05/09/2017 - The Danish international sales agent is bringing several new titles along to the Canadian festival’s market, unspooling from 7-17 September

Copenhagen’s TrustNordisk will unspool a package of 11 productions at the 42^nd Toronto International Film Festival, spearheaded by Danish director Peter Schønau Fog’s first feature in ten years, You Disappear [+see also:
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Fog’s debut, The Art of Crying [+see also:
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TrustNordisk will also be marketing some of its latest acquisitions, one of which is Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky’s Sonja: The White Swan [+see also:
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British director Ken McMullen’s Hamlet Revenant is a new adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, starring Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, with Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne and Connie Nielsen, in a story of treasonous political upheavals, family crisis, sexual tensions and ambiguous friendships.

With a cast comprising Danica Curcic, Gustaf Skarsgård, Ulrich Thomsen and Astrid Grarup Elbo, Danish director Birgitte Stærmose’s Darling describes an unhappy return to Denmark for world-famous ballet star Darling and her husband: at a rehearsal, she collapses in pain and her hip is damaged beyond repair, meaning she will never dance again.

Norwegian director Marius Holst’s Congo [+see also:
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Norwegian director Mikkel Brænne Sandemose’s The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King [+see also:
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Also on the sales list are Norwegian director Harald Zwart’s World War II epic 12^th Man [+see also:
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