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Swedish Film Magazine #3 2009 Swedish Film #3 • 2009 The documentary issue A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute The Great Gandini Stirring up controversy in Berlusconi’s Italy with Videocracy FEATURED FILMS BEAUTY REFUGEE I DREAMED ABOUT POL POT THE GENIUS AND THE BOYS BLOOD CALLS YOU THE FACE OF THE ENEMY I Don’t WANNA LIVE THIS LIFE BANANAS!* www.sfi.se Tempo Documentary FestivalFilms svt sales Sweden’s Official Festival for Documentary Sveriges Television presents 10-14 March 2010 Stockholm Sweden At IDFA and Docs for Sale: The Genius and the Boys The biggest Documentary Festival in Sweden presents over 80 of the most interesting Nordic and international documentaries. Five inspiring days and nights with filmmakers from all over the world in a pleasant atmosphere. This year with a special focus on new films by African filmmakers. At Docs for Sale: www.tempofestival.se On the Border of Desperation Night Witches Swedish Film is present at IDFA 2009 Silver Wolf Competition Beauty Refugee by Claudia Lisboa Saved by the Enemy Keeping Ingmar Bergman The Face of the Enemy by Erik Pauser I Dreamed about Pol Pot by Julia Stanislawska & Michael Krotkiewski Student Competition Mr Governor by Måns Månsson ReflectingI mages & DOC U! Melting Lives I Don’t Wanna Live This Life by Renzo Aneröd - The Victims of the New Weather The Swindler & Bo Harringer ReflectingI mages Bananas!* Distributed by The Genius and the Boys by Bosse Lindquist SVT Sales Videocracy by Erik Gandini Stockholm, Sweden www.svtsales.com ParaDocs [email protected] Naked by Tove Kjellmark On the Road with Homo Sapiens www.sfi.se/english CEO’S LETTER Director, International Department Pia Lundberg Phone +46 70 692 79 80 So much to offer [email protected] ”ExCUSE ME!” A young man bumps into me film has provoked reactions all around the with a bulging carrier bag. I’m right in the world, even giving rise to new legal pro- middle of the crowd outside one of the ceedings. Dole tried to sue the filmmakers Festivals, documentaries Sara Yamashita Rüster cine mas on the film festival island of Lido, for spreading falsehoods, but were forced, Phone +46 76 117 26 78 Venice. Almost a thousand people are de- under enormous pressure, to withdraw [email protected] fying the unpleasantly sticky weather to their lawsuit. This represents a victory not form a queue so long that it will be talked only for a small Swedish film company, but about for the rest of the festival. I meet an for freedom of speech in general. Italian TV crew who have managed to When we have so many excellent films Festivals, features Gunnar Almér push their way to the front and are filming to offer, it’s hardly surprising that the Phone +46 70 640 46 56 the crowd. Someone wonders what film world’s leading festivals are queuing up to [email protected] they’re showing: screen them. I have only mentioned two ”It’s a Swedish documentary!” my col- films, but at this year’s IDFA we are break- league replies. ing all previous records with nine films se- I get goose bumps just thinking about it. lected. And CPH:DOX screened no fewer Festivals, short films Andreas Fock The film that caused such a rumpus and than 17 Swedish films! Phone +46 70 519 59 66 got the festival planners scrambling to put [email protected] on extra screenings is Erik Gandini’s THREE YEARS AGO, when I took over as CEO Video cracy. Now on a triumphant tour for the Swedish Film Institute, I dreamed around the world, the film has sparked that one day the Danes would come to us widespread discussion about freedom of for advice on how to make films. So when Special projects Petter Mattsson the press and media. Recently it was even this year’s CPH:DOX is featuring a Focus on Phone +46 70 607 11 34 screened at the EU parliament in Stras- Sweden and putting on a seminar entitled [email protected] bourg as part of an ongoing debate. ”Why do the Swedes make such good films?”, I have to pinch myself. SWEDISH DOCUMENTARIES ARE remark- Has that day finally dawned? Special projects ably successful right now, and many of Well, you just have to turn the pages of Andrea Reuter them are of such a high journalistic quali- this issue of Swedish Film to drink in some Phone +46 76 833 14 49 ty that their influence is both cultural and of our many examples of success. [email protected] political. Many of the films are engaging without taking an explicit stance. They don’t deliver a ready-packaged opinion, Head of Communications but rather paint a picture that the viewer Cissi Elwin Frenkel & Public Relations can continue to fill in long after the closing CEO, Åsa Garnert credits roll. Swedish Film Institute Phone +46 70 615 12 41 Fredrik Gertten’s Bananas!* is just such a [email protected] film, featuring a David and Goliath legal bat- tle in the USA with a lawyer representing Press Officer Nicaraguan banana workers on one side Jan Göransson and the banana giant Dole on the other. The Phone +46 70 603 03 62 [email protected] SWEDISH FILM Contributing Editors Photography ISSUE 3/2009 Anders Dahlbom Johan Bergmark Klas Ekman Frans Hällqvist Swedish Film Institute Issued by Henrik Emilson Sara Mac Key International Department The Swedish Film Institute Niklas Eriksson Sandra Qvist P.O. Box 27126 Christina Höglund Maria Ramström SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Publisher Peter Fröberg Idling Cover photo Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Pia Lundberg Elin Larsson Johan Bergmark Fax +46 8 666 36 98 Editors Jan Lumholdt www.sfi.se Mattias Dahlström Emma Gray Munthe Translation Paola Langdal Per Nyström Derek Jones The Swedish Film Institute’s aims include the promotion, Art Direction Lotten Sundgren support and development of Swedish films, the allocation of Markus Edin Love Svensson Print grants, and the promotion of Swedish cinema internationally. Roger Wilson Norra Skåne Offset, Hässleholm ISSN 1654-0050 3 CONTENTS Y E K mac sara , atmo K, bergmar 8 14 22 ohan J hartleb / vist Q lind Y, Y, E K mac sara K, bergmar 24 30 32 ohan J #3/2009 5 BANANAS!* 22 LIKE A PASCHA Read all about Fredrik Gerttens David-versus-Goliath battle against fruit Debutant director Svante Tidholm takes you behind the scenes of corporation Dole. Pascha – the biggest brothel in Europe. 6 NEWS 24 THE GENIUS AND THE BOYS The latest from the world of Swedish documentary film. Director Bosse Lindquist has made a documentary about Carleton Gajdusek: 8 bLOOD CALLS YOU Nobel Prize winner, star of the science world – and paedophile. After a bad relationship director Linda Thorgren started digging in the history of 26 I DREAMED ABOUT POL POT AND the female side of her family. And found patterns of domestic violence and falling KHIEU SAMPHAN – POL POt’s DEPUTY for the wrong guys. Two Swedish documentaries this fall concentrate on the long shadow dictator 10 FACE OF THE ENEMY Pol Pot has cast over the country of Cambodia. Fearless director/artist Erik Pauser takes his Vietnamese war documentary 30 DIRTY DIARIES to IDFA. Mia Engberg’s feminist porn project has gotten all the way from Sweden to 12 bEAUTY REFUGEE Conan O’Briens talk show. Meet the family where 28 of the 29 members have had cosmetic surgery. The 32 WHEN i’m GROWN UP exception – director Claudia Lisboa. Who has made a film about her family and Come rain or come sunshine: veteran film maker Rainer Hartleb will still make their quest for eternal beauty. his documentaries about Stockholm suburb Jordbro. 14 VIDEOCRAcy 36 REGRETTERS Cover boy Erik Gandini’s documentary about Silvio Berlusconi and television is A camera, two men and a story about changing your sex – and regretting it. stirring up controversy in Italy. 40 NEW DOCS 20 TINE FISCHER All the fresh Swedish documentaries. Danish festival CPH:DOX looks north for inspiration and presents a special focus on Swedish films this year. 4 NEWS FREDRIK GERttEN BANANAS!* Totally bananas! Currently in the spotlight for his documentary financial backers for the film will help us out. It’s the Facts Bananas!* about the Nicaraguan banana new financial reality that you’re on you own when FREDRIK GERTTEN workers’ struggle against the Dole corporation, problems arise. And that makes it hard, because the Fredrik Gertten was sued this summer by the companies in this part of the industry are often very Born: 1956 in Malmö. multinational fruit giant. In October Dole small.” Background: withdrew the action, and Gertten’s production How does it affect you, your profession and the Filmmaker and journal- company WG took back its counter claim against future of documentaries if the people you feature ist. Worked as Dole. The headline-grabbing film is set to screen try to stop screenings, like they did at the a journalist for at IDFA in the ReflectingI mages section. Bananas!* premiere at the Los Angeles Film magazines, Festival, or if they sue the filmmakers? radio and tele- Why did Dole withdraw the action? “If a company like Dole doesn’t lose, and lose big vision in Africa, ilm Latin America, F WG “About a week before they withdrew the action, time, in a case like this, then there’s a danger for Asia and around Dole were making extremely hostile noises in the documentary filmmakers, because financial backers, Europe during the 80s and 90s. Has Swedish press. Then when the Swedish parliament producers, distributors and others might hesitate to made a number of acclaimed docu- invited major retailers in for talks and I was invited to get involved in a project where a major corporation is mentaries: The Great Bridge (2001) lunch with the Minister for Culture to discuss the film, involved.
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