Sweden's Ostlund preps 'Tourist'

GIJON, The nation -- Swedish helmer-scribe Ruben Ostlund is planning "Tourist," his follow-around breakthrough hit "Play." A Swedish-French language movie, "Tourist" is defined at Ostlund's Gothenburg-based Plattform Produktion. Plattform is at talks for Philippe Bober's Coproduction Office to co-produce and handle "Tourist's" worldwide sales, as on "Play," Ostlund mentioned at Spain's Gijon Festival, which started its 49th edition Friday. Plattform's Erik Hemmendorff and Marie Kjelson will produce. The Swedish Film Institute and Swedish regional fund Film I Huge, that provides development costs, are backing "Tourist." A 3-part movie, "Tourist" highlights "behavior that people have seen in other people -- mostly incompatible areas -- think they'll never use, after which it have to admit they've that side for his or her character," Ostlund told journalists at Gijon. One part includes what Ostlund hopes being most likely probably the most spectacular avalanche in film history. It triggers a cheerful Swedish family -- father, mother, two kids -- travelling inside the French Alps. An avalanche sparks a spontaneous act of cowardice within the father, who can't understand why he responded by doing this. Ostlund, a specialist ski filmmaker, is presently concentrating on the script. Plattform aims to trigger the avalanche this winter, mixing shots with bluescreen vfx. Principal photography is skedded for spring, Ostlund told Variety. A discomfiting chronicle, based on true occasions, of 5 black boys gradually wrecking three white-colored kids -- "the idea wound up being to spread out discussions in regards to a factor that people have difficulties talking about, Ostlund mentioned -- "Play" was one Competition standout throughout Gijon's early running. Valeria Donzelli's French B.O. breakout "Commitment of War" confirmed its overseas potential, drawing applause in addition to tears inside a press screening. Belgian Bouli Lanners "The Leaders" elicited glowing press plaudits: "A bit of genius," reported Asturias' El Comercial. Playing Monday, Gijon's initial world preem, "Iceberg," from Spaniard Gabriel Velazquez ("Sud Express"), shown a contemplative three-story coming-of-age drama, set beside Salamanca's couch taters Rio Tormes, through which three adolescents face their first character-shaping large problems around. Underscoring a completely new industrial model in the united states of ratcheting lower budgets to limit connection with a seriously contracting local market, Velazquez mentioned that, because they needed some risk beginning production on "Iceberg" before closing its budget, the drama was eventually fully-funded by incentives. Inside the Rellumes sidebar, the near phantasmagoric docu "Hollywood Talkies," from Barcelona's Oscar Perez and Scar Ribot -- initiating the introduction of The the spanish language language-language version of early appear photos -- also had its fans. "Copito," a 3 dimensional live-action/toon movie from Filmax, among Spain's foremost forces in feature film animation, world preems inside a couple of days. Fest fetes eclectic Austrian helmer Michael Glawogger ("Whore's Glory," "Contact High"), Bertrand Bonello ("House of Tolerance") and festive NY-based indie cineaste Marie Losier, who presented her feature "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye." Spaniard Montxo Armendariz -- whose films have usually twinned critical and commercial success in the united states -- can get the Nacho Martinez National Cinema Prize. Fest shuts Saturday with thriller "The Woman inside the Fifth," from Pawel Pawlikowski, whose "The Final Measure" assigned Gijon in 2000. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com