Issue 2 • 2016 The right direction A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute • sfi.se On the cover (from left to right) This page (from left to right) From left to right: Lisa Langseth (Hotell, 2013) Elisabet Gustafsson (Annabel’s Lisa James Larsson (Tsatsiki, Dad and the Olive War, 2015) Suzanne Osten (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) Lisa Siwe (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) Ella Lemhagen (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 Sweden 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.