Global sales shingle The Yellow Affair has acquired world rights to the modern love story “Power of Love” by German helmer Jonas Rothlaender, whose breakthrough movie “Fado” nabbed a Silver Hugo at Chicago and a German Film Critics’ for best feature debut.
Julia M. Müller and Luisa Leopold are producing for Germany’s StickUp Filmproduktion, in co-production with Misha Jaari and Mark Lwoff of Finland’s Bufo (“The Gravedigger’s Wife”).
The director’s sophomore feature film turns on power dynamics in a couple and the social norms expected of a male/female relationship.
Toplining the feature are Saara Kotkaniemi and Nicola Perot as Saara and Robert, both in their 30s, who set off on an extensive summer holiday in the Finnish archipelago.
Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés, yet behind the unconventional façade, they struggle with their own insecurities. Stuck on the island and influenced by its rough nature,...
Julia M. Müller and Luisa Leopold are producing for Germany’s StickUp Filmproduktion, in co-production with Misha Jaari and Mark Lwoff of Finland’s Bufo (“The Gravedigger’s Wife”).
The director’s sophomore feature film turns on power dynamics in a couple and the social norms expected of a male/female relationship.
Toplining the feature are Saara Kotkaniemi and Nicola Perot as Saara and Robert, both in their 30s, who set off on an extensive summer holiday in the Finnish archipelago.
Their love is a constant play with gender role clichés, yet behind the unconventional façade, they struggle with their own insecurities. Stuck on the island and influenced by its rough nature,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Valkeapää has premiered his fourth feature ‘Hit Big’ in Tallinn this week.
Finnish filmmaker J.-P. Valkeapää is developing his English-language debut, the thriller Comeback for which Charades has boarded international sales.
Now at script stage, the film will follow a worn-out filmmaker who has a masterplan for a comeback – he will track down an active serial killer and make a documentary about him. He persuades his estranged sound engineer daughter to help and a bloody mess ensues.
Valkeapää described the script as “an intense thriller with more than a few morbid laughs – a film about death and redemption.”
Finland’s...
Finnish filmmaker J.-P. Valkeapää is developing his English-language debut, the thriller Comeback for which Charades has boarded international sales.
Now at script stage, the film will follow a worn-out filmmaker who has a masterplan for a comeback – he will track down an active serial killer and make a documentary about him. He persuades his estranged sound engineer daughter to help and a bloody mess ensues.
Valkeapää described the script as “an intense thriller with more than a few morbid laughs – a film about death and redemption.”
Finland’s...
- 11/24/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Charades has come on board “Hit Big”, a dark humor-laced crime film set in Spain and directed by critically acclaimed Finnish filmmaker, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa (“They Have Escaped”).
Currently in post production, the film is being presented at the work-in-progress sidebar of Goteborg Festival’s Nordic Film Market. On the ground in Goteborg is Daniel Kuitunen, who is producing the movie through his Helsinki-based banner Komeetta.
“Hit Big” revolves around Marjaleena, a 60-year-old, boozed-up former beauty pageant star who left Finland for Spain’s Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot for Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko. One day, they hear that Marjaleena’s husband, Worm, will be released after 20 years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist. Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions.
The...
Currently in post production, the film is being presented at the work-in-progress sidebar of Goteborg Festival’s Nordic Film Market. On the ground in Goteborg is Daniel Kuitunen, who is producing the movie through his Helsinki-based banner Komeetta.
“Hit Big” revolves around Marjaleena, a 60-year-old, boozed-up former beauty pageant star who left Finland for Spain’s Costa del Sol where she runs Bar Belle, once a popular spot for Finnish tourists, with her handyman Mikko. One day, they hear that Marjaleena’s husband, Worm, will be released after 20 years in prison and is planning a dream life with his cell-mate lover thanks to the stashed proceeds of a major heist. Feeling betrayed, Marjaleena sets off to get her share of the millions.
The...
- 2/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
As avid gamers, we often wonder how people who become obsessed with online hijinx can get along outside of the cyber world. Everyone knows at least one person who's addicted to World of Warcraft to this very day. It was only a matter of time before things turned deadly.
Below you'll find the trailer and art for Rat King, which is making the rounds at this year's Efm in Berlin. The flick is directed by Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica and stars Max Ovaska, Julius Lavonen, Nina Koponen, Outi Mäenpää, and Janne Virtanen.
Synopsis
Juri, 18, is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and his girlfriend is about to leave him. He decides to quit but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki, also 18, who, when they meet for the first time, turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki...
Below you'll find the trailer and art for Rat King, which is making the rounds at this year's Efm in Berlin. The flick is directed by Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica and stars Max Ovaska, Julius Lavonen, Nina Koponen, Outi Mäenpää, and Janne Virtanen.
Synopsis
Juri, 18, is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and his girlfriend is about to leave him. He decides to quit but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki, also 18, who, when they meet for the first time, turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki...
- 2/15/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Noomi Rapace, Beyond Pernilla August-Noomi Rapace Drama Beyond Tops Guldbagge Nominations Best Film Simple Simon Sebbe Beyond Best Foreign Language Film Fish Tank, dir Andrea Arnold Lourdes, dir Jessica Hausner The Social Network, dir David Fincher Best Director Pernilla August, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Babak Najafi, Sebbe Best actress in a leading role Pernilla August, Miss Kicki Noomi Rapace, Beyond Alicia Vikander, Pure Best actor in a leading role Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Sebbe Joel Kinnaman, Easy Money Bill Skarsgård, Simple Simon Best actress in a supporting role Tehilla Blad, Beyond Cecilia Forss, Simple Simon Outi Mäenpää, Beyond Best actor in a supporting role Peter Dalle, Behind Blue Skies David Dencik, Cornelis Ville Virtanen, Beyond Best screenplay Pernilla August and Lolita Ray, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Jonathan Sjöberg and Andreas Öhman, Simple Simon Best cinematography Göran Hallberg, Behind Blue Skies Erik Molberg Hansen, Beyond Aril Wretblad, Easy Money Best documentary Familia,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Before she makes her move to Hollywood and the craptacular machine that are Hollywood cut outs like MI4 & Sherlock Holmes 2, dragon tattooed girl Noomi Rapace has a few European titles in the works and the first to hit the international front is Svinalängorna (Beyond).
Directed by actress turned director Pernilla August and based on a best settling novel by Susanna Alakoski, Rapace leads the pack of great Finnish actors including Ville Virtanen (Sauna (review)) and Outi Mäenpää, as Leena, a woman who, on the morning of Christmas eve receives a phone call from the hospital of her childhood hometown explaining that her mother is dying, a call that brings up her dark childhood and leads her to seeing her mother for the first time in her adult life.
The trailer for the film is a little over dramatic (the music certainly doesn’t help though it builds a chilling mood...
Directed by actress turned director Pernilla August and based on a best settling novel by Susanna Alakoski, Rapace leads the pack of great Finnish actors including Ville Virtanen (Sauna (review)) and Outi Mäenpää, as Leena, a woman who, on the morning of Christmas eve receives a phone call from the hospital of her childhood hometown explaining that her mother is dying, a call that brings up her dark childhood and leads her to seeing her mother for the first time in her adult life.
The trailer for the film is a little over dramatic (the music certainly doesn’t help though it builds a chilling mood...
- 8/27/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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