Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is a hard one to pin down. Show Me Love, Together and Lilja-4-Ever certainly made a reputation for the man on the festival circuit and he wins lots of awards in his home country. However, his more recent turn towards the experimental, including the sexually explicit A Hole in My Heart and simply baffling Container, have confounded and split audiences (some might even say, driven them away in droves). Announcing his English language debut at Cannes this year, a project involving shooting in New York, The Philippines and Thailand, and featuring Gael García Bernal in the lead role, it is quite likely that this will be Moodysson's return to his less esoteric forms. He expressed this sentiment at Cannes: "After two quite experimental films, I'm excited to return to a more narrative style. I want it to be a movie that will reach out and touch audiences everywhere." The Swedish institute has kicked in a very large 10 million dollars to the Swedish, Danish and German financed project, Mammoth, which begins shooting in Thailand next month.

[The film follows a] successful New York couple Tom and Ellen, their eight-year-old daughter and their Filipino nanny, Gloria. On a business trip to Thailand, Tom realises that he wants to change his life. His decision sets in motion a dramatic chain of events.