PREVIEW: Wildland (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sandra Guldberg Kampp (Far Til Fire: Til Søs), Sidse Babett Knudsen (The Duke of Burgundy), Joachim Fjelstrup (Itsi Bitsi), Elliott Crosset Hove (Winter Brothers), Besir Zeciri (Letters for Amina), Carla Philip Røder (Queen of Hearts), Sofie Torp (Daniel), Omar Shargawi (Go with Peace Jamil), Maria Esther Lemvigh (Journal 64), Helene Ilse Lyhr Enzenberg (film debut), Frida Mai Mammen Sejersen (film debut), Marie Knudsen Fogh (People Get Eaten)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jeanette Nordahl (film debut), director; Ingeborg Topsøe (The Charmer), writer; Eva Jakobsen (Antboy), Mikkel Jersin (Godless) and Katrin Pors (Birds of Passage), producers; Frederikke Hoffmeier (Aphra and Aradia), composer; David Gallego (Embrace of the Serpent), cinematographer; Michael Aaglund (For Those in Peril), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

After her mother passes away, teenager Ida (Kampp) moves in with her aunt Bodil (Knudsen) and her adult sons. Although the home is filled with tenderness and love, the family leads a dangerous and violent criminal life, and when an unexpected murder puts pressure on everyone, loyalties are tested and the line between love and violence fades even further away…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Janette Nordahl’s striking debut feature is a crime thriller with oodles of tension and family drama, which ultimately packs quite the emotional punch.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 13TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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