Mogens Hagedorn’s Pretty Young Love selected to compete at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Mogens Hagedorn’s Pretty Young Love (Smukkere) is selected for this year’s PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The film is to receive its international premiere as part of the festival’s International Youth Competition, with LevelK handling international sales.
The cast of Pretty Young Love consists of emerging Danish acting talents Karoline Hamm, Tue Lunding, Anna Munch and Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl who, in 2021, was the youngest ever recipient of the Best Actress Award at San Sebastiàn for her performance in Tea Lindeburg’s As in Heaven.
Eestikeelne versioonSYNOPSIS
Selma starts her second year at the Rosenholm Gymnasium with new friends and a desire to move on from a broken relationship. On the last night of summer, she meets Johan. He’s slightly older, charming and, as it turns out, her new music teacher. As their connection deepens into a secret romance, Johan helps Selma rediscover her passion for music. But the relationship also forces her to confront hidden parts of herself and navigate the consequences of a love which must stay secret.
MOGENS HAGEDORN ABOUT HIS FILM
Pretty Young Love is a vibrant and life-affirming film about love - an inviting and widely appealing story on the surface but one that, beneath the sweeping romance, says something deeply important about what it means to be human.
At its core, the film celebrates the powerful volcano of harmony that is our own inner voice if only we dare listen to it and are brave enough to follow it.
At the heart of the film is a forbidden love story and the overwhelming chaos of contradictory emotions that Selma must navigate before she begins to find her own path.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Mogens Hagedorn is a Danish director and editor with a versatile career in the film and television industries.. He has directed several notable series for both television and streaming platforms, including the acclaimed Netflix series Ragnarok (2020–2023) as well as Tinkas Juleeventyr (2017), for which he received the prestigious Danish Robert Award in 2018.
In 1993, Mogens graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a Master's Degree in Nordic Literature and Mass Communication. He then continued his studies in Visual Arts and Film at the University of San Diego from 1989 to 1990. He began his career as an assistant editor at Nordisk Film in Copenhagen, later graduating as a film editor from The Danish Film School in 1997.
PÖFF TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FESTIVAL SCREENINGS*
8 November, 13:00, Apollo Kino Plaza, Hall 7 (international premiere, followed by Q&A)
12 November, 12:30, Apollo Kino Solaris, Hall 2
16 November, 13:30, Apollo Kino Solaris, 1st Saku Hall
PRESS SCREENING*
To be confirmed
*Always check the festival website for any last-minute programme changes.
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