Uno Helmersson

Just finished the work on the score for the follow-up on the best-selling documentary by Miki Mistrati named Shady Chocolate Produced by Made In Copenhagen and DR (Danish Public Service) “Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to [...]

Come To Be

This beautiful film directed by Katrine Philp got a fragile and ethereal score to bring out the characters, their dance and their inner thoughts… Produced by Klassefilm Selected in competition at IDFA 2012 ”Denmark produces lots of professional ballroom dancers – but everything depends on finding the right partner. In recent years, dancers are increasingly [...]

Kiruna-Kigali

Kiruna-Kigali Regi: Goran Kapetanovic Producent: Helena Danielsson, Goran Kapetanovic Manus: Maria Nygren Foto: Tobias Höiem.Flyckt Musik: Uno Helmersson Produktionsbolag: Hepp Film AB, Kapetanovich Film Production Handling: En ung kvinna i Rwanda ska föda. Det är Malika (18). Barnet är felvänt, det är fara för Malikas liv och efter inbördeskriget finns inga vuxna kvar i byn. [...]

Kon-Tiki

The Score for Kon-Tiki by Johan Söderqvist is an impressive work of art, as well as the film itself. My work on this one has (as it does the most) consisted in some ghostwriting as well as preparing for orchestration scoring, clicktracks, recordingsessions, correcting scores, etc… Check out this trailer, and go watch the film [...]

Bron

Bron A Danish/Swedish Public Service Co-production. The new wave of Scandinavian crime is in it´s whole. This melodtramatic crimeseries is a modest tribute to film noir. The composing of the music is a joint venture together with Johan Söderqvist, Patrik Andren, and I. The police find a corpse in the middle of the bridge [...]

Insensibles

Insensibles Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the ’60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in the present time, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers [...]

Chance Of Rain

Chance Of Rain “Chance Of Rain” Trailer from The FilmGym on Vimeo. Chance Of Rain – Short Film Based on a play by Chisa Hutchinson Cast: Philipp C. Wolter, Michelle Glick Director: Philipp C. Wolter Cinematographer: Eun-ah Lee Editor: Philipp C. Wolter Producers: Christi Ciani Music: Uno Helmersson

Tagikaks

Tagikaks – Once We Were Hunters Kolya and Sasha live in a whale hunter community by the Bering Strait. While their father remembers the good old days, the two brothers try to find their own paths in a rapidly changing world. In the end, who is the great hunter of the 21st century? Written by Kira Jääskeläinen [...]

Duplicity

Duplicity Choreographer Constantine Baecher and film director Julien Ringdahl have teamed up to create a new dance film, Duplicity. Mr. Baecher and Mr. Ringdahl are both currently professional ballet dancers with the Royal Danish Ballet who pursue parallel creative projects to their professional dance careers. For Duplicity Mr. Baecher and Mr. Ringdahl played a part [...]

Loved Ones

Kritcirkeln / The Caucasian Chalk Circle

De Närmaste (Loved Ones) Regi: Mårten Klingberg Producent: Mimmi Spång, Rebecka Lafrenz Manus: Iga Mikler Produktionsbolag: Garagefilm International AB, SVT, SFI Handling: Katrin har nyligen debuterat som författare med en självutlämnande roman om sin uppväxt. Hennes syster Marie är gift med Mats, som i sin tur har en affär med Katrin. När alla tre för [...]

“The Caucasian Chalk Circle” by Berthold Brecht, directed by: Dritëro Kasapi. I Kritcirkeln följer vi två människoöden som i ett krigsdrabbat samhälle ska komma att vävas samman. Föreställningen innehåller sång och nyskriven musik, och blandar drama med humor. Vi möter Grusche som med fara för sitt eget liv, mitt under brinnande krig, räddar ett bortglömt [...]

1, 2, 3, dance!

1, 2, 3, dance! 1, 2, 3 Dance! THE LIFE OF A DANCER is a nationwide TV-documentary about three talented young dancers at the Royal Danish Ballet. During a period of 10 weeks the Danish TV-audience will follow three of Denmark’s most talented young ballet dancers in the intense process of creating the season’s biggest [...]

Love During Wartime

Love During Wartime Composed the opening titles theme for this one. Main composer is El Perro Del Mar. “The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want desperately to make a life together but it proves to be an impossible task. When an [...]

Au Pair

Au Pair The term AU PAIR refers to a cultural exchange, where young people can experience a foreign country in return for light housework and nursing – and a small allowance. In reality, au pairs are very cheap domestic help for busy families all over the world. Au Pair follows three Philippine girls as they [...]

Jägarna II

Jägarna 2 “The Interrogator Erik Backstrom (Rolf Lassgård) is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik’s family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten (Peter Stormare). [...]

Jag saknar dig

Jag saknar dig Did the score on this one. Kind of a low-key ambient world with Zither and ambiences among other instruments. “Synopsis: Enäggstvillingarna Cilla och Tina är bästa vänner men samtidigt väldigt olika. Cilla är konstnärssjälen och idealisten som går sin egen väg medan Tina är populär, pubertal och ständigt kär. Cilla och [...]

Medan du var borta

While You Were Gone Medan du var borta. A Shortfilm about the facts of life, being a kid, growing up, becoming a parent. You can get the music at menyou.com, just klick the link below. Director: Frida Kempff

Billy And Chuck

Producer: John Keville
Director: Lee Cronin
Composer: Uno Helmersson
Conductor: Ciaran Crilly
Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

King Of Devil´s Island

King Of Devil´s Island “Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the island Bastoy, located in the Oslo fjord live a group of delinquent, young boys aged 11 to 18. The boys daily, sadistic regime is run by the guards and the principal who bestow both mental and physical abuse on [...]

The Sea Is All I Know

A film by Jordan Bayne. Composer, Uno Helmersson

Moderne Bønder

Moderne Bønder Selected music from the Danish documentary TV-series Moderne Bønder.

In A Better World

In A Better World Susanne Biers award winning film. Score by Johan Söderqvist. The bearing instrument in this film is a so called Array Mbira, which is a huge thumb-organ, plucked by fingers. Most part of the pieces in the film are performed by Uno Helmersson. “The lives of two Danish families cross each other, [...]

Armadillo

Music for the Cannes version of Armadillo…
Director: Janus Metz
Photo: Lars Skree
Composer: Uno Helmersson
Production company: Fridthjof Production

Earth Made Of Glass

Earth Made Of Glass. “On August 6th, 2008, against the backdrop of the world’s deadliest war in neighboring Eastern Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame issued a report detailing the French government’s hidden role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Three months later, his closest aide, Rose Kabuye is arrested by France on charges of terrorism. Meanwhile, [...]

Effi Briest

Effi Briest In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is [...]

Love And Rage

Love And Rage Daniel is a very talented piano student and loves Sofie, but he is terrified by the thought of loosing her and accuses her of seeing another man. Everybody says he is wrong, but the suspicion grows as does an uncontrollable side of Daniel. Director: Morten Giese Score: Johan Söderqvist Love and Rage [...]

Together

2009

Together “A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down. This is a story about a father and his son’s journey through a landscape of sorrow, after they tragically lose [...]

The Murder Farm

The Murder Farm On a remote farm an entire family is murdered. -IMDB Director: Bettina Oberli Score: Johan Söderqvist

Ticket to Paradise

Music from the documentary Ticket to Paradise. (2008)

Tine på Tværs

Music from the TV-documentary: Tine på Tværs (2009)

Under My Thumb

Music from the short story “Under My Thumb” (2008)

Restless In Paradise

Music from the documentary: Restless in Paradise (2009)

Ugly Bunny

Music from the short animated story “Ugly Bunny” (2009)

Through The Night

Music from the short story “Through The Night” (2009)

The Bridge