Exactly one year after a group of up-and-coming Danish directors launched the Dogma 25 cinema movement in Cannes, the first Dogma 25 film, Mr. Nawashi from Isabella Eklöf, has begun filming. The love story follows Katarina (newcomer Tanya Holm Andersen), an “ambitious and talented singer with an appetite for life but little self-discipline” who meets the mysterious Mr. Nawashi (The Last Resort actor Esben Smed) online and begins her initiation into a the world of BDSM. But, according to an official summary, “what begins as flirtation and attraction soon tips into obsession and dependence.” Currently in production, Mr. Nawashi is set for a planned 2027 theatrical release. Eklöf’s debut feature, Holiday, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, her 2023 drama Kalak screened at San Sebastian, winning the Special Jury Prize. She has also directed several episodes of the HBO series Industry and Sky Atlantic series The Death of Bunny Munroe, and was a co-writer on Ali Abbasi’s Oscar-nominated feature Border (2018). Eklöf, together with directors May el-Toukhy, Milad Alami, Annika Berg, and Jesper …