Göteborg’s prime Nordic Film Market where last year’s Cannes sensations “The Girl with the Needle,” “Armand” and “When the Light Breaks” were first showcased as works in progress, has announced exclusively to Variety its full 2025 program.
Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates from 38 countries.
As always, several acclaimed directors will share the spotlight with promising newcomers, as reflected in the center-piece 15-title Works in Progress lineup.
Norway’s Maria Sødahl, a Berlin Golden Bear contender in 2020 with her drama “Hope,” will pitch the Danish drama “Ø” (working title), in which a Danish family on holiday in Greece finds itself in a major refugee crisis, an uncomfortable situation that puts to test their well-meaning humanistic values.
Also tackling family values, as well as belonging is “Home,” from actor-turned-director Marijana Jankovic, starring Zlatko Buric (“Triangle of Sadness”), Claes Bang (“The Square”), Jesper Christensen (“Spectre”), Trine Dyrholm (“The Girl with the Needle”) and Dejan Cukic (“Snabba Cash”).
Other anticipated titles include the Danish-Faroese horror pic “No Rest for the Wicked” starring “Game of Thrones”’ Pilou Asbæk; the Danish-Korean “Hana Korea,” a true-life inspired drama about a North-Korean defector starring Kim Minha (“Pachinko”) and Kim Joo-ryoung (“Squid Game”); the Sámi musical “Árru” by Elle Sofe Sara and disability empowering “My First Love” by Mari Storstein, produced by “The Worst Person in the World”’s Thomas Robsahm.
The Nordic Film Market’s other main section, the Market Screenings, will be showcasing 15 new Nordic films, such as Sundance and Rotterdam entries “Sauna” and “Orenda” respectively, Göteborg festival opener “Safe House” and closing pic “Stranger.” Kullengård highlighted Jon Asp’s “Being Bo Wideberg” about the celebrated Swedish director of “Elvira Madigan” produced by B-Reel, to be screened as a special presentation.