07/02/2003 - Stockholm-based exporter brings a line-up of four multiple award-winning Scandinavian titles and the company's first US indie pick-up to the Berlin Market

Read the Special - Berlinale 2003

The Stockholm-based sales company, Non Stop Sales, is screening four Scandinavian films and one new US pick-up at the Market at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The Norwegian feature, Falling Sky , directed by Gunnar Vikene, just won the Canal Plus Nordic Script award in Göteborg. The drama stars Marie Bonnevie (I am Dina) and Kristoffer Joner who is Norway’s Shooting Star this year. The film will screen in the Talent Campus programme and also at the Market.
Sweden’s We can be heroes, by talented director Ulf Malmros, was named the best Nordic children's film at the 2002 Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, and stars Michael Nyqvist voted best actor of the year at last weekend’s Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s Oscars).
Non Stop is also handling two Finnish titles: the local box office hit, One Way Ticket to Mombasa directed by Hannu Tuomainen and Kaisa Rastimo’s children’s film, Hayflower and Quiltshoe.
A few days before the Berlin event began, Non Stop Sales’ head of sales, Michael Werner, also secured the rights to a US independent film, The Slaughter Rule: the first non-Nordic film that the company will handle for worldwide distribution (except the US). The widely acclaimed drama was directed by twin brothers, Alex and Andrew Smith, who worked on Lars von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark. The Slaughter Rule won the best feature Fipresci award in Stockholm and also premiered at Sundance 2002.

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