LevelK Forums Göteborg Primary Festival Access ‘Reside a Little’

In its newest wager on daring Scandi options, Copenhagen-based gross sales and aggregation space LevelK has picked up international rights to the Swedish characteristic “Reside a Little” (“Leva lite”) which gained a rapturous reaction at its international premiere in Göteborg ultimate weekend, the place it scooped the SEK 50,000 ($4,500) Angelo award from the Church of Sweden for perfect new Swedish cinema unlock. 

The pic could also be a runner up for the competition’s hefty SEK 400,000 ($36,000) Dragon Prize-Best possible Nordic Movie to be passed out Feb 1.

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

The tale follows two younger Swedish ladies, Laura and her perfect pal Alex, as they head off to a a laugh sofa browsing shuttle throughout Europe. However after one wild birthday celebration of their first stop-over in Warsaw, Laura wakes up bare, having had intercourse with a stranger. Not able to bear in mind what actually took place, she units off on an entire new adventure to discover her personal frame and bounds. As flashbacks from that evening stay doping up, she begins having doubts. Was once intercourse that evening in Warsaw consensual or now not?

“Reside a Little” is refreshing,” stated Tine Klint, founder and CEO of Levelk about her newest select up. “It tells an impressive and intimate tale about navigating uncertainty and discovering your self; it’s daring, fair, and stuffed with center!”

Ovesen stated the start line for the characteristic used to be a identical stressful incident {that a} pal of hers continued.

“What took place to my pal used to be that she awoke bare beside a man, as we had been out sofa browsing. She had an entire blackout, and located it a lot more uncomplicated to view herself as any individual who’d made a silly mistake and used to be untrue to her boyfriend, fairly than figuring out as a rape sufferer. It used to be this identification disaster that I sought after to discover on display screen,” stated the director, who used to be additionally willing to convey to the vanguard “one thing greater.” 

“It’s about being younger and seeking to navigate relationships and intimacy, about how tricky it’s to set barriers and to be original, now not handiest in non-consensual scenarios, but in addition in consensual ones.”
The most important component and thread right through the inventive procedure used to be to view the tale from the feminine gaze, Ovesen defined. 

Slightly than just switching the male gaze “to a girl’s objectifying viewpoint on males,” she strived to get shut emotionally to the characters, each visually, with the enhance from her cinematographer Mattias Pollak (“Explosions of the Center”), and within the character-building, together with within the depiction of Laura’s boyfriend and the fellow she spends the evening all the way through her blackout. “I sought after younger males within the target market so that you can determine with them, hoping that it will lead to a few necessary soul-searching,” she stated.

Regardless of the harsh – however urgent –  subject material, Ovesen stated tone-wise, her aim used to be to create “a colourful, exciting and humorous road-movie in an unique universe, the sofa browsing group which is filled with wonderful other people.” 

To convey a multi-cultural vibe and authenticity really feel, the younger director solid non-professionals with other backgrounds, subsequent to Embla Ingelman-Sundberg (Netflix’s “Carousel”) within the lead, Aviva Wrede (“Hashtag”) as her perfect pal and French emerging famous person Oscar Lesage (“The Substance,” “Marie-Antoinette”) because the antagonist.

Ovesen instructed Selection she hopes her movie will each ‘cause the target market’s senses” and “result in just right conversations” about barriers and the gray zones of consent.

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

LevelK’s Göteborg slate additionally takes within the competition’s Nordic Lighting fixtures entries “Means House” via Charlotte Sieling and “Unexpected Outbursts of Emotion”via Paula Korva.