I see her as a very warm and lovable mom, who tries to survive and find love, says Aliette Opheim on a Zoom link from Stockholm.
Filip Berg plays one of the men – the other roles are not yet assigned.
The film is presented in Cannes by Film in Väst as one of many upcoming projects. Another is "The Defenders", a new TV series about defense lawyers based on an idea by Jens Lapidus.
What does it do to you when you're supposed to defend someone who has murdered or raped?, he says.
The star trio Sofie Gråböl, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Asta Kamma August have the lead roles in "The Good Mothers", a Danish drama thriller about how the relationship between three friends changes when their three sons get into something dramatic.
Jasmila Zbanic will direct a sequel to her shocking and acclaimed film about the massacre in Srebrenica, "Quo vadis, Aida?". The new film gets the subtitle "The missing point".
I want to portray the female side of what happened, tell about the women who didn't know what had happened to their men, only that they had been taken away, she says.
