Crystal Globe Competition 2023 / Hypnosen / Sweden, Norway, France 2023
André and Vera are both life and business partners trying to get a women’s reproductive health mobile app off the ground. On the eve of a weekend programme for promising start-ups, where they aim to attract the attention of potential investors, Vera tries hypnotherapy to help her quit smoking. However, the experience comes with an unexpected side effect: she starts to lose all her social inhibitions. Ernst De Geer’s debut is a fresh, modern satire which profits from situational humour and piercingly precise dialogue. At the same time, the irony of what’s going on is plain to see. An individualistic society may well encourage us to be ourselves, nevertheless, it remains uncompromising in its demands as to how we ought to behave.
Sandra Hezinová
98 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Ernst De Geer
/ Screenplay Mads Stegger, Ernst De Geer
/ Dir. of Photography Jonathan Bjerstedt
/ Music Peder Kjellsby
/ Sound Håkon Lammetun, Matias Frøystad
/ Editor Robert Krantz
/ Art Director Linda Elmborg
/ Producer Mimmi Spång
/ Production Garagefilm International
/ Coproduction Film I Väst AB, Mer Film AS, Totem Atelier
/ Cast Herbert Nordrum, Asta Kamma August
/ Sales Totem Films
/ Contact Simone Devlin
Ernst De Geer (1989, Stockholm). Selected filmography: The Culture (Kulturen, 2018, short), Wimbledon (2019, short), The Hypnosis (Hypnosen, 2023).
Totem Films
5 rue de Charonne, 750 11, Paris
France
Phone: +33 630 847 575
E-mail: [email protected]
Simone Devlin
E-mail: [email protected]
Ernst De Geer
Film Director
Asta Kamma August
Actress
Mimmi Spång
Producer
Herbert Nordrum
Actor
Ida Lindkvist
Producer
Elisa Fernanda Pirir
Producer
Mads Stegger
Screenwriter
Jonathan Bjerstedt
Director of Photography
Simone Devlin
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