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Swedish FilmFALL 2013 / WINTER 2014 NEW DOCS After You ● American Jazz Musician ● Bikes vs Cars ● The Clip Concerning Violence ● Conquering China ● Displaced Perssons ● Forest of the Dancing Spirits Freak Out! ● Mothers Without Children ● A Separation ● Trespassing Bergman Welcome to the world of Swedish docs! 2013 has been a landmark year for Swedish docs with an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Searching for Sugar Man by Malik Bendjelloul. And there’s more to come. This special edition of Swedish Film presents new documentary features ready to hit international festivals and markets. Please visit our website www.sfi.se for updated information on Swedish features, documentaries and shorts. Swedish Film Institute Publisher Pia Lundberg Festivals, documentaries International Department ISSN 1654-0050 Sara Rüster P.O. Box 27126 Contributing Editor Josefina Mothander Phone +46 76 117 26 78 SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Art Director Markus Edin [email protected] Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Cover photo Gädda Five (Trespassing Bergman) Fax +46 8 661 18 20 Print Norra Skåne Offset, Hässleholm www.sfi.se • www.twitter.com/swedishfilm Contents 6 After You 8 American Jazz Musician 10 Bikes vs Cars 18 Displaced Perssons 20 Forest of the Dancing Spirits 22 Freak Out! 12 The Clip 14 Concerning Violence 16 Conquering China 24 Mothers Without Children 26 A Separation 28 Trespassing Bergman 6 PHOTO MARIUS DYBWAD BRANDRUD (STILL), SKOGEN PRodUKTION (DIRECtoR) After You My mother is spending all her time with her dying father. I’m spending all my time filming her. To understand her, I say. R) But how much can I actually grasp? And what exactly am I to trying to understand? As the incomprehensible gets closer, Original title Efter dig IREC Director/Screenwriter D my mother and I increasingly share the actual filming. Marius Dybwad Brandrud N ( O I Participants Nina Dybwad, T It becomes our way of dealing with the time we have left. Jens Dybwad UK Producer Tobias Janson od R Produced by Story, with support P from the Swedish Film Institute/ Cecilia Lidin GEN DOK O CPH:DOX IDFA Duration 75 min K Leipzig S Released November 1, 2013 Sales TBA ILL), T (S Marius Dybwad D Brandrud, director, RU D producer, editor and cinematographer, was RAN Sundance B born and raised in D Bohuslän in the west of Sweden. In addition to studies in philosophy, Marius has a BA in Photography (School of Photography, Gothenburg University), an MA in Fine Arts (University College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm) and an MA in Film Directing (School of Film PHOTO MARIUSPHOTO DYBWA Directing, Gothenburg University). 7 American Jazz Musician (working title) One snowy night in February 1972 a major jazz star was shot Original title American Jazz Musician (working title) dead by his common-law wife during a gig at a club in New Director/Screenwriter/Producer Kasper Collin York City. “He said to me: ‘Honey, I know you didn’t mean it. Produced by Kasper Collin Produktion in co-production with SVT I know you didn’t mean to do this …’ and then he was gone.” and Film i Väst, in collaboration with NRK, YLE, Nordisk Film & TV Fond (The wife in a recorded interview about the moments right and SRF, with support from MEDIA, Ford Foundation, the Swedish Arts R) after the shot.) American Jazz Musician is a film about music, Grants Committee and the Swedish to Film Institute/Lars G Lindström. IREC love and America. Duration 92 min D To be released 2014 N ( O Sales TBA ERSS Kasper Collin is a D N Swedish filmmaker A and producer whose work includes the feature documentary My Name is Albert Ayler (2007), highly acclaimed on its ILL), HENRIK T theatrical release in the UK and US by (S publications such as Sight and Sound T and Variety. Kasper also works as a producer and gives lectures and EWAR masterclasses on filmmaking, St production and self-distribution in the UCK US and Europe. A resident of Ch Gothenburg, he is the chairman of the Swedish Independent Filmmakers hoto Association (since 2009). P 8 Photo ChUCK StEWART (STILL), HENRIK ANDERSSON (DIRECtoR) 9 10 photo FLORA DIAS (STILL), MARTIN BOGREN (DIRECtoR) Bikes vs Cars The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But Original title Bikes vs Cars Director/Screenwriter will those who hold financial power allow it? There’s an Fredrik Gertten Participants Aline Cavalcante, ongoing war: bikes vs cars. A multi-billion dollar industry Dan Koeppel, Ivan Naurholm, Raquel Rolnik, Nicolas Habib, has done everything to make society car dependent right Don Ward, Molly Arevalo, Rob Ford Producers Margarete Jangård, from the outset. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been Elin Kamlert invested in selling the dream of car freedom. Now, oil prices Produced by WG Film in R) co-production with SVT and Film i to Skåne, with support from the Swedish and traffic gridlock have opened a window of opportunity Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin IREC Duration 90 min D for bicycle revenge. To be released TBA Sales Autlook Filmsales GREN ( O Fredrik Gertten is a IN B filmmaker based in T Malmö, Sweden. One AR M of the founders of WG Film in 1994, he is a ILL), T ”Many people suffer from climate change anxiety, yet still we former foreign correspondent and columnist who has consume more than ever. But change is possible: imagine if more cities worked for radio, TV and newspapers were to copy Copenhagen where 40% of people commute on bikes. We’d in Africa, Latin America, Asia and RA DIAS (S around Europe. Gertten combines O have less pollution. Oil prices and car sales would fall. documentary filmmaking with a FL The very core of the financial system would tremble. This is a conflict creative production role in films shown that interests me profoundly.” on TV and in theatres and festivals all photo over the world. 11 The Clip When local dancers Mario and Xavier get hired to perform at a wedding in Mozambique, they have no idea that megastar Beyoncé will watch them on YouTube and ask Original title The Clip them to be her teachers. After four months of searching she Director Viktor Nordenskiöld Screenwriters Viktor Nordenskiöld, found them in a Mozambique suburb. Since then, Mario and Andreas Magnell Participants Mario Buce, Xavier Xavier’s ideas of what life is and what it could be will never Campione, Beyoncé Knowles Producer Andreas Magnell be the same. Produced by Freetownfilms in co-production with SVT, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell Duration Approx. 80 min To be released Spring, 2014 Sales Deckert Distribution Viktor Nordenskiöld has worked and filmed in more than 50 countries around the S M world. He has directed IL F and produced several documentaries for pubcaster Swedish Television WN “I was immediately intrigued by this story; the amazing chain of to (SVT). His previous work includes coincidences and the drama it unfolds. Truly, this is a film about I Was Worth 50 Sheep (assistant identification and dreams. What happens when, and after, your wildest producer, 2011), One Like All – All Like FREE One (director, 2008) and Swedish dreams come true?” hoto Soldier’s Factory (director, 2008). P 12 Photo FREEtoWNFILMS 13 14 photo StoRY Concerning Violence Original title Concerning Violence Concerning Violence is based on the classic book The Wretched Director/Screenwriter Göran Hugo Olsson of the Earth by Franz Fanon. Written 50 years ago, Fanon’s Producers Annika Rogell, Tobias Janson work is a major tool for under standing and illuminating Produced by Story in co-production with SVT, Louverture Films, present day neocolonialism and the unrest and reactions it Helsinki-filmi, Final Cut for Real and Rainbow Circle Films in collaboration provokes. Concerning Violence builds on newly discovered with YLE and DRK, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia and powerful archive footage of some of the most audacious Lidin, the Danish Film Institute, EU MEDIA Slate Funding and the moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World. The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Duration 86 min film will extend the techniques employed in Göran Hugo To be released Spring, 2014 Olsson’s most recent film, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Sales Films Boutique Göran Hugo to create a visual narrative from Africa – with images of the Olsson is a Sundance and pursuit of freedom, the Cold War and Sweden. Swedish Guldbagge award-winning documentary filmmaker. One of the people behind “European and American film on Africa is mostly bad and totally the celebrated Swedish Television series Elbyl and Ikon, he was the unnecessary. The genre carries a stigma. However; I know that this Documentary Film Commissioner at one will bring something different and great to the table. The archive the Swedish Film Institute from 1999 RY to 2002. His films include The Black to images will display this crucial period in a new way. In a way that will Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), S illuminate how dedicated so many people were in the struggle for Am I Black Enough For You (2009) and Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998, freedom. And how that work must and will continue.” photo with Leila K). 15 Conquering China Johan Jonason leaves Sweden and a Europe in crisis, and Original title Conquering China Director/Screenwriter heads to Shanghai. His goal is to establish himself as a pop Johan Jonason Participants Johan Jonason, singer in China because that’s where the future seems to be. Jean Michel Jarre, Dave K, Ben Huang, Elvis T, Robert Wells, In Shanghai, Johan meets various people involved in the DJ Ghost Producer Anna Byvald Chinese music industry – producers, DJs and promoters who Produced by Silverosa Film in co-production with Film i Väst and SVT, give him insights into the new, young and contradictory with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin China.