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2019 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Knowing their relationship is falling apart, Elin and Tobias embark on a mirthless camping trip hoping to find their way back to one another. Instead, they find themselves in an endless loop of torment, humiliation, and tangled dreams at the hands of a troupe of outlandishly distorted nursery-rhyme antagonists.

Festival alumnus Johannes Nyholm (whose short Las Palmas played at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival) creates a savage riff on Groundhog Day set to the haunting rhythm of a music-box melody. He deploys the darkest of circumstances to explore how a couple crippled by despair and embittered against each other try to fight their way back to one another. Injected with bursts of sadistic imagination and twisted slapstick, Koko-di Koko-da is a psychological horror film set within the nightmarish landscape between wakefulness and sleep, giving a tangible, physical manifestation of a relationship in disrepair.

— H.Z.

Screening Details

Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Film Type: DRAMF - Dramatic Feature
Country: Sweden/Denmark
Language: Swedish/Danish
Run Time: 86 min.

Credits

Production Designer
- Pia Aleborg
Actor
Supervising Sound Editor
- Gustaf Berger
Sound Design
- Gustaf Berger
- Jacques Pedersen
Co-Producer
- Maria Møller Christoffersen
Composer
- Olof Cornéer
- Simon Ohlsson
Cinematographer
- Tobias Höiem-Flyckt
- Johan Lundborg
Executive Producer
- Peter Hyldahl
Costume Design
- Gabriella Lundberg
Director
- Johannes Nyholm
Producer
- Johannes Nyholm
Editor
- Johannes Nyholm
Screenwriter
- Johannes Nyholm

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