Emerging Danish writer-director Marie Grahtø is currently shooting her debut feature drama, Psychosia [+leggi anche:
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Best described as a “psychotic realistic” drama, Psychosia follows two women on a collision course. The violent, intelligent and suicidal Jenny (Sonne), a patient at a psychiatric ward for young women, is being treated by the young perfectionist and psychologist, Viktoria (Carlehed). Through their intense and intimate relationship and conflict-ridden conversations, the two women will seek meaning and forgiveness in faith, sex and violence. Dyrholm, meanwhile, plays the domineering Dr. Klein, the department’s most experienced doctor.

The film is currently shooting at the former psychiatric hospital, Sankt Hans, in Roskilde, and the crew, as well as the cast, is also predominately female. Danish cinematographer Catherine Pattinama Coleman (The Return [+leggi anche:
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Written by Grahtø herself, Psychosia is an extension of the director’s film-school graduation movie, the Robert-nominated short Teenland (2014), with Sonne again in the leading role, and was selected last year in Cannes’ Cinéfondation Atelier (read the news) as well as being presented at IFFR’s CineMart and Torino Film Lab Script & Pitch programme in 2016.

Psychosia is a Danish-Finnish co-production by Amalie Lyngbo Quist and Julie Friis Walenciak for Beo Starling, with Mark Lwoff and Misha Jaari (Bufo Film). It has received support from the Danish Film Institute’s talent scheme, New Danish Screen, from the Finnish Film Foundation, and from the Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Its Danish theatrical release is set for Spring 2019, with no international sales outlet having been appointed as yet.