Coming soon for Tarik Saleh's Middle Eastern thriller

Despite extensive security requirements for filming, many of Film i Väst's investments will be implemented as planned this autumn and next year, with extra costs of around 20 million. This applies, for example, to major investments such as The Emigrants and Ruben Östlund's new film Triangle of Sadness, which was recently shot in Trollhättan.

Film i Väst has provided financial support so that film productions can be completed despite the pandemic. For example, special "corona project managers" are involved in each production, and actors are forced to be quarantined before filming to ensure that they are infection-free.

One of this fall's major ventures during the fall is the filming of Tarik Saleh and Fares Fares' new Middle Eastern thriller, Boy from Heaven. The new film also takes place in Cairo at one of the world's largest and oldest universities, Al-Azhar, where a poor boy receives a scholarship and becomes involved in major political entanglements with a religious undertone.

- I wanted to make a film about how knowledge and education can be the difference between life and death. My grandfather and grandmother were the first in their village to learn to read, and were able to start a modern life. Thanks to that educational journey, my father was able to become a director, says Tarek Saleh.

This autumn, the filming of So fucking easygoing after Jenny Jägerfeld's novel will also begin. The now popular psychologist and August Prize-winning author has been praised for his look and tone, especially when it comes to teenage girls' conditions. The novel for young adults, I'm so fucking easygoing , is about 18-year-old Joanna who is medicating for ADHD and tampas with love worries, lack of money and parents who are full of their own shortcomings in life. 

- I think a lot in scenes when I write. Almost all the people I meet in my role as a psychologist carry something difficult, a grief. People can tell terrible things and at the same time have a great gallows humor about their difficulties, says Jenny Jägerfeld.