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Mårling-Stein return to Sweden for another Midsummer Night's Dream

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- The Swedish Film Institute signs cheques for €5.1 million to support eight new features, Mårling-Stein new project

From depicting a vampire warrior in Hollywood, Swedish directors Måns Mårling and Björn Stein (photo) will return to Sweden to film A Midsummer Night's Dream – not Shakespeare's play, but an original story by Swedish author Cilla Jackert which translates as Feel No Sorrow.

The film follows Daniel, who dreams of making a success of his music – still his obsessions are greater than his talent, constantly getting him into trouble. During a summer in Gothenburg, he is thrown between passion and deceit, love, reconciliation and deliverance.

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Mårling-Stein, who most recently helmed US horror-action Underworld: Awaking, will direct the Swedish Midsummer... for Malcolm Lidbeck and David Olsson's ACNE Film.

It is one of eight features in the latest package of productions supported by the Swedish Film Institute, which has chipped in €5.1 million for four local movies and four Scandinavian co-productions with Denmark, Finland and Norway.

Swedish director Karin Fahlén's feature debut Gondola (Gondolen) - a multi-plot urban drama about a Stockholm guy obsessed with a theory of light and darkness, deciding whether people can come together or not – will be produced by Martina Stöhr for Chamdin, Stöhr & She AB.

As previously announced, Swedish director Daniel Alfredson's new mystery drama from Johan Theorin's novel, with Danish Yellow Bird producer Søren Stærmose, Echoes from the Dead, is currently shooting on Öland in Sweden with Lena Endre in the lead.

Produced by B-Reel Feature Films, Swedish director Stig Björkman's documentary, Fanny, Alexander & I, celebrates the 30th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman's acknowleged masterpiece, with leading Scandinavian actors discussing the film.

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