morning of a day that may change her life altogether.
Which in a way seems to...
- 9/10/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Title is Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature.
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature, As in Heaven, which has been confirmed for Toronto’s Discovery section and will also screen in the main competition at San Sebastian.
Writer/director Lindeburg has previously worked in television and is the creator and writer of the Danish Netflix production Equinox.
As in Heaven follows 14-year-old Lise, the eldest of her siblings, who experiences the harsh reality of farm life in the 19th century. She is poised to become the first in her family to go away to school,...
LevelK has boarded international sales rights to Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg’s debut feature, As in Heaven, which has been confirmed for Toronto’s Discovery section and will also screen in the main competition at San Sebastian.
Writer/director Lindeburg has previously worked in television and is the creator and writer of the Danish Netflix production Equinox.
As in Heaven follows 14-year-old Lise, the eldest of her siblings, who experiences the harsh reality of farm life in the 19th century. She is poised to become the first in her family to go away to school,...
- 7/28/2021
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Danish helmer Janus Metz’s next feature project after Amazon Studios’ “All the Old Knives,” starring Laurence Fischburne and Chris Pine, will be the Danish drama “Bastard Love,” produced by Jesper Morthorst and Lise Orheim Stender for Motor.
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
“Bastard Love” will be Metz’s sophomore Scandinavian feature film after the multi-awarded ”Borg vs. McEnroe.” The project is co-penned by Metz and Danish author Kamilla Hega Holst from her acclaimed novel “På Træk,” winner of the 2015 Blixen Literary Award.
The intense psychological drama centers on a woman in her late thirties who leaves her failed marriage, ex-husband and two kids, and ends up in Pattaya, Thailand, where her retired grandfather is living with a Thai woman. There, she starts a relationship with a trans prostitute and throws herself into the dark underbelly of the city, where anything is possible, including redefining herself.
The Thai setting is familiar territory for Holst whose grandfather lived in Pattaya,...
- 2/7/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Other Winners include The War Show, Tom of Finland, Heartstone.
Swedish director Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood won the Dragon award for best nordic feature in Goteborg, worth $114,000 (1m Sek), making it one of the most lucrative prizes at any international film festival.
Kernell’s debut feature is a drama about a teenage Sami girl who resolves to leave behind her identity in racist 1930s society and start a new life in Uppsala. Kernell, who has Sami heritage, was inspired by her grandmother’s own story. At the Goteborg awards gala, Kernell (pictured) thanked “the elders who shared their stories with me”.
The film also won the Sven Nykvist cinematography award for DoP Sophia Olsson.
Sami Blood premiered in Venice Days and then played at festivals including Toronto, Tokyo and Dubai. LevelK handles sales.
Other winners in Goteborg were: best Nordic documentary to Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Dalsgaard’s Syria story The War Show, which the jury...
Swedish director Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood won the Dragon award for best nordic feature in Goteborg, worth $114,000 (1m Sek), making it one of the most lucrative prizes at any international film festival.
Kernell’s debut feature is a drama about a teenage Sami girl who resolves to leave behind her identity in racist 1930s society and start a new life in Uppsala. Kernell, who has Sami heritage, was inspired by her grandmother’s own story. At the Goteborg awards gala, Kernell (pictured) thanked “the elders who shared their stories with me”.
The film also won the Sven Nykvist cinematography award for DoP Sophia Olsson.
Sami Blood premiered in Venice Days and then played at festivals including Toronto, Tokyo and Dubai. LevelK handles sales.
Other winners in Goteborg were: best Nordic documentary to Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Dalsgaard’s Syria story The War Show, which the jury...
- 2/5/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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