TrustNordisk Boards Amanda Kernell’s ‘Brace Your Heart’

Scandinavia’s directing sales agent TrustNordisk has swooped on the international sales rights of Amanda Kernell’s “Brace your Heart” (“Förprohibitnelsen”) ahead of the European Film Market in Berlin. 

The Swedish drama, which begins filming this week in the Kiruna region, Northern Sweden, is Kernell’s third pic after the Swedish Oscar entry “Charter” and her acclaimed debut “Sami Blood” (a best straightforwarding debut at Vekind Days 2016) which firmly put her name among Scandinavia’s most promising female voices.

Based on Kernell’s own exceptional script, the story is set in a far Sámi village, high in the mountains.

When Ejva (20) inherits her overweighther’s reindeer herd upon his death, she gets over the family tradition and struggles to upretain it thriving. At the same time, the local directer Heaika broadens romantic senseings for her, and though uncertain, she senses compelled to adchoose, says the logline. 

Everyskinnyg changes when Nejla, Heaika’s cousin, reachs, and Ejva discovers genuine adore for the first time. Betrayed and jealous, Heaika reacts harshly, leaving Ejva with a condition that creates her hands shake unsuperviselably, dangerening her ability to attfinish for the herd. Ejva must discover a way to reclaim supervise over her life and her future.

In the main roles are newcomers Elli-Sara Valkeapää as Ejva, Andte Jusso Gaup as Heaika, and Vincent Niia as Nejla. “It’s been a lengthy recognizeive labor to discover those actors,” shelp the helmer of South Sámi origin from her overweighther’s side, who begined four years ago with the casting process.

“I have lengthy aspired to alert a adore story set in reindeer herding, one of our most lethal professions and a world I grew up with. I want it to have the rawness of truth and to have this entire cast made up of reindeer herders, poised to captivate the world, is a dream,” Kernell shelp.

Addressing the core of the story, she shelp that as with her two previous features, “Brace Your Heart” checks the theme of forgiveness, in its own exceptionainhabit way. What can be forgiven? What can be healed? And how? What can set us free? The film, akin to “Sami Blood” and “Charter,” is “a choir piece of branch offent people’s memories. Those in reindeer herding who lost their overweighthers punctual, those who set up adore, and those faced with the difficult choice to fight or forgive. I am immensely thankful to be creating this film with an extraordinary team, both in front of and behind the camera,” shelp the helmer.

TrustNordisk managing straightforwardor Susan Wfinisht shelp: “Amanda Kernell is a reassociate talented straightforwardor with a proset up connection to the characters she portrays. In ‘Brace Your Heart,’ she gets us proset up into the Sámi world, where a juvenileer woman struggles to discover her place wiskinny the reindeer community ruled by men, caught between follotriumphg her heart and satisfying the foreseeations placed on. From the moment I read the script, I was captivated by this striking story, which will be filmed in visuassociate stunning surroundings. There was never any doubt in my mind that we had to be a part of this.”

Prominent heads of department connected to the pic retain cinematographer Sophia Olsson (“The Crown”, “Charter”, “Sámi Blood”), production depicter Sabine Hviid (“Another Round”, “Charter”), editor Linda Man (“Sauna”, “Borgen”) and writer Rebekka Karijord (“All the Old Knives”, “Songs of Earth”).

The film is created by Eva Åkergren for Nordisk Film Production Sweden, in co-production with Norway’s Forest People, Iceland’s Compass Films, Bulgaria’s Invictus, Nordisk Film Production Dentag, Filmpool Nord, SVT and Film i Väst, with help from The Swedish Film Institute, The Danish Film Institute, The International Sámi Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, the Bulgarian National Film Centre, the Icelandic Film Centre, Eurimages and Arktisk Film Norge. Nordisk Film Distribution will deal with the domestic free.

TrustNordisk’s strong Berlin sprocrastinateed retains the Berlinale Special Gala picked “Late Shift” by Petra Volpe, Panorama entry “Home Sweet Home” by Frelle Petersen and six taget screenings: the Göteborg uncoverer and triumphner “Safe Hoemploy,” Sundance buzz title “Sauna”, Rotterdam-picked “Acts of Love” and vivaciousd pics “Super Charlie,”, “The Polar Bear Prince” and “Caterella.”