LevelK has acquired Swedish erotic queer drama “The Schoolmaster Games,” a film adaptation of Kristofer Folkhammar’s popular novel “Magisterlekarna,” which has just gone into production.
Written and directed by first-time director Ylva Forner, the daring film is set at the St Sebastian Academy, an all-male school where homosexuality is the norm.
The helmer described “The Schoolmaster Games” as a “melodrama for the 2020s.” “In a universe inspired by high school movies and 90s boy bands, pulsating with burning desires, we tell a story of hierarchies and power structures that has been demolished and rebuilt again,” said Forner.
Forner added that the setting of “The Schoolmaster Games” is “heightened and playfully camp, but as the story unravels, the film’s unique Academy becomes a mirror of our everyday world and turns into a conversation about the deep universal urge to belong to something – someone – and to be loved for who you really are.
Written and directed by first-time director Ylva Forner, the daring film is set at the St Sebastian Academy, an all-male school where homosexuality is the norm.
The helmer described “The Schoolmaster Games” as a “melodrama for the 2020s.” “In a universe inspired by high school movies and 90s boy bands, pulsating with burning desires, we tell a story of hierarchies and power structures that has been demolished and rebuilt again,” said Forner.
Forner added that the setting of “The Schoolmaster Games” is “heightened and playfully camp, but as the story unravels, the film’s unique Academy becomes a mirror of our everyday world and turns into a conversation about the deep universal urge to belong to something – someone – and to be loved for who you really are.
- 9/30/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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