Issue 2 • 2016

The right direction

A magazine from the • sfi.se On the cover (from left to right) This page (from left to right) From left to right: (Hotell, 2013) Elisabet Gustafsson (Annabel’s Lisa James Larsson (Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War, 2015) (The Girl, the Mother and Spectacularities, 2014) the Demons, 2016) Beata Gårdeler (Flocking, 2015) Malin Erixon (Sleep Incidents, 2016) Jane Magnusson (Trespassing Bergman, 2013) Nanna Blondell (Noni & Elizabeth, 2016) (conceptual director, Modus, 2015) Sanna Lenken (My Skinny Sister, 2015) Alexandra Dahlström (All We Have Is Now, 2014) Tora Mkandawire Mårtens (Martha & Niki, 2016) Alexandra-Therese Keining (Girls Lost, 2015) Maja Borg (MAN, 2016) Kirsi Nevanti (Tomorrow Never Knows, 2007) Lisa Ohlin (Walk with Me, 2016) Lovisa Sirén (Audition, 2015) Joanna Rytel (Moms on Fire, 2016) Bahar Pars (Ghetto Swedish, 2015) Katja Wik (Nerves, 2012) Charlotta Miller (Fungus, 2011) Ellen Fiske (Lone Dads, 2015) Lena Koppel (The Importance of Tying Karin Fahlén (Stockholm Stories, 2014) Your Own Shoes, 2011)

2 From left to right: Linda Hambäck (What If…, 2014) Welcome Frida Kempff (Bathing Micky, 2010) (The Crown Jewels, 2011) Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Bath House, 2014) Director, International Department Mia Engberg (Belleville Baby, 2013) Pia Lundberg Nikeisha Andersson (Para Knas, upcoming) Phone: +46 70 692 79 80 [email protected]

Festivals, features Gender on the agenda Gunnar Almér Phone: +46 70 640 46 56 It’s Cannes 2016 and is once again Beer, holiday, sunshine, exposed flesh and [email protected] represented at the world’s leading film festi- typical Swedish humour with influences val. We’re delighted and proud that three from both Ruben Östlund and Roy Anders- films have been selected and that all three of son. Madre by Simón Mesa Soto is a Swed- Festivals, documentaries them are challenging both in terms of form ish-Colombian co-production about Sara Rüster and content. Andrea, a 16-year-old Colombian girl who Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 We’re also delighted and proud to present auditions for a porn film. The finance and [email protected] on our cover 30 directors who through the impetus for the film come from Sweden and years have all contributed with films in vari- the Swedish producer David Herdies. It’s ous genres, which together have put Sweden part of a project on child sex abuse, Break Festivals, shorts Theo Tsappos on the map via film festivals across the world. the Silence. Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 Some of them have been active for many Alexandra-Therese Keining’s Girls Lost [email protected] years, others are new talents who most cer- is screening as part of Cannes Écrans tainly will become established and be noticed Juniors (films for young people). The film in the years to come. You can read about these questions gender roles and the situation of Special projects and many more on the Swedish Film Insti- boys and girls in the public sphere. Petter Mattsson tute’s new website Nordic Women in Film, This year’s Swedish Producer on the Phone +46 70 607 11 34 which is a knowledge bank and source of Move, Frida Bargo from the production [email protected] information about women in Swedish film. It company B-Reel Films, has been behind features 700 female directors, producers, many of Swedish film’s more heavyweight Special projects screenwriters, editors and cinematographers. titles of recent years. Josefina Mothander As the Film Institute continues to tick off Two Swedish co-productions are also Phone +46 70 972 93 52 goals in our initiatives on equality, we contin- screening at the Cannes Festival, Finnish- [email protected] ue to add new ones. It’s an issue that’s highly Swedish The Happiest Day in the Life of relevant going forward. We now wish to con- Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen in Un Cer- tinue to provide inspiration beyond Sweden’s tain Regard and the Danish-Swedish Wolf Head of Communications borders. To this end we are organising a semi- and Sheep by Shahrbanoo Sadat as part of & Public Relations nar on gender equality and diversity in film on the Directors’ Fortnight. Rebecka Ioannidis Lindberg Phone: +46 76 501 20 73 May 15th in co-operation with the Swedish Last year we looked back at one of the [email protected] Ministry of Culture, which will focus on our greats of Swedish film when Ingrid Berg- own efforts towards gender equality and what man graced the official festival poster. For Press Officer we have achieved. The event promises many Cannes 2016, Swedish film has its feet firm- Jan Göransson exciting contributions and discussions. Don’t ly set in the present-day. Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 miss the article by Marit Kapla on page 18. [email protected] In this year’s official Cannes programme Swedish Film brought together 30 of two of the ten short films in competition, the country’s leading directors for a selected from around 5,000 entries, are Swed- group portrait at the Swedish Film ish. In Simon Vahlne’s Fight on a Swedish Institute in Stockholm. The shoot was Beach, a display of youthful folly ends in a motivated by a seminar about ongoing Swedish Film Institute fistfight with members of an older generation. International Department initiatives for gender equality, The film is a 13-minute introduction to Swe- P.O. Box 27126 “FiftyFifty in 2020”, to be hosted by the Anna Serner den, the Swedes and Swedish film aesthetics. CEO, Swedish Film Institute SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Swedish Ministry of Culture­ and the Phone: +46 8 665 11 00 Fax: +46 8 661 18 20 Swedish Film Institute in Cannes on sfi.se May 15th. Read more about the challenges faced www.twitter.com/swedishfilm by the international film industry on www.instagram.com/swedishfilm page 18. For more information on the Issued by Swedish Film Institute Publisher Pia Lundberg Editors Jon Asp, Bo Madestrand directors in these photos see the Art Director Markus Edin Graphic design Johan Olsson, Lena Fredriksson, Sara Bergfors Contributing Editors Josefina The Swedish Film Institute works to promote film across the Swedish Film Database at www.sfi.se Mothander, Brita Osafo, Andrea Reuter Contributors Jenny Damberg, Anna Håkansson, Marit Kapla, Camilla board – from idea to finished product, during launch in Sweden Larsson, Jan Lumholdt, Sebastian Lindvall, Per Nyström, Niklas Wahllöf Photography Emelie Asplund, Johan and around the world, and by preserving films for posterity in and the new website our archives. Bergmark, Frans Hällqvist, Sara Mac Key Cover photo Johan Bergmark Translation Derek Jones www.nordicwomeninfilm.com. ISSN 1654-0050 Print Elanders Advertising Fredrik Johnsson [email protected] Photo: Johan Bergmark

5 ContentContents News “101-Year-Old 26 Hello, Alexander Skarsgård… Man” set for … rave reviews for Diary of a Christmas Teenage Girl last year, Berlinale A follow up to the highly premiere of the police drama successful The 100-Year-Old War on Everyone, and soon we’ll Man Who Climbed Out the be seeing you in the title role in Window and Disappeared The Legend of Tarzan. It (Hundraåringen som klev ut appears that you’re experienc- genom fönstret och försvann, ing something of a peak in your 2013), recently nominated for 30 career… an Academy Award for Best “Exactly, I’m peaking, from now Makeup and Hairstyling, is set to on it’ll be downhill all the way! For begin filming this summer in sure, it’s been great fun. True time for release in Sweden on Blood was an incredible journey Christmas Day. A curious film that changed my life, gave me which has enjoyed huge box friends for life and lots of office success in Sweden and opportunities. But it also took a lot Germany, it was based on a 14 of my time. Now I’m thrilled to be bestselling novel by Jonas in charge of my own schedule, ­Jonasson, who has also DAVE BEDROSIAN/IBL DAVE and True Blood no longer dictates contributed to the original my life. I’m free and I can work contrast between the Victorian time for Swedish film with lots of screenplay for the new film. more creatively.” gentleman and the more animal- young and talented filmmakers, “The 101-Year-Old Man” is set How was it to play Tarzan? istic side of his character.” so it’s more about timing than any- in Bali where the now 101-year- “Like a childhood dream come It’s now five years since Lars von thing else. Just because I live in old Allan Karlsson is back in true. And not just mine: he was my Trier’s Melancholia, six years Hollywood it certainly doesn’t action. It’s an action-packed dad’s idol too, back in the days since Johan Kling’s Trust Me. In mean that I’ve left Sweden.” story involving both CIA agents when he saw Johnny Weiss- 2013’s final episode ofTrue Why do you think Swedish and Balinese debt collectors. muller’s Tarzan as a little kid in the Blood we could see Eric actors do so well abroad? “Unlike the first film this new south of Sweden. Tarzan is an Northman reading Hjalmar “Because we’re just that little bit one is related to our ageing hero’s iconic character. I like the fact that Söderberg’s The Serious Game, better than all the others!” earlier life,” says Pontus Edgren, our film doesn’t start in the jungle, a new film version of which has Jon Asp one of the film’s executive but in London, with a British Lord recently appeared. Will we be producers at Nice Drama. speaking perfect English with the seeing you back in Swedish Alexander Skarsgård is currently CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: EMELIE ASPLUND, EMELIE ASPLUND, JOHAN BERGMARK, SARA MAC KEY, JOHAN BERGMARK, SARA MAC KEY MAC SARA BERGMARK, JOHAN KEY, MAC SARA BERGMARK, JOHAN ASPLUND, EMELIE ASPLUND, EMELIE LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE “The device of flashbacks in 16 34 Prime Minister in 10 Downing films? shooting the mini series Big Little which Allan meets famous Street. His journey is almost the “I’d really like to work in Eyes, directed by Jean-Marc 7 News 2012 Bloodlines 32 Wild strawberries people from history is reprised, exact opposite from the original Sweden, and in Swedish too. It Vallée, which is set to premier on this time with a focus on the Alexander Skarsgård shows off his well-toned abs as Director explores Sweden’s colonial past A Polish teenager arrives in Sweden to pick strawberries version. I’m fascinated by the seems like a pretty interesting HBO in 2017. Tarzan, Jane Magnusson is working on a new Ingmar in a family drama about the Sami community. and ends up finding love. most important leaders of the Bergman doc in time for his 2018 centennial and Goran time of the Cold War,” Edgren Kapetanovic explores father-daughter relationships in My 24 Family guy 35 Mean streets adds. Aunt in Sarajevo. Reality meets fiction in Johan Löfstedt’s hypnotic Small Two Serbian brothers are attacked by a racist sniper in Back once again behind the Town Curtains. Manuel Concha’s Blind Alley. camera from the first film is Felix 12, 16, 26, 33, 34 New talents Herngren, this time together Meet the stars of the future: actor Julia Ragnarsson, 27 Sand and blood 37 Staying alive When fiction and reality converge Director Dani Kouyaté takes up the vexed question of with his brother, Måns Herngren. directors Ahmed Abdullahi and Katja Wik, cinematogra- A real-life childhood experience inspired Simon Vahlne’s identity in a story about a Gambian mother and son living What happens to art when it gets “They contacted me with their Anna Håkansson pher Ita Zbroniec-Zajt and director Nikeisha Andersson. Fight on a Swedish Beach, his new short set to premiere in Sweden. exposed to democratic principles idea and I snapped it up straight in official competition at Cannes. 14 Frida Bargo and the desire for consensus? It away. Three delegates, three Sweden’s Producer on the Move wants to win an Oscar. 29 Children at risk 38 Stockholm walkie was this question that directors Nordic countries and one Celebrated film critic and director Mark Cousins serves up Read all about her long and winding career, from ballet Commissioned by the Change Attitude Foundation, the and screenwriters Gunhild Enger decision,” says Marie Kjellson, a noir take on Sweden’s capital in Stockholm My Love. classes to copywriting to producing some of the most Swedish-Colombian co-production Madre is one of a and Jenni Toivoniemi asked previously best known as one of successful Swedish movies of the past few years. quartet of films about child sex abuse. 39 New films themselves when they were Ruben Östlund’s two producers at JARMO KIURU JARMO 18 Setting standards 30 Puppet master All the latest Swedish films… introduced at CPH:LAB in Plattform Produktion. New statistics on gender equality in European film show After the amazing YouTube success of Las Palmas, Copenhagen a year or two ago. three national borders meet. Oslo-born Gunhild Enger and that Sweden leads the way. But there’s still a lot of work to director Johannes Nyholm returns with his first 52 New shorts The upshot is the black Produced by Marie Kjellson at Helsinki-born Jenni Toivoniemi …and the shorts too. be done, explains Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film feature-length film – a “mix between kitchen sink realism comedy The Committee (Kommit- the newly started Göteborg have both scooped awards at Institute. and fantasy”. tén, 2016), a short film about a production company Kjellson & leading festivals for their earlier work of art that is to be installed Wik, the film is a Swedish-Norwe- short films. MARCUS KURN

at the spot in Lapland where gian-Finnish co-production. Jon Asp Felix Herngren

6 7 Kristina Börjeson, News Head of Film Funding. News

Return to Bosnia Goran Kapetanovic’s My Aunt in Sarajevo (Min faster i Sarajevo, 2016) was the first film to sell out all of its screenings at the Make it work Göteborg Film Festival early this In 2017 the Swedish Film Agreement, which has funded year. This autumn the film has been selected for the Hamburg the Swedish film industry since 1963, is due to be Festival. FRANKIE FOUGANTHIN FRANKIE replaced by a new national film policy. Kristina Börjeson The film explores a difficult and Kristina Colliander are two of the key figures who father-daughter relationship “Who does will determine how that new policy will work in practice. which is developed in classic road movie fashion during a journey “This is a historic moment, and worked for many years at from Sweden to the father’s home the king think naturally it’s an exciting challenge pubcaster Sveriges Television city of Sarajevo, which he hasn’t IGOR RIPAK IGOR to be part of the team that (SVT), most recently as the head visited since fleeing from the war he is?” transforms film policy and carves of children’s programming. there. sion of their origins they want to Institute’s Moving Sweden Himself from Sarajevo, the convey to their children,” says scheme, Daniel Di Grado’s horror Director and Un Certain out the role that the Swedish Film “It’s very exhilarating to play a Regard jury member Ruben director also has a daughter who Kapetanovic. drama Alena). Institute will have,” says Kristina part in making film industry Östlund on the fact that he has begun to probe into his Despite its unusual format Goran Kapetanovic’s next Börjeson, who has left her post as history and to join the organisa- was refused to shoot scenes background. – one hour long – the film is set feature film project is a black head of Distribution and Screen- tion at a time when such major from his upcoming feature The ing to take overall control of the changes are underway. My “Many parents who came to for theatrical release this autumn comedy with the working title Square at the Royal Palace in

Film Funding Department. experience from SVT has given BÖRJESSON) (KRISTINA MATTSSON SONNY COLLIANDER), (KRISTINA COLLIANDER ANDERS Sweden are faced with the (alongside another project Terrorist. Stockholm. question of what type of impres- backed by the Swedish Film Anna Håkansson “It’s the first time that we have me a different perspective, very Kristina Colliander, Head one person who is totally much focused on audiences. And of Production Funding. dedicated to organizing the from my most recent post I bring department. I’ve been with the the courage to set truly high goals new voices that will be able to Film Institute for almost five years and the knowledge that expertise “I bring the make themselves heard,” says Where to find us: now, and I can see scope for can really have an influence in a Colliander. Find Sweden in Cannes! synergy effects in ways that democracy,” says Colliander. One of the seven aims of the The Swedish Film Institute at The Scandinavian Terrace, haven’t previously been explored. Together with the rest of their courage to set new film policy is for Swedish film We provide: directors, actors, producers, suggestions on 55 La Croisette. For example, cementing closer colleagues at the Swedish Film to achieve a broader international unique film locations, experts on Swedish tourism, networking Happy Hours: May 12th-17th, between 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm and cocktails. connections between the units Institute both of them now face truly high goals” platform. The Sweden Film Commission at Pavilion no 217, for Distribution and Production so an intensive period in the run up “Swedish film already has a Village International Pantiero. Kristina Colliander as to gear up and deliver for to the implementation of the new good outreach, both in terms of Happy Hours: May 11th-19th, between 5 pm – 7 pm audiences on the outside,” she film policy. festivals and exports. It may not continues. “It’s a massive task, but at the sions about quality, about the kind always be the case that we have a For her part Kristina Colliander same time a welcome opportunity of narratives that are relevant in film as part of the main competi- tion at the major festivals, but we has recently taken over as the to open up all the doors and build Sweden right now, and also to Hôtel de ville head of the Production Funding up a modern funding system that continuing the work on diversity are widely represented in the unit. Previously she worked for works for the industry and that has been on-going for some other various sections instead. tiero Majestic .-Pan two years as the assistant director complies with the new aims,” says considerable time now. I want to That’s something we want to work e int Palais llag of the Swedish Society for Nature Börjeson. encounter new points of view, on,” Börjeson concludes. Vi des Festivals Grand Hôtel 3.14 Conservation, but prior to that she “I’m looking forward to discus- new combinations of people and Camilla Larsson La Croisette The Sweden Film Cinéma Commission de la Plage at Pavilion no 217 Riviera Carlton in the footsteps of Ingrid Bergman Jane Magnusson is the director Ingrid Bergman, enjoyed on Ingmar Bergman. – That strange lump on his Radisson Blu behind an upcoming B-Reel considerable success at What will your attitude be to cheek. Sometimes it’s there, The Swedish Film Institute at Martinez documentary about Ingmar Cannes. It was a film not just Bergman’s own voice, which is sometimes it isn’t. The Scandinavian Terrace, 55 La Croisette Bergman. This major project is about the actor, but about the so prominent in his work, both Arts journalist Jane Magnus- aimed at Cannes 2018, the year person she was. How do you expressly and more covertly? son’s previous films include that marks the 100th anniversa- envisage a split between the – We’ll just stick to the truth. Trespassing Bergman in 2013, ry of the director’s birth. artist and the man? What’s the most fascinating which screened at the Venice Last year the documentary – We’re planning a 50/50 thing about Ingmar Bergman Film Festival. about Bergman’s namesake, for you? Anna Håkansson split. We want to get a real grip SWEDEN FILM COMMISSION

8 9 News Krakow News

It’s Alive features Swedish horror YouTube sensations Lights Out Five projects have now been (2013) and Kung Fury (2015), selected from a total of 150 directed by David F. Sandberg applications. The aim has been and David Sandberg respective- to find a scary, modern and ly, gave us a taster of a new diversity-conscious potpourri of KIM W ANDERSSON W KIM genre wave in Swedish film. This short format horror. We hear creative spirit has also recently mysterious water pipes in Drip @janabringlove (Jana Bringlöv been given a chance to blossom Drop (directed by Jonna Ekspong). Technology also with the ambitious horror Nilsson), witness sleep comes to the fore in Oh Deer HOKKLO JONATHAN initiative It’s Alive, a collaboration paralysis becoming a reality (Peter Pontikis), in which we between the Swedish Film in Paralys (Björn Fävremark experience terror though the Thyberg keeps Institute and the regional film and John Boisen), and suffer eyes of a deer wounded by exploring the funds Film i Skåne, Film Väst, from intrusive technology in hunters in 360-degree Filmregion Stockholm-Mälar- Trespassers (Inkräktare) by stereoscopic 3D. porn industry dalen and Filmpool Nord. Johannes Persson and Sebastian Lindvall With her much-acclaimed short filmPleasure (2013), which scooped the Canal+ Award at Cannes, Ninja Thyberg created a non-judg- mental story of a young girl looking to find her fortune in the porn industry. Right now she’s working on a feature film on the same

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ALMA FILM, APPARAT FILMPRODUKTION, MEI VISIONS, PLATTFORM PRODUKTION, STORY, LODE KUYLENSTIERNA KUYLENSTIERNA LODE STORY, PRODUKTION, PLATTFORM VISIONS, MEI FILMPRODUKTION, APPARAT FILM, ALMA LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE theme. “It’s about a young Swedish girl who wants to be a porn star in Los Angeles,” explains Ninja Thyberg on the phone from Oslo, where she’s just Swedish legacy in Poland presented a draft screenplay for the Nordic Film Lab Swedish documentaries and short films are continuously are Ten Meter Tower (Hopptornet, “Now there’s less traditional networking forum. in the limelight, requested and awarded all over the world. 2016), Moms on Fire (2016) and observation, more directors’ Thyberg describes the film Dear Director (2015). involvement in the story, they try as a drama comedy: Now it’s time for the Krakow Film Festival to host an “Over the last few years to be very close to the characters “It’s a story about the female extensive Swedish programme. Swedish films have won several and the situations they talk body as a subject in the major Krakow awards in the about. Very often they mix position of an object,” she says. Focus on Sweden will screen 25 set to kick off the Swedish competitions for documentaries different genres, like fiction and ASPLUNDEMELIE “The film is a both raw and recent documentaries and short programme. Other titles are The and for shorts,” says Barbara animation, to show emotions or humorous view of what the films, presented together with the Girl Who Saved My Life (2016), Orlicz-Szczypuła. “I’m thinking of something that can’t be said Kiki director highlighted at Sydney Film Festival job demands, both physically Swedish Film Institute. There will Martha & Niki (2015) and films like Regretters (Ångrarna, simply. And the topics of films and psychologically.” also be an opportunity to watch MonaLisa Story (2015). Homo 2010) by Marcus Lindeen, very often concern global New York-based Swedish woman filmmaker. I think that the alised ironworks town of Roberts- Prior to filming Ninja 13 student films from leading Sacer (2015) and Reflections Women with Cows (Kokvinnorna, problems. Also the international director Sara Jordenö has been discrimination that women fors, Sara Jordenö has recently Thyberg has been conducting Swedish film schools: the (Speglingar, 2015) will be 2011) by Peter Gerdehag and network for the documentary selected as one of 10 Women filmmakers especially have been started working on her next film, research in Los Angeles. Stockholm Academy of Dramatic screened as part of the competi- Tora Mkandawire Mårtens’ industry has developed a lot Filmmakers to Watch at the subjected to is being challenged which centres on a lone male “I’ll be working with actors Arts and the Valand Academy, tion, and Fonko (2016), co-direct- Colombianos (2012).” – now there are numerous Sydney Film Festival. Her debut right now.” refugee in the west of Sweden. from the porn industry. The University of Gothenburg. ed by Göran Hugo Olsson, will be She highlights Poland’s close training programmes and pitches filmKiki (2016), a documentary In addition to a film project about “I’ll be making use of the film will contain a number of “Swedish cinema is one of the competing in the section for connection with Sweden, with which allow filmmakers to about the voguing scene in New the place where she grew up in experiences I gained working with explicit scenes and I need most dynamic in Europe, musical documentaries. renowned directors like Magnus develop their projects in the best York, has been acclaimed earlier northern Sweden, the de-industri- young people in the Kiki scene, actors who are comfortable achieving many international The short films competition von Horn (The Here After, way possible under the guidance this year both at Sundance and and borrowing methods with a with that. I also believe in successes, open to co-produc- includes Jonas Odell’s I Was a Efterskalv, 2015) and Jerzy of big names.” the Berlinale, where it scooped a critical eye from Jean Rouch’s including in the project the tion, offering diverse and rich Winner (Jag var en vinnare, 2016) Śladkowski (Don Juan, 2015) Sweden is the first Nordic Teddy award. 1958 film, I, a Negro, about people that the film claims to films,” says Barbara Orlicz- and Mia Blomgren and Klara working in both countries. country to be the special guest of “I’m very proud of the nomina- immigrants in West Africa. My aim represent as far as possible.” Szczypuła, programme director at Swantesson’s Nisse’s Adventures Orlicz-Szczypuła observes that the Krakow Film Festival, which is tion. With all the good work from is that the actual guys will be The premiere for Thyberg’s Krakow Film Festival. on Land and at Sea (Nisses the storytelling in documentary taking place May 29–June 5 this the Swedish Film Institute and allowed to comment on the image so far untitled feature debut is Anna Serner it means something of themselves in Swedish society.” planned for 2018. On May 30th Erik Gandini’s The äventyr till land och sjöss, 2016). film has changed considerably in year. Kiki Swedish Theory of Love (2015) is Other recent titles set to screen recent years. Jon Asp new to be acknowledged as a GÁMEZ NAITI Jon Asp Bo Madestrand

10 11 New talent

Julia Ragnarsson. She grew up in the theatre but it’s in film and television that this 24-year-old rising star from Malmö has really found her feet.

My Aunt in Sarajevo (Min faster i parents were working for the Sarajevo, 2016) centres on Malmö City Theatre, her mother Malmö resident Zlatan – no, not as a set designer and her father that Zlatan – and his daughter as an actor. Her first parts were Anja who travel together to the as an extra. city where he was born. The idea “When I was little I wanted to for the trip is Anja’s. Since Zlatan do the same thing as my dad. The fled from the war in former fact that adults were allowed to Yugoslavia in the early 1990’s, his play was so cool. Dad didn’t sit in only contact with his home an office in front of a screen, he country has consisted of sending wore makeup and wigs!” money on a regular basis to his At the age of eleven she elderly aunt. Only under duress landed her first film role, in Ella does he agree to return. Lemhagen’s Immediate Boarding “Right back in nursery and (Tur och retur, 2003), and after school I grew up with friends she left high school she got so who’d come from the war, or many parts that she was soon a whose parents had fled it. It was film and television specialist. But always there, but it wasn’t she hasn’t given up on theatre. something we spoke too much “Theatre and film are two about. The children hadn’t taken completely different things. Take in everything that had happened, something like the fact that you and the parents couldn’t really have to speak loudly to make bear to talk about it – just like in yourself heard on stage, whereas the film,” says Julia Ragnarsson. in film you have to pretend there’s My Aunt in Sarajevo was filmed nobody there. But I’d really like to in the south of Sweden and in do some work in theatre in the Sarajevo in 2014. Right now, future. I think it would be good for having played a number of minor me as an actor too, to take care of English-speaking roles and on my body and voice, my instru- the advice of her American agent, ments. Even if I’d have to tone Ragnarsson is working extra hard things down somewhat when I to try to land a larger part in an got back to film.” international production. Text Jenny Damberg “I’ve done lots of screen tests. Photo Johan Bergmark My neighbours must think I’m slightly odd, because I go around Name: Julia Ragnarsson at home practising various Age: 24 American dialects. Only yesterday Background: Has played parts in Immediate Boarding (Tur och retur, 2003), Stockholm I had to practise speaking Stories (2014) and Back to Bromma (Tillba- American English as if my first ka till Bromma, 2014). In 2016 she played the lead in SVT’s crime drama Spring Tide language was French. It’s quite (Springfloden). In 2014 Julia Ragnarsson was tricky: it can easily end up given the accolade Rising Star at the Stock- sounding like German.” holm Film Festival. Making waves: She can be seen in Goran Julia Ragnarsson became an Kapetanovic’s filmMy Aunt in Sarajevo (Min actor at a very early age. Her faster i Sarajevo, 2016).

12 13 PRODUCER ON THE MOVE Master

Drifters matchmaker HALLSTRÖM NADJA

A Serious Game ERIK MOLBERGERIK HANSEN Frida Bargo Lives in: Stockholm Background: Began her career in advertising, which she quit to start her own film company. Has worked as a line producer, now a producer at B-Reel Films. Filmography: Her first production was the short filmNews in the Archipelago (Nyheter i skärgården, 2006) with her director brother Johan Jonason. She has produced Lisa Langseth’s Hotell (2013), Per- nilla August’s A Serious Game (Den allvarsamma leken, 2016), both films produced together with Patrik Andersson, and Peter Grön- lund’s Drifters (Tjuvheder, 2015), produced with Mattias Nohrborg. Currently: Working on Lisa Lang- seth’s Euphoria (Euforia), selected With films likeDrifters , A Serious Game and the upcoming Text Camilla Larsson Euphoria to her credit, B-Reel Films’ Frida Bargo is the for European Film Promotion’s Photo Johan Bergmark Producer on the Move in Cannes. obvious choice as Sweden’s Producer on the Move. Production info p. 41 and 43

hen I ask this year’s got tired of looking at herself in competencies and getting them to are “films that you can’t help on to scoop five Guldbagge “Working in film is make things that are really funny each other on a trip close to the Swedish Producer on the mirror and decided on a unite around a shared vision, a talking about, that you really feel, awards back home in Sweden. and moving at the same time”), hardest questions in life. It will be Wthe Move about her career in advertising. After ten simmering blend of creativity, films that leave a burning impres- This was followed by Pernilla incredibly tough, so it’s both projects directed by Jens very cinematic, full of both suf- dream project she falls silent. years as a copywriter, she gave strength, energy, aspiration, sion.” They’re also the kind of August’s film version of Hjalmar therapeutic to have a Sjögren and written by Klara fering and joy and we will shoot Then comes the answer: up her job on an impulse. Riding drive and commitment. Pressed films that she brings to the screen Söderberg’s 1912 novel about Zimmergren and Sara Kadefors in the extremely beautiful Bavaria “It might sound boring, but if I on the feeling that what she most further, she names some of her with creative people who chal- love, A Serious Game (Den all- laugh now and again” respectively. region in Germany.” get to realise the projects I cur- enjoyed in the work was shooting other qualities: she never gives lenge her intellect, thoughts and varsamma leken, 2016), which Frida Bargo But prior to that it’s Lisa The film is an international co- rently have in the pipeline then commercials, she switched to up, she’s intuitive, fearless, ener- reflections. premiered at the Berlinale this Langseth’s new filmEuphoria production, and the actors, who I’ll be in a great position over the film and started her own compa- getic and has a good sense of Since 2011 she has been work- February and is set for release in (Euforia) that she’s focussing on. have yet to be revealed, are all coming years. I’m working with ny in 2004. humour. ing at B-Reel Films. It’s a compa- Sweden in September. Bargo and her colleague Patrik well known. some amazingly interesting “It was the best thing I ever did. “Working in film is incredibly ny with high ambitions both to “Drifters was such a special Andersson – the two of them also “I first met Lisa when she auteurs, directors and screenwrit- As soon as I found my feet I knew tough, so it’s therapeutic to have a reach out into the world and to project, a debut about a group of as a director was really some- produced Langseth’s Hotell pitched Hotell at us, and we really ers. But OK… I’d like there to be that this was what I wanted.” laugh now and again. But I truly achieve their maximum artistic individuals of the type rarely seen thing.” (2013) starring the Oscar-winning hit it off. She has one of the most more money in Swedish film. Bargo confirms that she has love being part of the whole pro- and audience potential. in cinema, and with amateur Looking ahead there will be a – are currently amazing minds I’ve ever encoun- And a film in the main competi- always been a natural project cess from A to Z. It’s the varia- Recently she produced Peter actors in many of the roles. Then new film from Peter Grönlund putting the funding for the project tered and a very special sense of tion at Cannes. And an Oscar…” leader, an excellent quality for a tion, where every detail counts, Grönlund’s socio-political drama moving on from that to a film with (“He writes like a god and has just in place. Filming is set to start humour. She also has an ability to Back in her schooldays Frida good producer. She’s someone that I find so attractive.” Drifters (Tjuvheder, 2015), which a big budget and famous names, finished his first draft”). Plus two early this autumn. choose subjects that really chal- Bargo wanted to be a dancer. She who gets energy from building The projects that really set Fri- won a special mention at the San and watching one of the world’s comedies – one a feature film and “It’s a profound story about lenge me. With Euphoria we’re attended ballet classes, but soon teams of people with various key da Bargo’s producer heart racing Sebastian Film Festival and went best actresses (August) working one a television series (“I want to two sisters trying to reach out to aiming for Cannes 2017.” ●

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New talent

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PALMS Ahmed Abdullahi. Sweet dreams meet the harsh reality in migration drama Francis. LEGENDS

“Ten men from West Africa come prison, people were fighting, they to Sweden to plant trees, but just wanted to get away,” he says. instead of a promised monthly Right now Ahmed Abdullahi LIMELIGHT salary they’re forced to do has several irons in the fire. His piecework.” primary goal is to develop certain Ahmed Abdullahi gives his thematic elements of Francis into CROISETTE elevator pitch for Francis, his a feature film, this time about a 30-minute graduation film from Nigerian chef who wants to open the Stockholm Academy of his country’s first Michelin- Dramatic Arts, which has been starred restaurant. He travels all selected for Future Frames at the way to Sweden, where he RED CARPET Karlovy Vary International Film falls victim to deceit and seeks Festival. redress, all the while missing life Based on a true story, the film with his family back home. shows how poverty and inhuman “The desire to be rich, to be fa- working conditions have an mous, the dream of making your oppressive effect on people and mark, leads you into tunnel vision WE’LL BE lead to desperation. where all you see is the goal, not “I’m something of a channel the things you’re trampling on surfer, and I came across this nor the things you have to give THERE! story as part of a documentary up. He’s like me in that respect, report on SVT”, says Abdullahi. I’ve got tunnel vision too. How far When I catch up with the am I prepared to go in order to director he has a cold, which he tell my story?” picked up in the Greek village of Text Jon Asp MEET US AT THE Idomeni, currently home to Photo Sara Mac Key thousands of refugees. He recently spent ten days there Name: Ahmed Abdullahi with the documentary filmmaker Age: 35 Background: Director and screenwriter. FESTIVAL David Aronowitsch. Degree in Film Directing from the Stock- “Conditions there are terrible. holm Academy of Dramatic Arts, 2015. We were first there eight months Making waves: Francis has been selected ago, when the borders were for Future Frames, a European Film Pro- motion initiative at the Karlovy Vary Interna- DE CANNES open. But this time it was like a tional Film Festival, July 1–9.

www.fi lmfi nances.se Francis JOHAN HANNU JOHAN

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FFS Cannes annons 13april 16.indd 1 2016-04-13 17:22 Equality in film: Sweden leads the way

New statistics on gender equality in European film reveal three main points. The world of film is dominated by

men. More women are slowly entering the industry. And Text Marit Kapla 30 women directors and one boy who change is occurring most rapidly in Sweden. Photo Johan Bergmark wants to assist. For names, see pages 2–4.

2012 was a historic year for gen- 21 per cent. Yet four out of five 2014 there were 62 per cent men Change is occurring most rap- tional features. In 2015 the per- and women in key positions. It’s der equality in film. That year not projects seeking funding are still and only 38 per cent women in the idly in Sweden. EWA, the Euro- centage of women directors fell, so revealing.” Nordic Women one single woman director was dominated by men in the five key screenplays’ three main roles. pean Women’s Audiovisual Net- but at 43 per cent, still remained What’s the biggest challenge? in Film selected for the Palme d’Or com- functions: director, screenwriter, work, compares developments in high in international terms. “Change doesn’t carry on by To challenge the assertion that petition at Cannes. It was hardly producer, cast and crew. seven European countries: Aus- The fact that change has taken itself. You need to work for it lack of equality is caused by the the artistic imbalance that was The report shows that more tria, Croatia, France, Germany, place so quickly is down to sever- every day.” fact that there aren’t any women filmmakers, the Swedish Film historic, rather that it was “busi- equality between filmmakers Italy, Sweden and the United al factors, according to the Swed- At this year’s Cannes Film Institute has created ness as usual”. But for the first leads to more women in major Kingdom. The proportion of ish Film Institute’s CEO, Anna Festival Sweden’s Minister for nordicwomeninfilm.com. time there was a major debate as roles. The films’ screenplays women directors in 2012–2013 Serner: Culture and Democracy, Alice The website is a knowledge

to why this was the case. were analysed using the so- averaged at 24.4 per cent. Swe- “My predecessors had been POHL/REGERINGSKANSLIETKRISTIAN Bah Kuhnke, together with the bank and source of inspiration about women in Swedish film, Since then the issue has moved called Bechdel test, which shows den topped the list with 36.4 per working on this for many years. Alice Bah Kuhnke, Swedish Film Institute, will host and eventually film in other Nor- higher up on the international how gender is represented in film cent. We also live in a country that pri- Sweden’s Minister for Culture an international seminar on the and Democracy dic countries. It features 700 agenda. In a new study, the Coun- plots through the number of In more recent years, develop- oritises the issue. For example, subject.

MARIE-THERESE KARLBERG MARIE-THERESE women directors, producers, cil of Europe film fund, Eurimag- female characters and what they ments in Sweden have accelerat- we have a government that pur- “There’s an enormous upsurge screenwriters, editors and cine- es, calculates the proportion of talk about. “Change doesn’t carry on ed still further. The Swedish Film sues an expressly feminist for- text of which I stated that I wasn’t of curiosity, fascination and matographers. The website is in Swedish with some content in men and women directors among The shortage of women in key by itself. You need to Institute’s declared aim is that eign policy.” afraid to impose quotas. Now it exhilaration at our results. Every- all the projects applying for positions may also be the reason half of feature length films that Which individual measures have appears that we don’t need them: one used to have a feeling of English. finance from 2012 to 2014. The why male domination is the norm work for it every day” are granted production funding been most important? a clearly stated aim was suffi- hopelessness, but now they’ve proportion of women directors is on our screens. In the films that Anna Serner, must have a woman as director. “Two things: firstly that we cient. Secondly we constantly seen that things can be changed,” increasing somewhat, from 17 to sought funding from Eurimages in CEO, Swedish Film Institute In 2014 this was achieved for fic- wrote a plan of action in the con- monitor the proportion of men says Anna Serner. ●

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Amanda Kernell explores Sweden’s colonialist Text Niklas Wahllöf past in her family drama Sámi Blood, which is Photo Frans Hällqvist set in the beautiful­ landscape of Lapland. Production info p. 49

ristina is smoking and tic decision as to turn your back your mind when people tell you staring intensely at the on your entire culture? It’s more that you smell?” Kground. If she would than just curiosity or desire; it’s Some might be tempted to only look up slightly she’d see the both an inner and outer pressure. summarise Sámi Blood as amaz- amazing mountain scenery It’s the brain of a colonised ingly beautiful to look at and rock stretching out before her. She human deciding that it shows hard on the inside. But Amanda would see the world of her child- OLSSON SOPHIA strength to break away and weak- Kernell was clear from the outset hood. But she doesn’t want to see. ness to stay. that it should neither be a cine- Reluctantly, she’s on a short “I didn’t want to make What I want to show is that matic postcard nor a simplistic return visit to attend the funeral an educational film” there are individual choices and story with loyalties that are all of her younger sister – the person Amanda Kernell individual actions, coupled with too apparent. she left 60 years ago, when as a the fact that there are still colo- “I didn’t want to make an edu- teenager and still known by her nial structures in place that affect cational film, each image is more birth name of Elle-Marja, Kristi- Blood lets us follow how Elle- both the Sami people and Swedes concerned with an emotion. In na decided to leave home and to Marja and her younger sister themselves. This is a problematic one way it’s a story about going bury away her Sami identity. Njenna are sent to Nomad area of Swedish history, but basi- away and coming home, but it’s “Can you become someone School, where Sami children cally the same thing could hap- also about seeing and being seen, else? Perhaps you can. But as an have to learn how to speak Swed- pen to someone in a refugee camp being recognized and judged – adult, can you go back to the per- ish, only Swedish, and to learn today.” and about who you have to be to son you were as a child or feel at manners. They’re also there to The inexplicable racism that be loved. home there any longer?” asks serve as guinea pigs for Sweden’s has characterised attitudes It might also be as one Sami Amanda Kernell, herself from State Institute for Racial Biology: towards the Sami people isn’t woman in the test audience put it: Sami roots and the director of skulls are measured, teeth are easy to expunge. The false doc- ‘two different films, one that only Sámi Blood (Sameblod). checked, naked bodies are trines of the Institute for Racial the Sami will understand and one “Lots of women in my extend- squeezed and photographed. It’s Biology permeated teaching and for everyone else.’ I think that’s ed family have made enormous during the course of this humilia- the attitude of the general public, good. It doesn’t bother me if some journeys in terms of class, cul- tion that Elle-Marja starts to and still do so to a certain extent. people don’t exactly understand ture, language and identity. cement her resolve. She’s an “Colonisation has affected all all the details. That’s the way They’ve gone into higher educa- inquisitive, tough teenager who Sami people,” says Amanda Ker- films are,” Amanda Kernell con- tion, despite the fact that the wants to see beyond the next nell. “If you’ve had people telling cludes. ● Swedish system wasn’t designed mountaintop. She wants to be you, in blatant or more subtle for Sami people to do that. Yet Swedish. At a dance she meets ways, that you belong to an infe- they’re still not heroes in any- Niklas, and after a while she sets rior race, you end up believing it one’s eyes, despite what is actu- off for his hometown of Uppsala, yourself. A sense of inferiority in Amanda Kernell ally an amazingly heroic achieve- more than a whole day’s journey this case isn’t something individ- Background: Born in Umeå in ment.” south. She burns her kolt (native ual: it affects everyone. What 1986, director Amanda Kernell As in many other places, the Sami dress). And she becomes effect does it have when you’re made her debut with short Our Disco (Våra discon) in 2007. In story of the indigenous people Kristina. not allowed to speak your own 2015, she directed Northern and those who colonised them is “In a way it’s universal for language, the language you’ve Great Mountain (Stoerre Vaerie), an open sore in Sweden. Set for teenagers to want to break free, grown up with, the only language a Sundance premiered short on the most part in the 1930’s, Sámi but what lies behind such a dras- you know? What goes through the same theme as Sámi Blood.

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SMALL TOWN CURTAINS Film Väst congratulates its co-productions in Cannes!

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI By Juho Kuosmanen Un Certain Regard

WOLF AND SHEEP By Shahrbanoo Sadat Quinzaine des Réalisateurs LINUS FORSBERG

er, when life changes or simply “Yes, what has life become, ments that a dying relative Family guy stands still… And everyone plays and what could it have become?” recently recorded for the family, themselves. Löfstedt reflects. “What choices we encounter a good deal of fam- Johan Löfstedt turns the “Why I’ve chosen to point the have you made, and are you satis- ily history. camera on his own relatives camera at my own family this fied with them? But you might “I asked the family for all the in Small Town Curtains. time round is because I want to still change things. Or should moving images they had, around truly reach out to people, and a you? What’s interesting when a 30 hours’ worth as it turned out, very effective way to do that is to book club in the film reads which I’ve been able to use as not make things up entirely, but Moberg’s novel – which is about a cement in the story,” says Löf- rather to take reality as far as you man looking back on his life – is stedt. “And strange things can FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH can and then put a slight twist on that the reactions are so different. happen. Archive materials that By Simon Vahlne things,” Johan Löfstedt explains. Some people regard the story as are 25 years old can find their Cannes Courts Métrages Text Niklas Wahllöf Löfstedt has previously made a dark, others as uplifting. I hope equivalent in scenes that happen Production info p. 50 name for himself through explor- something similar will apply to today.” ing the margins between fiction this film too, that it will make Why is there so much black and and documentary, as in his mocku- people reflect on their own lives.” white? n Swedish author Vilhelm mentary Conspiracy ’58 (Konspi- Looking back is a central “My brother, Nils Petter, is a Moberg’s 1962 novel A Time ration 58, 2002) and his silent film theme of Small Town Curtains: cinematographer who specialises Ion Earth (Din stund på jorden) documentary The Comet (Komet- via old Super 8 and VHS footage, in stills. We like black and white, there’s a well-known refrain: en, 2004). This time the focus is on and not least some digital frag- quite simply: we think it’s beauti- “Make the most of your life! Take his own family, first and foremost ful, and that it’s not used in the good care of it! Don’t waste it! his 55-year-old uncle Björn, who right way nearly enough in mov- GIRLS LOST Because now is your time on still suffers from severe anxiety ing images… By Alexandra-Therese Keining earth!” when he has to speak in public, Black and white makes a real The book occupies a special even at the funeral of someone environment slightly more fic- Cannes Écran Juniors place in Johan Löfstedt’s hypnotic close to him. But there’s genuine tional. It’s the opposite of hand- hybrid Small Town Curtains love between all the siblings. And held cameras and colour. But we Your Scandinavian Partner in Co-Productions (Småstad). We get to follow a confident security. They all com- don’t want people to ponder over close-knit family (Löfstedt’s own) municate, stay in touch, help each one or the other. It’s often at the Film Väst is one of Europe’s leading regional film funds, in a small Swedish town, we sit in other out. But they all have their transition point between colour located on the Swedish west coast in Västra Götaland. on decisions taken or avoided, own lives to live and their own and black and white that some- Film Väst is active as Co-Producer and Investor we’re there when they talk togeth- decisions to deal with. Johan Löfstedt thing happens in the body.” ● in International and Swedish film and TV-drama. www.filmvast.se 24 25

Cannes 2016 Swedish Film.indd 1 2016-04-22 09:48:54 FIGHT ON A SWEDISH BEACH New talent SIMON VAHLNE SIMON

ewcomer Simon Vahlne with mom wanting to send dad up has been around. After there. I definitely didn’t want to Sand Ndeciding to get deeper see him in a fight.” into the world of cinema some ten Vahlne never had to witness a and blood years ago, he has studied and fight back then, but he decided to worked in Los Angeles, Prague create one for his film. A childhood experience and eventually Göteborg where he “I wanted to see what would inspired Simon Vahlne to graduated with a masters in direct- have happened if some adults direct his short Fight on a ing from the Valand Academy of actually confronted the teenagers.

was raised in the theatre by actor us to develop our own voices at PIANO DON Katja Wik. It’s high time for the multi-talented Swedish Beach, which will Film. He makes his living from That led me to YouTube, where I parents and has already built up a Plattform,” says Wik. “I’ve been directing commercials and, looked at and analysed clips of director to step into the limelight. highly impressive CV. Her career premiere in official competi- working for a long time to develop increasingly, through making his “The fight is shot by fights from real life, the kind peo- began ten years ago at Ruben my own pictorial language based on tion at Cannes. own films.Fight on a Swedish ple film with their cell phones and Her first short film Nerves Östlund’s Plattform Produktion. the directors who’ve inspired me the actors themselves, Beach (Slagsmål på svensk strand) put up there. We ended up using (Offerrollsretorik, 2012) won the Since then her many professional most, people like Gaspar Noé, CANNES is his third and the first one to be with their own cell this aesthetic in the film – the fight audience award at Göteborg Film responsibilities have included Helma Sanders-Brahms and Ulrich produced by Plattform Produktion, is shot by the actors themselves, Festival. Now Katja Wik is putting casting director for Involuntary Seidl.” phones” the production company behind with their own cell phones.” the finishing touches to her (De ofrivilliga, 2008) and Play Text Jon Asp Simon Vahlne Ruben Östlund’s Play (2011) and The film has been picked for feature debut, a work that (2011, “the hardest thing I’ve ever Photo Emelie Asplund

MARTIN TOP JACOBSEN TOP MARTIN Force Majeure (Turist, 2014). It’s the official short film competition explores themes similar to the done”), and also ’s Name: Katja Wik based on an experience the director increasingly drunk and loud. at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. earlier short and which she the servile girlfriend, the frustrat- Golden Lion-winning A Pigeon Age: 28 had as a young boy. They also started to shout some- “Having our premiere at presented as a work-in-progress ed mother of small children, the Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Background: Director, screenwriter and cast- ing director with an MA in Film from the Val- “I was six or seven and my thing that I couldn’t understand. Cannes feels fantastic. I can’t wait at the Nordic Film Market in dumped ex-wife. Existence (En duva satt på en gren and Academy of the University of Göteborg. mom and dad, my little sister and My parents reacted, though. It to show the world what a fight on Göteborg earlier this year. “The aim is to show that they’ve och funderade på tillvaron, 2014). A long-time associate at Plattform Produktion, turned out that they said ‘Sieg ● The Ex-Wife (Exfrun) combines taken on an extremely thankless After their years at Plattform, she now works together with Marie Kjellson I were on the beach in my home- a Swedish beach looks like!” at their newly launched production company a fine balance of humour and role right from the outset. I want Katja Wik and Marie Kjellson, the town Varberg, a classic summer Heil!’ and my mom wanted dad to Kjellson & Wik. resort on the Swedish west coast. go up there and make them stop. Name: Simon Vahlne solemnity in scenes from new to explore the limitations that producer of Force Majeure (Turist, Making waves: In addition to her roles as Lives in: Stockholm and earlier relationships. Three women impose on themselves, 2014), decided to start their own screenwriter, director and editor, Wik has also There were people everywhere, ‘But that’s exactly what they Age: 32 been responsible for casting actors includ- in the water, on the beach and at want. Let’s just ignore them’, he Background: Made his directorial debut with women are in different positions wittingly or unwittingly,” says Wik. company, Kjellson & Wik. ing Nina Zanjani, and Robin Text Jan Lumholdt different tables on the grass above replied. The sight of my parents in short 4 AM Is the New Midnight (2009). in the relationship conundrum: Now 28 years old, Katja Wik “We didn’t feel there was room for Keller for her feature film debut,The Ex-Wife. Worked as first assistant director on Axel Pe- Production info p. 52 the sand. At one of these tables a this irresolute and hesitant state tersen’s Avalon (2011). Released short A Pic- group of teenagers were getting scared me. I was also a bit angry ture in the Head (En bild i huvudet) in 2013.

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Join us next year to celebrate our 40th anniversary. FILM EVIDENCIA AND FILM MEMENTO ogether with the director ney of a 16-year-old girl, Andrea, Ulla Lemberg, producer from her poverty-stricken village Other films in Children TDavid Herdies got the idea to a casting session for a porn Break the Silence for the project when they were film. at risk working on While No One is “I found out there is a huge Watching (När ingen ser, 2013), a deal with underage girls doing Change Attitude has documentary about the child sex pornography and wanted to tar- enabled four directors to trade. Herdies immediately rec- get the audiences of those videos each make a film as part of Welcome to ognised the artistic challenge: by showing the life of one of the fight against child sex how do you make a film about them, trying to understand abuse. The project Break something that nobody wants to what’s behind her and why she the Silence is set to launch watch? They decided to explore does it,” says director Simón Frida Kempff’s Dear Kid centres in a high-profile way when this taboo yet highly relevant sub- Mesa Soto, whose Leidi won the on a swimming pool where a mother begins to question the Sweden. the short filmMadre , a ject by enabling four unique voic- Golden Palm for best short at Swedish-Colombian relationship of a swimming teach- es to provide their interpretations. Cannes 2014. er towards one of the children. coproduction directed by So how did you select the The film highlights the com- But what proof does she have? Simón Mesa Soto, screens directors?­ mercial aspects of child sex in competition at the 2016 “To limit our choice we decid- abuse. Cannes Film Festival. ed to look among directors who “If something’s profitable the had won a section at Cannes over demand will grow, and where CANNES the last ten years. And to get as there’s poverty and ambition, many angles and starting points girls will be more exploited and on the subject as possible, we opt- abused,” says Mesa Soto. ed for directors from quite differ- David Herdies is hoping for In Miles of Sand, a film with an ent parts of the world,” David positive festival experiences for almost fairytale feel written and Herdies explains. all the films, after which they can directed by Sonejuhi Sinha, a lone The choice of directors eventu- reach out to people all over the mother attempts to repay her debts. ally came down to Simón Mesa world via cinema screenings and Soto from Colombia, Iranian television broadcasts. Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, Frida “The next step will come when Kempff from Sweden and Sone- our partner, Change Attitude, juhi Sinha, an Indian who lives in starts promoting screenings tar- the US. Rather than specific sto- geted at selected groups such as ries, Herdies and Lemberg were children’s rights organisations, looking for the right storytellers. teachers and other people who Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s What The story told by Mesa Soto is work with children in various Remains is set in Chicago where Text Sebastian Lindvall certainly a disturbing one. Set in ways. The aim is to spark a Iranian Leila is reunited with her Nordic Film Market, Feb 2 –5 Production info p. 53 the Colombian city of Medellin, debate and to provide new angles uncle whom she hasn’t met since TV Drama Vision, Feb 1–2 Madre follows the ill-fated jour- on an issue that affects us all.” ● she was a teenager.

29 THE GIANT Puppet master

He is one of Sweden’s most celebrated and most Text Marit Kapla spectacular short film directors. Now Johannes Nyholm Photo Emelie Asplund is up for his feature film debut,The Giant. Production info p. 45

t the start of The Giant day reality for the film’s main “If you’ve never seen an image tion of people who are very dif- (Jätten), the camera character, Rikard. Passionately like this before you’d probably ferent from each other. It’s a fas- Aglides over a magnificent interested in playing boules think it’s powerful. But the prob- cinating and dynamic milieu in mountain landscape of postcard- (a.k.a. pétanque), he is disabled lem with kitsch is that it has been which anything can happen.” like beauty. The evening sky and lives in a care home, although reproduced so many times that it In the portrayal of people’s glows with rosy clouds and mist he has no defined diagnosis. becomes banal. I want to create diminishing goodwill towards gently rolls in the valleys. But The friction between Rikard images that are powerful yet can Rikard, or at worst their open wait: what’s this? There on the and those around him is shown in be taken seriously at the same contempt, there is a strong case ground are two huge silver- dramatic relief when he gets hit time. That’s the challenge.” for inferring social criticism. coloured boules close to a red on the head by a metal boule. Out Christian Andrén, who plays Does Johannes Nyholm regard wooden ball. of natural concern, the Boules the lead in the film, is present in himself as a political filmmaker? There’s only one thing that Society committee rules that it is virtually every scene wearing a “Everything’s political. But isn’t surprising about this unusu- too risky for Rikard to take part mask of a grossly deformed face The Giant is basically more of a al combination of the mountains in the Nordic Championships. over his own. It took three and a film about an individual trying to and boules. And that’s the fact With few allies, Rikard strug- half hours every day to apply and survive in his environment. I that Johannes Nyholm is the man gles to take control over his life, made heavy demands on Chris- want to present a reality in which behind it. just as he might in a fantasy story. tian as an actor. people recognise themselves, and Throughout his entire career One of Nyholm’s acknowledged “I’ve worn a mask before when also to provide hope that there’s as an artist, animator and film sources of inspiration is Astrid we made Puppetboy (Dockpojken, something beyond it all. No mat- and music video director, Lindgren’s timeless novel The 2008),” says Nyholm, “so I know ter how terrible things are there’s Nyholm has been surprising his Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna how it is when the people around always a chink of light from audiences with his original imag- Lejonhjärta, 1973), in which the you see something different when another world.” ● es and stories, from a claymation fantasy land of Nangijala becomes they look at you. You have to be about a small boy who’s nervous a place of escape for an ill-fated secure enough in yourself to han- ahead of a date to his filmLas boy who’s confined to bed. dle being invisible. When Chris- Palmas (2011), in which a one- In The Giant, the mountain tian got out of the mask he just Johannes year-old girl plays a dissipated landscape represents Rikard’s couldn’t stop talking. He made a Nyholm tourist breaking social taboos. inner world, one in which he’s a thank you speech at the wrap par- Lives in: Göteborg The trailer for Las Palmas has giant with the power to put every- ty that’s gone down in history,” Background: Filmmaker, artist notched up more than 19 million thing right. The mountains are the director quips. and music video director, whose hits on YouTube, and Nyholm’s presented in a glowing palette of Nyholm chose the rather short films have been shown at galleries and festivals alike, short films have been screened at colours bordering on the kitsch. unusual settings for the film several of them in Directors’ art museums and film festivals Johannes Nyholm jumps up based on places he knew, and Fortnight at Cannes Film Festi- the world over, including Cannes. from the chair in the kitchen of some scenes were also shot in val, including The Tale of Little The Giant is his first feature- the premises in Göteborg that he real boules clubs and care homes Puppetboy (Sagan om den lille length film. shares with various other film- in and around Göteborg. Dockpojken, 2008), Dreams “I want to mix kitchen sink makers and goes to fetch a mass- “It’s easiest to tell stories about from the Woods (Drömmar från skogen, 2009) and Las Palmas realism with fantasy in order to produced poster. It shows a man people you’re familiar with. (2011), the latter which gained create two worlds that collide,” and woman embracing in dark Myself, I’ve played a lot of boules him world reputation through a he explains. silhouette against a colourful and I’ve also worked in care YouTube trailer. The Giant is his The boules are part of every- sunset. homes, where you’ll find a collec- first feature film.

30 31 STRAWBERRY DAYS New talent

Ita Zbroniec-Zajt. Polish ace lenser is making waves in Swedish film.

At the Polish National Film School in Łódź, one of the most highly regarded institutions of its kind in Europe, students gather from all over the world, not least from Sweden. Polish cinematographer Ita Zbroniec- Zajt discovered a fellow cinephile in Jenifer Malmqvist, whose graduation filmBirthday (Födelsedag, 2009) led her to Sweden and collaborations with John Skoog, Ronnie Sandahl, Goran Kapetanovic and others. Two other titles stand out in Zbroniec-Zajt’s CV, Hanna Sköld’s Granny’s Dancing on the Table (2015), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and The Yard (Yarden, 2016) by Måns Månsson, himself an award-winning cinema-

NADIM CARLSEN NADIM tographer, which was recently acclaimed at the Berlinale. “I guess Måns is just aware of ne summer when I mentary The Sarnos – A Life in says Ericsson. what a cinematographer might need was 16 years old I Dirty Movies (2013), in which he The film was shot at Lister- from a director to work better and be Wild “Opicked strawber- portrays the American filmmak- landet in the south of Sweden, happier. He gave me a lot of freedom ries, and that was my first ing couple who virtually invent- where the director himself spent in the process and strong and encounter with the world of ed Swedish Sin in the 1960’s and his summers at his parents’ coun- inspiring guidance on how he strawberries­ guest workers. Maybe it was 70’s, also has a warm and humor- try house. wanted the film to look.” Wiktor Ericsson’s feature there that a first tiny seed for the ous undertone. “What’s exciting about Lister- Zbroniec-Zajt’s work on the dark film debutStrawberry Days film was sown. But it wasn’t Strawberry Days (Jord- landet is the fact that it’s a little hybrid drama Granny’s Dancing on is an intense drama about until many, many years later that gubbslandet) is rather more seri- wild, almost mystical. There’s the Table proved somewhat more young love and the encoun- I started writing a story,” Wiktor ous. It centres Wojtek, a teenager something of the American south complicated. Changes to the ter between Swedish Ericsson explains. and his parents who come to about the area that appeals to me. screenplay and protracted animation farmers and Polish guest Work on the screenplay took Sweden to pick strawberries for a That’s why I chose a composer shoots led to a clash with the workers. him two years, parallel with few weeks one summer. On the who lives in Texas to write the shooting schedule of Ronnie which he carried out extensive farm where they’re working he score for the film, the amazing Sandahl’s Underdog (Svenskjävel, research: Ericsson toured around meets Annelie, the farmer’s Hanan Townshend, who has also 2014). Zbroniec-Zajt had to settle various farms speaking to farm- daughter. In the film, Ericsson written the music for Terrence for a less proactive role. Text Jenny Damberg ers and guest workers. He also uses actual guest workers from Malick’s recent films.” “I had to give up a lot of control. Production info p. 51 read every article he could find Poland, Lithuania and the Following the completion of But Hanna has a really strong drive about guest workers in the local Ukraine. Strawberry Days, Wiktor Erics- in her work and this was such an Swedish newspapers. “That was very important for son is currently working on three important film, so I could trust her to “To me it was important to me – after all, it’s their story feature films in various stages of do everything as best she could.” portray this special world realisti- we’re telling. We travelled development. He’s hoping to So what’s next on the agenda? cally. Basically, everything that around and collected people from direct one of them during the “I’m currently working on an happens in the film has been the farms together during the summer of 2017. Name: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt exciting Icelandic project and, as for Background: Krakow-born cinematographer Sweden, I’m continuing my on-going inspired by actual events.” weekends. Some of the scenes “It’s a completely different who works between Poland and Sweden. In his drama series Starke man were shot in the authentic accom- story, although now I come to She studied at The Polish National Film collaborations: John Skoog and (2010) and Halvvägs till himlen modation used by the guest think of it there are some themat- School in Łódź. Jenifer Malmqvist are both getting Making waves: In several prestigious Swedish ready to make their first features.” (2013) Wiktor Ericsson has given workers, where I let the actors ic similarities. It’s also about productions, most recently in Granny’s Danc- us a somewhat whimsical view of improvise along with real people. young love. And about the rela- ing on the Table (2015) and Berlinale cele- everyday life in a small town in So reality and fiction are often tionship between children and brated The Yard (Yarden, 2016). Text Sebastian Lindvall the south of Sweden. His docu- very close together in the film,” adults.” ● Photo Nadja Hallström

32 33 BLIND ALLEY New talent CAROLINA ROMARE (STILL) , CLAUDIA GALLI CONCHA (DIRECTOR) CONCHA GALLI CLAUDIA , (STILL) ROMARE CAROLINA

n 2009 and 2010 the inhabit- est in film, a passion which prob- Nikeisha Andersson. Self-taught ants of Malmö, Sweden’s ably helped to keep him on the music video director wants to give a realistic view Mean Ithird city, were living in fear: right side of the law as he was of the suburbs. those of them, at least, whose growing up. streets skin and hair colour was darker The cast of Blind Alley is Nikeisha Andersson was just 16 old man from the inner city. than the Scandinavian norm. largely made up of amateur when she read that the pop “In general terms the film is For his second feature film, Someone was taking shots at actors. The two brothers are artist Shakira was encouraging about the differences between director Manuel Concha has people who looked like immi- played by Daniel and Mikael her fans to organise a flash mob the suburbs and the inner city. chosen his home city of grants. Cvetkovic, brothers in real life where they would dance to her I don’t think anyone has Malmö as the starting point “The shootings are the origin who also appeared in Concha’s song Waka Waka in front of a portrayed the suburbs from a for his story. Blind Alley of the story. But above all, it’s a Manuel Concha award-winning short filmBatter camera. Nikeisha rose to the truly ‘suburb’ point of view in (Den enda vägen) centres film about strong brotherly love (2014), a forerunner for this fea- challenge and managed to get Swedish film previously. Films on two Serbian brothers and a tragedy that draws us into a ture. around 700 people to dance in have more often been about an who come under fire while thriller-like world. An exciting “This type of genuine film a film that she directed and inner city view of the suburbs. sitting in their car. One of drama that also manages to tell in one of those immigrant areas. requires new faces to create the edited herself. Since then things I’ve decided to change that.” them is hit, but for both of us something important about the With his Chilean background, right feel. I also decided to shoot have been moving fast for the In addition to her feature film them their lives are dramati- time in which we live. The film he knows how it feels not to be the film myself to get really close now 23-year-old filmmaker. project Nikeisha has just cally changed. features people and places never “fully Swedish”. to the action.” Self-taught and with a will of entered a partnership with the previously seen in Swedish film,” As he explains: “In Malmö all The films that have inspired iron, she has directed music hotel chain Scandic which will says Manuel Concha. kinds of people exist together in a him include La Haine (1995), videos and commercials via her open a cinema that will screen Although Concha and his very small area. It’s fascinating: Gomorra (2008) and Easy Money own production company NAF short films and documentaries wife, the actor and co-screen- with our different values, we’re (Snabba cash, 2010). And he and has now started making a at the Haymarket Hotel in writer Claudia Galli Concha, so close to each other yet still so commissioned Jon Ekstrand, name for herself both in Sweden Stockholm. split their time between Malmö segregated. The people who were who wrote the score for Easy and internationally. “There are lots of talented and Stockholm, it’s clear that his shot at became objects of suspi- Money, to write the music for this This summer she’s set to start directors who don’t get to show heart lies in the warmer, flatter cion themselves. Some people film. shooting her first feature film their films anywhere other than Name: Nikeisha Andersson and smaller city in the south. It’s took it for granted that an immi- “Blind Alley is a warm, inti- Para knas (Swedish slang for the Internet. This project is Lives in: Stockholm a place where you can get around grant who got shot in a fancy car mate and gripping story infused ”no money”), about two young Age: 23 about creating space and giving Background: Became a YouTube phenome- quickly, either on foot or by bicy- clearly had to be involved in with action. My intention has women from the suburbs who more platforms to documentary non when she organized a flash mob dance cle, and where immigrant areas something criminal.” been to tell it with the courage, are tired of their constant money and short film directors.” event at Sergels Torg in Stockholm. Has pro- Text Camilla Larsson are close to the city itself, some- A camera given to him by his power and tempo that will ensure duced hundreds of commercials and music Text Per Nyström worries until they are introduced videos through her own company Nikeisha Production info p. 42 times just across the street. Con- father when he was twelve an intense experience on the big to a life of luxury by a 35-year- Photo Sara Mac Key Andersson Film (NAF). cha himself was born and raised inspired Manuel Concha’s inter- screen,” says Concha. ●

34 35 BANJUL

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n a changeable world in which ing for something she can call people emigrate from the home, but when she gets back to Staying alive Icountry of their birth to live Gambia she realises her son may elsewhere, willingly or other- have been right and that Sweden Griot turned director Dani wise, it’s no longer viable to speak was their home, in spite of every- Kouyaté explores the about “identity” as something thing. Ibbe, on the other hand, Licencing Distributing Streaming nomad identity and feelings lasting or set in stone. wonders how people in Gambia of rootlessness in Banjul. Gives you the legal right to show Rental service with over 3 000 Our latest feature – digital movies In his filmBanjul (Medan vi can be so happy and generous fi lm in Non Theatrical areas movies at your disposal streaming in High Defi nition lever), director Dani Kouyaté when they don’t actually have any takes up the vexed question of HOLM JAMES money. For him, the journey turns identity via the story of a mother Film director Dani Kouyaté was born into something of a lesson.” and son from Gambia who are liv- in Burkina Faso in1961. He stud- Prior to becoming a director, ied filmmaking at L’institut Africain ing in Sweden. ­Cinématographique in Ouagadougou. Dani Kouyaté had made a name “With this film I’m telling my Prior to moving to Sweden in 2007 he for himself as a “griot” (a kind of We are masters of the Non Theatrical. lived in France for 25 years. His 1995 film own story in certain respects. I’ve Keita! l’Héritage du griot was history and story narrator) in his had a ‘nomad identity’ since I was awarded at Cannes. former native country. Since seven years old,” says Kouyaté. Burkina Faso didn’t have a writ- Born in Burkina Faso in 1961, he ten language before the French now lives in the Swedish city of arrived, all history was passed Uppsala. A similar rootlessness and on from generation to generation It was when Dani Kouyaté was seeking can also be discerned in via the griots, who often com- a child and started at a French Banjul. The film presents us with bine words and music to convey school (Burkina Faso was previ- Kandia, a lone Gambian woman their narratives. Describing ously a French colony) that he in her 50’s who lives in Sweden these griots as a kind of living began to “think and count in together with her son Ibbe. While library, Kouyaté regards the job French”. Later on he lived in Ibbe dreams of making it as a rap- of a director as an updated France for 25 years prior to his per, Kandia’s increasing frustra- ­version of this kind of storytell- move to Sweden in 2007. tion at her situation eventually ing: “We sometimes say ‘I’ll go leads her to move back to Gam- “If the griot tradition is to sur- home’, but what is home really? bia. Later on, Ibbe also travels vive, people need to use new tools Providing your movies with new and extended life. Text Per Nyström Here I am talking to you in Eng- back there in search of his mother. to reach out to new listeners. The Production info p. 41 lish, but I think in French and live “They’re both searching for camera may well be just such a Swedish Film AB, Box 6014, SE-171 06 Solna, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 445 25 50, in Sweden.” themselves. The mother is look- tool…” ● fax: +46 8 445 25 60. Contact us through www.swedish lm.se or info@swedish lm.se 37 STOCKHOLM MY LOVE Stockholm walkie With lensing from ­Christopher Doyle, versatile film buff Mark Cousins makes his feature debut in the Swedish capital. NNo less than 36ew new feature length films andfi 33 shortslm s are presented in this section. Please visit our ­website sfi.se for­updated information on Swedish ­features, ­documentaries and shorts. Text Sebastian Lindvall Production info p. 50

ritic, festival programmer and filmmaker. Irish cine- Cphile Mark Cousins, best known for his ambitious televi- sion series The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), is currently add- ing to his already impressive CV with his feature film debut Stock- holm My Love. Discussions with his friend, the producer Anita Oxburgh, led the two of them to realise that there are very few films that use Stockholm as anything more than a backdrop. So they decided to do something about it. Stockholm My Love centres on Alva Diop, a 48-year-old architect who has been involved in a road traffic accident some months ear- lier. Weighed down by guilt, she seeks to take back control of her life during her walks through her beloved city, with which she has Neneh Cherry

now developed a more complex DOYLE CHRISTOPHER relationship. Cinematographer for the film ing in Dread and Promise (2015), the fact that it’s so different from is Australian Christopher Doyle, his move into fiction might seem neo-liberal American cities. The well known for his work with somewhat surprising. Yet Cous- social housing in Stockholm, for Hong Kong director Wong Kar- ins makes no major distinction example, is better than in many wai, and who was recently behind between the two, as long as he other cities.” the camera for Cousin’s docu- manages to capture moments of Quite understandably it can be mentary I Am Belfast (2015). truth and to film what he loves: FILM MIGMA exciting for Swedes to see their Swedish singer Neneh Cherry lone wolves in urban landscapes. ­Mark Cousins and Christopher Doyle. capital city portrayed by an out- plays the lead. He recently touched on the sider, as when David Fincher “I wrote Neneh a fan letter and subject in an article in the British carrying a burden. I also love made an English-speaking ver- sent her a 30-minute taster of film magazineSight & Sound, Richard Linklater’s Before films.” sion of The Girl with the Dragon what the film should look like. I’d where he claimed that just as we A regular Stockholm tourist Tattoo in 2011. But rather than been shooting in Stockholm here think of the talkies, we should since the late 1980’s, Cousins has fictional portrayals, Cousins is and there for years,” says Cous- also consider “walkies”. also been a guest of the Stock- inspired by the time he himself ins. “I love Agnes Varda’s Cleo holm Film Festival on a number has spent in the city. From essayistic films likeA from 5 to 7 (1962) which, like of occasions. So what is it he “Especially in winter when it Story of Children and Film (2013 Stockholm My Love, is about a likes so much about Stockholm? gets dark so early. The city and the more recent Atomic: Liv- woman walking through a city, “ Its topography, its light and becomes like a film noir!”●

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39 New films

12 Dares A Man Called Ove Fuad (aka Food) just turned 16, the age where nothing matters more to him than his 59-year-old Ove is the block’s grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as friends. Growing up together in the run-down housing development of southern Ryd, president of the condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighborhood they know that the number one rule between buddies is loyalty. But when Fuad with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terraced house breaks this rule he suddenly finds himself alienated by those he holds most dear. opposite and accidentally backs into Ove’s mailbox, it turns into an unexpected Desperate and alone, he is willing to do anything to be accepted back. friendship. A drama comedy about friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. Original title 12 bragder Director/Screenwriter Izer Aliu Principal cast Gorgees Khoshaba, John Hanna, Ali Ridha Hussein, Dani Barkho, Elias Majdalany, Gustav Original title En man som heter Ove Director/Screenwriter Hannes Holm Principal Tieleman, Özlem Göghan Rudi Abraham, Johannes Dogan, Geggi Barkho, Hafdis cast Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll, Chatarina Larsson, Börje Arnasdottir Produced by Sweden AB/Lizette Jonjic Duration 100 min Lundberg, Stefan Gödicke, Johan Widerberg Produced by Tre Vänner Produktion National release 2017 Sales TBA AB/Annica Bellander Rune, Nicklas Wikström Nicastro with support from the Swedish Film Institute/automatic funding Duration 116 min National release December 25, Izer Aliu graduated from the Norwegian Film School in 2012. His exam film To Guard 2015 Sales TrustNordisk a Mountain dubbed him one of ten Nordic directors to watch in a collaboration by the four largest Scandinavian film magazines. He has been nominated for the Student Hannes Holm is one of Sweden’s most appreciated and acknowledged directors and Academy Award and has won several high-end, both national and international has directed films for nearly 20 years starting with Adam & Eva in 1997, co-directed awards. Following his graduation he set out to make his first feature Hunting Flies in with Måns Herngren. Since then Hannes Holm has delivered movies such as Behind Macedonia, and the short The Good Life – Over There set in the cityscape of Oslo. Blue Skies (Himlen är oskyldigt blå, 2010) and the box-office hit franchise about the Andersson family. TRE VÄNNER PRODUKTION AB PRODUKTION VÄNNER TRE ZENTROPA SWEDENZENTROPA

6A A Serious Game Together with the teacher of class 6A, a number of parents have called for a crisis A Serious Game is the story of a young couple, the journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and Lydia parent meeting. The only children present at the meeting are three girls who turn out to Stille, who fall madly in love. They are both drawn to the dream of pure, great and be the reason they’ve all gathered. They are accused of bullying the rest of the class. untainted love. Yet, the dream demands greater sacrifice than they could ever imagine. A passionate and fiery love story about the choices we have, the ones we don´t, the Original title 6A Director/Screenwriter Peter Modestij Principal cast Emine Özkan, choices we make and the consequences that follow. Omeya Lundqvist, Tyra Olin, Caroline Söderström, Ellen Nyman, Lo Kauppi, Malin Levanon Produced by sic film AB/Siri Hjorton Wagner, with support from the Swedish Original title Den allvarsamma leken Director Screenwriter Lone Film Institute/Andreas Fock Duration 60 min National release TBA Sales TBA ScherfigPrincipal cast Sverrir Gudnason, Karin Franz Körlof, Liv Mjönes, Michael Nyqvist, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Göran Ragnerstam, Sven Nordin, Ia Langhammar Peter Modestij is a screenwriter and director. He develops films as a writer and/or Produced by B-Reel Films/Patrik Andersson, Frida Bargo, Fredrik Heinig with support director for several production companies. In 2005, he won the award Media New from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 115 min National Talent at Cannes Film Festival. At the time being, he’s developing his new feature film release September 9, 2016 Sales TrustNordisk SUB. Pernilla August is one of Sweden’s most prominent actors who won the acting award for Bille August’s Best Intentions in Cannes in 1992. Her debut feature Beyond (Svinalängorna, 2010) won best film in the Critic’s Week of Venice International Film Festival in 2010. It also won the Nordic Council Film Prize that same year. LISABI FRIDELL LISABI ERIK MOLBERGERIK HANSEN

A Holy Mess Banjul (working title) A Holy Mess asks the question how tolerant the tolerant Swedes are. A warm comedy Kandia, an African woman in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides about the modern family and their continual struggle to ”do things right”. to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, Original title En underbar jävla jul Director Helena Bergström Screenwriters Edward however, doesn’t turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about af Sillén, Daniel Rehn, Helena Bergström Principal cast Robert Gustafsson, Maria a universal theme: identity. Lundqvist, Rakel Wärmländer, Anastasios Soulis, Anton Lundqvist, Helena Bergström, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Inga Landgré Produced by Sweetwater Production AB/ Original title Medan vi lever Director Dani Kouyaté Screenwriters Dani Kouyaté, Petra Jönsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/automatic funding Olivier Guerpillon Principal cast Josette Bushell-Mingo, Adam Kanyama, Richard Duration 108 min National release November 13, 2015 Sales SF International Sseruwagi, Marika Lindström, Sten Ljunggren, Lamine Dieng, Mårten Klingberg, Philip Lithner. Produced by DFM AB/Maria Larsson Guerpillon, Julien Siri, with Being one of Sweden’s most highly acclaimed actresses Helena Bergström made her support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 91 min National directorial debut with the hugely successful Mind the Gap (Se upp för dårarna, 2007) release Autumn, 2016 Sales TBA which was followed by So Different (Så olika, 2009). In 2012 she directed Julie, a film adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Dani Kouyaté, born in 1961, is a French scriptwriter and director and griot from Burkina Faso, living in Uppsala, Sweden, since 2007. He is the director of award winning movies such as Keïta, l’Héritage du griot (1995) and Sia, le rêve du python (2001). Banjul is Dani’s first Swedish feature film. ALEXANDER KALLAS KALLAS ALEXANDER ALEX LINDÉN ALEX

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Becoming Zlatan Doc Don Juan Doc The decisive years of Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, told through rare archival A four-sided love triangle, spiced with autism, neuroses and life crises in the Russian city footage where a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film of Nizhny Novgorod. The 22-year-old autistic young man Oleg is seeking approval and closely follows Zlatan, from his debut in Malmö FF in 1999, through his conflictual years love. He is surrounded by many who want to help him, but no-one succeeds. Suddenly with Ajax Amsterdam, up to the final breakthrough with Juventus 2005. Becoming help comes from an unexpected direction. Zlatan is a coming-of-age film, depicting the complicated journey of this young, talented and troubled player who finally becomes a superstar in the international football world. Original title Don Juan Director/Screenwriter Jerzy Sladkowski Produced by Ginestra Film AB/ Antonio Russo Merenda, Ulla Simonen, with support from the Original title Den unge Zlatan Directors/Screenwriters Fredrik Gertten and Magnus Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 92 min National release Autumn, 2016 Gertten Produced by Auto Images/Lennart Ström and WG Film/Margarete Jangård Sales CAT & Docs with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda Duration 95 min National release February 17, 2016 Sales Autlook Filmsales Jerzy Sladkowski was born in Poland in 1945. He immigrated to Sweden in 1983. Since then he has worked as a freelance director and producer making over 40 Fredrik Gertten is a Swedish award-winning director and journalist. His latest works documentaries. Recipient of numerous prizes including the European Film Award for Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2012) and Bananas!* (2009) have met an audience in over Vendetta (1996), the IDA Award for Swedish Tango (Tango, gräl och ledbesvär, 1999), 100 countries and at Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs and IDFA. Magnus Gertten has a the Golden Dove for Vodka Factory (Vodkafabriken, 2011) and the IDFA Award for Best background as a TV and radio journalist. He has since 1998 directed a number of Feature-Length Documentary for Don Juan in 2015. documentaries, amongst them Long Distance Love (2008) and Every Face Has a Name (2015). He also co-produced Danish documentary Armadillo, which won the Grand Prix in Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2010. STEFAN BERG STEFAN AB FILM GINESTRA

Blind Alley Drifters Malmö, Sweden 2010. A serial killer is shooting innocent people of foreign appearance. When street pusher Minna can’t pay her rent she cheats a few young criminals on a drug One of the shots will change the lives of two brothers forever. Blind Alley is the story of deal and takes the money. She happens to meet Katja, mother of a child who has been fate and exclusion, love and struggle. How far are they willing to go to get a better life? taken by the social authorities. Minna goes with Katja to an illegal residence outside of town, where a group of individuals have joined together to determine their own living Original title Den enda vägen Director Manuel Concha Screenwriters Manuel conditions. Drifters is a social political drama thriller about the dealer Minna’s struggle to Concha, Claudia Galli Concha Principal cast Daniel Cvetkovic, Mikael Cvetkovic, survive in a society lacking solidarity and responsibility. Miodrag Stojanovic, Håkan Bengtsson, Peter Rentzmann Produced by Bright Moving Pictures Sweden AB/Börje Hansson Duration 90 min National release Original title Tjuvheder Director/Screenwriter Peter Grönlund Principal cast Malin September, 2016 Sales TBA Levanon, Lo Kauppi Produced by B-Reel Films/Frida Bargo, Mattias Nohrborg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 92 min Manuel Concha, born 1980 in Sweden by Chilean parents. He has studied film National release October 16, 2015 Sales The Match Factory directing at Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, now finishing his Master degree at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has directed numerous commercials, music Peter Grönlund was born in 1977 and lives in Stockholm. From 2004 to 2006 he went videos, short films and TV series. Blind Alley is his second feature. to Stockholm Film School, where he made three shorts, and since then he has been active as a social worker. He has also written and directed five other shorts. The latest one, The Clearing (Gläntan, 2011), was nominated for a Guldbagge award. Drifters won five in January 2016. CAROLINA ROMARE CAROLINA NADJA HALLSTRÖM NADJA

The Boyfriend Eternal Summer The Boyfriend is the feature-film debut of Fanni Metelius. It’s a generational tale of Isak and Em meet for the first time on a summer night in Stockholm. BAM! They leave intimacy, sexuality, and an inner revolution. We follow a young couple, Mika and everything behind to embark on a road trip through the breathtaking landscape of Tesfay, for 156 weeks — from the first time they meet until long after their relationship Northern Sweden. But what starts off as a carefree adventure soon turns into a panic has ended. The film is centering around attitudes of sex and love of young adults fueled chase. Eternal Summer is a road movie about finding that someone to be your today. universe - and what you’re willing to do for that someone.

Original title Jag vill inte bli gammal nu Director/Screenwriter Fanni Metelius Original title Odödliga Director/Screenwriter Andreas Öhman Principal cast Principal cast Fanni Metelius, Ahmed Berhan, Leona Axelsen, Daniella Mir, Suzanne Madeleine Martin, Filip Berg, Torkel Pettersson, Fanny Ketter, Lea Stojanov, Hedda Reuter, Claes Hartelius, Alexander Salzberger, Mia Ray Produced by Garagefilm Stiernstedt, Mats Qviström, Mina Azarian Produced by Naïve AB/Bonnie Skoog, International/ Mimmi Spång, Rebecka Lafrenz Duration 110 min National release Johannes Hobohm Duration 106 min National release August 21, 2015 Sales TBA Autumn/winter 2016 Sales TBA Andreas Öhman made his feature directorial debut in 2010 with Simple Simon which Fanni Metelius is a director, screenwriter and actress with a BFA in Film Directing. was shortlisted for the and a huge success. Andreas has also Fanni has directed several award-winning shorts, including Unruly which competed at directed the features Bitch Hug (2012) and Remake (2014). He runs the company Berlinale. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actress in NAIVE and is currently developing an American remake of Simple Simon with Breaking Ruben Östlund’s acclaimed Force Majeure. Bad producer Mark Johnson. GARAGEFILM ANDREAS ÖHMAN ANDREAS

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Extra Material Doc The Girl, the Mother and the Demons Tough, initiative taking men, frail and defenceless women, Beretta guns and hoarse Somewhere in an apartment a psychotic single mother isolates herself and her mafia boss voices: in Extra Material we closely study the shooting of Salvo (2013), an daughter among garbage and bottles with urine. Here the demons rule. They can walk Italian love and mafia drama that won awards in Cannes. This unusual behind-the- through walls and closed doors. At least this is what Ti’s mother claims. But Ti can scenes triggers reflections on the attitudes and conventions that are reproduced in and neither hear nor see the demons her mother is talking to. The Girl, the Mother and the throughout cinema. Demons is a story about Ti and how she eventually wins over the invisible demons that controlled her mother’s life, and thus her own. Original title Extramaterial Director/Screenwriter Maximilien Van Aertryck Produced by Plattform Produktion/Axel Danielson, with support from the Swedish Original title Flickan, Mamman och Demonerna Director Suzanne Osten Screenwrit- Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 58 min National release Spring, 2016 Sales ers Suzanne Osten, Erik Uddenberg Principal cast Esther Quigley, Maria Sundbom, TBA Maja Embrink, Ulrika Nilsson, Simon Norrthon, Andreas Kundler, Angelika Prick, Ardalan Esmaili Produced by Fundament Film Stockholm/Agneta J Bergenstråhle, Maximilien Van Aertryck (1989, Paris) is part of the acclaimed production company with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 93 min National Plattform Produktion where he closely collaborates with Axel Danielson. His short Ten release April 15, 2016 Sales TBA Meter Tower (Hopptornet, 2016), co-directed with Axel Danielson, premiered in Berlinale Shorts. Suzanne Osten is a director, filmmaker and writer. In 1975 she founded the world-leading theatre for children and young people Unga Klara, a place for artistic research within drama, focusing on the lives of children and young people. Her best known films, for which she won Guldbagge awards, are: Mamma (1982), The Mozart Brothers (Bröderna Mozart, 1986) and The Guardian Angel (Skyddsängeln, 1990) SARA P BORGSTRÖM P SARA PLATTFORM PRODUKTION PLATTFORM – which was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 1990.

Fonko Doc Girls Lost Fonko is a feature length documentary about social and political changes in the new Kim, Bella and Momo are three 14-year-old girls who discover a fantastic flower with Africa as seen through an avalanche of striking, innovative and visual music. magic qualities: by drinking its nectar they are transformed into boys and they enter a new world. At first they enjoy their newly found freedom, but soon Bella and Momo Original title Fonko Directors/Screenwriters Göran Hugo Olsson, Lamin Daniel realize that there are downsides to it. Kim however gets seriously addicted… Jadama, Lars Lovén Participants Sista Fa, Wanlov the Kubolor, Nneka, MCK and various artists Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, Göran Hugo Olsson, with support Original title Pojkarna Director/Screenwriter Alexandra-Therese Keining Principal from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 85 min National release April cast Tuva Jagell, Emrik Öhlander, Wilma Holmén, Vilgot Westerlund, Louise Nyvall, 18, 2016 Sales First Hand Films Alexander Gustavsson, Mandus Berg, Filip Vester Produced by GötaFilm Produktion/ Helena Wirenhed, Olle Wirenhed, Christer Nilson, with support from the Swedish Film Göran Hugo Olsson is a Sundance and Berlin award-winning documentary Institute/Linus Torell, Baker Karim Duration 104 min National Release February 19, filmmaker. A selection of his films: Concerning Violence (2014), The Black Power 2016 Sales The Yellow Affair Mixtape 1967–1975 (2 011), Am I Black Enough For You (2009). From 1999 to 2002 he was the Documentary Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute. Lamin Daniel Alexandra-Therese Keining, born in 1976, debuted with the feature film Hot Dog Jadama is a music journalist, DJ and musician with his roots in West Africa. He has (2003) as Sweden’s youngest female director and screenwriter. She is also an author, been a producer and radio host at SR, the Swedish public service radio. Lars Lovén her debut novel 14 will be adapted for the screen in 2016, and has worked as a casting works as a freelance journalist and a music critic at the Swedish newspaper Svenska director. Her second feature With Every Heartbeat (Kiss Me, US title, 2011) was awarded Dagbladet. at prestigious film festivals all around the world. STORY AB GÖTA FILM GÖTA

The Giant The Girl Who Saved My Life Doc Rikard, autistic and severely deformed, lives at a home for disabled and is haunted by Filmmaker Hogir Hirori goes to Iraqi Kurdistan to document the attempts of his fellow the loss of his mother, from whom he was separated at birth. In order to handle the countrymen to flee from the grip of the so-called Islamic State. During one week 1.4 hardships of his life, Rikard escapes to an imaginary world where he is a 50-meter tall million people are forced to flee from prosecution. At the border between Iraq and Syria giant. he gets the chance to accompany a helicopter transport to the Shingal mountains. On his way he finds a young girl, Souad, lying alone in pain in the 45 degree heat. He Original title Jätten Director/Screenwriter Johannes Nyholm Principal cast decides to stay with her and that decision saves his life because the helicopter crashes. Christian Eriksson, Johan Kylén, Anna Bjelkerud Produced by Garagefilm Suddenly Souad disappears and Hogir embarks on a journey to find her. International /Maria Dahlin, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 90 min National release September, 2016 Sales Indie Sales Original title Flickan som räddade mitt liv Director/Screenwriter Hogir Hirori Participants Souad, Hanifa, Tawre, Besma, Wesila, Khalid Produced by Lolav Media Writer/director Johannes Nyholm is an artist and film director with an international AB/Hogir Hirori, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda outreach. He has had three short films selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Duration 79 min National release TBA Sales TBA Film Festival, and has been awarded a number of prizes at film festivals around the world. Nyholm has also gained a remarkable number of followers on online platforms. Hogir Hirori was born in Duhok, Kurdistan. He fled to Sweden in 1999 and currently lives in Stockholm. He works as a freelance photographer, editor and director for different production companies and TV channels. The Girl Who Saved My Life is his first feature documentary. JOHANNES NYHOLM JOHANNES HIRORI HOGIR

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Granny’s Dancing on the Table I Love You – A Divorce Comedy Eini, 13 years old, grows up isolated from society with her violent father, a man afraid of Marianne, 44, has been living with lawyer Gustaf in a conventional sexless marriage for the world who keeps Eini very close. The brutality that Eini is exposed to pushes her to way too long. She wants to get separated, but Gustav settles for trial separation. As almost lose her sense of self but through her invincible fantasy, Eini is capable to create Marianne indulges in being newly single, Gustaf is perplexed by the sudden turn of a world within, from which she can draw strength to survive. events and in his confusion makes a completely irrational career change: he quits his job to start writing poetry. Meanwhile, Marianne meets the artist Rodolfo, the complete Original title Granny’s Dancing on the Table Director/Screenwriter Hanna Sköld opposite of Gustaf; intriguing, emotional, impulsive. And horny. Principal cast Blanca Engström, Lennart Jähkel Produced by Nordic Factory/ Helene Granqvist, Klara Björk, Valeria Richter, with support from the Swedish Film Original title Jag älskar dig – en skilsmässokomedi Director Johan Brisinger Institute/Baker Karim Duration 85 min National release March 8, 2016 Sales Film Screenwriters Johan Brisinger, Mikael Södersten, Martina Haag Principal cast Björn Republic Kjellman, Christine Melzer, Sven-Bertil Taube, Nour el Refai, Rodolfo Corsato Produced by StellaNova Film/Lena Rehnberg, with support from the Swedish Film Granny’s Dancing on the Table is Hanna Sköld’s second feature film. Her short Lady Institute/automatic funding Duration 98 min National release Autumn, 2016 Sales Crush (Tantlängtan, 2011) premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Hanna is TBA exploring new ways to create, finance and distribute her films through interaction with the audience, using transmedia and crowdfunding. She started her work with After a Bachelor’s degree from University of Southern California in 1989, Johan audience participation during her online distribution of her first feature film Nasty Old Brisinger has a career in both editing and directing. One short and two feature-length People (2009). films have earned him a Golden Unicorn from the Alpinale, as well as audience awards at the Berlinale and the Guldbagge Awards. This is his third feature-length film. NORDIC FACTORY NORDIC STELLA NOVA

The Hotel Doc Kiki Doc The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic Through a strikingly intimate and visually daring lens, Kiki offers a riveting and complex (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. insight into a safe space created and governed by LGBTQ youth of color, who are It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space… The first hotel was demanding happiness and political power. An exciting coming-of-age story about created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. agency, resilience and the transformative art form that is voguing. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes. Original title Kiki Director Sara Jordenö Screenwriters Sara Jordenö, Twiggy Pucci Original title Hotellet Director/Screenwriter Kristian Petri Participants Björn Garçon Participants Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Chi Chi Mizrahi, Gia Marie Love, Divo Pink Andrésen, Lars Norén, Åsne Seierstad, Kenneth Anger, Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Lady, Izana “Zariya” Vidal, Christopher Waldorf, Kenneth “Symba McQueen” Soler-Rios Casas Produced by B-Reel Films/Mattias Nohrborg, Cecilia Nessen, with support Produced by Story/Annika Rogell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ from the Swedish Film Institute/Peter ‘Piodor’ Gustafsson Duration 90 min National Antonio Russo Merenda Duration 95 min National release Autumn, 2016 Sales release April 29, 2016 Sales TBA Films Boutique

Kristian Petri has made both award winning documentaries and feature films. His first Sara Jordenö is a NYC and Göteborg based Swedish visual artist and documentary two shorts were selected for Semaine de la critique in Cannes. The documentary The filmmaker whose stories often concern communities facing different types of Atlantic was awarded the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Prize and received a marginalization and how they position themselves in the world. Her cinematic projects Guldbagge Award. In 2010, Petri directed the psychological thriller Bad Faith that was and commissions have been shown internationally at venues such as the Rotterdam selected by Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. International Film Festival, The Viennale, 5th Berlin Biennial, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, GIBCA in Göteborg, the Kitchen and MoMA PS1. Kiki is her feature documentary debut. B-REEL GÁMEZ NAITI

I Called Him Morgan Doc MonaLisa Story Doc On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot MonaLisa was an ordinary mom working as a teacher. Suddenly life fell apart, and she dead by his wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent lost herself to heroin. After years of deep addiction she meets Fredrik. Against all odds, shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts they decide to break the patterns of destruction and go for their dreams. MonaLisa those who knew the Morgans. This music documentary is a love letter to two unique Story is a unique and authentic documentary, following her process during eight years. personalities and the music that brought them together. A film about love, jazz and America with cinematography by Bradford Young (DOP Selma). Original title MonaLisa Story Director/ScreenwriterJessica Nettelbladt Produced by Lejoni Production AB/Jessica Nettelbladt, with support from the Swedish Film Original title American Jazz Musician Director/Screenwriter Kasper Collin Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min National release March 25, 2016 Sales DR Produced by Kasper Collin Produktion/Kasper Collin, with support from the Swedish Sales Film Institute/Lars G Lindström Duration 92 min National release TBA Sales TBA Jessica Nettelbladt has for more than a decade used documentary storytelling to Kasper Collin is a Swedish filmmaker and producer. He has made films such as the portray unique life stories within social and existential frameworks. She has a genuine feature documentary My Name is Albert Ayler, theatrically released in the UK and US interest in people at the margins of society, and works with a process-based technique during 2007 and 2008. Collin also works as a producer and consultant for other where the filming takes time, often many years. MonaLisa Story is her second feature filmmakers, and gives lectures and master classes on filmmaking, producing and documentary. self-distribution in the US and Europe. CHUCK STEWARTCHUCK JESSICA NETTELBLADT JESSICA

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My Aunt in Sarajevo Sámi Blood Zlatan hasn’t been in Bosnia since he fled the country as a war refugee in 1992. Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breading Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930’s and Zlatan’s Swedish daughter Anja, wants to know more about her Bosnian roots and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To wants to travel to Sarajevo. Zlatan tries to stop her, but surprisingly he finds himself in achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family a taxi together with Anja, going towards the city of Sarajevo… and culture.

Original title Min faster i Sarajevo Director Goran Kapetanović Screenwriters China Original title Sameblod Director/Screenwriter Amanda Kernell Principal cast Lene Åhlander, Goran Kapetanović, Dragan Mitić Principal cast Milan Dragišić, Julia Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Sparrok, Maj-Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl, Olle Sarri, Hanna Ragnarsson, Sadžida Šetić, Irena Mulamuhić, Izudin Bajrović Produced by Chinema Alström, Malin Crepin, Andreas Kundler, Ylva Gustafsson Produced by Nordisk Film Film Sweden/China Åhlander, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Andra Production Sverige AB/Lars G Lindström, with support from the Swedish Film Lasmanis, Helen Ahlsson Duration 58 min National release July, 2016 Sales TBA Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 105 min National release TBA Sales TBA

Amanda Kernell, born in 1986, graduated in film directing from The National Film Goran Kapetanović was born in 1974 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. He studied film directing at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked as a producer and mentor at the School of Denmark in 2013. Since 2006, Amanda has directed several acclaimed Rwanda Film Centre during 2005-2010. His films have received more than 20 shorts including Northern Great Mountain (Stoerre Vaerie, 2015), the pilot for Sámi blood, international awards and his film Kiruna-Kigali was shortlisted for an Academy Award. which premiered at Sundance and has won several awards such as the Audience Award at Göteborg Film Festival and Best Short at the Uppsala Short Film Festival. SOPHIA OLSSON SOPHIA IGOR RIPAK IGOR

My Future Love She’s Wild Again Tonight In 1973, the 20-year-old Svante has a heart condition that the doctors cannot fix. Actor Shima Niavarani and musician Gustaf Norén (previously Mando Diao) meet in When he has a breakdown on a subway platform, a strange train suddenly appears. director Fia-Stina Sandlund’s Brooklyn loft on the eve of the shoot of a radical He steps into the subway car filled with wonder, without knowing that the destination interpretation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. A professional encounter that develops into a is the future. In the future he meets Elsa and together they must solve Svante’s passionate night and a personal battle against patriarchy. problems and figure out how to live together when they are from two different eras. Original title She’s Wild Again Tonight Director Fia-Stina Sandlund Screenwriters Original title Flykten till framtiden Directors , Jaana Fomin Screenwriter Josefine Adolfsson, Fia-Stina Sandlund Principal cast Shima Niavarani, Gustaf Norén, Ulf Malmros Principal cast Elias Palin, Victoria Dyrstad, Henrik Dorsin Produced by Jon Coombs Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, with support from the Swedish Film Bob Film Sweden AB/Jan Blomgren, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 98 min National release November 13, 2015 automatic funding Duration 99 min National release Autumn 2016 Sales TBA Sales Story

Ulf Malmros has written and directed several critically acclaimed drama series and Fia-Stina Sandlund, born in 1973, is a Swedish artist and director working at the feature films, among them God Save the King (Tjenare kungen , The Wedding intersection of journalism, social activism and “re-enaction” as a form of history writing. Photographer (Bröllopsfotografen, 2009) and My So-Called Father (Min så kallade She was educated at the Academy of Photography and Film in Göteborg and pappa, 2014) Jaana Fomin has over 20 years of experience in feature film, theater, Konstfack in Stockholm. She has just finished a film trilogy based on August musicals, TV and commercials. Malmros and Fomin have previously co-directed the Strindberg’s famous play Miss Julie. comedy series Small Town Love (Ack Värmland, 2015). NADJA HALLSTRÖMM NADJA BOBFILMSWEDEN

ReflectionsDoc Siv Sleeps Astray A mother and a daughter, projections and memories, dreams and illusions. Symbiosis Most things seem very strange when Siv, 7, for the first time sleeps over at her new and distance, self -hatred and shame. About the thin line between life and art and the friend Cerisia’s. With the help of two talkative and funny badger friends, who appear in attempts to hold on to something, when everything is in constant change. How close the middle of the night, she has some wonderful adventures that help her embrace can we get? How well can we really know each other? differences and find herself.

Original title Speglingar Director/Screenwriter Sara Broos Participants Karin Original title Siv sover vilse Directors Catti Edfeldt, Lena Hanno Clyne Screenwrit- Broos, Sara Broos, Marc Broos , Inga Ronka, Sissela Broos, Stella Broos Produced by ers Lena Hanno Clyne, Thobias Hoffmén Principal cast Astrid Lövgren, Lilly Brown, Broos Film/Sara Broos, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Sofia Ledarp, Henrik Gustafsson, Valter Skarsgård, Barry Atsma, Bianca Kronlöf, Nour Duration 77 min National release Autumn, 2016 Sales First Hand Films El-Refai Produced by Snowcloud Films AB/Petter Lindblad, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 79 min National release Sara Broos, born in 1977, is based in Sunne, Sweden and Berlin. She has directed and September 30, 2016 Sales SF International produced short films, video installations and the award winning feature length documentary For You Naked (För dig naken, 2012). Her style is personal and The directors have a long history in film. Catti Edfeldt started as a child actor and has experimental and she has received several awards as a filmmaker. She runs the worked with casting and directing films for 38 years. Lena Hanno Clyne was a theatre independent production company Broos Film. director and switched to writing and directing for the cinema 15 years ago. Siv Sleeps Astray is their first collaboration as directors. KAROLINA PAJAK KAROLINA BROOS FILM BROOS

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Small Town Curtains The Swedish Theory of Love Doc Since early childhood, Björn has secretly carried an insurmountable fear. When his Internationally Scandinavia is seen as ‘the perfect society’, a role model, an example of father dies of old age, he and his four sisters are each left with a video message, that the highest achievements in what humans can achieve... Is this true? The Swedish makes him question everything. Director Johan Löfstedt’s extended family play Theory of Love will try to penetrate the cracks of Scandinavian perfection and dig into themselves in a heartfelt and unconventional film about life, death and the courage to dysfunctional sides of this on the surface perfect society. change. Original title The Swedish Theory of Love Director/Screenwriter Erik Gandini Original title Småstad Director Johan Löfstedt Screenwriters Johan Löfstedt, Produced by Fasad/Erik Gandini, Juan Pablo Libossart, with support from the Anna Potter Principal cast Björn Löfstedt, Gunilla Carlsén, Kina Löfstedt, Pelle Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min National release January 8, Löfstedt, Monica Sturzenbecker, Anna Löfstedt, Lotta Löfstedt Produced by Stavro 2016 Sales First Hand Films Filmproduktion/Patrik Axén Duration 87 min National release TBA Sales TBA Erik Gandini is a Swedish-Italian film director, writer, and producer. Some of his In a number of films, director Johan Löfstedt has explored the no-man’s-land in international award-winning documentaries include Raja Sarajevo (Sarajevogänget, between fiction and documentary. In the dramatic mockumentary Conspiracy 58 1994), Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara? (2001), Surplus – Terrorized Into Being (Konspiration 58, 2002), he depicts an association that denies the football World Cup of Consumers (2003), Gitmo (2006) and the widely acclaimed Videocracy (2009). 1958, and in the silent film The Comet (Kometen, 2004), life on earth is wiped out in the 1960’s. Small Town Curtains is his first feature length film. FASAD PETTER LÖFSTEDT PETTER

Stockholm My Love Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War In Stockholm, an architect wakes up. She’s troubled by a tragic event from a year ago. Tsatsiki is longing for the summer holiday when he will visit his father Yanis in Greece. She’s due to give a lecture but can’t face it, so wanders the city, hoping for solace. Slowly When Tsatsiki arrives in his father’s village all is not quite as he remembered. The hotels she’s drawn to the site of the tragedy and encounters Stockholm’s history and and bars are empty. The financial crisis has hit hard and his father must sell both their dreamscape. Includes the music of Neneh Cherry, Benny Andersson Orchestra and family hotel and olive grove. Tsatsiki is heartbroken, but his mother has taught him to Franz Berwald. never give up. Tsatsiki vows to save the hotel and olive grove. Together with the wild and adventurous Alva, a fearless 12-year-old girl they begin an adventure which turns Original title Stockholm My Love Director Mark Cousins ScreenwritersMark Tsatsiki’s summer break into a trip filled with discovery, friendship and first love. Cousins, Anita Oxburgh Principal cast Neneh Cherry Produced by Migma Film/ Anita Oxburgh, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration Original title Tsatsiki, farsan och olivkriget Director Lisa James Larsson Screenwriter 86 min National release TBA Sales Fortissimo Moni Nilsson Principal cast Emrik Ekholm, Sara Vilén, Adam Gutniak, Liv Mjönes, Jonatan Rodriguez, Christine Meltzer Produced by Jarowskij Sverige AB/Susann Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish filmmaker and writer. His films include The Story of Billberg Rydholm, Lotta Westberg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Film: An Odyssey and A Story of Children and Film. He won the Peabody, Prix Italia and Magdalena Jangard Duration 91 min National release December 11, 2015 Sales TBA Kubrick awards. He holds academic posts at the universities in Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh. He likes to dance and drive his camper van. Lisa James Larsson was brought up in London and moved to Stockholm in 2005 to study film directing and script writing at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has lived and worked in Stockholm for the past ten years. Her first feature film Ego was released in cinemas in 2013, since then she has directed for television – Welcome to Sweden (2015) – and developed her own projects. Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War is RICHARD RYAN RICHARD PHILIPPA BJOERNBOM PHILIPPA her second feature film.

Strawberry Days The Yard 15-year-old Wojtek travels to Sweden from Poland with his parents to work on a farm Anders, a single father and poet, loses his job as a critic when he writes a review of a picking strawberries. Against all odds he forms a connection with the farmer’s book that doesn’t exist. With no education, he ends up at the Yard, a transhipment hub daughter. The outside world will never accept the relationship, and they find for car imports, where he must face the suspicions of his co-workers and the themselves trapped on opposite sides when the slowly brewing conflict between the regulations of the Swedish management. An unexpected friendship with a colleague Swedes and the guest workers erupts in a sudden violent confrontation. triggers a rift between Anders and his teenage son. Personal morals are pitted against the demands of fatherhood in a conflict that is ultimately resolved by a lie. Original title Jordgubbslandet Director/Screenwriter Wiktor Ericsson Principal cast Staszek Cywka, Nelly Axelsson, Julia Kijowska, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Emilie Original title Yarden Director Måns Månsson Screenwriter Sara Nameth (based on Strandberg, Torkel Petersson Produced by Anagram Film & TV/Erik Magnusson, the novel by Kristian Lundberg) Principal cast Anders Mossling, Hilal Shoman, Axel with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 90 min National Roos Produced by Anagram Film & TV/Emma Åkesdotter Ronge, with support from release TBA Sales TBA the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 75 min National release March 11, 2016 Sales Yellow Affair Wiktor Ericsson is a Swedish screenwriter/director. He has been the head writer of the TV-series Starke man (2010) and Halvvägs till himlen (2013) and the director of the Måns Månsson, born in 1982, holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in short kk (2013). In 2013 he made his feature film debut with the documentary The Stockholm. His films have been screened at festivals and venues around the world such Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies. Strawberry Days is his narrative feature film debut. as the Berlinale Forum, IFF Rotterdam Bright Future, Slamdance Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française, CPH:DOX and FESPACO Pan African Film Festival. NADIM CARLSEN NADIM FREDRIK WENTZEL

50 51 New shorts New shorts Here are 33 new Swedish shorts in all different genres: animations, documentaries, experimental, fiction, and everything in between.

Baby Ghetto Swedish Karyotypes MAN Miles of Sand Summer night in Stockholm. People meeting Aisatou is a black actress who’s been hired Each person has his own sphere, their own MAN is a dramatisation of the biological and A single mother in rural India has to pay a people. Loners and drifters hooking up. to record a voice-over for one of Stockholm’s personal space, both physically and mentally, cultural body in transformation – a unique heavy price to repay her debts. Babies making babies. Meet Emma, 35, and top ad agencies. The session starts well, but that nobody else can access or take crossing of gender through the wilderness of Original title Miles of Sand Director/ Joel, 17, two strangers waiting for the night it’s soon clear that the agency wants the ad advantage of. We may never know another pregnancy – echoed by the sole remaining screenwriter Sonejuhi Sinha Produced by bus to take them home. They start talking to be more gangster and ghetto. Aisatou person’s feelings or be inside another recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. Memento Films/David Herdies Production and realize neither of them wants to go home. must choose between keeping her integrity, person’s body. Or think someone else’s Original title MAN Director Maja Borg Year 2016 Genre Drama Duration 10 min The night is theirs to take. or sacrificing it in order to please her thoughts. But together we can shape Produced by Maja Borg Filmproduktion/ employer’s stereotype. patterns, structures and connections that Maja Borg, Ruth Reid Production Year Original title Baby Director/Screenwriter are beautiful and durable. Lovisa Sirén Produced by sic film AB/Siri Original title Rinkebysvenska Director/ 2016 Genre Short, Experimental, Hjorton Wagner Production Year 2016 Screenwriter Bahar Pars Produced by Original title Karyotypes Director/ Documentary Duration 13 min Genre Drama Duration 29 min Blondell Produktion/Bahar Pars, Oskar Screenwriter Jonathan Lewald Produced Blondell Production Year 2015 Genre by Jonathan Lewald Produktion Produc- Drama comedy Duration 9 min tion Year 2015 Genre Experimental Duration 9 min

Moms on Fire What’s it like to be massively pregnant with only four days until you’re due to pop? You’d Meaningless like to jerk off but can’t even reach, your The Body is a Lonely Place Cosmopolitanism Doc The Escape Forgotten Reason boyfriend is fucking boring, and you’d like to Conversations in have some fun. Then this happens. You are Doc In an age in which xenophobia, nationalism Salomon has achieved everything he ever Forgotten Reason is a stop motion animated Girls & Boys pregnant. Again. Yuck!!! and intolerance are a daily occurrence, we wanted. From the outside it looks like he is liv- film about a group of lost bodies who wander Beautiful Environments See life from inside an eating disorder. Girls & Boys is a color-bursting high Original title Moms on Fire Director/ have grown accustomed to thinking of the ing the suburban dream with a good looking through a forest towards an open field. A Lone Dads Doc Against a backdrop of magnificent Filmmaker Ida Lindgren invites you to the school-comedy, in a world where Screenwriter Joanna Rytel Produced by world as divided among warring creeds and wife, kids and a nice house. But still he can´t gathering with an unclear purpose takes landscapes and epic tableaus, banal forbidden universe that each anorectic gender-roles are reversed. Nour and Gry are Three single dads in the old industrial town Altofilm AB/Alberto Herskovits cultures. Cosmopolitanism challenges us to get rid of the feeling that something is lost place. The story comes alive through the conversations take place between conceals from the outside world. A sensory, two super horny geeks, who’s highest wish is Motherwell in Scotland meet in a lone dads ­Production Year 2016 Genre Animation think about a universal belonging that and that that he´s constantly drifting apart films texture and atmosphere rather than via characters who are comically oblivious to intimate and rhythmical depiction of a to lose their virginity. When Nour hears that group session to talk about their feelings and Duration 12 min doesn’t confine itself to a city, region or from his family. A film about love, death and traditional storytelling. their surroundings. medical condition. Valentin, school’s hottest boy, is going to Lo’s experiences. But also to prove to the social national boundary. God. Original title Förberedelserna Director Peter services that they can take care of their Original title Meningslösa konversationer i Original title Kroppen är en ensam plats party to find a rebound, she sees the Original title Flykten från enplansvillorna Larsson Screenwriters Isak Sundström, children. But how does your past affect your fantastiska miljöer Director/Screenwriter Director Ida Lindgren Screenwriters My Original title Cosmopolitanism Director/ opportunity of a lifetime. But how will the Director/Screenwriter Johan Tappert Peter Larsson Produced by Peter Larsson children’s future? Lisa Östberg Produced by GNUFILM/ Roman Fagerlind, Ida Lindgren Produced Screenwriter Erik Gandini Produced by geeks get invited to the party? Girls & Boys is ­Produced by Folke Film/Mistre Tesfaye Production Year 2016 Genre Animation, ex- Mårten Nilsson Production Year 2016 by idali images/Ida Lindgren Production Fasad/Jesper Kurlandsky, Juan Libossart about the first encounter with the other sex, Original title Lone Dads Director/ Production Year 2016 Genre Drama perimental Duration 14 min Genre Comedy Duration 8 min Year 2016 Genre Documentary Duration Production year 2015 Genre Documentary but it’s also a film about betrayal, friendship Screenwriter Ellen Fiske Produced by comedy Duration 14 min 10 min Duration 17 min and the desire to fit in. Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola, Original title Girls & Boys Director Ninja Singularity Film/Stefan Henriksson, Ellen Thyberg Screenwriter Theo Westin Fiske Production year 2015 Genre Produced by Stockholm Academy of Documentary Duration 31 min Dramatic Arts/Isabella Rodriguez, Johanna Lind Production Year 2015 Genre Drama Moonwolves Comedy Duration 31 min The Moonwolves live in a magical forest. They are amazed by glitter and all things that shine, but most of all they love the moon. Every night the Moonwolves sit and Francis Midsummer Night stare dreamily towards it. One night, their The Committee Dear Kid Fight on a Swedish Beach longing grows so intense that they decide Ten Westafrican men come as guest The film follows three young girls’ activities that they can’t just sit and stare at it A Nordic collaboration is taking place. Three During a swimming lesson a mother starts to This is what happens when you call workers to plant trees in Northern Sweden. during a festive summer night in the northern anymore. So they decide to go to the moon. delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland feel uneasy about the coach’s relation to one someone’s wife a whore and yell sieg heil. He Contrary to previous agreements, they are part of Sweden. The girls are attending a par- Original title Månulvarna Director Nima are gathered in Lapland to decide on an art of the kids, but she has no proof. She faces a had it coming. EPIC BEACH FIGHT! paid on provision – that doesn’t even cover Madre ty in a big old house, where both the previous piece, which is to be placed where the three YousefiScreenwriter Hans-Åke dilemma; to make an accusation of the worst Original title Slagsmål på svensk strand the ticket home. Francis won’t stand the 16 year-old Andrea comes down from her owners oddly enough were one-eyed… borders meet geographically. But the Gabrielsson Produced by Hob AB/Nima kind, or to ignore a child who is possibly Director Simon Vahlne Screenwriter conditions and tries to make himself a better poor neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to Original title Sommarnatt Director/ committee is in for a surprise. Instead of a YousefiProduction Year 2016 Genre getting abused. Simon Vahlne Produced by Plattform future. On the way he is faced with difficult I Was a Winner attend a downtown casting call for a porno Screenwriter Jonas Selberg Augustsén sculpture, the commissioned artist presents Doc Animatiom for children Duration 12 min Produktion/Axel Danielson and Don Piano/ decisions. For himself, the group, and his best film. Produced by Bob Film Sweden/Anette his idea of a “Nordic dance”. The delegates Original title Dear Kid Director/ In the film we get to share three very different Ellen Hallin Production Year 2016 Genre friend Eric. Brantin Production Year 2016 Genre are faced with the true challenges of a screenwriter Frida Kempff Produced by stories on the subject of computer game Original title Madre Director/screenwriter Drama Duration 14 min Original title Francis Director Ahmed Drama Duration 28 min democratic decision-making process. Memento Films/David Herdies Production addiction, told through a mix of documentary Simón Mesa Soto Produced by Memento Year 2016 Genre Drama Duration 13 min Abdullahi Screenwriters Kristoffer interviews and animation. Films/David Herdies Production Year Original title Kommittén Directors/ Malmsten, Maja Winkler Produced by Original title Director 2016 Genre Drama Duration 14 min Screenwriters Gunhild Enger, Jenni Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Jag var en vinnare Screenwriters Toivoniemi Produced by Kjellson & Wik/ Grand Slam Film/ Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå Jonas Odell Jonas Odell, Produced by Marie Kjellson Production Year 2016 Production year 2015 Genre Drama Richard Dinter Apparat Genre Drama comedy Duration 14 min Duration 30 min Filmproduktion AB/Johan Edström Production Year 2016 Genre Animated documentary Duration 14 min

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Production Dfm Grand Slam Film Medusa Productions Scorpion Film Yellow Bird Svensk Filmindustri Novemberfestivalen [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] International Sales [email protected] Companies www.dfm.se www.grandslamfilm.se www.medusa-productions.com www.scorpionfilm.com www.yellowbird.se [email protected] www.novemberfestivalen.nu www.sfinternational.se November 25-26, 2016 2afilm Doppelganger GötaFilm Mekaniken Sebastie Film och Media Zentropa International Sweden/ Sweden [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Trollhättan Film Stockholm International www.doppelganger.se www.gotafilm.se www.mekaniken.se www.sebastie.com [email protected] SVT Sales Film Festival (SIFF) & Acne Drama www.zentropasweden.com [email protected] Stockholm International [email protected] Drakfilm Harmonica Films Shoot & Post [email protected] Film Festival Junior (SIFFJ) www.acneproduction.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Zigzag Animation [email protected] [email protected] www.drakfilm.se www.harmonicafilms.se www.memfis.se www.shootpost.se [email protected] www.svtsales.com www.stockholmfilmfestival.se Alma Film www.zigzag.se Sweden SIFFJ April, 2017 [email protected] Drama Svecia Head and Tail Mexiko Media sic film AB SIFF November 9-20, 2016 www.cargocollective.com/almafilm Mother Knows Best Sleep Incidents What Remains [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sales Telepicture Marketing Of Biblical Proportions www.dramasvecia.se www.head-tail.se www.mexikomedia.com [email protected] Tempo Documentary Festival Anagram Film & TV Silverosa Film Companies www.telepicturemarketing.com [email protected] A mother gives her teenage son some Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help After moving from Iran to the US, Leila [email protected] A group of scientists from around the world Efti Hob AB Migma Film [email protected] UK www.tempofestival.se www.anagram.se friendly advice in the car on their way home meet in a conference room in Tulsa, available! A self-appointed specialist guides spends a day at the suburban house of her [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.silverosafilm.se Antipode Sales & Distribution March 6-12, 2017 www.efti.se www.hobab.se www.migmafilm.se [email protected] TrustNordisk Apparat Filmproduktion AB from meeting his boyfriend for the first time. Oklahoma. They are there to discuss the us through this absurd study of sleep. uncle Reza who she last met 13 years ago as Skogen Produktion www.antipode-sales.biz [email protected] Uppsala International [email protected] Eight Millimetres Holding Hands Production Mint Film [email protected] Russia www.trustnordisk.com Short Film Festival Their casual conversation ultimately leads to origins of a mysterious skull discovered 300 a young girl. Reza, his daughter and his www.apparatfilm.se Original title Sömnincidenter Director/ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.skogenproduktion.se Denmark [email protected] revelations that will change their relationship metres below the ice of Antarctica. colleagues get together to welcome Leila. www.eightmillimetres.com www.mint-ab.se Autlook Filmsales www.shortfilmfestival.com Screenwriter Malin Erixon Produced by Atmo Production Idyll Snowcloud Films [email protected] Wide October 24-30, 2016 for forever. [email protected] Original title Of Biblical Proportions Ganzanderes Animation/Malin Erixon Original title What Remains Director/ Elfvik film [email protected] Momento Film [email protected] www.autlookfilm.com [email protected] www.atmo.se Austria Original title Mamma vet bäst Director/ Director/Screenwriter Patrik Eklund Production Year 2016 Genre Animation screenwriter Anahita Ghazvinizadeh [email protected] www.idyll.se [email protected] www.snowcloud.se www.widemanagement.com Way Out West www.elfvikfilm.se www.momentofilm.se France [email protected] Avanti Film Screenwriter Mikael Bundsen Produced Produced by Duration 13 min Produced by Memento Films/David Illusion Film Speedfilm Bac Films www.wayoutwest.se FrameStation/Patrik Eklund [email protected] Europa Sound & Vision [email protected] Moviola Film & Television [email protected] [email protected] Wild Bunch August 11-13, 2016 by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorf Herdies Production Year 2016 Genre www.avantifilm.se Production year 2015 Genre Comedy [email protected] www.illusionfilm.se [email protected] www.speedfilm.se www.bacfilms.com www.wildbunch.biz www.europasoundvision.se www.moviola.se France France/UK Production Year 2016 Genre Drama Duration 29 min Drama Duration 19 min Auto Images Independent Studios Stavro Filmproduktion AB Organizations [email protected] Duration 13 min Eyefeed [email protected] Månharen Film & TV [email protected] Cat&Docs The Yellow Affair www.autoimages.se [email protected] www.independentstudios.se [email protected] www.stavrofilm.se [email protected] [email protected] Creative Europe Desk MEDIA www.eyefeed.se www.compadre.se www.catndocs.com www.yellowaffair.com Swedish Film Institute Barataria Productions Inpost Stellanova film France Finland/Sweden [email protected] [email protected] Eyeworks Scandi Fiction [email protected] Naive [email protected] www.kreativaeuropa.eu www.baratariaproductions.com [email protected] www.inpost.se [email protected] www.stellanovafilm.com Coproduction Office Zodiak Rights www.eyeworks.tv www.naive.se [email protected] [email protected] Independent Film Bautafilm Jarowskij Sverige AB Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman www.coproductionoffice.eu www.zodiakrights.com Producers’ Association [email protected] Fasad Film [email protected] Nice Drama/FLX Pictures [email protected] Denmark/France/Germany UK [email protected] www.bautafilm.se [email protected] www.jarowskij.se [email protected] www.ingmarbergman.se www.off.se www.fasad.se www.nicedrama.se Deckert Distribution Biospheric Pictures Joclo Stockholm Academy of [email protected] Distributors International Sámi Film Institute [email protected] Fido Film [email protected] Nimafilm Sweden Dramatic Arts (SADA) www.deckert-distribution.com [email protected] www.bipic.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Germany CCV Entertainment www.isfi.no/eng www.fido.se Kameraten www.nimafilmsweden.com www.sada.se [email protected] Bob Film Sweden Stallion [email protected] DR International Sales www.ccv-entertainment.com Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Film and Tell www.kameraten.se Nordisk Film Production Stopp Stockholm [email protected] [email protected] www.bobfilm.se Showing It All! 16-year old equestrian Adena has the hots [email protected] [email protected] Postproduction www.dr.dk/Salg Folkets Bio www.nordiskfilmogtvfond.com The World of Dolores www.filmandtell.com Kasper Collin Produktion www.nordiskfilm.com [email protected] Denmark [email protected] for her teacher, David. When she learns that Brain Academy A striptease dancer performs a show with [email protected] www.stopp.se www.folketsbio.se Stockholm Film Commission/ [email protected] Nisse’s Adventures on they are spending the summer at the same Film and Art Affairs Nordisk Film ShortCut Eyewell Filmregion Stockholm- confidence and grace. But she has an and Gunellen www.brainacademy.se [email protected] Kjellson & Wik Stockholm Story [email protected] Lucky Dogs Mälardalen Land and at Sea Doc island, she decides to meet him. On www.filmandartaffairs.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.eyewell.se [email protected] [email protected] audience hard to please. Dolores and Gunellen live together in a B-Reel Films www.nordiskfilm-shortcut.com www.story.se Sweden www.lucky-dogs.se [email protected] Midsummer’s eve she sneaks away from her [email protected] Nisse Andersson, a 87-year-old sailor from house with a small garden. They need each Filmateljén Kostr-Film www.frsm.se Original title Showing it all! Director Lasse www.b-reel.com/featurefilms Göteborg, reads from his diary, Nisse’s family to find David and his friends - all twice other to balance their lives. Gunellen’s [email protected] [email protected] Nouvago Capital Strix Television Films Boutique Njutafilms Persson/Lisa Tulin Screenwriter Lasse www.filmateljen.com www.kostrfilm.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sweden Film Commission her age. David is not happy with the sudden Breidablick Film Adventures on Land and at Sea. He recalls straightforwardness and curiosity makes www.nouvago.com www.strix.se www.filmsboutique.com www.njutafilms.com [email protected] Persson Produced by Swedish Ecstasy [email protected] meeting, but has a hard time warding her off. Filmgate Lampray Germany www.swedenfilmcommission.com 40 years at sea, when travelling across the Dolores let go a bit of her need for order, and www.breidablick.com Film/ Lisa Tulin Production Year 2016 [email protected] [email protected] OmegaFilm Studio Bigert & Bergström Noble Entertainment world was a big deal. We follow Nisse to the Original title Hingsten Director Ninja Dolores’ urge to ”tell-all-about-how-every- www.filmgate.se www.lampray.se [email protected] [email protected] Films Transit [email protected] Swedish Arts Grants Genre Animation/Comedy Duration 3 min Bright Pictures www.omegafilm.se www.bigertbergstrom.com [email protected] www.nobleentertainment.com Committee Thyberg Screenwriters Daniela Dahl, Ninja [email protected] ports where he visits his “ladies”, get´s his thing-works” and follow routines helps Filmkreatörerna Lazer Unicorns www.filmstransit.com [email protected] www.brightpictures.se kangaroo tattoo, and all the wooden cocks Thyberg Produced by Grand Slam Film/ Gunellen organize her life. But one day, [email protected] [email protected] One Tired Brother Productions Studio Jens Assur Canada NonStop Entertainment www.konstnarsnamnden.se www.filmkreatorerna.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Camera Center & Light he carved in his bunk. He remembers his Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå Production Year Gunellen says that she wants to see the Lebox Produktion www.onetiredbrother.se www.studiojensassur.se First Hand Films www.nonstopentertainment.com Swedish Film & TV Center Gothenburg Filmlance International [email protected] [email protected] Producers Association loved Brita who disappeared into Alzheimer 2015 Genre Drama Duration 15 min world. Dolores does not want her to go! [email protected] [email protected] www.lebox.se Pampas Produktion Svensk Filmindustri www.firsthandfilms.com Nordisk Film [email protected] www.cameracenter.se and realizes that the red thread in his life Original title Bajsfilmen – Dolores och www.filmlance.se [email protected] [email protected] Switzerland [email protected] www.filmtvp.se L Edition Entertainment Film www.pampasproduktion.se www.sf.se www.nordiskfilm.com story is his lifelong search for intimacy. Camp David Film Gunellens värld Director Linda Hambäck First Edition Pictures (Lee Film) Global Screen Swedish Institute [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Panfilm Sveriges Television (SVT) [email protected] Novemberfilm [email protected] Original title Nisses äventyr till land och till Screenwriters Janne Vierth, Anders www.campdavidfilm.com www.jonsvik.com www.leefilm.se [email protected] [email protected] www.globalscreen.se [email protected] www.si.se sjöss Directors/Screenwriters Produced by www.panfilm.se www.svt.se Germany www.novemberfilm.com Klara Sparring LEE Film/Linda Chamdin & Stöhr Film Flodellfilm Lejoni Production AB Swedish Lapland Film [email protected] Swantesson, Mia Blomgren Produced by Hambäck Production Year 2016 Genre [email protected] [email protected] PennFilm Studios Swedish Ecstasy Film KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg Scanbox Entertainment Commission/Filmpool Nord www.chamdinstohr.se Anagram Film & TV/Martin Persson Animation for children Duration 44 min www.flodellfilm.se www.lejoni.se [email protected] seflasse@ swedishecstasyfilm.com [email protected] Sweden [email protected] www.pennfilm.se www.swedishecstasyfilm.com www.shortfilm.com [email protected] www.filmpoolnord.se Charon Film Production year 2015 Genre Documentary Folke Film AB Lisbet Gabrielsson Film Germany www.scanbox.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Peter Jonsvik Sweetwater VisitSweden Duration 12 min www.charon.se Spermwhore www.folkefilm.se www.lisbetgabrielssonfilm.se [email protected] [email protected] LevelK Svensk Filmindustri [email protected] www.jonsvik.se www.sweetwater.se [email protected] [email protected] www.visitsweden.com The Chimney Pot Freetownfilms LittleBig Productions www.levelk.dk www.sf.se A queer experimental film about unwanted [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Pinguinfilm Tangy Denmark West Sweden Film Commission www.chimneygroup.com childlessness in a world where normative www.freetownfilms.se www.littlebig.se [email protected] [email protected] TriArt Film /Film Väst www.pinguin.se www.tangy.se Magnetfilm [email protected] [email protected] heterosexual relationships dictate who can Chinema Film Sweden French Quarter Film Ljud & Bildmedia [email protected] www.triart.se www.filmvast.se Ten Meter Tower Doc [email protected] become parents and in what way. When it [email protected] [email protected] Plattform Produktion Thelma/Louise www.magnetfilm.de www.chinema.se A ten meter diving tower. People who have www.frenchquarter.se www.ljud-bildmedia.se [email protected] [email protected] Germany Twentieth Century Fox Sweden Öresund Film Commission/Film comes to reproduction our merciless bodies www.plattformproduktion.se www.thelmalouise.se www.foxfilm.se i Skåne Cimbria Film never been up there before have to chose Fundament Film Ljudfadern The Match Factory [email protected] reduce us to merely a set sex or given [email protected] whether to jump or climb down. The situation [email protected] [email protected] Posthuset Tjockishjärta Film [email protected] United International Pictures www.oresund.com gender. But the longing for children is not lim- www.fundamentfilm.se www.ljudfadern.com [email protected] [email protected] www.the-match-factory.com [email protected] Cinenic Film in itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the www.posthuset.se www.tjockishjarta.se Germany www.uip.se ited to our bodies, and the possibility of [email protected] Garagefilm International Lolav Media AB instinctive fear of taking the step out against www.cinenicfilm.se pregnancy can be gifted, shared and [email protected] [email protected] RealReel Doc Tre Vänner Produktion Media Luna New Films the humiliation of having to climb down. Ten www.garagefilm.se www.lolav.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Film Festivals undertaken together. The Wraith Cinepost Studios www.realreel.se www.trevanner.se www.medialuna.biz Meter Tower is an entertaining study of the [email protected] In a sculptural twilight existence, the personal GF Studios Maja Borg Filmproduktion Germany Bergman Week Original title Spermahoran Director/ www.cinepost.se Noni & Elizabeth human in a vulnerable position. [email protected] [email protected] Rmv Film TV4 [email protected] childhood nightmares and hallucinations of www.gfstudios.se www.majaborg.com [email protected] www.tv4.se MK2 International www.bergmancenter.se/ Screenwriter Anna Linder Produced by CO.Film www.rmvfilm.com www.mk2pro.com bergmanveckan Noni is ten, and during the week she lives with Original title Hopptornet Directors/ artist Åsa Ersmark, a witch abuses a [email protected] Big Human Productions/Anna Linder Gilda Film Malade Valand Academy Film/University France June 27-July 3, 2016 Screenwriters www.co-film.se her mother in the inner city and at weekends Production Year 2016 Genre Experimen- Axel Danielson, Maximilien defenceless girl from the age of four and [email protected] [email protected] Roy Andersson Filmproduktion/ of Gothenburg www.gildafilm.se www.malade.se Studio 24 [email protected] New Europe Films Sales BUFF – The International with her father in the suburbs. With her Van Aertryck Produced by Plattform into puberty. The girl is displaced from the Conversation Film tal Duration 12 min [email protected] www.akademinvaland.gu.se [email protected] Children and Young [email protected] stepsister Elizabeth, one weekend Noni sees Produktion AB/ Axel Danielson, Erik nightmare to reality and the edge of death. Ginestra Film AB Malin Andersson Film www.royandersson.com www.neweuropefilmsales.com People’s Film Festival www.conversationfilm.com Poland the world for what it is - upside down. Hemmendorff Production Year 2016 [email protected] [email protected] Way Creative [email protected] Original title Maran Director/Screenwriter www.ginestrafilm.se www.malinanderssonfilm.com Råfilm [email protected] www.buff.se Copenhagen Bombay Genre Documentary Duration 17 min [email protected] www.waycreative.se Outplay March 13-18, 2017 Original title Director/ /Producer Production Year [email protected] Noni & Elizabeth Åsa Ersmark Giraff Film Mantaray Film www.rafilm.se [email protected] www.copenhagenbombay.com Screenwriter Nanna Blondell Produced 2016 Genre Experimental animation [email protected] [email protected] WG Film www.outplayfilms.com Göteborg Film Festival www.mantarayfilm.se Röde Orm Film [email protected] France [email protected] Dagsljus by sic film AB/Siri Hjorton Wagner Duration 5 min Gnufilm [email protected] www.wgfilm.com Premium Films www.giff.se [email protected] [email protected] MDEMC www.rodeormfilm.se [email protected] January 27-February 6, 2017 Production Year 2015 Genre Drama www.dagsljus.se www.gnufilm.se [email protected] Widerberg Film www.premium-films.com Duration 15 min [email protected] Salmonfox [email protected] France Lund International Dansk Skalle Gothenburg Film Studios www.mdemc.se [email protected] www.widerbergfilm.com Fantastic Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] www.salmonfox.com StudioCanal [email protected] www.danskskalle.se www.gothenburgstudios.se ww.studiocanal.com www.fff.se France October 20-29, 2016

54 THE 27TH STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 9-20 2016

We are open for submissions! DIRECTOR YORGOS LANTHIMOS, RECIPIENT OF THE STOCKHOLM VISIONARY AWARD 2015 CONTACT: FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Git Scheynius [email protected] PROGRAM DIRECTOR George Ivanov [email protected] GENERAL INQUIRIES www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

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