20/12/2018 - The latest films by Amanda Kernell, Johannes Nyholm and Jon Blåhed are among the recipients

Jon Blåhed is receiving the Swedish Film Institute support for his film Inland

The Swedish Film Institute has announced its latest and final round of funding for the year, with a total of 27 films to receive support in five different categories, totalling SEK 45,391,000 (€4,395,000).

Fiction features will receive a total of SEK 25 million (€2.4 million) across six projects. Amanda Kernell (Sámi Blood [+see also:
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Inland [+see also:
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In terms of international co-productions, Danish filmmaker Jonas Alexander Arnby’s second mystery romantic drama, Suicide Tourist [+see also:
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Seven documentaries also received funding from the Swedish Film Institute: An Army of Lovers [+see also:
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film profile] by Emelie Jönsson and Gustav Ahlgren, produced by Ett riktigt produktionsbolag, with SEK 900,000 (€87,100), Flee by Jonas Pohr Rasmussen, produced by Final Cut for Real, with SEK 670,000 (€64,900) and Ninosca - the return to San Fernando by Peter Torbiörnsson, produced by Mantaray Film AB, with SEK 400,000 (€38,700).

Finally, the TV film Amningsrummet by Caroline Ringskog Ferrada-Noli and produced by Nexiko Drama, received SEK 1.8 million (€174,300) and 12 short films received a total of SEK 3,195,000 (€309,400) in funding.