12/02/2006

"Berlin is generally a very strong festival for us, and this year is once again excellent," said a beaming Anna Karin Wolfsberg of Trust Film Sales. It’s no wonder that the head of Zentropa Entertainment´s sales arm is so buoyant about the 2006 edition of the Berlinale: The Scandinavian company has four films in official selection, starting with A Soap [+see also:
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film profile] (En Soap) by first time director Pernille Fischer Christensen, which had its official screening yesterday in Berlin.

Positively reviewed by Variety, the film about a 32-year-old woman who develops a friendship with the upstairs neighbour, a transsexual named Veronika who is crazy about soap operas, also received a very good response from international buyers according to Wolfsberg, who has just begun negotiating sales on the film. Soap will be released in Denmark on April 7.

Today will be the busiest day of the festival and market for Trust, with the official screenings of Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s latest film, Container, in the Panorama section – while his award-winning feature debut Fucking Amal will screen at the Teddy Twenty Tribute Berlinale – as well as the world premiere of Annette K.Olesen´s 1:1 (One to One) [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (En Til En), another Panorama selection, and Niels Arden Oplev´s We Shall Overcome [+see also:
trailer
film profile], unveiled this afternoon at the KinderFilm 14Plus section.

Wolfsberg said that deals are pending on Moodysson´s experimental work Container, which was received "better than expected" in Berlin.

Other pre-sold Trust titles include Suzanne Bier´s After the Wedding, Lars von Trier´s The Boss of It All and Anders Ronnow Klarlund´s How to Get Rid of the Others.