EXCLUSIVE: Image Tree Worldwide (PTI) has acquired world gross sales rights for A Quiet Resilience, the debut function of rising Swedish, fraternal directorial duo Gustav and David Bengtsson.
The German gross sales firm will unveil the movie on the Cannes Marché du Movie in Could and is aiming for a competition launch later this yr.
The drama revolves round an adolescent grappling together with his fractured household dynamics and the pressures of unlawful boxing matches orchestrated by his father.
Amidst these struggles, his quest for that means and connection exemplifies an indomitable resilience and affords a poignant and genuine examination of latest and generational vulnerabilities.
The Bengtsson brothers, who function administrators and producers of the movie, originate from the picturesque Swedish coastal city of Varberg.
A Quiet Resilience is their first function after a collection of well-travelled shorts together with Flying Free (2015), Torasidis Final Masterpiece (2021), starring Marc-Jean Barr and Leif Edlund, and Florian (2022) that includes Amanda Plummer and Ian Hart within the forged.
The function reunites the director with Koko-di Koko-da star Edlund within the function of the daddy, with Amanda Ooms (The Expendables 2, Buster’s Bed room) taking part in the mom.
Shot over 9 days within the brothers’ native Varberg and town of Gothenburg, the totally self-financed function underwent an intensive casting course of for its teenage characters.
Younger motocross rider Fabian Staaf performs the younger protagonist with different forged members together with rising Swedish actors Anna-Maria Gullberg (Västra Gymnasiet) Sophia Martinsson (Festen, Bror).
Award-winning Finnish actor Antti Reini (Freeway Society, The Man With no Previous) performs the younger boy’s coach. There’s additionally a cameo look by Swedish kickboxing champion Jörgen Kruth.
PTI, which additionally holds the Nordic rights for the movie, has a powerful file in representing movies from the area with current gross sales acquisitions together with Icelandic field workplace hit Grand Finale, Danish shipwreck drama Unsinkable and Swedish spiritual cult drama Raptures.
