2026-NORDICWAVE

Nordic Wave is the pitch competition for distinctive and bold Nordic voices.

Open to feature films and series in development, the competition invites directors working on their first, second or third long-format project to pitch live during Stockholm Industry Days.

Selected projects are presented with distributors, co-producers, festival programmers and industry professionals in attendance, providing a platform to connect with future partners and decision-makers.

The winning project is decided by a jury and awarded 400.000 SEK in post-production support, together with presenting partner and post-production studio Tint.

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FORD is a contemporary drama set in the Swedish countryside, covered in snow.
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In this universe we see wet fur, blushing skin, white snow, brown soil, pianofingers and working hands exist side by side.
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We meet a 19-year-old boy who lives in harmony with music and sound as wellas nature and the animals at the spot where he grew up. This place is also hisgreatest source of comfort, together with his friends, family, and above all – hisbeloved older brother.
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As the story goes it turns out that not everyone in this circle is telling the truthand this sets things in motion. Our young man is forced to make the first majordecision of his life – that will defines who he will become as an adult.
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FORD is rural symphony – about sound, silence and belonging. Told with a lot of warmth and humor towards what is means to be a young adult today.

DIRECTOR: Malin Ingrid Johansson
SCREENWRITER: Malin Ingrid Johansson
PRODUCER: Joel Rostmark
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Pine
COUNTRY: Sweden
FORMAT: Fiction, Feature Film
GENRE: Drama
PROJECT STATUS: Pre-production
CONFIRMED FUNDING: 13 335 071 SEK

CONTACT:
Charlotte Hurtig
charlotte@pine.se

DIRECTORS: Anna Maria Sloan / Annika Djurhuus Olsen
SCREENWRITER: Ylva Forner
PRODUCERS: Lucas Frayssinet / Rúna Volmarsdóttir Højgaard
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bloom Productions
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Anagram Productions (NO) / Motor Productions (DK)
COUNTRY: Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway
FORMAT: Fiction, Series
GENRE: Dramedy / Contemporary / Tragicomic
PROJECT STATUS: In development
CONFIRMED FUNDING: 609 679 SEK

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CONTACT:
Rúna Volmarsdóttir Højgaard
volmarsdottir@gmail.com

GØTUBRÁ is a dramedy in the beloved unruly-woman tradition, set in a world television has never explored.

Like many young Faroese, Helena (31) left the islands to build a life abroad. Thirteen years later, she has come home. Most return ready to settle down and start a family. Helena has returned to her alcoholic father’s basement with no idea what comes next. The reasonable thing to do seems to be to find someone. Or at least, that is what is expected of her.

In a country of around 50,000 people, Helena enters a dating pool where everyone knows everyone, someone has already dated your sister or your friend, and a one-night stand may involve meeting his mother before breakfast.

GØTUBRÁ is about dating, but its deeper subject is belonging. It explores sex, friendship, family, loneliness, and a small society’s expectations of a woman.

When Spanish Frida (30) and her half-Norwegian daughter Gara (13) are evicted from their home in “Little Norway” on Gran Canaria, they end up in a run-down campsite for locals who have been pushed out by luxury resorts.

While Frida fights to survive, Gara slips into the island’s endless party scene. The heat intensifies, the sea begins to boil, and the island seems to be falling apart. Frida is terrified of losing both her daughter and the place she once called home.

DIRECTOR: Tess Quatri
SCREENWRITERS: Tess Quatri / Mads Elsass
PRODUCERS: Andrea Berentsen Ottmar / Dyveke Bjørkly Graver
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Eye Eye Pictures
CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: TBD
COUNTRIES: Norway / Spain / Sweden / Denmark
FORMAT: Fiction, Feature Film
GENRE: Drama / Coming of age
PROJECT STATUS: In development
CONFIRMED FUNDING: 13 418 810 SEK

CONTACT:
Dyveke Graver
dyveke@eyeeyepictures.com

DIRECTOR: Dennis Harvey
SCREENWRITER: Dennis Harvey
PRODUCER: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
PRODUCTION COMPANY: MDEMC Produktion
COUNTRY: Sweden
FORMAT: Documentary, Feature Film
GENRE: Politics / Migration / Society / Literature
PROJECT STATUS: In development

CONTACT:
Dennis Harvey
dennis@mdemc.se

Migration has become one of the most divisive political topics in Europe. The annual budget of Frontex is now over €1 billion, and multiple governments in the EU are mandated to reduce immigration.

At the same time, the continent has long positioned itself as a global defender of human rights, and now has an aging population. So, how does Europe combat a phenomenon which is central to its self-image and survival?

In a non-linear cinematic odyssey, we’ll meet the politicians, bureaucrats & consultants tasked with creating, implementing & managing contemporary migration policy. Alongside them, we’ll meet a number of migrants as they navigate European borders in increasingly bizarre ways. The film will be anchored by excerpts from Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North (1966), read by Sudanese refugee Mohamed Ibrahim Yagoub.

In the midst of Silje’s attempts to get pregnant, her father suddenly dies during a visit to her alternative self-development retreat in the American desert. Suddenly, both family harmony and spiritual ideals collapse.

Amid grief, an inheritance dispute and practical absurdities, Silje herself stands on the threshold of becoming a mother.

Together, she and her mother Anne-Lise are forced into an intense and darkly comic confrontation about life, death, responsibility and who actually gets to decide how a life, and a death, should be handled.

DIRECTOR: Gunhild Enger
SCREENWRITERS: Johanna Pyykkö / Jørgen Færøy Flasnes
PRODUCERS: Håkon Øverås / Peter Theisen Amlie / Håvard Gjerstad
PRODUCTION COMPANY: 4 1/2 Fiction
COUNTRY: Norway
FORMAT: Fiction, Feature Film
GENRE: Drama
PROJECT STATUS: In development
CONFIRMED FUNDING: 7 233 735 SEK

CONTACT:
Håvard Gjerstad
haavard@fourandahalf.no

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