Variety has exclusive access to the English-language trailer for Norwegian feature “Disco” by Jorunn Myklebust Syversen, set to world premiere in Toronto’s Discovery program, before heading off to San Sebastian’s New Directors’ competition.
Syversen’s sophomore feature after “Tree Feller” is sold by New Europe Film Sales.
Toplining the cast is “Skam” actress Josefine Frida who has just been picked by Toronto as a “rising star” alongside three emerging international acting talents.
In her feature debut, “Disco”, Frida plays Mirjam, a 19-year-old freestyle disco dancing champion and poster girl for an evangelical movement, who later on joins an even more radical church.
Co-stars include Nicolai Cleve Broch (“Beforeigners”), Andrea Bræn Hovig (“Hope”) and Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal. The film is produced by Mer Film’s Maria Ekerhovd, behind Iram Haq’s “What Will People Say”.
“I’m really looking forward to showing the film to the audiences in Toronto and San Sebastian,...
Syversen’s sophomore feature after “Tree Feller” is sold by New Europe Film Sales.
Toplining the cast is “Skam” actress Josefine Frida who has just been picked by Toronto as a “rising star” alongside three emerging international acting talents.
In her feature debut, “Disco”, Frida plays Mirjam, a 19-year-old freestyle disco dancing champion and poster girl for an evangelical movement, who later on joins an even more radical church.
Co-stars include Nicolai Cleve Broch (“Beforeigners”), Andrea Bræn Hovig (“Hope”) and Kjærsti Odden Skjeldal. The film is produced by Mer Film’s Maria Ekerhovd, behind Iram Haq’s “What Will People Say”.
“I’m really looking forward to showing the film to the audiences in Toronto and San Sebastian,...
- 8/16/2019
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
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