Peter Birro

Peter Birro

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Peter Birro

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Stolen
Screenplay
A young woman struggles to defend her indigenous heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation.
438 Dias
Writer
Na véspera de 28 de junho de 2011, os jornalistas suecos Martin Schibbye e Johan Persson colocaram tudo em risco ao cruzar ilegalmente a fronteira da Somália com a Etiópia. Eles queriam relatar como a busca implacável por petróleo afetou a população da região de Ogaden isolada e cheia de conflitos. Cinco dias depois, eles ficaram feridos na areia do deserto, baleados e capturados pelo exército etíope. Mas quando o relatório inicial os dá como mortos, outra história começa. Após um julgamento kafkiano, foram condenados a onze anos de prisão por terrorismo. Eles foram perdoados e soltos após 438 dias - esta é sua história de 438 dias de terror.
Waltz for Monica
Writer
"Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm.
Wallander 27 - The Troubled Man
Screenplay
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...
Easy Money: Hard to Kill
Writer
JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.
Love Is in the Air
Screenplay
Anything can happen and will happen in this romantic musical where four teenagers risk their feelings and dreams in the space of a single, extraordinary night. Daniel, Lina, Stefan and Therese are sixteen years old. They are the best of friends and are on their way out for the night. It is a night like any other and yet a night like no other before. When the sun rises, their lives will be forever changed. Daniel is in love with Lina, but Lina is hopelessly in love with herself and rock star Niklas Ravn. Therese is willing to offer Stefan her virginity, but Stefan would rather come out of the closet - to get closer to Daniel. But Daniel is much more interested in Therese.
We Can Be Heroes!
Writer
Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for her Muslim family. But then they start to support each other in a very delicate and subtle manner...
The New Country
Writer
A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
Knockout
Screenplay
"Plutten" is a former European champion in boxing who tours in northern Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia as a country musician with his manager "Råttan". "Plutten's" big problem is handling the fact that his career is finished and that he has got to start on something completely new.