Norwegian actress Pia Tjelta will lead the cast of Nina Knag’s feature debut Don’t Call Me Mama, which is in pre-production ahead of a June 2024 shoot.
REinvent International Sales is handling international sales and launching the film at Cannes, with Scanbox Entertainment holding Nordic distribution rights.
Don’t Call Me Mama follows a high school teacher who falls in love with a young asylum seeker, sparking a forbidden relationship with consequences for them both.
Kristoffer Joner, Tarek Zayat, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen also star alongside Tjelta.
Knag and Kathrine Valen Zeiner wrote the script, with Eleonore Anselme and Ingrid Skagestad...
REinvent International Sales is handling international sales and launching the film at Cannes, with Scanbox Entertainment holding Nordic distribution rights.
Don’t Call Me Mama follows a high school teacher who falls in love with a young asylum seeker, sparking a forbidden relationship with consequences for them both.
Kristoffer Joner, Tarek Zayat, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen also star alongside Tjelta.
Knag and Kathrine Valen Zeiner wrote the script, with Eleonore Anselme and Ingrid Skagestad...
- 5/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Dr Sales has boarded “Always Be Closing,” a drama series about the dynamics, dominance, and discrimination within the telemarketing industry.
The youth-skewing series will premiere on Drtv, the Danish broadcaster’s streaming service, on Feb. 24. “Always Be Closing” is created by Frederik Dirks Gottlieb, Kasper Lundberg, and Andrea Moyo, who themselves were part of the telemarketing industry in their youth. The cast is led by Danish star Anders Heinrichsen and upcoming talent Andreas Bruun Pedersen and Tarek Zayat. The series is directed by Svend Colding and produced by Laura Valentiner-Bohse for Dr.
“Always Be Closing” tells the story of Kenneth and Jamal, two friends in their early 20s who need to make some money — preferably fast. So they get jobs as telemarketers with New Energy, a company selling ”green” power. New Energy is a fast-paced workplace with lots of money, partying, tough competition, and an intense brotherhood with the other telemarketers.
The youth-skewing series will premiere on Drtv, the Danish broadcaster’s streaming service, on Feb. 24. “Always Be Closing” is created by Frederik Dirks Gottlieb, Kasper Lundberg, and Andrea Moyo, who themselves were part of the telemarketing industry in their youth. The cast is led by Danish star Anders Heinrichsen and upcoming talent Andreas Bruun Pedersen and Tarek Zayat. The series is directed by Svend Colding and produced by Laura Valentiner-Bohse for Dr.
“Always Be Closing” tells the story of Kenneth and Jamal, two friends in their early 20s who need to make some money — preferably fast. So they get jobs as telemarketers with New Energy, a company selling ”green” power. New Energy is a fast-paced workplace with lots of money, partying, tough competition, and an intense brotherhood with the other telemarketers.
- 2/19/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Two cops are stranded in hostile territory when an act of police brutality triggers a riot in this slick action film
Denmark’s reputation as the land of tolerance, equality and cosy contentment takes a battering in this superslick urban thriller directed with adrenaline and savvy by first timers Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm. “Shorta” is Arabic for “police”, and the movie opens with black teenager Talib Ben Hassi lying face down, a white police officer on his back. “I can’t breathe,” he pleads. We don’t see Talib again but his name is repeated over and over: on the streets in Svalegårdena, the fictional estate where he grew up; by TV journalists reporting on his condition in intensive care; at the police station where damage limitation is in overdrive.
Officers are warned to stay out of Svalegårdena – a powder keg waiting to explode. The shift commander puts...
Denmark’s reputation as the land of tolerance, equality and cosy contentment takes a battering in this superslick urban thriller directed with adrenaline and savvy by first timers Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm. “Shorta” is Arabic for “police”, and the movie opens with black teenager Talib Ben Hassi lying face down, a white police officer on his back. “I can’t breathe,” he pleads. We don’t see Talib again but his name is repeated over and over: on the streets in Svalegårdena, the fictional estate where he grew up; by TV journalists reporting on his condition in intensive care; at the police station where damage limitation is in overdrive.
Officers are warned to stay out of Svalegårdena – a powder keg waiting to explode. The shift commander puts...
- 9/1/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Slick, unsettling Danish law-enforcement thriller “Shorta” — or as it’s been generically retitled in the United States, “Enforcement” — opens with a familiar “I can’t breathe” moment as a team of police scramble to restrain a 19-year-old Muslim man, suggesting that what happened to Eric Garner in Staten Island, and to George Floyd in Minneapolis, is hardly an America-specific problem. Like those men, Talib Ben Hassi dies from complications of the police chokehold, and as in those cases, the community rises up against the establishment that was sworn to protect it.
In other words, “Shorta” begins where films such as “Do the Right Thing” and “Les Misérables” abruptly stopped. That’s an awfully ambitious (if somewhat foolhardy) setup for helmers Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid to construct their debut feature — a thriller that’s both a relentless adrenaline rush and a social-issue Rorschach test for all who watch it.
In other words, “Shorta” begins where films such as “Do the Right Thing” and “Les Misérables” abruptly stopped. That’s an awfully ambitious (if somewhat foolhardy) setup for helmers Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid to construct their debut feature — a thriller that’s both a relentless adrenaline rush and a social-issue Rorschach test for all who watch it.
- 3/20/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is continuing its trajectory as one to watch this season. The Mads Mikkelsen-starrer has been shortlisted by Denmark’s Oscar Committee as one of three pictures that will vie to be the country’s entry for the International Feature Film Academy Award. The other two films are Rotterdam prizewinner A Perfectly Normal Family by Malou Reymann and Venice Critics’ Week title Shorta from Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid. The official selection will be announced on November 18.
Another Round on Sunday scooped the Virtual Audience Award for Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. It had previously received the official selection label for Cannes’ 2020 edition and had its international premiere during the Toronto Film Festival. At San Sebastian, it won the Silver Shell for Best Actor.
At the Danish box office, the drama has sold over 500K tickets since release on...
Another Round on Sunday scooped the Virtual Audience Award for Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival. It had previously received the official selection label for Cannes’ 2020 edition and had its international premiere during the Toronto Film Festival. At San Sebastian, it won the Silver Shell for Best Actor.
At the Danish box office, the drama has sold over 500K tickets since release on...
- 10/19/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Danish action film deals with police brutality and racial tension.
Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Shorta, the Danish action thriller which debuted in Critics’ Week at Venice last month.
Vertigo acquired the film during the Toronto market, and will release it theatrically in April 2021. French sales agent Charades is handling worldwide sales.
Shorta is written and directed by Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm. The film centres around the death of an Arabic teenager in police custody, and the racial tensions that are exacerbated as a result of this incident. Jacob Lohmann and Simon Sears lead the cast,...
Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Shorta, the Danish action thriller which debuted in Critics’ Week at Venice last month.
Vertigo acquired the film during the Toronto market, and will release it theatrically in April 2021. French sales agent Charades is handling worldwide sales.
Shorta is written and directed by Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm. The film centres around the death of an Arabic teenager in police custody, and the racial tensions that are exacerbated as a result of this incident. Jacob Lohmann and Simon Sears lead the cast,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Shorta,” the timely action-packed Danish thriller that had its world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week this weekend, has now been sold by Charades in a number of territories.
Directed by up-and-coming Danish filmmakers Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm, “Shorta” unfolds in the aftermath of the killing of 19-year-old Talib Ben Hassi while in custody. The film follows two police officers, Jens and Mike, who are on routine patrol in a multicultural neighborhood when news of Talib’s death breaks, igniting a violent riot. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves trapped and must fight to find a way out.
The gripping feature debut has been acquired for France (Program Store), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Koch Media), Spain (Caramel), Italy (Blue Swan), Latin America (Synapse), South Korea (Nk Contents), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), and India (Big Tree Entertainement). The police actioner will be released by Scanbox across Scandinavia in October.
Directed by up-and-coming Danish filmmakers Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm, “Shorta” unfolds in the aftermath of the killing of 19-year-old Talib Ben Hassi while in custody. The film follows two police officers, Jens and Mike, who are on routine patrol in a multicultural neighborhood when news of Talib’s death breaks, igniting a violent riot. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves trapped and must fight to find a way out.
The gripping feature debut has been acquired for France (Program Store), Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Koch Media), Spain (Caramel), Italy (Blue Swan), Latin America (Synapse), South Korea (Nk Contents), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), and India (Big Tree Entertainement). The police actioner will be released by Scanbox across Scandinavia in October.
- 9/8/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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