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LevelK is selling the film and has also struck a deal with streaming service Viaplay for the UK.

Swedish drama The Schoolmaster Games, which will have its world premiere in Goteborg this week, has been acquired by TriArt for Sweden, with the local release planned for April 22.

LevelK is selling the film and has also struck a deal with streaming service Viaplay for the UK.

Ylva Forner’s debut feature is an adaptation of the novel Magisterlekarna by Kristofer Folkhamma, about a schoolmaster who plays secret erotic games with a pupil.

Backers include Swedish Film Institute and Svt as part of the Moving Sweden scheme.

“Cop Secret,” “Margrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are among 12 wide-ranging projects set to be presented at a virtual Nordic Film Market, Scandinavia’s biggest industry showcase which runs alongside the Goteborg Film Festival.

“Cop Secret,” directed by Icelandic gaolkeeper turned filmmaker Hannes Þór Halldórsson, is an action comedy following a tough cop who in denial about his sexuality and falls in love with his new partner while investigating a litany of bank robberies. The movie is being produced by Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir at Icelandic banner Pegasus and started shooting in September.

Both “Margrete – Queen of the North” and “The Emigrants” are highly anticipated historical dramas produced by Sf Studios and represented in international markets by REinvent.

“Margrete – Queen of the North” is directed by Charlotte Sieling, the acclaimed Danish director of “The Killing” and “The Bridge,” among others. The movie is set in 1402 and stars Trine Dyrholm...

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.