Holiday

Holiday

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Sascha visits her boyfriend’s villa in Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, full of expectations about revelry and fun till she drops. But in this household of this drug lord, there’s no sense of measure, while violence is the main token of communication. When Sascha turns to another alpha-male, pretenses collapse and she’s forced to deal with the Mob. Focusing with surgical detail on the different, extreme variations of the entrapment of femininity, an established screenwriter and first-time director reveals the agony that is hidden under every bright, sun-drenched surface.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Isabella Eklöf
Script: Johanne Algren, Isabella Eklöf
Cinematography: Nadim Carlsen
Editing: Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Sound: Mark Glynne, Jos ten Klooster
Music: Martin Dirkov
Actors: Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer, Bo Brønnum, Stanislav Ševčík, Morten Hemmingsen, Mill Jober, Laura Kjaer, Adam Ild Rohweder, Saxe Rankenberg Frey, Yuval Segal, Michiel de Jong
Production: Apparatur Aps
Producers: David B. Sørensen
Co-production: Oak Motion Pictures, Commonground Pictures, Film i Väst
Co-producers: Trent, Jonas Kellagher
Art Direction: Josephine Farsø
Costumes: Sascha Valbjørn
Make Up: Robert Stouthamer
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 91΄
Contact: Heretic Outreach, ioanna@heretic.gr
Awards/Distinctions: Nordic Mid Grand Prix – Film Fest Sundsval 2018 Grand Prix (International Competition) – New Horizons IFF 2018

Isabella Eklöf

Born 1978 in Östra Ryd, Uppland, Sweden, Isabella Eklöf is a director, screenwriter, editor. She holds a bachelor in Film Directing from the University of Gothenburg (2007) and graduated as director from The National Film School of Denmark (2011). She lives and works in Denmark since 2007. In 2012 she received Bisballeprisen, a Danish art prize, for her work on Notes from Underground (2011). Eklöf also works with editing, screenwriting and translations to and from Swedish, English and Danish and she has published translations and short stories in Swedish.

Filmography

2002 Beggars (short)
2005 Aurora (short)
2007 Triptyk (short)
2008 Charlie Charlie (short)
2009 Paradise Now (short)
2009 Willkommen in Barbaristan (short)
2011 Noter fra kælderen | Notes from Underground (short)
2018 Holiday