The teen drama series Beist, created and written by Ernst De Geer and Mads Stegger, premiered on NRK April 20. Ole Sebastian Kåss is directing and Max Campbell stars as the leading role Elias.

Beist follows sixteen-year-old Elias who is one of the best players in one of Norway’s premier youth football teams. Within five days he must prove that he has what it takes to be signed as a professional. How far is he willing to go to achieve this goal in a sport that is based on being a good team player?

The third season of Øystein Karlsen’s hit TV series Exit premieres on Friday April 21 on SVT.

Exit season 3 premiered on NRK in March to mind-blowing viewer ratings, and is Scandinavia’s most viewed series of all time.

No one at school believes Vilda when she tells them she is Sámi. There are always a million questions: Do you speak Sámi? Do you own reindeer? Is your dad Sámi? But no matter what answers Vilda give, it’s like she’s not Sámi enough for them. She’s decided to change that. She’s going to start wearing gábdde, the traditional Sámi clothing, and ask her grandfather, the only one in her family who speaks Sámi, to teach her the language.

But when Vilda’s grandfather suddenly passes away, everything is turned upside down. Vilda has to navigate her Sámi heritage all on her own. At the funeral she meets Samuel. He is a few years older and has everything Vilda wants for herself: the gábdde, the reindeer, the language. Everything her grandfather never got the chance to give her. Perhaps Samuel can show her how to be Sámi instead?

Flutters of the Heart is a book about grief, love, and the right to define who you are.

Gustav Möller has just completed shooting of his new psychological thriller Vogter, produced by Nordisk Film. For Vogter, Möller reunited with producer Line Flint, co-writer Emil Nygaard Albertsen, and cinematographer Jasper J. Spanning, the team that created his multi-awarded debut The Guilty (2018).

Danish star actress Sidse Babette Knudsen (Borgen, Wildland) plays the idealistic prison guard Eva, who is caught in the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past is placed in the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward, the toughest and most violent ward in the prison. There, an electrifying and unpredictable psychological game starts between them, where Eva’s sense of justice puts both her morality and future at stake.

The Danish theatrical release via Nordisk Film Distribution is scheduled for February 29, 2024.

Before commencing his screenwriting career, Alexander Havelda graduated with a masters in international politics and political philosophy and began a path towards diplomacy. However, feeling increasingly drawn to storytelling, Havelda started working as a ghost writer for debate articles, and as a copywriter.

Meanwhile Havelda worked with Burkinabé-French filmmaker Dani Kouyaté for many years, learning how to write for film from him. He then decided to focus whole-heartedly on his screenwriting and has since developed and sold numerous projects to different production companies. In 2022, the comedy drama TV Series Korridoren premiered on C More, of which Havelda is creator and writer.

2021 saw the premiere of Havelda’s Czech short Can You Still Feel the Butterflies?, which has been screened at a multitude of festivals and exhibitions and won prestigious awards.

In his writing, Havelda likes to play with crude humor, balancing on the edge of what is taboo, often with an undertone of political and existential elements.

Havelda is currently working on two drama TV series with Unlimited Stories, a feature film with Jan Marnell and Right2Screen, and a comedy TV series with Toni Prince (Språk för alla).

NRK and Bell Media’s Crave has announced the primary cast of their hotly anticipated, original series So Long, Marianne, created by Øystein Karlsen, which tells the legendary love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen, and his muse Marianne Ihlen. Alex Wolff (The Line, Hereditary, A Quiet Place: Day One) has been cast as Leonard and Thea Sofie Loch Næss (The Last Kingdom, Delete Me, A Storm For Christmas) will play Marianne. Joining them are Anna Torv (The Newsreader, The Last of Us, Mindhunter) as Charmian Clift and Noah Taylor (Preacher, Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones) as George Johnston.

So Long, Marianne is written for the screen by Øystein Karlsen, who is also amongst the directors, and Jo Nesbø. Principal photography began on March 24 and is shooting in multiple locations including the Greek island of Hydra, Oslo in Norway, and Montreal, Canada.

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