Norwegian director Joachim Trier, whose 2015 drama Louder Than Bombs [+leggi anche:
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The supernatural thriller with horror elements plus a coming-of-age storyline, about a young woman who falls in love and discovers she has terrifying and inexplicable powers, has, according to Norwegian film magazine Rushprint, so far been licensed to Italy (Teodora), the Benelux (Imagine), the Baltic states (Scanorama), Portugal (Alambique), Greece (Seven Films), Turkey (Bir), Poland (Gutek), the former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Hungary (Vertigo), the Czech Republic, Slovakia (Aerofilms), Romania (Macondo), Taiwan (Maison Motion) and Japan (Gaga).

Scripted by Trier with his usual collaborator, Eskil Vogt, and starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Ellen Dorrit Petersen and Henrik Rafaelsen, the €6.6 million Thomas Robsahm production for Motlys – with Denmark’s Snowglobe, Sweden’s B-Reel and France’s Le Pacte – was shot last autumn in Västra Götaland County, Gothenburg and at Studio Fares at Swedish regional film centre Film Väst in Trollhättan.

Motlys and local distributor SF Studios Norway thought Halloween (31 October) would be the perfect opening date for the movie, but according to Rushprint, a Cannes premiere is more likely – the festival also selected Trier’s Oslo, August 31st [+leggi anche:
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