Pleasure

62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere

Bella arrives in America with 25 tattoos, pierced nipples and a burning desire to make her mark in moving images. At Customs, when the US agent asks the ambitious 19-year-old Swede if she's in America for business or pleasure, there's a beat… A raw, yet thoughtful journey into the American porn industry, offering both a human and humorous portrayal of a male-dominated world seen from a female perspective.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Ninja Thyberg

Script: Ninja Thyberg, Peter Modestij

Cinematography: Sophie Winqvist Loggins

Editing: Amalie Westerlin Tjellesen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm

Sound: Vincent Sinceretti, Evelien van der Molen

Music: Christoffer Berg, Karl Frid

Actors: Sofia Kappel, Evelyn Claire, Revika Anne Reustle, Chris Cock, Dana DeArmond, Kendra Spade

Production: Plattform Produktion

Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå

Co-production: Logical Pictures, Lemming Film, SVT, Film i Väst

Costumes: Amanda Wing Yee Lee

Production Design: Paula Loos

Sets: Elizabeth van Dam

Make Up: Lauren Young

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Sweden, The Netherlands, France

Production Year: 2020

Duration: 105'

Contact: Versatile

Ninja Thyberg

Ninja Thyberg, born 1984, director and screenwriter, graduated in 2015 from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her short film Pleasure (2013), was awarded the Canal Plus Award in Cannes Critics’ Week and was nominated for best foreign short film at Sundance. The short film Hot Chicks (2014) won the 1km film award at Stockholm Film Festival, and the short film Catwalk (2015) received the Student Visionary Award at Tribeca Film Festival, New York. Her latest short, Stallion, an erotic coming-of-age story, was the opening film of Stockholm Film festival 2015.