05/05/2010

Stockholm-based NonStop Sales is heading to the Cannes Market confidently, with two new premieres for international buyers: Swedish horror film Psalm 21, starring Per Ragnar (Let the Right One In [+see also:
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interview: John Nordling
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“Both films are very strong within their respective genres and prior to the market we have already received lots of interest,” said Michael Werner, head of sales.

Psalm 21 marks the directorial film debut of Fredrik Hiller, who began as a director and playwright in Swedish theatre, as well as an actor (the Wallander series, Beowulf). The psychological thriller deals with supernatural elements, debt and disgrace, fear and fury, culpability and atonement. The visual effects were created by the Swedish company Lost Liner, headed by Ulf Lundgren, who worked on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The film is produced by Krejaren Dramaproduktion and opens in Sweden in the fall.

Maria Lindberg’s Moomins and the Comet Case is the first Nordic stereoscopic 3D animation film, and is based on the beloved characters created by Finnish author Tove Jansson. The English voices are by Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Stormare, Mads Mikkelsen and Max von Sydow and the title song by Björk. The Filmkompaniet Alpha production is based on the original felt-puppet animated TV series produced by the Semafor Film Studio in Poland in the 1970s. NonStop has world rights, excluding the Nordic and Baltic countries and Poland.

Other NonStop titles screening in Cannes include the Danish comedy What Goes Around (the number one local film in Denmark in 2009), Norwegian family film Magic Silver [+see also:
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interview: Roar Uthaug
film profile] and Swedish drama The Wedding Photographer [+see also:
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