15/06/2006

Björne Runge’s second feature film, Mouth to Mouth, selected in official competition, is leading the stable of Swedish talented filmmakers on display at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30-July 8).

Launched on the international film circuit in 2003 with his feature debut Daybreak, winner of a Silver Bear in Berlin and of four Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Oscars), Runge is back with a study on family drama. But unlike Daybreak, which focused on betrayal, Mouth to Mouth is about reconciliation, survival and breaking free.

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A father tries to win back his daughter who ran away from home a year earlier and is now living with an older man on the edge of drug dependency. The film won a Guldbagge award this year for Best Supporting Actor (Magnus Krepper). Produced by Clas Gunnarson for Zoyd Productions, the Swedish/Danish co-production is sold by Trust Film Sales.

In the Documentary competition programme, Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren will be presenting their docu-drama The Substitute on the generational clash between old and new Sweden. Modern TV produced the film in co-production with SVT.

Two feature film debuts will screen in the ‘Another View’ sidebar: Amir Chamdin’s Om Gud Vill (God Willing), a love story set in 1975 during the hottest summer ever in Stockholm, is being sold by Sonet Film, and Storm [+see also:
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film profile] by Måns Mårlind and Björn SteinTrust Film Sales. Lastly, Rafael Edholm’s Babar’s Bilar under the Nordisk Film International Sales banner will have its international premiere as part of Variety’s Critics’ Choice.