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Toronto books Swedish Hotel and invites Norway’s The Immoral

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- New features by Swedish director Lisa Langseth and Norwegian director Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen will both have their world premieres at the 38th Toronto Film Festival

Toronto books Swedish Hotel and invites Norway’s The Immoral

Following up on her award-winning Pure [+see also:
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, Swedish director Lisa Langseth’s new drama, Hotel [+see also:
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, will have its world premiere in the Contemporary World Cinema sidebar at the 38th Toronto Film Festival, which unspools between September 5-15. Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best! [+see also:
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(photo) will be on show as a Special Presentation.

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Pure won Langseth a Guldbagga – Sweden’s national film prize – for Best Original Screenplay, and Alicia Vikander the Best Actress award; Vikander also plays the lead in Hotel as Erika, who has everything – a good job, no money worries, a solid relationship, lots of friends - until the day everything falls apart, and she starts group therapy to find new ways to feel good. Co-starring David Dencik and Simon J Berger, Hotel – which will open in Sweden on October 4 – was produced by Patrik Andersson and Frida Jonason for B-Reel Feature Films.

Having previously selected Norwegian directors Erik Skjoldbjærg’soil rush thriller, Pioneer [+see also:
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, for a Special Presentation, and Iram Haq’s drama I Am Yours for the Discovery section, Toronto has invited Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen's comedy, The Immoral [+see also:
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, to screen in Contemporary World Cinema, where it will have its world premiere.

The Immoral - Or the Dentist’s Daughter, the Plumber’s Son and the Abandoned Upperclass Youth. A Contemporary Broadside Ballad follows two drifters, Camilla and William, who are not able to adapt to the Norwegian welfare paradise. Scripted by Krutzkoff Jacobsen and Einer Sverdrup, with Didrik Jacobsen and Bendik Grossmann, and starring Even Rasmussen, Hanne Bache Hansen, Harald Kolaas and Daniel Gjerde, it was produced by Anders Tangen for Viafilm and Odd G Iversen for Atomfilm.

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