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TrustNordisk will handle international sales for Danish writer/director Frelle Petersen’s new drama Home Sweet Home.

The film is now in post and will have a works-in-progress presentation at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market next week.

The story follows Sofie, a single mother who starts a new job as a home-care worker and needs to balance this demanding role among the local communities’ citizens and her everyday life with daughter Clara.

Jette Søndergaard, who also acted in the director’s previous two features Uncle and Forever, plays the lead role. The other cast members include Ole Sørensen, Lasse Lorenzen,...

The film is currently in post-production, with a release in Denmark this July.

TrustNordisk has boarded international sales for Danish writer/director Frelle Petersen’s new feature Forever.

The drama is about a family thrown into a crisis after losing one of their own. The film, which is now in post-production, shot in the rural communities of Southern Jutland, the southernmost corner of Denmark.

TrustNordisk has footage to show buyers at the EFM. Nordisk will release in Denmark on July 7.

The cast features Jette Søndergaard (who also starred in the director’s 2019 feature Uncle[/link]), Mette Munk Plum (A Fortunate Man...

Magnus, The Model, Pyromaniac [pictured] and Devil’s Bride have all sold to multiple territories.

Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has closed deals on four titles at the Efm.

Magnus, Benjamin Ree’s documentary about chess player Magnus Carlsen featuring high profile grandmasters including Garry Kasparov, has sold to Germany (Nfp), Hong Kong (Edko films Ltd), former Yugoslavia (Discovery Film) and Benelux (September Film Rights).

The film is produced by Sigurd M. Karoliussen for Moskus Film in co-production with Vgtv, Nordisk Film Production and Main Island Production.

The Model, directed by Mads Matthiesen, has sold to Latin America (California Fil ms), China (Hgc Entertainment), Russia Cis (Voxell Media), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Turkey (Ozen Film), Estonia (Estin Film), Lithuania (Incognito Film) and Former Yugoslavia (2i Film d.o.o.).

Starring Ed Skrein (Deadpool) and debutant Maria Palm, the drama tells the story of an emerging model who develops a dangerous obsession with a male fashion photographer.

TrustNordisk previously...

Norwegian director takes the reins on A Conspiracy of Faith.

Veteran director Hans Petter Moland is take over Denmark’s third Department Q thriller, A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P), from Danish director Nikolaj Arcel.

Arcel, best known for directing A Royal Affair, wrote three scripts based on Jussi Adler Olsen’s Department Q novels.

The first two - The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret) and The Absent One (Fasandræberne) - were directed by Mikkel Nørgaard and proved major hits in Denmark in 2013 and 2014.

But although Arcel was due to step in to make the third part in Zentropa Entertainment’s franchise, Moland has taken his plance. Arcel has recently been working on numerous projects in the Us.

Danish producer and Zentropa ceo Peter Aalbæk Jensen told ScreenDaily: “He [Arcel] will still be busy in the States, when we start filming in May.”

Speaking of Moland, Jensen added: “I had seen his latest feature, In Order...

Mads Matthiesen’s upcoming film starring Ed Skrein scores five territory deals at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm).

After screening a three-minute promo of Mads Matthiesen’s upcoming film The Model at Efm (Feb 5-13), TrustNordisk has closed a slate of deals on the drama.

The Model has been sold to France (Ab Groupe), Poland (Kino Swiat), Korea (Scene & Sound), Bulgaria (Pro Films) and Middle East (Gulf Film).

Starring British actor Ed Skrein (Transporter Legacy) and model Maria Palm in her feature debut, The Model tells the story of emerging fashion model Emma who struggles to enter the Parisian fashion scene and develops a dangerous obsession for male photographer Shane White.

It marks Matthiesen’s second feature following Teddy Bear for which he won Best Director – World Dramatic Arts Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Producer is Jonas Bagger for Zentropa Entertainments10 ApS with executive producers Louise Vesth and Marie Gade Denessen. Co-produced by [link...

Controversial director makes rare appearance and speeches at Danish film awards.

Lars von Trier has once more broken his “vow of silence” to accept an armful of prizes at Denmark’s Robert awards.

The controversial Danish filmmaker’s Nymphomaniac: Director’s Cut scooped eight trophies including best feature and best director at the Danish Film Academy’s awards last night (Feb 1) – and von Trier was in attendance at the ceremony for the first time.

Accepting the Robert for best feature, von Trier said: “From Peter Aalbæk Jensen (his producing partner at Zentropa Entertainments), I know that some of the Robert awards are won by five votes, so I would like to thank those five persons in the auditorium. Thank you very much.”

The director of Antichrist and Dancer in the Dark has rarely spoken in public after being expelled from the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where he brought Melancholia, after publicly joking that he was a Nazi...

Us distributor Sundance Selects has picked up the North American rights for the three Zentropa-produced thrillers The Keeper Of Lost Causes, The Absent One and A Conspiracy Of Faith.

The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, Head of Sales at TrustNordisk and Sean Berney, Manager of Acquisitions at Sundance Selects/IFC Films.

The three Zentropa-produced features are all based on the bestselling books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The two first films The Keeper Of Lost Causes and The Absent One have been huge box office hits at the local Danish market. Last year The Keeper Of Lost Causes became the most seen film in Danish cinemas with more than 725.000 admissions. The second installment The Absent One, which was released on October 2nd this year, has currently reached the 700.000 admissions mark in the Danish cinemas and has become the most popular film in Danish cinemas of 2014. A Conspiracy Of Faith is currently in pre-production.

"Jussi Adler-Olsen's thrilling Q Novels are a perfect fit for big screen adaptation," says Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films. "We are thrilled to be bringing this successful Danish trilogy to American audiences."

“We are very excited that our friends from Sundance Selects have picked up these three thrillers. With their great skills on theatrical releases and successful VOD-strategies, we feel confident that the films will reach a substantial audience in North America”, says Rikke Ennis, CEO at TrustNordisk

The Keeper Of Lost Causes, The Absent One and A Conspiracy Of Faith are produced by Louise Vesth, Jonas Bagger and Peter Ålbæk for the Zentropa Group in cooperation with TV 2 Danmark, Zdf German Television Network, Zdf Enterprises, TV4 Sverige, TV 2 Norge in co-production with Film i Väst. With support from the Danish Film Institute, Eurimages, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Deutscher Filmförderfonds and Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Allerød Kommune. Developed with support from the Media Programme of the European Union.

Nordic distribution through Nordisk Film. TrustNordisk handles international sales.

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With this Sundance Selects acquisition, North American moviegoers are poised to fully discover a series of films that has been thrilling audiences in Denmark over the past year. The distributor has picked up rights to hot Danish titles The Keeper Of Lost Causes and The Absent One, as well as the forthcoming A Conspiracy Of Faith. The films are all adaptations of the bestselling Department Q series of novels written by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The first two, directed by Mikkel Norgaard, have both been huge hits at the Danish box office. The Keeper Of Lost Causes sold more tickets than any other movie in the market in 2013 with 725K admissions and about $11M in receipts. Last month, The Absent One was released in local cinemas and shot to the top of the year’s chart with over $10M off 700K admissions. A Conspiracy Of Faith, which is currently in pre-production, is...

North American rights acquired for three thrillers in the Department Q series.

Us distributor Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights for three Zentropa-produced thrillers: The Keeper Of Lost Causes, The Absent One and A Conspiracy Of Faith.

The deal was negotiated between Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk and Sean Berney, manager of acquisitions at Sundance Selects/IFC Films.

The three Zentropa-produced features are all based on the bestselling books by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

The Keeper Of Lost Causes and The Absent One have proved box office hits in the local Danish market. Last year, The Keeper Of Lost Causes became the most seen film in Danish cinemas with more than 725.000 admissions.

The second instalment The Absent One, released on October 2, has currently reached the 700,000 admissions mark in Danish cinemas, making it 2014’s most popular film in the local market.

A Conspiracy Of Faith is currently in pre-production.

All three titles...

The star of the upcoming Transporter reboot to lead new film from Teddy Bear director Mads Matthiesen.

British actor Ed Skrein is to star in The Model, the second film from Danish director Mads Matthiesen.

Skrein, a former Screen International Star of Tomorrow, is known for his roles in iLL Manors, The Sweeney and Game of Thrones, and will next be seen in Northmen: A Viking Saga, Kill Your Friends and the reboot of The Transporter action series, set for release spring 2015.

He will star opposite model and first time actor Maria Palm.

The Model tells the story of emerging fashion model Emma (Palm) who struggles to enter the Parisian fashion scene and develops a deadly obsession for male fashion photographer Shane White (Skrein).

Shooting has begun and will continue for seven weeks on location in Paris, Warsaw and Copenhagen.

It marks Matthiesen’s follow-up to Teddy Bear, the story of a bodybuilder looking for love that...

Mads Matthiesen’s Emma and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenirs among other hot projects.

Terence Davies upcoming biopic devoted to the life of American poet Emily Dickinson A Quiet Passion was one of the hot projects at this year’s edition of the Paris Project co-production market.

The event, which ran from June 30 to July 3 within the capital’s public-focused Paris Cinema film festival, is aimed at connecting international filmmakers with French producers, sales agents and distributors.

“We’ve had 36 scheduled meetings in three days and fitted a few more in between,” said Roy Boulter, who is producing the picture alongside Solon Papadopoulos through their Liverpool-based Hurricane Films.

“We’re in the fortunate position that there is an appreciation of both Dickinson and Terence in France,” commented Boulter. “Terence is like Ken Loach in that he has as many fans across the Channel as at home. Even if we don’t secure a co-producer here, we’ve had...