Writer-director Lilja Ingolfsdottir’s debut feature, Loveable [+lire aussi :
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Before embarking on the making of her first feature, Ingolfsdottir helmed several shorts, including What We Fear (2022) and Neglect (2010).

Loveable revolves around 40-year-old Maria, a mother of four, who must come to terms with herself when her husband says that he wants a divorce. The creative team bills it as “an interpersonal film about a break-up, but also about a woman’s opportunity for self-knowledge and growth, and having to deal with unconscious and dysfunctional patterns in herself”.

The main cast includes Helga Guren (22 July), Oddgeir Thune (Blind Spot [+lire aussi :
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Budgeted at €900,000, Loveable is being staged by Thomas Robsahm (The Worst Person in the World [+lire aussi :
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