The latest entry into the offbeat Scandinavian cinema sub-genre, The King of Ping Pong is a typically quirky, low-key tragicomedy. Brothers Rille and Erik are polar opposites: one is dark, rotund, and a loner, the other blond, lean, and popular. The comfortable fraternal bond the boys share is shattered when a secret about their parents makes its effects known on the boys in the present. Unable to deal with the revelations, Rille and Erik seem destined to drift apart. In his feature debut, Jens Jonsson captures the cadences of life in a small town perfectly, using that backdrop to tell a larger story about how “the past has an unpleasant tendency of bouncing back at you. Like some damn ping-pong ball. I wanted to make a film about life’s uphill struggle. About expectations and ways of looking at life.”