Swedish Film Magazine #3 2008
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Swedish Film The Documentary Issue AUDIENCE Nahid Persson Sarvestani WITH faces Farah Diba THE QUEEN NECROBUSINESS YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA SLAVES • THE BIG STORE • THE SWINDLER • LIFE EXTENDED MR GOVERNOR • LONG DISTANCE LOVE • BANANAS • BLACK NATION #3 2008 A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute From the Creators of worldwide success documentary ‘THE PLANET’ - we proudly introduce The planet is threatened with destruction! Take heart! There is a brilliant plan that will save humanity… Tired of presenting your film project from DVD or tape? Our Cinevator™five DIRECT-2-PRINT product is a process of striking 35mm Cinema release prints with sound and subtitles from a digital master directly onto positive print film. D2P eliminates the traditional steps associated with intermediate and optical negative recording, optical printing and laser subtitling to bring out the first release print. 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COPENHAGEN · OSLO · STOCKHOLM Feature 82 min & TV Series 4x53 min Still available in certain territories Feature 52 min - Available Worldwide www.cinevator.nordiskfilm.com INTERNATIONAL SALES: AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI - SE-169 86 STOCKHOLM 3 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.sfinternational.se CEO’S LETTER CONTENTS #3/2008 Director, International Department Pia Lundberg Phone +46 70 692 79 80 pia.lundberg@sfi .se Stories on a silver platter YES, I KNOW. Boasts about the scope of Heilborn and David Aronowitsch Swedish documentaries are starting to continue with the theme of children in Festivals, documentaries Sara Yamashita Rüster get tedious. Yet you can’t help but notice need, this time in Sudan. Slaves (Slavar) Phone +46 76 117 26 78 it when you look at this year’s crop of tells how two young boys were kid- sara.ruster@sfi .se fi lms in the genre: we have investigative napped by the government-backed journalism, animated documentary, militia and used as slave labour. And just cinéma vérité, art fi lms and classic like the earlier fi lm, it’s an animated character studies. To name but a few. documentary. Festivals, features Gunnar Almér A common denominator for many of 6 10 12 Phone +46 70 640 46 56 MIKEL CEE KARLSSON, SARA MAC KEY, PEÅ HOLMQUIST the Swedish entries to IDFA (Inter- YOU’LL NOTICE THAT a number of this gunnar.almer@sfi .se national Documentary Film Festival year’s Swedish fi lms at IDFA have been Amsterdam) this year is that they’re all shot in the Middle East, but in this made by experienced fi lmmakers. 2008 magazine you can also read about a is a comeback year for many of our project somewhat closer to home. People Features, special projects leading exponents of the art. Nahid depicted (Folk i bild 2008)is a suite of Petter Mattsson Phone +46 70 607 11 34 Persson Sarvestani, who won so many documentaries comprising fourteen petter.mattsson@sfi .se DREVSTAM CHARLIE plaudits a few years ago with Prostitu- intimate character portraits of people in tion Behind the Veil (Prostitution bakom Sweden, each with their own story to tell. slöjan), is back with two fi lms at IDFA. In Altogether they provide a telling snap- The Queen and I (Drottningen och jag) she shot of our country today. Instigated both Festivals, short fi lms meets the legendary Farah Diba, Iran’s by newcomers and some of Sweden’s Andreas Fock former queen, actively opposed by Nahid leading fi lmmakers, the project is the Phone +46 70 519 59 66 andreas.fock@sfi .se Persson Sarvestani herself in the kind of success that demonstrates once 16 24 28 revolution of 1979 which toppled the again that the recipe for a successful AB. DOC REALREEL © HERRLANDER, CLAES Iranian monarchy. Birdcage (Fågelburen) documentary doesn’t need to be more is another of Nahid Persson Sarvestani’s than people who have a story to tell. Head of Communications fi lms shot in Iran. In it we encounter What’s diffi cult is actually fi nding them. & Public Relations Habib, who tells of a life in which his Be our guest – you’ll fi nd all the stories Åsa Garnert every step is watched over by the served up for you here on a silver platter! Phone +46 70 615 12 41 asa.garnert@sfi .se regime. VETERANS PEÅ HOLMQUIST and Suzanne Press Offi cer Khardalian are also back, this time with Jan Göransson their much-acclaimed Young Freud in Phone +46 70 603 03 62 Gaza (Unge Freud i Gaza), a fascinating Cissi Elwin jan.goransson@sfi .se glimpse of an isolated world. We follow CEO, Ayed, the only psychologist working in Swedish Film Institute northern Gaza, as he visits his patients. 30 34 38 SANDRA QVIST, FRANS HÄLLQVIST, JOHAN BERMARK JOHAN HÄLLQVIST, FRANS QVIST, SANDRA The eagerly-awaited follow up to Swedish Film Institute Hidden (Gömd) is also with us. Hanna International Department P.O. Box 27126 2 CEO’S LETTER 24 THE QUEEN AND I SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Cissi Elwin serves up a feast of documentaries. IDFA favourite Nahid Persson Sarvestani Phone +46 8 665 11 00 meets a monarch in exile. Fax +46 8 666 36 98 SWEDISH FILM Contributing Editors Cover photo 6 NEWS www.sfi .se ISSUE 3/2008 Anders Dahlbom Getty Images All the latest news in Swedish documentary fi lmmaking. 28 LIFE EXTENDED All about Swedish Film www.swedishfi lm.org Henrik Emilson (Farah Diba, 1940) 10 HYSTERIA FILM Artists Bigert & Bergström in search of eternal life. Issued by Ghita Huldén The producers who made it through. 30 MR GOVERNOR The Swedish Film Institute Paola Langdal Photography Nothing but the truth? Måns Månsson and cinéma vérité. Bo Madestrand Johan Bergmark 12 YOUNG FREUD IN GAZA Publisher Hynek Pallas Frans Hällqvist PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian meet victims 34 LONG DISTANCE LOVE Pia Lundberg Olof Peronius Sara Mac Key of war on the therapy couch. New light on long distance relationships. Editors Andreas Utterström Sandra Qvist Mattias Dahlström Nanushka Yeaman Translation 16 BLACK NATION 38 PEOPLE DEPICTED Elin Larsson Derek Jones The Swedish Film Institute’s aims include the Artist Mats Hjelm on the lookout for Detroit’s real life heroes. One project, one country, 14 fi lms. Art Direction Print promotion, support and development of Swedish fi lms, Markus Edin Fagerblads Print & the allocation of grants, and the promotion of Swedish 18 AMAZING STORIES 40 NEW DOCS Packaging, Västerås cinema internationally. (www.sfi .se) ISSN 1654-0050 The directors behind Necrobusiness and The Swindler share their experiences. Read all about the current Swedish documentaries. 4 5 NEWS STINA GARDELL The producer Stina Gardell, producer of documentaries including Lars Arrhenius. the Prix Italia winner The Nun (Nunnan) 2007, what are you working on right now? “I have 8–10 documentary features in the pipeline, including Linda Thorgren’s Love and War (Krig och kärlek), in which the director herself is the Johannes Müntzing. main character. It’s an amazingly hard-hitting fi lm about the consequences of living and having a child with a man by whom you’ve been subjected to physical and mental abuse. I’m also producing Åsa Ekman’s The Comeback, a fi lm about Rosie, Sweden’s fi rst drag LARS ARRHENIUS • JOHANNES MÜNTZING THE BIG STORE (SHORT) racing star. 30 years ago she gave up her career to take Traumatic rays care of her brain-damaged With their short fi lm The Big Store visualised in animated sequences which But any discussion about a society in child, but now (En dag på varuhuset) screening as have an x-ray like quality. which two leading politicians have been she’s ready for part of ParaDocs at IDFA, Lars “When the shoppers and people in the murdered in recent years was almost MIKEL CEE KARLSSON a comeback.” MAUD NYCANDER MAUD Arrhenius and Johannes Müntzing otherwise empty store appear as entirely ignored. Previously Stina Gardell. raise a number of important issues skeletons on an x-ray plate, it brings their Can an international audience MIKEL CEE KARLSSON GREETINGS FROM THE WOODS (FULL LENGTH) you directed for our time.