Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba

Published on November 10, 2023

After not shoring up at Cannes or Venice this year, we are now leaning towards the belief that Johanna Pyykkö might be considering early 2024 film festival launch a la Sundance, Rotterdam and/or Berlin. A much anticipated directorial debut, production on Ebba took place in July of 2022. The Swedish filmmaker living in Norway was a former assistant to Joachim Trier. This project was co-written along with Jørgen Færøy Flasnes.

Gist: A lonely 18-year-old finds a wounded man in the Oslo harbour. When she discovers he has amnesia, she lies and tells him they are lovers.

Production Co./Producers: Eye Eye Pictures’ Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar.

Prediction: World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Sales: TBD.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).