Summer in Heat

Synopsis

Four teenage cousins from Europe arrive in their parents’ hometown by the Black Sea, where a family wedding and the weight of traditions stir up tensions and secret desires when they all fall for the same forbidden, young man.

Production Facts

Director: Levan Akin
Scriptwriter: Jordan Tannahill
Producers: Mathilde Dedye, Ludvig Andersson

"Summer In Heat" is a co-production between Sweden, France, Germany and Denmark, produced by regular collaborators Mathilde Dedye and Ludvig Andersson from RMV Film together with Xenia Maingot from Eaux Vives Productions and Katja Adomeit from Adomeit Film, co-produced by Film i Väst and ZDF/Arte and Tint. With support from The Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, CNC aide aux Cinémas du monde, The Danish Film Institute, German Federal Film Board FFA, Fonds de Soutien Cinéma international Région Île de France, Prada Film Foundation and MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.

Distributors: TriArt Film, SVT – Swedish Television, Reel Pictures, DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Alamode, Haut et Court Distribution.

Produced by RMV Film in co-production with Film i Väst, Adomeit Film, Eaux Vives Productions and SVT.

Photo of Levin Akin by Josefine Stenersen