Issue 1 • 2017

SHOOTING STAR Karin Franz Körlof + The Nile Hilton Incident, A Hustler’s Diary, Up in the Sky and much more

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Festivals, features Petter Mattsson Phone +46 70 607 11 34 Film i Väst congratulates [email protected] its co-productions in Berlin! Festivals, documentaries Sara Rüster A fresh start Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 [email protected] Panta rhei. All things are in flux. They A Hustler’s Diary, a dramedy where a certainly are, and and the Swedish suburban small-time criminal clashes film industry is no exception. At the time with his past and the very elite of Stock- Festivals, shorts Theo Tsappos of writing we are only weeks into a new holm’s cultural life. We have Sami Blood Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 national film policy. We see it as a chance in Berlin and the TV series Midnight Sun [email protected] to go through the old film funding that’s in Rotterdam – and they both, in com- been around for decades, modernize it – pletely different ways, tell a story about and start afresh. We’re going cherry-pick- the Sami minority. Those are just a few Special projects ing, taking what’s worked for us and other examples of Swedish films that are Josefina Mothander countries before, and putting the pieces selected for various festivals in the first Phone +46 70 972 93 52 together to build something new. An months of 2017. [email protected] important part of the process is daring to We already have a broad spectrum of see what it takes to set the funded films up films coming from Sweden, and we will OFFICIAL COMPETITION GENERATION KPLUS Coordinator with the best possible conditions to grow continue to work along those lines. These Ömer Bulduk GAME COUNT Agnieszka Holland UP IN THE SKY Petter Lennstrand and develop. To help us we have new film are exciting times, and time will tell what Phone +46 76 501 20 71 commissioners when it comes not only to we make of them and this opportunity for [email protected] features, but to shorts and documentaries change. Be sure to come by our stand in as well. Read more about them on page 34. Berlin, and ask us any questions you may Together with them we’re on a venture to have about the changes. Above all: see Head of Communications find quality, and not only within the given our films, now and in the coming years. & Public Relations frameworks. You won’t be disappointed. Rebecka Ioannidis Lindberg Phone: +46 76 501 20 73 While looking ahead, we are also reap- [email protected] ing the rewards of our work to put gender on the agenda. Now it seems like other Press Officer efforts when it comes to diversity have Jan Göransson started paying off too: in 2017 there are a Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 lot of new faces in Swedish film – both on [email protected] and off screen – who bring new perspec- tives and new kinds of stories. In Berlin we have two shorts with an LGBTQ theme, My Gay Sister and The Comet, the latter being about a young refugee who PANORAMA SPECIAL OFFICIAL SELECTION (Out of Competition) Swedish Film Institute undertakes a hellish voyage to Sweden to KING’S CHOICE Erik Poppe VICEROY’S HOUSE Gurinder Chadha International Department escape persecution of homosexuals in his Anna Serner P.O. Box 27126 home country. In Rotterdam we have CEO, Swedish Film Institute SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 665 11 00 Fax: +46 8 661 18 20 sfi.se

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20 BERLIN ANDREAS BAADERANDREAS 30 On the run Victor Lindgren’s new film The Comet (Kometen) has been selected for Berlinale Shorts. It is a film about fleeing one’s homeland, across the Mediterranean to a cold, closed Europe. Victor

My Gay Sister Lindgren’s screenplay for The 16 STENWALL KARIN Comet is based on a short story by Melker Garay and on the life story BERLIN of actor Abdi Aziis. “Abdi inspired me to write this story, as he made a similar hellish Sisterly love trip from Somalia to Sweden, due to his sexual orientation,” says Lia Hietala’s My Gay Sister (Min Thyberg’s Girls and Boys (2015) Lindgren. “My hope is that this film homosyster) world premieres in and Stallion (Hingsten, 2016). might illustrate his situation and Berlinale’s Generation Kplus “I primarily work with themes highlight the refugee issue, section. The film focuses on that portray people with LGBTQ especially LGBTQ refugees who three girls: Majken who has long experiences whitout turning it into are often marginalized.” known she is a lesbian, Gabbi a problem. In this film I wanted to Victor Lindgren is also working who has just discovered she also touch on the conception that on his debut feature, with the likes girls – and Gabbi’s ten-year- many people assume that working title The Unpromised Land (Till drömmarnas land), which has

old little sister Cleo who is trying children are heterosexual, at least NEW STORIED AB 13 23 HALLSTRÖM NADJA BERGMARK, JOHAN BERGMARK, JOHAN ASPLUND, EMELIE SUNDGREN, YLVA ALFREDSSON, KARIN LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE to figure out how she feels. until they state the opposite.” been shot and is ready for editing. “The film is about a young girl’s Lia Hietala’s first short If I Say “To give a taste of the feature 5 News 20 The24 escape from Cairo 34 The influencers first encounter with defining her No (2016) formed the basis for “The film is about a film, we made a short called Meet A jazzy short for kids is one of the Swedish entries at In The Nile Hilton Incident, Tarik Saleh uncovers the dirty As new film commissioners at the Swedish Film Institute, sexuality. About how hard it can My Gay Sister. Hietala is young girl’s first Me in Holmsund (Den blomstertid Clermont-Ferrand, a documentary about the Swedish Film business of politics in Egypt. Erika Wassermann, Calle Marthin and Juan Pablo be to sort out what you feel, and currently casting Ninja Thyberg’s nu kommer, 2016), which is Institute’s founder Harry Schein premieres in Libossart are sure to leave a mark on the national film how scary it can be to realize that debut feature Jessica, about a ­encounter with screening at several festivals and we strap on a deer mask to experience Peter 23 New talent scene. you feel,” says Lia Hietala. teenage girl who ventures into during the spring. It’s about Sabina Pontiki’s 360-degree short. Plus all the winners from the Film student Jonatan Etzler examines the perils of big ­defining her sexuality” who has come from Romania to recent . 36 Loving Lorna Hietala started out as the porn movie industry. dreams in the short Make a Wish. Actress Evin Ahmad Sweden with her Romany brothers, shines in emotional everyday drama Beyond Dreams. Sisters Annika and Jessica Karlsson went to Ireland to assistant director on Ninja Jon Asp Lia Hietala about migrant workers and her 13 What’s next shoot their documentary debut about the local Ballymun The Sami Blood cinematographer Sophia Olsson, a 27 Kids in space horse culture. meeting with all things Swedish.” household name in Scandinavia, is shooting Milad Alami’s In Petter Lennstrand’s animated puppet film Up in the In 2013 Victor Lindgren’s debut feature. Björn Runge makes a comeback to the Sky, an eight-year-old sets out on the adventure of her 38 New films Undress Me (Ta av mig) won a silver screen with the help of Glenn Close, Jonathan life. All the latest Swedish films… Swedes with Oscar feeling Teddy Award for best short at the Pryce and Christian Slater. Director Mia Engberg Hannes Holm’s A Man Called film in history domestically and Furthermore, Linus Sandgren Berlinale. returns with the second film in a planned trilogy about a 28 Cultural nomads 48 New shorts Ove, about a grumpy old man is also a big hit in the US. Love was nominated for Cinematog- Jon Asp Paris gangster. With her successful drama Sami Blood still touring the …and the shorts too. with a golden heart, is one of Larson and were raphy in La La Land, and festivals, returns with a 30-minute the five films nominated in the also nominated for Makeup Swedish composers Max 16 Star quality short about trust and betrayal. 51 Companies The Comet Actor and director Karin Franz Körlof is Sweden’s Foreign Language Film and Hairstyling in the film, Martin and Karl Johan Schus- Shooting Star at the Berlinale. 30 Hard knock life category for the 89th Academy repeating last year’s achieve- ter were nominated for Music It may have been difficult to find financing, but with Awards, which will be held on ment with The 100-Year-Old (Original Song) for their Trolls A Hustler’s Diary director Ivica Zubak and producer February 26. A Man Called Ove Man Who Climbed Out the contribution ”Can’t Stop the Abbe Hassan created a box-office hit. is the third most successful Window and Disappeared. Feeling”. SF STUDIOS SF RASMUS WEST

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Swinging BERLIN animals Jazzoo is a series of animated short films for very young children, but they can be appreci- ated by people of all ages – not least thanks to its jazzy soundtrack. The project has been initiated and directed by Adam Marko-Nord and developed in close collaboration with Swedish jazz quintet Oddjob. When Adam Marko-Nord heard Adam Marko-Nord them for the first time, Jazzoo short stories and images CHRISTIAN BERG (ADAM MARKO-NORD), ALPHAVILLE (STILL) ALPHAVILLE MARKO-NORD), (ADAM BERG CHRISTIAN immediately came into his head. With the help of illustrator Ben selected for Generation Kplus at kangaroo, the elephant with a dreaming, partying and socializ- Javens, he has now created a the Berlinale. In the original 13 boom-box on his back, the lonely ing like us humans. All to the series of animated shorts which episodes, each about two polar bear whose ice float has sounds of some of Sweden’s are all set in the animal kingdom. minutes long, we meet the koala separated from the group, and leading jazz musicians. The shorter festival version is who wants to jump like a many other animals longing, Per Nyström

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THE NEW SWEDISH FILM POLICY AERTRYCK VAN MAXIMILIEN AND DANIELSON AXEL

“Hopefully everyone in the Moonwolves I Was a Winner The Committee industry can feel involved” At the beginning of the year, the Swedish Film Agree- ment, which has funded the Swedish film industry since 1963, was replaced by a new national film policy. We asked Kristina Börjesson, head of Film Funding at the Swedish Film Institute, about the most important changes. “Everyone in the industry can now take part and discuss HOB AB JONAS ODELL KIURU JARMO the future of Swedish film. The structure of the Film Agreement excluded some groups, mainly creatives. Now High hopes in France directors, screenwriters and others can join the discussion on equal Swedish movies 2016) and Jonas Odell’ I Was a between the three nations – In Nima Yousefi’s animated terms.” make a splash at Winner (Jag var en vinnare, 2016) something which proves to be poetic short Moonwolves, the What does this mean Kristina Börjesson Clermont-Ferrand. are screening in the LAB easier said than done. theme is the desire to find and for Swedish film? Competition. Nima Yousefi’s In Ten Meter Tower, cameras at explore the unknown – in this “It hopefully means There’s many a Swedish gem at animated short Moonwolves a swimming pool capture the case nothing less than our that everyone in the industry can feel involved, listen to this year’s International Short Film (Månulvarna, 2016) appears in decision anxiety in people about shining moon. each other and help to develop the future of Swedish film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand. the Youth Audience Award to jump from the ten-metre diving Four Swedish films will also be together. Our job and responsibility is of course still to Gunhild Engers’ and Jenni section. tower. shown at the market: Adam allocate funding, and competition is extremely tough Toivoniemi’s humorous short The The Committee is the story of a I Was a Winner sees interviews Marko-Nord’s Jazzoo (2017), Jo- since there’s no extra funding. Even so, I hope that we can Committee (Kommittén, 2016) is Nordic committee of representa- with three former video game natan Etzler’s Make a Wish all keep Swedish film’s best interests in mind, and that selected for the International tives from Sweden, and addicts. Unusually, yet very (2016), Victor Lindgren’s Meet some of the issues we can’t agree on can be put to one Competition, while Axel Daniel- Finland, who gather at Riksgrän- comically, the interviewees speak Me in Holmsund (2016) and side so we can focus on what we have in common.” son and Maximilien Van Aertryck’s sen to agree on an artwork to through the video game charac- Saga Becker’s Fuckgirls (2017). symbolize neighbourly relations ters. Per Nyström SONNY MATTSSON SONNY Ten Meter Tower (Hopptornet,

7 News News News Hunting for unique and candid insight into a the maximum distinct universe, possibly a last haven of joyful youth before horror effect entering the adult life in a Of the five projects that were country of unrest, not least selected for the horror short political. The focus is on three of initiative “It’s Alive” – a collabora- the pupils, Bintou, Chatalle and tion between the Swedish Film Mounira, at school, out on Institute and regional film funds internship, enjoying the nightlife – one director used his five and at times also worrying about minutes to the max. Peter Pontikis’ the future. Oh Deer!, a 360-degree film in stereoscopic 3D, places the Shapeshifters audience deep into the woods, (Sophie Vukovic) deep into the mind of a hunted In 1989, Sophie Vukovic’s family deer. Right in the crosshairs. moved from Yugoslavia to “I wanted to expose the Australia, made a stop in China audience to something very in the 90s, and later wound up in intense and uncomfortable, and at Sweden, where they currently the same time I wanted the setting reside. In this personal first-per- and framework to be realistic,” son account, Vukovic reflects on says director Peter Pontikis. “The the notion of national belonging first thought that came to my mind and/or being an ‘immigrant’. was the idea of how it must feel to Through interviews with her be aimed at and shot. From that family and home movies taken came the idea to let the film take over the years, she explores the Shapeshifters place during a hunt for deer – and

IGA MIKLER IGA predicament of having to deal then finally, to actually place the with the constant question audience inside the deer’s head.” “Where are you really from?”, You actually went so far as to feeling nostalgia for something make a wearable large deer head never experienced and knowing for the viewers to put on… West coast docs exactly what is ‘home’. Vukovic is “I wanted to find a way to let an editor and a collaborator with them prepare for the experience. Three Swedish docu- Thulin, his close relation to Ouaga Girls Göran Hugo Olsson, director The And by seeing, feeling and actually Black Power Mixtape 1967– mentaries, two of which , his weekly (Theresa Traore Dahlberg) putting the head tennis games with prime minister In her debut feature, Swedish- 1975, who has also produced on you can are first films, compete for Olof Palme and a jet-set lifestyle Burkinabe Theresa Traore Shapeshifters. ‘become’ the the Nordic Dragon Award made him a profile well outside of Dahlberg visits the CFIAM Jan Lumholdt deer for a short for Best Documentary at the artistic circles, where his (Centre féminin d’initiation et while. By that Göteborg Film Festival. audacious, elitist and sharply d’apprentissage aux métiers), an tactile act, you intellectual personality made him education centre in Ouagadou- are immediately some great friends and an gou aiming to strengthen young placed in the increasing number of furious women’s independence by right perspec- Citizen Schein enemies. The film is also teaching them a profession tive, and more ready to assimilate (Maud Nycander, Jannike presented in this year’s Nordic traditionally preserved for men what’s coming. And then of course Åhlund, Kersti Grunditz Brennan) Film Market in Gothenburg. – that of a car mechanic. It’s a it’s a plus that the head looks Although Harry Schein was born good…” in Vienna in 1924, few Austrians Theresa Traore Dahlberg ALFREDSSON KARIN “The first thought that What were the biggest challeng- will react to his name, let alone es making Oh Deer!? take pride in a Landsmann who came to my mind was “The conceptualization. To find became a Swedish cultural icon the idea of how it an idea that suited the format, and of unequalled clout. The aptly to find a way to make the audience titled Citizen Schein is a larger- must feel to be aimed follow what’s going on in a than-fiction portrait of the 360-degree film. You want to point self-made tycoon who created a at and shot” the viewers in the right direction, to national film institute with the Peter Pontikis make them experience it as mission of producing quality cine- intended. To get the best effect out ma, all under his all-seeing, of it. In this case, the maximum autocratic eye. His well-publi- horror effect.” cized marriage to actress Ingrid Citizen Schein Ouaga Girls

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8 9 9 News The Giant claimed the Guldbagge Award for Best Film Swedes in La La Land At an award ceremony held in Stockholm on January 23, the winners of the The Giant Actors, directors, cinematographers – a whole National Film Award (Guldbagge) were crowned. Johannes Nyholm’s Linus Sandgren and Måns Månsson’s The Yard were the evening’s winners, receiving three bunch of Swedish professionals continue to Ten years ago, cinematographer Linus Sandgren won a Guldbagge Award for awards each, while A Serious Game, Martha & Niki and My Aunt in Sarajevo make waves in Hollywood. his first feature,Storm (2006). Since then the awards and nominations have kept on coming, and his work on Damien Chazelle’s Oscar walked away with two awards each.

season front runner La La Land is nominated for an BERGMARK JOHAN Academy Award. Next stop will be fellow Swede Lasse Hoyte van Hoytema Hallström’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms. Best Film Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema was born in The Giant (Jätten) Switzerland, grew up in the Netherlands, went to film Producers: Maria school in Polish Lodz, came to Sweden and won Dahlin and Morten several Guldbagge Awards for his work Kjems Hytten Juhl with directors like Johannes Nyholm PATRIK C ÖSTERBERG/MEDIAB C PATRIK and Mikael Marcimain. Then, he “Sometimes you have to follow certain Best Director conquered the world – most Goran recently the beaches of Dunkerque rules of filmmaking and storytelling with together with Christopher Nolan. the camera, but I think in this case Kapetanović Dunkirk was shot on IMAX 65 Damien Chazelle let the story be told in for My Aunt in Sarajevo (Min mm, and will have its world faster i Sarajevo) such a way that the camera was free to ASPLUNDEMELIE premiere in July. do whatever it felt like doing.” (Moviemaker, December, 2016) Best Actress in a Leading Role David F. Sandberg for her role as Siri in The Girl the When Variety picked 10 directors to watch this Mother and the Demons (Flickan January, Swedish director David F. Sandberg was Mamman och Demonerna) one of them. The three-minute horror short

Lights Out – made together with his wife Lotta Losten – became an internet phenomenon in Best Actor 2015, and he was quickly offered to make it into in a Leading Role a feature. The film was a box office hit, and since Anders Mossling then he’s been working on Annabelle 2 and has for his role as 11811 in The Yard plans for a Lights Out sequel. (Yarden)

Jesper Ganslandt Best Actress Best Costume Best Visual Effects Recently finished the shooting of his Mikael Marcimain in a Supporting Role Kicki Ilander Fredrik Nord The director of Gentlemen and A Serious Game The 101-Year-Old Man Who English-language debut with the indie Sadžida Šetić action-thriller Beast of Burden, where Call Girl will soon start the for her role as Radmila in My Aunt Skipped Out on the Bill and HALLSTRÖM NADJA shooting of his first English-lan- Daniel Radcliffe stars as a drug-smug- in Sarajevo Best Sound Disappeared (Hundraettåringen guage film. The thrillerVillain , gling pilot. Jesper Ganslandt is also in Patrik Strömdahl som smet från notan och ­ Cinematographer Ita Zbroniec-Zajt about a man who survives his post-production with the feature The Yard försvann) won an an award for The Yard. She was family, stars Casey Affleck, who Best Actor Jimmie, a Moving Sweden also nominated for her lensing in My has also written the script. in a Supporting Role Aunt in Sarajevo. project about migration set Best Makeup Best Short Film for release early autumn Affleck himself, Oscar Michael Nyqvist Eva von Bahr Love Larson 6A this year. Ganslandt’s nominated for a related role for his role as editor-in-chief , three previous features in Manchester by the Sea, Markel in A Serious Game (Den and Pia Aleborg by Peter Modestij contacted Marcimain to The Giant (Farewell Falkenberg, allvarsamma leken) Lifetime Achievement The Ape, Blondie) have have him direct the film. Best Documentary Film Award all premiered at Venice Best Music Martha & Niki Best Screenplay Katinka Faragó, producer Film Festival. Johannes Nyholm Jan Sandström by Tora Mkandawire Mårtens The Garbage Helicopter The Giant Gullspira ­(Sophelikoptern) Best Foreign Petter Lennstrand, director Rebecca Ferguson continues to make big waves in Language Film Best Cinematography and puppeteer Hollywood. The British-Swedish actress’ coming projects include Ita Zbroniec-Zajt Best Set Design Son of Saul lead roles in Justin Chadwick’s The Lady and the Panda, Michael The Yard Liv Ask and Bengt Fröder- Director: László Nemes Gracey’s The Greatest Showman and Mission: Impossible 6 with berg The Audience Award Tom Cruise and Jeremy Renner. Furthermore, she will soon be seen The 101-Year-Old Man Who My Future Love (Flykten till Best Newcomer in Daniel Espinosa’s Life opposite Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllen- Best Editing Skipped Out on the Bill and framtiden) Ahang Bashi, director haal, and alongside Michael Fassbender in Tomas Alfredson’s Jo Tora Mkandawire Mårtens Disappeared of Fragility (Skörheten) Nesbø adaptation The Snowman. and Therese Elfström Producer: Malte Forssell IBL(ALL PICTURES THIS PAGE) Martha & Niki

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Swedish entries We check in on some of Sweden’s at Rotterdam most interesting film personalities A full slate of Swedish films are in mid production selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) taking place Jan. 25–Feb. 5. Swedish indie hit A Hustler’s Diary (Måste gitt), directed by Ivica Zubak, competes in the Voices Big Screen Award section. Amanda Kernell’s Venice applauded Sami Blood (Sameblod) screens in Lime- light and Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (Jätten), awarded at San Sebastián in September, is selected for IFFR Live, which means the film is simultaneous- ly screened at 40 different places worldwide. Maria Zennström’s Last Days of Marcus Lindeen. Leningrad (Leningrads sista HERVÉ VERONESE/CENTRE POMPIDOU VERONESE/CENTRE HERVÉ dagar) runs in the Tiger Competition for Short Films. Marcus Lindeen exhibits film set at Centre Pompidou Fonko by Lars Lovén, Lamin Daniel Jadama and Göran Director Marcus Lindeen is exhib- entrance as people walk in,” says the Atlantic. Personally, I’d have Hugo Olsson is part of the iting the set of his coming Lindeen. “The idea is to allow gone crazy”. section Black Rebels, and Björn documentary film The Acali visitors to go aboard and imagine “It’s also great to be able to Stein and Måns Mårlind’s TV Experiment (working title) at the the experience of being isolated present parts of an ongoing film series Midnight Sun (Midnatts- Centre Pompidou in Paris. The with strangers in the middle of project in the form of an art sol) is included in Voices. film is about a scientific experi- installation. I did the same with ment from 1973, when eleven my first film Regretters (Ångrar- people from different countries “A film can only be na, 2010) which was originally a overimpose an emotion on the Sophia Olsson has a degree in film crossed the Atlantic in a raft to richer from taking a play. I think that a film can only be Sophia Olsson. The Sami Blood audience,” she says. ­directing from Valand Academy study human relations. richer from taking a detour via and has studied cinematography­ ­cinematographer­ is shooting the final scenes of director The evocative photography of at the Danish Film School in “It feels amazing to put on other artistic expressions.” detour via other artistic Milad Alami’s feature debut The Charmer. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, renowned Copenhagen. Among her first jobs such a big exhibition at one of The exhibition is on for his documentary images that was Björn Runge’s The Fish (Rensa the world’s largest art museums. expressions” Jan. 25–Feb. 12. The film is fisk, 2005) and Håkon Liu’s Lucky border the theatrical, is one of Blue (2005). Feature films include Also, the raft is right in the expected to premiere in 2018. The Giant Marcus Lindeen OLSSON PEO Sophia Olsson’s striking “When you’re trying to convey her major sources of inspiration. Christoffer Boe’s debut Beast cinematography has been at the a story, how do you decide what Olsson is intrigued by diCorcia’s (2011) and Daniel Borgman’s The heart of a string of lauded stays in the frame and what is left ability to intimately portray Weight of Elephants (2013). features by young filmmakers, out?,” she asks. subjects in everyday moments including Rúnar Rúnarsson’s In filming Sami Blood the and settings with great pres- August and Alfredson to shoot Bergman Sparrows (2015), Iceland’s challenge was to “capture the ence. Six short films in the spirit of Ingmar Bergman are to be produced submission for the Foreign majesty of the Swedish moun- Next on Olsson’s horizon is Language Oscar, and Amanda tains without romanticizing them shooting the final scenes of in the run-up to the 2018 centenary. The initiative, called Kernell’s powerful Sami Blood or letting them overpower the director Milad Alami’s feature (Sameblod, 2016) which won introspective drama experienced debut The Charmer (Char- ­Bergman Revisited, is co-funded by the Swedish Film Institute the Europa Cinemas Label in by Elle Marja”. In the film, a mören), the story of a young Venice as Best European Film. reindeer-breeding Sami girl tries Iranian asylum seeker desper- and Swedish Television. Tomas Alfredson, and Interviewed via a video call on to escape from her indigenous ately looking to meet a woman ­ are among the directors that have been a shakey connection, Olsson sits origins when she’s exposed to who can secure his stay in in an Icelandic café gesturing her the blatant racism of 1930s Denmark. Given Olsson’s eye for ­confirmed for the production of short films, which will premiere at points across, illustrating how Sweden. talent-rich collaborations, it will the Göteborg Film Festival early next year. her craft is a great balancing act For Olsson, photography is all definitely be a film to look out for. of elements, visions and about making choices that add Text Sia Pournouri ALAMI JASON circumstances. depth. “There’s no need to Photo Nadja Hallström Sophia Olsson on the set of The Charmer.

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Mia Engberg. Director Mia Engberg returns with the second feature in a planned trilogy about a Paris gangster.

In the autofiction essay film Belleville Baby, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Mia Engberg receives a call from her ex-boyfriend Vincent. They met at a party in Paris, moved in together – and suddenly he disappeared from her life. Ten years later he’s served a long

sentence in prison and wants LINDQVIST CAMILLA to compare memories of the past. The film premiered at the “Maybe it was just the title 2013 Berlinale and received a and the reference to the Guldbagge Award for Best format I used so heavily in Documentary. Now, four years Belleville Baby, but I came to later, an unexpected sequel is think of Little Jinder’s pop track in the making. Engberg’s ‘Super 8’. Translated, it goes ‘I Cinematographer Ulf feature film debutLucky is want to rewind/Super 8/We Brantås, director Björn Runge partly set in Paris and features need a happier ending’.” and actress Karin Franz Körlof Vincent as the main character. Are you trying to give Vincent on set of The Wife.

JOAKIM STRÖMHOLM © META FILMS LONDON LIMITED 2017 He’s now an ageing gangster a happier ending? whose life is turned upside “For me, filming has always down when he has to take been about preserving care of his teenage daughter something that would Björn Runge. The director makes a ­ with Skarsgård have handpicked Grace. otherwise get lost. About comeback to the silver screen with the help of in his first the rest of the cast “On a deeper level, Lucky is freezing time, fighting against feature, Harry & – Jonathan Pryce, about the difficulty of keeping death. Every story has its own Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater. Sonja (1996). Björn Runge Christian Slater, Max He went from working with the most advanced technology in modern and Glenn Close. your humanity in a violent and style and form. Belleville Baby health care to a country where there are 4 doctors to every 100 000 With Daybreak Irons, Annie Starke, patriarchal structure. The was about the past, and I was people. Limited resources demands a different and unconventional (Om jag vänder mig Harry Lloyd, Karin Franz criminal world is in many ways looking for a certain type of approach to surgery. “I think she went to Stellan and Runge, at the time immersed om, 2003) he received Körlof and Johan Widerberg. a distorting mirror of our archetypal memories. Like a Like a medical MacGyver he operates on his patients with things like a asked about me. And here we are.” in theatre work, took the bait. several major awards at the It’s been pure heaven.” society, where money and tree, a cat, an ocean. That 2004 Berlinale. His latest feature simple power drill from the local supermarket, hose clamps, bicycle spokes Björn Runge has a quick but Assorted correspondence went The Wife starts with a power rules.” worked well with Super 8. and fishing line instead of suture thread. Meet surgeon Dr Erik Erichsen. well-deserved coffee break. back and forth across the world’s Happy End (2011) was selected telephone call from the Swedish Lucky is the second film in a Lucky is set in modern-day Today is the last day of shooting waters and before he knew it, for the San Sebastián competi- Academy in Stockholm, identical planned trilogy featuring Paris and will have a com- The Rebel Surgeon is a new documentary by Erik Gandini (The Swedish Theory of Love, Videocracy). on his new film, a story that takes there was just one hurdle left: the tion, where cinematographer Ulf to the one Bob Dylan recently Vincent. The whole trilogy pletely different visual place in New York in the 1950s approval of The Wife herself. Brantås was awarded for his got, and evolves into a charged balances between documen- approach. And as for Vincent, 52 minutes. 2016. and Stockholm in the 1990s. At “Glenn Close was to play the work on the film. drama about a couple and their tary and fiction, as Engberg well... I can’t promise a happy one o’clock he’ll be shooting the lead and had final say on the “Ulf is shooting The Wife as long and sometimes complicat- “strives to move away from the ending.” For more information: [email protected] last location footage. It’s a little director. So I flew to New York to well, Lena Runge is editing. I ed history together. Principal traditional film narrative”. Text Sebastian Lindvall after eleven, the perfect time for make it or break it. We had a good shooting was done in Glasgow, some recapping. talk, quite a bit about theatre. “I have completely which stands in for New York “The Wife is a novel by Meg Then she said that she wanted regained my lust for and Stockholm. Wolitzer. Jane Anderson adapted me to make this film with her. She “I decided to leave the film Final cut it. She previously did Olive had been sent some of my films of cinema. I have found business due to the constant Some Swedish films to premiere during 2017 Kitteridge for HBO, a wonderful course, but especially appreciat- new methods and I’m limitations in budget and all the miniseries. I was basically ed my stage experience. Plus, she compromises that went with it. I Borg/McEnroe by Janus Metz through with films, but Meta told me later, she had called eager to test them out. have completely regained my lust Euphoria by Lisa Langseth Louise Foldager, whom I met at Stellan Skarsgård to check me for cinema. I have found new ”Aha, the light went! It’s good we have the solar, so we’re Zentropa, kept sending me out. Reportedly, he had been very There will be more methods and I’m eager to test Untitled by Gabriela Pichler not in complete darkness.” scripts on a regular basis. I positive in his comments.” films” them out. There will be more The Square by Ruben Östlund turned everything down until this Runge, a one-time apprentice films.” one, which utterly seduced me.” of , co-starred Björn Runge Text Jan Lumholdt svtsales.com 12 13 SHOOTING STAR Star quality BERLIN

arin Franz Körlof made a week earlier she completed shoot- Actor and director dazzling breakthrough in ing on Björn Runge’s The Wife, Karin Franz Körlof is KPernilla August’s adapta- opposite names like Glenn Close tion of Hjalmar Söderberg’s clas- and Jonathan Pryce. There she sic novel “The Serious Game” portrays a photographer who falls Sweden’s Shooting Star from 1912. The film had its world in love with her subject, an author premiere at the 2016 Berlinale, who is about to receive a Nobel at the Berlinale. where Karin had been already the Prize. year before with the TV series Things have moved quickly for Blue Eyes (Blå ögon). This year the actress who was still at drama she’s back, now as one of the ten school two years ago. up-and-coming actors selected “I’ve been very lucky, and the for European Film Promotion’s timing’s been great as well. There project Shooting Stars. are so many great actors out When we meet in Gothenburg, there, so it would be arrogant to she comes straight from shooting think it’s all down to hard work, Text Camilla Larsson the upcoming TV series Vår tid är because everyone has to work Photo Emelie Asplund nu, where she plays a homosexual hard,” she says. Production info Garden Lane p. 42 waitress in post-war Sweden. A “When we started shooting

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A Serious Game On the set of The Wife. ERIK MOLBERGERIK HANSEN 2017 LIMITED LONDON FILMS META © STRÖMHOLM JOAKIM

Garden Lane KRISTOFFER JÖNSSON KRISTOFFER

“I try to find the glitches, the things that put flesh on the bone” Karin Franz Körlof

A Serious Game I kept thinking I has also had the time to work with – to the point of not being able to ous Game she read the book over Franz Körlof has written and three girls put everything into tak- She prefers not to pigeon-hole her was going to get caught, that director Olof Spaak on his first sleep the night before. and over again to find the essence directed several short films, writ- ing their team to a major tourna- own particular style of directing, Karin Franz Körlof they’d realize how bad I really feature. In his Garden Lane “You must never get too com- of Lydia’s longing; for photogra- ten plays and acted extensively on ment in Barcelona, but the club is but of course there is a big differ- Age 30. was…” (Trädgårdsgatan) she plays the fortable or rest on your laurels in pher Linnea in The Wife she stage. Any day now she’ll finish struggling financially, and all the ence between giving voice to Education Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Dundee and Angus Now, that didn’t quite happen. lead as a young mother who sells this profession, never lose inten- became close friends with a Lei- her first feature film script, which money they collect goes straight someone else’s material and cre- College, Scotland. Instead Karin Franz Körlof was her body for drug money, in the sity. It’s a tough job: every occa- is about three girls who dream of into the men’s team.” ating your own. ca; and to play Linda in Garden Inspired by Yorgos Lanthimos, lauded for her portrayal of Lydia, heart of the idyllic Swedish coun- sion, every day, every scene feels Lane she learnt all about what becoming professional soccer Karin Franz Körlof spends a “There’s no getting away from ­Isabelle Huppert. a character who helped herself tryside. more or less like climbing a happens in a body that’s high on players. lot of time watching film, she that. As an actor, you try to partic- Selected work TV series Blue Eyes and took center stage in a com- When Karin Franz Körlof mountain. There is always a prob- drugs. “I did the same when I was loves film, especially the poetic ipate and find how you can con- (2014), feature film A Serious Game pletely different way than her lit- attempts to describe her working lem to solve.” “I try to learn all about the sub- young. But as a woman in the ones that let things take their time tribute in the best possible way to (2016). Wrote and directed the short erary predecessor. In January process, she puts some snuff To be able to do that, Franz ject and the context. I try to find world we live in, that’s not neces- and make sure we understand the any given situation. I like when it filmsMe and My Me & My (2012), Franz Körlof was nominated for a under her lip and talks about how Körlof makes sure she always the glitches, the things that put sarily a very realistic dream. The character, rather than the event. gets big and crazy – unfeasible Merum Imperium (2013) and Pom Pom Club (2015). National Film Award (Guldbag- incredibly nervous she was before does her homework and is well- flesh on the bone. That way you and reasonable at the same time. Current projects Shooting Star at ge) for best actress in a leading shooting a specific scene against And of course it’s always impor- grounded in the subjects and her have a better chance of avoiding “You must never get too comfortable the Berlinale, and soon to be seen in role. Jonathan Pryce. A declaration of characters. Before playing Sofia stereotypes – and you don’t have tant to keep the love of the job the feature-length films Garden Apart from working with two love was to be made, and only on in Blue Eyes, she met the young to rely on others when shooting’s or rest on your laurels in this profession” alive, and to keep reminding Lane and Björn Runge’s The Wife, recognized actors-turned-direc- set did she realize that 69-year-old national socialist the story is at its most intense.” Karin Franz Körlof yourself what a blessing it is to do and upcoming TV series Vår tid är tors and a ten-hour TV show, she veteran Pryce was just as nervous based on; to play Lydia in A Seri- Beside being an actress, Karin what we do.” ● nu.

16 17 THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT The escape from Cairo

Director Tarik Saleh and producer Kristina Åberg take on

hidden power structures in today’s Egypt in their new feature, Text Niklas Wahllöf Sundance contender The Nile Hilton Incident – a contemporary Photo Karin Alfredsson film noir that was particularly difficult and dangerous to shoot. Production info p. 44

n a strange twist of irony The a screenplay, which ended up in a Nile Hilton Incident (2016) desk drawer. But then came the Iworld premiered at Sundance Arab Spring and the revolution. Film Festival on the same week- Kristina Åberg: end that real estate magnate Don- “We were actually planning to ald Trump was installed in the make another film first, but when White House. Tarik Saleh’s film The Nile Hilton Incident I saw Tarik’s screenplay I felt that centres around Hisham Talaat ATMO ‘no, this one, right now!’. I think Moustafa, an Egyptian real estate the timing is perfect for bringing magnate with parliamentary “Things did get a bit understanding to this region by power – or at least, around the Fitzcarraldo or telling stories that are not only 2008 case in which he was sum- about war, but about what hap- moned home from Switzerland ­Apocalypse Now – pens when a nation is governed and convicted of murder of his there really were some by men who are allowed to do ex-lover, Lebanese singer what they like. It shows what pre- Suzanne Tamim. crazy moments” cedes a revolution, and the rea- The murder, the arrest and the Tarik Saleh sons why the case was so big with aftermath monopolized the head- the general public: a powerful lines in Egypt. Soon after the pro- man like that could actually be tests on Tahrir Square broke out after all. Moustafa was convicted convicted.” in Cairo, and then came the revo- of ordering a policeman to do the That said, you can’t just turn lution. deed and sentenced to death, but up in Cairo and start shooting a “It’s symbolic to have a world later the sentence was reduced to film. When the crew – a primarily premiere in the US right now, 15 years in prison. European team and an Arabic since the film is about what can “These people own half of cast – were in place and ready to happen in a country governed by Egypt, or more,” says Saleh. “But start filming, they suddenly had Tarik Saleh businessmen,” says Kristina towards the end of the 00s, there to scramble and relocate to Casa- Born in Stockholm, 1972. Åberg, the film’s producer and, was widespread discontent with blanca in Morocco. The Egyptian ­Started his career as a graffiti alongside Saleh, co-founder of this elite. The regime had less and security services had got in artist. After spending time in production company Atmo. less support, and things were touch. Rumours have it that the Egypt, where he started the magazine Alive, he moved back “Our film is about the end of starting to happen.” situation got nasty, and that the to Sweden and worked as a tele- such an era in Egypt, and now the “I was fascinated by the story film might as well have been vision host on the current affairs US is heading right into one.” and could see an Egyptian pat- called “The Escape from Cairo”. programme Elbyl. Made his Tarik Saleh says that the trial tern: people in power being But neither Tarik Saleh nor Kris- directorial debut with the televi- was like Egypt’s version of the OJ blackmailed with sex, and all tina Åberg want to give any sion documentary Sacrificio: Simpson case, gluing millions of kinds of stories where people are details, for the sake of the Egyp- Who Betrayed Che Guevara (2001), co-directed with Erik viewers to their TV sets. Above lured into traps – from the time of tian actors who could get into Gandini. The two also co-direct- all, the case showed that the the pharaohs to the present day,” trouble. Saleh says, “There’s no ed Gitmo (2005). In 2009 Saleh’s “untouchable” businessmen so says Saleh, who has Egyptian point pretending that the Egyp- solo feature debut Metropia rife in parliament under Hosni roots himself. tian security services aren’t capa- premiered, and was followed by Mubarak, weren’t so untouchable So he started to dig. And wrote ble of doing some truly terrible Tommy (2014).

18 19 THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT New talent things,” and “I hope to be able to prize on everything. You can hire go back to Egypt one day”. policemen who run their own “That really is all we can say. businesses on the side, no one But even though things did get a even tries to hide anything. Cor- bit Fitzcarraldo or Apocalypse ruption is so widespread that the Now – there really were some word isn’t even negatively crazy moments – I don’t want to charged.” complain,” he says. “Because of Noredin is assigned the case the difficulties, everyone had to by an uncle who heads the notori- be on their toes, in much the same ous police station that covers way as people suddenly sober up “All I can say is that Tahrir Square, with instructions when a plane goes through severe to be very, very careful. He soon turbulence.” ­Cairo was beyond understands that everyone wants “So, yes, we basically had to ­exciting” the case to be closed. leave in a hurry, and yes, we had “But Noredin tries. Anywhere Kristina Åberg, producer to cancel everyone’s Christmas else, he would probably have and New Year holidays – but been a good cop. He’s like the everyone was like, ‘fuck Christ- whistleblower Frank Serpico, mas!’ – and yes, on the first day of except his situation is even worse filming I slipped in the shower than the one Serpico experienced and broke a rib… But those cir- Christmas and New Year became in his New York department. For cumstances created a kind of the best ever team-building expe- me, Noredin is spiritually cor- energy, turned things into advan- rience.” rupt, and sees one last chance to tages. And if you don’t bump into You don’t have to be Sherlock save his soul. All film noir is ulti- problems, you tend to create them Holmes to understand that cor- mately an exploration of what we for yourself anyway, wherever ruption and all its ramifications see in ourselves.” you are – either if it’s in places in a system like Egypt’s can be The Nile Hilton Incident was people generally stay clear of or quite a sensitive thing. And that well received at Sundance, but in a studio in Trollhättan.” is what’s at the heart of The Nile the director and producer would “All film noir is Or as Kristina Åberg puts it: Hilton Incident. It focuses on have felt like winners regardless. “All I can say is that Cairo was Detective Noredin, played by “No one involved in this film ­ultimately an beyond exciting. In terms of film Swedish star Fares Fares. And will ever forget it, it really feels ­exploration of what production it was an absolute no, Noredin is no saint himself. like everyone gave their all. nightmare to have to leave the “Really not, he’s as corrupt as Apart maybe from the Egyptian we see in ourselves” country so quickly. But in the end they come,” says Tarik Saleh security services,” Tarik Saleh Tarik Saleh Casablanca was perfect, and quite matter of factly. “There’s a concludes. ●

A Stockholm film student Arts in 2018, shot the film entirely Jonatan Etzler will start preparing Jonatan Etzler. outside of the curriculum. He his feature debut. about to prepare for his first feature. received funding from regional “It will probably be something resource centre Film Stockholm about outsiders, people who Should we be careful what we and dreams,” says director as well as the local municipality of won’t fit in. A little like the poor wish for? This is the question Jonatan Etzler, “and what would Järfälla, the suburb north of the husband in the film. It will be raised in Jonatan Etzler’s short happen if the dream would come capital where he grew up, and political and surreal, slightly Make a Wish, selected for the true. It would probably cause a composed the music himself. He Charlie Kaufmanesque. And short film festival in Clermont- few problems. I also wanted to found three renowned character humorous.” Ferrand. It’s the story of an do a sincere take on the sexual actors for the leads and a He hopes for a 2020 pre- elderly and no longer very spark of older people – a spark scriptwriter, Theo Westin, whom miere. Save the date. passionate couple and a that is clearly still around.” he met at a workshop for young Text Jan Lumholdt television game show where you Etzler, who will graduate from filmmakers during the Bergman Photo Johan Bergmark can get anything your heart the directorial programme at the week on Fårö last year. desires. “Close your eyes and Stockholm Academy of Dramatic “It all went really smoothly. We Name Jonatan Etzler. needed the right house for the Age 28. make a wish,” says the hand- Background Film directing student at some host, and suddenly he film and at the first place, a sweet Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. steps out of the frame and right lady opened the door and said Among his previous shorts are Vi vuxna, that premiered at Göteborg Film festival into the woman’s arms. Things yes, you’re most welcome to in 2016, and Class Trip (Åka utför, 2014), soon get out of hand as the slow, shoot here. And it was the that was awarded at International Short retired life of the couple gradually perfect place.” Film Festival Oberhausen. Making waves With the short Make a Wish The Nile Hilton Incident turns into havoc. Make a Wish After a number of short films (Önskedrömmar), about a TV host who

ATMO “I had an idea about hopes SLAM FILMPRODUKTION GRAND with one more on the way, enlivens an old couple’s still life.

20 21 New talent

Evin Ahmad. Theatre, film and her own writing ­projects. Evin Ahmad does it all. In Rojda Sekersöz’s feature Beyond Dreams she plays Mirja, who is released from prison only to face new difficulties.

Twenty-year-old Mirja wants to break my of Dramatic Arts and now works free of her past and the gang she has for Folkteatern in Gothenburg, along grown up with – to feel free, and with working on her own projects. In because her family needs her. But 2014 she produced the acclaimed when she doesn’t have the guts to autobiographical one-woman show stand up for what she wants, she has Bangaren, which toured to several to lead a double life instead. major Swedish theatres. This is the premise for the emotion- “I actually loved being alone on al everyday drama Beyond Dreams stage, not having to relate to anyone (Dröm vidare, 2017), which features else. Yes, it was scary, but an amazing Evin Ahmad in the lead role. thing to do. I realized the power I “It was important to me to make have! I can say anything I like, and I Mirja credible and complex. Not to get have an audience that listens.” stuck in a stereotype. Violence, As an actor and creator, what’s the women and the suburbs tend to be most important thing for you to romanticized, but that’s not what this achieve? film is about,” she says. “I want to make an impact in some Evin Ahmad made her screen debut way. It’s important that the now, what’s in the feature One Eye Red (Ett öga going on around us, is there as well.” rött, 2007) at the age of 16. She went Text Jenny Damberg on to study at the Stockholm Acade- Photo Johan Bergmark

Name Evin Ahmad. Beyond Dreams Age 26. Education Studied at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Filmography Has appeared in films and TV series like One Eye Red (2007), Blue Eyes (2014) Beck – The Hospital Murders (2015) and For Better and Worse (2015). Current projects Apart from playing the lead in Beyond Dreams she appears in Marie-Antoinette and Hamlet at Folkteatern in Gothenburg during the

OSCAR LOVNÉR OSCAR spring.

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Up in the Sky PER-ANDERS JÖRGENSEN JÖRGENSEN PER-ANDERS

ight-year-old Pottan’s par- say, The Muppets. The puppeteer ents are terribly busy. controls the puppet and speaks the Kids in EWhen the summer holidays lines at the same time. begin, they drop her off at what “You’re acting with an object, space they think is a riding camp, and rather than your own body. In then whiz off to their planned technical terms, that means you Puppets and people meet in meetings and business trips. But also have to hide the puppeteer Petter Lennstrand’s warm-­ there’s no riding school where Pot- while filming.” hearted adventure Up in the tan ends up with her red suitcase. Some of the director’s inspira- Sky. After accidentally Not even any horses. Just scrap. JÖRGENSEN PER-ANDERS tion can be found in commedia ending up at a recycling Recycling station Rydbergs Name Petter Lennstrand. dell’arte, Buster Keaton, Charlie station, Pottan becomes the Retur turns out to be populated by Age 46 years. Chaplin, the first Star Wars mov- world’s first eight-year-old in a strange bunch. There’s a boss, an Current project Puppet and live action film ies and Swedish children’s shows Up in the Sky. space. old man and a criminal on the run Background TV series including Höjdarna from the 1970s. who has lost all hope. Some of the (2004-06), Sprattlan (2002), För alla åldrar “When you have children of (2009-11) and the recurring character BERLIN characters are puppets, while ­Allram Eest. your own, you realize that things ­others are real actors. But all of have changed. The kids’ shows them become Pottan’s friends and that I grew up with are different protectors. At the recycling sta- dolls and puppets as a 20-year-old, from today’s. They didn’t have to tion, people notice her and take her and has since made several suc- watch their backs at every step, seriously. She also gets to know cessful TV series using the tech- which would never happen nowa- about their big, secret plan: to nique. Many of them are referred days. Go back yet another genera- build a junk rocket to collect valu- to in Up in the Sky (Upp i det blå, tion and the difference is even able space scrap. 2016). The puppets are filmed in greater. There are advantages and “I wanted to make a fun, excit- live action, in the same way as, drawbacks to that, but it was cer- ing adventure, so it was great to be tainly a lot freer back then.” able to pull out all the stops. Pot- “You’re acting with an This is the feeling Lennstrand tan gets to enjoy the biggest object, rather than has striven for in Up in the Sky. Text Jenny Damberg adventure of all, out in space,” “I wanted to recreate that limit- Production info p. 47 says director Petter Lennstrand. your own body” less freedom I experienced as a Lennstrand fell in love with Petter Lennstrand child.” ●

24 25 SAMI BLOOD • I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, CONNY Cultural nomads

BERLIN

Amanda Kernell is still travelling the globe with her ­feature debut Sami Blood. Simultaneously she has Text Niklas Wahllöf finished a 30-minute short film focusing on the same Production info Sami Blood p. 45 subject matter: identity and betrayal. I Will Always Love You, Conny p. 49 Sami Blood SOPHIA OLSSON SOPHIA

ince its world premiere in the Samis the ‘forgotten Indians “What I want to show is that “I don’t find out-and-out the only means of power is to not Venice, Amanda Kernell’s of Scandinavia’, while in Italy there are individual choices, but heroes that interesting; more so forgive at all.” SSami Blood (Sameblod, they’re relating it to the refugee that there are still colonial struc- someone who makes a radical In this film too, nature has a 2016) has been doing a victory situation in Europe.” tures in place that affect the deci- choice or who lets people down, a role to play. Contrasts between the tour around the world, including “But it’s great to receive so sions we make,” as Amanda Ker- betrayer,” says Kernell. crunchy sound of cold snow and Toronto, Tokyo, Rotterdam, many emails with people’s life nell said to this magazine in 2016. “In both Conny and Sami the crackling from an open fire, Gothenburg and now, Berlin. stories. It seems that anybody But 2016 hasn’t all been about Blood, the camera, and the audi- between magnificent snow-white One particularly important with some kind of migration Sami Blood for Kernell. She also ence, should be on the betrayer’s views and close-up portraits. Ker- screening was in connection with background can relate their own completed the 30-minute short side. Who the betrayer is, or what nell wants to use nature to empha-

the 100th anniversary of Sami past to the film.” VELIZ CARLAORREGO filmI Will Always Love You, Con- that betrayal is, is open to discus- size a character’s internal state National Day in Trondheim, Nor- Sweden’s colonization of Sáp- ny – a ­completely different story. sion. In Sami Blood I’m not sure I Will Always Love You, Conny and external resistance, she says; way, in early February. mi (Lapland) and the Swedish Amanda Kernell Or is it? myself, but in Conny’s case it’s PETRUS SJÖVIK “nature that isn’t a picture post- The story – based around two State Institute for Racial Biolo- Background Born in Umeå in In a desolate, ice-cold, snow- more about a straightforward “There are still colonial structures in place card”. Sami sisters who were sent to gy’s cataloguing of its own ‘sub- 1986, director Amanda Kernell covered small village in northern betrayal or let-down – and there- “You can spend all day talking ‘Nomad school’ in the 1930s – was population’ is a significant (and made her debut with short Our Sweden, young Conny decides to by more about forgiveness and that affect the decisions we make” about how your films are made, not only a virtually unknown part disturbing) issue in itself, but Disco (Våra discon) in 2007. In leave his girlfriend Lina – while reconciliation.” Amanda Kernell but the best discussions of all are of Sweden’s colonial history, it can when the older sister decides to 2015, she directed Northern she’s giving birth to their child. Conny drives around like a about what they actually deal Great Mountain (Stoerre Vaerie), also easily be related to other issues. move south, change her name and a short that premiered at Sun- As she’s lying there with labour lost soul in his car, between tion in the film becomes: What and if so, how much and for how with – in the long run they’re the “There has been tremendous turn her back on her little sister dance and took on the same pains waiting for him to park the closed doors and closed-down kind of betrayal can be forgiven? long? Or are people big enough to conversations that mean the interest,” says director Amanda and Sami culture, Sami Blood theme as Sami Blood. car, he puts the Volvo in first gear industries; he struggles with his ”And what does it take? Should forgive without punishment? In most,” Amanda Kernell con- Kernell. “The Danes have made develops into something else. and leaves. chosen alienation, and the ques- the betrayer be punished first, situations of feeling powerless, cludes. ●

26 27 A HUSTLER’S DIARY Hard knock life

In A Hustler’s Diary, director Ivica Zubak wants Text Sia Pournouri to avoid the usual clichés connected with films Photo Ylva Sundgren about life in the suburbs. Production info p. 39

tories of wasted youth or A Hustler’s Diary sets out to we want to follow,” Zubak asserts unrealized talent fascinate explore the stories and roles that enthusiastically. And he enjoys Ivica Zubak and Sfilmmaker Ivica Zubak. we inherit, play, and project. The working with ‘true storytellers’ Abbe Hassan Several of his works are set clashing of characters, perspec- to that end – mentioning the Director Ivica Zubak and against that thematic backdrop: tives and languages propel both film’s editor Rickard Krantz and producer Abbe Hassan (inter- Dreams (Knäcka, 2009), Rem- comedy and drama. cinematographer Erik Vallsten. viewed on the next spread) nants of a Life (10 Guds Siffror, Zubak – sitting in the Swedish “We don’t want to make some- created their production company Indian Summer Film in 2013) and his latest feature A Film Institute’s café – points to a thing look prettier or any differ- order to finance A Hustler’s Diary. Hustler’s Diary (Måste gitt, poster from a Jean-Luc Godard ent from what it is.” Zubak (born in Croatia, 1978) 2017). In these realistic fictions, film on the wall: “We thought For Zubak, “the story has to started writing scripts after Zubak depicts the struggle of about how Godard made Breath- resonate”, and “beautifying renting a bunch of movies, resourceful second generation less,” he says, referencing the embellishments” rarely compen- including Kieslowski’s Three colours: Blue, in a local video immigrant kids – trying to find New Wave director’s pioneering sate for lack of intrigue. Metin store while still in high school. their paths in life. use of jump cuts. “We said we’re isn’t idealized, he is rather some- His debut as director was with In A Hustler’s Diary, we meet not going to have over-explanato- thing of an anti-hero. short film Jealous (2005), 25-year-old Metin, played by co- ry scenes. Only those we like.” “We wanted him to be complete- followed by feature Dreams. writer Can Demirtas, who loses As a director, Zubak likes to ly messed up,” Zubak explains. Abbe Hassan (born in Beirut, his private journal – a chronicle zoom in on subtleties in the dia- “If this was an ordinary story,” Lebanon, 1981) directed several shorts in the mid 00s, including of criminal life in a Stockholm logue and encounters on the side- he elaborates, “about an ambi- Blåljus (2004) and Cedra (2007). suburb. When the notebook ends lines of plot; to break linear narra- tious guy from the suburbs who Today, Indian Summer Film works up in the hands of an editor who tive for comic relief and drama. wants to publish this book he’s with directors like Josef Fares, wants to publish it, Metin’s life He speaks passionately about the written, only to find that all the ­Daniel Espinosa, , gets twisted further. aesthetics in movies like Sweet doors are closed on him – then and Babak Najafi. According to Zubak, the prem- Sixteen by Ken Loach and we’d be making a divisive ‘us and ise has been tongue in cheek: “To Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine. them’ story ... That’s boring. play with, and deconstruct, pre- “When something happens, That’s already been done.” ● conceived notions of people in the suburbs as well as of people in the inner city cultural elite.” “What happens when two “We wanted the worlds, misinformed and fasci- nated with one another, actually main character to meet?,” he asks. In the film, this be ­completely kind of meeting takes place between Metin, the writer who messed up” “It hasn’t been that doesn’t know he can write, and Ivica Zubak easy getting people an editor blinded by opportun- ism. behind us to tell what “They know little about each we call ‘our stories’” other, they don’t understand each A Hustler’s Diary Producer Abbe Hassan,

other,” Zubak says. VALLSTEN ERIK interviewed on the next spread.

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“When we were in the suburbs, people Abbe Hassan. The producer behind there genuinely seemed to be unaware that they A Hustler’s Diary wants to encourage diversity within the Swedish film community. can apply for drama school” Abbe Hassan “It hasn’t been that easy box-office hit and was getting people behind us to nominated for the VPRO tell what we call ‘our Big Screen Award at stories’.” International Film Festival By “our stories” Abbe Rotterdam. Hassan means tales from Some of the characters in the suburbs, stories with A Hustler’s Diary are diversity and protagonists of inspired by real people from any ethnicity. In short: the suburbs. stories that reflect today’s Asked about the film’s Sweden. Hassan himself message, Hassan says that was born in Lebanon in he and Zubak have tried to 1981 and came to Sweden show – to people who may as a refugee with his family not actually realize it at the age of six. He has themselves – that there are previously worked with com- other career choices than mercials and with casting for criminality. To show that the several major Swedish films. talent is there, but that it’s so Currently he’s directing the often unexploited. short film Guldkedjan, to be “When we were in the released later this year. At suburbs, people there the top of the agenda at the genuinely seemed to be moment, however, is his role unaware that they can apply as producer of the drama for drama school and other comedy A Hustler’s Diary vocational courses. The (Måste gitt), directed by information about what’s Ivica Zubak. A project, he available simply hasn’t says, they had some reached them. I see that as difficulty finding financing a problem in today’s for. But following the society.” national premiere in January, Text Per Nyström the film turned out to be a Photo Ylva Sundgren

30 31 NEW FILM COMMISSIONERS The influencers

From producers at small, independent ­companies to decision-makers in the corridors of power in Swedish film. Meet the Swedish Text Karoline Eriksson Film Institute’s new Film Commissioners. Photo Karin Alfredsson

ince January, Juan Pablo “I’ve always been Idyll. Her interest was piqued by Libossart has been a new interested in things I’ve the way the job was advertised: SDocumentary Film Com- “Commissioner for short film and missioner and Erika Wasserman never seen before” new formats.” the new Short Film Commission- Erika Wasserman “New formats, what are they? er at the Swedish Film Institute. I’ve always been interested in Both have a past in production man. “Perhaps not in every film, things I’ve never seen before. companies Atmo and Fasad. but if you look at the industry in Short film could be so much However, they have never worked general, film isn’t produced in more, and so different, than what at the same place at the same time. some kind of national vacuum. it is today. There could be more “What we have realized is that Bringing in talents from outside series formats, or other formats. we’ve not only worked but also is important also when it comes We primarily see short film on studied at the same places, so to developing our own narrative.” digital platforms, which opens up we’ve clearly been walking in Libossart joins the Swedish other ways of telling a story. And each other’s footsteps,” says Juan Film Institute from production the job is of course also about Juan Pablo Libossart and Erika Wasserman. Pablo Libossart with a laugh. company Fasad, where he has finding new voices. The Swedish Another common denomina- produced documentaries by Film Institute has done a lot in tor is that both have produced directors such as Erik Gandini terms of gender equality and films outside of Sweden and have and Marcus Lindeen. He is a diversity, but we have to continue Juan Pablo often collaborated with foreign strong advocate for Swedish and to reach out to a wider audience.” Libossart Calle Marthin: “Swedish film can be even better” co-producers. Both Libossart and Nordic documentary films, which As producers Libossart and Born 1978. Former producer at Wasserman believe this has posi- he thinks of as probably some of Wasserman have both applied for Stockholm-based production Since August, Calle Marthin has of good screenwriters, but we “Baker’s work in bringing forth tive effects: a bigger budget and the best in the world. funding from the Swedish Film ­companies Atmo and Fasad. been a Feature Film Commission- need clearer, stronger stories in voices that would not otherwise better distribution opportunities, “I think we’ve entered a stage Institute’s Film Commissioners. Selected films Accidentes gloriosos er at the Swedish Film Institute. Swedish film. It’s not only down to be heard deserves tremendous (2011), Anochece en la India (2013), but above all more pairs of eyes where we no longer just think Now, they find themselves on the He has a background as a the screenwriters; producers respect. I am fully behind his The Swedish Theory of Love (2016), that can add a valuable outsider about reporting facts and using other side of the fence. upcoming The Acali Experiment screenwriter, director and sometimes want to start shooting efforts and attitude. For me, I’m perspective. archive footage. We quite simply “I know myself how crushing (working title). Directed the animat- dramatist, and in the 00s he was before the screenplay is finished. happy if the level of craftsman- “What we do can’t just be rel- allow documentaries to be films. it can be to be turned down,” says ed short Amalimbo (2016), which linked to SVT Drama, where his I think what I bring from the ship can be raised, everything evant to a Swedish audience. It The filmmakers have strong Libossart. “Film projects are competed in Venice and was nomi- role included screenplay develop- publishing world is a respect for from the visual expression to also has to be of value beyond our visions, and they mix formats and often very personal, so it’s impor- nated for a European Film Award. ment. He went on to become a the written word, and for the KARLBERG MARIE-THERESE how the screenplay is put own borders,” says Erika Wasser- methods. If there’s something I’d tant to treat all applicants with publisher in the Bonnier sphere. originator of the initial idea.” together. Swedish film is good like to see more of, it’s hybrid film. respect and integrity.” Erika Wasserman Calle Marthin joins the Film Literary source material seems the marketing for free. Also, and makes an impression I like when there’s a lot of room for “At the same time though, it’s Born 1978. Former producer at Institute from a literary agency, to be a trump card, considering there’s already a foundation that internationally, but we can be “I think we’ve entered subjectivity and when documenta- about what we in the industry can Stockholm-based production com- where he was responsible for Swedish audience successes in the producer, screenwriter and even better. I would like to see a stage where we no ries have elements of fiction, ani- do to raise quality and make rel- panies Atmo, Fasad and Idyll. developing literary source material recent years, such as A Man director can work from, they’re the film industry, broadcasters mation and other art forms.” evant, interesting films. We all Selected films Burrowing (Man tän- for film, television and theatre. Called Ove and The Hundred- not starting from scratch.” and institutions starting a ker sitt, 2009), Avalon (2012), The longer just think about Wasserman does not have a have a shared responsibility to do What do you bring with you from Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out You’re taking over from Baker discussion on how we can get Quiet Roar (2014), Under the Pyra- Karim, who brought us the reporting facts and traditional short film background. that. So in those cases, being mid (Under pyramiden, 2016). Pro- SVT and the publishing world? the Window and Disappeared. audiences to watch more She has almost exclusively pro- declined can be an opportunity to ducer on the Move in Cannes 2013, Does Swedish film need “Literary sources are great in norm-breaking Black is the New Swedish films, and how we can using archive footage” duced feature length fiction film, work for better films,” says Was- member of the European Film stronger screenplays? two ways. Firstly, you already have Black initiative. Are you for a compete with the best in the Juan Pablo Libossart since 2009 at her own company serman. ● Academy. “Yes, I think so. There are a lot a strong brand, so you get a lot of more traditional direction? world.”

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t’s both comforting and Foot are 17. Loving Lorna is the pleasurable to work with story of Lorna’s family and the Riders on “Iyour own sister,” note place they have lived all their Annika and Jessica Karlsson. lives. It’s a rich and deeply the storm Their joint directorial venture humane account, with protago- Loving Lorna can be traced back nists that could easily have been Annika and Jessica to 1992, when they saw a film fictionalized by the likes of ­Karlsson’s feature debut, called Into the West. Andrea Arnold or Ken Loach. documentary Loving Lorna, “It takes place in Ballymun “Yes, we move in the same con- is selected for Berlinale outside of Dublin and is the story MELINELIN texts a bit, only our story was born Generation. of two Irish travellers and a magic out of the process. If we had any horse. In the early 00s we went to “ It was to show our kind of agenda beforehand, it was BERLIN Dublin to work, and of course subjects not as outsid- to show our subjects not as outsid- wanted to visit the place of the ers, but as members of a communi- film. We experienced the Bally- ers, but as members of ty. We wanted to avoid the image Licencing Distributing Streaming mun horse culture with container a community, which of a hooligan on horseback with a Gives you the legal right to show Rental service with over 3 000 Our latest feature – digital movies stables and large green areas and cigarette in his mouth. The mean- fi lm in Non Theatrical areas movies at your disposal streaming in High Defi nition realized the significance it had to this culture certainly ing of the horses, how they can many of the young people. They inspires” strengthen bonds, is what we want- felt truly needed there. We went ed to show.” back many times,” says Annika. capture the place before it was too The Karlsson sisters are not Recently, however, this excep- late. Then we heard about Lorna quite done with Ballymun yet. tional place has come into a new and Big Foot and decided to tell “There’s a story about a man phase, due to restrictive legisla- their story as well,” says Jessica. and his son that we first included tion. Big Foot is a sturdy mare, pos- in the film but then took out. It “A few years ago, we heard that sibly the fastest in Ballymun. Lor- deserves its own feature. We Text Jan Lumholdt there were new laws regarding the na’s father bought the horse for his encountered some wonderful We are masters of the Non Theatrical. Production info p. 43 horses and that the green areas daughter when they both were ­people and some truly unique were disappearing. We decided to newly born. Today Lorna and Big ­stories.” ● Swedish Film AB, Box 6014, SE-171 06 Solna, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 445 25 50, fax: +46 8 445 25 60. Contact us through www.swedish lm.se or info@swedish lm.se 34 New films No less than 26 new feature-length films and 12 Dares Fuad (aka Food) just turned 16, the age where nothing matters more to him than his 28 shorts are presented in this section. Please friends. Growing up together in the run-down housing development of southern Ryd, visit our ­website sfi.se for­updated information they know that the number one rule between buddies is loyalty. But when Fuad breaks New shorts this rule he suddenly finds himself alienated by those he holds most dear. Desperate on Swedish ­features, ­documentaries and shorts. and alone, he is willing to do anything to be accepted back again. Original title 12 bragder Director/screenwriter Izer Aliu Principal cast Gorgees Khoshaba, John Hanna, Ali Ridha Hussein, Dani Barkho, Elias Majdalany, Gustav Tieleman, Özlem Göghan Produced by Zentropa Sweden AB/Lizette Jonjic, Madeleine Ekman Duration 100 minutes National release 2017 Sales TBA

Izer Aliu (born 1982) graduated from the Norwegian Film School in 2012. His graduation film, To Guard a Mountain, was nominated for the Student Academy Award. His first feature Hunting Flies had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. ZENTROPA SWEDENZENTROPA

A Hustler’s Diary Metin is a young man living in a Stockholm suburb governed by unwritten laws. He is different, he writes a diary of everything he sees. Names and places are documented in great detail. When the diary disappears his life is turned upside down. Humor and gravity mix in this story about seizing life’s opportunities.

Original title Måste gitt Director Ivica Zubak Screenwriters Can Demirtas, Ivica Zubak Principal cast Can Demirtas, Jörgen Thorsson, Lena Endre, Toni Prince Tvrtkovic, Selma Caglar, David Nzinga, Keywan Karem, Shebly Niavarani Produced by Indian Summer Film/Abbe Hassan Duration 97 min National release January 6, 2017 Sales TriArt Film

Ivica Zubak (born 1978) studied music in high school aiming to become a conductor, but too much absence from school led him to filmmaking instead. He took courses in filmmaking at the The Royal Institute of Art and Manuspiloterna. A Hustler’s Diary is his second feature. ERIK VALLSTEN ERIK

After Inez Doc Denize and Filip have it all prepared: the crib, the pram, the tiny clothes, and even the car seat is ready for the baby they’re expecting any day. But at a routine checkup, the midwife’s face suddenly freezes. There’s no heartbeat to be heard. After Inez is a film about how to survive grief. It explores individual differences in mourning, as well as gender patterns and taboos in our society.

Original title Efter Inez Director/screenwriter Karin Ekberg Participants Denize Löfgren, Filip Nordin Produced by Karin Ekberg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin, Klara Grunning Duration 78 min National release March, 2017 Sales Karin Ekberg

Karin Ekberg (born 1979) has a BA in Fine Arts and Photography from the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Stockholm University. She has also studied film and documentary. Her debut feature documentary A Separation, about the divorce process of her own parents, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2013 and was later nominated for Prix Europa. Ekberg is Chair of Independent Filmmakers’ Association Sweden. KARIN EKBERG

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Becker – The King of Tingsryd Borg/McEnroe Johan Becker, a self-made man and unofficial king in the small town of Tingsryd, walks A film about Björn Borg, one of the greatest in tennis history, and his biggest rival, the through life with the feeling that everything he touches turns to gold. His business is young and talented John McEnroe, and their legendary duel during the 1980s going great, but life on the top is dangerous if you’re not aware of the danger. One day Wimbledon tournament. It’s a story of two men that became legends, and the price they everything changes, and to keep his kingdom Becker has to fight like never before. had to pay.

Original title Becker – Kungen av Tingsryd Director/screenwriter Martin Larsson Original title Borg Director Janus Metz Screenwriter Ronnie Sandahl Principal Principal cast Henrik Lilliér, Peter Lorentzon, Estelle Löfgren, Lars Ranthe, Sonja cast Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny Produced by Richter, Torkel Petersson, Helen Sjöholm Produced by Anagram Sverige/Erik SF Studios Production/Jon Nohrstedt, Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, with support from Magnusson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard, Yaba Holst Duration 110 min Duration 87 min National release Fall, 2017 Sales TBA National release September 2017 Sales SF Studios

Martin Larsson (born 1974) was educated at The Swedish School of Television in Janus Metz (born 1974) received his Master’s degree in communication and ­Gothenburg and Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. For TV he has written and international development studies at Roskilde University. His feature documentaries directed series like My friend Dudo!, The Family, The Storm and Starke man. He has also include Love on Delivery (2008), Ticket to Paradise (2008) and Armadillo (2010). The written and directed a number of shorts. Becker – The king of Tingsryd is his feature latter was awarded with the Critics Week Grand Prize in Cannes. debut. MARCO PADOAN MARCO SF STUDIOS SF

Beyond Dreams The Boyfriend While serving her prison sentence for a failed robbery Mirja has been away from the We follow a young couple, Mika and Tesfay, for 156 weeks — from the first time they gang and their rules. She returns home and confronts new circumstances: she brutally meet until long after their relationship has ended. The film centres around the attitudes finds out that her mother is very ill and demanding. Mirja has to find a job or she’ll be of sex and love of young adults today, and is a generational tale of intimacy, sexuality, thrown out. In her ambition to handle the situation Mirja begins to lead a double life and inner revolution. between the family and the gang. Original title Jag vill inte bli gammal nu Director/screenwriter Fanni Metelius Original title Dröm vidare Director Rojda Sekersöz Screenwriter Johanna Principal cast Fanni Metelius, Ahmed Berhan, Leona Axelsen, Daniella Mir, Suzanne Emanuelsson Principal cast Evin Ahmad, Gizem Erdogan, Malin Persson, Segen Reuter, Claes Hartelius, Alexander Salzberger, Mia Ray Produced by Garagefilm Tesfai, Ella Åhman, Outi Mäenpää Produced by 2afilm/Annika Hellström, Agneta International/Mimmi Spång, Rebecka Lafrenz with support from the Swedish Film Fagerström Olsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 110 min National release TBA Sales TBA Duration 90 min National release 2017 Sales TBA Fanni Metelius (born 1987) is a director, screenwriter and actress with a BFA in Film Rojda Sekersöz (born 1989) is a Swedish director with roots from Kurdistan. She Directing. Fanni has directed several award-winning shorts, including Unruly (2 011) was educated at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was the which competed at Berlinale. She was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for Best youngest student ever to be accepted. Sekersöz has a background in acting, spoken Supporting Actress in Ruben Östlund’s acclaimed Force Majeure (2014). The Boyfriend word poetry and writing, and is interested in stories on social issues. is her first feature. ALEXANDRA ARISTOHOV GARAGEFILM

Blind Alley The Ex-Wife 2010. Malmö, Sweden. A serial killer is shooting innocent foreign looking people. One of Klara is newly in love and all she wants is to be close to Jacob. Anna times her husband the shots fired will change the lives of two brothers forever. Blind Alley is the story of fate with a stopwatch when he gets their baby’s bottle ready. Vera can’t let go of her former and exclusion, love and struggle. How far are they willing to go to get a better life? husband. With humour and seriousness The Ex-Wife tells the story of three relation- ships, where the Girlfriend, the Wife, and the Ex-wife all come together in a revealing Original title Den enda vägen Director Manuel Concha Screenwriters Manuel satire of the arc of relationships – from falling in love to divorce. Concha, Claudia Galli Concha Principal cast Daniel Cvetkovic, Mikael Cvetkovic, Miodrag Stojanovic, Håkan Bengtsson, Peter Rentzmann Produced by Bright Moving Original title Exfrun Director/screenwriter Katja Wik Principal cast Maria Pictures Sweden/Börje Hansson, Carola Hansson Duration 86 min National release Sundbom, Nina Zanjani, Ellen Olaison, Robin Keller, Karl Linnertorp Produced by Spring 2017 Sales TBA/Bright Moving Pictures Kjellson & Wik/Marie Kjellson Duration 90 min National release February 17, 2017 Sales TBA Manuel Concha (born 1980) has studied Film Directing at Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, and is now finishing his Master at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. Katja Wik’s short film Victim-Mentality Rhetoric won the Startsladden Audience Award He has directed numerous commercials, music videos, short films and TV-series. Blind at Göteborg Film Festival in 2013. She is also known for her work as casting director for Alley is his second feature. feature films Force Majeure, PLAY and Involuntary by Ruben Östlund, as well as Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and numerous commercials. MARTIN TOP JACOBSEN TOP MARTIN CAROLINA ROMARE CAROLINA

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Gabriela Pichler Untitled The Inertia Variations Doc Welcome to the small town of Lafors – home of the real Swedish cowboys. Singer/songwriter Matt Johnson of the British band The The has remained silent for the last 15 years. Conflicted by creative inertia he has observed from the sidelines whilst Original title TBA Director Gabriela Pichler Screenwriters Gabriela Pichler, Jonas what he sees as corporate state propaganda has swamped the airwaves. Now he will Hassen Khemiri Principal cast TBA Produced by Garagefilm/Anna-Maria Kantarius, attempt to challenge the media consensus through his own radio broadcast. But a with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration TBA request to write a song soon reveals old demons of inertia and bereavement. National release TBA Sales TBA Original title The Inertia Variations Director Johanna St Michaels Screenwriters Gabriela Pichler’s first feature had its world premiere at the Venice Film Johanna St Michaels, Matt Johnson Participants Matt Johnson, Tim Pope, Jackson Festival and won the Audience Award at Film Critics’ Week there before it hit film Ewald Johnson, Johanna St Michaels, Eddie Johnson Produced by Saint Michaels festivals around the world. She is a director and scriptwriter who left the cookie factory Production/Johanna St Michaels, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia for the School of Film Directing in Gothenburg. Her mix of wit and social commen- Lidin Duration 85 min National release TBA Sales Saint Michaels Production tary, combined with an eye for amateur actors, are her characteristics and also defines her upcoming feature. Johanna St Michaels studied at the School of Visual Art in New York City and has a Master’s degree in fine art photography from the University of Gothenburg. She directs and produces documentaries, experimental films and art installations with an emphasis on personal stories and mixed media art. Recent films include Penthouse North (2014) and A Smorgasbord of Sin (2015). CECILA TORQUATO GERALD JENKINS

Garden Lane Loving Lorna Doc Eric and Elin reminisce about the dark, magical summer when they first met. They were There’s always been a strong horse culture in Ballymun, outside of Dublin. Lorna and just kids and their parents, Linda and Peter, were drug addicts. During a few violent but her family are a part of it, and it has helped them through tough times. Lorna has a beautiful months they all lived together as a family. As Linda and Peter were torn apart dream to become a farrier and she’s practising during her last summer holiday. the children had to fight to survive. And then, to live. However, things might not turn out as planned. This is a coming-of-age film, a ­story of survival, relationships, horses and dreams. Original title Trädgårdsgatan Director Olof Spaak Screenwriter Gunnar A.K. Järvstad Principal cast Karin Franz Körlof, Simon J Berger, Emil Algpeus, Nike Original title Loving Lorna Directors/screenwriters Jessica Karlsson, Annika Ringqvist, Eva Fritjofson, Linda Molin Produced by Primodrom Produktion/Sofie Karlsson Produced by Systerskaparna/Annika Karlsson, Jessica Karlsson, with Palage Duration 109 min National release TBA Sales The Yellow Affair support from the Swedish Film Institute/Klara Grunning, Cecilia Lidin Duration 60 min National release 2017 Sales Systerskaparna Olof Spaak (born 1978) started working in the film industry in 2004. He wrote the screenplay for the short Hilma (2015) which has been screened at festivals worldwide, Annika and Jessica Karlsson (sisters born 1984) directed and produced the short among them TIFF Kids. He wrote and directed the short Beginning of the End (2015) documentary Taxidancing (2012), which was screened at Tempo Film Festival 2012 which was screened at Rome Film Fest among others. Garden Lane is his feature and Göteborg Film Festival. Loving Lorna was selected by the European Documentary debut. Network as one of the Nordic film projects in their programme Twelve for the Future in 2013/2014. KATE MCCULLOUGH KATE

The Giant Money Problem Rikard, autistic and severely deformed, was separated from his mother at birth and is While rich Swedes spend each weekend bathing in champagne in Stockholm’s hot haunted by the loss. He tries to find his way back to her through the game of pétanque spots, a yearning for cold hard cash echoes through the ghetto. Sara and Amida refuse and by the help of a 200 foot giant. to get stuck being flat broke, and an idea is born for an adventure. A “booster bag,” a night on the town in stolen clothes, and a smooth Swede, later everything comes Original title Jätten Director/screenwriter Johannes Nyholm Principal cast tumbling down. Christian Andrén, Johan Kylén, Anna Bjelkerud Produced by Garagefilm ­ ­International/Maria Dahlin, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Original title Para knas Director/screenwriter Nikeisha Andersson Principal cast Jangard Duration 90 min National release October, 2016 Sales Indie Sales Sofia “Ellen” Åkerlund, Roshi Hosseini Produced by Filmlance International AB/Ulf Synnerholm, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 80 Johannes Nyholm has had three short films – Puppetboy (2008), Dreams from the min National release Fall, 2017 Sales TBA Woods (2009), and Las Palmas (2011), – selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival, and has been awarded a number of prizes around the world. The Nikeisha Andersson’s (born 1992) career started at the age of 16 when Sony Music Giant is Nyholm’s first feature film, and had its world premiere at Toronto International contacted her after she had produced and filmed a flashmob for the artist Shakira’s Film Festival 2016. campaign “Waka Waka” in Stockholm. In 2011 she started her own production company NAF, where she has produced and directed music videos and commercials for the UEFA Champions League, FILA and many others. Money Problem is her first feature. JOHAN PAULIN JOHAN PEO OLSSON PEO

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The Nile Hilton Incident Room 213 Cairo, just weeks before the 2011 revolution. Police Detective Noredin, working in the When twelve-year-old Elvira goes to summer camp strange things start to happen in infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station, is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon her room. Things that can’t be explained – unless you believe in ghosts. realizes that the investigation concerns the very power elite, close to the president’s inner circle. Original title Rum 213 Director Emelie Lindblom Screenwriters Martin Jern, Emil Larsson Principal cast Wilma Lundgren, Ella Fogelström, Elena Hovsepyan Original title The Nile Hilton Incident Director/screenwriter Tarik Saleh Principal Produced by Dansk Skalle/Martin Jern, Emil Larsson, with support from the Swedish cast Fares Fares, Yaser Maher, Ahmed Seleem, Slimane Dazi, Hania Amar Produced Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 82 min National release February 24, by Atmo/Kristina Åberg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim 2017 Sales TBA Duration 109 min National release Sep/Oct, 2017 Sales The Match Factory Emelie Lindblom (born 1981) graduated from the School of Film Directing at Tarik Saleh (born 1972) is one of the founders of the production company Atmo. He Gothenburg University in 2011. Her latest short 2 (2014) was in competition at started out as a prominent graffiti artist, and after publishing magazines both in Egypt Göteborg Film Festival and was was screened at Seoul International Women’s Film and Sweden he went on to develop award winning TV concepts, co-direct documenta- Festival 2015. Room 213 is her debut feature film. ries Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara? (2001) and Gitmo (2006) with Erik Gandini, and solo direct fiction films Metropia (2009) and Tommy (2014). ATMO YP

Ouaga Girls Doc Sami Blood A group of young women from the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and Faso, meet at the feminist education centre to study to become car mechanics. Ouaga race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To Girls is a coming-of-age story of sisterhood, life choices, and the strife of finding your achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family own path. and culture.

Original title Ouaga Girls Director/screenwriter Theresa Traore Dahlberg Original title Sameblod Director/screenwriter Amanda Kernell Principal cast Lene Produced by Momento Film/David Herdies, with support from the Swedish Film Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Sparrok, Maj-Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl, Olle Sarri, Hanna Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda Duration 82 min National release TBA Sales TBA Alström, Malin Crepin, Andreas Kundler, Ylva Gustafsson Produced by Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB/Lars G. Lindström, with support from the Swedish Film Theresa Traore Dahlberg (born 1984) grew up in Sweden and Burkina Faso. She Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 110 min National release March, 2017 Sales studied film directing at the New School in New York and the Stockholm Academy of LevelK Dramatic Arts in Stockholm. Her graduation film, Taxi Sister (2011), has been screened at festivals worldwide. She is now doing her Master’s degree in Art at the Royal Institute Amanda Kernell (born in 1986) has directed several acclaimed shorts, one of them of Art in Stockholm. Ouaga Girls is her feature-length documentary debut. being Northern Great Mountain (2015) which was the pilot for Sami Blood and premiered at Sundance. Sami Blood is her first feature and had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and was selected for both the Spotlight section at Sundance and the Discovery section at Toronto. MOMENTO FILM MOMENTO OLSSON SOPHIA

The Rebel Surgeon Doc Shapeshifters Doc In Erik Gandini’s recent documentary The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) there is a A meeting with a long-lost friend stirs up memories from childhood and experiences of character who stands out, the surgeon Erik Erichsen. A portrait of a surgeon who got migration. From former Yugoslavia via Australia to Sweden today, we follow tired of Swedish bureaucracy and moved to Ethiopia. In a small field hospital, with ­Sophie Vuković in a personal exploration of what it means to belong in a globalized limited resources, he uses anything at hand to help the patients. world. A film about friendship, desire, and how you build new forms of belonging that are not defined by national borders. Original title Rebellkirurgen Director/screenwriter Erik Gandini Produced by Fasad Cine AB/Juan Pablo Libossart, Erik Gandini, with support from the Swedish Film Original title Shapeshifters Director/screenwriter Sophie Vuković Produced by Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 52 min National release March, 2017 Sales SVT Story/Göran Hugo Olsson, Tobias Janson, with support from the Swedish Film Sales Institute/Antonio Russo Merenda Duration 75 min National release Spring, 2017 Sales Story/TBA Erik Gandini (born 1967) is a Swedish-Italian film director, writer, and producer. Some of his international award-winning documentaries include Raja Sarajevo (1994), Sophie Vuković (born 1988) has a degree in social anthropology from the University Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara? (2001) and Gitmo (2006) together with Tarik of Edinburgh. Her short film 09:55–11:05, Ingrid Ekman (2015) was nominated for and Saleh, Surplus – Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003) and the widely acclaimed won several awards at international festivals like SXSW, Slamdance, Mezipatra Queer Videocracy (2009). Film Festival, Mix Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival and Stockholm International Film Festival. IGA MIKLER IGA CARL NILSSONCARL

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Small Town Curtains Stronger than a Bullet Doc Since early childhood, Björn has secretly carried an insurmountable fear. When his Devoted to the Iranian revolution, Saeid documented the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) father dies of old age, he and his four sisters are each left with a video message. It from the eye of the event. His dream was to be a martyr, and many of his photos were makes him question everything. Director Johan Löfstedt’s extended family play used to create war propaganda for martyrdom. Today he views himself as being themselves in an unconventional film about life, death and the courage to change. responsible for sending thousands of boys to their graves. A film about war propaganda, manipulation and control. Original title Småstad Director Johan Löfstedt Screenwriters Johan Löfstedt, Anna Potter Principal cast Björn Löfstedt, Gunilla Carlsén, Kina Löfstedt, Pelle Löfstedt, Original title Stronger than a Bullet Director/screenwriter Maryam Ebrahimi Monica Sturzenbecker, Anna Löfstedt, Lotta Löfstedt Produced by Stavro Produced by Nimafilm/Nima Sarvestani, with support from the Swedish Film Filmproduktion/Patrik Axén Duration 87 min National release January, 2017 Sales Institute/Cecilia Lidin, Antonio Russo Merenda Duration 80 min National release Au- TBA gust, 2017 Sales TBA

Johan Löfstedt (born 1974) has explored the no man’s land in between fiction and Maryam Ebrahimi (born 1976) studied at the Art University of Tehran and continued documentary in a number of films. In the dramatic mockumentary Conspiracy 58 her education at University College of Arts Craft and Design in Stockholm, where she (2002) he depicted an association that denies the football World Cup of 1958, and in now lives and works. Ebrahimi has produced the feature documentaries I Was Worth the silent film The Comet (2004) , life on earth is wiped out in the 1960’s. Small Town 50 Sheep (2010) and No Burqas Behind Bars (2012), the latter showing how moral Curtains is his first feature. crimes are used to control women in post-Taliban Afghanistan. LINUS FORSBERG NIMFILM

The Square Up in the Sky A modern museum struggles with their visitor numbers and the newly appointed Eight-year-old Pottan is going to summer camp, but by mistake she ends up at a creative director decides to hire a PR agency to help promote the upcoming recycling centre with some very peculiar characters. Reluctantly they take care of exhibition called “The Square”. The Square is a telling satire addressing topics of Pottan, who soon discovers their secret. Behind a tall fence, they are working on a responsibility and trust. homemade space rocket... Comedy, adventure and unexpected friendships await, as Pottan becomes the first ever eight-year-old in space. Original title The Square Director/screenwriter Ruben Östlund Principal cast Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Christopher Læssø Produced by Plattform Produktion/ Original title Upp i det blå Director Petter Lennstrand Screenwriters Petter Erik Hemmendorff, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Lennstrand, Martin Olczak Principal cast Mira Forsell, Adam Lundgren, Guffe Funck, Duration 120 min National release September, 2017 Sales Coproduction Office Shebly Niavarani, Petter Lennstrand, Ida Engvoll Produced by /Lars Jönsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell, Baker Karim Ruben Östlund (born 1974) has become well known for his humorous and accurate Duration 82 min National release October 21, 2016 Sales Trust Nordisk portrayals of human social behaviour. His Force Majeure (2014) was awarded with the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes, and won several Best Foreign Film awards, Petter Lennstrand (born 1970) trained with acclaimed director and puppeteer was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA, shortlisted for an Oscar and has sold Michael Meschke at Marionetteatern 1990–1995. He has created a number of popular more than one million tickets around the world. and critically acclaimed children’s television shows. In his later work he has developed his own technique, mixing human actors and Muppet-style puppets. Up in the Sky is Lennstrand’s directorial feature film debut. TOBIAS HENRIKSSONTOBIAS P-A JÖRGENSEN MEMFIS FILM

Strawberry Days 15-year-old Wojtek travels to Sweden from Poland with his parents to work on a farm picking strawberries. Against all odds he forms a connection with the farmer’s daughter. The outside world will never accept the relationship, and they find themselves trapped on opposite sides when the slowly brewing conflict between the Swedes and the guest workers erupts in violent confrontation.

Original title Jordgubbslandet Director/screenwriter Wiktor Ericsson Principal cast Staszek Cywka, Nelly Axelsson, Julia Kijowska, Przemyslaw Sadowski, Emilie Strandberg, Torkel Petersson Produced by Anagram Film & TV/Erik Magnusson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 90 min National release TBA Sales TBA

Wiktor Ericsson (born 1973) has been the head writer of the TV-series Starke man (2010) and Halvvägs till himlen (2013), and the director of the short KK (2013). In 2013 he also made his feature-length film debut with the documentary The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies. Strawberry Days is his first fiction feature film. MIKOLAJ URBANSKI URBANSKI MIKOLAJ

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all different genres: animation, Amalimbo The Comet Fight on a Swedish Beach I Was a Winner Doc Madre Meet Me in Holmsund Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a Two men are hiding behind a fence at a ­documentaries, experimental, fiction, In the film we get to share three very different 16-year-old Andrea comes down from her Sabina has travelled from Romania to five-year-old girl who experiences “the limbo” border checkpoint. They have just started This is what happens when you call stories on the subject of computer game poor neighborhood in the hills of Medellin to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job and everything in between. when she tries to pass to the other side in her their escape from oppression and someone’s wife a whore and yell sieg heil. He addiction, told through a mix of documentary attend a downtown casting call for a porno with her brothers. Elin has just finished desperate urge to mourn the recent death of persecution of homosexuals in their home had it coming. EPIC BEACH FIGHT! interviews and animation. film. school and is enjoying the first day of the her beloved father. A short story that country. Only one of them will arrive in Original title Fight on a Swedish Beach summer holidays. That evening they meet, happens in an undefined place in an Sweden. He is the comet. undefined near future. Director/screenwriter Simon Vahlne Original title Jag var en vinnare Director Original title Madre Director/screen­writer and it’s a meeting that lasts forever. Jonas Odell Screenwriters Jonas Odell, Simón Mesa Soto Produced by Momento Original title Kometen Director/ Produced by Plattform Produktion/Axel Richard Dinter Produced by Apparat Film/David Herdies Production year 2016 Original title Den blomstertid nu kommer Original title Amalimbo Director/ screenwriter Victor Lindgren Produced by Danielson, Don Piano/Ellen Hallin Filmproduktion AB/Johan Edström Genre Drama Duration 14 min Director/screenwriter Victor Lindgren screenwriter Juan Pablo Libossart Bautafilm AB/Therese Högberg Production year 2016 Genre Drama Production year 2016 Genre Animated Produced by Bautafilm/Therese Högberg Produced by Fasad/Johanna Lind Production year 2017 Genre Drama Duration 14 min documentary Duration 14 min Production year 2016 Genre Drama Production year 2016 Genre Animation/ ­Duration 11 min Fantasy Duration 15 min Duration 15 min

Make a Wish Forgotten Reason Anita and Gunnar live a calm, retired life. I Will Always Love You, Conny They don’t make love anymore. They watch The Committee Forgotten Reason is a stop motion animated TV. When Anita makes a wish and is visited Anatomy It’s -30°C and 20-year-old Conny walks Miles of Sand A Nordic collaboration is taking place. Three film about a group of lost bodies who wander by a young, virile TV show host, the couple is around like a worried criminal, hood up, in a A single mother in rural India has to pay a An anatomical PowerPoint presentation delegates from Sweden, Norway and through a forest towards an open field. A suddenly faced with life-changing events. forgotten little village in the far north of heavy price to repay her debts. about a bitter man and his ailments. From Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide on gathering with an unclear purpose takes Make a Wish is a comedy about dreams, and Sweden. He’s not welcome anywhere, and head to toe, the sore spots of his medical an art piece, which is to be placed where the place. The story comes alive through the about what happens when you get too much the whole community seems to hate him. Original title Miles of Sand Director/ history get explained systematically in a dark three borders meet geographically. But the films texture and atmosphere rather than via of a good thing. screenwriter Sonejuhi Sinha Produced by yet humorous film about life and its committee is in for a surprise. Instead of a traditional storytelling. Yesterday he panicked and left his girlfriend when she was in labour – but now he’s had a Momento Film/David Herdies Production conditions. sculpture, the commissioned artist presents Original title Önskedrömmar Director Original title Director change of heart and wants to go back. What year 2016 Genre Drama Duration 10 min his idea of a “Nordic dance”. The delegates Forgotten Reason Jonatan Etzler Sceenwriter Theo Westin Screenwriters does he have to do to make her forgive him? Original title Anatomi Director/ are faced with the true challenges of a Peter Larsson Peter Produced by Grand Slam Filmproduktion/ Produced by screenwriter Patrik Eklund Produced by democratic decision-making process. Larsson, Isak Sundström Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå Production year Production year Original title I Will Always Love You, Kingen Framestation/Patrik Eklund Production Peter Larsson 2016 2016 Genre Comedy Duration 12 min Director/screenwriter year 2016 Genre Animation Duration 8 min Original title Kommittén Directors/ Genre Animation, experimental Duration Amanda Kernell Produced by screenwriters Gunhild Enger, Jenni 14 min Bob Film/Kaj Snijder Production year Genre Toivoniemi Produced by Kjellson & Wik/ 2017 Drama Duration Marie Kjellson Production year 2016 30 min Genre Drama/Comedy Duration 14 min

Moonwolves The moonwolves live in a magical forest. They are amazed by glitter and all things that Meaningless shine, but most of all they love the moon. Because the World Never ­Conversations in Beautiful Every night they sit and stare dreamily Stops Doc Fuckgirls towards it. One night, their longing grows so Environments intense that they decide that they can’t just When we tune into a newscast, we expect a In this exploratory visual hybrid between Jazzoo Against a backdrop of magnificent sit and stare at it anymore. So, they decide to reassuring authority, but is what we see documentary and fiction we get to follow Jazzoo is an animated musical adventure for landscapes and epic tableaus, banal go to the moon. anything other than a performance? Shot Dear Kid three young girls whose everyday life is filled young kids (4–6). Here we meet the Koala conversations take place between behind the scenes during a live broadcast, During a swimming lesson a mother starts to with violence and repression. They share who wants to jump as a kangaroo, the characters who are comically oblivious to Original title Månulvarna Director Nima Because the World Never Stops is a feel uneasy about the coach’s relation to one their sorrows and fears of losing control. over-heated Hippo and the Caterpillar with the their surroundings. YousefiScreenwriter Hans-Åke revelatory look at the hidden side of the of the kids, but she has no proof. She faces a They find strength through their sisterhood bad temper. Great music, funny surprises and Gabrielsson Produced by Hob AB/Nima evening news. dilemma; to make an accusation of the worst and form a pact to use the extreme methods Original title Meningslösa konversationer i YousefiProduction year 2016 Genre kind, or to ignore a child who is possibly of their enemies to take control of their lives. stories for both young ones and grown-ups. fantastiska miljöer Director/screenwriter Children/Animation Duration 12 min Original title Studio 5 Director Maximilien getting abused. A poetic drama between dream and reality. Original title Jazzoo Director Adam Lisa Östberg Produced by Gnufilm/Mårten Van Aertryck, Axel Danielson Produced by Original title Directors Marko-Nord Screenwriters Oddjob, Adam Nilsson Production year 2016 Genre Plattform Produktion/Maximilien Van Original title Dear Kid Director/ Fuckgirls Saga Screenwriter Marko-Nord Produced by Alphaville/Sara Comedy Duration 8 min Aertryck, Axel Danielson Production year screenwriter Frida Kempff Produced by Becker, Christofer Nilsson Produced by Waldestam Production year 2017 Genre 2016 Genre Documentary Duration 10 min Momento Film/David Herdies Production Saga Becker Mohave Media/ Duration year 2016 Genre Drama Duration 13 min Christofer Nilsson Production year 2017 Children/Animation 9 min Genre Documentary hybrid Duration 15 min

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Production dfm Grand Slam Film Memfis Film Solid Entertainment Coproduction Office Telepicture Marketing Lilla Filmfestivalen [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Companies dfm.se grandslamfilm.se memfis.se solidentertainment.se coproductionoffice.eu telepicturemarketing.com lillafilmfestivalen.se Denmark/France/Germany UK August 2-6, 2017 2afilm Doppelganger GötaFilm Migma Film Stavro Filmproduktion [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Deckert Distribution TrustNordisk Lund International doppelganger.se gotafilm.se migmafilm.se stavrofilm.se [email protected] [email protected] Fantastic Film Festival Acne Drama deckert-distribution.com trustnordisk.com [email protected] [email protected] Drakfilm Harmonica Films Mint StellaNova Film Germany Denmark fff.se acne.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] October, 2017 drakfilm.se harmonicafilms.se mint-ab.se stellanovafilm.com DR International Sales UR International Alphaville [email protected] [email protected] Novemberfestivalen [email protected] EFTI Head and Tail Mohave Media Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman drsales.dk ur.se [email protected] alphaville.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Denmark Sweden novemberfestivalen.se efti.com head-tail.se mohave.se ingmarbergman.se November, 2017 amp film Eyewell Wide [email protected] Elfvik film Hob AB Momento Film Stockholm Academy of Dramatic [email protected] [email protected] Stockholm International My Burden Paralys Snip, Snap, Snut Trespassers ampfilm.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Arts (SADA) eyewell.se widemanagement.com Film Festival (SIFF) & elfvikfilm.se hobab.se momentofilm.se [email protected] Sweden France Stockholm International An animated musical with apocalyptic A sleepy Sunday in an apartment. 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Original title Paralys Director Björn with feelings – anger, frustration, fear and joy Original title Inkräktare Director/ avantifilm.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Studio Bigert & Bergström Switzerland UK shortfilmfestival.com Fävremark, John Boisen Screenwriter – that the young audience can relate to. fido.se indiansummerfilm.se nexiko.com [email protected] October, 2017 screenwriter Johannes Persson Auto Images bigertbergstrom.com Global Screen Original title Min börda Director/ Björn Fävremark Produced by Is This It AB/ [email protected] Film and Tell Jarowskij Sverige AB Nimafilm [email protected] Way Out West Produced by [sic film] AB/Hanna autoimages.se Distributors screenwriter Niki Lindroth von Bahr Judith Katzeff Production year 2016 Original title Snipp, Snapp, Snut Ostrowski Production year 2016 Genre [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Studio Jens Assur globalscreen.de [email protected] filmandtell.com jarowskij.se nimafilmsweden.com [email protected] Germany Edge Entertainment wayoutwest.se Genre Horror Duration 5 min Directors/screenwriters Barataria Productions studiojensassur.se August 10-12, 2017 Produced by Malade/Kalle Wettre Mia Hulterstam, Horror Duration 5 min [email protected] [email protected] Film and Art Affairs Joclo Nordisk Film Production Indie Sales edgeentertainment.se Production year 2017 Genre Animation/ Cecilia Actis Produced by Anagram Film & baratariaproductions.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sveriges Television (SVT) [email protected] filmandartaffairs.com johannesnyholm.se nordiskfilm.com [email protected] indiesales.eu Drama/Musical Duration 13 min TV/Erik Magnusson, Emma Åkesdotter Bautafilm Folkets Bio Organizations svt.se France [email protected] Ronge Production year 2016 Genre [email protected] Filmateljén Kameraten Nouvago Capital bautafilm.se folketsbio.se Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Children/Animation Duration 40 min [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Swedish Ecstasy Film interfilm Berlin Swedish Film Institute filmateljen.com kameraten.se nouvago.com [email protected] [email protected] Biospheric Pictures Lucky Dogs [email protected] swedishecstasyfilm.com interfilm.de [email protected] kreativaeuropa.eu [email protected] Filmgate Films Kasper Collin Produktion Pampas Produktion Germany bipic.se lucky-dogs.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sweetwater Independent Film filmgate-films.com kaspercollin.com pampasproduktion.se [email protected] Kurz Film Agentur Hamburg Njutafilms Producers’ Association Bob Film Sweden sweetwater.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Filmkreatörerna Karin Ekberg PennFilm Studios shortfilm.com njutafilms.com off.se bobfilm.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Systerskaparna Germany filmkreatorerna.com pennfilm.se [email protected] Noble Entertainment International Sámi Film Institute Borderline Films Kjellson & Wik LevelK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Filmlance International [email protected] Pinguinfilm Tangy [email protected] nobleentertainment.com isfi.no/eng [email protected] kjellsonwik.se [email protected] [email protected] levelk.dk Brain Academy Shadow Animals filmlance.se pinguin.se tangy.se Denmark NonStop Entertainment Nordisk Film & TV Fond [email protected] Kostr-Film brainacademy.se [email protected] [email protected] Marall follows her parents to a party and they What Remains First Edition Pictures [email protected] Plattform Produktion TV4 Magnetfilm nonstopentertainment.com nordiskfilmogtvfond.com [email protected] kostrfilm.com [email protected] tv4.se [email protected] B-Reel Films My Gay Sister want her to behave. 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Director Lasse mantarayfilm.se [email protected] June 26-July 2, 2017 Persson/Lisa Tulin Screenwriter Lasse Copenhagen Bombay Gnufilm Silverosa Film autlookfilms.com Submarine perspective of a wounded deer in the forest: [email protected] [email protected] MDEMC [email protected] Austria [email protected] BUFF – the International Children it’s getting dark, the deer is bleeding, the Persson Produced by Swedish Ecstasy copenhagenbombay.com gnufilm.se [email protected] silverosafilm.se submarine.com and Young People’s Film Festival Film/Lisa Tulin Production year 2016 [email protected] BAC Films US [email protected] hunters are closing in all around. Dagsljus Goodbye Kansas mdemc.se Silvio Entertainment [email protected] buff.se Genre Animation/Comedy Duration 3 min [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] bacfilms.com SF Studios March 20-25, 2017 dagsljus.com goodbyekansas.se Media Monks silvioentertainment.com France [email protected] Original title Oh Deer! Director/ [email protected] sfinternational.se Göteborg Film Festival (GIFF) screenwriter Peter Pontikis Produced by Dansk Skalle Gothenburg Film Studios mediamonks.com Snowcloud Films CAT&Docs Sweden [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] giff.se Borderline Films/Patrick Sobieski, Peter danskskalle.se gothenburgstudios.se Medusa Productions snowcloud.se catndocs.com SVT Sales January 27-February 6, 2017 Pontikis Production year 2016 Genre [email protected] France [email protected] medusa-productions.com svtsales.com Virtual Reality/Horror Duration 4 min Sweden

50 NOVEMBER 8-19 2017 THE 28TH STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

DIRECTOR FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, RECIPIENT OF THE STOCKHOLM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2016 FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Git Scheynius [email protected] PROGRAM INQUIRIES [email protected] GENERAL INQUIRIES www.stockholmfilmfestival.se Photo: Johan Bergmark