In the Swedish film “Border,” trolls don’t lurk under bridges or in magical kingdoms but pass as humans in our everyday world. For makeup and hairstyling team Göran Lundström and Pamela ...

Called upon to design makeup for Ali Abbasi’s Border—a singularly dark and clever ... turning two European talents into trolls. Demonstrating the highest degree of artistic commitment, Eva ...

And where that story reimagined the well-worn vampire’s tale as something tender and melancholy and rooted in the banality of everyday life, Border gives that same treatment to trolls.

“Border” (“Gräns”), a troll love story based on a novel by the writer of “Let the Right One In,” has sold to NEON, Variety has learned. The deal is for North American rights.

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Sweden has picked Border, a fantastic tale of trolls living and working in modern-day Scandinavia, as its entry for the 2019 foreign-language Oscar.

In the Swedish film “Border,” trolls don’t lurk under bridges or in magical kingdoms but pass as humans in our everyday world. For makeup and hairstyling team Göran Lundström and Pamela ...