Pollak comes down to Earth – and SF is selling it
- SF International Sales will also screen two new features at the Cannes market: Colin Nutley’s Medicine and Nils Gaup’s Glass Dolls
Ten years ago, Swedish director Kay Pollak made As It Is in Heaven [+see also:
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Heaven on Earth – his first film since then – is an independent sequel and a return to the small village of Ljusåker, in the northernmost part of Sweden. It recounts what happened when the world-famous conductor Daniel Daréus died, leaving the local choir behind him and the love of his life, the soprano Lena, pregnant with their child.
SF International Sales – the international distribution division of Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri – will start pre-sales for the Anders Birkeland-Göran Lindström production for GF Studios at the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival (14-25 May). The film is due for local release in autumn 2015.
The company’s CEO, Ann-Kristin Westerberg, has scheduled two premieres at the Marché du Film: Colin Nutley’s Medicine and Norwegian director Nils Gaup’s Glass Dolls [+see also:
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Starring Helena Bergström, Nutley’s new comedy Medicine is the story of a middle-aged woman who becomes a guinea pig for a new medication in order to raise some extra cash for a holiday with her three children. It has some side effects, though: overnight all her worries disappear, and she feels beautiful, confident and sexually invigorated.
The first of three thrillers adapted from Norwegian author Jorun Thørring’s crime novels, Gaup’s Glass Dolls follows Tromsø police investigator Aslak Eira (played by Stig Henrik Hoff), of Sami heritage, in his efforts to solve the murder of a university student; when another female student disappears, it turns into a race against time.
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