Exclusive: New Europe Film Sales has unveiled fresh deals for Danish director Ulaa Salim’s sci-fi drama Eternal.
The film has sold to France (Kmbo Films), Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Galapagos), ex-Yugoslavia (Five Stars) and Hungary (Mozinet).
Eternal is Ulaa Salim’s second film after his 2019 provocative, conspiracy thriller debut Sons Of Denmark.
Simon Sears stars as a scientist who ditches his relationship with an aspiring singer to join a mission exploring a dangerous climate change phenomenon linked to a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor.
Years later, during the mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice, and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.
Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst round out the cast.
The feature reunites Salim with Sons Of Denmark producer Daniel Mühlendorph at Hyæne Film,...
The film has sold to France (Kmbo Films), Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Galapagos), ex-Yugoslavia (Five Stars) and Hungary (Mozinet).
Eternal is Ulaa Salim’s second film after his 2019 provocative, conspiracy thriller debut Sons Of Denmark.
Simon Sears stars as a scientist who ditches his relationship with an aspiring singer to join a mission exploring a dangerous climate change phenomenon linked to a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor.
Years later, during the mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice, and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.
Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst round out the cast.
The feature reunites Salim with Sons Of Denmark producer Daniel Mühlendorph at Hyæne Film,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The buzzy project was showcased at Goteborg Work in Progress.
New Europe Film Sales is kicking off sales at the European Film Market on Ulaa Salim’s anticipated Eternal, by closing the first deal with Plaion for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The sci-fi love story is now in post and is stirring a lot of buzz after its Goteborg Work in Progress presentation earlier this month. It is about a scientist researching a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor who reunites with a past love. The cast includes Simon Sears, Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst.
New Europe Film Sales is kicking off sales at the European Film Market on Ulaa Salim’s anticipated Eternal, by closing the first deal with Plaion for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The sci-fi love story is now in post and is stirring a lot of buzz after its Goteborg Work in Progress presentation earlier this month. It is about a scientist researching a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor who reunites with a past love. The cast includes Simon Sears, Nanna Øland Fabricius, Magnus Krepper, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Zaki Youssef and Morten Holst.
- 2/17/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The award comes with 38,000, making it one of the world’s largest film prizes.
Goteborg’s lucrative Dragon Award for best Nordic film has gone to Danish director Malou Reymann’s second feature Unruly.
The drama premiered at Toronto and had its Swedish premiere at Goteborg. TrustNordisk handles sales and the Danish cinema release is planned for spring 2023.
Reymann previously directed Rotterdam Big Screen winner A Perfectly Normal Family.
Unruly is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to the island to become more compliant. The story focuses on Maren,...
Goteborg’s lucrative Dragon Award for best Nordic film has gone to Danish director Malou Reymann’s second feature Unruly.
The drama premiered at Toronto and had its Swedish premiere at Goteborg. TrustNordisk handles sales and the Danish cinema release is planned for spring 2023.
Reymann previously directed Rotterdam Big Screen winner A Perfectly Normal Family.
Unruly is about the Sprogø Women’s Institution in the 1930s, when “morally feeble” girls and women were sent to the island to become more compliant. The story focuses on Maren,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The Göteborg Film Festival has unveiled the 53 Nordic Films that will take part in the latest edition of the Nordic Film Market, running February 2 – 5. Scroll down for the list.
The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.
The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.
Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.
Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition.
The line-up consists of 17 completed feature films, 15 works in progress, 11 films in development presented at the market’s co-financing platform Discovery, and another 10 features in development from up-and-coming Swedish creators at Talent to Watch.
The 2023 edition of Nordic Film Market will comprise a full on-site event in Göteborg alongside digital screenings on the festival’s dedicated industry platform. This year the festival has said close to 500 invited buyers, distributors, sales agents, producers, festival programmers, and other key industry delegates from 32 countries are expected to attend.
Elsewhere, the 17th edition of the TV Drama Vision summit will run February 1–2.
Göteborg will run January 27 – February 5. As previously announced, Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the festival’s Nordic Competition.
- 1/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida is the first film to be shot in the Skolt Sami language.
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida, the first feature to be made in the Skolt Sami language was awarded the best fiction project award at the Finnish Film Affair (Ffa) in Helsinki this week.
The film is now in post-production and tells a very personal story of a woman forced to assimilate into a culture that is not her own and abandon her own language and culture. Gauriloff, who is of Skolt Sami heritage, said the story is based on the experiences of her mother,...
Katja Gauriloff’s Je’vida, the first feature to be made in the Skolt Sami language was awarded the best fiction project award at the Finnish Film Affair (Ffa) in Helsinki this week.
The film is now in post-production and tells a very personal story of a woman forced to assimilate into a culture that is not her own and abandon her own language and culture. Gauriloff, who is of Skolt Sami heritage, said the story is based on the experiences of her mother,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
New Europe also sold Salim’s 2019 debut feature Sons Of Denmark.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded sales on Ulaa Salim’s second feature, sci-fi love story Eternal, which has started shooting in Aarhus, Denmark; Bergen; Norway; and Iceland.
Daniel Mühlendorph of Hyæne Film is producing.
New Europe also sold Salim’s 2019 debut feature Sons Of Denmark (which premiered in competition at Rotterdam), and has a long history with the film’s Icelandic co-producer, Netop Films.
Salim writes and directs the film, which is set after an earthquake causes a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor, which accelerates climate change.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded sales on Ulaa Salim’s second feature, sci-fi love story Eternal, which has started shooting in Aarhus, Denmark; Bergen; Norway; and Iceland.
Daniel Mühlendorph of Hyæne Film is producing.
New Europe also sold Salim’s 2019 debut feature Sons Of Denmark (which premiered in competition at Rotterdam), and has a long history with the film’s Icelandic co-producer, Netop Films.
Salim writes and directs the film, which is set after an earthquake causes a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor, which accelerates climate change.
- 4/11/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Picture Tree International has acquired international rights to Danish director Lisa Jespersen’s feature debut, the comedy drama “Persona Non Grata” (Hvor Kragerne Vender), and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Nordic Film Market, after its launch in Nordic Competition during the online edition of Goteborg Film Festival this week. Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer.
The film follows Laura who has distanced herself from her family in the countryside, and moved to Copenhagen to live the bohemian lifestyle as a writer. When she is forced to return home to attend her brother’s wedding, she discovers that he’s about to marry her worst childhood enemy Catrine. Laura realizes that Catrine has taken over her place in the family and is now ready to do anything to get it back.
Jespersen studied film directing at the National Film School of Denmark, and has...
The film follows Laura who has distanced herself from her family in the countryside, and moved to Copenhagen to live the bohemian lifestyle as a writer. When she is forced to return home to attend her brother’s wedding, she discovers that he’s about to marry her worst childhood enemy Catrine. Laura realizes that Catrine has taken over her place in the family and is now ready to do anything to get it back.
Jespersen studied film directing at the National Film School of Denmark, and has...
- 1/29/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Since “Sons of Denmark’s” world bow at Rotterdam in 2019, Danish writer/director Ulaa Salim and producer Daniel Mühlendorph have enjoyed invites to 50 world festivals, and won nine awards – including best director at Seattle – and distribution in eight territories, negotiated by New Europe Film Sales. Those take in China (Huanxi Films), the U.K./Ireland (Eureka), Benelux (Windmill), Germany (Koch Media), Filmin (Spain), Programestore (France), Windmill (Benelux), Ale Kino (Poland) and Arthouse Traffic (Ukraine).
The partners in the fledging Danish outfit Hyæne Film are at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market with two titles from recent Danish Film School graduates: Lisa Jespersen’s “Persona non Grata” (“Hvor kragerne vender”) pitched at the work in progress session, and Christian Bengtson’s “Chrysanthemum,” showcased within the Discovery section.
For her debut feature, Jespersen has attracted heavyweight DoP and Lars von Trier’s regular cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro (“Melancholia”), and an ensemble cast of...
The partners in the fledging Danish outfit Hyæne Film are at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market with two titles from recent Danish Film School graduates: Lisa Jespersen’s “Persona non Grata” (“Hvor kragerne vender”) pitched at the work in progress session, and Christian Bengtson’s “Chrysanthemum,” showcased within the Discovery section.
For her debut feature, Jespersen has attracted heavyweight DoP and Lars von Trier’s regular cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro (“Melancholia”), and an ensemble cast of...
- 1/30/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Danish director Ulaa Salim talks to Variety about his provocative debut feature, thriller “Sons Of Denmark,” which made a strong showing in Rotterdam’s Tiger competition and just screened at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film is set in 2025, and unfolds in a Denmark where an ultra-nationalist politician, Martin Nordahl, is poised to assume the premiership, one year after an Islamic terror attack on the Copenhagen Metro. Nordahl’s extreme rhetoric and fear mongering in regard to the country’s Muslim citizens and immigrants goads the far-right organization Sons of Denmark into committing hate crimes. Meanwhile, some of the country’s Arabic minority make plans to resist.
Salim, a recent graduate of the Danish National Film School, was born in Denmark to Iraqi-émigré parents. He and producer Daniel Mühlendorph, a film school classmate, established their own company Hyæne Film, and this is their first feature production.
I saw that your...
Salim, a recent graduate of the Danish National Film School, was born in Denmark to Iraqi-émigré parents. He and producer Daniel Mühlendorph, a film school classmate, established their own company Hyæne Film, and this is their first feature production.
I saw that your...
- 7/4/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer for the opening film of Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition, “Sons of Denmark.”
The film is a political thriller set in Denmark in 2025, a year after a bomb attack in Copenhagen, when ethnic tensions are running high. An ultra-nationalist politician, Martin Nordahl, and his National Movement are leading in the polls, and influenced by his anti-immigrant rhetoric, society has rapidly turned on ethnic minorities.
In this climate, 19-year-old Zakaria feels compelled to act to protect his family’s safety. However, to do what he feels is necessary to turn the political tide, he needs to abandon his mother and little brother, and get involved in a radical organization.
“The film is a very personal and visual thriller that packs a powerful punch and really catches the zeitgeist of Europe today,” according to New Europe Film Sales, which is handling world sales.
The film is a political thriller set in Denmark in 2025, a year after a bomb attack in Copenhagen, when ethnic tensions are running high. An ultra-nationalist politician, Martin Nordahl, and his National Movement are leading in the polls, and influenced by his anti-immigrant rhetoric, society has rapidly turned on ethnic minorities.
In this climate, 19-year-old Zakaria feels compelled to act to protect his family’s safety. However, to do what he feels is necessary to turn the political tide, he needs to abandon his mother and little brother, and get involved in a radical organization.
“The film is a very personal and visual thriller that packs a powerful punch and really catches the zeitgeist of Europe today,” according to New Europe Film Sales, which is handling world sales.
- 1/21/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Danish thriller set for Iffr bow.
Danish thriller Sons Of Denmark, which will open this year’s Tiger Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), has been boarded for world sales by New Europe.
Directed by Ulaa Salim, the film is set one year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen, with ethnic tensions running high around the country and a nationalist political leader set for a landslide victory. Against that backdrop, a 19-year-old becomes involved in a radical organisation, with grave consequences.
The film was produced by Daniel Mühlendorph, who runs Hyaene Film together with director Salim – this...
Danish thriller Sons Of Denmark, which will open this year’s Tiger Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), has been boarded for world sales by New Europe.
Directed by Ulaa Salim, the film is set one year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen, with ethnic tensions running high around the country and a nationalist political leader set for a landslide victory. Against that backdrop, a 19-year-old becomes involved in a radical organisation, with grave consequences.
The film was produced by Daniel Mühlendorph, who runs Hyaene Film together with director Salim – this...
- 1/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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