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14-22 MAY 2024
Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself to Cannes Un Certain Regard
Kristine Kujath Torp starring in Kristoffer Borgli's Sick of Myself. Photo: Oslo Pictures.
Kristoffer Borgli’s feature film Sick of Myself is invited to Cannes’s Un Certain Regard
Sick of Myself is director and screenwriter Kristoffer Borgli’s second feature film after his SXSW world premiere of DRIB in 2017.
Norway returns to Cannes with Sick of Myself
Just one year after the great success of Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World in Cannes where Renate Reinsve received the best actress award, and Eskil Vogt's The Innocents premiered in Un Certain Regard, Norway returns to Cannes with the world premiere of Kristoffer Borgli's Sick of Myself. The 75th Cannes International Film Festival will take place from May 17 - 28, 2022.
Producers of Trier and upcoming films
"Being invited to Cannes and Un Certain Regard is fantastic recognition for Kristoffer as a director and the best launch we could dream of for this film. In collaboration with a talented and inspiring crew and cast, Kristoffer has made a sensational and incredibly funny film that we are now looking forward to introduce to the rest of the world ", say the two producers Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar in Oslo Pictures.
Following Trier, Vogt and Hamer
This is the third time in eleven years that a Norwegian film has been invited to Un Certain Regard, after Eskil Vogt's The Innocents in 2021 and Joachim Triers Oslo, August 31st in 2011. Previously, Vibeke Løkkeberg (The Wild One), Unni Straume (Derailment (short) and Dreamplay), Stefan Faldbakken (Uro) and Bent Hamer (O’Horten) have also had world premieres of their films in Un Certain Regard.
About the film
Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Thomas (Eirik Sæther) are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist. In response, Signe makes a desperate attempt to regain her status by creating a new persona hell-bent on attracting attention and sympathy.
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About the director and screenwriter
Kristoffer Borgli is an award winning Norwegian writer/director of numerous short films, music videos and commercials.
His debut feature film DRIB (2017), starring Brett Gelman, premiered at the SXSW festival, and has since played over 20 festivals, including Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, IDFA and CPH:-DOX. Filmmaker Magazine called the film “an incredible feat”. In 2018 his film A Place We Call Reality received the Norwegian Film Critic Association award for best short of the year.
His latest short film, Former Cult Member Hears Music For The First Time, was screened in competition in Sundance in 2020.
Alumni of the Venezia Biennale College, 2016.
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About the actors
Kristine Kujath Thorp won the Norwegian award, Amanda, for Best Actress for her role in Ninjababy (Yngvild Sve Flikke), which also won the European Film Academy's award for Best Comedy in 2021. She is also known for her major roles in Betrayed (Eirik Svensson) and The North Sea (John Andreas Andersen). In the role as her boyfriend, Thomas, we find Eirik Sæther, who is himself an artist. In Sick of Myself, he makes his debut as an actor.
About the production
Sick of Myself is produced by Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar for Oslo Pictures, who together with Thomas Robsahm also were the producers and the production company behind the Cannes award-winning and Oscar-nominated feature film The Worst Person in the World.
Financing
Sick of Myself has received Euro 893.500 in development and production grants from the Norwegian Film Institute as well as grants from SFI, NFTVF, NRK, SVT, Eurimages and the Audio and Visual Fund. The film is co-produced with Swedish Mimmi Spång for Garagefilm International and Film i Väst.
Norwegian and International distribution
Sick of Myself was filmed in Oslo and Gothenburg in the autumn of 2021. The film will be distributed in Norway by Ymer Media for the newly launched Copenhagen-based company Scandinavian Film Distribution and will have reach Norwegian cinemas Autumn 2022. International Sales agent is to be confirmed. Festival rights are handled by the Norwegian Film Institute.
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