Our co-production ’Boy From Heaven’ by Swedish director Tarikh Saleh, has been selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2022.
‘Boy From Heaven’ is produced by Kristina Åberg of Atmo Sweden and co-produced by Monica Hellström and Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real, Memento Film, Bufo, Arte France and Film I Väst, with co-financing from Canal+ France, Business Finland and the Swedish Film Institute.
The film reunites Saleh with the top creative team from ‘The Nile Hilton Incident’ (Saleh’s first film exploring the modern Arabic world) including Swedish actor Fares Fares, production designer Roger Rosenberg, French cinematographer Pierre Aïm, Danish editor Theis Schmidt and VFX specialist Peter Hjorth, VFX producer Mikael Windelin and editing consultant Janus Billeskov Jansen. For 'Boy From Heaven' the Danish team has been expanded with the Danish actor Hassan El Sayed.
The film is supported in Denmark by The Danish Film Institute and DR.
The Cannes Film Festival 2022 will take place on the 17th May to the 28th May. The Festival is organised in various sections, where ‘Boy From Heaven’ is presented in Competition, the category displaying films that are representative of “arthouse cinema with a wide audience appeal”.
To read more about the Cannes Film Festival 2022 click here.