In its newest guess on daring Scandi options, Copenhagen-based gross sales and aggregation home LevelK has picked up world rights to the Swedish characteristic “Stay a Little” (“Leva lite”) which obtained a rapturous response at its world premiere in Göteborg final weekend, the place it scooped the SEK 50,000 ($4,500) Angelo award from the Church of Sweden for greatest new Swedish cinema launch. 

The pic can be a runner up for the pageant’s hefty SEK 400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Prize-Finest Nordic Movie to be handed out Feb 1.

The youth-oriented characteristic, concerning the gray zones of consent and the issue to set boundaries, marks the characteristic debut of Fanny Ovesen, nominated for a Crystal Bear in Berlin for her quick movie “She-Pack.” Seasoned producer Marie Kjellson, credited for Ruben Östlund’s “Drive Majeure,” produces for Kjellson & Wik.

The story follows two younger Swedish ladies, Laura and her greatest good friend Alex, as they head off to a enjoyable sofa browsing journey throughout Europe. However after one wild social gathering of their first stop-over in Warsaw, Laura wakes up bare, having had intercourse with a stranger. Unable to recollect what actually occurred, she units off on a complete new journey to discover her personal physique and bounds. As flashbacks from that night time hold popping up, she begins having doubts. Was intercourse that night time in Warsaw consensual or not?

“Stay a Little” is refreshing,” stated Tine Klint, founder and CEO of Levelk about her newest decide up. “It tells a robust and intimate story about navigating uncertainty and discovering your self; it’s daring, trustworthy, and filled with coronary heart!”

Ovesen stated the place to begin for the characteristic was an identical traumatic incident {that a} good friend of hers endured.

“What occurred to my good friend was that she awoke bare beside a man, as we had been out sofa browsing. She had an entire blackout, and located it a lot simpler to view herself as somebody who’d made a silly mistake and was untrue to her boyfriend, slightly than figuring out as a rape sufferer. It was this id disaster that I needed to discover on display screen,” stated the director, who was additionally eager to deliver to the forefront “one thing bigger.” 

“It’s about being younger and attempting to navigate relationships and intimacy, about how troublesome it’s to set boundaries and to be genuine, not solely in non-consensual conditions, but in addition in consensual ones.”
An vital factor and thread all through the artistic course of was to view the story from the feminine gaze, Ovesen defined. 

Quite than merely switching the male gaze “to a lady’s objectifying perspective on males,” she strived to get shut emotionally to the characters, each visually, with the help from her cinematographer Mattias Pollak (“Explosions of the Coronary heart”), and within the character-building, together with within the depiction of Laura’s boyfriend and the man she spends the night time throughout her blackout. “I needed younger males within the viewers to have the ability to establish with them, hoping that it would result in some vital soul-searching,” she stated.

Regardless of the powerful – however urgent –  subject material, Ovesen stated tone-wise, her intention was to create “a vibrant, thrilling and humorous road-movie in an unique universe, the sofa browsing neighborhood which is filled with wonderful folks.” 

To deliver a multi-cultural vibe and authenticity really feel, the younger director forged non-professionals with completely different backgrounds, subsequent to Embla Ingelman-Sundberg (Netflix’s “Carousel”) within the lead, Aviva Wrede (“Hashtag”) as her greatest good friend and French rising star Oscar Lesage (“The Substance,” “Marie-Antoinette”) because the antagonist.

Ovesen informed Selection she hopes her movie will each ‘set off the viewers’s senses” and “result in good conversations” about boundaries and the gray zones of consent.

“Stay a Little” was co-produced by Renée Hansen Mlodyszewski of Norway’s True Content material Manufacturing, Monica Hellström of Denmark’s Ström Photos and Movie i Väst. Govt producers are Kim Magnusson of Scandinavian Movie Distribution and Thomas Robsahm of Amarcord. Co-financiers included the Swedish Movie Institute, Eurimages, the Norwegian Movie Institute, the Danish Movie Institute, Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, Czech Movie Fund manufacturing incentives, Artistic Europe Media, Lindholmen Science Park and Yle. Main arthouse specialist TriArt handles the home launch. 

LevelK’s Göteborg slate additionally takes within the pageant’s Nordic Lights entries “Manner Residence” by Charlotte Sieling and “Sudden Outbursts of Emotion”by Paula Korva. 

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