BUFF #36 · MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 · THEME THE FUTURE

BUFF MALMÖ FILM FESTIVAL FAMILY WEEKEND AT PANORA · MEET THE DIRECTORS · HANGOUT AT SPEGELN FILM LITERACY · PRE-SCREENINGS · INDUSTRY SEMINARS GALA OPENING · ASTRID LINDGREN CONTENT THE FUTURE This year’s theme: The Future 4 How it works! 6 LOOK OUT FOR A year with BUFF 8 AND CULTURE THESE SYMBOLS! Hangout at Spegeln 10 Family Weekend at Panora 12 “I want everyone to experience how happy one can be from watching film from morning to night!” said Renata Competition – Best Children’s Film 14 Centenari Åhlander when she started BUFF in 1983. Just Competition – Best Young think: that was 36 years ago and today the parents of People’s Film 18 the children sitting in the audiences were BUFF children Symbol for fi lms that are followed by discussion. Competition – Best Short Film 20 For the Youngest 22 themselves back then! After an autumn and winter of newspaper headlines THEME SERIES such as “Falling subsidies hit children in vulnerable The Future 25 areas”, “Culture schools in small municipalities threat- Symbol for short fi lm screened For Real 28 ened with closure” and “Don’t cut down on children’s before the main feature. Smile 30 culture!”, it is finally time to invite everyone to the Edgy 32 children and young people’s film festival in Malmö. Astrid Lindgren 34 Autumn and winter weren’t only a time of slashed The Classic Series 36 budgets. They were also the time when Greta Thunberg, Film & Talks 38 16, stood up and said ‘Stop!’ about the climate. Many children and young people - and adults too - have Short Films 44 Deaf Film Festival Skåne 50 stood alongside her. BUFF’s theme for this year is the Future. At a time when the number of mental health SEMINARS issues among children and young people are increasing, Workshops for schools 52 research has been published which shows that culture Theme Film Literacy 54 diminishes the risk of depression. That includes all BUFF’s international catalogue is THE PEOPLE BEHIND BUFF FILM FESTIVAL 2019 Industry Days 57 culture whether the message is playful and instills hope produced by BUFF Filmfestival. Bengta Dahlsjö (guest coordinator), Maisa Dabus (event coordinator), Julia Diogo or the message is more serious and thought-provoking, COMPETITION AND PRIZES PUBLISHER: Julia Jarl (festival assistant), Julia Jarl (festival as BUFF’s films can be. The City of Malmö director), Ida Klasson (communicator), BUFF’s films depict reality from children’s or young EDITORS: Ida Klasson and Children’s Film Award 62 Måns Leonartsson (volunteer coordinator), people’s perspective of reality. They give voice to the Torun Spånberg Slettan The Church of Sweden Award 63 Lina Linde (project manager Buffi lusk), children so that they can be heard. They feature people The Young People’s Film Jury Award 64 Daniel Lundquist (programme manager) and WRITERS: Oline Alesmark, Ina Alm, Sydsvenskan & BUFF’s Prize 64 to identify with and sometimes give them the courage Torun Spånberg Slettan (festival producer). Lina Birk, Carolina Falk, Anna Håkansson, The Region Skåne Short Film Award 65 to disagree and do things better. But best of all is to Julia Jarl, Viktor Jäderlund, Ida Klasson, BOARD ECFA Award 66 have the experience of how happy one can be from Måns Leonartsson, Daniel Lundquist, Rolf Isaksson (chairperson), Mikael Matteson, Other competition 67 watching film from morning to night. Mikael Matteson, Torun Spånberg Slettan Helene Mohlin, Jens Lanestrand and BUFF Nordic Star 68 Spring is soon here and so is BUFF for the 36th time! and Tony Martelius Ågren. Pernilla Röjner. New Awards 69

TRANSLATIONS: Chris Munsey, Richard Ina Alm CONTACT SCHEDULE AND INDEX Andersson and Domenic Mitchell E-mail: info@buff .se Festival schedule 70

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Kolossal.se Tel: +46 (0)40-302 505 Print sources 72 Ina Alm has been involved with BUFF for many years buff .se Film index 74 as, among other roles, Chairperson of the Board and volunteer. Ina has worked with children and young people for many years, as teacher and media educator.

MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 3 OPENING FILM MIRAÏ THIS YEAR’S THEME THE FUTURE SATURDAY 23/3 2019 2.00 PM ROYAL

Reception in the foyer from 2.00pm, Inspired by Greta Thunberg and other The UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals opening ceremony at 3.00pm. young activists, we will highlight questions are a good foundation for how we view about the future throughout the festival. the future. They aim to eradicate extreme Some of our films are set in or play with poverty, reduce inequalities, strive for peace A GLAMOROUS the image of the future. Others are set in and freedom, and combat climate change. the present but raise questions that make The films in the festival programme reflect OPENING us think about the world we want to live these goals and work as important starting in and how our choices today affect our points for the discussions we want to CEREMONY WITH future. It may be frightening, but can also facilitate during the festival. The theme be comforting, as we have the power to The Future runs through the programme FAB FREDDIE influence and the power to change. as a red thread and will be addressed in our film conversations and seminars. Children and young people are our future and so BUFF is giving families with children something extra this year. The Family A WARM WELCOME TO BUFF 2019 Weekend is jam-packed with film expe- riences and other events. 2019 marks 75 years since Astrid Lindgren’s first children’s book was published and we celebrate her EVENING HANGOUT work by screening five films based on her NOJSE books, three of which are screened during AT SPEGELN the Family Weekend. The Festival kicks off NEW NORDIC COLLABORATION PROJECT at the Royal with Fab Freddie who will bring glitter and glamour before we show our We will spend our evenings hanging out at Another theme at this year’s festival is the VIGNETTE OF THE YEAR opening film Mirai, which was nominated for Spegeln and the programme there is full of Nordics where we are collaborating with an Academy Award for best animated film. gems; this year’s most talked about films, our buddy festivals BUSTER (Denmark), In partnership with WIFT (Women in Film At Panora we will meet young actors including Eighth Grade from the US, Kenyan Barnefilmfestivalen (Norway) and Oulu and Television), we have produced a new from the Swedish national public television Rafiki and Argentinian El Ángel, to name International Children’s and Youth FF vignette which captures the mystical and broadcaster SVT’s mega success Klassen a few. There is also the world premiere (Finland). This means that the programme fantastical worlds of film. It will be shown as we premiere two new episodes. The of Swedish youth film PewPewPew, made contains some great films from our neigh- before every set of screenings throughout foyer will be filled with fun activities where in Malmö, a visit from the people behind bouring countries and that we are able the festival. The film is created by Swedish- people of all ages can make animated film, Felix rescenserar and a peek preview of this to highlight questions around children’s Sami filmmaker Ann Holmgren Aurebekk try different games and try acting in front autumn’s new series Dröm. and young people’s film from a Nordic and is financed through support of Film i of a green screen. perspective that little bit extra. Skåne och the city of Malmö.

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STOR- WORKS! TORGET Huzzah! You are now FESTIVAL PASS a part of the festival! SP Spegeln, SP Stortorget 29 B Find the film, the actor, GOLD PASS CHOOSE FILM GUSTAV 2 AND BUY TICKET ADOLFS the friend, the cinema TORG Filmstaden Storgatan, FI Wow! The film program on buff.se RO Storgatan 22 and the seminar and Now you have contains links to purchase tickets come to BUFF. Bring free access to for all films. You can also buy all the films! tickets over the counter at the your friend, grand- FI Filmcentrum Syd, FC Space permitting. cinemas on the opening hours Monbijougatan 17 E mother, sibling, class- stated below. mate ore just yourself. If you have Gold Pass you can skip to The Film Fest! Everyone is welcome to BUFF:s Festivalcenter, B BUFF and this is how Hotel Noble House you do to take part in 3 THE FILM FEST! FC Per Weijersgatan 6 COME AND EXPERIENCE STATION the festivities. TRIANGELN BUFF 2019! PA FOLKETS PARK

GOOD TO KNOW The cinemas open half an hour INFORMATION FOR SCHOOLS TICKETS TICKET RELEASE before the first screening. Entry to all the theatres begins approxi- In cooperation with the City of Malmö’s cultural mately 10 minutes before the show. administration, all Malmö schools are offered free GOLD PASS ADULT 250 kr FEBRUARY 11TH! All theatres have wheel chair access tickets for BUFF screenings during school hours through and are equipped with a hearing Kulturkartan. The seats can be booked from February 11. GOLD PASS YOUNG (up to 19) 100 kr loop. Ask BUFF’s staff at the cinema which seats are the most suitable. Book at: kulturkartan.malmo.se For more information: [email protected] FESTIVAL PASS ADULT 30 kr OPENING HOURS BUFF TICKET OFFICE DON’T MISS A THING! FESTIVAL PASS YOUNG (up to 19) FREE Follow us for fun or to get the latest KULTURBUSS FILMSTADEN SPEGELN PANORA updates, including unforeseen Free shuttle bus (Kulturbussen) to and from film SINGLE TICKET, FILM 60 kr SAT 23/3 09.30–17.30 changes to the programme. screenings can be booked in Kulturkartan within SUN 24/3 09.30–15.30 2 weeks before the screening. MON 25/3 08.45–13.00 08.30–21.15 08.30–14.00 TUE 26/3 08.45–13.00 08.30–21.15 08.45–13.00  buff.festival The Festival Pass gives you access to seminars, with For schools outside of Malmö or if the seats at Kulturkartan WED 27/3 08.45–13.00 08.30–21.15 08.30–15.00 the exception of the Film in Education Day. See page 56.  buff_malmo sell out, schools can still purchase tickets at a discounted THU 28/3 08.45–13.00 08.30–21.00 08.30–14.30 All workshops during the Family Weekend have free price from buff.se FRI 29/3 08.45–12.30  buff_malmo access. See page 13.

6 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 7 BUFFILUSK A YEAR – BUFF AT THE WITH BUFF IN SWEDEN HOSPITAL A selection of BUFF films are sent on tour, creating an itinerant film festival. BUFF in To offer film experiences from around the Sweden is arranged across the country to world to those who can't attend the festival, increase access to great film for children Buffilusk brings the festival to them. BUFF and youths, as well as creating a film BUFF's films are made available on a digital festival atmosphere outside of Malmö. platform to hospitalised children via a play BUFF in Sweden started in 2015 and has therapy department. When the project BUFF’s work focuses primarily since appeared in Dalarna (Mora, Orsa, started in 2017, Buffilusk was offered to children at hospitals in Helsingborg, Lund, on the annual festival in Älvdalen), Jönköping, Ystad, Gävle, Växjö, Härnösand, Sundsvall and Torsby. Malmö and Kristianstad. Today, Buffilusk March, which offers valuable is available at 27 hospitals around the film experiences told from a country. It also offers educational film tuto- young person’s perspective. rials as well as providing children with the After the festival, we organise opportunity to review films. The platform also encourages reflection and the sharing other activities and our work of one's film experiences with others. to strengthen children’s and youth film continues BUFF AS A SUMMER throughout the year. DISTRIBUTOR HOLIDAY Some films screened at the festival are so good that we want CINEMA everyone to see them. Preferably at the cinema. Few of the films screened at BUFF get Swedish In collaboration with Superduper- distribution so BUFF distributes sommar in Folkets Park, an initiative a handful of films to give them a offering children cultural activities wider audience, thereby contrib- during school holidays, BUFF screened uting to a greater film offering films every Monday throughout the for children and youths. From summer holidays 2018 for the second BUFF 2018, the films The Seen year running. A total of 16 films were and Unseen, Spider Thieves and screened and the concept was a success; Ballad from Tibet were chosen for 3000 children and young people came distribution. to experience film together.

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17.00–18.30 Preview of Dröm p. 57 16.30–18.35 Skate Kitchen Camille and her pals escape from 17.15–19.00 Old Boys p. 31 AT SPEGELN boredom, on their boards in New York’s skater subculture,but end 18.00–19.00 BUFF Daily Ready for mingle and film fest? up in big trouble when she starts TUE 26/3 5.00 PM – 6.30 PM · SPEGELN A hanging out with the rivals. p. 33 19.15–20.55 Slut in a Good Way Film experience’s are best done p. 31 together and at the cinema. That’s 17.00–18.45 Land of Glass p. 32 why BUFF’s evening hangouts are 19.30–20.45 Work in Progress p. 58 18.00–19.00 BUFF Daily the best place for both film and chat. FELIX 21.00–22.45 Eighth Grade Welcome to Spegeln! 19.00–20.45 PewPewPew TUESDAY 26/3 Golden Globe nominated Elsie RECENSERAR The young people of Malmö Fisher charms us with her portrayal want to be like PewDiePie of a girl in between childhood and when a mysterious virus starts adulthood where everything is AT BUFF spreading. p. 19 cringeworthy. p. 30 DRÖM CHECK OUT THE The maddest reviewer at Youtube is coming 19.15–20.50 Blossom Valley p. 32 21.15–23.00 Jellyfish p. 28 to BUFF! Felix Nordh and his Monte Fjanton AUTUMN’S COOLEST colleagues Sebasthian Wilnerzon Thörn and Johan 21.00– 23.05 El Ángel TV-SERIES BEFORE Nilsson is coming to BUFF for a preview of a Seventeen-year-old angel-faced THURSDAY 28/3 EVERYONE ELSE! brand new episode of Felix recenserar. Since 2011 Carlos is lured into criminal 16.15–18.10 Twin Flower p. 29 the humor group has criticized a big amount of activity which adds adventure, The first four episodes of tv-series Dröm (Dream), Swedish children and youth films at the YouTube murder and love to his life. Based 17.00–18.30 Felix recenserar which premieres Autumn 2019, will be shown during channel Monte Fjanton with its over 150 000 on a true story. p. 33 the festival. After the screening you can meet followers. After the preview, they will stay to 18.00–19.00 BUFF Daily the main actor Ylvali Curling and series creator answer questions and meet the audience. 21.15–23.00 L’Animale p. 33 Filip Hammarström from the production company 18.30–20.40 Let Me Fall Palladium Fiction, also responsible for the tv-series Magnea and Stella’s teenage years Jordskott. The event is free to attend but registration SMÖRGÅSBOARD centred around drugs, having at buff.se/drom is required as space is limited. Skate film festival Smörgåsboard will be serious consequences. After 12 Curious? See page 57 for more. video-jockeying at the screening of Skate Kitchen years they meet again. p. 28 on Monday at X o’clock! You can watch films MON–WED 6.00 PM – 7.00 PM · SPEGELNS FOAJÉ about female/queer skaters and, if the weather 19.00–21.00 Nausicaä of the 17.00- 18.45 Night Comes On p. 28 is good enough, test your own skating skills Valley of the Wind p. 25 together with skater group Tösabidarna! 19.00–20.35 We the Animals p. 29 21.00–23.00 School’s Out BUFF DAILY A psychological thriller about 21.00–22.35 Firecrackers BE THE FIRST TO KNOW a teacher’s obsession with his A feminist knockout about Lou and TALKSHOW WITH FESTIVAL GUESTS overly intelligent students. p. 33 Chantal who are desperate of get- BUFF always features exciting individuals as guests and ABOUT THE LATEST FILMS ting away from the stale small town on Monday through to Wednesday, at 18.00 at Spegeln A hugely popular standing event at BUFF 21.15–22.55 Rafiki with its sexism and racism. p. 29 cinema, we will meet some of the most current ones for is Work in Progress where we present four A controversial and emotional conversation. These sessions will be a natural place to upcoming films. You will see secret tasters story about two girls who put 22.00–01.00 hang out for the curious and sociable. Secret guests will from the films, as well as having the oppor- a lot on the line in their fight be revealed in our social media channels the day before, tunity to meet the creators and ask them against a homophobic society in AFTERPARTY! so keep an eye out! questions. Read more on page 58 Kenya. p. 29

10 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 11 SAT 23/3 SAT 23/3 9.30AM–3.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ SUN 24/3 10.00AM–4.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ DEAF FILM FESTIVAL SKÅNE, FOR THE HARD OF HEARING FAMILY WEEKEND Fantastic films should be accessible to everyone, as should film festivals. BUFF collaborates with Deaf Film Festival Skåne, who offer a ‘festival within the festival’ to provide a place where deaf and hearing children and youth can meet. For more information, AT PANORA see page 50.

Come and take part in our family SAT 23/3 & SUN 24/3 SUN 24/3 10.00AM–4.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ programme that runs throughout ASTRID LINDGREN’S FILMS BUFF IN HOSPITALS SHRINKS THE CHILDREN the weekend of 23–25 March. Astrid Lindgren’s beloved On the Sunday BUFF in Hospitals (Buffilusk) teams Watch films, participate in exciting film adaptations continue up with play- and knowledge lab Cool Minds and the workshops for the whole family or to touch generation after gigantic animation box! Start off by having a look at RETURN OF A FAVOURITE generation, entertaining blood, bacteria, skin and hair under a microscope just hang out with others who are young and old. Throughout and then create an animation inspired by the body! IN A GIGANTIC FORMAT curious about film. BUFF Family Weekend Maybe you can crawl around inside your own finger- you’ll be enchanted print or play with a louse on a strand of your hair? Erling Ericsson returns to BUFF with his animation by Ronja, Emil and The It will also be possible throughout the weekend to box but this time he is bringing a gigantic version SUN 24/3 1.00PM–2.45PM & 3.00PM–4.45PM PANORA 1 Brothers Lionheart fairytale send a greeting to a patient your own age and watch of it and will be inviting festival-goers into the box, worlds and enchanted by very short animations created by hospitalized children. quite literally, and into the magic of animation! Foto: Jacob Forsell their stories. Read more BUFF’ festival films can be viewed by children in hospitals via Play with professional animators from Den about the films screened at buffilusk.se Pedagogiska Designbyrån, which offers art, design BUFF 2019 on page 34. and media workshops for both children and grown ups, and Unga Berättar (Young Storytelling) from SAT 23/3 9.30AM–3.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ Kulturskolan Stockholm, who help you to make your FILM SCHEDULE YSTAD STUDIO VISITOR CENTRE own animated film in which you play the starring role. SATURDAY 23/3 Foto: Andreas Runevad Try on different costumes and film yourself in SUN 24/3 10.00AM–4.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ 10.00–10.40 P2 Adventure With Animals front of a Green Screen using famous backdrops SVT’S POPULAR SERIES – Shorts Package p. 23 from well-known tv-shows filmed at Ystad Studios. 10.15–11.55 P1 Emil in Lonneberga p. 34 Amongst other things, you can seek out adventure KLASSEN COMES TO BUFF! 11.00–11.40 P2 Animated! – Shorts Package p. 24 in the spaceship from Vintergatan or solve a murder 12.15–14.25 P1 Ronja – the Rober's Daughter p. 34 mystery in true Wallander style. Meet the actors and watch presecreenings of two 12.30–13.45 P2 Tito and the Birds p. 25 new episodes. 13.00–14.45 P3 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: Shorts Package p. 50 Klassen has broken all the records for children’s TV SAT 23/3 9.30AM–3.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ 15.30–17.25 P1 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: Antonias resa SUN 24/3 9.30AM–5.00PM PANORA FOAJÉ on SVT-play with an average of half a million views p. 51 per episode. 18.30–20.45 P2 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: A Silent Voice After the screening you can meet the young p. 51 actors and ask them questions. There will be GAME HABITAT opportunities to ask for autographs and take selfies SUNDAY 24/3 KULTURSKOLAN, with them! Exactly which actors will be there? That 10.00–10.40 P2 Big Galaxies Eat Stars Draw your own avatar, try creating simple games is a secret until a few weeks before the festival kicks + Robot and the Whale p. 22 in Scratch and try locally created games. Game TRY ANIMATION off, so keep an eye out for their names on BUFF’s 10.15–12.05 P1 The Brothers Lionheart p. 35 Habitat works to ensure that Skåne is the best website and on social media! 11.00–12.35 P2 Invisible Sue p. 16 environment for everyone and everything within In Panora’s foyer you can try animation with Attendance is free but places are limited so 13.00–14.45 P1 Klassen game development and design. They are experts in Stop-Motion technology with guidance from film registration at www.buff.se/klassen is required. 13.15–14.55 P2 Wildwitch p. 17 creating engaging events and workshops and are educators from Malmö Kulturskola. There will ready- First come, first served! 15.00–16.45 P1 Klassen visiting BUFF Family Weekend to offer you a real made figures to inspire you and backdrops for you 15.15–16.30 P2 My Grandpa is an Alien p. 15 gaming adventure. to use in your animation.

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MON 25/3 3.30PM–4.45PM SPEGELN C SUN 24/3 3.15PM–4.30PM PANORA 2 WED 27/3 10.00AM–11.30AM SPEGELN A TUE 26/3 10.00AM–11.20AM ROYAL THU 28/3 10.00AM–11.15AM ROYAL WED 27/3 10.00AM–11.35AM FILMSTADEN 2 JACOB, MIMMI AND MY GRANPA s F ilm THE TALKING DOGS Jekabs, Mimmi un runajosie suni. Latvia, Poland 2019. Director: Edmunds Jansons. IS AN ALIEN 70 min. Language: Latvian. Subtitle: Swedish. Moj dida je pao s Marsa. Croatia, Luxembourg, Rec. from age 7 Norway, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,

FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURE ENVIRONMENT Bosnia-Hercegovina 2019. Director: Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Skop. 75 min. Language: Croatian. Jacob is a boy with an active imagination Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 8. who spends his days drawing and dreaming THE FUTURE FRIENDSHIP PHILOSOPHY himself away. When his dad has to go on a work trip, Jacob has to stay with his bossy A twisted sci-fi about 9-year-old Una who finds it diffi- cousin Mimmi. A highrise is being built in cult to make friends. She mostly hangs out with her the park next to where she lives and the two grandpa until he is abducted suddenly. Una discovers children decide to stop the building works. that there is something odd in the basement; she finds A local pack of dogs is there to help them. an alien robot down there and quickly realises that A wonderful hand-painted animation that is her grandpa is an alien. Una and the robot have less both smart and funny. than 24 hours to save Grandpa. Their mission leads to a new friendship and the rational robot learns what it means to have feelings. MON 25/3 9.15AM–11.10AM PANORA 1 THU 28/3 9.30AM–11.25AM FILMSTADEN 1 MON 25/3 9.45AM–11.30AM FILMSTADEN 1 CHUSKIT THU 28/3 9.00AM–10.45AM SPEGELN A India 2018. Director: Priya Ramasubban. 90 min. Language: Ladakhi. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 8. SOCIAL ISSUES SCHOOL HEALTH TAIKI The Netherlands 2019. Director: Mirjam de With. Chuskit is a victim of an accident that paralyses 86 min. Language: Dutch. her legs, and in one short moment, her dreams Subtitles: Swedish and English. Rec. from age 8. of going to school are destroyed. She is forced ANIMALS & PLANTS NATURE FAMILY to stay at home with her grandfather who explains decisively that she must adapt to a life On a holiday car trip to Sweden, 9-year-old Bruno is indoors. Chuskit doesn’t want to accept this getting on his parents’ nerves. What he really wants and their relationship starts to fall apart. The to do is just stay at home and play computer games. film, set in the mountains of the Himalayas, After a fight with them, Bruno runs off into the C hildren ’ ompetition · B est is based on a true story and we are shown a woods and the holiday quickly turns into a nightmare.

C society without access to resources, yet where Tragedy, warmth and love are portrayed side by side there is inclusion as well as challenges. in this thrilling film about Bruno’s survival in the wild Dad and his parents‘ desperate search to find him.

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TUE 26/3 9.00AM–10.45AM SPEGELN A SUN 24/3 1.15PM–2.55PM PANORA 2 WED 27/3 9.45AM–11.30AM FILMSTADEN 1 MON 25/3 12.15PM–2.05PM ROYAL WED 27/3 12.15PM–2.20PM FILMSTADEN 1 THE WAYANG WILDWITCH KIDS Vildheks. Denmark 2018. Director: Kaspar Munk. 96 min. Singapore 2018. Director: Raymond Tan. Language: Danish. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 10.

87 min. Language: Mandarin and English. TALES & ADVENTURES NATURE IDENTITY Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 8. Life takes an abrupt turn for Clara the day she finds MUSIC FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL herself pursued by a cat. She's 12 and has recently A feel-good comedy about a boy called Open who learned that she's a wildwitch, with a very special has autism. Open is good at drawing and dreams connection to the natural world. When she moves in about taking part in a musical. A girl called Baoer with her aunt, she finds herself in an untamed world discovers Open’s dream and, together with the where she's given the chance to explore her powers classmates, they help Open to fulfill his dream. and learn all about the evil which lurks out in the This is a film about accepting others for who they woods. Step into a magical world and join Clara in are, depicting human differences and that, in the her struggle against the powers of darkness and the end, we can unite. quest to find her own inner strength. 25/3, 27/3: Mahalia Melts in the Rain

SUN 24/3 11.00AM–12.35PM PANORA 2 TUE 26/3 12.15PM–2.20PM FILMSTADEN 1 MON 25/3 12.30PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 1 THU 28/3 12.30PM–2.20PM ROYAL WED 27/3 12.30PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 2 INVISIBLE FIGHT GIRL Vechtmeisje. Belgium, The Netherlands 2018. Director: Johan Timmers. 84 min. Language: Flemish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 11. SUE FRIENDSHIP FAMILY SPORT Germany 2018. Director: Markus Dietrich. 92 min. Language: German. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 11 When 12-year-old Bodil’s parents get divorced, she is forced to move house and start a new school. She FRIENDSHIP THE FUTURE SCIENCE feels responsible for her brother who has diabetes Sue is a lonely teenage girl. Her mum is a researcher and is being bullied. Bodil meets Joy who introduces who spends all her time working at the lab. When her to kickboxing, which is a perfect fit because she Sue and her dad decide to surprise her at work on has difficulty controlling her temper. With kick- her birthday, they just end up getting in the way. In boxing, Bodil can get an outlet for her emotions and the commotion, Sue accidentally comes into contact get control over her life. This is an outstanding film with a liquid which makes her invisible! When her about girl power, friendship and the art of learning to mum is kidnapped, Sue enlists the help of her friends accept your own flaws and strengths. to save her and apprehend the kidnappers. My Time 26/3, 28/3: Big Wolf & Little Wolf

16 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 17 Competition · Best Young People’s Film Competition · Best Young People’s Film

MON 25/3 9.00AM–11.00AM PANORA 2 TUE 26/3 9.15AM–11.20AM PANORA 2 MON 25/3 12.15PM–2.05PM SPEGELN A MON 25/3 7.00AM–8.45AM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 12.30PM–2.30PM PANORA 1 WED 27/3 12.15PM–2.20PM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 12.30PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 2 TUE 26/3 12.15PM–2.00PM SPEGELN A s F ilm A COLONY STUPID YOUNG HEART Une colonie. Canada 2018. Director: Hölmö nuori sydän. Finland 2018. Director: PEWPEWPEW Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. 102 min. Selma Vilhunen. 102 min. Language: Finnish and HARAJUKU Sweden 2019. Director: Sergey Vasiliev. 82 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. Somali. Subtitles English. Rec. from age 13. Norway 2018. Director: Eirik Svensson. 83 min. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 14

Rec. from age 13. LOVE RIGHT & WRONG SOCIAL ISSUES Language: Norwegian. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 14. THE FUTURE DREAMS CELEBRITY FAMILY IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP IDENTITY EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS RELATIONSHIPS A raw, gripping and warm film about Kiira and PewPewPew is a mysterious virus which starts to spread Teenager Mylia has just moved to a small Lenni who discover that they are expecting a Vilde is fascinated by Japanese culture and dreams among teenagers in Malmö. Four teens are affected town with her mother and little sister and is child before they have even finished school. about the Tokyo borough of Harajuku. She hangs out by nausea, confusion and an extreme craving to be starting a new school. It is chaos at home and Lenni, who grew up without a dad, must now with like-minded friends at Oslo's Central Station. just as famous as PewDiePie. A film which raises a host at school, she is trying to find her group and become a man and is desperately longing for It's Christmas, and her mum is in an unusually good of questions about values, the future, loneliness, an a place to fit in. Mylia becomes friends with a father figure. He finds that in Janne, a man mood – but a short while later, Vilde is informed that obsession with outward appearances and mental health an older girl, Jacinthe, who is not the best who take company with right-wing extremist her mum has committed suicide. She is suddenly issues, in a dreamlike and humouristic way. A film in the influence on her. She introduces Mylia to circles. Kiira feels alone in her pregnancy and in the position of having to contact her biological spirit of Harmony Korine (director of Kids and Spring

’ oung P eople alcohol and encourages her to hook up with she realises that Lenni is becoming anything father and during the space of a few short hours, Breakers) about the lack of real meaning in a life in which an unsavoury guy. This is an unpleasant, but at but a responsible father. she's forced to go through a lot. Vilde's life takes a you apparently have everything but really have nothing. the same time realistic coming-of-age drama. Can’t Shine Without You My Brothers turn in a new direction. Jamila MON 25/3 12.15PM–2.10PM FILMSTADEN 3 WED 27/3 9.30AM–11.30AM FILMSTADEN 3 WED 27/3 12.30PM–2.30PM PANORA 3 TUE 26/3 2.15PM–4.10PM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 12.15PM–2.15PM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 9.15AM–11.15AM FILMSTADEN 2 MON 25/3 2.30PM–4.15PM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 10.00AM–11.45AM FILMSTADEN 3

HENDI AND HORMOZ THE UNPROMISED LAND Hendi va Hormoz. Iran 2018. Director: Abbas ZEN IN THE ICE RIFT The Unpromised Land. Sweden 2019. Amini. 88 min. Language: Farsi. Subtitles: Zen sul ghiaccio sottile. Italy 2018. Director: Victor Lindgren. 88 min. Language: English. Rec. from age 14. FOR A HAPPY LIFE Director: Margherita Ferri. 87 min. Language: Italian. Swedish and Romanian. Subtitles: English. FAMILY LIFE SOCIAL ISSUES RELATIONSHIPS Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 14. FRIENDSHIP SOCIAL ISSUES HUMAN RIGHTS Pour vivre heureux. Belgium, Luxemburg 2018. Director: IDENTITY HBTQ SPORT Hendi is 13 years old and married off to Hormoz, Salima Glamine and Dimitri Linder. 89 min. Language: 17-year-old Sabina and her two brothers have a boy who's three years older. They barely French and Urdu. Subtitle: English. Rec. from age 14. 16 year old Maia gets into trouble easily – and is travelled from Romania to the small village know one another and life as man and wife bullied by her team mates in the hockey club, where LOVE TRADITIONS IDENTITY of Holmsund to find jobs. There Sabina meets mostly centres around getting to know one she is the only girl. When she gets to know the team 15-year-old Elin, who lives with her father, another. The pair encounter a number of severe Amel has Algerian roots and her dad has clear guide- captain's girlfriend, a special relationship develops and they soon become good friends. The rest difficulties. Hendi has to give up school and lines on how she must live her life. Mashir’s family is between the two, and in the end it's impossible Y ompetition · B est of the villagers have a more difficult time Homoz is forced along a difficult and dangerous from Pakistan and see it as a given that he’ll marry a to resist the need to break the rules that the little

C to appreciate their new neighbours. Victor path when he has problems finding a job. An Pakistani girl. The way things are, the love between community where they live has forced them to live Lindgren’s gripping feature film debut depicts emotionally charged film, dealing with social Amel and Mashir is impossible and they are forced to by. An engaging and important film about exploring both racism and strong emotions. injustice, which will leave few people unmoved. love each other in secret. Will they ever live happily your gender identity and finding yourself. Little Waves Sapera ever after without letting their families down? Moustache

18 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 19 Competition · Best short film Competition · Best short film

TUE 26/3 9.30AM–11.10AM · PANORA 3 COMPETITION – BEST SHORT FILM SHORTS PACKAGE · RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 13

THE SCHOOL TRIP La gita. Italy 2018. Director: Salvatore Allocca. 15 min. GRANBAD Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 13. BIG WOLF & LITTLE WOLF UK 2018. Director: Annabel Vine. 10 min. IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP HUMAN RIGHTS DAD Grand Loup & Petit Loup. France, Belgium 2018. Language: English. Rec. from age 12. Megalie was born in Italy, and sick of hearing that she Pappa. Norway 2019. Director: Atle Blakseth, Director: Rémi Durin. 14 min. Language: French. FAMILY ARTS & CRAFTS EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Einar Rafoss Dunsæd. 8 min. Language: Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 7. speaks good Italian. She's lived there all her life! But A boy with spelling difficulties struggles with his her family is from Senegal, and she's unable to take Norwegian. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 7. RELATIONSHIPS TALES & ADVENTURES EMOTIONS self-confidence. In his grandad's workshop, he learns part in the school trip to Paris because her residence FAMILY IMAGINATION ANIMATION At the top of a small hill, under a tree, lives to carve wooden spoons. On the way home, he runs permit hasn't yet been renewed. As if that wasn't Tommy lies in his bed, unable to sleep. He drifts Big Wolf, alone. This is the way he likes it, and into older kids, who tease him for hanging out with enough, she's in love with Marco, who she helps away in dreams about his father, fantasising he would rather not be disturbed by anyone. his grandad, something from which everyone learns a with maths. Here, the film's music adds feeling and about a dad who is everything and then some. He One day, Little Wolf turns up, and wants to lesson later on. perhaps bodes a happy ending? imagines all the fun things they could do together hang out with him, but Big Wolf wants him to Also screened before Old Boys 27/3 5.15PM and 28/3 12.15PM. Also screened before That’s Life 26/3 12.30PM and 28/3 12.15PM. and wonders what his dad is up to right now. disappear and find a tree of his own. When Perhaps he's battling lions in the dark jungle? Little does disappear, Big Wolf discovers for Also screened before Chuskit 25/3 9.15AM and the first time what it's like to miss someone. 28/3 9.30AM. Also screened before Invisible Sue 26/3 12.15PM and 28/3 12.30PM. film short ompetition · B est C MAHALIA MELTS IN THE RAIN MOUSTACHE JAMILA Canada 2018. Director: Emilie Mannering, Sibil. Iran, Germany 2019. Director: Afsun M. Nezhad. Sweden 2019. Director: Sophie Vukovic. 14 mins. Carmine Pierre-Dufour. 12 min. Language: 9 min. Language: Farsi. Subtitles: English. Language: Swedish and Kurdish. Subtitles: English. French. Subtitles: English text. Rec. from age 10. MY TIME Rec. from age 13. Rec. from age 12.

IDENTITY RASISM RIGHT & WRONG UK 2018. Director: Giulia Gandini. 6 min. GENDER ROLES SOCIAL ISSUES IDENTITY FEAR ASYL GROWING UP Language: English. Rec. from age 11. 9 year old Mahalia feels different to all the When Parvaneh shaves away the hair on her upper lip Jamila is 13 years old and lives a normal teenage FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL GROWING UP other girls in her ballet class because her and between her eyebrows, her parents are livid. A life in Sweden which she doesn’t want to end. Then hair and the colour of her skin are different Five minutes before 12-year-old Eva is to give film about beauty ideals and norms, but most of all she sees the envelope. Jamila’s family have had from all the others. In an attempt to boost her presentation in front of class, she notices a about young women's limited rights to decide over their asylum request rejected. Towing her little her daughter's self-confidence, her mum has spot of blood on her skirt. The clock is ticking their own bodies. The boy next door thinks Parvaneh sister behind her and pretending that nothing has Mahalia's hair fixed before a photo shoot. and the time to present getting nearer. Where is fine just as she is, but stands by her side when she happened, Jamila goes to school and meets up her A film about everyday racism. is help when you need it? risks punishment. friends. While practicing for their dance exam in the Also screened before Wildwitch 25/3 12.15PM and Also screened before Fight Girl 25/3 12.30PM and Also screened before Zen in the Ice Rift 25/3 12.15PM playground, she suddenly sees them: the police. 27/3 12.15PM. 27/3 12.30PM. and 26/3 2.15PM. Also screened before Harajuku 25/3 12.15PM and 28/3 12.30PM.

20 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 21 For the Youngest For the Youngest

THU 28/3 9.00AM–10.05AM PANORA 1 MON 25/3 10.00AM–11.20AM FILMSTADEN 2 SAT 23/3 10.00–10.40AM · PANORA 2 MON 25/3 9.15AM–9.55AM · ROYAL WED 27/3 9.00AM–9.40AM · ROYAL THU 28/3 10.30AM–11.35AM PANORA 1 TUE 26/3 10.00AM–11.20AM FILMSTADEN 2 ADVENTURES WITH ANIMALS SHORTS PACKAGE · RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 3

oungest CIRCLEEN, COCO AND THE WILD RHINOCEROS Cirkeline, Coco og det vilde næsehorn. Denmark 2018. Director: Jannik Hastrup. 62 min. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. THE NIGHT I SWAM Rec. from age 3. Takara – La nuit où j’ai nagé. Japan, France 2017.

FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURE IDENTITY Director: Damien Manivel, Kohei Igarashi. 79 min. No dialogue. Rec. from age 6. A tiny elf, two mice, a rhinocerous and a SAM’S DREAM FAMILY THE OUTDOORS EMOTIONS princess embark on an exciting adventure. They KUAP Le Rêve de Sam. France 2019. or the Y are bound for Africa, to find the princess' home Among snow-covered mountains in Japan, a Switzerland 2018. Director: Nils Hedinger. 8 min. No dialogue. Director: Nolwenn Roberts. 7 min. No dialogue. and the rhinocerous' mother. On the way, they fisherman awakes in the middle of the night to F ANIMALS & PLANTS TALES & ADVENTURES ANIMALS & PLANTS TALES & ADVENTURES FRIENDSHIP encounter a number of difficulties which they go to work at the city market. His 6 year old son must solve together. But have they really ended wakes up and has trouble going back to sleep. In In the lake, a frog is laying her eggs. The tadpoles Every year, Sam the wood mouse looks up at the up in Africa? A lovely, funny story about friend- the sleepy household, the son climbs out of bed grow, develop arms and legs, and leave the water for migrating birds which fly above the forest. His greatest ship – and the big things and the little things in and dresses to go to school. On the way there, land. All apart from one. A single tadpole must find dream is to be with them, up amongst the clouds, and life. The film will be screened live-dubbed by he has trouble keeping himself awake, and when new friends now that all the others have left the lake although he's only a little mouse, he has a will of steel. students from Fridhem's folkhögskola. he finally arrives, he decides not to go in. for a life of hopping on land. A lush animated film about friendship and dreams.

SUN 24/3 10.00–10.40AM · PANORA 2 MON 25/3 10.15–10.55AM · ROYAL THU 28/3 9.00AM–9.40AM · ROYAL BIG GALAXIES EAT STARS + THE ROBOT AND THE WHALE RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 3 BIG GALAXIES THE ROBOT AND EAT STARS THE WHALE ANGLERFISH RUT & ELIAS Sweden 2019. Director: Sweden 2018. Director: Jonas Germany 2018. Director: Julia Sweden 2019. Anna Charlotte. 28 min. Forsman. 6 min. No dialogue. Ocker. 4 min. No dialogue. Director: Pernilla Olsson. Language: Swedish. ANIMALS & PLANTS ANIMALS NATURE 10 min. Language: Swedish. THE GIRAFFES BIKE THE UNIVERSE FRIENDSHIP TALES & ADVENTURES TALES & ADVENTURES FAMILY FRIENDSHIP TALES & ADVENTURES TALES & ADVENTURES Giraffens cykel. Sweden 2019. The robot, Lobo, lives with his When it's dark, even the most Director: Lasse Persson. 7 min. Four friends are searching for best friend, Banjo, an inquis- everyday things can be trans- Elias is bored. Everything revolves No dialogue. their stars in outer space – but itive robot dog. Together, formed into terrifying shadows. constantly aound his little sister. TALES & ADVENTURES in the Tunnel of Shadows live they plant trees and rescue This is exactly what happens to Finally, he decides to run away ANIMALS & NATURE monsters who eat starlight. animals in distress. One day, the little fish who lives at the very to the attic with his dog, Rut. Only by helping one another a whale is washed up onto bottom of the sea, and who is ”Goodbye forever!” he exclaims, Giraffe has a lovely red bike and can the friends achieve their the beach, and the pair hurry scared of someone who's the very as he disappears up the ladder to a cycle helmet. However, cycling goal. Perhaps you too will to the rescue. Something closest there is. Because even the the attic with Rut following along on it is proving to be easier said catch a glimpse of your own which proves risky for kindest of fish parents can have after. But suddenly, someone than done. Luckily the friend special star in the sky tonight! water-sensitive robots. sharp teeth in the darkness. turns up! Monkey is there to help, or is it?

22 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 23 For the Youngest THEME SERIES · The Future

SAT 23/3 11.00AM–11.40AM · PANORA 2 TUE 26/3 9.00AM–9.40AM · ROYAL WED 27/3 9.00AM–9.40AM · SPEGELN A IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS ANIMATED! AROUND THE FUTURE OR DREAM YOURSELF AWAY SHORTS PACKAGE · RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 5 SAT 23/3 3.00PM–5.00PM ROYAL (OPENING) WED 27/3 2.45PM–4.20PM SPEGELN A FRE 29/3 9.15AM–10.55AM PANORA 1 THU 28/3 12.15PM–1.45PM PANORA 3

MIRAÏ SCIENCE FAIR Mirai no Mirai. Japan 2018. Director: USA 2018. Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Mamoru Hosoda. 98 min. Language: Swedish. Foster. 90 min. Language: English, German, Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 6. Portuguese. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. TWO BALLOONS A LIGHT IN GROWING UP TALES & ADVENTURES IMAGINATION THE FUTURE SCIENCE SCHOOL MATILDA USA 2017. Director: Mark C. Smith. Having siblings can be a test of patience. For In Science Fair, we are introduced to a host of France, Spain, Belgium 2019. 9 min. No dialogue. THE NIGHT 4 year old Kun, life as he knows it is turned inspiring young scientific talents from all over upside down with the arrival of little sister the world, who give us hope for the future. Director: Irene Iborra, ANIMALS IMAGINATION Une lumière dans la nuit. France 2018. Miraï. He journeys through a magic garden, The students are competing in the annual Eduard Puertas. 7 min. No dialogue. TALES & ADVENTURES Director: Marie Grymonpré, into the future, to meet his little sister as she International Science and Engineering Fair, TALES & ADVENTURES ANIMALS Adrien Verbeck. 2 min. No dialogue. Two lemurs, each in a flying is in the future. Miraï is family film at its very where they develop, test and refine solutions IMAGINATION NATURE TALES & ADVENTURES machine of their own, encounter best and a must-see for anyone who loves to questions which puzzle researchers EMOTIONS Matilda can't sleep. She wonders one another high up, amongst the Japanese animated film. The film is Oscar worldwide. about the kinds of creatures stars. A white seabird becomes The ocean is a big, stormy place nominated for Best Animated Feature. hiding in the shadows around the their messenger, flying between and the tiny rubber dinghy carrying TUE 26/3 7.00PM–9.00PM SPEGELN A walls – and when the light bulb them with gifts. The pair decide the little girl is thrown from side to stops working, and she lights her to meet up and eat delicious side. She attempts to hold on, but SAT 23/3 12.30PM–1.45PM PANORA 2 WED 27/3 10.00AM–11.15AM ROYAL torch, the shadows come alive. food together. As they each ends up in the water and doesn't But are they as dangerous as she prepare themselves, a storm know how she can possibly survive.

imagined? suddenly blows up. Something But under the surface of the water, · T he F uture THEME SERIES which results in a dramatic turn the fish shine like lanterns, which of events. can prove to be her salvation. NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND ALL THE DEAR LITTLE ANIMALS Kaze no tani no Naushika. Japan 1984. Director: WHITELAND Sweden, Germany 2019. TITO AND THE BIRDS Hayao Miyazaki. 117 min. Language: Japanese. Belosnejye. Russia 2018. Director: Michael Ekblad. 8 min. Tito e os Pássaros. Brazil 2018. 73 min. Director: Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 11.

Director: Ira Elshansky. 7 min. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg. TALES & ADVENTURES GOOD & EVIL ADVENTURE No dialogue. NATURE FRIENDSHIP EMOTIONS Language: Portuguese. Subtitles: Swedish. A thousand years ago, civilisation perished. Ever BOUNDARIES ART Rec. from age 8 Ester finds a dead bumblebee and since, human beings have lived in small, rival TALES & ADVENTURES DREAMS FRIENDSHIP IDENTITY has an idea. Together with her best groups, separated by a deadly mushroom-filled A grey figure made of clay finds friend, and her little brother Putte, A peculiar epidemic is spreading, one where jungle populated by giant insects. Princess himself in a blinding white room. she starts a funeral company. Now people fall ill when they become scared or are Nausicaä, from the peaceful Valley of the Wind, Wherever he touches, he leaves begins the important work of afraid of something. Tito discovers that this is attempts to discover the causes behind the a mark. Stubbornly, he attempts burying a shrew, Nuffy the hamster connected to his father's research into bird- inhospitable world of war and conflict in which to keep the room clean. An and a host of other dead animals, song. Together with his friends, Tito sets out she lives in. The animé success which helped imaginative claymation which who might otherwise have been left to save the world – in addition to the search pave the way for Studio Ghibli. challenges both the eye and the lying above the ground. The children for his missing father and his own identity. A N.B. Tickets for sale over the till at the Spegeln cinema. imagination. write poems, and shed tears – lovely animated film from Brazil, reminiscent BUFF's Festival Pass (30 SEK) counts as a Cinemateket because death is such a sad thing. of something from Studio Ghibli. card, bringing the cost of a ticket down to 50 SEK.

24 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 25 THEME SERIES · The Future THEME SERIES · The Future

TUE 26/3 2.45PM–3.50PM · SPEGELN C WED 27/3 1.00PM–2.10PM · FILMSTADEN 3 THU 28/3 10.15AM–11.40AM · PANORA 2 DREAMS OF A BETTER LIFE EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE SHORTS PACKAGE · RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 12 SHORTS PACKAGE · RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 14 OCTOBER BOY Oktoberdreng. Denmark 2018. Director: Søren Green. OUR LIFE AS REFUGEE 29 min. Language: Danish. Subtitles: English. LIFE ON MARS IDENTITY GENDER ROLES LOVE CHILDREN IN EUROPE La Vie sur mars. France 2018. Director: Marie Léa Regales. 14-year-old Thomas is new at school, making sure Nuestra vida como niños refugiados en Europa. 17 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. he fits in and is popular in his new group. He works out that by meeting the attractive Emma he will be Spain 2018. Director: Silvia Venegas. 15 min. Language: EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS RELATIONSHIPS EMOTIONS Farsi, Arabic, English, Portuguese. Subtitles: English. accepted but he doesn’t understand his feelings, Maria misses her brother. It's a hot summer and Maria how he should act among his friends or how to HUMAN RIGHTS POLITICS SOCIAL ISSUES spends her time hanging out near her home on Corsica. control his lies. Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe is the brave But everything feels different, and she gets on her testimonies from the lives of children and young moped and drives off to a magical place where the peoples living as refugees. The stories are told from night sky is endless and star-filled. But even the impor- a refugee camp in Greece and during the uncertainty tant places have lost their meaning. Tomorrow is her of waiting for a residence permit in Malmö. A moving her brother's 20th birthday and Maria wonders if he documentary about flight and the hope of a better continues to grow older even when he's no longer there. life without war.

BEYOND THE FENCE PARADISE DWELLERS Ansoye hesar. Iran 2018. Director: Arman . Iran 2018. Director: Ramin Samani. Gholipourdashtaki. 18 min. Language: Farsi. NUR 8 min. Language: Farsi. Subtitles: English. Subtitles: English. VIRGINS4LYFE Israel 2018. Director: Gal Lin. 15 min. GENDER ROLES FAMILY LIFE POLITICAL ISSUES SPORTS DOCUMENTARY FAMILY LIFE Norway 2018. Director: Thea Hvistendahl. 18 min. Language: Arabic. Subtitles: English. Language: Norwegian and English. Subtitles: English. Fatameh is at home alone with her paralysed grand- Behnaz is a really talented football player. Her dream FAMILY HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL ISSUES SEXUALITY FRIENDSHIP mother. When her grandmother needs to go to the is to play for the Iranian football team and play in Nur lives in East Jerusalem. She dreams of educating toilet, Fatameh can’t get her into her wheelchair on her the best European leagues. She trains hard and is It’s the last evening of the summer holiday for herself to become an artist. But the conflicts own. She needs someone strong to help her. Despite determined but being a girl and living in a small town 14-year-old Astrid and Issi. The evening’s goal is clear, in Jerusalem stand in the way of her family's that her mother won’t allow her to see the neighbour in Iran presents difficulties. A documentary about especially for Issi: find a guy and hopefully lose your acceptance. boy Ali, she now has no choice but to ask him for help. dreams, family and football. virginity before the holiday is over.

26 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 27 THEME SERIES · For real THEME SERIES · For real

MON 25/3 12.45PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 2 MON 25/3 1.00PM–2.35PM FILMSTADEN 4 IF YOU LIKE FILMS THAT FEEL TUE 26/3 9.15PM–10.55PM SPEGELN A THU 28/3 9.00PM–10.35PM SPEGELN C REAL OR ARE BASED ON REALITY

TUE 26/3 6.30PM–8.40PM SPEGELN C WED 27/3 9.30AM–11.40AM PANORA 3 or real LET ME FALL RAFIKI FIRECRACKERS Lof mér að falla. Iceland, Finland, Tyskland Kenya, South Africa, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Canada 2018. Director: Jasmin Mozaffari. 93 min. 2018. Director: Baldvin Z. 136 min. Language: Norway, Lebanon 2018. Director: Wanuri Kahiu. 83 min. Language: English. Rec. from age 15.

Icelandic. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. Language: Swahili. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. FRIENDSHIP IDENTITY RELATIONSHIPS IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP DREAMS LOVE HBTQ HUMAN RIGHTS Lou and best friend Chantal hate the tiny hole where When 15 year old Magnea meets Stella, Love conquers all. Kena och Ziki are two young they live, and plan to leave as soon as they get the everything changes. Stellas bleak lifestyle drags women who defy a host of established conventions chance. The same evening as they celebrate their them both into a world of drugs. An existence and revolt against Kenya's homophobic society. But school graduation, they're partying hard to celebrate which leads to serious consequences both for to experience true happiness, they're forced to put their freedom. Then something terrible happens. their relationship, and for them as individuals. their own safety on the line. Initially banned in Kenya, Chantal is sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend. Lou Twelve years later, they meet up again. What's where it was seen as being tooo controversial, Wanuri wants to take revenge on him and thispputs the pair's life like now? A film about friendship which Kahiu's much talked-about film bubbles with colour, friendship to the test, as well as making it more diffi- stretches from the teenage years to adulthood, emotion and the forbidden love of two young people. cult for them to leave. To overcome the boredom, as depicting the effect that drugs can have on you. The Orphan well as what has occured, the friends must shatter boundaries and established conventions.

WED 27/3 9.15PM–11.00PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 9.30AM–11.15AM FILMSTADEN 3 MON 25/3 9.30AM–11.25AM FILMSTADEN 3 FRE 29/3 12.30PM–2.15PM PANORA 2 THU 28/3 5.00PM–6.45PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 4.15PM–6.10PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 1.00PM–2.35PM FILMSTADEN 3 THU 28/3 7.00PM–8.35PM SPEGELN C THEME SERIES · F THEME SERIES

TWIN FLOWER NIGHT COMES ON Fiore gemello. Italy 2018. Director: Laura Luchetti. WE THE ANIMALS JELLYFISH USA 2018. Director: Jordana Spiro. 90 min. 96 min. Language: Bambara, Italian, French. USA 2018. Director: Jeremiah Zagar. 94 min. UK 2018. Director: James Gardner. 101 min. Language: English. Subtitles: Swedish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. Language: English. Rec. from age 15.

Language: English. Rec. from age 15. Rec. from age 15. RELATIONSHIPS IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP FAMILY LIFE IDENTITY DREAMS IDENTITY SOCIAL ISSUES FAMILY IDENTITY FAMILY FRIENDSHIP A dark tale, in the style of Polanski, about two Three brothers aged between the ages of 10 and 12 15 year old Sarah struggles to get through Angel is released from youth custody just teenagers in Southern Italy. The film begins with try to adjust to the fact that their father has recently school at the same time as she is forced to take before her 18th birthday. She has her mind Anna fleeing from a knife-wounded man. She meets left them. Prior to this, their parents have quarelled a care of her mumand little sister at home. Her set on avenging her mum's death in the belief Basim, an orphan boy from Ivory Coast. As a result of lot. About growing up in a family where parents fail to mum suffers from a depression related illness that this will give some meaning to her life. what has happened, she's lost her voice. Both young live up to their responsibilities as adults, and children and Sarah gets an extra job to put food on the Hunted by her violent past, she starts to make people seem to have had a difficult time of things, are required to shoulder the burden. Instead, they find table. By chance, her drama teacher gives Sarah a go of things together with her 10 year old and they team up, a strong bond developing between strength and comfort in one another. When two of an assignment which both sparks her interest sister. Slowly, the desire for revenge passes, them. Both of them on the run, they try at the same the brothers begin to resemble their father in their and awakens a new side in her. It turns out and she sees that there's maybe something time to find themselves again. Together, they make behaviour, the third brother is left feeling like more that Sarah has a talent for stand-up comedy. more to life, and that despite everything, she up a unity: a Twin Flower. An exciting road movie and more of an outsider. He finds solace in his imag- A touching drama, with an extraordinary acting has her own role to play in the world. through beautiful landscapes. ination and by staying true to himself. A poetic film, contribution by Liv Hill in the leading role. All These Creatures Eva reminiscent of e.g. Moonlight and The Florida Project.

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WED 27/3 5.15PM–7.00PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 12.30PM–2.20PM FILMSTADEN 2 IF YOU LIKE LEAVING THE THU 28/3 12.45PM–2.30PM FILMSTADEN 1 THU 28/3 12.15PM–14.05 FILMSTADEN 4 CINEMA WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE

MON 25/3 9.00AM–10.55AM· SPEGELN A TUE 26/3 9.15AM–11.10AM · FILMSTADEN 4 HALKAA India 2018. Director: Nila Madhab Panda, Roshni Nadar Malhotra. 114 min. Language: Hindi. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 8.

DREAMS THE FUTURE HUMAN RIGHTS

Pichku dreams of one thing – a clean toilet where he can sit in peace. But in the Indian slums, being able to do this with a roof over your head is more of a luxury than a right. THAT’S LIFE Pichku and some friends start to collect Succede. Italy 2018. Director: Francesca Mazzoleni. money with which to build a toilet. With a 94 min. Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Rec. large help of music, song, dance and humour, OLD BOYS from age 13. the film highlights a global problem which UK 2018. Director: Toby MacDonald. 96 min. FRIENDSHIP LOVE IDENTITY many Swedish children perhaps take for Language: English. Rec. from age 13. granted – access to a clean, safe toilet. Margherita is a 14 year old living in Milano, who shares LOVE GENDER ROLES SCHOOL everything with her friends. They discuss clothes, music, This British comedy, is an open invitation to discus- school and that first kiss. A delightful coming-of-age THEME SERIES · S mile THEME SERIES MON 25/3 9.15AM–10.55AM FILMSTADEN 4 WED 27/3 9.00PM–10.45PM SPEGELN A sions about existing gender norms as well as a good film in which the here and now is all that really matters. TUE 26/3 9.45AM–11.25AM FILMSTADEN 1 FRE 29/3 12.15PM–2.00PM PANORA 1 deal of laughter. At an English boys' school, with its Where every little thing is so very important and where well established male hierarchy, being clever, imagina- feelings sometimes bubble over. In your teens, there's tive och a little clumsy, like Amberson, is difficult. no room for anything but friendship and love. Granbad The School Trip

WED 27/3 7.15PM–8.55PM · SPEGELN C THU 28/3 2.00PM–3.45PM · PANORA 3

THE FALCONS SLUT IN Viti i Vestmannaeyjum. Iceland 2018. Director: EIGHTH GRADE Bragi Thor Hinriksson. 97 min. Language: USA 2018. Director: Bo Burnham. 93 min. Icelandic. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec.from age 9. Language: English. Rec. from age 13. A GOOD WAY SPORTS FRIENDSHIP FAMILY HUMOUR GROWING UP ALIENATION Charlotte a du fun. Canada 2018. Director: Sophie Lorain. 89 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. The Falcons are all set to take part in a Kayla is in her last year of junior high school, Rec. from age 15. football touramnet in Iceland's Westman and most things are just embarrassing and HUMOUR SEX EQUALITY Islands. Only the best teams get to take part, annoying. She wonders how she should and Jon is the only striker in his team. He has behave to fit in. The funniest film at this year's 17 year old Charlotte make use of her newfound problems being one of the gang, and needs to BUFF captures the melancholy of teenage single freedom by dating different guys that she gets work on his self-confidence, something which existence and that strange feeling of no to know in the store where she works extra. When causes him to develop both as an individual longer being a child, but not yet an adult, she is made aware that the rules for how a girl is and as a player. The film depicts courage, accurately and with humour. Elsie Fisher is allowed to behave sexually is different from the boys friendship , family relationships, as well as irresistable in her depiction of an awkward she starts a sex strike with her female colleagues. A violence towards children, with a mixture of Kayla, and was nominated earlier this year for fun film that criticises the norms of society whilst at seriousness and humour. a Golden Globe for best leading role. the same time affirms sexuality in a lustful way. Slow Dance The Messenger 27/3: Saladdin Castique, 28/3: I’m Going Out for Cigarettes

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MON 25/3 9.15PM–11.00PM SPEGELN C MON 25/3 9.00PM–11.05PM SPEGELN A IF YOU LIKE YOUR FILMS PROVOCATIVE, CHALLENGING THU 28/3 3.00PM–4.45PM SPEGELN C OR EVEN A BIT LIKE A FINGER IN YOUR EYE.

MON 25/3 5.00PM–6.45PM · SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 12.30PM–2.15PM · ROYAL LAND OF GLASS Landet af glas. Danmark 2018. Director: Jeppe Vig Find, Marie Dalsgaard Rønn. 86 min. Language: Danish. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 10.

FANTASY FRIENDSHIP HUMAN RIGHTS L’ANIMALE EL ÁNGEL Austria 2018. Director: Katharina Mückstein. 96 min. El ángel. Argentina 2018. Director: Luis Ortega. 118 min. Jas' dad is a truck driver and is often away Language: German. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. Language: Spanish. Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 15. working. One day, when Jas is on his own, IDENTITY LOVE FRIENDSHIP VIOLENCE CRIMINALITY GROWING UP he finds a girl, and an elderly woman in the family's barn. They have an odd appearance, Mati hangs out with the moped guys. One source of It's the 1970's and 17 year old Carlos drifts around like and it seems as if they're unable to return to amusement for them is to harrass young girls. The a celebrity. Engaged in criminal activity from an early their home deep in the forest. What is it that problems start when one of the guys falls in love with age, he fills his days with adventure, love, murder they're so scared of? When he decides to Mati, and she's no longer ”one of the guys” – but and a range of other crimes. The media dub him ”The discover the truth of what's happening, Jas is has become a potential girlfriend. At the same time, Angel of Death” because of his angel-like appear- drawn into an exciting and mystical adventure. Carla enters Mat's world, which is turnd upside down ance. Today, he is the longest-serving inmate of any 3feet as a result. A film about gender identity and innate Argentine prison. An energetic thriller which has been urges that we have no control over. compared to the work of both Scorsese and Tarantino.

THEME SERIES · E dgy THEME SERIES Oneself Story Family Jewels TUE 26/3 12.45PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 4 MON 25/3 7.15PM–8.50PM SPEGELN C WED 27/3 3.00PM–4.40PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 12.30PM–2.10PM PANORA 3 TUE 26/3 9.00PM–11.00PM SPEGELN C MON 25/3 4.30PM–6.35PM SPEGELN A FRE 29/3 9.30AM–11.30AM PANORA 2 THU 28/3 9.30AM–11.35AM PANORA 3

BLOSSOM VALLEY METEORITES Virágvölgy. Hungary 2018. Director: László Les météorites. France 2018. Director: Romain Csuja. 83 min. Language: Hungarian. Subtitles: SCHOOL’S OUT Laguna. 85 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. L’heure de la sortie. France 2018. SKATE KITCHEN English. Rec. from age 15. RELATIONSHIPS FAMILY LIFE SOCIAL ISSUES Director: Sébastien Marnier. Language: French. USA 2018. Director: Crystal Moselle. 106 min. LOVE GROWING UP IDENTITY Subtitles: English. 104 min. Rec. from age 15. Language: English, Spanish. Subtitles: English. Bianka drifts aimlessly around doing whatever SCHOOL MYSTERIES BOUNDARIES Rec. from age 15. Nina dreams of a life which is a little more she wants. One day, she ends up kidnapping a IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP DREAMS exciting than the one which her summer job baby, and finds herself needing a home and a When their existing teacher throws himself out of a in a sleepy dinosaur park in Southern France father. It's then that she meets Laci, a young window, a young substitute teacher is assigned to a For Camille, suburban life is defined by boredom and can offer her. On the same day as a meteorite guy who's been declared legally incompe- class of over-achievers. He notices from the begin- loneliness. Then, one day, she gets to know a group crashes nearby, she meets Morad, the big tetent because of his low intelligence. They ning that there's something special with this group of female skaters. She starts going into New York brother of one of the girls she works with, make their way away together, and for Bianka of young people, who have a special relationship to City and is pulled into the subculture. The problem is who has recently been released from youth everything takes on an air of excitement one another and to their previous teacher. A riveting that she's made a solemn promise to her mum that custody. This is the start of a complicated that's in sharp contrast to an otherwise boring psychological thriller which follows the substitute she wouldn't skateboard again. When she deserts her relationship which leads Nina to embark on an existence. Laci, in the meantime, has decided teacher's obsession to get to the truth behind his new friends to hang out with a rival male gang, she's inner journey to grow up and find herself. that he'll do anything for his new family. students' mysterious secrets. really put herself in the shit. Sound of Silence 25/3: Cat Days, 27/3: Sacrilége 26/3: Sports Day, 28/3: Our Death Fuck You

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ASTRID LINDGREN IS THE MOST-READ CHILDREN'S AUTHOR SUN 24/3 10.15AM–12.05PM PANORA 1 IN THE WORLD. THIS SERIES OF FILMS IS A TRIBUTE TO THE FANTASTIC WORLDS AND CHARACTERS WHICH SHE CREATED. THE BROTHERS SAT 23/3 10.15AM–11.55AM PANORA 1 SAT 23/3 12.15PM–2.25PM PANORA 1 LIONHEART Bröderna Lejonhjärta. Sweden 1977. Director: Olle Hellbom. 108 min. Language: Swedish. Rec.from age 7.

TALES & ADVENTURES GOOD & EVIL CLASSICS

”In Nangijala, it's still a time of camp fires and adventures. It's there that you go when you die, and where you are engulfed in adventure from morning to evening!” So explains Jonathan, as his sick little brother lies on his deathbed. When the brothers are reunited in Nangijala, the adventures prove to be

L indgren strid more earnest and more brutal than either of them EMIL IN RONIA: THE could have imagined. LONNEBERGA ROBBER'S WED 27/3 12.10PM ST PETRI CHURCH, GÖRAN OLSGATAN 4, MALMÖ Emil in Lönneberga. Sweden 1971. Director: Olle Hellbom. 98 min. Language: Swedish. CHILDREN THROUGHOUT HISTORY CLASSICS DAUGHTER CARL-ADAM, Ronja Rövardotter. Sweden 1984. Emil lives on the Katthult farm in the parish of Director: Tage Danielsson. 126 min. Lönneberga in the Småland region of Sweden, Language: Swedish. Rec. from age 7. along with his family and servants. He's always ASTRID LINDGREN TALES & ADVENTURES CLASSICS getting up to something, whether it's getting his head stuck in a soup bowl, trapping his One night, as a thunderstorm engulfs the AND THE MUSIC dad's toes in a mouse trap – or hoisting his castle where they live, Lovis, the wife of little sister up a flag pole. Emil has his heart in Mattis, the robber chieftain, gives birth to the right place, but causes more trouble than their first child, the girl Ronia. By the age of Many of the film adaptations Astrid Lindgren’s there are days in a year. 10, she's become a courageous and inquisitive beloved stories contain a film score that is just as child. In secret, she becomes friends with loved. Organist Carl-Adam performs a lunchtime

· A theme series Birk, the son of Mattis' arch enemy, Borka recital in St Petri’s Church with a selection of – and together, they experience one exciting pieces from the films on the ‘king of instruments’ adventure after another in the forest. – the church organ.

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THE CLASSICS SERIES IS ONS 27/3 9.15AM–11.00AM FILMSTADEN 4 ONS 27/3 12.45PM–2.25PM FILMSTADEN 4 THU 28/3 1.00PM–3.00PM FILMSTADEN 3 MADE UP OF FIVE FILMS, ALL SPECIALLY CHOSEN AND DIGITALLY RESTORED BY THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE. THE MASTER DETECTIVE LIVES DANGEROUSLY Grab the chance to see some of The Master Detective Lives Dangerously. the older, less well-known Astrid Sweden 1957. Director: Olle Hellbom. 92 min. THE MIRACLE IN VALBY Lindgren film adaptations, the Language: Swedish. Rec. from age 8. TALES & ADVENTURES FRIENDSHIP Miraklet i Valby. Sweden, Denmark 1989. LILJA 4-EVER fantasy adventure tales The Glass- CHILDREN THROUGHOUT HISTORY Director: Åke Sandgren. 85 min. Language: Danish. Sweden 2002. Director: Lukas Moodysson. 109 min. blower's Children and The Miracle Subtitles: Swedish. Rec. from age 12. Language: Russian, Swedish. Subtitles: Swedish. Peace reigns in the summer idyll of Lillköping. FRIENDSHIP TALES & ADVENTURES HISTORY Recommended from age 15. in Valby – or the social realism But appearances can be deceptive – for here IDENTITET SOCIAL ISSUES HUMAN RIGHTS punch-in-the-face Lilja 4-ever. there wages a war between the Red Rose Sven and Bo are two Danish boys in their teens who and the White. In the midst of this, the old live in a small suburb of Copenhagen. They hang out 16 year old Lilja lives in a poor, run-down suburb in The Swedish Film Institute strives to man Gren is found dead. This is a job for the in an abandoned caravan, where Sven has an amateur one of the Baltic states which once formed part encourage film and media literacy among Master Detective Kalle Blomkvist! radio set-up. One day, when they're in the caravan of the Soviet Union. One day, her mum simply children and young people throughout the The film is Astrid Lindgren director Olle together with their neighbour, Petra, Sven makes walks out, to go to the United States with her new country. Part of this work involves bringing Hellbom's feature debut. A film critic working radio contact with voices from another time. This husband, leaving Lilja to fend for herself. A story film history to life by the screening and for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter marks the beginning of a mysterious journey into about a vulnerableand desperate young person who contextualising of film. Each screening in was overwhelmed: ”He depicts Astrid the unknown for the three friends. The film received decides to leave her homeland – and of her subse- the Classics Series is accompanied by a short Lindgren's story about the murdered man in three Guldbagge awards, among which was the prize quent meeting with an affluent society which brutally introductory presentation. Three of the films a fashion so fresh, so funny and so exciting for Best Film. exploits her. Received a whole row of Guldbagge are also provided with a written film guide, that one wishes that more of those who make There is a written film guide available for The awards, among which was the prize for Best Film. available for download on the Institute's thrillers for the adult market were capable of Miracle in Valby. Lilja 4-ever has a written film guide. website filminsitutet.se doing likewise in a similarly elegant fashion.”

ONS 27/3 12.15PM–2.20PM ROYAL THU 28/3 9.45AM–11.25AM FILMSTADEN 4

THE GLASS-BLOWER'S CHILDREN RASMUS AND THE VAGABOND Glasblåsarns barn. Sweden 1998. Rasmus and the Vagabond. Sweden 1955. Director: Anders Grönros. 111 min. Director: Rolf Husberg. 94 min. Language: Swedish. Language: Swedish. Rec. from age 8. Rec. from age 6.

TALES & ADVENTURES GOOD & EVIL FAMILY LIFE FRIENDSHIP TALES & ADVENTURES HUMAN RIGHTS

Based on the novel of the same name by The Swedish author and journalist, Siv Widerberg, Swedish author Maria Gripe, this is the writing in the newspaper Arbetet following the magical tale of the two children Klas and film's premiere, wrote: ”If you want to take your Klara, who are stolen away by a nobleman as kids to see a really funny and enjoyable film , then a gift for his wife. A reviewer in the Swedish you should without doubt choose Rasmus and S eries · T he C lassics T heme series newspaper Aftonbladet described the film as the Vagabond, an Astrid Lindgren adaptation of ”one of the most imaginative and well-made the highest quality. If you don't have children, you Swedish films of recent times.” can simply go and see it anyway, since the author The Glass-blower's Children was awarded has mastered the difficult art of entertaining both two prestigious Guldbagge awards in an children and adults.” In this, the first film adaptation annual film gala overseen by the Swedish to feature orphan Rasmus and his friendship with Film Institute, one for Best Photography, the the homeless Paradis-Oskar, the roles were played other for Best Male Supporting Role. by Eskil Dalenius and Åke Grönberg. The film was There is a written film guide available for awarded the prize for Best Children's Film of 1955 The Glass-blower's Children. by the Swedish magazine Folket i bild.

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THU 28/3 12.45PM–1.50PM · PANORA 2 SOME FILMS ARE SO GOOD THAT WE SIMPLY HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THEM A LITTLE EXTRA. FILM & TALKS 2 RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 12 When films aren't quite so long, it gives us the added opportunity of having more time to discuss them. When we screen these shorts, we also give you a unique chance to meet filmmakers, ask questions and discuss the films' themes and origins.

THU 28/3 9.00AM–10.00AM · PANORA 2

GRIMSTA INTERSTICE FILM & TALKS 1 Sweden 2018. Director: Olga Ruin. 22 min. RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 11 Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. DOUBLE D GROWING UP DREAMS DOCUMENTARY Dubbel D. The Netherlands 2018. Director: Fey Lehiane. 20 min. Language: Dutch. Subtitles: English. Winter approaches Spring in a Stockholm suburb, GROWING UP GENDER ROLES IDENTITY where we share the thoughts of a number of 14 year olds about life and the future. Marva and Josefin 13 year old Puck is proud of not not being like the dream about starting their own business. Ayat is other girls. She's tough, and makes her own way in scared of getting old. Madina is a big fan of Raphael life. When she's away at camp with her fencing club, from Ninja Turtles, and Leo is all set to move further she gets her first period and is forced to re-evaluate away to the North. After the film, there'll be a her relationship to her own body and to those discussion with the film's director, Olga Ruin. surrounding her. I Love You More Than My Soul, until recently I LOVE YOU MORE an old people's home, is located in the WED 27/3 12.15PM–1.15PM · PANORA 2 Södermalm area of Stockholm. Nowadays, THAN MY SOUL the building is full of children with their Sweden 2018. Director: Anna-My Novotny. whole lives in front of them. Refugee families 24 min. Language: Swedish, English, Arabic. with children receive temporary accommo- FILM & TALKS 3 dation here, while they're awaiting the results Subtitles: Swedish. RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 14 of their asylum applications. The film gives us ESCAPE DOCUMENTARY DREAMS some insight into the everyday lives of some of · FILM & TALKS theme series the children living there. After the screening, GET READY WITH ME whatever the cost. After the there will be a discussion with the film's Sweden 2019. Director: Jonatan Etzler. screening, there'll be a discus- director, Anna-My Novotny. 30 min. Language: Swedish. sion with the film's director Subtitles: English. Jonatan Etzler. MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES RELATIONSHIPS DISREPUTE RIGHT & WRONG BIKE BIRD Sweden 2019. Director: Stephane Sykkelfugl. Norge 2018. Director: Kari Klyve- Vendela, a victim of bullying, stands Mounkassa, Stefan Sundin. 7 min. Skaug, Odveig Klyve. 15 min. Language: Hazargi, up in front of the entire class and Language: Swedish. Subtitles: Norwegian. Subtitles: English. shows them her film about how English. to commit suicide. Her teacher, RELIGION HUMAN RIGHTS GENDER ROLES RIGHT & WRONG SCHOOL ETHICS Lukas, sees this as a cry for help, Zahra and her family are from Afghanistan and begins an active effort to The last lesson of the week. Just and have applied for asylum in Norway. She help his student. This marks the before the weekend kicks off, dreams of learning to ride a bike, something start of a power game which goes the lesson is hijacked by Niclas, unthinkable for a girl in Afghanistan. But more and more off the rails, and it who is about to change schools Zahra doesn't give up easily – and now she's in becomes all the more unclear just after years of being bullied. Norway. A film about following your dreams what the intentions of the involved Now he wants an explanation. and at the same time maintaining a balance parties really are. A psychological A powerful film about guilt, between two cultures. thriller about the need to be seen, social conscience and betrayal.

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TUE 26/3 1.00PM–3.00PM · PANORA 2 A BETTER TOMORROW SHORTS PACKAGE AND SEMINAR – RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 15

The Young Academy of Sweden and The seminar is led by Robert Lagerström, Associate LadyBug proudly present seminar Professor in Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and member of The Young Academy, as and short film package A Better well as Aase Högfeldt, founder and artistic director of Tomorrow. Together we will watch the LadyBug Festival. five specially chosen short films SWATTED SVERIGES UNGA AKADEMI that focus on the future. France 2018. Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis. The Young Academy of Sweden is a transdisciplinary 21 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. The selection includes Tom, the winning submission academy for a selection of the most prominent, RIGHT & WRONG MORALITY TECHNOLOGY in the short film competition organised by The younger researchers in Sweden. Its operations rest SHE Young Academy, LadyBug and BUFF Film Festival firmly on three pillars: transdisciplinarity, science Ajo. Kosovo 2018. Director: More Raca. 12 min. A live-transmitted computer games tournament is in the autumn. Tom is about a boy who realises he is policy and outreach. Language: Albanian. Subtitles: English. interrupted by armed police, carrying automatic completely alone. weapons and teargas. Within the gaming community, EQUALITY FAMILY LIFE SOCIAL ISSUES Using the films as a starting point, a group of LADYBUG FESTIVAL the phenomenon is known as ”swatting”. Hackers, researchers will lead conversations on internet LadyBug Festival is an inspiring non-profit festival Zana's brother thinks that a family's problem should using an assumed identity, ring up a police hotline with memes and everyday racism. You will meet a with focus worldwide & cross culture, music, arts, stay within the family. Their mum has been patched false information about an ongoing tragedy and then speech therapist, a computer scientist, a film books, stand up comedy and all genres of short films. up at the hospital, and the family goes quietly home. watch as the police storm the bedroom of the unsus- expert, a political scientist and a media and LadyBug Festival loves to work for diversity and has She's told not to talk to the police. During the car pecting gamer who's been chosen as their victim. communications researcher. been a meeting point for a wide audience since 2009. journey, the siblings discover that their father plans to All of it broadcast in real time over the internet. In marry off Zana to an unknown man in Germany. Now the documentary Swatted we journey to the United it's up to Zana and her mum to make a brave decision. States, where the phenomenon is a recurring problem. SCIENTISTS Scientist: Gunilla Jarlbro, Lund University Scientist: Robert Lagerström, KTH

IDA ROSQVIST is a speech therapist DAWAN RAOOF is a political and doctoral student at the depart- scientist and doctoral student at ment of Logopedics, Phoniatrics the Department of Social Work at and Audiology at Lund University. Malmö University. He conducts She conducts research into language research into how staying in development at school age and different social institutions affects the effects of teacher training on a the perceptions and attitudes of student's language abilities. children and young people to the society in which they will grow up. TOM FUCKING COLA ROBERT LAGERSTRÖM is Associate SWÊDÎ Sweden 2018. Director: Elis Lindsten, The Netherlands 2018. Professor in Software Systems GUNILLA JARLBRO is a Professor Sweden 2018. Director: Sosi Hugo Söderberg. 10 min. Language: Director: Sophie van de Pol. Architecture and Security, Computer in media and communications Chamoun. 5 min. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: Swedish. 10 min. Language: Dutch. Science at KTH Royal Institute of studies at Lund University. Aspects Swedish, Turkish. Subtitles: English. EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Subtitles: English. Technology. He conducts research of her work relate to the areas of SOCIAL ISSUES RIGHT & WRONG SOCIAL ISSUES FAMILY LIFE RELATIONSHIPS IDENTITY into complex systems architecture gender, media and power. EQUALITY TALES & ADVENTURES and the change management and IT 17 year old Stef struggles with a security of those systems. A woman goes into a shop to buy A sad-looking guy with destruc- stammer. At his grandma's party, MODERATOR sanitary protection. She notices tive thoughts wakes up to a world he wants to tell everyone about ANNA SOFIA ROSSHOLM is a an employee following her as she empty of people. Everyone is his studies on his own – but as senior lecturer in the Section for AASE HÖGFELDT is the founder makes her way around the aisles. gone, and he is utterly alone. usual, his family simply takes over, Cinema Studies at Stockholm and artistic director of LadyBug A film about prejudice and feeling The winner of BUFF's short film and fills in the gaps on his behalf. University. She conducts research Festival. She is a film and TV someone's accusing looks on the competition for young film- This time, Stef is not going to let into Ingmar Bergman, film and liter- producer, project manager, back of your neck. makers, A Better Tomorrow. himself be silenced. ature (adaptations), film education, production coordinator, director Scientist: Dawan Raoof, Malmö Scientist: Anna Sofia Scientist: Ida Rosqvist, Lund ecocriticism and film scripts. and educator. University Rossholm, Stockholm University University.

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Screening with NoJSe, a collaborative project between the four leading children- and youth film festivals in Scandinavia, Buster/ CPH PIX in Denmark, Oulu International Film Festival in Finland, Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival in Norway and HOME BUFF Malmö Filmfestival in Sweden. Arranged in collaboration with NoJSe – Nordic Junior Sessions with support from Nordisk Kulturfond and Nordisk Kulturkontakt. GROWN Denmark 2018. Director: William Reynish.

MON 25/3 12.30PM–1.50PM · PANORA 1 21 mins. Language: Danish. Subtitle: Swedish. THE FUTURE ENVIRONMENT ANIMATION RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 11 After a nuclear disaster, 12-year-old Darya returns to her hometown having been evacuated. She wants to find her father but nothing is the same after the disaster. Darya is forced to realise that she must leave the past behind her and face the future. Through a combination of different animation techniques, the film’s creators have created a unique film in terms of both content and expression. TRACES Sportegn. Norway 2019. Director: Ingvild Søderlind. 10 mins. Language: Norwegian. Subtitle: Swedish

FAMILY GROWING UP EMOTIONS SHORT FILM PACKAGE • NOJSE FILM PACKAGE SHORT RÅ LIAR GIRL Twelve-year old Alma lives with her mother and Germany, Sweden 2018. Director: Sophia Bösch. Valehtelija. Finland 2018. Director: Marjo Viitala. younger brother in an old house in the woods. It’s 30 minutes. Language: Swedish. Subtitle: English. 15 mins. Language: Finnish. Subtitle: Swedish. the school summer holiday and she is jealous of her brother who is getting all their mother’s attention. EQUALITY GROWING UP NATURE FRIENDSHIP BEING ALONE GROWING UP Alma makes him believe that the bear in the woods Linn has turned 16 and finally gets to go along Liina lives alone with her mother and because will eat him. A moving film about life’s mysteries on the yearly moose hunt with her dad. She her mother works a lot, Liina must manage seen from a child’s perspective. knows the forests and the rules of hunting very much on her own. At school she gets well but in a group of only men she is put to tangled in lies and is questioned by her class- the test and needs to prove she is capable. It mates. One morning, she hears a dog whining all starts off badly when the first moose that inside a flat in her stairwell. There are rumours Linn shoots turns out to be a pregnant moose that addicts have moved into the flat but the cow. As pride turns to shame, Linn leaves the idea of having her own dog makes her curious. group and heads off alone into the wilderness.

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MON 25/3 5.00PM · SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 12.30PM · ROYAL MON 25/3 7.15PM SPEGELN C MON 25/3 9.00PM SPEGELN A 3FEET 3pies. Colombia 2018. Director: Giselle Geney.

shorts 14 min. Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 11. SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE WORLD IDENTITY CAT DAYS A uniform inspection takes place every Neko no Hi. Germany, Japan 2018. morning in the playground. The clothes Director: Jon Frickey. 11 min. Language: Japanese. must be clean and shoes shining. 10-year old Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 12. FAMILY JEWELS Gonzalo is football-mad and has a lively imag- IDENTITY FAMILY LIFE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Bijoux de Familie. Belgium 2018. Director: Salomé ination: dribbling a ball through the streets of Martinez. 3 min. No dialouge. Rec. from age 15. Pamplona, all the way to school while keeping A boy called Jiro is ill and his Dad takes him to the ANIMATION RIGHT & WRONG EQUALITY yourself clean is a real challenge. hospital. The doctors establish that Jiro has cat flu, Shown before: Land of Glass an innocuous illness with good chances of a speedy In an animated world, inspired by comic magazines, recovery. However, there is something strange going a young woman lives with an older female relative. on. Only cats can get cat flu. Does this mean that One day she is attacked by two men and subjected to TUE 26/3 9.30AM FILMSTADEN 3 WED 27/3 9.00PM SPEGELN A Jiro is a cat? Atmospheric, visual and colourful story an assault. However revenge is sweet in this feminist, THU 28/3 5.00PM SPEGELN C FRE 29/3 12.15PM PANORA 1 about identity. twisted and violent slasher animation. Shown before: Blossom Valley Shown before: El Ángel

MON 25/3 9.30AM FILMSTADEN 3 MON 25/3 4.30PM SPEGELN A TUE 26/3 4.15PM SPEGLEN C THU 28/3 9.30AM PANORA 3

ALL THESE THE MESSENGER EVA Denmark, Sweden 2018. Director: Lowe Haak. Switzerland 2018. Director: Xheni Alushi. 15 min. 9 min. Language: Swedish. Rec. from age 13. Language: German. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. FUCK YOU CREATURES RELATIONSHIPS TECHNOLOGY LOVE FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Sweden 2018. Director: Anette Sidor. 15 min. Australia 2018. Director: Charles Williams. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. “Do you want to go to the cinema with me? Eva is a good swimmer. Even so, she almost didn’t 14 min. Language: English. Rec. from age 14. GENDER ROLES IDENTITY RELATIONSHIPS <3”. That question is sometimes easier to manage to save her brother from drowning. He IDENTITY MENTAL HEALTH FAMILY LIFE ask via text message than to someone’s face ends up in a coma at the hospital. It is a very difficult What happens when we challenge one another’s Bugs have invaded the garden. When they at school surrounded by your friends. But situation for the family and perhaps it is already to gender roles in a relationship? What does power over descended, the father of the house changed. happens to messages once we send them? late for things to end well? In the bathroom, there is your own body mean? On a warm summer evening The cicadas’ noise envelops everything and in What route do they take before arriving a dark puddle of water on the floor. Eva escapes into in Stockholm, we meet a girl who challenges her this soundscape, a 13-year-old boy is trying to at the recipient? Suddenly, the thing that a dream world through the puddle. Is it really Eva’s boyfriend after having been treated unfairly by him make sense of his possessed father and the mustn’t happen happens: a very important brother who is in a coma and what happens if Mum and his friends. A film that makes you go “Fuck You” fear of who he will become when he grows up. text message goes astray. dries the bathroom floor so the puddle disappears? in a good way. Shown before: Night Comes On Shown before: Eighth Grade Shown before: Twin Flower Shown before: Skate Kitchen

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TUE 26/3 12.45PM FILMSTADEN 4 THU 28/3 2.00PM PANORA 3 WED 27/3 9.30AM · FILMSTADEN 3 THU 28/3 12.15PM · SPEGELN A WED 27/3 3.00PM SPEGELN C LITTLE WAVES Les petites vagues. Canada 2018. Director: Ariane Louis-Seize. 12 min. Language: French. I’M GOING OUT Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 13. LOVE SEXUALITY GROWING UP FOR CIGARETTES Amelie feels left out when her favourite cousin Je sors acheter des cigarettes. France 2018. brings a girlfriend to a family gathering for the first Director: Osman Cerfon. 13 min. Language: French. time. Their young love makes Amelie’s imagination SOUND OF Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 14. run wild and some feelings appear to be stronger than she first thought. FAMILY LIFE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS IMAGINATION Shown before: The Unpromised Land SILENCE A boy lives in an apartment with his mother and sister. There are no men present in the home. In the Sverige 2019. Regi: Nellie Lexfors. 12 min. Svenskt tal. FRE 29/3 9.30AM PANORA 2 film, they go out to buy cigarettes and never come MON 25/3 9.15PM SPEGELN C Engelsk text. Rek. från 14 år. THU 28/3 3.00PM SPEGELN C back. Whatsmore, the sister’s smoking boyfriend IDENTITY RELATIONSHIPS RÄTT OCH ORÄTT disappears in the middle of the night and there is no Det är sommar och fest och för de båda tjejkompis- dad to be seen. Surrounded by soft drinks, frozen arna känns allting nytt och spännande. Men allting får pizza and a vivid imagination, the boy sees history plötsligt en baksida när det tycks finnas regler som repeating itself. Atmospheric and twisted animation innebär att en måste gå emot sin egen vilja. about family relations and the boredom of teenagers. Shown before: Meteorites Shown before: Slut in a Good Way

TUE 26/3 9.15AM · PANORA 2 WED 27/3 12.15PM · SPEGELN A CAN'T SHINE WITHOUT YOU MY BROTHERS Can’t Shine Without You My Brothers. Sweden 2019. ONESELF OUR DEATH Director: Alexander Abdallah. 5 min. Language: Swedish. Notre Mort. France 2018. Director: Aspen Michael Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 13. Taylor. 15 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English.

RIGHT & WRONG SOCIAL ISSUES EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Rec. from age 13. STORY EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS FILOSOFI IDENTITY During the course of one year, Yahya loses three Récit de soi. Belgium 2018. Director: Géraldine of his brothers. Three occasions, three gunshots, Charpentier. 5 min. Language: French. How do we really know if we are dead or alive? Two three lives. Yahya builds a den and when he’s in it, Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15. brothers find their own dead bodies outdoors and it feels like he’s with his dead brothers again. In a start exploring what differentiates life from death. GENDER ROLES IDENTITY EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS poetic fantasy, his brothers come alive and the four They use a film camera to view themselves from of them carry one another as a way to show love and Lou tells her story, about her thoughts on gender, about different perspectives. They ask questions, develop create a counterimage of the street violence in their being a boy or a girl, or choosing neither of those. hypotheses and come to conclusions. How will they hometown, Malmö. A lovely animation about identity and growing up. find out if they really have a soul? Shown before: Stupid Young Heart Shown before: L’Animale Shown before: School’s Out

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TUE 26/3 12.30PM PANORA 3 MON 25/3 9.15AM FILMSTADEN 4 TUE 26/3 9.00PM SPEGELN C TUE 26/3 9.45AM FILMSTADEN 1 SACRILÉGE France, Switzerland 2018. Director: Christophe M. Saber. 14 min. Language: French. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15.

RIGHT & WRONG ETHICS

Saoud is the gang’s leader and king of the neigh- bourhood where they live. When a rumour starts to spread that he has stolen money from the city’s mosque, he has to confront a series of violent accusations. Shown before: Blossom Valley

WED 27/3 7.15PM SPEGELN C WED 27/3 12.30PM–2.30PM PANORA 3 THU 28/3 9.15AM–11.15AM FILMSTADEN 2 SLOW DANCE SPORTS Sweden 2018. Director: Christian Zetterberg. 6 min. Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 9 LOVE RELATIONSHIPS SEXUALITY DAY It's the school disco, and Kevin gazes out over the China 2018. Director: Lin Tu. 11 min. Language: Mandarin. dance floor. Secretly, he'd also like to be out there, Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 15 but he can't bring himself to ask the one he likes for SEXUALITY RELATIONSHIPS SOCIAL ISSUES a dance. The uncertainty and the butterflies in your stomach, before taking that first step, are portrayed In a hotel room, Bai is pressured into having sex with a good deal of accuracy. How do you say what for the first time. In a panic, she asks him to go and you want to say? And is it okay to like whoever you buy some condoms. While Zhao is gone, she faces want? The film was awarded BUFF's prize at Sweden's herself and her expectations as a sexual being for the Novemberfestivalen in 2018. first time. Shown before: The Falcons Shown before: School’s Out

MON 25/3 12.45PM · FILMSTADEN 2 TUE 26/3 9.15PM · SPEGELN A THE ORPHAN SALADDIN O Órfão. Brazil 2018. Director: Carolina Markowicz. 15 min. Language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 13.

CASTIQUE IDENTITY GENDER ROLES FAMILY LIFE Finland 2018. Director: Anssi Kasitonni. 6 min. SAPERA Jonathas lives in a Brazilian orphanage. He was Language: Finnish. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 4. Sweden, India 2019. Director: Gustav Olsson. 11 min. once adopted but then handed back because he TALES & ADVENTURES TECHNOLOGY IMAGINATION Language: HIndi. Subtitles: English. Rec. from age 12. is different. He secretly dreams his life away to SOCIAL ISSUES PROFESSIONS HUMAN RIGHTS An old man is looking for berries in an ordinary glittering clothes, lipstick and makeup. Now a new Finnish forest but instead he finds a genie. The man In the holy city of Varanasi, we follow 16-year-old Ali couple have turned up who want to adopt him. is given three wishes, but the genie is moody and who has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: Shown before: Rafiki the man is quickly taught a lesson. With a few added he catches poisonous snakes. Colourful documentary effects and a remote control, things don’t really go about a boy who balances life and death on a daily as he thought they might. basis in order to support his family. Shown before: Slut in A Good Way Shown before: Hendi and Hormoz

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SAT 23/3 1.00PM–2.45PM · PANORA 3 WED 27/3 12.45PM–2.30PM · PANORA 1 SAT 23/3 6.30PM–8.45PM PANORA 2 WED 27/3 9.30AM–11.45AM PANORA 1 SHORTS PACKAGE RECOMMENDED FROM AGE 13

A SILENT VOICE Koe noe Katachi. Japan 2016. Director: Naoko Yamada. 130 min. Language: Japanese and sign language. BORTOM Subtitles: Swedish. From age 11.

Sweden 2014. Director: Valentina Chamorro. IDENTITY FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL 17 min. Language: Swedish, Spanish and LOVE IS BLIND sign language. Subtitles: Swedish. UK 2015. Director: Dan Hodgson. 6 min. Acclaimed animated Japanese teenage drama. Shoko, a girl who is hard of hearing, is bullied by FAMILY LIFE RELATIONSHIPS IDENTITY Language: English and sign language. WORDS a boy called Shoya and the other people in their RELATIONSHIPS LOVE COMEDY India, USA 2010. Director: Anup Bhandari. 15 min. David gets a visit from his Mum, Eva, who Language: Sign language and Swedish. class. Five years later, Shoya is plagued by his bad left him in Sweden when she returned to Alice finds herself in an awkward situation conscience and decides to find Shoko. He wants to RELATIONSHIPS LOVE LANGUAGE her homeland. They try to get close to one when her husband suddenly arrives at home atone for his sins but maybe it’s already too late? another, but don’t know how to. Language and finds her in bed with her lover. Brilliant Words is the story of Juliet and deaf Owen, who meet is one problem, since David is deaf and Eva’s comedy in a perfect short film format. in a snow-covered Central Park. Their conversation SAT 23/3 3.30PM–5.25PM PANORA 1 sign language isn’t very good. starts off a little awkwardly but changes over the following days when Juliet comes up with clever ways of communicating with Owen. S kåne D eaf film festival

HÖR MIG REVERBERATIONS Entends-Moi. France 2016. UK 2018. Director: Samuel Director: Nicolas Coquet. Dore. 27 min. Language: 18 min. Language: French English language and and sign language. sign language.

SIGN Subtitles: Swedish. THE FUTURE POLITICS USA 2016. Director: Andres IDENTITY FAMILY HUMANITY ANTONIAS RESA Keenan-Bolger. 15 mins. EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS Stille Liebe. Switzerland 2001. Director: Christoph Sign language. It’s year 2167 and a fascist Schaub. 90 min. Language: German, English, Lithuanian Marisol is deaf and has government wipes out RELATIONSHIPS LOVE and sign language. Subtitles: Swedish. From age 11. grown up in a family that deafness through advanced ROMANCE LOVE IDENTITY FAMILY refuses to accept her gene technology, all to DEAF Sweet music plays when handicap. When Marisol gets create a perfect society. A Germany 2017. Director: Lina Jacobi. 5 min. Young Antonia who is deaf is cared for by Mother Ben, who is hearing, meets in contact with other deaf young, deaf time-traveller Language: English and sign language. Verena. They live together in a quiet convent. When deaf Adam on the New York people, she finally gets the is sent to year 2018 to find Antonia is sent out to work in a homeless shelter, she RELATIONSHIPS ROMANCE LOVE subway. Sign tells the story, confidence she needs to the inventor of the gene meets a young Lithuanian man, Mikas, on the train. using sign language only, break free. Hör mig is a short technology and make her Stolen glances and a crush from afar. A girl gets a Mikas is also deaf. Romance is in the air and a whole about a love affair from film about deaf culture and change her mind before it’s crush on a guy and tries to make contact with him new life opens up for Antonia. beginning to end. the deaf community. too late. but why can’t she get a reaction from him? This is Normal

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WED 27/3 9.00AM–10.00AM · PANORA 2 WED 27/3 10.30AM–11.30AM · PANORA 2 A JOURNEY THROUGH WE BRING THE MAGIC WORLD OF THE HISTORY OF FILM FILM TO CHILDREN IN HOSPITALS WITH LIVE MUSIC Recommended from grade 0–3

Which inventions at the end of the 1800s made film possible? What did the films look like, what did they sound like and what differed compared to films today? Edward von Past, Lova Hagerfors and Anna Håkanson from the Swedish Film Institute tell us about the magic of film and show us, with live music, some of the first films ever made. Participants With the support of Creative The Film in Hospital project offers exclusive festival films from different will be able to explore the effects that sound Europe – Media Programme European countries with extra material to engage the hospital audience and music have on images and will create of the European Union, to participate with their own stories and creativity. Find out more at different soundtracks to the films. Region Skåne and Svenska filminhospital.eu or through participating organizations: JEF Festival in Postkodstiftelsen. Belgium, Sedmi Kontinent in Croatia and BUFF Film Festival, Sweden.

MON 25/3 9.00AM–9.40AM · 10.00AM–10.40AM · 11.00AM–11.40AM PANORA FOAJÉ FILMINHOSPITAL RETURN OF A

schools for orkshops FAVOURITE IN A

W GIGANTIC FORMAT – ANIMATION WORKSHOP Recommended from grade 2–4

The animation box Bergmans Kinematograf is a tool for children and young people who want to make film and is inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s early film experiences. Creator Erlin Ericsson returns to BUFF with a gigantic animation box and literally invites festivalgoers into an animation! Play with professional animators from Den Pedagogiska Designbyrån and Unga Berättar (Young Storytelling) from Kulturskolan Stockholm who will help you make your own animated film.

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MON 25/3 10.00AM–11.00AM KYRKANS HUS MON 25/3 12.30PM–1.00PM PANORA 2 MON 25/3 1.00PM–1.45PM PANORA 2 MON 25/3 2.00PM–5.00PM PANORA 2 PRV SCHOOL FOR COPYRIGHT

The Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) presents the PRV School, a website that promotes awareness about copyright. It contains a variety Photo: Kristina Strand Larsson of copyright-related games and exercises for 100 BOXES IN 100 students and teachers in elementary school as MIK, DEMOCRACY FILM, INTERPRETATIONS well as student teachers. PLACES IN 100 DAYS AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF LIFE AND FAITH In June 2017, the Swedish Government tasked PRV The animation box 'Bergmans with an assignment to raise the general public’s The concepts of democracy and human rights were Can film be used to address life’s most Kinematograf' had a flying start awareness of copyright and what it entails. That for a long time taken for granted. Digitalisation fundamental questions? Educators and autumn, PRV was introduced to the Finnish website creates new prerequisites for society and its citizens. priests share their experiences of using at BUFF 2018. Kopiraittila Skola, created by copyright organisation The role of media and information is central to film and conversation in their work for the We pay tribute to Culture Schools and the Kopoisto. Through licensing rights PRV received the transformation of society today. New skills, Church of Sweden. importance of creative activities, through from Kopoisto, the Finnish website content has been competencies, knowledge and education are needed manifestation and direct contact with translated to Swedish and adapted to Swedish legisla- to participate as an active citizen during societal Participants: Ami Hall, Katarina Herbert, users. Come and listen and discuss ways of tion and conditions. transformation. Everyone needs to be literate in Annika Nilsson and Jonas Persson. doing that with Erling Ericsson of Bergmans The PRV School also contains teaching materials media and information. Location: Lilla Salen, Kyrkans Hus, kinematograf, Hanna Andersson from Den that guides the teacher through the website and Fiskehamnsgatan 3, Malmö Pedagogiska Designbyrån, and Carin Granath copyright and advises on presentation techniques. MIK is a global project created by UNESCO to No admission fee, registration not required. from Unga Berättar. The seminar is held by Catharina Ekdahl and is ensure that the work for democracy and human The seminar is held in Swedish. The seminar is held in Swedish. organised in collaboration with Föreningen film och rights meet its mark. In a media and information mediepedagogik. The seminar is held in Swedish. society, MIK is an extension of all human rights, but uses Article 19 as a springboard; everyone has the MON 25/3 11.45AM–12.30PM PANORA 2 right to freedom of opinion and expression. TUE 26/3 5.00PM–6.30PM SPEGELN A Media and information related work and education often focus on the technology, but MIK is about S eminars · F ilm L iteracy LUNCH SEMINAR WITH shared values; the type of people we want to be, the BUFF IN SWEDEN AND society we want to live in and what we do with our tools and knowledge. BUFF IN HOSPITALS The lecture provides an overview of UNESCO’s framework for MIK - its curriculum, a curriculum Through generous funding from Postkod- which fits perfectly with the Swedish one. The many stiftelsen and Region Skåne, BUFF Malmö images and films used in the lecture are meant to Film Festival has established the film engage the audience and the full presentation is screening service, BUFF in Hospitals made available as a dynamic PDF. (“Buffilusk”), at 27 hospitals in Sweden. At FELIX RECENSERAR As Professor Ulla Carlsson wrote when she titled buffilusk.se hospitalised children and young BUFF is also there to present its touring the launch of the framework in Swedish: ‘A society people can enjoy parts of the festival’s film festival concept BUFF in Sweden, which is Felix Nordh has been reviewing films on the YouTube without media and information literate citizens is no offering, as well as be inspired to reflect, or arranged together with local stakeholders. channel MonteFjanton since 2011. Over the years, he democracy’. even create their own films based on the Are you interested in organising BUFF in has managed to pan a long line of Swedish children’s The seminar is organised in collaboration with films’ themes. BUFF in Hospitals is part of the Sweden in your municipality? After the and young people’s film and with time, has become a Föreningen film och mediepedagogik. The seminar European project Film in Hospital, which is seminar, BUFF is on hand to answer your YouTube phenomenon. Felix is coming to BUFF with is held in Swedish. supported by Creative Europe. The service is questions about BUFF in Hospitals and BUFF his MonteFjanton colleagues Sebasthian Wilnerzon expected to run independently very soon, so in Sweden. Thörn and Johan Nilsson. They are bringing with FREDRIK HOLMBERG is qualified as a teacher and who then will pay for hospitalised children and them a new episode of Felix recenserar which will be started Folkets Bio Filmpedagogerna in 1992. Since young people to enjoy exclusive festival films Note: Limited number of seats. Lunch screened for the first time. There will be a chance to then he has worked as a film- and media teacher. from around the world? Project manager Lina included. Registration required. ask questions afterwards. In 1995 Fredrik was one of the founders of Film i Linde demonstrates how the service works Register at buff.se/registrering. Tickets cost the same as film tickets. Skåne and is currently working at Filmpedagogerna and presents proposed funding models. The seminar is held in Swedish. The seminar is held in Swedish. Folkets Bio in Gothenburg.

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TUE 26/3 9.00AM–5.00PM (REGISTRATION 8.30AM–8.55AM) PANORA 1 WED 27/3 2.00PM–2.45PM PANORA 2 WED 27/3 5.00PM–6.30PM SPEGELN A SPRINGTIME FOR FILM IN EDUCATION DAY 2019 SWEDISH ANIMATION!

We are so happy that so much great animated An educational and inspiring day about film and film WORKSHOP WITH MARIA SÖDERLING film is produced, not least in the south of as a language. The programme is aimed at those An important developmental study within language Sweden. What is it like to be an animator in within schools, education and culture, who wish and media literacy development is happening Sweden? How is animated film produced? to work with film. This year’s theme is language. in Burlövs Municipality. Part of that work will be We have invited three filmmakers – whose Throughout the day, we will explore how film can conducted by Maria Söderling during the Spring films are screened at BUFF 2019 – for a act as a prerequisite for an inclusive society. From in the form of a focus group with experienced film conversation about creation. lectures on the history and development of cinematic educators. Are there, for example, commonly shared language, via film as a tool for learning language, to views on step-by-step learning in the context of the Participants: Anna Charlotte (Big Galxies Eat its ability to save the national minority languages. development of a visual language. Stars), Michael Ekbladh (All the Dear Little Animals) och Lasse Persson (The Giraffes Bike). Note: Registration required. Register at Film i Skåne’s SCHOOL FOR EVERYONE FROM DAY ONE Moderator: Rose-Marie Strand, Folkets bio homepage no later than March 12. Jilda Sürüp from Studi Sverige presents Språkprojektet The seminar is held in Swedish. (The language project). Using research, Språkprojektet INTRODUCTION shapes sustainable, inspiring and inclusive education. It WED 27/3 3.00PM–4.00PM PANORA 2 An introduction from the organisers of Film i Skåne, runs development projects to help everyone succeed DRÖM the Swedish Film Institute and Föreningen film & at school, using film as the common language. mediepedagogik, as well as a screening of Färgstark, HOW IS SEX DEPICTED IN Get a sneak peek of the a film by Sofia Berglund. 124 YEARS OF FILM HISTORY FILMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE? coolest TV-series this fall Film is a language that has been evolving continuously THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME – FILM CREATION since the very first film screening in 1895. To understand Often as something anguished and Dröm (Dream) is about Thea, who one day FOR GIRLS OF DIFFERENT ABILITIES the moving pictures of today, we must understand their problematic. Numerous films for young discovers that she and three of her new All voices are important in a democracy. Regardless of history. Lova Hagerfors and Danial Brännström from people feature sexual assault and rape. classmates shares the same strange dream background or ability everybody must have the right the Swedish Film Institute tell us about the Institute’s What are the risks of feeding young people the night before. They soon realise that they to experience and create culture, to be able to express work with film history for children and young people. with negative portrayals of sex? Where are are actually dreaming of their own future as their world, to make that world and themselves visible. They also talk about the history and development of the positive depictions of young people’s adults. When the group understands that a Screenings of Linnea Weikel’s film En dag i en autists the cinematic language using examples from lectures sexuality? terrible accident is about to happen, they days S eminars · I ndustry liv (A day in a life with autism) and Sofia Berglund’s Vi and conversations with children and young people. Sexual educator Pelle Ullholm discusses decide to work together in order to stop it. lyfter varandra are followed by a Q + A session with the sex in films with filmmaker Fanni Metelius But at the same time they will change the directors and film educator Pia Ivarsson, their mentor. CAN FILM SAVE THE NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGES? and Malena Janson. course of their future. Malin Nygren from the Swedish Film Institute Malena Janson is educated in film studies We screen the first four episodes and WHAT YOU DON’T SEE – HOW CAN EXPERIENCES presents the strategy to encourage films in the and senior lecturer at the Center for after the screening you can meet and ask BE MADE VISIBLE THROUGH FILM CREATION? minority languages and talks about the role of film in Children’s Culture Research at Stockholm questions to the series main character Presentation of the development of Det ni inte ser education about the national minorities. University. One of her research areas is Ylvali Rurling and the creator of the series (What you don’t see) with Maria Söderling, lecturer sexuality in child culture. Filip Hammarström from the production with a focus on the development of film literacy in THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART AND THE EAR Fanni Metelius’ first feature film Hjärtat company Palladium Fiction, who also Burlöv Municipality, and with film educator Pia Ivarsson Conversation between director Jon Blåhed and Malin got a lot of attention when it came in produced the TV-series Jordskott. and Sofia Lundberg Söderling who run the company Vi Nygren about making film in one’s minority language 2018. BUFF has screened her short film kan också, a young person’s start-up company. Det ni and about language as a marker of origin and as a Banga inte and you might know her role in The Q&A will be led by Lisa Widén, Head inte ser is part documentary, focused on film education testament of one’s culture. One of the questions Ruben Östlunds’ Tourist which gave her a of Production, Film Capital Stockholm, methods and an exploration of visual media literacy, Jon explored during his work with the film Turpa Guldbagge nomination. co-producer of the TV-series through and part film camp for girls diagnosed with AD(H)D. Kiinni Minun Haters was if one has to be able to speak Pelle Ullholm, is a special advisor at RFSU Gotlands Filmfond. Dröm is premiered on SVT/ Meänkieli to be a real Tornedaler? (The Swedish Association for Sexuality Barnkanalen the fall of 2019. The series main ANIMATION AS A DIDACTIC TOOL Education). Since 1933, RFSU has worked target group are children and young people. Hanne Pedersen runs Animated Learning LAB which SCREENING AND DIALOGUE: THE UNPROMISED LAND with sexual information, education and offers animation courses for schools. Hanne has The day concludes with a screening of Victor advocacy based on everyone’s freedom to Limited number of seats. The event is free worked with children and animation for several years Lindgren’s feature film debut The unpromised land be what they want to be, to choose to live as of charge but pre-registration is needed and and is a leading expert in the use of animation as a (The Unpromised Land) followed by a conversation with they want and enjoy what they want. can be made at buff.se/drom. didactic tool. the director. Read more about the film on page 18. The seminar is held in Swedish. The seminar is held in Swedish.

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WED 27/3 7.30PM–8.45PM · SPEGELN A WORK IN PROGRESS – TASTER OF FOUR FORTHCOMING FILMS

THE SEMINAR IS HELD IN ENGLISH. ADMISSION FREE WITH FESTIVAL PASS OR ACCREDITATION.

A popular and recurring event of BUFF Malmö Moderator: Hanna Sohlberg, Filmfestival is Work in Progress. This year, four Commissioning Editor/Head of talent development, Film i Skåne. upcoming films from Sweden and Norway are Arranged in collaboration presented and offers sneak peeks and a chance with NoJSe – Nordic Junior to meet the filmmakers. Sessions with support from Nordisk Kulturfond and Nordisk TRYM Kulturkontakt. FREE It is the summer holidays and yet everything is RUNS AWAY boring. Ragnhild, soon to be 13, lives on a farm. Her best friend Wille and her Dutch cousin Agnes are Deep in the woods, there is a mountain. Five-year-old visiting and they have already fed the pony and baked Trym, a troll, lives there. Trym loves climbing trees, cupcakes. The balmy summer nights ignite a yearning swimming in Svarta göl and looking at flowers and in the three girls and they long for something animals. When he gets tired, he whistles on a piece to happen before Agnes returns home to The of grass and mum or dad come to carry him home. Netherlands. Ragnhild doesn’t want to appear boring One day Trym finds out that he will become a big so, to entertain the girls, she invites them on a hike brother. This makes him very happy. He has so many to have a swim and a sleepover in the forest. fun things to show his sibling! On the hike, the other girls are demanding more He takes part in the preparations with great GRIMSBY all the time and as Ragnhild struggles to control excitement and puts aside his most treasured everything, she becomes the strict one of the group. possession: a glittering stone. But when his little Eleven-year-old Einar hates his parents and that they When crazy Julie tags along and wants them to find sister Tamalie arrives, she chews the stone to pieces have to move because his mum has a new job. Einar a midsummer night party that she’s heard will be full and his parents don’t seem to have time for him is happy where he is and doesn’t want to leave his of boys and drinks, things fall apart. Ragnhild finds anymore. His favourite places suddenly seem ugly friends to move to the unhappening and isolated that she is forced both to stand up for herself and and boring, but the ugliest of everything is himself, Grimsby. However, things take a new turn with shady PELLE-NO-TAIL surrender to the unexpected beauty of chaos. because no one likes him… Trym runs away and, for neighbours, mysterious events and scary creatures Free will be Guro Ekornholmen’s first feature film, the first time in his life, experiences the woods at that no-one knew existed. Grimsby, where evil written by Anniken Fjesme and produced by Nicholas night. It is beautiful and exciting but soon he gets powers threaten, is Twin Peaks for children. (PELLE Sando, Filmbin AS. lost. Trym must spend the night under a pine tree, all The film is entirely set in Grimsby, a city where on his own. Maybe he’ll never see his family again? everybody knows everyone but no-one talks about Participants: Guro Ekornholmen (director) and Luckily, his spider friend Spider has followed him, and the scary stuff that is happening. As an epicentre SVANSLÖS) Anniken Fjesme (script writer). a spider knows how to find the way home. of all things mysterious, Grimsby has attracted the Trym runs away is a live-action film for the most peculiar and odd people in the world. Even Pelle-No-Tail lives a sheltered life in the countryside youngest audience. when Einar discovers the scary but misunderstood with a girl called Birgitta. When a storm takes him to creatures, no-one seems to care. The next day, the city of Uppsala, he meets both new friends and Participants: Elisabet Gustavsson (director), no-one seems to remember a thing and Grimsby is prejudice. What does it mean exactly to be a cat, Lina Jonsson (producer). shrouded in a veil of indifference. especially if, like Pelle, you have no tail?

Participants: Line Klungseth Johansen (producer), Participants: Jon Nohrstedt, one of the film’s two Øystein Moe and Alexander Somma, (directors). producers, and Christian Ryltenius, director.

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THU 28/3 2.30PM–3.30PM PANORA 2 THU 28/3 4.00PM–5.00PM FILMCENTRUM SYD THE YOUTH WRITING FOR FILM OF THE CHILDREN AND FUTURE YOUNG PEOPLE What are the challenges and opportunities of reaching the young Nordic audience? When will To produce good films for a young audience requires the next Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) come about? that the scripts are relevant to the audience. It When do we get a Skam equivalent which attracts requires that stories are told that engage the audi- young people to the cinema? What examples exist ence but which set the right tone and create credi- in the Nordics of domestic films that attract young bility. This is something scriptwriters Jessika Jankert, AWARDS people to the cinema? How can we be better at Victor Lindgren and Jan Vierth have succeeded in competing with the American film industry to reach doing. What are their thought processes they use our young public? to hit the right note with a young audience? What is important to remember when writing scripts for Participants: Jenny Gilbertsson, film consultant children and young people? (Swedish Film Institute), Thea Hvistendahl, director (Norway), Venla Hellstedt, producer (Finland), Lotte Location: FilmCentrum Syd, Monboujigatan 17. Svendsen, film consultant (The Danish Film Institute) Participants: Jessika Jankert created and wrote, and more. together with Lovisa Löwhagen, the acclaimed web series Hashtag. Victor Lindgren, whose debut full Moderator: Camilla Larsson, journalist and film critic. length film The Unpromised Land is being screened AT at BUFF 2019, has created a number of short films Arranged in collaboration with NoJSe – Nordic aimed at young people. Janne Vierth has written Junior Sessions with support from Nordisk scripts for around 70 (!) productions, almost all of Kulturfond and Nordisk Kulturkontakt. them aimed at children. A selection of his work includes Min bror kollokungen, Lilla Anna och Långa The seminar is held in English. Farbrorn, Gordon & Paddy.

Moderator: Kaly Halkawt, education in film studies and writer.

Festivalpass/accreditation or membership in BUFF FilmCentrum Syd needed and a pre-registration needed. For more information see buff.se/ registrering Every year, throughout BUFF, we pay special tribute to those services and businesses who reinforce the value The seminar is held in Swedish. of film for young people, those who drive it forward and make it challenging. Together with partners and experts in jurys, we hand out a range of different prizes every year at our prize ceremony in the Malmö town hall.

This year, for the first time, we are awarding two new prizes: Best Comedy and Best Film Score.

60 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ 23–29 MARS 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 61 THE CITY OF MALMÖ CHILDREN’S THE CHURCH OF FILM AWARD SWEDEN AWARD

WINNER 2018: The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey WINNER 2018: I Kill Giants by Anders Walter

The City of Malmö’s children’s film The Church of Sweden Award goes to prize was first awarded during BUFF JURY a young people’s film which displays JURY

2000. The prize is awarded to a film FRIDA TROLLMYR a high level of artistic quality and JESPER ÖDEMARK creator who, according to the jury’s Chairperson, Cultural Board, calls out existential, justice and social Congregation educator and critique, has contributed to the best City of Malmö. questions in a way which touches both responsible for confirmations and young people’s activities in the Värby film for children. The winning film NICOLA RABI young people and adults. congregation where he works with must be innovative and of high quality. 2nd Vice Chairperson, film groups, among other things. Cultural Board City of Malmö. PRIZE AMOUNT: 100 000 SEK He has participated in the jury PRIZE AMOUNT: 100 000 SEK several times and this year will be JAMIL MANI leading its work for the first time. Illustratior, graphic novel artist and managing Director at Seriefrämjande. FILMS IN COMPETITION ERICA LANG Read more about the films on p. 18–19 Priest and responsible for confirma- FILMS IN COMPETITION HELENE MOHLIN tions and young people’s activities Read more about the films on p. 14–17 Film producer at MINT-AB, have produced A COLONY in the Husie congregation in the several films for children and young people. Malmö parish. CHUSKIT FOR A HAPPY LIFE ANN KÖRLING IVICA ZUBAK FIGHT GIRL Strategic developer of film area, HARAJUKU Director, script writer and producer Cultural Department, City of Malmö. who is known, among things, for his JACOB, MIMMI AND THE HENDI AND HORMOZ film Måste gitt for which he wrote TALKING DOGS JITENDRA MISHRA the manuscript and directed. PEWPEWPEW An Indian film producer and promoter for over 110 MY GRANPA IS AN ALIEN films, many of which had international distribution. ZAHRAA ALDOUJAILI STUPID YOUNG HEART He is also Festival Director for Siffcy film festival. Originally from Skåne, Zahraa INVISIBLE SUE THE UNPROMISED LAND ended up in Alingsås where she KARLA VON BENGTSON landed herself the lead role of Aida TAIKI A trained animation director who has, among other ZEN IN THE ICE RIFT in Gabriela Pichler’s film Amateurs THE WAYANG KIDS things, written and directed Tigrar & Tatueringar (Amatörer) which was screened (Tigers and Tattoos), Next Door Spy (Agatha – grannde- during BUFF 2018. WILDWITCH tektiven) and a range of short films. The prize is awarded this year by Per Svensson, Vicar of the Malmö parish.

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WINNER 2018: Spider Thieves by Guillermo Helo WINNER 2018: Brottas by Julia Thelin

The prize is awarded Region Skåne’s Culture Committee by a high school class founded this prize for best children’s JURY from Malmö and is and young people’s short film in 2006. CAMILLA JONASSON made possible through It’s purpose is to raise the status and A Doctor in Music Pedagogy at Barnkulturenhenten’s meaning of the short film within Musikhögskolan in Malmö, Lund (Culture for Children children’s and young people’s cinema. University, with a research interest in music technology and gender. She is and Young People) The prize will be awarded to a film also coordinator at Unga Musik i Syd, pedagogical film work creator who has made the best short a musician and a stand-up comedian. in Malmö. film of the festival. The level of quality MARTIN MEMET KÖNICK and innovation are important factors PRIZE AMOUNT: Department head at Malmö City 25 000 SEK for the final choice of winner. Library and responsible for working JURY: 8TH GRADE AT SLOTTSSTADENS SKOLA with young people. He also writes Georg Lindgård, Vera Volk Jonsson, Chanel Devedur, PRIZE AMOUNT: 100 000 SEK about film, both online and in print. The films in competition are Astrid Overgaard, Emma Lundberg Pollini, Pardis Banitaleby, the same as The Church of Fabian Brandt, Elsa Josephson, Lily Frigyes, Freja Klausen, Filippa PETTER LINDBLAD Sweden Award. Billbäck, Johanna Lindblad, Emilia Rahm, Isabella Zajak Teleby, FILMS IN COMPETITION A producer with a focus on Stella Lindström Jennfors, Pernilla Wendel Lells and Elin Pedersen. Read more about the films on p. 20–21 children’s film and animation. He is currently working on his first BIG WOLF & LITTLE WOLF VR production, with the working title of Livgivare (Life Giver), and is DAD producing a full length film called Lill-Zlatan och morbror raring (Little The prize will be awarded to one or more GRANBAD Zlatan and darling uncle). individuals who have made a special JAMILA CHARLOTTE WIBERG SYDSVENSKAN contribution to strengthen the role of Expert on the science of film, MAHALIA MELTS IN THE RAIN children’s and young people’s film. coworker on the film magazine FLM & BUFF PRIZE and freelance culture writer. MOUSTACHE Jury: Camilla Larsson & Johan Malmberg, SDS. Julia Jarl & Daniel Lundquist, BUFF Malmö Filmfestival. MY TIME MAGNUS LUNDERQUIST President of Region Skåne’s Culture LAST YEARS WINNER: Linda Hambäck PRISSUMMA: 20 000 KRONOR THE SCHOOL TRIP Committee.

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FILMSTADEN'S EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP CHILDREN’S FILM FOR CHILDREN’S FILMSTADEN'S FILM ASSOCIATION AWARD Filmstaden’s scholarship for SCHOLARSHIP FOR children’s film is handed out annually. Its aim is to provide CHILDREN’S FILM support to one or several individuals who have an idea for a Swedish children’s film WINNER 2018: I am William by Jonas Elmer and to help it reach a greater audience. The recipient will be announced during the BUFF The scholarship 2018 was given to scriptwriter award ceremony. Six European children’s and young Anders Weidmann, producer Patrick Ryborn and director Maria Blom for the film Monkey. people’s films will compete for the JURY SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: 100 000 SEK European Children’s Film Association PANTELIS PANTELOGLOU Award (ECFA). The prize is awarded Assistant artistic director for the at several international children’s Olympia International Film Festival. Previously, he has worked in various CHILDREN’S and young people’s film festivals. creative and technical roles for film The BUFF winner will go to the next festivals, TV and theatre. round to compete for the award of CINEMA OF MARTA KRAUS the year’s best children’s and young Former Festival Director for the THE YEAR people’s film which will be awarded at children’s film festival in Krakow who now holds the same position for the the Berlin Film Festival. Children’s cinema of the year children’s and young people’s film acts as an encouragement and festival KINOKLUB. inspiration for cinemas which JUDITA SOUKUPOVÁ work intentionally towards CHILDREN’S FILMS IN COMPETITION One of the founders of the film develop their offering for a Read more about the films on p. 14–17 festival JUNIORFEST in Czech younger audience. Republic where she is Festival Biografcentralen is responsible CINEMA OF FIGHT GIRL Director. for the scholarship alongside the financial backers: Sveriges THE YEAR JACOB, MIMMI AND Filmregissörer, Swedish Society THE TALKING DOGS of Cinematographers and the GRANPA IS AN ALIEN Swedish Regional Resource Centres for Film. Audiences INVISIBLE SUE can nominate their favourite cinema at www.barnbio.se. The TAIKI nominations are then presented to the jury. WILDWITCH

PRIZE AMOUNT: WINNER 2018: Folkets Bio Regina, Östersund 15 000 SEK

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NEW PRIZE NEW PRIZE BARNFONDEN'S NÖJESGUIDEN'S PRIZE FOR BEST PRIZE FOR BEST BUFF NORDIC STAR COMEDY FILM SCORE BEST YOUNG NORDIC ACTORS Barnfonden’s prize is awarded to the children’s or Nöjesguiden’s prize for best film score is awarded young people’s film that gives us the best laugh; to a composer whose music elevates the film expe- BUFF Nordic Star is an award which goes to three young a film that contributes to more children’s laughter rience and intensifies emotions. The score must be actors in recognition of outstanding acting achievements around the world; a film that lets children be original and develop the use of music in film. in a film screened at BUFF Malmö Film Festival. children and which gives laughter space. In the winner’s name, Barnfonden awards 10 000 Swedish PRIZE: ELECTRONICS kronor to one of its development projects, a prize that adds more children’s laughter to the world. FILMS IN COMPETITION FILMS IN COMPETITION WE THE ANIMALS p. 29 Composer: Nick Zammuto HALKAA p. 30 SCHOOL’S OUT p. 33 THE FALCONS p. 30 Composer: Zombie Zombie

THE WAYANG KIDS p. 16 EIGHTH GRADE p. 30 Composer: Anna Meredith

GERDA JERE INES HØYSÆTER JURY JURY SISSELA BENN NATHAN LARSON LIE KAAS RISTSEPPÄ ASSERSON Actor and comedian. Acclaimed Film composer whose work is for the character Filippa Bark, featured in more than 60 film For the role of Clara in For the role of Lenni in For the role of Vilde in among other things, as well as her and tv-series available on HBO, WILDWITCH STUPID YOUNG HEART HARAJUKU role in current film Sune vs Sune. Showtime, Netflix and most of the big film studios.

ELLEN RYDHÖG LOTTA FAHLÉN/LOLJUD Year 6 student with an interest Artist and music producer for in film. Maxida Märaks, among others. »Every year we're impressed by incredibly powerful acting She is also continuously engaged performances by young actors in films screened at BUFF. With to inspire and educate in music production. this award, we wish to celebrate these awesome and inspiring ANNA SVÄRD Managing Director, Barnfonden. achievements by nominating three young actors who have made MÅNS LEONARTSSON a brilliant contribution and moved audiences.« Star of BUFF and on stage, he has been active in the festival JULIA JARL, FESTIVAL DIRECTOR FREDRIK SAMUELSSON since 2015 and is also a musician Communications, Barnfonden. in the pop band Hater.

68 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 69 F = FILMSTADEN P = PANORA PF = PANORAS FOAJÉ R = ROYAL = FOLLOWED BY Q&A 12.30–14.10 P3 Blossom Valley + Sacrilége 15.00–16.40 SC Meteorites + Sound of Silence S = SPEGELN SO = SPEGELN OVAL FC = FILMCENTRUM SYD 12.30–14.20 F2 That’s Life + The School Trip 15.00–16.00 P2 Seminar: How is sex depicted in films 12.30–14.15 R Land of Glass + 3Feet for young people? 12.45–14.25 F4 Meteorites + Sound of Silence 17.00–18.30 SA Dröm 13.00–14.35 F3 We the Animals 17.15–19.00 SC Old Boys + Granbad 11.00–11.40 PF Workshop: Return of a SATURDAY 23/3 18.00–19.00 SO BUFF Daily favourite in a gigantic format 14.15–16.10 SA Zen in the Ice Rift + Moustache – animation workshop 14.45–15.50 SC Dreams of a Better Life 19.15–20.55 SC Slut in a Good Way + Saladdin Castique 10.00–10.40 P2 Adventures with Animals. – Shorts Package. Filmer: Our Life as 19.30–20.45 SA Seminar: Work in Progress Films: Kuap, Sam’s Dream, 11.45–12.30 P2 LunchSeminar: BUFF in Sweden and Buff in Hospitals Refugee Children in Europé, Nur, Life 21.00–22.45 SA Eighth Grade + The Messenger Anglerfish, Rut & Elias, The on Mars, Paradise Dwellers. Giraffe’s Bike. 12.15–14.05 SA Harajuku + Jamila 21.15–23.00 SC Jellyfish 16.15–18.10 SC Twin Flower + Eva 10.15–11.55 P1 Emil in Lonneberga 12.15–14.10 F3 Zen in the Ice Rift 17.00–18.30 SA Felix recenserar 11.00–11.40 P2 Animated! Films: Matilda, Two + Moustache THURSDAY 28/3 Balloons, A Light in the Night, 12.15–14.05 R Wildwitch + Mahalia Melts 18.00–19.00 SO BUFF Daily 09.00–10.45 SA Taiki Whiteland, All the Dear Little in the Rain 18.30–20.40 SC Let Me Fall 09.00–10.05 P1 Circleen, Coco and the Wild Animals. 12.30–13.50 P1 NoJse – Shorts Package. 19.00–21.00 SA Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Rhinoceros 12.15–14.25 P1 Ronia – the Robber’s Daughter Films: Rå, Liar Girl, –in collaboration with Cinemateket 09.00–09.40 R Big Galaxies Eat Stars + Robot and the 12.30–13.45 P2 Tito and the Birds Home Grown, Traces. 21.00–23.00 SC School’s Out + Sports Day Whale 13.00–14.45 P3 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: 12.30–13.00 P2 Seminar: Erling Ericsson 21.15–22.55 SA Rafiki + The Orphan 09.00–10.00 P2 Film and Talks 1: I Love You More Than Shorts package 12.30–14.25 F1 Fight Girl + My Time My Soul + Bike Bird 15.30–17.25 P1 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: 12.45–14.25 F2 Rafiki + The Orphan WEDNESDAY 27/3 09.15–11.15 F2 Hendi and Hormoz + Sapera Antonias Resa 13.00–14.35 F4 Firecrackers 09.00–09.40 SA Animated! – Shorts Package. Films: 09.30–11.35 P3 Skate Kitchen + Fuck You 15.00–17.00 R Miraï (opening) 13.00–13.45 P2 Seminar: PRV School Matilda, Two Balloons, A Light in the 09.30–11.25 F1 Chuskit + Dad 18.30–20.45 P2 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: for copyright Night, Whiteland, All the Dear Little 09.45–11.25 F4 Rasmus and the Vagabond + intro A Silent Voice 14.00–17.00 P2 Seminar: MIK, democracy Animals. 10.00–11.45 F3 and human rights 09.00–10.00 P2 Seminar: A journey through the history For a Happy Life schedule F estival SUNDAY 24/3 14.30–16.15 SA For a Happy Life of film with live music 10.00–11.15 R Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs 10.15–11.40 P2 Equality for Everyone – Shorts 10.00–10.40 P2 Big Galaxies Eat Stars 15.30–16.45 SC Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking 09.00–09.40 R Adventures with Animals. Films: Kuap, Package. Films: October Boy, Beyond + Robot and the Whale Dogs Sam’s Dream, Anglerfish, Rut & Elias, The Giraffe’s Bike. the Fence, Virgins4Lyfe. 10.15–12.05 P1 The Brothers Lionsheart 16.30–18.35 SA Skate Kitchen + Fuck You 09.15–11.00 F4 The Master Detective Lives 10.30–11.35 P1 Circleen, Coco and the Wild 11.00–12.35 P2 17.00–18.45 SC Land of Glass + 3Feet Invisible Sue Dangerously Rhinoceros 13.00–14.45 P1 18.00–19.00 SO BUFF Daily Klassen 09.30–11.45 P1 Deaf Film Festival Skåne: A Silent Voice 12.15–14.15 SA The Unpromised Land + Little 13.15–14.55 P2 19.00–20.45 SA PewPewPew Waves Wildwitch 09.30–11.30 F3 The Unpromised Land + Little 15.00–16.45 P1 Klassen 19.15–20.50 SC Blossom Valley + Cat Days Waves 12.15–13.45 P3 Science Fair 15.15–16.30 P2 My Grandpa is an Alien 21.00–23.05 SA El Ángel + Family Jewels 09.30–11.40 P3 Let Me Fall 12.15–14.05 F4 That’s Life + The School Trip 21.15–23.00 SC L’Animale + Oneself Story 09.45–11.30 F1 The Wayang Kids 12.30–14.30 P1 A Colony MONDAY 25/3 10.00–11.30 SA Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs 12.30–14.25 F2 Harajuku + Jamila TUESDAY 26/3 09.00–09.40 PF Workshop: Return of a 10.00–11.35 F2 My Grandpa is an Alien 12.30–14.20 R Invisible Sue + Big Wolf & Little Wolf favourite in a gigantic format 09.00–10.45 SA The Wayang Kids 10.00–11.15 R Tito and the Birds 12.45–14.30 F1 Old Boys + Granbad – animation workshop 09.00–17.00 P1 Seminar: Film in Schools Day 10.30–11.30 P2 Seminar: A journey through the history 12.45–13.50 P2 Film and Talks 2: Grimsta Interstice 09.00–10.55 SA Halkaa 09.00–09.40 R Animated! Films: Matilda, Two of film with live music + Double D 09.00–11.00 P2 A Colony Balloons, A Light in the Night, 12.15–14.20 SA Stupid Young Heart + Can’t Shine 13.00–15.00 F3 Lilja 4-ever 09.15–11.10 P1 Chuskit + Dad Whiteland, All the Dear Little Without You My Brothers 14.00–15.45 P3 Slut in a Good Way + I’m Going Out Animals. 09.15–10.55 F4 The Falcons + Slow Dance 12.15–13.15 P2 Film and Talks 3: Get Ready With Me for Cigarettes 09.15–11.20 P2 Stupid Young Heart + Can’t + Disrepute 09.15–09.55 R Adventures with Animals. 14.30–15.30 P2 Seminar: The Youth Film of the Future Shine Without You My Brothers Films: Kuap, Sam’s Dream, 12.15–14.20 F1 Wildwitch + Mahalia Melts in 15.00–16.45 SC L’Animale + Oneself Story 09.15–11.10 F4 Halkaa the Rain Anglerfish, Rut & Elias, 16.00–17.00 FC Seminar: Writing for Children and The Giraffe’s Bike. 09.30–11.10 P3 Competition – Best Short Film. 12.15–14.20 R The Glass-blower’s Children + intro Young People Films: Dad, Mahalia Melts in 09.30–11.25 F3 Twin Flower + Eva 12.30–14.25 F2 Fight Girl + My Time 17.00–18.45 SC Night Comes On + All These Creatures the Rain, My Time, Granbad, 09.45–11.30 F1 Taiki Moustache, Big Wolf & Little 12.45–14.25 F4 The Miracle in Valby 19.00–20.35 SC We the Animals 10.00–11.00 KH Seminar: Film, interpretations Wolf, The School Trip, Jamila. 12.45–14.30 P1 Deaf Film Festival: Shorts Package 21.00–22.35 SC Firecrackers of life and faith (at Kyrkans hus) 09.30–11.15 F3 Night Comes On + All These 12.30–14.30 P3 Hendi and Hormoz + Sapera 10.00–11.20 F2 The Night I Swam Creatures 13.00–14.10 F3 Dreams of a Better Life – Shorts FREDAG 29/3 10.00–10.40 PF Workshop: Return of a 09.45–11.25 F1 The Falcons + Slow Dance Package. Filmer: Our Life as Refugee favourite in a gigantic format 09.15–10.55 P1 Miraï, min lillasyster 10.00–11.20 F2 The Night I Swam Children in Europé, Nur, Life on Mars, – animation workshop Paradise Dwellers. 09.30–11.30 P2 School’s Out + Our Death 10.00–11.20 R My Grandpa is an Alien 10.15–10.55 R Big Galaxies Eat Stars 14.00–14.45 P2 Seminar: Springtime for Swedish 12.15–14.00 P1 Eighth Grade + The Messenger + Robot and the Whale 12.15–14.00 SA PewPewPew animation! 12.30–14.15 P2 Jellyfish 12.15–14.20 F1 Invisible Sue + Big Wolf & 14.45–16.20 SA Science Fair Little Wolf

70 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 71 3Feet [email protected] Granbad [email protected] Old Boys [email protected] The Glass- clara.gustavsson blower’s @filminstitutet.se A Colony [email protected] Grimsta [email protected] Oneself Story [email protected] Children Interstice A Light in the [email protected] Our Death [email protected] The Master clara.gustavsson Night Halkaa [email protected] Our Life as [email protected] Detective Lives @filminstitutet.se All the Dear [email protected] Harajuku [email protected] Refugee Dangerously Little Animals Children in The Messenger [email protected] Hendi and [email protected] Europe All These [email protected] Hormoz The Miracle in clara.gustavsson Creatures Paradise [email protected] Valby @filminstitutet.se Home Grown [email protected] Dwellers ources Anglerfish [email protected] The Night I [email protected] Hör mig [email protected] PewPewPew [email protected] Antonias resa [email protected] swam I Love You [email protected] Rafiki [email protected] A Silent Voice [email protected] More Than My The Orphan [email protected] Soul Rasmus and clara.gustavsson The School Trip distribuzione.zenmovie Beyond the armangholipourdashtaki the Vagabond @filminstitutet.se Fence @gmail.com Invisible Sue [email protected] @gmail.com Reverberations [email protected] Big Galaxies [email protected] I’m Going Out [email protected] The [email protected] eat Stars for Cigarettes Robot and the [email protected] Unpromised Whale Land Big Wolf & [email protected] Jacob, Mimmi [email protected] Little Wolf and the Talking Ronia – The clara.gustavsson The Wayang [email protected] P rint S Dogs Robber’s @filminstitutet.se Kids Bike Bird [email protected] Daughter Jamila [email protected] This is Normal [email protected] Blossom Valley [email protected] Rut & Elias [email protected] Jellyfish [email protected] Tito and the [email protected] Bortom [email protected] Rå [email protected] Birds Kuap [email protected] Can’t Shine [email protected] Sacrilége [email protected] Tom [email protected] Without You L’Animale [email protected] My Brothers Saladdin [email protected] Traces [email protected] Land of Glass [email protected] Castique Cat Days [email protected] Twin Flower [email protected] Let Me Fall [email protected] Sam’s Dream [email protected] Chuskit [email protected] Two Balloons [email protected] Liar Girl [email protected] Sapera [email protected] Cirkeline, Coco [email protected] Virgins4Lyfe [email protected] Life on Mars [email protected] and the Wild School’s Out [email protected] We the [email protected] Rhinoceros Lilja 4-ever clara.gustavsson Science Fair [email protected] Animals Dad [email protected] @filminstitutet.se She [email protected] Whiteland [email protected] Deaf [email protected] Little Waves festival @travellingdistribution.com Sign [email protected] Wildwitch [email protected] Disrepute [email protected] Love is Blind [email protected] Skate Kitchen [email protected] Words [email protected] Double D [email protected] Mahalia Melts festival Slow Dance [email protected] Zen in The Ice [email protected] Eighth Grade [email protected] in the Rain @travellingdistribution.com Rift Slut in a Good [email protected] El Àngel [email protected] Matilda [email protected] Way

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72 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA MALMÖ MARCH 23–29 2019 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #36 73 3Feet 44 I Love You More 38 Saladdin Castique 48 Than My Soul A Colony 18 Sam’s Dream 23 Invisible Sue 16 A Light in the Night 24 Sapera 48 I’m Going Out for Cigarettes 46 BE A PART OF A FILM JURY TOGETHER WITH All the Dear Little Animals 24 School’s Out 33 Jacob, Mimmi and 14 All These Creatures 44 the Talking Dogs Science Fair 25 OTHER YOUTHS FROM AROUND EUROPE

Anglerfish 23 Jamila 21 She 41

Antonias Resa 51 Jellyfish 28 Sign 50

A Silent Voice 51 Kuap 23 Skate Kitchen 33

Beyond the Fence 27 Land of Glass 32 Slow Dance 49 Big Galaxies eat Stars 22 Slut in a Good Way 31 F ilmindex Let Me Fall 28

Big Wolf & Little Wolf 20 Liar girl 42 Sound of Silence 46

Bike Bird 38 Life on Mars 26 Sports Day 49

Blossom Valley 32 Lilja 4-ever 37 Stupid Young Heart 18

Bortom 50 Little Waves 47 Swatted 41

Can't Shine Without 46 Love is Blind 50 Swêdî 41 You My Brothers L’Animale 33 Taiki 15 SELECT THE BEST Cat Days 45 Mahalia Melts in the Rain 20 That’s Life 31 Chuskit 14 Matilda 24 The Brothers Lionheart 35 Cirkeline, Coco and 22 the Wild Rhinoceros Meteorites 32 The Falcons 30

Dad 20 Miraï 25 The Giraffes Bike 23 The Glass-blower's Children 36 FILM ON MAY 5TH Deaf 51 Moustache 21

Disrepute 39 My Grandpa is an Alien 15 The Master Detective 36 Lives Dangerously Double D 39 My Time 20 The Messenger 44 Dröm 57 Nausicaä of the Valley of 25 the Wind The Miracle in Valby 37 Eighth Grade 30 Night Comes On 28 The Night I Swam 22 El Ángel 33 On 5th May, the EFA Young Audience Award will On 5th May, all juries will gather in chosen Nur 26 The Orphan 49 cinemas in their respective countries. Emil in Lonneberga 34 be held throughout Europe and 35 juries from the The Swedish jury will gather at Cinema October Boy 27 The Robot and the Whale 22 Eva 45 different countries will watch fi lms and nominate Panora in Malmö. During the day you Old Boys 31 The School Trip 21 will see fi lms, have the chance to be Family Jewels 45 their favourites as winners. The Swedish jury will interviewed, eat good food and socialise. Oneself Story 47 The Unpromised Land 18 Fight Girl 17 In the evening, the gala ceremony will be The Wayang Kids 16 be put together in Malmö and everyone aged 12–14 Our Death 47 broadcast live at the cinema. Firecrackers 29 has the chance to join! Our Life as Refugee 26 Tito and the Birds 25 For a Happy Life 19 The EFA Young Audience Award has Children in Europe Tom 41 taken place every year since 2012 and Fucking Cola 41 Paradise Dwellers 26 Traces 43 Take the chance to infl uence future fi lm for young gives young people the opportunity Fuck You 45 PewPewPew 19 Twin Flower 29 people, gain valuable experiences and watch new to contribute to positive change and enable them to develop a feeling of Get Ready With Me 39 Rafiki 29 Two Balloons 24 European fi lms on the big screen. For a full day, you community and tolerance, as well as a Granbad 21 Rasmus and the Vagabond 37 Virgins4Lyfe 27 will be able to explore your interest in fi lm, other greater understanding of their European Grimsta Intertice 39 neighbours. Parent or guardian approval Reverberations 50 We the Animals 29 cultures and experience the feeling of community is required for participation Halkaa 30 Ronia – The Robber's 34 Whiteland 24 with other young people interested in fi lm. Harajuku 19 Daughter Wildwitch 17 Hendi and Hormoz 18 Rut & Elias 23 Words 51 Home Grown 43 Rå 42 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? Zen in the Ice Rift 19 Visit buff .se and register or send an email to info@buff .se Hör mig 50 Sacrilége 48

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