The Nordic line up in Toronto 2024
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Quisling - The Final Days by Erik Poppe
A priest seeks a measure of contrition from one of the Second World War’s most infamous traitors in this bold and bracing historical drama by Norway’s Erik Poppe.
Produced by Paradox Pictures Inc./SF Studios/Film i Väst/TV 2 Norway
Sales Reinvent
Norway, 2024
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
The End by Joshua Oppenheimer
When the sudden arrival of a stranger threatens the family’s luxurious compound deep underground, begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
The film is directed by Academy Award Nominee director Joshua Oppenheimer. It stars Academy Award® Winner Tilda Swinton as MOTHER and Academy Award® Nominee Michael Shannon as FATHER.
Produced by Final Cut for Real
Sales The Match Factory / Neon
Denmark, Germany, Ireland, UK, Sweden, 2024
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
The Girl with the Needle by Magnus von Horn
Karoline a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WW1 Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar a charismatic woman running a secret adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers find foster homes for their unwanted children. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.
Produced by Nordisk Film Production
Sales The Match Factory / Mubi USA
Denmark, Poland, Sweden 2024
DISCOVERY
My Fathers’ Daugther by Egil Pedersen
Elvira, a confident Sami teenager, firmly believes that her mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, everything changes when her actual biological father unexpectedly enters her life. Taking place in the northernmost region of Norway, this family film is showcasing quirky dialogues, a remarkable female protagonist, and an unforgettable cameo appearance by Nicolaj-Coster Waldau.
Produced by Rein Film & Paasan
Sales Pluto Film
Sápmi, Norway 2024
DISCOVERY
The Quiet Ones by Frederik Hviid
In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.
Produced by Zentropa Productions
Sales TrustNordisk
Denmark, Sweden, France2024
CENTREPIECE
The Swedish Torpedo by Frida Kempff
1939. Europe is on the brink of war. Sally, a 30-year-old single mom, wants to swim. Far. It’s her dream to be the first European woman to cross the English Channel. But no one in her family understands her. Swimming in the open and icy sea for 15 hours, Sally became the first European woman to cross the English Channel. She is acclaimed by journalists from all over the world only days before the Second World War breaks out.
Produced by Momento Film
Sales Urban Sales
Sweden, 2024
CENTREPIECE
When the Light Breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Una grapples with grief while harboring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.
Produced by Compass Films
Sales The Party Film Sales
Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France 2024
TIFF DOCS
Temporary Shelter by Anastasiia Bortuali
When Ukrainian filmmaker Anastasiia Bortuali is displaced to Iceland, she documents her fellow refugees, capturing their fragility and strength against a dramatic backdrop of northern lights and volcanic eruptions.
Produced by Felix Film
Iceland, 2024
PRIMETIME
Faithless by Tomas Alfredsson
Acclaimed Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) helms this simmering adaptation of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman’s classic about infidelity and the emotional wreckage created in its wake.
Produced by Miso Film Sweden AB, SVT, ARTE France
Sales Fremantle
Sweden, 2024
PRIMETIME
Families Like Ours (Ep. 1-7) by Thomas Vinterberg
Countries disappear, love remains. In a not-too-distant future, Denmark faces total evacuation due to rising water levels. As the nation prepares to leave their homes, high school student Laura must choose between her divorced parents and the boy she’s fallen in love with.
Produced by Zentropa Productions
Sales StudioCanal
Denmark, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belgium, Norway, Germany, 2024
SHORT CUTS
Deck 5B by Malin Ingrid Johansson
When her station wagon rolls onto the ferry’s parking deck, Mia, recently divorced, realizes that she has created an impossible situation for herself and everyone else. Heading for the first holiday with her new love, Mia is torn between parental responsibility and a longing to surrender and let go of control. A film about longing, passion, broken promises, and dog hair.
Produced by Pine
Sweden, 2024
SHORT CUTS
Fuck me by Anette Sidor
A film about gender norms, power and femininity and how hard it is to stop playing a role you’ve spent all your life learning.
Produced by Verket Produktion
Sales Kurzfilm Sales
Sweden, 2024
SHORT CUTS
O by Rúnar Rúnarsson
O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
Produced by Compass Films / Halibut in coproduction with [sic] film, Film i Väst, Sweden, SVT Sweden
Sales The Party Film Sales
Iceland, Sweden 2024
SHORT CUTS
Maybe Elephants by Torill Kove
In the ’70s, three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in bustling Nairobi. The family will never be the same.
Created by Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet), Maybe Elephants is a playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable.
Produced by Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada
Norway, Canada 2024
TIFF INDUSTRY SELECTS
100 Litres of Gold by Teemu Nikki
Taina and Pirkko promise to make 100 litres of sahti (home brewed beer) for their sister's wedding. Unfortunately, it turns out to be too good not to drink it. They have 24 hours to find 100 litres or they will lose all the respect.
Produced by It’s Alive Films
Finland, Italy