Completed - SWEDISH, NORWEGIAN - Comedy, Drama - 176 minutes
Selected for Competition at this year’sCanneSeries, AFTERGLOW is destinedto make you laugh and cry in equalmeasure. The series has been createdby Kjetil Indregard and Atle Knudsen,who recently teamed up for NetflixOriginal “Bloodride” (2020) and directedby Atle Knudsen.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Atle KNUDSEN Writer(s) : Kjetil INDREGARD, Mads LØKEN Cast : Nina Ellen ØDEGAARD, Torbjørn HARR, Sara KHORAMI, Per KJERSTAD Producer(s) : Ida HÅNDLYKKEN KVERNSTRØM (Monster Scripted)
We could have told you that this is yetanother ordinary story about a womangetting cancer. But Ester Sand is noordinary woman. She’s the type of personeverybody expects to live forever -simply because they cannot imagine alife without her. And yet, on her fortiethbirthday, she receives the news that willturn her world upside down. She ́s gotcervical cancer, and it could go eitherway. But after the initial shock, it is Esterwho comforts the people in her life: herhusband, her children, her father, herfriends. She has no intention of leavingthe world just yet. This is no time to die; it’s a time to LIVE!
Country(ies) : SWEDEN
Cannes Series 2022 (Official Competition)