07/03/2013 - Imprisoned in Iran for having 'shamed' her country, award-winning Iranian-Swedish director Nahid Persson (Revolution Behind the Veil) returns

Iranian-Swedish director Nahid Persson was arrested and briefly imprisoned in Iran for allegedly shaming her country in her award-winning documentary Revolution Behind the Veil (2004), portraying two Tehran prostitutes. She completed her Four Wives – One Man (2007), about a polygamous family, under difficult circumstances, and smuggled it to Sweden, where it was edited.

Her brother did not have the chance – he was sent to jail and executed by the regime. Persson tries to find out what happened to him before his death in My Stolen Revolution, which she also wrote and will produce for Real Reel Productions, with €200,000 (SEK 1.6 million) support from the Swedish Film Institute.

The institute contributed €1.1 million (SEK 9 million) for Swedish director Pontus Klänge’s Lasse Maja’s Detective Agency – vom Broms’ Secret, the second children’s feature from Swedish author Martin Widmark’s books (after Henrik Georgsson’s The Chameleon Strikes Back).

Scripted by Malin Nevander (who also worked on The Chameleon), and produced by Moa Westeson and Johanna Bergenstråhle for Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri, the film follows the eccentric von Broms family, which is attracted to Valleby by a mysterious old chest. When it is stolen, Lasse and Maja must find the culprit in order to save Valleby Church.

Danish director Pernilla Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love, a Danish-Swedish co-production by Zentropa Entertainments with its Swedish company Zentropa International Sweden, received €100,000 (SEK 1.2 million). Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt and Danish actress Trine Dyrholm play the leads (they were both in Danish director Susanne Bier’s Oscar-winner, In A Better World [+see also:
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