Copenhagen-based LevelK has pounced on world gross sales rights to the Swedish suspense thriller “Hunters on a White Discipline,” toplining stellar appearing trio Jens Hultén (“Skyfall”, “Mission Unattainable Rogue Nation”), Magnus Krepper (“The Promised Land,” “Queen of Hearts”) and Ardalan Esmaili (“The Charmer,” “Snabba Money”).

The pic will bow as an unique market screening at Göteborg’s Nordic Movie Market, operating Jan. 31-Feb 2.

Making her characteristic debut as writer-director is Sarah Gyllenstierna, a former assistant producer and director to artists together with Spike Lee and Matthew Barney. 

The suspense thriller, based mostly on a novel by Mats Wägeus, follows three males – Alex, Greger and Henrik – who get collectively a weekend to go looking within the woods. The novice Alex learns the right way to hunt from his skilled companions. An preliminary spell of looking success sharpens their instincts and stirs a way of rivalry. Sooner or later, all animals vanish and the forest turns eerily quiet, but for the men-the hunt should go on.

“I began creating this movie in 2020 after I fell in love with Mats’ e-book and optioned the rights,” Gyllenstierna informed Selection. “The set off for me was the prospect to inform a psychological suspense story within the context of a looking weekend, the place the hunters start to establish with the prey. I used to be fascinated by the thought of a bond between hunter and prey and the way the hunt unleashes sturdy emotions within the males.”

“Looking is about greater than survival; it’s additionally about going through our personal mortality,” pressured the helmer who took inspiration from Robert Altman’s “3 Girls,” Peter Weir’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” and David Lynch “for a temper of thriller and menace.”

Discussing her choose up, LevelK’s CEO Tine Klint mentioned: “I like Sarah’s method to the drama and sense for particulars. The performances are very good and I benefit from the entertaining shock she delivers. We stay up for sharing the movie with the world.”

“Hunters on a White Discipline” was produced by Maria Larsson Guerpillon and Charlotte Most for MostAlice Movie,  a co-producer on “Flee.” with co-financing from Movie i Väst, SVT and the Swedish Movie Institute. The Swedish launch through TriArt is about for April 19.

LevelK’s eclectic slate on the Göteborg Movie Pageant additionally consists of  Icelandic thriller “Chilly”, the Estonian kung fu comedy “The Invisible Battle,” and “Milk Tooth,” a Swiss dystopian pic competing in Rotterdam’s Large Display screen competitors.