The Nordisk Film & TV Fond has recently announced the names of the recipients of its September and October slates of financial support. For both rounds combined, the Nordic fund will support six feature-length fiction films, three TV series and one feature-length documentary with a budget totalling over NOK 17.7 million (€1.851 million).

While preparing his new TV series The Conductor (see the news), Swedish director Mikael Håfström is also filming his first Swedish feature in 15 years, the psychological thriller The Perfect Patient (Quick), which has received support of NOK 2.35 million (€246,000). Based on the true story of the Thomas Quick case, the script, written by Erlend Loe, follows journalist Hannes Råstam (Jonas Karlsson), who wants to prove the innocence of self-proclaimed serial killer Thomas Quick (David Dencik) and unveil the chaos of the Swedish judicial system in the country’s biggest legal scandal. Produced by Sweden’s Helena Danielsson for Bacademy (Brain Academy), with Norway’s Paradox Film, Belgium’s Umedia, Film i Väst, Nordisk Film and TV4, the film will premiere in autumn/winter 2019, and TrustNordisk is handling the international sales.

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Swedish director Amanda Kernell (Sámi Blood [+lee también:
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Norwegian director Maria Sødahl’s semi-autobiographical sophomore drama, Hope [+lee también:
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Acclaimed Danish director Ole Christian Madsen (Superclásico [+lee también:
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Finally, budgeted at NOK 45 million (€4.7 million), the Norwegian CGI animated film Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond [+lee también:
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The three TV series that have received the fund’s support are: the Danish thriller DNA, written by Torleif Hoppe (The Killing, The Bridge), with NOK 3.2 million (€334,500); the Finnish-Spanish crime-drama Paradise, penned by Matti Laine, with NOK 1.85 million (€193,500); and “the first-ever Danish multi-plot drama”, When the Dust Settles, created by Ida Maria Ryden and Dorthe Høgh and produced by Stina Lassen, with NOK 1.5 million (€157,000).

The sole documentary is The Curtain Fall by Anders Østergaard, which explores the story of two young Jewish musicians who played in the bizarre Jüdischer Kulturbund organisation in the 1930s. Produced by Mette Heide for Denmark’s Plus Pictures, the documentary received NOK 800,000 (€84,000).