Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, whose We Shall Overcome (Drømmen) ended No 5 on the local charts from 406,000 admissions in 2006, has completed principal photography for his new feature, Two Worlds (To verdener), from an original screenplay co-written by Steen Bille.

The Danish Film Institute has chipped in $1.2 million (Euro 0.9 million) production suppert for the depiction of Sara, who lives her family in a lille religious community. She is orthodox, but she is also 17 year old, and she falls in love in Teis, who is not a member of the sect.

Anders W Berthelsen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Charlotte Fich, Sarah Boberg and Sarah Juel Werner play the leads in the film which was mainly shot on the island of Funen. The Thomas Heinesen production for Nordisk Film will be readied for an April 2008 launch.

Since his graduation from the Danish Film, School in 1987 Oplev has made three features and numerous television series, including Unit One, Taxi and The Eagle. He won three Roberts - the national film prizes - adding several international awards, including Berlin's Crystal Bear, for We Shall Overcome (Drømmen).

The Danish Film Institute has also issued a $1.1 milliion (Euro 0.8 million) cheque for Oneway-Ticket to Korsør (En enkelt til Korsør), a new project from director Gert Fredholm and writers Gert Duve Skovlund and Mikael Olsen, who previously collaborated on One-Hand Clapping (At klappe med en hånd/2001).

Produced by Olsen for Zentropa Entertainments, the film stars Carsten Bjørnlund, Lærke Winther Andersen, Kurt Ravn, Jon Højerslev and Signe Skov in the story of Rasmus, who after having defended his Ph.D. in literature settles for a job teaching adults in the provincial town of Korsør. Here he falls in love with one of his students.

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