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SF Studios International selling Borg/McEnroe and Børning 2 at the AFM

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- The Swedish international sales agency, Denmark's Trust Film Sales and Finland-Sweden's The Yellow Affair are touting new titles at the American Film Market

SF Studios International selling Borg/McEnroe and Børning 2 at the AFM
Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason in Borg/McEnroe (© Pretty Pictures)

As the American Film Market (AFM) got under way yesterday (2 November) in Santa Monica, Los Angeles (running until 9 November), Sweden's SF Studios International Sales contracted two of its major market films.

Danish director Janus Metz's Borg/McEnroe [+see also:
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 – the biopic of Swedish tennis ace Björn Borg, starring Swedish actors Markus Mossberg, Sverrir Gudnason and Borg's 13-year-old son, Leo (read the news) – has been sold to Lucky Red for Italy and Colombia's Cineplex for Latin America.

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Meanwhile, according to head of SF Studios International Sales Anita Simovic, Norwegian director Hallvard Bræin's actioner Børning 2 - On Ice [+see also:
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, which has exceeded 350,000 admissions in three weeks (read the news), has been signed for Spain (A Contracorriente), Poland (Kino Swiat) and the Middle East (Shooting Stars).

At the AFM, which is regularly attended by 8,000 international film professionals, SF Studios is also marketing two fully animated children's films: Swedish directors Christian Ryltenius and Maria Blom's fully animated Bamse and the Witch's Daughter, and Norwegian director Rasmus A Sivertsen's In the Forest of Huckybucky [+see also:
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.

The market line-up also includes British director Colin Nutley's Missing – a thriller starring Helena Bergström, whose character returns to a small town in the middle of nowhere in Sweden, where she is in charge of an investigation into a dead young woman and the disappearance of another – and the documentary Supervention 2 - Skiing on the Edge, about Swedish World Cup alpine ski racer Aksel Lund Svindal

Denmark's Trust Film Sales will continue selling Swedish director Hannes Holm's drama-comedy A Man Called Ove [+see also:
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, which has taken a record number of almost 1.8 million domestic admissions, and has after four weeks on release in the US grossed more than €735,000, which – if it continues – could make it the top foreign-language arthouse title of 2016. 

Among the new titles at the AFM are Danish director Ole Bornedal's black comedy Small Town Killers [+see also:
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, with Ulrich Thomsen and Nicolas Bro in the leads; Danish director Peter Schønau Fog's You Disappear [+see also:
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, starring Trine Dyrholm and Nikolaj Lie Kaas; two historical dramas, Danish director Nicolo Donato's Across the Waters [+see also:
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, with David Dencik and Danica Curcic, and Finnish director AJ Annila's The Eternal Road [+see also:
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; and Swiss-Italian director Petra Volpe's The Divine Order.

Finally, Finnish-Swedish international sales agency The Yellow Affair will market three titles in LA: Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki's historical drama The Girl King [+see also:
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, starring Malin Buska as Swedish Queen Kristina in the 17th century; the director's latest family drama-comedy, Homecoming [+see also:
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; and Israeli director Tali Shalom-Ezer's drama Princess, which was launched at Sundance and was later awarded at Jerusalem.

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