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Exclusive: Production is underway on the Danish island of Funen on Girl Beast with a cast of Danish stars including Trine Dyrholm.

Girl Beast is the debut feature of Danish filmmaker Selma Sunniva, adapted from Cecilie Lind’s 2022 novel of the same name by Sunniva and Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen. The psychological drama explores how childhood trauma and dysfunctional relationships shape identity and sexuality in the teenage years of a young girl called Sara.

Newcomer Rebecca Ellen plays the lead role, having been discovered following a casting search of 300 young women. Joining Ellen on the cast are Melina Raja, The Girl With The Needle actress Dyrholm,...

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,...

A funny, heart-on-sleeve Danish drama that cleverly captures the complexities of coming out and queer identity with a character that wonders: am I gay enough to be gay?

Technically, this film is a romcom – in that it is funny and romantic. But it’s not a romcom in the sense of adhering to the formulaic character types and well-worn plot beats that we’re used to seeing the likes of Jennifers Aniston, Lawrence and Lopez navigate with such aplomb. It is the story of twentysomething Liv (Johanne Milland) and her burgeoning attraction to Andrea (Josephine Park), and is a lovely, well-acted and sincere Danish independent film with plenty of humour; it wears its tender heart on its sleeve and hews closely to the form and style of a coming-of-age film.

Nobody here is coming-of-age, though; they’re already-of-age, but in Liv’s discovery of her sexuality, perhaps it could be a coming-of-orientation film.

Baby Fever talks about a niche topic that I feel needs to be discussed more in films and series. I guess that’s the boon of platforms like Netflix, that one can experiment with the subject matter and not have the pressure of catering to public demand. Amalie Naesby Fick and Nikolaj Feifer, the creators of the show, made sure to not let the humor and the lightheartedness of the series overpower the gravity of things. I believe that it is the trickiest thing to keep the balance of things right when one is writing a screenplay where they want to keep the execution of the narrative lighthearted, though they are dealing with topics that demand a certain sincerity and seriousness. Today, we are seeing an increase in the hybrid genre films, probably because filmmakers have cracked the code of saying what they want to while keeping the audience entertained...

Netflix has announced that season two of the romantic comedy-drama Baby Fever, starring Josephine Park in the lead role, will launch globally on August 22, 2024.

The fertility doctor, Nana, is now a mother to a two-month-old baby. But Nana hates being on maternity leave. Surrounded by pizza boxes, baby lullabies, and sheer boredom, she makes the drastic decision to beg her old boss, Helle, to give her back her job.

Helle agrees, but only if Nana can start tomorrow. Now in desperate need of a babysitter, the only option is her eccentric mother, the desktop singer Lisa Lacour, who, as a babysitter arrangement from hell, moves into Nana’s tiny apartment.

At Dovi, Helle has hired a new star doctor, the flawless Hampus, who, with his Swedish perfectness, makes it difficult for Nana to reclaim her rockstar status at the clinic. Just when Nana thinks it can’t get any worse,...

Copenhagen-based sales and financing outlet REinvent has inked major deals on the Danish/German thriller “Oxen”, ahead of its screening Feb. 19 as part of the Berlinale Series Market Selects label.

The show, produced by Scandi major Sf Studios with Germany’s Square One for TV2 Denmark and Zdf, has been acquired by Gsn Networks for the UK, AMC for Spain/Portugal as well as Orion Group for Poland.

An earlier pre-sale was closed with Lumière for Benelux: Further deals are pending for the U.S. and Latin America according to REinvent.

Powered by a stellar creative team including helmer Jannik Johansen, Emmy-award winning duo Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe, who wrote the screenplay based on Jens Henrik Jensen’s best-selling book series, “Oxen” was one of the biggest series on Danish television in 2023. Launched late October, it averaged 1.3 million consolidated viewers on TV2 Denmark.

Jacob Lohmann plays the title role as veteran Niels Oxen,...

Another biopic about a sociopathic killer nurse has hit Netflix and is quickly making its way up the streamer's top 10 television shows list. The Danish thriller The Nurse is the compelling story of an "angel of death," a woman who works in a Danish hospital. Suspicion arises when relatively healthy patients start to die from unrelated cardiac arrest. The series is based on a book written by Kristian Corfixen, titled The Nurse: The True Story Behind One Of Scandinavia's Most Notorious Criminal Trials, and stars Fanny Louise Bernth as Pernille Kurzmann, a nurse who is working her first job after graduating from nursing school. The story is told from her point of view as she is quickly befriended by Christina Aistrup Hansen (Josephine Park), an older and more experienced emergency room nurse at Nykobing Falster Hospital. The story is similar in many regards to the Netflix movie from 2022 starring Jessica Chastain...

Happy New Year! 2023 has been a strange one at times, and while not the worst year in recent memory, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ready to turn the calendar page and start something new. But that being said, there were a number of things over the course of this year that made it not only tolerable, but downright fun at times. I will always turn to art and media in stressful times, and 2023 gave me a great mixture of new films, exciting series and other projects that I found to be entertaining, enlightening, or even heart-touching.

M3GAN

2023 started off with a banger in the form of a sentient monster doll by the name of M3GAN. I haven’t had this much fun in a theater since 2021’s Malignant, which was also written by the great Akela Cooper. I had so much fun with this one.

Many of the best horror films of 2023 went unnoticed due to the dominance of popular franchises and the overwhelming release of Hollywood films. Independent and foreign horror films pushed the artistic boundaries of the genre, blending social issues, stunning visuals, and exciting gore sequences. Films like Huesera: The Bone Woman, Attachment, and The Wrath of Becky showcase unique storytelling techniques, intelligent commentary, intense action, and memorable lead performances.

With so many excellent horror films having come out in 2023, from the continuation or reboot of popular franchises to unique independent horrors, it is easy to miss some of the year's best. While Scream VI and creepy AI doll movie M3GAN found success with audiences and critics alike, many of the year's best horror quietly entered and exited their limited theater runs without much fanfare. Meanwhile, some of these inventive new horror films found themselves dropped on streaming services, only to be...

"The Nurse" is a chilling Netflix miniseries based on the true story of nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen, who was accused of horrific crimes. Pernille Kurzmann, a young nurse, starts to suspect her partner Hansen of hiding a dark secret and uncovers her involvement in harming and killing patients. Despite being well-liked by coworkers, suspicions about Hansen's successes had arisen in the past, but it took someone like Kurzmann to understand the unusual occurrences.

The Nurse (2023) is a Netflix original miniseries that follows the chilling true story of Christina Aistrup Hansen, a nurse in Denmark who was accused of multiple horrific crimes. The series premiered on Netflix on April 27, 2023, with all four episodes of the show dropping at once. In the show, Pernille Kurzmann (Fanny Louise Bernth) is a recently graduated nurse who comes to the Nykøbing Falster Hospital in Denmark in 2014 where she meets Hansen (Josephine Park), a veteran nurse of the hospital.

Exclusive: Gabriel Bier Gislason, the rising genre filmmaker whose feature directorial debut Attachment world premiered to critical acclaim at last year’s Tribeca Festival, has signed with Curate for management.

The Danish-American creative’s horror romance tells the story of Maja (Josephine Park), a Danish has-been actress who falls in love with Leah (Ellie Kendrick), a Jewish academic from London. When Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London, Maja meets her paramour’s mother, Chana (Sofie Gråbøl), a woman who holds dark secrets.

A festival favorite that went on to screen in competition at Fantastic Fest, Sitges, Outfest, and the BFI London Film Festival, among other venues, Attachment debuted on Shudder last month after being snapped up out of Tribeca.

The Copenhagen-born Gislason earned his Mfa at NYU and splits his time between NYC and Denmark, where he is concurrently developing a TV series for...

Warning: Spoilers for The Nurse series finale

Changes made to the true story The Nurse is based on resulted in a major question going unanswered. Naturally, studios are usually careful when it comes to adapting real-life traumatic events. Shows like The Nurse are challenged with balancing these true accounts, presenting a cohesive narrative, and avoiding flattening characters based on real people.

Netflix's The Nurse series tells the real-life story of Pernille Kurzmann (Fanny Louise Bernth), a new nurse at the Danish Nykøbing Falster Hospital. Fresh out of nursing school, Pernille soon meets her mentor, Christina Aistrup Hansen (Josephine Park), and quickly befriends her. But despite Christina’s popularity, Pernille begins to suspect that her friend may be harming her patients and sets out to discover the truth. The Nurse explores how she does this and examines how the particular pressures and systems of the hospital allowed Christina’s activities to continue for so long.

The Nurse is a Danish series directed by Kasper Barfoed starring Fanny Louise Bernth and Josephine Park.

As it begins, it warns us: “based on real events” and it seems that what happened in The Good Nurse (with Jessica Chastain) is not the exclusive patrimony of Americans, and now we get this Danish version of a very similar story, but with very different protagonists and setting.

The Nurse About the Series

Four chapters very well executed, following the (television) rhythm properly and rigorously fulfilling the parameters that a movie “based on real events” requires. Do not expect eccentricity in the narrative or characters that are out of the ordinary, there is no story that surprises us by its originality or comes, ultimately, to tell us anything new.

Very different from The Good Nurse in rhythm and setting. The Nurse, much closer to the TV movie, much more “realistic” than the...

Jewish horror certainly isn’t new. ‘The Dybbuk,’ a play by S. Ansky about the Jewish folkloric demon, was first performed in 1920. Since, there have been many stories of the mythological nightmare, from stage to screen and otherwise. The dybbuk is named for the word “to cleave” or “to cling,” referencing the demon’s way of latching onto a living body. It’s a soul of a dead person that takes up a living host, possessing them until it is able to accomplish its goal.

Unlike Christian demons we’re used to seeing in films, dybbuks aren’t cohorts of the devil, but souls of the dead who are unable or unwilling to move on due to unfinished business. Movies like The Unborn (2009), The Possession (2012), and Ezra (2017) used the dybbuk, but each fell into a common trap. We won’t spend time tackling the 2003 created “dybbuk box,” but suffice it...

Director Gabriel Bier Gislason deftly combines dry Jewish humour with horror to create a surprisingly compelling and emotionally complex date-night thriller

For a horror film about the terror of demonic possession, Gabriel Bier Gislason’s feature-film debut is unexpectedly charming. Having fallen in love after an adorable meet-cute, Danish has-been performer Maja (Josephine Park) impulsively moves in with Jewish academic Leah (Ellie Kendrick), who suffers from a mysterious injury. Their romance is watched over by Leah’s ultra-Orthodox mother, Chana (The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl), who fusses over Leah’s every need with an insistence that borders on possessiveness.

The awkward interactions that spring out of this clash between an overbearing parent and a gentile outsider are portrayed with that entertaining dry humour of classic Jewish comedy, yet there are also darker forces at play. As Maja bumbles through a series of cultural faux-pas – imagine frying bacon for your Jewish hookup!

Mileage may vary on the way “Attachment” uses an already too frequently maligned religion as a foundation for supernatural scares, but that’s also kind of the point of writer-director Gabriel Bier Gislason’s feature debut: With this possession story set in an Orthodox Jewish household, the Danish helmer disorients what may be a good portion of his audience by thrusting them into an unfamiliar belief system and asks if it’s them or those performing its rituals who are strange or misguided. Led by Josephine Park as a woman navigating a new relationship in the shadow of her lover’s seemingly disapproving mother, the film mines romantic, familial and religious discord while swapping out the usual Christian boogeymen for less common Jewish ones.

Park plays Maja, a former actor now staging readings to children in character as the Christmas elf she played on television. After a meet-cute collision in...

Ellie Kendrick in Attachment Photo: Soeren Kirkegaard

Now screening on Shudder, Attachment is one of the most successful of the various films shot under lockdown conditions. It’s set almost entirely within the confines of one house, with a small but high quality cast: rising Danish star Josephine Park as heroine Maja, Game Of Thrones’ Ellie Kendrick as her girlfriend, Leah, and The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl as Leah’s deeply troubled mother, Chana. The two young women have recently fallen in love and relocated to London, but Chana takes the clichés of the Jewish mother to a new extreme in her efforts to control her daughter’s life – and all for a reason which won’t become clear until it may already be too late. When I met writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason yesterday, I asked him if the project began with an interest in the London Hasidic community,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)

Move over, Sandra Bullock—there’s a new Bird Box in town. The only film to have collected prizes at both Sundance and Cannes, Shaunak Sen’s taut, tender documentary has a healing power that’s sourced straight from its subjects: two brothers in Delhi who have devoted their lives to saving the Black Kite—a majestic, medium-sized, hypercarnivorous raptor of the air—from going extinct in Delhi’s fatally-polluted skies. Set to the backdrop of India’s rising social turmoil and Islamophobia, the threatened and neglected state of this bird reflects the brothers’ reality in a place that doesn’t fully recognize their humanity. But that doesn’t stop them from operating. It seems nothing can.

We were treated to four brand new horror movies this past Tuesday, and today brings another two as we head towards the weekend. One is playing in theaters, the other available at home.

Here are the two new horror movies released on Thursday, February 9, 2023.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Robbie Banfitch‘s nightmare found footage movie The Outwaters opened in limited theaters today from Cinedigm, Bloody Disgusting, and Screambox.

Beginning its theatrical run in 100+ theaters, tickets for The Outwaters can be found over at Fandango or on the official website.

The film plays out over three memory cards found in a sun-drenched section of the Mojave Desert. The footage within is that of a foursome, who set out to make a music video while camping, led by a charismatic LA filmmaker. Their trip starts out uneventful, though their peace is occasionally disrupted by unexplained sounds,...

Josephine Park as Maja, David Dencik as Lev the bookseller, and Sofie Grabol as Leah’s mom, Chana, in Attachment. Photo credit: Soeren Kirkegaard. Courtesy of Shudder

Attachment is a strange little Danish indie drama that keeps viewers off-balance in several respects for a psychological, and possibly supernatural, suspense tale. It opens with Maja (Josephine Park) and Leah (Ellie Kendrick) having the sort of meet-cute at a Danish bookstore that usually kicks off a rom-com. Maja is a local actress whose career highs may already be behind her. Leah is a student from England who was raised in a Hassidic community. She came to Copenhagen to connect with her mother’s Danish roots. Chemistry kicks in quickly, and the two young women become lovers.

When a leg injury puts Leah on crutches, she stays there a few days longer than planned. That’s enough time for Maja to become so...

Maja (Josephine Park) has not had much success as an actress, being best know as a storytelling elf from an old television series for children. But this did give her the opportunity for a meet-cute with the somewhat younger Leah, who is doing some reseach in Denmark on Jewish folklore. After an bad injury sustained during a seizure, Leah must return home to London, and Maja, who has already formed a strong connection to the young woman, joins her. That means entering into Leah's orthodox Jewish community, and effectively sharing a household with Leah's overbearing and overprotective mother, Chara (Sophie Gråbøl). While this description might sound like the opening of a romantic comedy, Attachment is far from it. Rather, Gabriel...

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Maja (Josephine Park) is living on her own and working as a storyteller and children’s entertainer. Leah(Ellie Kendrick) is visiting Denmark when they meet, also doing her own thing, far from the controlling influence of her mother and London’s tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community. The attachment between them develops easily, organically, with laughter and excitement and carefree passion, quickly becoming more than either of them expected or intended. When Leah suffers a seizure, however, she feels the pull of home and her familiar support network. Maja agrees to accompany her.

Released in the UK not long after Oliver Park’s The Offering, this is another tale of a Gentile woman striving to fit into a Jewish family and finding herself in trouble because she’s unfamiliar with its occult tradition, but where the father in that case was welcoming, Leah’s mother is not. The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl...

Directed by Gabriel Bier Gislason Starring Josephine Park (Baby Fever), Ellie Kendrick (Game of Thrones), Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing), and David Dencik (No Time To Die) *Streaming Exclusively On Shudder* February 9th, 2023 Shudder invites you to screen Attachment, the feature debut from Denmark-based writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason, a horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore. …

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The Göteborg Film Festival’s series-focused, industry sidebar TV Drama Vision returned this week with two days of talks and panels centered on series production in Europe and the Nordic region.

The program featured over 60 on-stage speakers and was dominated by the presence of Netflix, which celebrated its 10th year in the Nordic region late last year.

“We had a great year,” Jenny Stjernströmer Björk, VP of Nordic Content at Netflix, said when asked about the streamer’s 2022 Nordic efforts on stage at the Grand Theater in Göteborg.

Björk went on to list what she described as some of the streamer’s most successful Nordic content, including the Swedish series Snabba Cash. The experienced exec also cited the Spotify origins series The Playlist, and Roar Uthaug’s folklore thriller Troll, which Björk said became the most popular non-English language film on Netflix in less than two weeks of its release.

Love is in the air this February, particularly regarding horror. The month is packed with theatrical darlings finding new homes on streaming, brand-new originals, and unearthed deep cuts. February has everything from polarizing indie darlings to sleeper hits and beyond.

Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in February 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.

The Loved Ones – Paramount+

What’s February without horror romances? This brutal feature introduces Lola, who wants to be a princess and find Prince Charming. She decides that Brent is the one and invites him to the school dance. When he rejects her offer, and she sees him with another girl, Lola decides she’ll get what she wants. Lola doesn’t take rejection lightly, and things get downright brutal. The truth is that maybe no one will love her as much as daddy,...

Shudder invites you to screen Attachment, the feature debut from Denmark-based writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason, a horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore. Maja, a Danish has-been actress falls in love with Leah, an academic from London. After Leah suffers from a mysterious seizure Maja …

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Danish writer-director duo Amalie Næsby Fick and Nikolaj Feifer have signed with CAA for representation.

The duo recently created and co-directed the Danish Netflix series “Baby Fever” (“Skruk”), a six-part romantic comedy-drama.

Næsby Fick directed the animated film “The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear,” which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival and was nominated for a Crystal Bear for best film at the festival’s Generation KPlus strand. It also won two Danish Academy Awards for Best Children/Youth Film and Best Adapted Screenplay and was also nominated for Best Film and Best Sound.

Næsby Fick later directed the live-action television series “Sex,” which premiered at the Berlin Series Festival, was nominated for a Teddy there and scored two nominations at the Danish Film Awards.

Næsby Fick directed another animation, “Little Allan – The Human Antenna,” which released earlier this year.

Nikolaj Feifer created the dark workplace comedy “Banken – New Normal,...

Hello, dear readers! While the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival wrapped up a few weeks ago now, I have two final reviews from the fest that I wanted to share before we move onto other fests and events this summer. Here are my thoughts on Attachment from Gabriel Bier Gislason and Kyra Sedwick’s Space Oddity, which isn’t technically a genre film but I wanted to check it out all the same.

Enjoy!

Attachment: For writer/director Gabriel Bier Gislason’s Attachment, a meet-cute between two women yearning for some kind of connectivity in life takes a sinister turn once it is revealed that a dangerous demonic force threatens to destroy not only their relationship but their very lives as well. Attachment is a confidently crafted debut feature from Gislason that thoughtfully examines Jewish folklore in ways I haven’t seen before (it would pair well with The Vigil) and it...

Attachment Review — Attachment (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Gabriel Bier Gislason, starring Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl, and David Dencik. Despite a hefty portion of it being in English, the entirety of Attachment ­– the feature debut [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Attachment: Danish Family Drama Finds the Horror in What’s Left Unsaid [Tribeca 2022]...

Leah’s (Ellie Kendrick) reasons for being in Denmark are purely academic. At least, that’s what she tells former actress Maja (Josephine Park) upon meeting by accident at a bookshop. It’s a cutely fateful collision, the former with a stack of research and the latter dressed as an elf while running to an engagement to read to a bunch of school children. Maja’s haste causes a mix-up in their attempt to pick everything up, ensuring they must come together once more in calmer circumstances. A mug of tea and conversation later has Leah waking up in the Dane’s bed, a day away from catching her flight back to London. Her decision to stay might not reveal this trip was also a chance for escape. Ignoring her mother’s calls does.

Writer-director Gabriel Bier Gislason will show us as his feature debut Attachment progresses a couple more days.

Tribeca Film Festival 2022 - Midnight Selections: The Tribeca Film Festival 2022's Midnight selections have been announced and include a screening of The Black Phone, along with the world premiere of Travis Stevens' A Wounded Fawn:

"Attachment (Natten Har Øjne), (Denmark) – Feature Narrative, International Premiere. Maja and Leah’s new relationship is interrupted when mysterious things start happening in their London flat. It seems that Leah’s disapproving mother, who lives downstairs, is using Jewish folklore to come between them. In Danish and English with English subtitles. Directed and written by Gabriel Bier Gislason. Produced by Thomas Heinesen. With Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, Sofie Gråbøl, David Dencik. A Shudder release.

The Black Phone, (United States) – Feature Narrative, New York Premiere. Locked in a soundproof basement by a masked child killer, a teenage boy finds the possibility of hope through an unexpected and supernatural lifeline: a telephone on which he receives...

Shudder Acquires Horror Romance Attachment From Trustnordisk: "Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired the horror romance Attachment by Gabriel Bier Gislason. The film will stream exclusively on Shudder in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Attachment is a horror romance about love at first sight, steeped in Jewish folklore. Maja, a Danish has-been actress falls in love with Leah, a young, Jewish academic from London. But when Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, leading to a debilitating injury, Maja fears their whirlwind romance might be cut short – and decides to follow Leah back to her home in the Hasidic area of Stamford Hill, London. There, she meets her new downstairs neighbor: Leah’s mother, Chana. An overbearing and secretive woman, Chana seems resistant to all of Maja’s attempts to win her over. And as Maja begins to...

The film is the directorial of Gabriel Bier Gislason.

Shudder has struck an exclusive deal for North America, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand rights to Gabriel Bier Gislason’s Attachment, in a deal done with TrustNordisk.

The film is described as a horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore. The story follows a Danish actress past her prime who falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London.

Bier Gislason, the son of Susanne Bier, makes his feature directorial debut and also wrote the script. Thomas Heinesen produces for Nordisk Film Production. The film is supported by the...

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary won the best documentary, best editing, best score and best sound design prizes.

Flee made history at the Danish Film Academy Robert Awards, which took place on Saturday (February 5) in Copenhagen, as the first documentary to win all four awards it was nominated for, scooping the best documentary, best editing, best score and best sound design prizes.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary focuses on a man, on the cusp of marriage to his boyfriend, revealing the secrets of his journey from Afghanistan to Denmark as a child refugee. Last week, the title was...

Spolight on the new projects from Rai Com, Latido, TrustNordisk and more.

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Comedians, the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, headlines Rai Com’s market slate. The completed film is based on the play of the same name by Trevor Griffiths and is produced by Indiana with Rai Cinema. It features a cast of aspiring comedians preparing for their big night.

Intramovies is kickstarting sales on the Dutch drama Love In A Bottle, produced by Levitate Film and directed by Paula van der Oest, whose credits include Zus & Zo. It is a lockdown love story that unfolds over FaceTime. The...

TrustNordisk has boarded “Attachment,” an English-language horror romance steeped in Jewish folklore, directed by Gabriel Bier Gislason.

Now in production, “Attachment” revolves around Maja, a Danish actress with her fading career who falls in love with Leah, a young, Jewish academic from London. But when Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, leading to a debilitating injury, Maja fears their whirlwind romance might be cut short, and decides to follow Leah back to her home in the Hasidic area of Stamford Hill, London.

There, she meets Leah’s overbearing and secretive mother, Chana, who lives downstairs. As Maja begins to notice strange occurrences in the building, she begins to suspect that Chana’s secrets could be much darker that first anticipated.

The film is headlined by a strong cast including Josephine Park (“The Investigation”), Ellie Kendrick (“The Diary of Anne Frank”), Sofie Gråbøl (“The Killing”) and David Dencik (“Men & Chicken”).

Thomas Heinesen...

The cast also includes Josephine Park and David Dencik.

TrustNordisk has boarded sales for Gabriel Bier Gislason’s English and Danish-language Attachment (working title), his debut feature film which will shoot this spring in both Copenhagen and London.

The Killing’s Sofie Gråbøl has signed to star with Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, and David Dencik.

The up-and-coming writer/director is the son of director Susanne Bier and editor Tómas Gislason. The film mixes romance, horror and comedy in a love story that is also inspired by Jewish folklore. Maja, a Danish has-been actress, falls in love with Leah, a young,...

Poland’s Opus Film and Scandinavian distributor Scanbox are teaming with fast-rising Danish production house Motor on Mads Hedegaard’s directorial debut “Stranger,” co-penned with Jesper Fink. Tagged by Motor as “‘Apocalypto’ meets ‘The Revenant,’” “Stranger” will be pitched virtually on Feb. 5 by Hedegaard and producer Andreas Hjortdal, at the Discovery section of the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market industry showcase.

The film goes back to pre-historic times, 6,000 years ago, when migrant farmers virtually replaced the hunter-gatherer populations of northern Europe. When 16-year old Aathi and her family -the first farmers ever – arrive from the south in the country now known as Denmark, all except Aathi and her younger brother are killed by local hunters. To survive, the two youngsters are forced to live with the hunters’ tribe in the eerie forest and integrate. But when Aathi becomes pregnant and the child is forcefully adopted by the tribe,...