Pleasure

Sweden

Best Actress in a Leading Role · Guldbaggen · 2022

Synopsis

Ninja Thyberg's debut feature film "Pleasure" is set in the American porn industry. A young, ambitious 20-year-old travels from Sweden to Los Angeles to become the next big porn star. This is Sofia Kappel's first film role, where she plays the lead in a cast mostly made up of authentic performers from the porn world. It is a film about ambition, sacrifices, and feminism, set in one of the world's most patriarchal structures.

Production Facts

Ninja Thyberg won the Canal+ Award with the short film "Pleasure", which competed in Critics' Week at Cannes in 2013. Her short film "Hot Chicks", a co-production with Film i Väst, won the 1 km Film Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2014, and she received the Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival with "Catwalk" in 2015. The feature film "Pleasure" has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival, under the "Cannes 2020 Label."

Produced by Erik Hemmendorff, Eliza Jones, and Markus Waltå, Plattform Produktion.
Written by Ninja Thyberg and Peter Modestij.

3 awards, 4 nominations

Guldbaggen — 2022