‘Clara Sola’ Producer Hobab Ups Co-Productions

Stockholm-based manufacturing home Hobab whose buzzy Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight “Clara Sola” was snapped by New-York-based Oscilloscope Laboratories, is ramping up its ambitions, with female-led tasks.

“Our imaginative and prescient is to mix arthouse sensitivity with mainstream enchantment, and to assist skills – each Nordic and worldwide – develop with care,” mentioned Nima Yousefi, producer and joint proprietor with Peter Krupenin.

Pedigree European shingles Finland’s Tuffi Movies, Denmark’s Toolbox and Italy’s Intramovies have boarded as co-producers Hobab’s subsequent Swedish characteristic drama “Sisters,” from first-time fiction helmer Mika Gustafson.

Ruben Öslund’s former alumna at Göteborg’s Valand Academy, Gustafson had her worldwide break with the quick movie “Mephobia,” adopted by the doc-biopic “Silvana,” about rapper and feminist icon Silvana Imam.

Resulting from begin lensing in June, “Sisters” is penned by Gustafson with actor-screenwriter Alexander Öhrstrand, seen in “The Bridge” and “The Hunt for a Killer.”

The approaching of age story follows siblings Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), fending for themselves in a Swedish working-class suburban housing property, as their mom vanishes for prolonged intervals. When social companies get in contact, Laura has to search out somebody to play their mother, to keep away from the sisters being positioned in foster care and separated.

“The story is advised from the sisters’ perspective, which helps soften the tough social drama and makes the movie relatable and fascinating. It should additionally combine authenticity with magic realism, and supply a heart-warm portrait of sisterhood,” mentioned Yousefi who seems ahead to Gustafson’s tackle the women’ journey into maturity.

In remaining stage of financing, The movie has acquired assist from the Swedish Movie Institute, Movie Stockholm, the Danish Movie Institute, the Finnish Movie Basis, the Italian Ministry of Tradition, public broadcasters SVT in Sweden, DR in Denmark and Yle in Finland and distributors TriArt in Sweden, Scanbox in Denmark and Aurora Studios in Finland.

In the meantime, Hobab’s most bold mission to this point is the Berlinale Co-production Market chosen “The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Arms,” reuniting ”Clara Sola”’s Swedish-Costa-Rican helmer Nathalie Álvarez-Mesén with Yousefi and U.S companion Resolve Media.

Tagged as a tropical gothic story, set in colonial Latin America within the early 1800s, the drama centres on a governess who travels to Latin America to coach the 2 daughters of a widower.

Slowly, she discovers {that a} wilderness runs inside the ladies in the home, no matter class and ethnicity. Yousefi says the drama will probably be thematically much like “Clara Sola” [dealing with breaking free from patriarchal structures] however “will go deeper into the conventions of horror, earlier than breaking them.“

Yousefi who’s location scouting between Portugal, the Canary Islands and Latin America, says the mission will probably be shot largely in English, with some French, Spanish and indigenous language – relying on places. He expects an A-list feminine lead (combined with non -professional actors), Álvarez-Mesén’s monitor report and the strong script to drag in robust worldwide companions.

Final yr’s Producer on the Transfer will probably be pitching the mission on the Co-Manufacturing Market, which runs Feb. 12-16.

“The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Arms” gained the Swedish Movie Institute’s Wild Card and Eurimages Co-Manufacturing Growth Award on the TorinoFilmLab in December. Manufacturing begin is estimated for late 2023.

Elsewhere, Hobab is co-producer of the Berlinale Panorama-bound “Lovely Beings” from Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (“Heartstone”), marking its second collaboration with Iceland’ s Be part of Movement Photos after “A White, White Day.”

Hobab can also be connected to the Sundance Midnight chosen Finnish chiller “Hatching,” acquired by IFC Midnight.

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