New Noomi Rapace and Lone Scherfig Films Unveiled at Cannes, Plus a Doc About Ruben Östlund ‘That Hits the Viewer in the Gut’

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Film i Väst has presented eight new co-productions at Cannes, including Lone Scherfig’s romantic spy thriller “Honeytrap,” Levan Akin’s next film “Summer in Heat” and “Ruben,” a documentary about Ruben Östlund.

For her 12th film, Scherfig (“Italians for Beginners,” “An Education”) is collaborating with Zentropa on espionage drama set in Sweden. It’s about “seduction, deception and innocently optimistic love in the shadow of the Cold War.”

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