Issue 2 • Summer–Autumn 2015

Glam slam The 80’s are back with a vengeance in David Sandberg’s retro fest Kung Fury Outside the walls A young criminal tries to return to normal life in Magnus von Horn’s The Here After Ingrid Bergman Stig Björkman paints a personal portrait of Sweden’s iconic movie star

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Film Väst Congratulates Un Certain Regard: ONE FLOOR BELOW by Radu Muntean Quinzaine des Réalisateurs: THE HERE AFTER by Magnus von Horn Semaine de la Critique: BOYS by Isabella Carbonell 2

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Director, International Department Pia Lundberg Phone: +46 70 692 79 80 A glorious [email protected] year at Cannes Festivals, features Gunnar Almér Phone: +46 70 640 46 56 2015 is a big year for Swedish film at the Fes- Sanna Lenken’s My Skinny Sister, which [email protected] tival de Cannes. will screen in Cannes Ecrans Juniors. The Ingrid Bergman would have turned 100 Swedish company Chimney is also a co- years old this year. It’s important for Sweden producer of One Floor Below, directed by Festivals, documentaries to celebrate one of our greatest international Radu Muntean and selected for Un Certain Sara Rüster actors. She not only turned the eyes of the Regard. Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 world on Sweden, but also blazed a trail for This refreshing mix of new and experi- [email protected] other Swedes wanting to seek their fortune in enced filmmakers demonstrates the value of Hollywood. our efforts both to seek out new voices and Festivals, shorts Role models do matter. Ingrid Bergman to support those who are already estab- Theo Tsappos showed that not only is it possible to make a lished. Kung Fury is also a result of Moving Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 career in Hollywood, but that it’s possible for Sweden, a broad partnership between vari- [email protected] a woman. Ingrid Bergman was a strong, inde- ous financing bodies in Sweden (the Swed- pendent woman who showed that a career ish Film Institute, Sveriges Television and doesn’t need to stand in the way of children the regional film funds), which strives to Special projects and family, nor vice versa. And many other seek out the new and the challenging. It’s Andrea Reuter Swedish female actors have followed in her reassuring that Cannes has had the courage Phone: +46 73 652 83 06 [email protected] wake. Actors such as Lena Olin, Noomi and curiosity to find this particular film, Rapace and Alicia Vikander, for example. which managed to secure almost half a mil-

It’s especially gratifying that the Cannes lion euros through its Kickstarter campaign Special projects Film Festival is showcasing Ingrid Bergman’s alone. Brita Osafo artistry in her centenary year. And it feels Joe Hill is a result of our recently started Phone: +46 76 501 20 46 both appropriate and rewarding that they are initiative to digitize Sweden’s film heritage. [email protected] paying closer attention to the opportunities Our aim is for these digitized films to be for women making films. Much has happened screened for the general public, and now since the Swedish Film Institute, during our they have the chance to see one of the abso- Head of Communications 50th anniversary two years ago, presented lute classics at the Cinéma de la Plage. So, if & Public Relations Rebecka Ioannidis Lindberg our action plan for increased equality. We can Ingrid Bergman and Stig Björkman have Phone: +46 76 501 20 73 now conclude that this action plan has had an shown us the way to the stars, we also have [email protected] effect. 2014 was the year when Sweden divid- four newcomers to demonstrate that Swed- ed its support funding equally between the ish film is still on a pathway of the highest Press Officer genders. We believe that this will soon mani- quality. Jan Göransson fest itself in future selections for Cannes. Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 But naturally we’re also extremely proud [email protected] of this year’s selections. Stig Björkman’s doc- umentary Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words, to be screened as part of Cannes Clas- sics, is joined by four Cannes newcomers. Magnus von Horn with The Here After and Swedish Film Institute David Sandberg’s short Kung Fury screening International Department in Directors’ Fortnight, Isabella Carbonell Anna Serner P.O. Box 27126 with her short filmBoys in Critics’ Week and CEO, Swedish Film Institute SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: +46 8 665 11 00 Fax: +46 8 661 18 20 www.sfi.se

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32 36 BERGMARK) JOHAN ALFREDSSON, KARIN BERGMARK, JOHAN KNUDSEN, IDA ALFREDSSON, KARIN ASPLUND, EMELIE LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE PHOTO, 5 News 26 Crime and punishment 36 Falling down Alicia Vikander conquers the world, Norse gods meet A convicted young killer tries to return to society in A struggling poet hits rock bottom in festival favourite hacker geeks in Kung Fury, Swedish animation celebrates debutant Magnus von Horn’s dark drama The Here After. Måns Månsson’s adaptation of the novel The Yard. its centenary. Plus the hottest new talents in Swedish cinema. 30 Power play 38 Herd mentality Director Lisa Aschan examines the power roles in a Class, fear and social loyalty eat their way into the 16 Concerning Annika detention centre for illegal aliens in White People, the investigation of an alleged rape in Beata Gårdeler’s Meet Annika Rogell, producer behind Göran Hugo follow-up to her much-feted debut She Monkeys. second feature, Flocking. Olsson’s acclaimed documentaries and Sweden’s Producer on the Move at Cannes. 32 Alone together 40 The hotel collector Director Erik Gandini travelled the globe with Videocracy, Author and director Kristian Petri paints an intimate and 18 La Dolce Vita his critical examination of the Italian media climate. Now, poetic portrait of some of the world’s leading hotels in the In celebration of her 100th birthday, Stig Björkman has he’s back with an equally uncompromising look at the third instalment of his documentary trilogy about made a personal documentary about Ingrid Bergman. political Swedish landscape: The Swedish Theory of Love. travelling, The Hotel. Read all about the original Swedish Hollywood star. 34 Up in the skies 42 No holiday on ice 23 The Garbage Helicopter Ten years after the phenomenal success of As It Is in Director Karin af Klintberg and television personalities Award-winning shorts director Jonas Selberg Augustsén Heaven, Kay Pollak returns with the follow up, Heaven on Filip & Fredrik follow some unlikely athletes on their way makes his feature debut with a road movie in the Romani Earth. to the world cup in feel-good documentary Nice People. language. 35 Honour among thieves 45 New films 24 Girls vs. boys For many years, Peter Grönlund worked with addicts and All the latest Swedish films… Judith Butler’s theories about gender as social construc- homeless people in Stockholm. Now, he makes his tion and Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel directorial debut with an intense drama thriller built on his 56 New Shorts own experiences. Orlando were the main inspirations behind Alexandra- …and the shorts too. Therese Keining’s magical mystery tour, Girls Lost.

4 News Cannes In Bergman’s footsteps Ingrid Bergman’s face may well appear on this year’s Cannes poster, but it’s Alicia Vikander who provides her voice. And it’s not just in Stig Björkman’s Cannes Classics film Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid) that Vikander is currently hitting the news. Like Ingrid Bergman, this particular Swede’s international career has really taken off. 2015 will see the US premiere of no fewer than nine of her current films. “You might well say that I’ve maxed out, and sometimes I’ve only had one day of rest between two films. But there’s also a sort of ‘ketchup effect’ depending on how long certain films take in post-production: suddenly they all come out at Alicia Vikander in Testament of Youth.

once,” says Vikander, who has FILM NORDISK just finished shooting Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl with Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, such amazing energy. When excited about my next project, Eddie Redmayne. And whether Alicia Vikander clearly adores people ask what my dream role which I hope will start shooting she’s playing Michael Fassbend- her job. is, it’s always the one I’ve just this summer. Who knows, it er’s wife in Derek Cianfrance’s “Getting the chance to work finished, the one I’m currently might just be announced at The Light Between Oceans or with actors and filmmakers working on or the one that’s next Cannes!” Ava the artificial intelligence in you’ve always admired gives you in line. Right now I’m really Camilla Larsson

Swedish musicians behind Cannes theme In addition to the films selected, How come you were ap- relationship, and I’m counting on Sweden’s presence at this year’s proached for the job? being offered the finest suite at Cannes festival will be both seen “We’ve both worked previously the Hotel du Cap during the and heard on the celebrated with Hervé Chigoni at the festival for years to come.” Croisette. With centenarian Ingrid Paris-based agency which As producer, Patrik Andersson Bergman adorning this year’s produced last year’s poster of Patrik has recently started shooting Andersson poster, Swedish musicians Patrik Marcello Mastroianni. They Pernilla August’s costume drama Andersson and Andreas Söder- wanted to complement Ingrid The Serious Game, the long- ström have produced a Swedish- Bergman’s image on the poster, awaited film version of the classic style version of the festival’s and came up with the notion of novel by Hjalmar Söderberg. official theme music, Camille arranging the Saint-Saëns in a Starring Sverrir Gudnason and Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Swedish style,” says Patrik achieve a truly appropriate feeling Karin Franz Körlof, the film also Animals.” Andersson. of Scandinavian melancholy.” features Michael Nyqvist. Andreas Söderström is best “We said oui to the challenge How high up in your career The Swedish premiere is known for his score to Lisa straight away and decided to use does this rank? planned for September 2016. Langseth’s Hotell (2013), and the Swedish key harp for the “Definitely top five! It’s amazing Is Cannes your goal for the Patrik Andersson is a producer theme instead of the rather bright to be an official part of the Festival world premiere? and head of development at the piano of the original. With the de Cannes, whether as a musician “We’ll have to see how that prolific Swedish film production addition of a few more traditional or a film producer. I see this as the luxury hotel suite works out first.” first stage in a long and healthy DAN LEPP(PATRIK ANDERSSON) company B-Reel. instruments, I think we managed to Jon Asp

5 News Cannes

Unleash the fury With the help of crowd funding, David Sandberg made his dream project come true. 30-minute Kung Fury has been Cannes ­selected for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

It’s some coincidence: on the SEK 1.4 million in 24 hours and are so many things we’re doing same day a new trailer was an overall total of SEK 4.3 million for the first time that every day released for Star Wars: The Force (USD 630.000). Almost 18.000 feels like some kind of bungee Awakens, David Hasselhoff’s people expressed an interest and jump. We’re so delighted to get out-there music video for True he was soon getting calls from so much support from our Survivor was posted on YouTube. the likes of Elijah Wood and Seth partners. Sometimes you just The song is part of the sound Rogen. have to jump, otherwise nothing track for David Sandberg’s retro “Yes indeed, expectations have happens,” says Linus Andersson. fest Kung Fury – and one of certainly grown more than I could Four days after it was upload- Sandberg’s all-time favourite have imagined when I released ed, True Survivor had received films just happens to be The the trailer. I was overwhelmed not over 4 million hits. And if Empire Strikes Back (1980). only by the reaction, but also by everything goes as planned at After several years of hard the storm of ideas that came Cannes, the next goal awaits – a graft in celebration of the 80’s from people worldwide. But I’ve full-length feature. and its cop action thrillers, he is never lost sight of why I started “That depends somewhat on close to realising his dream in the doing this, and I’ve tried to stick how audiences react to Kung form of a 30-minute, action- as close to the original vision as Fury, if they love it and want to packed feast for the eyes. possible,” says David Sandberg. see more it opens up the Sandberg himself stars as a Eleni Young Karlsson, formerly possibility for future Kung Fury fully-fledged kung fu cop in a a freelance motion graphics artist productions,” says David leather jacket and vest. In his in the advertising industry, and Sandberg. hunt for the arch villain Kung short film producer Linus Linus Andersson laughs: “But Führer he travels through time Andersson, are the film’s all we can prepare for right now is between neon lit mean city producers. chaos.” streets and the Stone Age. “It’s quite nerve racking. There Martin Frostberg Kung Fury is a heady fusion of genre film-loving fantasy and green screen work production Director David Sandberg. with dinosaurs, Norse gods, hacker geeks, Nazis, arcade game aesthetics and wildly exaggerated fights. All set against a backdrop of synthesiz- ers and pulsating hard rock. With his background in advertising, 29-year-old Sand- berg has watched his project grow into an internet phenome- non greatly changed since its inception. His incredible Kick- starter campaign, the most successful in Sweden, produced

6 Joe Hill at the Cannes Plage

The popular Cinéma de la Plage, part of the Cannes Classics’ section, will screen a newly restored version of Bo Widerberg’s filmJoe Hill. The biopic about the eponymous Swedish-American labour activist won the Cannes Jury Prize back in 1971. Unavailable for many years, it has now been digitally restored by the Swedish Film Institute. “This is huge. Not least because seven of Widerberg’s films were screened at Cannes, he sat in a jury and he scooped awards,” says Lars Karlsson, head of digitization at the institute. Bo Widerberg, who died in 1997, has recently experienced a revival in France, thanks to Malavida Films’ release of many of his titles. In November the French distributor will also bring LASER UNICORNS PRODUCTIONS (DIRECTOR AND ALL STILLS) ALL AND (DIRECTOR PRODUCTIONS UNICORNS LASER Joe Hill to cinemas to commem- orate the 100th anniversary of Joe Hill’s execution.

Co-production in Official Romanian Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below (Un etaj mai jos) will compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. The drama, about the unfortunate witness of a

Above: A heavily disguised Jorma Taccone, known domestic quarrel that turns into from Saturday Night Live and the comedy music group The a murder, is a co-production Lonely Island, plays the villain Kung Führer. Left: Producer Eleni between Romania, France, Young Karlsson makes a cameo appearance as Barbarianna. Sweden and Germany. Muntean’s previous feature, the critically acclaimed and Ingmar Bergman- inspired drama Tuesday, After Christmas, was in the same sidebar in 2010.

7 News Östlund thinks inside the box

Since Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (Turist) won the jury prize in Un Certain Regard at last year’s Cannes festival, the film has been sold to 68 countries and came within a whisker of an Oscar nom- ination (a YouTube clip with Östlund and his producer Erik Hemmendorff, which shows the two of them receiving the negative news, is already a classic). Östlund has travelled the world and been feted with a retrospective that toured 14 US Ruben Östlund and Canadian cities. Now he’s BERGMARK JOHAN concentrating on his next film: “One fifth of the screenplay is ready. As usual, it’s about a Värnamo, where he installed a dilemma that people face,” the “square” in the town centre and director says. explored the subject in its art The film’s working title is The gallery. Square, a symbolic space with “The film is due to be completed both physical and philosophical in 2017. In May, when else?” says meaning, within which agreed Östlund. rights and obligations prevail. In But this time round his primary concrete terms everything and about setting boundaries and In the middle of April Östlund aim isn’t Cannes. It’s that elusive everyone inside the square are other kinds of limits – such as land presented his concept in the Oscar. protected. Philosophically it’s ownership and national borders. southern Swedish town of Camilla Larsson

Actor on the up: Cannes Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs

Coming to Cannes this year is Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, one of Sweden’s most promising stars. GOOD COMPANY FILMS COMPANY GOOD Last seen in Levan Akin’s Berlinale premiered The Circle million Home alone (Cirkeln, 2015), he is currently 12viewers have watched making waves in Isabella Having premiered at the Göteborg the film collective Crazy Carbonell’s short film Boys, Film Festival’s Startsladden, Milad Pictures’ Swedish- screening as part of Critics’ Alami’s latest short Mommy (2015) language productions Week, in which he plays a is now set for the international on Youtube. troubled inmate in an institution festival circuit. The film is a low-key, for young sex offenders. tender portrait of a young woman Despite his short career, both struggling to take care of her 22-year-old Sebastian – grand- daughter and partying with her son of Ingmar Bergman actress HENRIKSSONTOBIAS friends. Last year Alami’s Void, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs – already co-directed with Aygul Bakanova, 10 0 has an imposing track record. All nominated for a Guldbagge was screened in Directors’ USD is the price of an three features he has been in so Award. Hiort af Ornäs also starred Fortnight at Cannes. The Iranian- analogue special edition far have been well received at the in Sofia Norlin’s Broken Hill Blues born Swedish director is currently copy of Kung Fury on Berlinale. And for his first (Ömheten, 2013) a favourite with developing his first feature film The Video Home System, appearance in Babak Najafi’s audiences and critics alike at last Charmer, a love story about a young better known as VHS. Sebbe (2010) he was also year’s Tribeca festival. Iranian gigolo living in Denmark.

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Los Angeles. working inthepornindustry centres onaSwedishgirl Hemmendorff atPlattform,it ture. Produced byErik soon startworkonherfirst fea- of DramaticArts,Thyberg will from theStockholm Academy Boys, hergraduationproject of hernext shortfilmGirlsand Film Festival forHotChicks. Scholarship attheStockholm scooped the1Km Film at Cannes.Andlastyearshe Currently in post-production Currently inpost-production Jon Asp

KRISTOFFER JONSSON theBucharest-born director says raw andunprocessedaspossible,” daily experiences.Iwantittobeas reality andthefictivebasisofour explore thegapbetweenidealsand appears tohavebrokendown. ten minutesafteraloverelationship placeduringthefirst lives. Ittakes are caughtatcriticalmomentsintheir in aseriesofsevenwherecouples Prologue ( of hisintimatestoriesaboutlove.The isback withanother Constantinescu Renowned shortfilmmakerStefan About love “My intention is in some way to “My intentionisinsomewayto ) is the fourth film Prologen) isthefourthfilm Phone: +33 (0)492 9249 -Mail: contact.sud@ vlaemynck.com 06370 Mouans-Sartoux -France 780, avenuede laQuiera-ZAdel’Argile of outdoorfurniture. FromMondaytoFriday, 8h-18h. More than500 m² ofexhibitionwiththe2leading brands Fermob /Vlaemynckshop

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2016 is the year when Sweden will be the guest country at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – the largest short film festival and market in the world.

1.3 million viewers watched the third episode of Jordskott on pubcaster SVT, which is a greater number than any of the top episodes in the first season ofThe Bridge. (Source: MMS) LASER UNICORNS PRODUCTIONS UNICORNS LASER 3 654 734 is the audience number Reversed roles for The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Last year Lovisa Sirén won the attempt to reverse the existing the limits in order to objectify Window and Disappeared prestigious Startsladden short gender roles in the film industry. them. Already one of Sweden’s in European cinemas, film award with Pussy Have the Audition features well-known most interesting makers of short which makes it the 8th Power at the Göteborg Film male actors who are trying out for films, Lovisa Sirén will soon start biggest European Festival. This year she returned to a woman director’s first feature. the shoot of Baby, as a part of the box-office success of compete with another film about The more they lose belief in her Moving Sweden project. 2014. inherited power structures, an methods, the more she pushes Jon Asp

Cutting Edge Sami story to Hamburg

One fine summer’s day, a bullied Marja Bål Nango’s O.M.G (Oh boy decides to use a waterslide Máigon Girl) (Hilbes Biigá) has to get even with his tormentors. been selected for the Hamburg Peter Pontikis’ new short Boy Short Film Festival in June. The Razor is a menacing drama film centres on two teenage girls thriller in which pent-up anger who are bored with their small reaches boiling point, children are village life and hungry for sexual intimidated and adults unaware. adventure. With support funding GAUP MATHIS JOHAN In 2008, Pontikis made his from the Swedish Film Institute, Máigon Girl) is Bål Nango’s tenth feature debut with the low-bud- the film screened at the Berlinale film to date. Born in Norway in get drama Not Like Others in February as part of 7 Sami 1988, she was recently hon- (Vampyrer), which starred Ruth Stories, the Sami Film Institute’s oured with a retrospective at the Vega Fernandez and featured initiative to promote upcoming Tampere Film Festival. Boy Razor

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10 Swedish Kung Fury Nordic film films on rocks NYC roofs São Paulo

A special focus on new Swedish A major Nordic focus including films will take place August 5-8 at some 50 titles is to be held at the Rooftop Films in Brooklyn, New 39th São Paulo International Film York. Cannes-premiered Kung Festival – the biggest festival in Fury provides a sneak early Brazil – October 20 - November 4, opening to the programme on 2015. The series will comprise both May 29, with a screening intro- new feature films and a retrospec- duced by director David Sand- tive, plus industry related events berg. Founded in 1997, Rooftop with film professionals from the five Films has become known Nordic countries meeting the local internationally for combining US film industry in Brazil. The event is and world premieres, themed organised by the Swedish Film Insti- programmes and popular tute together with the Danish Film outdoor venues throughout the Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, summer season. The focus, Icelandic Film Centre and Norwe- which will also include a live gian Film Institute in partnership performance by a Swedish artist, with the Brazilian Film Agency is organised by the Swedish Film ANCINE and the promotion

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64is the percentage of female recipients of the Guldbagge Award in the main categories – Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay – over the last six years.

SNOWCLOUD FILMS 235 340 tickets were sold for the 100 years and still animated two documentaries A Thousand Pieces (2014) Swedish animation is celebrating Aimed at a younger audience, potential for Swedish animation: and Nice People (2015) its centenary, and to mark the Maria Avramova’s debut Lea & “It’s exciting that so many during their first 12 weeks event the Swedish Film Institute the Forest Pirates (2015) is an animated films have come along in Swedish cinemas. This is heading for MIFA, the market adventure set in the Nordic forest at once, and I’m hoping to see can be compared to 52 938 section of the animation festival in which a seven-year-old girl is even more in the future. We have admissions for Academy in Annecy. Festivities kicked off looking for her little brother. Part to remember that feature length Award winning Searching at this year’s Göteborg Film of the Moving Sweden initiative, films are the powerhouse of the for Sugarman (2012) in the Festival, with a programme of it’s the first film from start-up industry, creating long term same time span. However, works spanning from 1915 company Snowcloud, whose employment opportunities for all three of them fade in onwards including the first ever owner and producer Petter people working with animation.” comparison to Palme Swedish animation – Victor Lindblad foresees major Sebastian Lindvall (2012) which was seen by Bergdahl’s intoxicating Magic 235 767. All these figures underline a positive trend Brew (Trolldrycken). for Swedish ­docs. The programme confirmed the CORNERSTONES IN ability of animation to unite the SWEDISH ANIMATION abstract and the figurative. And By Midhat Ajanovic, expert on Swedish animation following that tradition are directors Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno 1915: The Magic Brew by Victor 2005: Documentary short Never Like The Je Kim, whose short film Sex & Bergdahl, the first pioneer in Swedish First Time by Jonas Odell became a major Taxes (2015) was inspired by a animation. international hit and Golden Bear winner series of reports by the award- at Berlinale. 1924: Symphonie Diagonale by avant- Annons winning journalist Maciej garde artist Viking Eggeling, considered 2008: Annecy’s Grand Prize to Zaremba for the Swedish as the very pinnacle of experimental documentary Slaves, by tandem Hanna newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The animation from the 1920s. Heilborn and David Aronowitsch. film is a colourful satire in which 1950: Alongside the former Czecho- 2011: Johannes Nyholm had another pornography receives generous slovakia, Sweden is one of the Euro- great success with short filmLas Palmas, tax breaks to help cure the pean countries with, relatively speaking, after his Puppet boy (2007) became population’s winter blues. most animated feature films, which were Sweden’s most award-winning animated is the number of almost exclusively produced in the Dis- film of all time. ­languages Ingrid “Ultimately we want to create ney inspired cell animation technology. 5 other images of bodies and other ­Bergman spoke fluently. forms of visualisation that expand 1974: International recognition to She also had acting roles Dunderklumpen by modern Swedish in all of them – Swedish, political imaginations around animation pioneer Per Åhlin. English, German, French issues such as gender, ethnicity, and Italian. race and community,” Ewa 1980: Who will comfort Toffle? by influential Swedish short film animator Einhorn and Jeuno Je Kim Johan Hagelbäck. explain. JOCLO

12 A crowd-funded escape from reality

Given the experience of their first Engström from The Girl (Flickan, collaboration, Nasty Old People 2009) lives with her violent (2009), a film financed by a bank father, cut off from the rest of the loan and premiered on the file world. Fantasies about her sharing website The Pirate Bay, it grandmother provide her only seemed natural for director escape from reality. Hanna Sköld and producer The story harks back to Hanna Helene Granqvist to involve their Sköld’s own experiences. It was audience from the outset. Six important not to underplay the years ago they started working depictions of violence, which on Granny’s Dancing on the were in place long before full Table, a feature film using funding was secured. different media and means of “We couldn’t afford animators, expression to explore a broad so Hanna began to do the narrative universe. animations herself. And straight “Hanna started writing about away the characters started the process on Facebook. ‘Have FACTORY NORDIC hitting each other. It brings tears to you ever felt isolated? Have you asked questions on the subjects Claymation and conventional my eyes just thinking about how ever been the victim of a natural she wanted to explore and got film are combined to create the deep-rooted those issues are for disaster? Have you ever had plenty of responses,” Helene hybrid environment where her,” says Helene Granqvist. make-believe friends?’ She Granqvist explains. teenager Amy (played by Blanca Sebastian Lindvall

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Boys is a short film formal film training, but she has Isabella Carbonell. worked in various positions in the set in an institution for young sex offenders. “I wanted industry for ten years or so. to create an intimate close-up of real people,” Currently concentrating on says director Isabella Carbonell. Cannes directing, it’s that role she envisages for herself going forward, and she would relish the It all began when Isabella monster. I wanted to create an

TOBIAS HENRIKSSONTOBIAS challenge of a longer film. Carbonell read a book by intimate close-up of real people “For some years now I’ve journalist Katarina Wennstam to add nuance to that notion that I felt I had to make a film wanted to make a film about the entitled A Real Rapist (En riktig which is so dangerously simpli- about it.” difficulties of arriving in Sweden våldtäktsman, 2005). Now, some fied in present day society.” She wrote the screenplay as a refugee and automatically years later, she brings us Boys Carbonell was especially together with Babak Najafi, the finding oneself at a disadvantage, (Pojkarna), a short film selected fascinated by the most common director of films such as Easy however hard one struggles. for Critics’ Week at Cannes. answer given by rapists of all Money II (Snabba Cash II, 2012) Such a film would give me the “The book made me realise just ages to the question of why they and Sebbe (2010), Sebastian opportunity to create a female how dysfunctional our view is of did it: “I don’t know, it just Hiort af Ornäs’ breakthrough film. role that’s never been seen before who actually commits rape. The happened.” Hiort af Ornäs also plays the lead in Swedish film.” general public tends to imagine “I found that both fascinating as Markus in Boys. Text Jenny Damberg some kind of mythical, faceless and provocative to such an extent Isabella Carbonell has no Photo Nadja Hallström

Name: Isabella Carbonell Background: Her film work hasincluded ­ directing music videos and acting. Making waves: Boys has been selected­ for Critics’ Week at Cannes.

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Jerry Carlsson. Central to Jerry Carlsson’s All We Share is a tall and stately sycamore which the owners want chopped down as soon as possible. But just why the tree has to come down, they’re unwilling to say.

The short film All We Share is about tree surgeons Samir and Sara, who quickly realise that the totally healthy sycamore tree they are called in to chop down has an emotionally charged history. “Finding the right tree was

essential,” explains director Jerry FILM TJOCKISHJÄRTA Carlsson. Having posted flyers through a couple of thousand put on the television when the letterboxes, the crew had got 80 romantic comedy The Object of or so responses from house My Affection was being screened. Victor Lindgren. “What you get angry and “Right then it struck me. I’d only can’t stop thinking about, the cause of sleepless owners who wanted a tree chopped down on their plot, but heard the word ‘gay’ used as an nights, is the thing that you have to write.” Director unfortunately mostly unsuitable insult or a joke. But that’s what I Victor Lindgren has finished two new short films, both pines and firs. was, and I hated that part of about 10-year-old girls. “I didn’t want any old tree, I myself. I lacked an image to relate wanted something special in to, but that evening I gained a new which we could create a space up image of what it might mean. I sat there alone with one thought “I don’t really know why I’ve in the leaves. With only a week to going round and round in my chosen this particular age, but I go before filming was due to start head: ‘I don’t need to be unhappy think in some ways you have to we found the perfect tree. As just because I’m into guys.’ I didn’t work on things you’ve recently soon as we got to the house, we have that insight before I saw the experienced,” says director Victor could see it would work. The place film, and my body really needed Lindgren on the subject of the had a character all of its own, the feeling it gave me.” young leading actors in his 2015 exactly the kind we needed.” Jenny Damberg

short films It’s OK to Eat Fish AB BAUTAFILM Jerry Carlsson insists that the ‘cause They Don’t Have Any characters in his films should be In the on-going project Tiny, Feelings (Fiskar har inga känslor) well rounded, without necessarily Tiny Pieces (Små små bitar), a and I Turn to You (Jag vill nå dig). having a clear gender identity. Name: Jerry Carlsson drama series for young people, “And it’s also fun to work with Because in his view, although we Background: Director and screenwriter. the crew ran screen tests on 130 Degree in Film from the Valand Acade- children and young people since live surrounded by images, we people, first in the city of Umeå, my Film, University of Gothenburg, 2014. they’re so challenging. Lots of suffer in many ways from a lack of Making waves: All We Share has been then in the smaller towns of people say it’s so damned images. Citing an example from selected for Future Frames, a new ini- Lycksele and Vilhelmina. tiative by European Film Promotion and difficult.” his own life, he explains how as a “That’s where we found two the Karlovy Vary International Film Fes- Do you agree that it’s difficult? young teenager, he happened to tival, July 3-11. real diamonds who can really “Yes, it can be difficult. Espe- carry the stories that the series cially with youngsters. They have centre on. One of the people in so many notions of how they the series drives a Swedish should behave and how people A-tractor*, and so too did one of perceive them. I recognise that the actors. That’s not exactly from growing up myself.” commonplace.” Hoping to find the right young Jenny Damberg people whose own lives match in * a sort of hybrid truck/tractor some ways the stories he wants to tell, Lindgren took great care with the casting process. Name: Victor Lindgren “I think it’s so much more fun to Background: Self-taught screenwriter use people who can define and director. One of four people behind Bautafilm, based in Umeå and Tärnaby something themselves and in the north of Sweden. contribute their own experience Making waves: With his short films It’s rather than having to instruct my OK to Eat Fish ‘cause They Don’t Have Any Feelings and I Turn to You. Has re- actors. It provides a completely cently completed a pilot episode of the

different authenticity.” television series Tiny, Tiny Pieces. FILM TJOCKISHJÄRTA

15 16 PRODUCER ON THE MOVE Concerning Annika

Known for her work on Göran Hugo Olsson’s celebrated documentaries,­ Annika Rogell has now produced her first Text Karoline Eriksson feature, the Berlinale-awarded drama My Skinny Sister. Cannes Photo Karin Alfredsson Meet Sweden’s Producer on the Move. Production info p. 57

“There was a time when Annika had to choose between a career as Facts a oorball professional and a film Annika Rogell was born in 1981. fl Trained at ­Dramatiska Institutet in producer. Sport has made her Stockholm. A producer at Tangy fearless and insanely stubborn, and ­Story, she has previously and she’s also one of the least def- worked at Fasad, Memfis and erential people I know,” says Garagefilm. Selected filmography: director Sanna Lenken, who has The Black Power Mixtape 1967- been working with Annika Rog- 1975 (2011), Concerning Violence (2014), My Skinny Sister (2015). ell since they were students together at Stockholm’s Drama- My Skinny Sister is also among tiska Institutet (now Stockholm eight titles competing in Cannes My Skinny Sister Academy of Dramatic Arts). SCHULTHEI MORITZ Ecrans Juniors this year. The spe- The duo’s first featureMy Skin- cial section aims particularly at presenting films for a young audi- ny Sister (Min lilla syster) pre- ence between 13 and 15 years, and miered at this year’s Göteborg “I can’t work with the jury consists of students. The Film Festival and then went on to something just because most recent Swedish contributions win the prestigious Crystal Bear in this section are Babak Najafi’s award for Best Film in the Genera- it’s fun and cool” Sebbe in 2011 and Fredrik tion Kplus section at the Berlinale. Annika Rogell Edfeldt’s The Girl in 2010. In the film a talented 16-year- Concerning Violence STORY old figure skater is suffering from an eating disorder, something the documentary film company Annika Rogell was also one of Lenken and Rogell had already Story to produce her first feature- the principal producers for Göran explored in their award-winning length documentary, Göran Hugo Hugo Olsson’s most recent docu- 2013 short, Eating Lunch (Äta Olsson’s The Black Power Mix- mentary, Concerning Violence lunch). The choice of subject, a tape 1967-1975. The film, a study (2014), which also premiered at problem much debated in society, of the American black Civil Sundance. Currently she alternates is indicative of the way Annika Rights movement, became a between documentaries at Story Rogell selects her projects. major international success fol- and feature films at her own, newly “I can’t work with something lowing its premiere at the 2011 founded company Tangy. The just because it’s fun and cool, I Sundance festival. upcoming projects include a fea- have to feel a passionate involve- On working together with ture film developed in partnership ment with it. And naturally, the Rogell, Göran Hugo Olsson with the documentary filmmaker choice of director is extremely observes: David Aronowitsch, and a docu- important to ensure that the film “Annika has an amazing feel mentary directed by artist and has a visual distinctiveness,” says for film. One of my best profes- filmmaker Sara Jordenö. Annika Rogell. sional memories to date is of just “I’m also planning to produce As a new graduate from Dra- the two of us sitting in the cutting Sanna's [Lenken] next film. In the matiska Institutet’s film produc- room putting the finishing touch- future I’d like to make more fea- tion course, she was recruited by es to the film.” ture films.”●

17 18 La Dolce Vita Ingrid Bergman is the talk of the town in Cannes. Again. Marking her 100th birthday, director Stig Björkman paints a personal portrait of the Swedish Hollywood star.

t was in the late summer of ing cinema periodical Chaplin as 1968, in the Italian town of well as a director in his own right. ISorrento. Here, not far from “Grand affair, red carpets, one Naples, Gian Luigi Rondi, the of our princesses was there, even renowned film critic who would Ingmar Bergman was coming, later become president of the supposedly. He didn’t, eventually. Venice Biennale, was in charge of Ingrid Bergman was there, how- a film week dedicated to a single ever, as appointed honourable country each year. This year it chairperson. On the last day, we was Sweden, and attending were were all heading to an opera house Cannes Vilgot Sjöman, Bo Widerberg, in Naples for the grand finale, but Jan Troell, Mai Zetterling and when I got on the bus, all the seats others, including Stig Björkman, were taken. ‘You’ll have to go in the Text Jan Lumholdt

ALL OVER PRESS then the editor of Sweden’s lead- limousine with Ingrid Bergman.ʼ Production info p. 55

19 Björkman picks Bergman AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI SVENSK AB ALLOVERPRESS © ©

The Count Dr. Jekyll Europa ‘51 (1952, Roberto Rossellini) of the Old Town and Mr. Hyde The films she made with Rossellini (1941, Victor Fleming) (Munkbrogreven, 1935, Edvin were not well received at the time, Adolphson) Her fourth Hollywood film. She was not at all. Even Ingrid Bergman her- Her Swedish films aren’t really very supposed to play Jekyll’s fiancé. self was frustrated, both with the good. She tends to overact quite a Lana Turner was cast as the bargirl bad reception but also Rossellini’s bit, not least in her two films with who is caught in Hyde’s claws. She lack of directing. He would write Gösta Ekman, especially Intermezzo suggested to Victor Fleming that the script on the set and hand over (1936), where the two of them ham it she and Turner did a swap, which little pieces of paper. Later the up as if it were a competition. But in was met with great scepticism. “I’m French critics of the New Wave this one, her first speaking part, an actress, I can play different ­resurrected these films, and she’s there is a nice unaffected quality. parts”, she said. She got her switch very good in them. and could certainly play the part.

I sat next to the driver while she “I got a call. Isabella Rosselli- blanche to the Ingrid Bergman the reactions to her then-published sat in the back with some secre- ni, who headed the film festival Collection at the Wesleyan Uni- biography, My Story. There are tary or assistant. I never said any- jury that year, wanted to meet versity in Middletown, Connecti- report cards and compositions thing, I was a shy fellow at the Harriet. She arrived, she brought cut. By now, I’ve been there about from her school days, there are time. Such was my one encounter Guy Maddin and his wife, we sat six times. It’s quite remarkable. photos and films. She filmed with Ingrid Bergman.” at a big round table. I had Isabella She saved her parents’ correspon- throughout her life, first 8 mm, next to me and after a while and dence with each other, her own later 16. There’s even footage lash forward to Berlin in out of the blue she said “Should personal letters are there, she from her 1937 wedding with Pet- February 2011. The we make a film about Mamma?” started writing diaries at the age of ter Aron Lindström. Her father FDeutsche Kinematek hosted Before that evening, I’d not had nine or ten, they’re there. There Justus was a photographer and a grand Ingmar Bergman exhibi- any intention of doing a film on are diaries in Swedish that go up artist, and had a photography shop tion and a number of Bergman Ingrid Bergman. But I was imme- to 1945, there’s one in English in Stockholm. He filmed her on associates attended. Actresses Liv diately triggered.” from 1980, where she writes about occasion, I found footage of little Ullmann, Gunnel Lindblom and Meetings were arranged to dis- Ingrid at the ages of three, five and Harriet Andersson were present, cuss and develop. In Paris, Björk- “It’s very much told eight years old. Tremendously as was Björkman, who in print and man sat down with Rossellini and exciting. She would sometimes on film has followed the director her brother Roberto. In New York, through her, her bring a cine camera to the set. through the years. he touched base with the two oth- writings and the There are ninety minutes from the One evening, Stig Björkman er Bergman siblings Isotta Ingrid set of Joan of Arc in 1948. In all, and Harriet Andersson had just sat Rossellini and Pia Lindström. films she shot” there are some seven or eight down in a restaurant for dinner. “They all gave me carte Stig Björkman hours spanning all the years. And

20 Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten, 1978, Ingmar Bergman) Not an uncomplicated film to make, as you will see in the film. Two great and uncontested artistic temperaments met and some of the sparks that flew were significant. The finished result, the portrait of the concert pianist, is exceptionally moving. Extraordinary, very vulnerable. Some of her perfor- mances hold a perfection of style that can create a shell around the charac- ter. Here we see cracks in that shell. She managed this with Hitchcock and Rossellini as well. AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI SVENSK AB ©

Notorious! (1946, Alfred Hitchcock) A difficult part. She is the ­woman who is used as a pawn to catch some Nazis in South America. Cary Grant is the agent who is supposed to charm her and then throw her to the wolves. The tricky bit is that they fall in love. Her chemistry with Grant is wonderful. She gets to show a full register here. Very, very refined. She also has ALL OVER PRESS ALL OVER PRESS a great drunk scene.

she was good, none of that shaky, vides the voice of Ingrid Berg- film, his second work for Björk- unfocused stuff. Sometimes, she man, again quite appropriately. man after their collaboration on Stig Björkman would hand over the camera so we “Every time we need to quote the 2012 documentary Fanny, Born 1938. Swedish film critic also see quite a bit of her in per- something, from, say, a letter, it’s Alexander & I. and filmmaker. He was editor-in- chief of the Swedish film maga- son. Gradually, I came to use Alicia who is reading. A bit of a “Beautiful score. Quite nostal- zine Chaplin from 1964 to 1972 more and more of her private films new Ingrid, isn’t she? And she gic, this one.” and has authored books of inter- in the finished work.” speaks a really fine English. We’ve views with Ingmar Bergman, One can safely say that gradu- run into each other from time to jörkman has also conduct- Woody Allen, Lars von Trier, Gena ally, Ingrid Bergman herself time and she was really into doing ed conversations with all Rowlands, and Joyce Carol started taking over. the voiceover. She has completed of Bergman’s children. Oates. He has directed a number B of short films and documentaries “It’s very much told through some eight or nine English and “I like a form where I don’t nec- and seven feature films, including her, her writings and the films she American films in a row. We’ve essarily ask the questions, rather, I Georgia, Georgia (1972), The shot. Either that or footage from fought against her schedule – she like to gather some people and White Wall (Den vita väggen, newsreels, television, etc. It’s a has sometimes ended one shoot on take it from there. First, I shot at 1975) and Behind the Shutters rather personal account. The title, a Friday and started the next one Isabella’s place on Long Island, (Bakom jalusin, 1984). His debut Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own on the Monday – more or less for where she, her twin sister Ingrid feature I Love, You Love (Jag äls- kar, du älskar, 1968) was one of Words, is indeed appropriate. In two years now. We got a Saturday and Roberto sit and talk – all the the last films to screen at the Swedish, I call it Jag är Ingrid in London and Sunday in Copen- Rossellini children at once. I have 1968 Cannes festival, just before – “I am Ingrid”. All in keeping hagen. It has worked out well in also shot them separately in order it was called off in solidarity with with this unique material.” the end, really well.” to get the more individual takes. the ongoing national protests. Actress Alicia Vikander pro- Michael Nyman has scored the Ingrid in Rome, Roberto in Paris

21 and in Sweden, in the west coast Gielgud’s direction of W. Somer- the assessment of “the natural archipelago outside of Göteborg, set Maugham’s The Constant actress”. where Ingrid and her last husband Wife. First, it was supposed to be “She refused to let Hollywood Lars Schmidt had a summerhouse, just Sigourney and Isabella. Then, pluck her eyebrows, bleach her and Pia Lindström in New York.” Liv was in town and when she hair or change her name. All heard, she insisted on joining us.” through her life, she maintained a ot many, but a few of “I feel that this style of docu- very strong will. A brave woman, Bergman’s famous and mentary is different from many of very modern. The fact that she Nnot so famous actor col- the others out there. There may be found herself without a family at leagues also took part, namely Liv those who will be bemused at the tender age of fourteen must Ullmann and Sigourney Weaver. times, but with Ingrid as our guide, “I like a form where have created a driving force. It’s “We rented the Schubert The- I think it will be quite exciting.” easy to see why she never settled atre on Broadway, where Sigour- Björkman, who in the process I don’t necessarily for playing the sweet girlfriend of ney had her first job, as Ingrid watched and re-watched most of ask the questions” the hero, always preferring to play ●

Bergman’s understudy in John Ingrid Bergman’s films, is fond of Stig Björkman the heroine herself.” BJÖRKMAN) (STIG SJÖSWÄRD SANNA PHOTO:

Ingrid Ingmar

NICENESS NICENESS FACTOR FACTOR ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ingrid always knew the names of Ingmar is always referred to as a everyone on set, always came on “demon director”, which pretty much says it all. He was also privately at

time and according to most FILMINDUSTRI SVENSK AB people was the nicest © times quite tricky, for example person they had ever refusing to let actor Erland met. Josephson into his house at Bergman Fårö island. LOVE LIFE GOSSIP LOVE LIFE GOSSIP FACTOR FACTOR ★ ★ Ingrid was married three times and vs Bergman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ had four children (one with first Sweden’s biggest film personalities share the Ingmar was married five times, had husband Petter Lindström and three nine children (one with a married with second husband Roberto same last name, but the Hollywood star and the woman) and pretty much hooked up Rossellini) . She also had a brief demon director were not related. They did with all his female protagonists, but intensive relationship with however make a movie together, Autumn Sonata including Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. renowned photographer (Höstsonaten, 1978), which was to be Ingrid’s SCANDAL Robert Capa. FACTOR last feature made for the cinema. Text Andrea Reuter ★ ★ ★ SCANDAL In 1976 Ingmar was apprehended by FACTOR the police in the middle of rehersals at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm for ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ACADEMY AWARDS alleged tax evasion, which created Ingrid left a brilliant career in Hollywood RECOGNITION enormous attention internationally. He to make the movie Stromboli (1950) with ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ was cleared of all charges in court, but Italian director Roberto Rossellini, got Ingrid was nominated for seven felt so violated that he left the pregnant by him while they were both still Oscars and won three of them, country for Munich were he married and stayed in Italy, thus leaving including Best Actress for Gaslight stayed for five years. her husband and 12-year-old daughter (1944) as well as Anastasia (1956). ACADEMY AWARDS behind in the US. This sparked a She was, however, not nominated RECOGNITION moral outrage that saw her for her memorable role in MEMORABLE banned from Hollywood for QUOTE Casablanca (1942). ★ ★ ★ almost a decade. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ingmar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, but won none of MEMORABLE ”I hope I never them. However, he did receive the QUOTE honorary Irving G. Thalberg get so old I get Memorial Award in 1971, which ★ ★ ★ religious.” was picked up by actress Liv ”Happiness is being Ullmann. healthy and having a bad memory.” And the winner is: 20 Ingrid Bergman, for managing to be 18 remembered as a nice person while living a scandalous love life!

22 THE GARBAGE HELICOPTER JIMMY SUNDIN (DIRECTOR AND STILL) AND (DIRECTOR SUNDIN JIMMY

Having previously explored the translation, words and lines Sami, this time round he brings are added or altered, changing Romani us a road movie in Romani. the meaning in part.” Somewhere in northern Sweden, How did you find the actors for road movie three Roma youths jump into a the film, all of them Roma car to deliver an eagerly awaited ­amateurs? Award-winning maker of clock to their grandmother who “It was an extensive casting short films Jonas Selberg lives more than 1,000 kilometres process. We proceeded with care Augustsén makes his to the south. and sensitivity, given that we feature debut with The The director himself describes encountered a certain hesitation Garbage Helicopter, yet the film as a comedy drama with and reluctance from the Roma another film in a minority a serious undertone. “Examining themselves (‘how are you going Swedish language. “The main theme, which I can to present us?’). They were wary identify with, is one of alienation minorities it’s easy of all the usual negative clichés.” in welfare Sweden, where the sit- to highlight the exotic, Even more than films by Emir uation of the Roma people is Kusturica or Tony Gatlif, The clearly becoming more margin- but I’d rather focus Garbage Helicopter elicits com- alised and segregated. When on the similarities” parisons with Aki Kaurismäki examining minorities it’s easy to Jonas Selberg Augustsén and Jim Jarmusch, not least in its highlight the exotic (‘look how dry humour, stylishly presented different we are’), but I’d rather Autumn Man (Höstmannen, 2010). in black and white tableaus. focus on the similarities,” says In 2012, his pitch for The Gar- “I can’t hide the fact that Jar- Selberg Augustsén. bage Helicopter won him the musch and Kaurismäki are my The title The Garbage Heli- €30,000 Audience Award, voted main role models in the cinema, copter is taken from celebrated on by 120 decision makers at the and maybe to a lesser extent Swedish poet, Gunnar Ekelöf, Torino Film Festival. And his Yasujirō Ozu, who I discovered a one of the first to write about the producer, Bob Film’s Andreas few years ago when I was start- downside of the Swedish model. Emanuelsson, picked up the ing to feel that films nowadays “With a poet’s capacity for Post-Production Award. are becoming increasingly com- anticipating the future, he gently What is it about minorities in plex in their narrative tech- pointed out that things can easily film that interests you? niques, working backwards or in become rather bleak.” “It started out on an aesthetic fragments. Ozu’s stories appear Selberg Augustsén is level: I wanted to work with lan- so amazingly simple, but they’re Text Jon Asp renowned for his own poetic guage in an abstract way. For me like icebergs: there’s so much Production info p. 53 imagery in works such as the it’s certainly a learning process. under the surface. I strive for that 30-minute, award-winning Something always happens in same simplicity.” ●

23 GIRLS LOST Gender trouble

Working on Girls Lost, director Alexandra-Therese Keining was ­inspired by Judith Butler’s theories of gender and Sally Potter’s film Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. The upshot is an Text Alexandra Sundqvist ­atmospheric depiction of three teenage girls’ transformation into boys, Photo Karin Alfredsson magically set against the darkness of the night. Production info p. 53

Girls Lost (Pojkarna) is a film seduced by this new identity. adaptation of Jessica Schiefauer’s Unlike Momo, who has an emo- 2011 award-winning novel for tional outlet in her creativity, or young readers. Bella, who finds peace among her The book centres on the plants, Kim doesn’t have the same friendship between three safety valves. Momo and Bella 14-year-old girls, Kim (Tuva Jag- vent out their sorrows and disap- ell), Momo (Lolo Nyvall) and pointments in creating things, Bella (Wilma Holmén), who whereas Kim just lies in the bath draw strength from each other in staring at the ceiling. She doesn’t the hostile corridors of their have the same safety net to fall school in an average Swedish back into,” says Keining. town. It’s an environment that To begin with Kim is attracted bristles with taunts and sexual by the ease of this new world, but harassment. FILM GÖTA when she gets involved with the “Reading the book touched petty criminal Tony (Mandus something in my heart. I was fas- “As a director it’s my job to create a bubble Berg), things start to get more cinated by the girls’ strength and for my actors, one in which they can live their complicated. sisterhood. There’s a complexity Girls Lost is imbued with a and an existential level to the sto- way into an illusion” multi-layered perspective on sex ry,” says director and screenwrit- Alexandra-Therese Keining and gender. Whereas Momo is er Alexandra-Therese Keining, attracted to Kim in both her guis- whose previous films include interface where the girls are no helped to build and plant it,” the es, Kim is attracted by Tony. With Every Heartbeat (Kyss mig, longer children but not yet adults. director explains. It’s queer without making a 2011) and Hot Dog (2002). That search for identity permeates “As a director it’s my job to point of being so. In Girls Lost the three friends the entire film,” says Alexandra- create a bubble for my actors, one “I’ve been inspired by Judith find somewhere to escape in Bel- Therese Keining. in which they can live their way Butler’s theory of gender as a la’s greenhouse, a place unique in Filmed in 2014, Girls Lost was into an illusion.” social construction. The notion itself. It’s here the girls plant the mostly shot at night using exten- When Kim, Momo and Bella that gender doesn’t exist from the seed of an unusual flower with sive props, special effects and are changed into boys (then outset but is something that can the scent of vanilla and nectar elaborate scenes of transforma- played by Emrik Öhlander, Alex- change and which emerges and is that transforms them into boys. tion. Even the greenhouse was ander Gustavsson and Vilgot negotiated over time. I’ve also “The greenhouse becomes a built from scratch. Ostwald Vesterlund), they expe- been influenced by Sally Potter’s safe haven where Kim, Momo and “The story would have fallen rience a rush of freedom. Nobody film version of Virginia Woolf’s Bella can gather their strength and flat if we hadn’t taken the trouble recognises them. Orlando (1992), in which the shield themselves from the world to create this special world. I “It allows them to test out a main character starts out as a outside. There’s also a symbolism knew, for example, that I didn’t new identity, to invent themselves man and ends up as a woman. in their curiosity about the flower. want a studio greenhouse. We anew. They think it’s fantastic not Girls Lost shares the same essen- It represents a shared awakening, built a real one instead, with real to be objectified any longer. Kim, tial core as Woolf’s novel: a an exploration of sexuality and plants in it for an environment who feels least at home in her own desire for genuine freedom,” says identity that takes place at the that suits the film. The girls body, is the one who’s most Alexandra-Therese Keining. ●

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25 26 THE HERE AFTER

think it’s a defence mechanism, and such things are closer to us than we’d like to admit. So it’s a kind of self-provocation to try to identify with something that I have a resistance to. And hopeful- ly it will be of interest to other Crime and people, too.”

n the film, the defence mecha- nisms start to kick in when IJohn enrols back in his former high school. What’s remarkable, and unusual in a Swedish film, is punishment that no moral judgments or sym- pathies are ascribed to any of the characters. “He’s done his time” – just what does that really mean? “It’s important that the main character isn’t a victim of artifi- In Magnus von Horn’s debut film The Here After, cial sympathy. It has to be coldly objective. And I can understand 17-year-old John tries to get back into society after the other characters too. If one teenager murders another there’s serving his sentence for a horrific crime. a sense of guilt throughout a com- munity: in the school and among those who work in various ways to counter violence and depres- verything will be fine”. sion. People feel troubled by Seldom have words of John’s presence: that’s the reason “Ecomfort sounded more like for the assault,” he explains in the opposite than when they’re respect of one of the films most spoken in the introduction to harrowing scenes. Magnus von Horn’s feature debut I put it to von Horn that it feels

The Here After (Efterskalv). LUKASZ ZAL as if the film leads us by the hand 17-year-old John has just been until it can go no further. Every released from the prison where he “I wanted to get up time you look for a way out has served two years for the mur- close and personal there’s another cul-de-sac: you der of his girlfriend. He gets a hug can understand the characters, and hears the above words of con- with a murderer” but none of them is beyond solation just before his father Magnus von Horn reproach. drives him home to their family “At one of the script reviews farm in a small village in the west ed writing the screenplay two someone said to me: ‘you’re of Sweden. At first things seem as years ago, having completed his cheating, you don’t go far blank as John’s expression, but we studies at the Polish National Film enough.’ That stuck in my mind. soon discover just how little will School in Lodz. He thought it was It became very important for me actually turn out fine. rather odd that so little is said to probe further. So every time I “I wanted to get up close and about the aftermath of juvenile wanted to edit or to round some-

Cannes personal with a murderer, to be crime. After all, people do get thing off, I pushed on instead.” forced to relate and delve into released back into society. The cool objectivity of the film something I couldn’t understand,” “It’s easy to shun such awful also stems from its long takes, Text Hynek Pallas is how von Horn explains the things. To call the perpetrators which help to create distance. In Photo Emelie Asplund motivation behind his film. ‘evil’ or ‘inhuman’. To say ‘I one central scene the action is Production info p. 54 The 31-year-old director start- could never do such a thing’. I filmed from inside a car, recording

27 “And if there’s one thing a film can do really well, it’s to probe between the lines, to let the gut feelings in organically rather than intellectually”

the events without emotion. The n The Here After those gut as a backdrop – often the case in “It takes a references to Michael Haneke and feelings are also the result of Swedish film – it’s something European co- Ruben Östlund are obvious, but Iall the things going on off- palpable. John’s family are tied production to could there be a nod to Bruno camera, despite all the beautiful to the soil in an organic way. Dumont in there too…? shots. This was something that “That’s actually Danish,” says make an art film” “Yes,” von Horn eagerly con- von Horn and his cinematogra- a laughing von Horn. “I’ve been Zentropa Sweden’s Madeleine firms at the mention of the French pher Lukasz Zal – recently behind working on their idea of natural Ekman, one of two producers of director, positively energising the the camera for the highly storytelling. A story has its own The Here After, together with telephone line from Warsaw acclaimed filmIda (2013) – had pace. I don’t like it when the dra- Lava Film's Mariusz Wlodarski, spoke about the production: where he has lived for almost a discussed in depth. ma is rushed to stop us from get- “To raise a child takes a whole decade. “Dumont is a major inspi- “We didn’t want to feel obliged ting bored. I believe more in village: to make an art film takes ration. Copy with shame, steal to show everything, the audience something more tangential and a European co-production. with pride, as they say.” have the imagination to fill in less overly explicit. It’s an Since Magnus went to film At film school von Horn wrote what’s missing. We maintained a approach that turns ‘a murderer school in Poland, it was natural his final dissertation about distance and selected shots care- comes home to his family’ into a for him to start there. To finance the film we placed the shoot in Dumont’s 1997 debut The Life of fully to heighten the effect when pressure cooker. That’s why I Sweden with a Swedish cast and Jesus, a film which, likeThe we actually do move in closer. But built up the early stages with a mixed Swedish-Polish crew, Here After, centres on young neither did we want to go over- the ‘nothing’s happening’ post-production in Poland and people in the country riding board on the aesthetics, it’s sup- approach, they just come home sound in France. This is a com- motorbikes. posed to look a bit messy at and work on the land. It’s an mon model nowadays, one that’s But that’s not the only element times.” virtually essential for a creative important part of their everyday work of quality.” of Dumont’s work he has lifted. With its blend of Swedish, life, it’s what they’ve done for “His characters really got to Polish and French financial back- generations.” me. They can’t articulate. They ing, The Here After feels like an have deep feelings but can only amalgam of styles and subject nother unusual aspect – look on. And if there’s one thing a matter from the cinema of all not least given the on- film can do really well, it’s to three countries. Clearly present Agoing debate in Sweden probe between the lines, to let the is a Polish penchant for psycho- about the representation of wom- gut feelings in organically rather logical drama, but instead of en in films – is that John’s family than intellectually.” treating agriculture and rural life is entirely comprised of males: lit-

28 “We didn’t want to feel obliged to show ­ everything, the audience have the imagination to fill in what’s missing”

tle brother, father and a grumpy n uncomfortable scene ular television singing competi- struck by his face, handsome and grandfather. We look in vain for a like that probably won’t tion. For the past few years he’s interesting. mother. Abe the only thing to make been cultivating a ‘nice boy’ “I had no idea who he was, so “It was a British script doctor audiences flinch – not in Sweden image, not exactly that of a jeal- we googled him. I wasn’t too sure who pointed out that a group of at least. The film’s main charac- ous murderer. It’s as if Michael at first, but we did a screen test men together always spells trou- ter is played by teenage idol Ulrik Haneke had cast someone like with him which was really good. ble. It’s true, just look at soldiers Munther, who made his break- One Direction’s Niall Horan in Ulrik isn’t a trained actor, but the and gangs,” says von Horn. through at the age of 15 in a pop- Benny’s Video (1992). best thing about him is that he’s “Above all, the lack of females “There’s something fascinat- totally prepared to put himself on underlines their unhealthy atti- ing about placing someone in an the line. And he has a highly tudes towards women.” unexpected situation. I’d be lying developed emotional intelli- von Horn links this to a dis- if I said I wasn’t pleased with the gence.” turbing scene in which the grand- result. But it wasn’t something Munther plays his part bril- father shoots an injured dog when we’d planned when we were cast- liantly. He’s alarmingly with- his youngest grandchild wants ing the film. We were looking for drawn and, according to von him to call the vet. kids who were amateurs and Horn’s instructions, “a person “It may be an over-analysis, came from a certain rural back- who has frozen his own heart.” but for me the murder is some- ground, with pickup trucks and But did he have any doubts thing that goes far back into pre- the like. But our original lead was about playing such a role? vious generations and is now so authentic that he turned the “Absolutely not! Both he and Magnus von Horn’s feature debut crystallised in one person. It’s a part down because he didn’t want his managers were delighted. The Here After will screen as part thought one’s almost ashamed to of Directors’ Fortnight at the to miss the Swedish elk hunting They’d been approached about express, and it stands in contrast Cannes Film Festival. The Göte- season!” Disney-like parts, something to the reaction of the surrounding borg born director’s previous work Forced to postpone the shoot, they really didn’t want to do. community: from the grandfa- includes the award-winning short von Horn and his Polish producer They wanted a change for ther’s perspective it might not be film Without Snow (Utan snö, 2011). were sitting in a hotel room in Ulrik’s image. The darker the The Here After is a co-production better.” so very strange to kill a girl. between Poland, Sweden and Trollhättan, the centre of the Worse things have happened long France, with camerawork by the Swedish film industry, when “They certainly got what they ago in his life. People die, dogs Academy Award nominated cine- Munther suddenly appeared on bargained for, didn’t they?” says die. You move on.” matographer of Ida, Lukasz Zal. their TV screen. They were both von Horn and laughs. ● PHOTO: LUKASZ ZAL(ALL STILLS) EMELIE ASPLUND(DIRECTOR)

29 30 WHITE PEOPLE Power play

In her much-feted and individualistic debut She Monkeys (2011), director Lisa Aschan explored a power struggle between two teenage Text Alexandra Sundqvist girls passionately involved in voltige. In her new filmWhite People she Photo Ida Knudsen continues to examine hierarchies, this time behind closed doors. Production info p. 59

Lisa Aschan describes White People (Det vita folket) as a “hor- ror drama in an isolated world” inspired by The Shining (1980). The film is set in a locked, under- ground unit with no windows and no horizon on which to fix one’s gaze, other than the stone walls where two colours meet in a line. A sort of “make-believe” horizon designed to help people to main- tain their sanity. An illegal alien, Alex (Vera Vitali) is brought here pending deportation. The unit is presided over by security chief Viktoria

(Pernilla August) who, like the WASSBERG LINDA character Omar in the television series The Wire, defies the pow- ers that be and makes up her own the morning the police call to say position of power? That’s when I rules. they’re coming in with someone decided to make this film.” “In White People I’ve wanted new they’ve taken into custody. Following that confrontation to observe people who feel The door of the entrance room Lisa Aschan continued her uncomfortable with holding pow- opens and two plain-clothes research at the detention centre, a er. What happens when someone police officers come in with a process that continued for 18 who has power apologises for man in his 30's. He’s tall and months. exercising it? And what methods trembling from head to toe. The “My experiences there form do people use to camouflage their policemen tell him to sit down on the basis of the screenplay. positions of power? It’s some- the chair opposite me, then they Almost all the lines and situa- “I felt that I had to thing that has resulted in a num- leave. The man looks me straight tions are faithfully reproduced make a stand. Who ber of highly absurd scenes in the in the eye and says in fluent from situations I actually wit- film,” says director Lisa Aschan, Swedish: ‘Why are you locking nessed. You could say I’ve been do I want to be? who also wrote the screenplay. me up? What have I done?’ I sit in involved in method directing,” What do I want to do The idea for White People silence. He keeps on staring at says Aschan. with my position of came to her when she was doing me. 'Just answer me. What have I “When I started writing I some research at the Swedish done? Why am I here?” pared away all the ʻfactualʼ power? That’s when Migration Agency’s detention “At that moment I realised that details. I wanted to free myself I decided to make centre. This is where people are I’m not neutral. That I’m part of from a documentary approach, to locked away awaiting deporta- this system. I felt that I had to create my own world. My aim has this film” tion. make a stand. Who do I want to been to make a film that’s both Lisa Aschan “I was there at night. At 3.30 in be? What do I want to do with my visually stylish and exciting.” ●

31 32 THE SWEDISH THEORY OF LOVE Alone together

In Videocracy, Erik Gandini dissected Italian media Text Per Nyström culture. In his latest film,The Swedish Theory of Love, Photo Johan Bergmark he turns his gaze on his second homeland, Sweden. Production info p. 58

In the early 1970’s, social democ- racy in Sweden enjoyed some- thing of a golden age. The Swedish welfare model was stronger than ever and numer- ous social reforms were intro- duced. Partly inspired by the ideas behind the unrest of ’68, there was a desire in the political landscape to make people independent from one another, to turn us into auto- nomous individuals independent of rich friends or a rich family. In 1972 a group of Social FASAD (ALL STILLS) Democrat politicians produced a manifesto, “The Family of the ”It has nothing to do with wanting to go back in time, Future”, in which they spelled out point-by-point the means towards but I draw great inspiration from questioning­ what’s most obvious, securing a vision in which no questioning what’s very specifically Swedish” adult Swedes would be dependent Erik Gandini on their relatives. “This might sound like a ly acclaimed Videocracy (2009) he great inspiration from questioning “Internationally people think detail, but it was the starting took the temperature of his other what’s most obvious, questioning of Sweden as a collectivistic point for a kind of liberation pro- homeland, Italy, focusing on the what’s very specifically Swedish.” country. Even this project was cess. The entire western world unabashed love affair between the The film includes footage of collectivistic from the outset. was influenced by thoughts like media and those in power during investigators who are working to But the end result was very indi- these in the seventies, but Swe- the Berlusconi years. sort out the legal and financial vidualistic,” Erik Gandini den is unique in that it took the In his new film it’s the Swedish affairs of people who have often explains. project further than all other ideal that comes under the micro- lain dead in their apartments for As in many of his previous countries,” says director Erik scope. In Sweden, almost 50 per several months. It becomes pain- films, inThe Swedish Theory of Gandini. His new documentary cent of all households are single- fully evident that thousands, per- Love Gandini has chosen to work The Swedish Theory of Love occupancy, and the average age haps hundreds of thousands, of together with the editor Johan presents us with a critical exami- for children to leave home is sig- Swedes live in total isolation. Söderberg, something that nation of the way these thoughts nificantly lower than the world Another story in the film con- becomes evident in the highly of independence have shaped average, two signs of just how cerns a Danish-Swedish doctor rhythmic, almost musical editing Swedish society. valued independence from other who has decided to move from quality of the film. Having grown up both in Italy people actually is. Sweden to Ethiopia. Material “We like to question things and Sweden, Gandini says that he “Compared with Videocracy hardship is great there, but as the around us but we strive to make has always been interested in the this is a far more ambiguous sub- doctor points out, there is a the film musical at the same time, dysfunctional aspects of any coun- ject. It has nothing to do with want- wealth of spirituality which is to enter a world where you see try or culture. In his international- ing to go back in time, but I draw infinitely greater. things in a new way.” ●

33 HEAVEN ON EARTH GF STUDIOS AB(STILLS AND DIRECTOR)

A phenomenal success in coun- assistant director. Once again tries all over the world, not least there’s a strong focus on the choir, Celestial Germany and Australia, Kay Pol- but also on the village “musi- lak’s 2004 film was one of the cians” who are forced to drag most successful in Swedish cin- whatever instruments they pos- heights ema history. sess from their wardrobes, attics Ten years on from his Here conductor Daniel Daréus and cellars. Oscar-nominated As It Is in (Michael Nyqvist) dies, leaving Kay Pollak cites Milos Forman Heaven, Kay Pollak is back behind the choir and soprano and James Cameron as his major with a stand-alone Lena, the love of his life who’s sources of inspiration. ­followup, Heaven on Earth. expecting his child. In Heaven on “I like to build a rollercoaster: Earth Frida Hallgren returns as you buy your ticket and when you “I like to build a Lena, this time in the leading get off, you should want to get rollercoaster: you role, taking on the task of revital- straight back on again. The most ising the church in the tiny vil- fun of all is on the shoot, when buy your ticket and lage. you stand there every morning when you get off, But not everyone approves of with the actors and crew ready to Lena’s methods, including the make something fantastic, a liv- you should want pastor (played once again by Nik- ing scene with genuine emo- to get straight back las Falk), who also undergoes a tions.” on again” total life change: “He goes from Ten years on from As It Is in zero to 100, ending up as a man Heaven, Kay Pollak is still get- Kay Pollak living life to the full,” says Kay ting mail from people all around Pollak. the world who’ve been moved by “We have a right to be just as Among the new faces in the the film. cocky as Roy (Andersson) and film, the director singles out for Heaven On Earth has already Ruben (Östlund). Naturally we’d praise the “totally authentic” been sold to Australia and New love to take our revenge at the Norwegian rising star Jacob Zealand, the German-speaking Oscar’s ceremony…” Oftebro (Kon-Tiki, 2012, and TV countries of Europe and to Bene- The film goes on general Text Jon Asp series 1864). And this time round, lux. Anders Birkeland, one of the release in Sweden on September Production info p. 54 Pollak has collaborated with his film’s producers, has high hopes 4 and in Norway the following wife Carin as his co-writer and for the film: week. ●

34 THIEVES’ HONOUR

His actors refer to Stefan Jarl’s by Malin Levanon (familiar from 1979 classic A Decent Life (Ett Beata Gårdeler’s Berlinale- Honour anständigt liv) when describing awarded Flocking) and Lo Kaup- what’s unique about Peter Grön- pi. But the cast also comprises a among lund’s debut feature Thieves’ large number of amateur actors. Honour (working title). The “We had two criteria for cast- director himself is somewhat ing: firstly we were looking for thieves more modest, but affirms that people with the right type of cha- Addiction, homelessness Jarl, universally regarded as an risma and experience, and sec- and social exclusion institution in Swedish documen- ondly for untested actors with a are the focus of debutant tary filmmaking, is one of his certain natural and raw pres- Peter Grönlund’s drama heroes. “We live in an age of ence.” thriller. Produced by Frida Bargo and individualism and Grönlund’s first question dur- Mattias Nohrborg for B-Reel, ing casting was: “What does hon- Thieves’ Honour is a powerful, egotism, something our among thieves mean to you?” dense and intensive drama thrill- that’s reflected in So what does it mean to the direc- er, a chronicle of people on the the film” tor himself? fringes of society who live from “Some people think things day to day in a struggle for sur- Peter Grönlund were better in the old days, that vival, constantly surrounded by not stealing from your friends addiction and criminality. But ed, how the poison seeps down was a given, rather like not harm- while exclusion can create a and destroys lives,” says Peter ing children or the elderly. Maybe strong feeling of community, Grönlund. that’s true. We live in an age of there’s a great risk of suddenly Having spent many years work- individualism and egotism, finding oneself absolutely alone. ing with addicts and homeless something that’s reflected in the “I want to highlight both the people in Stockholm, the director film. But my own belief is that as individual and the group, loneli- himself has extensive experience long as you’re not hungry it’s easy Text Camilla Larsson ness and togetherness. What hap- of the world he’s portraying. to take a rosy view – but as soon Production info p. 58 pens when someone doesn’t play At the heart of the film are two as you get desperate then there’s by the rules and ends up exclud- women, Minna and Katja, played no honour left.” ● B-REEL (DIRECTOR), NADJA HALLSTRÖM (STILL) HALLSTRÖM NADJA (DIRECTOR), B-REEL

35 Falling down

Text Niklas Wahllöf A struggling poet hits rock bottom in Photo Johan Bergmark Måns Månsson’s film adaptation ofThe Yard. Production info p. 60

The struggling poet and literary fortable, and interesting, about critic Kristian Lundberg, author this story is what happens to of The Yard, suddenly finds him- someone who feels they are doing self unemployed. In an attempt to the right thing, standing up for maintain his position in lower the weak, a frail poet who regards middle class society as the sole himself as the finest person in the provider for a teenage son, he world who finds himself in a takes a job in Malmö’s transship- destructive environment and ment port for new cars: the Yard. realises that maybe he isn’t such a Here he’s no longer a name: he’s fantastic person after all. When just his five-digit employment you’re faced with an ultimatum number. As the only native you can uncover unpleasant sides Swede apart from the manage- of yourself, sides that don’t care ment, his workmates view him very much at all for anyone other with suspicion and wonder if he’s FREDRIK WENZEL than yourself and your chil- been sent out from the office as a dren… The fact that a place of spy. It’s a cold, unfriendly place you adapt a book it’s usually in the port, those without any work can break you down so filled with iron discipline and because there’s a strong story that documentation even, the people much that you discover that informing on colleagues, a place can carry over into a film, but in whose situation won’t ever you’re not who you thought you where every minute of turning up this case the opposite was true. improve,” says Måns Månsson. were. That’s roughly where the late is punished and any damage All there was, in effect, was the “But for me this is about tak- essence of the story lies for me. caused is docked from wages. A place itself. That was my chal- ing a more complex view and And that’s where I’ve tried to desolate place where solidarity lenge: to make it into a character- using the place itself as a mirror steer the film,” says Måns Måns- between the workers has been driven story.” of our present-day society. How son. ● eradicated. And a reverse class Things go from bad to worse do we deal with issues like inte- journey for the poet, not just for the poet, the downward spiral gration, how do prevailing politi- financially. spinning ever faster. His son is cal views measure up?” “What drew me in most of all troubled and scornful, the job has Måns Månsson is keen to point Måns Månsson was the paradox of the place its problems, and when he takes out, however, that he hasn’t want- Born 1982 in Stockholm. Director, itself,” director Måns Månsson the blame for something others ed to make a political film in the screenwriter, cinematographer and explains. “This mixture of a pris- have done at the Yard, he gets classic sense. He wasn’t primar- editor trained at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Måns Månsson’s on or a kind of labour camp fired. At his lowest ebb, having ily interested in a story that breakthrough came with the docu- which, absurdly enough, is a fac- sold all he can and lost every- describes social structures, how mentaries Kinchen (2005, about a tory for freedom: a place for the thing else to the bailiffs, he takes the safety net is being taken away sports commentator) and Mr Gover- distribution of the ultimate sym- the chance to get his job back – and how class differences are nor (H:r Landshövding, 2008, about bol of freedom – shiny new but at a very high moral price. growing: all those things play a a Swedish politician). Both films are cars… “I’ve thought about what value somewhat minor role in the film. made in the cinéma-vérité style of observation without comments, and I was drawn by the fact that it there is in portraying a white To a greater extent he has focused without any arranged interviews. felt virtually impossible to film, middle-aged Swedish artist in the on what drives the choices that an Månsson's latest feature Stranded even in the book there’s not midst of all this, instead of focus- individual makes. in Canton (2014) was screened at exactly a classic narrative. When sing on the immigrants working “For me, what’s really uncom- the Tribeca Festival in April.

36 “When you’re faced with an ultimatum you can uncover unpleasant sides of yourself ” Måns Månsson

37 FLOCKING Herd mentality

In Flocking, director Beata Gårdeler examines Text Niklas Eriksson how class, fear and social loyalties can eat their Photo Johan Bergmark way into an investigation of an alleged rape. Production info p. 52

Flocking (Flocken) is set in and achieved by filming at night around a typical Swedish school although it’s actually light – in a rural area. Jennifer and Alex- which adds to the feeling of being ander, two of the pupils, give in an emotional vacuum. Com- completely different accounts as munication is in distinctly short to whether what happened on a supply, or conversation at least. particular afternoon was consen- People hum and ha, talk past each sual or something completely dif- other or in clichés. At times, ferent. The film raises many ques- words are almost like a tions. Who do people believe in soundtrack or an incantation. such a situation? What factors are People do talk to each other, but involved – clothes, gender, class? it’s not clear whether they speak a Cases like this do the rounds in single sentence in which one per- the media all the time. Flocking son really gets through to another. is inspired by real cases, but as NILSSON THORD “I think it’s evident from director Beata Gårdeler herself Flocking that there’s a divide points out, “it’s not a debate film.” “It’s very tedious that between parents and children. “Of course it’s interesting if it ­A m e r i c a n fi l m s People don’t know how to com- sparks a debate abut these issues, municate. It’s true both between but that was never my aim. Like continue to maintain­ Jennifer and Alexander and the all art it’s subjective, and I hope that there are good different generations. Nobody that different people will take the really speaks. I think it’s some- film in different ways. As I see it, people or evil people” thing to do with the mass of com- the film is more an exploration of Beata Gårdeler JÅMA DAN munication we get from different the mechanisms of society than a channels: everything’s so suc- study of someone who claims to grants. But the most common take away the preconceptions and cinct that when it comes to actual have been raped. I want to take rapist is a first-time offender prejudices that I myself have.” speaking we don’t know what to account of the people in the sur- who’s quite… ordinary really.” How do you do that? say.” ● roundings.” So do you think that makes the “When I start working on One of those people is the mother’s reaction quite typical? characters my starting point is pragmatic mother. In Beata “Yes, I do. A common reaction that I really want to like them. If Awarded in Berlin Gårdeler’s view, she’s easy to when someone has been convict- this were my brother or my moth- Beata Gårdeler was born in 1973 identify with, because surely her ed is: ‘My god, should he be er, how would I regard them? I near the northern Swedish town of son (‘such a nice boy’) can’t pos- locked away with all those mon- think it’s very tedious that Amer- Sundsvall. Flocking, winner of the sibly be a rapist? sters?’ That’s part of what I want- ican films continue to maintain Crystal Bear at Berlinale, is her “When we did our research ed to show. There aren’t any psy- that there are good people or evil second feature, following on from for the film we saw a huge divide chologically straightforward people. That may work in a fairy her drama about addiction In Your Veins (I skuggan av värmen, 2009). between reality and what’s said in explanations for such a person. tale, but it says very little about In 2014 her short filmSolitude the media. The media likes to People always create stereotypes the world we actually live in.” (Vännerna) won the Swedish Film promote an image of rapists as of other people, so my psycholog- Flocking has a visually distinc- Institute and pubcaster SVT’s dirty old men or gangs of immi- ical job when I make a film is to tive tone – something that’s partly Novella Film Award.

38 39 THE HOTEL The hotel collector Hotels are the stuff of dreams. In his poetic documentary The Hotel, author and director Kristian Petri revisits some of his favourite haunts.

Text Niklas Wahllöf Production info p. 54 B-REEL(STILLS AND DIRECTOR)

Close your eyes and think of a staff. The notion gradually came Björn Andrésen wanders hotel. What do you see? Some- to me that this could be a sort of through this now empty pile and where to sleep, to escape, a cha- continuation of my travelogues tells how, at the age of 15, he was teau, paradise, hell, a dream, The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and thrown into the world of film and nightmare, luxury, romance? Dif- Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000), but on celebrity hysteria, inexperienced ferent hotels, of course, mean dif- a more personal and existential and unprepared as he was to be ferent things to different people, level,” Petri explains. declared “the world’s most beau- but for everyone they represent a The upshot was The Hotel: tiful boy”. The hotel was also temporary home away from home. just like Petri’s previous films, used as Shepheard’s Hotel in For filmmaker and author Kris- it’s essentially an essay with Cairo in the filmThe English tian Petri hotels have perhaps had poetic undertones. He doesn’t Patient (1996) before it was a greater significance than for oth- merely present us with hotels one “I’ve realised that closed in 2010 to be turned into ers. He collects them. As a sort of after the other, but rather with I’m constantly luxury apartments, a project that alternative travel journal, he has places to find or to lose ourselves remains uncompleted. photographed every hotel bed he’s in, somewhere our dreams can be ­collecting the pieces Is this a verse from the swan- ever slept in over the past 30 fulfilled. Or places where a tem- of a puzzle” song of these grand hotels of yes- years. And now he brings us The porary order can be established. Kristian Petri teryear: quite simply to undergo Hotel, a documentary in which a luxury makeover, to become an inns and hotels around the world THE FILM BEGINS with images of antiseptic clone of a multination- have their stories told either by the his recently deceased father’s middle classes could enjoy a al body, or to die? people who have stayed or worked apartment: taste of the life of the wealthy. Or Kristian Petri laughs: “Both in them, or via his own contem- “I’ve realised that I’m con- the Reina Victoria itself, with its kinds of hotel have always existed: plative narrator’s commentary. stantly collecting the pieces of a proud bullfighting history. on the one hand efficient roofs over “When I was making The Well puzzle, but it’s only when I start Houshi in Japan, which has been the heads of business travellers, on (Brunnen, 2005), my film about piecing them together that I can run by the same family since 717 the other small establishments for Orson Welles’ life in Spain, I see the full picture,” he says. “I (!), film star hideout Chateau romantic travellers who like to stayed at the Reina Victoria in gradually realised that the foot- Marmont in Los Angeles, hotels think ‘ah… this is where Rilke Madrid, one of my favourite age of my father’s apartment was of literary mythology, such as the slept’. Even more so in modern hotels that I’d been visiting regu- the document of a lost home, a Grand in Normandy’s Cabourg, times, I think, there are hotels for larly for 20 years. When I heard place I’d made an emotional the Hotel Danieli in Venice – or every dream: do you want to be a they were about to close for a lux- investment in over a long period. the Hotel des Bains in the same writer, a rock star, or to identify ury makeover, I thought to Just like the Reina Victoria.” city. This is where Thomas Mann yourself with a brand of clothing?” myself: ‘there goes another of my Certain hotels and destina- stayed in 1911, and where his Or as Marcel Proust wrote, homes.’ So I decided to stay there tions stand out more than others. novella Death in Venice is set, having checked in to the Grand for the final week, during which Symbols of dreams, of complete famously made into a film by Hotel Cabourg: time I filmed and interviewed the lifestyles. Palatial hotels from the Luchino Visconti in 1971. Now, “My dreams now have an regular guests and members of 19th century, where the growing 45 years on, the Swedish actor address.” ●

40 KUNG FURY

Cannes BY DAVID SANDBERG, ©LASER PRODUCTIONS UNICORNS

Cannes Classics INGRID BERGMAN – IN HER OWN WORDS Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words by Stig Björkman Joe Hill by Bo Widerberg

ARCHIVES CINEMA WESLEYAN ©THE UNIVERSITY BY BJÖRKMAN, STIG Quinzaine des Réalisateurs The Here After by Magnus von Horn Kung Fury by David Sandberg

Semaine de la Critique Boys by Isabella Carbonell

Marché du Film SWEDISH AFTER HERE THE Every Face Has a Name CO-PRODUCTION by Magnus Gertten Un Certain Regard

One Floor Below ZAL ©LUKASZ HORN, VON BY MAGNUS Flocking by Radu Muntean by Beata Gårdeler [RO/FR/GER/SE] Girls Lost by Alexandra-Therese Keining Cannes The Here After Ecrans Juniors by Magnus von Horn My Skinny Sister by Sanna Lenken Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words Producer on by Stig Björkman the Move My Skinny Sister Annika Rogell by Sanna Lenken

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A brief item in a newspaper skate, to handle bandy sticks, to announced: ”Somalia Bandy attack and defend, shoot and The Somalia Bonding Team aims for World Champion- save. And to qualify for the National Bandy ships in Siberia.” World Bandy Championships in Team The day after the article Irkutsk. In just seven months. with bandy The first team of Somali nationals appeared, director Karin af Crazy? Maybe. A story crying to qualify for a world champion- Karin af Klintberg’s Nice Klintberg set off for the central out to be told? Absolutely. ship – for bandy in Irkutsk, People is a feel-good Swedish town of Borlänge “When we set off for Borlänge ­January 2014. The team also documentary about together with television and pod- and sat in on the first training reached the 2015 world champi- onships. Ten of the players are ­immigration, sport and cast celebrities Filip Hammar session we had no idea whether and Fredrik Wikingsson, spe- the team would qualify for the currently studying at one of an epic struggle against ­Sweden’s bandy high schools. the odds. cialists at uncovering unusual tournament,” says Karin af stories in everyday Swedish life. Klintberg. Because yes, there in Borlänge, an otherwise sleepy town WITH A SWEDISH bandy star as marked in recent years by segre- coach, the hastily assembled gation, a local entrepreneur had team knuckled down, learning tant sponsors, ironing out all the just kicked off his own integra- the basics of this rather strange practical and logistical problems. tion project: from the town’s game played on such a treacher- It was a case of two steps for- Text Niklas Wahllöf 3, 000 Somali refugees, a bandy ous surface. And team founder ward, one step back. And all the Production info p. 57 team was to be set up. Seventeen Patrik Andersson conducted while that clock was ticking young men were to learn to endless conversations with reluc- away…

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Fredrik Wikingsson and Filip Hammar Born in 1973 and 1975 respec- tively. Journalists, writers, television presenters and comedians, known for their numerous tele- vision productions, podcasts and stage performances, espe- cially in infotainment. Among Sweden’s most famous and appreciated (despised by some) media personalities, they have won numerous broadcasting awards since their television debut in 2001. Among their internationally acclaimed projects was a con- SPRING cert which Bob Dylan played for Fredrik Wikingsson as the sole member of the audience at the Academy of Music in Philadel- phia in November 2014. IS IN THE AIR!

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But six months later, with just Did you not encounter real one month to go, the news came: ­difficulties and resistance when they’d made it! So the film crew you were filming, in Russia for CANNES! decamped and followed them to example? Russia… “It has to be said that Filip The upshot is an affectionate Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson film with all the highs and lows are extremely good at opening that sport involves, the story of a doors just about anywhere. And unique integration project, of loy- my own prejudices were proved alty and solidarity, tears, laughter wrong. I feared things would be and double alienation. It was a big tough in Siberia for an all black hit at the national box-office. team, that the people there would “What’s amazing,” muses Kar- be super racist. But they were in af Klintberg, “is that this is a received with an amazing warmth Film Finances Film Finances true and heart-warming story in and they even got their own team Scandinavia AB Scandinavia Aps an age of hype and mistrust.” of Siberian cheerleaders!” “I especially recall two screen- In the event, the Somalia Ban- Floragatan 4A c/o Lett Law Firm P/S ings that the Somalia team sat in dy Team were the whipping boys SE-114 31 STOCKHOLM Raadhuspladsen 4 on. Every improvement in their of the tournament, losing all their SWEDEN DK-1550 COPENHAGEN play on the screen was greeted by matches by wide margins. But Phone: +46 700 904393 DENMARK standing ovations from the audi- they’re all winners in the eyes of Email: [email protected] Phone: +45 2233 2261 ence. Just how amazing is that!?” the world. ● www.filmfinances.se Email: [email protected]

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American Jazz Musician Doc A snowy night in February 1972, jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife during a gig at a club in New York City. “He said to me: Honey, I know you didn’t mean it. I know you didn’t mean to do this. … and then he was gone.” (The wife in a recorded interview about the moment right after the shot.) American Jazz Musician is a film about music, love and America.

Original title American Jazz Musician Director/Screenwriter Kasper Collin Produced by Kasper Collin Produktion/Kasper Collin, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G Lindström Duration 92 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Kasper Collin is a Swedish filmmaker and producer. He has made films such as the feature documentary My Name is Albert Ayler, theatrically released in the UK and US during 2007 and 2008, praised in Sight and Sound and Variety. Collin also works as a producer and consultant for other filmmakers, and gives lectures and master classes on filmmaking, producing and self-distribution in the US and Europe. CHUCK STEWARTCHUCK

Bikes vs Cars Doc The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it? Climate change and never-ending gridlocks frustrate people more than ever. Instead of whining, people in cities around the world take on the bicycle as a ‘Do It Yourself’ solution. Road rage and poor city planning leads to daily death amongst the cyclists. And now they demand safe lanes.

Original title Bikes vs Cars Director/Screenwriter Fredrik Gertten Participants Aline Cavalcante, Dan Koeppel, Raquel Rolnik, Rob Ford Produced by WG Film/ Margarete Jangård and Elin Kamlert, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min Released March 6, 2015 Sales Autlook Filmsales

Fredrik Gertten is a Swedish award-winning director and journalist. His latest works Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2012) and Bananas!* (2009) have met an audience in over 100 countries and at leading festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs and IDFA. WG FILM WG

Blood Sisters Doc Julia and Johanna, from the high-rise flats of Rosengård in Malmö, inseparable for as long as they remember. Curled up beside each other at night, carrying equal memories of abduction and abuse in their home country Azerbaijan. In Blood Sisters we follow their journey from twin sisters in symbiosis to young women trying to stand on their own feet.

Original title Blodssystrar Director/Screenwriter Malin Andersson Participants Julia and Johanna Yunusova Produced by Malin Andersson Film/Malin Andersson (co-producers Signe Byrge Sorensen, Cormac Ó Cuinn, Sonja Lindén, Hege Dehli, Alexandre Cornu) with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 80 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Director and producer Malin Andersson, born in 1972, produces out of Sweden and Ireland and makes documentaries around the world. She is also keen on digging close to home to maybe make us open up our own eyes. Andersson’s debut Belfast Girls (1996) won numerous awards and Blood Sisters is her first international co-production as both producer and director. JENS KLEVJE JENS

46 Blowfly Park When his bully-like friend Alex goes missing, Kristian, a has-been hockey talent, starts to unravel. Lying about events surrounding the disappearance and acting increasingly irrational, Kristian seems more interested in staying close to his friend’s girlfriend, and their child, than finding Alex.

Original title Flugparken Director/Screenwriter Jens Östberg Principal cast Sverrir Gudnason, Peter Andersson, Malin Buska, Leonard Terfelt Produced by Garagefilm International/Rebecka Lafrenz, Mimmi Spång, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg Duration 97 min Released November 28, 2014 Sales Outplay

Jens Östberg has played football at elite level and is a dancer and choreographer as well as a film director. Östberg has produced a number of works for the stage, for which he has won several international awards. His short film Small Game (2009) received the honourable mention at the Göteborg International Film Festival 2009. Blowfly Park is his feature debut. MÅNS MÅNSSON MÅNS

The Circle One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six young women find themselves in an abandoned fairground, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. In that deserted fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are ‘The Chosen Ones’, a group of witches, one which could destroy them all. In this gripping drama, a parallel world emerges in which dreams, insanely annoying parents, bullying, revenge, and love collide with dangerous forces and ancient magic.

Original title Cirkeln Director Levan Akin Screenwriters Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Levan Akin Principal cast Josefin Asplund, Helena Engström, Miranda Frydman, Irma von Platen, Hanna Asp, Leona Axelsen, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Sverrir Gudnason Produced by RMV Film/Cecilia Norman Mardell, Benny Andersson, Ludvig Andersson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 144 min Released February 18, 2015 Sales TBA

The Circle is Swedish-born director Levan Akin’s second feature. His first feature Certain People premiered at the Stockholm Film Festival in 2011 and subsequently played at the Tribeca Film Festival. He has also directed several well received TV series for pubcaster SVT, among them the international success Real Humans (2012). NIKLAS ALEXANDERSSONNIKLAS

Don Juan Doc A four-sided love triangle, spiced with autism, neuroses and life crises in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The 22-year-old autistic young man Oleg is seeking approval and love. He is surrounded by many who want to help him, but no-one succeeds. Suddenly help comes from an unexpected direction.

Original title Don Juan Director/Screenwriter Jerzy Sladkowski Produced by Ginestra Film AB/ Antonio Russo Merenda, Ulla Simonen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 92 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Jerzy Sladkowski was born in Poland in 1945. He immigrated to Sweden in 1983. Since then he has worked as a freelance director and producer making over 40 documentaries. Recipient of numerous prizes including the European Film Award for Vendetta (1996), the IDA Award for Swedish Tango (Tango, gräl och ledbesvär, 1999) and the Golden Dove for Vodka Factory (Vodkafabriken, 2 011) . GINESTRA FILM AB FILM GINESTRA

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Dyke Hard A lesbian rock band sets off on a road trip to a ‘Battle of the Bands’ tournament. A mysterious billionaire with an army of ninjas, cyborgs and roller derby girls is doing everything to stop them. Their journey is a whacky adventure filled with motorcycle gangs, prison riots and flamboyant musical numbers.

Original title Dyke Hard Director Bitte Andersson Screenwriters Bitte Andersson, Alexi Carpentieri, Martin Borell, Josephine Wilson Principal cast Alle Eriksson, Peggy Sands, M. Wågensjö, Iki Gonzalez Magnusson, Lina Kurttila, Josephine Wilson Produced by Filmlance International/Tomas Michaelsson, Bonnie Skoog Feeney, Martin Borell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 95 min Released March 6, 2015 Sales Outplay

Bitte Andersson, born in 1981, is a comic book artist with a background in both D.I.Y. culture and fine arts. She learned about low budget filmmaking by doing special effects for the B-movie company Troma. In 2006 she started a queer bookstore through which she met most of the cast and crew of Dyke Hard. NICKLAS DENNERMALM NICKLAS

Flocking A small Swedish community which seems idyllic on the surface. But when 15-year-old Jennifer claims to have been raped by a schoolmate, everything changes. The rumour rapidly spreads throughout the community and more and more people are convinced that Jennifer is lying. This is the beginning of a stirred up lynch chase in which an entire community turns against a young girl and her family.

Original title Flocken Director Beata Gårdeler Screenwriter Emma Broström Principal cast Fatime Azemi, John Ristu, Eva Melander, Jakob Öhrman, Malin Levanon, Henrik Dorsin, Julia Grönberg, Ayelin Naylin, Ville Virtanen Produced by 2afilm/Agneta Fagerström Olssson, Annika Hellström, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 105 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales Media Luna New Films

Beata Gårdeler’s feature debut In Your Veins (I skuggan av värmen, 2009) was well received by the critics as well as nominated for a Guldbagge Award. She has directed several TV series such as Spung (2002-2003) and recently, the award-winning 30 Degrees in February (conceptual director, 2012). In 2014 Gårdeler won the Novella Film Award at Göteborg Film Festival with Solitude (Vännerna). DAN JÅMA DAN

Fonko Doc Fonko is a feature length documentary about social and political changes in the new Africa as seen through an avalanche of striking, innovative and visual music.

Original title Fonko Directors/Screenwriters Göran Hugo Olsson, Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén Participants Sista Fa, Wanlov the Kubolor, Nneka, MCK and various artists Produced by Story/Tobias Janson, Göran Hugo Olsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 85 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales First Hand Films

Göran Hugo Olsson is a Sundance and Berlin award-winning documentary filmmaker. A selection of his films: Concerning Violence (2014), The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2 011), Am I Black Enough For You (2009). From 1999 to 2002 he was the Documentary Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute. Lamin Daniel Jadama is a music journalist, DJ and musician with his roots in West Africa. He has been a producer and radio host at SR, the Swedish public service radio. Lars Lovén works as a freelance journalist and a music critic at the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. STORY AB

48 The Garbage Helicopter A gigantic dumpster breaks loose from a helicopter with a terrible crash. Meanwhile, an old Roma woman wakes up with a tremendous longing for her old wall clock. She calls a grandchild who promises to bring it to her. A journey along Sweden’s long, winding highways begins and it proves to be very rich in content despite the rather trivial purpose.

Original title Sophelikoptern Director/Screenwriter Jonas Selberg Augustsén Principal cast Christopher Burjanski, Daniel Szoppe, Jessica Szoppe Produced by Bob Film Sweden/Andreas Emanuelsson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 100 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Jonas Selberg Augustsén, born in 1974, has made himself a name with award-winning shorts such as Autumn Man (2010). He tells stories in his own distinctive and humorous style about people and places that seem to exist in a borderland. He has a rare ability to glean existential questions from the most mundane situations provoking entertaining trains of thought. The Garbage Helicopter is his feature debut. JIMMY SUNDIN JIMMY

Girls Lost Kim, Bella and Momo are three 14-year-old girls who discover a fantastic flower with magic qualities: by drinking its nectar they are transformed into boys and they enter a new world. At first they enjoy their newly found freedom, but soon Bella and Momo realize that there are downsides to it. Kim however gets seriously addicted…

Original title Pojkarna Director/Screenwriter Alexandra-Therese Keining Principal cast Tuva Jagell, Emrik Öhlander, Wilma Holmén, Vilgot Westerlund, Louise Nyvall, Alexander Gustavsson, Mandus Berg, Filip Vester Produced by GötaFilm Produktion/Helena Wirenhed, Olle Wirenhed, Christer Nilson with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell/Baker Karim Duration 104 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales The Yellow Affair

Alexandra-Therese Keining, born in 1976, debuted with the feature film Hot Dog (2003) as Sweden’s youngest female director and screenwriter. She is also an author, her debut novel 14 will be adapted for the screen in 2016, and has worked as a casting director. Her second feature With Every Heartbeat (Kiss Me, US title, 2011) was awarded at prestigious film festivals all around the world. GÖTA FILM GÖTA

Granny’s Dancing on the Table Eini, 13 years old, grows up isolated from society with her violent father, a man afraid of the world who keeps Eini very close. The brutality that Eini is exposed to pushes her to almost lose her sense of self but through her invincible fantasy, Eini is capable to create a world within, from which she can draw strength to survive.

Original title Granny’s Dancing on the Table Director/Screenwriter Hanna Sköld Principal cast Blanca Engström, Lennart Jähkel Produced by Nordic Factory/ Helene Granqvist, Klara Björk, Valeria Richter, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 85 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Granny’s Dancing on the Table is Hanna Sköld’s second feature film, and her short Lady Crush (Tantlängtan, 2011) premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Hanna is exploring new ways to create, finance and distribute her films through interaction with the audience, using transmedia and crowdfunding. She started her work with audience participation during her online distribution of her first feature film Nasty Old People (2009). NORDIC FACTORY NORDIC

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Heaven on Earth Heaven on Earth is an independent sequel to the Academy Award nominated As It Is in Heaven from 2004. It is set in the same remote village, in the barren and cold northern parts of Sweden. Lena is forced to give birth at home due to a snowstorm, only assisted by the intoxicated village vicar Stig. This creates a bond between them and she accepts to help him bring people to the church as a cantor. Dancing and music make people come to life and inspire joy, but they also lead to fear and jealousy. Lena makes new friends but she also makes enemies.

Original title Så ock på jorden Director Kay Pollak Screenwriter Carin Pollak, Kay Pollak Principal cast Frida Hallgren, Jacob Oftebro, Niklas Falk, Lennart Jähkel, Björn Granath, Thomas Hanzon, Björn Bengtsson Produced by GF Studios AB/ Anders Birkeland, Göran Lindström, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Magdalena Jangard Duration 130 min To be released September 4, 2015 Sales AB Svensk Filmindustri

Kay Pollak is a director and screenwriter born in 1938. His directorial debut was the television series The Secret Reality in 1972. He has also directed features Children’s Island (1980), Love Me (1986) and the Academy Award nominated As It Is in Heaven (2004). GF STUDIOS AB

The Here After When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to start his life all over. However in the local community, his crime is neither forgiven nor forgotten. John’s presence brings out the worst in everyone surrounding him and a lynch-like atmosphere slowly takes shape. Feeling abandoned by his former friends and the people he loves, John loses hope and the same aggressions that previously sent him to prison start building up again. Unable to leave the past behind, he decides to confront it.

Original title Efterskalv Director/Screenwriter Magnus von Horn Principal cast Ulrik Munther, Mats Blomgren, Ellen Jelinek, Loa Ek, Oliver Heilmann, Felix Göransson, Inger Nilsson Produced by Zentropa International Sweden and Lava Films/Madeleine Ekman, Mariusz Wlodarski (co-producer Cinéma Defacto/Sophie Erbs), with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 100 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TrustNordisk

Born in Göteborg in 1983, director and screenwriter Magnus von Horn studied directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. While still a student he made a number of short films which won various international awards. Echo (2009) was selected for the official short film competition at the 2010 Sundance Festival, and LUKASZ ZAL Without Snow (Utan snö, 2011), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, was nominated for a Guldbagge Award in 2012. The Here After is his feature film debut.

The Hotel Doc The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space… The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.

Original title Hotellet Director/Screenwriter Kristian Petri Participants Björn Andrésen, Lars Norén, Åsne Seierstad, Kenneth Anger, Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Casas Produced by B-Reel/Mattias Nohrborg, Cecilia Nessen, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Peter ‘Piodor’ Gustafsson Duration 90 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Kristian Petri has made both award winning documentaries and feature films. His first two shorts were selected for Semaine de la critique in Cannes. The documentary The Atlantic was awarded the Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Prize and received a Guldbagge Award. In 2010, Petri directed the psychological thriller Bad Faith that was selected by Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. B-REEL

50 I am Dublin Doc The film portrays Ahmed who plays a character whose life mirrors his own. He finds himself in limbo. The moment he arrived in Europe he became a so-called Dublin- case, meaning he was deprived of all his rights and deported from country to country. His fingerprint is what decides his future.

Original title Jag är Dublin Directors/Screenwriters Ahmed Abdullahi, David Aronowitsch, Sharmarke Binyusuf, Anna Persson Participants Ahmed Hamud Obsiye Produced by Story AB/David Aronowitsch and executive producer Annika Rogell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 80 min To be released Spring, 2015 Sales Story AB

Ahmed Abdullahi was born in Somalia and studied film at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts where he graduated in 2015. David Aronowitsch studied film directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. He has made several feature documentaries and short films. A few examples are: Slaves (Slavar, 2008), Facing Genocide (2010) and Sharaf (2012). Sharmarke Binyusuf was born in Somalia 1989. He has taken film courses at Birkagården and Biskops Arnö folkhögskola. Anna Persson graduated from the documentary film program at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2011. She also co-directed the feature documentary STORY AB Detained (Förvaret, 2015).

Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words Doc Accessing Ingrid Bergman’s diaries and her own private footage, this film gives an inside perspective of one of our most distinguished actors and a woman who always chose her own path. Released in 2015, it marks the centenary of her birth.

Original title Jag är Ingrid Director/Screenwriter Stig Björkman Participants Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Pia Lindström, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Fiorella Mariani, Rosario Tronnolone Produced by Mantaray Film/Stina Gardell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute Duration 114 min To be released August 28, 2015 Sales TrustNordisk

Stig Björkman, director and writer. His recent work includes the documentaries Fanny, Alexander and Me (2013), Images from the Playground (Bilder från lekstugan, 2009) and ...But Film is my Mistress (...Och filmen är min älskarinna,2010). As a writer, he has authored books based on interviews with Lars von Trier, Woody Allen and Joyce Carol Oates. THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY CINEMA ARCHIVES CINEMA UNIVERSITY WESLEYAN THE

Katarina Taikon Doc Katarina Taikon has been compared to Martin Luther King. She was born in a tent, and came to change the course of Swedish history. The story about the young girl who was denied education, learned to read in her late 20’s, and later became one of the most read authors of children’s books in Sweden, is also an account of the emergence of the modern Swedish welfare society – and the one group left behind: the Roma minority.

Original title Katarina Taikon Directors/Screenwriters Lawen Mohtadi, Gellert Tamas Participants Rosa Taikon, Angelica Ström, Åsa Moberg Produced by Gellert Tamas Filmproduction/Gellert Tamas, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Gellert Tamas is an acclaimed author, journalist and documentary film maker and has received a number of awards, both in Sweden and internationally. Lawen Mohtadi is a journalist, publisher and author. Her 2012 biography on Katarina Taikon, The Day I Will Be Free, drew national attention to the pioneering civil rights activism of Taikon and was awarded the Sara Lidman Prize. BJÖRN LANHAMMAR BJÖRN

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Martha & Niki Doc In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international street dance competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became world champions in hip hop. This film depicts Martha and Niki’s love of dance, each other and a friendship put to the test. About desires, yearning and finding the right path in life.

Original title Martha & Niki Director/Screenwriter Tora Mårtens Participants Martha Nabwire, Niki Tsappos Produced by Neo Publishing/Tora Mårtens, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell Duration 90 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Tora Mårtens’ shorts have been shown at several international film festivals. Tommy competed for a Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2008. Her first feature documentary Colombianos (2012) received major awards at Hamptons Film Festival, DokLeipzig and Krakow Film Festival. TORA MÅRTENS TORA

The Master Plan When the stepfather of mastermind Charles-Ingvar Jönsson gets murdered, he brings together a league consisting of Sweden’s best impostor, an explosives expert and a burglary specialist to finalize his plan for revenge and perform a complicated heist.

Original title Jönssonligan - Den perfekta stöten Director Alain Darborg ­Screen-writers Piotr Marciniak, Alain Darborg Principal cast Simon J Berger, Alexander Karim, Torkel Petersson, Susanne Thorson, Nicklas Falk Produced by Tre Vänner/Fredrik Wikström Nicastro, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ automatic funding Duration 90 min Released January 16, 2015 Sales Svensk Filmindustri International Sales

Alain Darborg, born in 1981, has previously directed thriller comedy Inkognito (2013) as well as the comedy Högklackat (2011), both for television. The Master Plan is his feature debut. JOHAN BERGMARK JOHAN

The Modern Project A group of young people isolated in an old house in the countryside are searching for a cure against today’s hyper individualism. Sara and Simon initiated the retreat together but as Simon starts acting more and more as a cult leader they both lose control over the group. The Modern Project is a comic poetic drama about ego vs ideal and mankind’s urge to find the meaning of life.

Original title Det moderna projektet Director Anton Källrot Screenwriters Anton Källrot, Jonathan Silén, Ylva Olaison Principal cast Jonathan Silén, Ylva Olaison, Eric Stern, Karin Bengtsson, Sally Palmqvist Procopé, Sigmund Hovind Produced by Ögat Film/Camilla Malmberg, Ylva Olaison, Jonathan Silén, Anton Källrot, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 81 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Anton Källrot (born in 1980) graduated from Valand Academy Film in Göteborg in 2010. He has since then worked with theatre and film. In 2011 he founded the collaborative film company Ögat Film together with actors Ylva Olaison and Jonathan Silén. The Modern Project is his feature film debut. KENNETH SVEDLUND ISHII SVEDLUND KENNETH

52 MonaLisa Story Doc MonaLisa was an ordinary mom working as a teacher. Suddenly life fell apart, and she lost herself to heroin. After years of deep addiction she meets Fredrik. Against all odds, they decide to break the patterns of destruction and go for their dreams. MonaLisa Story is a unique and authentic documentary, following her process during eight years.

Original title MonaLisa Story Director/ScreenwriterJessica Nettelbladt Produced by Lejoni Production AB/Jessica Nettelbladt, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales Deckert Distribution

Jessica Nettelbladt has for more than a decade used documentary storytelling to portray unique life stories within social and existential frameworks. She has a genuine interest in people at the margins of society, and works with a process-based technique where the filming takes time, often many years. MonaLisa Story is her second feature documentary. JESSICA NETTELBLADT JESSICA

My Skinny Sister Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter.

Original title Min lilla syster Director/Screenwriter Sanna Lenken Principal cast Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hellin, Henrik Norlén Produced by Tangy/Annika Rogell, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Magdalena Jangard Duration 95 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales Wide

Sanna Lenken graduated in film directing with a master in screenwriting at Dramatiska institutet, in 2009. She has made several prize winning short films and directed Double Life (2010-2012) for pubcaster Swedish Television (SVT). Her latest short film Eating Lunch premiered at Göteborg Film Festival in 2013 followed by an

ß international premiere at Berlinale Generation 14plus competition and was later screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. MORITZ SCHULTHEI MORITZ

Nice People Doc A group of young men who fled the war in Somalia have ended up in a rural town in Sweden where integration is tough. Something needs to be done. Local entrepreneur Patrik Andersson gets an idea, why not use sport as a bridge to get people closer to each other? The goal: to create the first ever Somali national team in bandy and make it to the World Championship in Siberia. This is a story about racism and fear, but it’s also about bravery and doing something that hasn’t been done before.

Original title Filip & Fredrik presenterar Trevligt folk Directors Karin af Klintberg, Anders Helgeson Screenwriters Karin af Klintberg, Anders Helgeson, Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson Participants Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson, Patrik Andersson, Pelle Fosshaug, Ahmed Hussein, Mohamed Abdihakiin Produced by Thelma/Louise, Mexiko Media/Lars Beckung Duration 92 min Released January 28, 2015 Sales TBA

Karin af Klintberg is a writer, director and producer. In 2009 she was awarded the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism as well as the Guldbagge Award for her documentary feature Ebbe The Movie (2009). In 2003 Anders Helgeson started the production company Thelma/Louise together with Daniel Moll. Karin af Klintberg is also a partner at the company. THELMA/LOUISE

53 New films

Stranded in Canton Every year tens of thousands of African supercargoes travel to Guangzhou, China, to tie up business transactions with the local manufacturing industry. Stranded in Canton follows democracy entrepreneur Lebrun on his increasingly desperate quest for the deal that will take him home to the Congo and get him out of political turmoil.

Original title Nakangami na Guangzhou Director Måns Månsson Screenwriters Måns Månsson, Li Hongqi, George Cragg Principal cast Lebrun Iko Isibangi Produced by CPH:LAB/Måns Månsson, Tine Fischer, Patricia Drati, Vanja Kaludjercic, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 80 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales Antipode Sales & Distribution

Måns Månsson, born in 1982, holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His films have been screened at festivals and venues around the world such as the Berlinale Forum, IFF Rotterdam Bright Future, Slamdance Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française, CPH:DOX and FESPACO Pan African Film Festival. MÅNS MÅNSSON MÅNS

The Swedish Theory of Love Doc Internationally Scandinavia is seen as ’the perfect society’, a role model, an example of the highest achievements in what humans can achieve... Is this true? The Swedish Theory of Love will try to penetrate the cracks of Scandinavian perfection and dig into dysfunctional sides of this on the surface perfect society.

Original title The Swedish Theory of Love Director/Screenwriter Erik Gandini Produced by Fasad/Erik Gandini, Juan Pablo Libossart, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Duration 90 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TrustNordisk

Erik Gandini is a Swedish-Italian film director, writer, and producer. Some of his international award-winning documentaries include Raja Sarajevo (Sarajevogänget, 1994), Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara? (2001), Surplus – Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003), Gitmo (2006) and the widely acclaimed Videocracy (2009). FASAD

Thieves’ Honour (working title) When street pusher Minna can’t pay her rent she cheats a few young criminals on a drug deal and takes the money. She happens to meet Katja, mother of a child who has been taken by the social authorities. Minna goes with Katja to an illegal residence outside of town, where a group of individuals have joined together to determine their own living conditions. Thieves’ Honour is a social political drama thriller about the dealer Minna’s struggle to survive in a society lacking solidarity and responsibility.

Original title Tjuvheder Director/Screenwriter Peter Grönlund Principal cast Malin Levanon, Lo Kauppi Produced by B-Reel/Frida Bargo and Mattias Nohrborg, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Baker Karim Duration 92 min To be released TBA Sales The Match Factory

Peter Grönlund was born in 1977 and lives in Stockholm. From 2004 to 2006 he went to Stockholm Film School, where he made three shorts, and since then he has been active as a social worker. He has also written and directed five other shorts. The latest one, The Clearing (Gläntan, 2011), was nominated for a Guldbagge Award. NADJA HALLSTRÖM NADJA

54 Under the Pyramid The young art gallery owner Katarina’s father suddenly goes missing. It turns out her father, a prominent art dealer, is kidnapped in Egypt by his former smuggling partner. To save him, Katarina needs to find the hidden statue her father’s kidnapper demands as ransom.

Original title Under pyramiden Director/Screenwriter Axel Petersén Principal cast Stine Fischer Christensen, Reine Brynolfsson, Johan Rabaeus, Philip Zandén, David Dastmalchian, Kevin Vaz, Léonore Ekstrand Produced by Idyll AB/Erika Wasserman, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell Duration Approx. 80 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Axel Petersén was born in 1979. He studied at the Czech film school FAMU, and has an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His feature debut, Avalon, premiered in Toronto 2011, where it was awarded the Fipresci Prize for Best First Feature. It went on to screen at Berlinale 2012 and received two Guldbagge Awards, for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Petersén’s latest short film The Track of My Tears II premiered in Venice Orizzonti 2011. IDYLL AB IDYLL

Underdog Underdog is a film about love, with political undertones. A raw but tender relationship drama of a young Swedish working class woman, fleeing the unemployment of her home country, who gets hired as a housekeeper by a Norwegian middle class family – and during a few sultry summer weeks, the lives of everyone involved are changed forever.

Original title Svenskjävel Director/Screenwriter Ronnie Sandahl Principal cast Bianca Kronlöf, Henrik Rafaelsen, Mona Kristiansen, Emeilie Christensen Beck, Petronella Barker, Kyrre Hellum, Trine Wiggen, Anders T Andersen, Anne Ryg Produced by Anagram Film & TV and Cinenic Film/Annika Hellström, Martin Persson, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg Duration 100 min Released March 27, 2015 Sales The Yellow Affair

Ronnie Sandahl, born in 1984, is a Swedish director, novelist and journalist. Sandahl has written and directed two short films: the relationship drama Lucky Bastards (2010) and the tragic comedy The Route 43 Miracle (2012). Underdog is his feature film debut. ITA ZBRONIEC-ZAJT ITA

White People Alex arrives in a place where some can come and go as they wish and others are locked up. She is determined to escape. Viktoria is head of security, but is secretly involved with the most serious crime of all.

Original title Det vita folket Director/Screenwriter Lisa Aschan Principal cast Vera Vitali, Pernilla August, Issaka Sawadogo Produced by Garagefilm Internation- al/Anna-Maria Kantarius, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Magdalena Jangard Duration 84 min To be released September, 2015 Sales TBA

Lisa Aschan is trained at the National Film School of Denmark. Her feature debut She Monkeys (Apflickorna) premiered in 2011 and was awarded among others the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at GIFF, a Special Mention at the Berlinale, Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and three Guldbagge Awards. White People is Aschan’s follow-up to her well received debut. LINDA WASSBERG LINDA

55 New films

The Yard Anders, a single father and poet, loses his job as a critic when he writes a review of a book that doesn’t exist. With no education, he ends up at the Yard, a transshipment hub for car imports, where he must face the suspicions of his co-workers and the regulations of the Swedish management. An unexpected friendship with a colleague triggers a rift between Anders and his teenage son. Personal morals are pitted against the demands of fatherhood in a conflict that is ultimately resolved by a lie.

Original title Yarden Director Måns Månsson Screenwriter Sara Nameth (based on the novel by Kristian Lundberg) Principal cast Anders Mossling, Hilal Shoman, Axel Roos Produced by Anagram Film & TV/Emma Åkesdotter Ronge, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 75 min To be released Autumn, 2015 Sales TBA

Måns Månsson, born in 1982, holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His films have been screened at festivals and venues around the world such as the Berlinale Forum, IFF Rotterdam Bright Future, Slamdance Film Festival, Cinémathèque Française, CPH:DOX and FESPACO Pan African Film Festival. FREDRIK WENTZEL

Young Sophie Bell After high school graduation, life is finally going to begin for real. At least that’s how best friends Sophie and Alice feel about the upcoming move to Berlin. But their plans are crushed when Alice disappears in Berlin under unclear conditions. Sophie ends up on a life-changing journey that will bring her a taste of the exuberant parts of life.

Original title Unga Sophie Bell Director Amanda Adolfsson Screenwriters Amanda Adolfsson, Josefin Johansson Principal cast Felice Jankell, Hedda Stiernstedt, Iggy Malmborg, Jella Haase, Murat Dikenci, Claes Bang, Pheline Roggan Produced by Breidablick/Gila Bergqvist Ulfung, Anna Knochenhauer, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Duration 84 min Released January 23, 2015 Sales TBA

Amanda Adolfsson, born in 1979, has a BA in Film directing from Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2006 she won the 1 Km Film Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival, a scholarship that financed her short film Spending the Night (2007) which was screened at the Berlinale in 2008. Young Sophie Bell is Adolfsson’s feature film debut. PETRUS SJÖVIK

New shorts

Afternoon Tea Doc Agnes All We Share You are quite healthy and you feel young, but Agnes is six years old and very fond of her Two arborists, Samir and Sara, are hired to cut you know death is just around the corner. older brother. When he brings his girlfriend down a healthy tree in a family’s backyard. How do you handle it? In this documentary, home, Agnes becomes jealous and does her Why the family wants the tree removed seems you’ll meet four elderly ladies over a cup of best to get his attention. A delicate story at first quite incomprehensible, yet the wife is tea and a conversation about life’s final about a small scale everyday drama, told determined, while the husband behaves chapter – regrets, unwanted signs of aging, through the perspective of a little girl. rather strangely. It’s obvious there’s something death prepping and drastic solutions when Original title Agnes Director/Screenwrit- they don’t want to talk about. While taking the life has lost its glory. er Anja Lind Produced by Plain Pictures/ tree down, Samir observes the backyard and Original title Afternoon Tea Director Anja Lind, Simon af Wetterstedt Production the people he meets. Screenwriter Maria Fredriksson Produced year 2014 Genre Drama Duration 15 min Original title Allt vi delar Director/ by Barataria/Maria Fredriksson Production Screenwriter Jerry Carlsson Produced by year 2015 Genre Documentary Duration Tjockishjärta Film/Jerry Carlsson Production 13 min year 2014 Genre Drama Duration 25 min

56 New shorts

Audition Catwalk I Turn to You Lea and the Forest Pirates Mika is auditioning male actors for her first Nine-year old Ella realizes the importance of Elin and Jennie’s parents are separated and A girl overcomes her fear of the forest and feature. The actors are all well-established fashion, and starts revolting against her have an infected relationship. Depicted from sets out to find her lost brother. During her alpha dogs in the film industry. The situation childhood. the two sisters’ perspective we follow them journey she encounters remarkable turns more sour as their confidence in her Original title Catwalk Director/ through their everyday life dealing with creatures, finds true friends and brings her reaches new lows. Mika starts pushing Screenwriter Ninja Thyberg Produced by parental intrigues. brother home. harder, reaching the limits for what’s okay in Eliza Jones & Johanna Lind Production Original title Jag vill nå dig Director Victor Original title Lea och Skogspiraterna this kind of situation and what is not. year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 11 min Lindgren Screenwriter Jana Bringlöv Director/Screenwriter Maria Avramova Original title Audition Director Lovisa Sirén Ekspong Produced by Bautafilm AB/ Produced by Snowcloud Films/Petter Lind- Screenwriters Lovisa Sirén, Peter Modestij Therese Högberg Production year 2015 blad Production year 2015 Genre Produced by Siri Hjorton Wagner Genre Drama Duration 15 min Animation for Children Duration 28 min Production year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 20 min

Crisis Document Doc Can one get used to everything? 50 per cent youth unemployment. Doctors forced to choose whom to cure. Social security It’s OK to Eat Fish Cause They Man Without Direction disappearing. Public services closing down. Don’t Have Any Feelings When his car breaks down in the middle of Boy-Razor Fascism increasing. We ask our friends in Matilda is home alone with her older brother nowhere, Mr D finds himself more lost than A bullied boy tries to get even with his Greece to make a list of their images of the Peter when his girlfriend Elin comes over. ever. He finds a shabby hotel only to discover tormentors by sticking a razorblade through crisis. It turns into a warning list for the North. Elin is everything Matilda ever wanted to be. that it’s a place impossible to check out from a crack in a waterslide. When he realizes his Original title Krisdokument Directors/ She loves the way she dresses, how she and exempted from physical laws. A dark, revenge is out of proportion he starts a race Screenwriters Elisabeth Marjanoviū moves, her whole presence. Maybe even surrealistic journey with black comedy Inferno against time to set things right. Cronvall, Marta Dauliūtė Produced by more than Peter... inspired by Dante’s . Original title Boy-Razor Director/ MDEMC/Elisabeth Marjanoviū Cronvall, Original title Fiskar har inga känslor Original title Man utan riktning Directors/ Screenwriter Peter Pontikis Produced by Marta Dauliūtė Production year 2015 Director/Screenwriter Victor Lindgren Screenwriters Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Borderline Films/Peter Pontikis, Patrick Genre Documentary Duration 14 min Produced by Bautafilm AB/Therese Pelle Öhlund, Nina Jemth Produced by Sobieski Production year 2015 Genre Högberg Production year 2015 Genre Kostr-Film /Katja Brigge, Johannes Stjärne Drama Duration 12 min Drama Duration 12 min Nilsson Production year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 15 min

Dear Director Doc In 1980 American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen Boys watches the movie From the Life of the Kung Fury The Moment That Passed Markus is in an institution for young sex Marionettes (1980) by Ingmar Bergman. Kung Fury is a Miami Police Department offenders. He is a shy boy whose face tells Afterwards she writes him a 16-page letter, detective and a martial arts master. In the In a small town in Sweden, twenty-something wordless stories. There is no physical explaining how it came to change her life. aftermath of the deaths of his colleague Niklas meets up with some friends of his for intimacy to be found, so the inmates wrestle. The film starts a dramatic inner journey, cops – at the hand of Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. some fun time in the local bowling alley after It is a place where skinlessness quivers in the which makes her understand that she is not “Kung Führer” – he decides to travel back in work. When he’s there he sees someone air. Markus’s only friend inside is the alone in her own body. Hidden inside a small time from the 1980’s to World War II in order whom he hasn’t met for a long time. A film wayward, violent Tobias. Markus’s trial lump of fat under her skin, rests the remains to kill the Nazi leader, but an error occurs and about courage and coming to terms with the approaches, and then Tobias will find out why of her unborn twin. the time machine sends him further back to past, about chances one once had and never Markus has been locked up. Original title Dear Director Director/ the Viking Age. took, chances that, deep inside, one wishes one could have again. Original title Pojkarna Director Isabella Screenwriter Marcus Lindeen Produced Original title Kung Fury Director/ Carbonell Screenwriter Isabella Carbonell, by Fasad AB/Juan Pablo Libossart Screenwriter David Sandberg Produced Original title Det bor inga bögar i Bollebygd Babak Najafi Produced by Doppelganger Production year 2015 Genre Documentary by Laser Unicorns Productions, Lampray/ Director/Screenwriter Mikael Bundsen AB/Jörgen Andersson, Kjell Åhlund Duration 14 min Linus Andersson, Eleni Young Karlsson Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Production year 2015 Genre Drama Production year 2015 Genre Action Hemmendorff Production year 2015 Duration 18 min Comedy Duration 30 min Genre Drama Duration 12 min

57 New shorts

Mommy Of Biblical Proportions The Prologue Shadowland A young woman is partying at home with her A group of scientists from around the world After the final act of a romantic drama, after In the film Shadowland images from the friends in the presence of her daughter. As meet in a conference room in Tulsa, the words of love, the accusations and the Californian landscape pass by at a very slow the party takes off and the others want to go Oklahoma. They are there to discuss the final fruitless efforts, is where this film pace, reminiscent of Scandinavian film noir. to the city, the mother struggles to put her origins of a mysterious skull discovered 300 begins, the beginning of a new story about Shot on 16mm, the multifarious environment daughter to bed so she can join them. metres below the ice of Antarctica. love and pain. Events take place after the seems to be a place that functions outside Original title Mommy Director/ Original title Of Biblical Proportions inevitable realization that Adrian’s and the realm of time. Fragments of recognition Screenwriter Milad Alami Produced by Director/Screenwriter Patrik Eklund Petra’s love is dead, describing the final and memory are resurrected by revisiting Garagefilm International, Good Company Produced by FrameStation/Patrik Eklund spasms of their relationship. locations that have “played” other parts of the Films/Stinna Lassen Production year Production year 2015 Duration 29 min Original title Prologen Director/ world in early Hollywood films. Echoes of classical films are heard within a collage 2015 Genre Drama Duration 12 min Screenwriter Ştefan Constantinescu Produced by Doppelganger AB/Jörgen constructed of audio fragments that were Andersson, Kjell Åhlund Production year once recorded in the Californian landscape. 2015 Genre Drama Duration 15 min Original title Shadowland Director/ Screenwriter John Skoog Produced by Plattform Produktion/Erik Hemmendorff Production year 2014 Genre Documentary Duration 15min

O.M.G (Oh Máigon Girl) The Nation The midnight sun is shining; two teenage Jonna and Felix are citizens in a despotic girls are bored with their small village. They future nation. Everyday life is harsh with a want some adventure, so they decide to hitch shortage of food and daily deportations to hike somewhere else – not without risks. Security work camps. Jonna passes her free time at Original title Hilbes Biigá Director Marja Victor is new to his job as a security guard. Felix’ bar, they have been flirting forever but Bål Nango Screenwriter Marja Bål Nango, He has some lofty ideals and does not want nothing has ever happened until now… Smávut Ingir Bål Produced by Marja Bål to be a bad guy. But the job is more complex Ture the Dice Original title Nationen Director/ Nango, Marie Lagerqvist, Hans-Olof Utsi than he thought. Screenwriter George Ivanov Produced by Production year 2015 Genre Drama Original title Väktare Director Hugo Lilja Imagine that a small piece of wood can Inland Film/Mattias Skoglund, Cilla Holm Duration 20 min Screenwriter Mistre Tesfaye Produced by determine such large fortunes for us Production year 2015 Genre Drama Woocha Film/Mistre Tesfaye Production humans. And a ladybug can even fall in love Duration 14 min year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 13 min in a red dice with black spots. Original title Ture Tärning Director/ Screenwriter Johan Hagelbäck Produced by Johan Hagelbäck Tecknad Film/Johan Hagelbäck Production year 2015 Genre Animation for Children Duration 10 min

Play Time Shopping in a supermarket, 18-year-old Northern Great Mountain Marie gets separated from her 3-year-old Sex & Taxes Elle, 78, does not like Sami people – though child. When she notices a woman who works In Krabstadt porn is subsidized by the state her first language was Sami and she grew up in in the store taking care of her son, she as a cure for the dreaded winter depression. the mountains in Lapland. Now she claims that decides to take off and leave him. One day, the Director of Development she is completely Swedish and from the south. Original title Leka färdigt Director Nanna decides that subsidizing health care is too What If… Under pressure from her son, she reluctantly Huolman Screenwriter Robert Styrbjörn expensive and things will be much better for returns north for her sister’s funeral. Produced by Common Ground Pictures Krabstadt if the porn market is opened up. Animated films for the very youngest. Tales Original title Stoerre Vaerie Swedish title Gothenburg/Jonas Kellagher Production But things don’t work out as planned and it´s about animals’ lives, mischief and about Norra Storfjället Director/Screenwriter year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 14 min up to Schlop Schlop and KK to save the getting close. A declaration of love to the Amanda Kernell Produced by Nordisk Film town. For help they turn to the Feminist relationship between little and big, and about Production, Bautafilm AB/Lars G. Institute who has their own drastic ideas on the desire to go on wonderful, fantastic Lindström, Oscar Östergren Production how to deal with the situation. adventures. year 2015 Genre Drama Duration 15 min Original title Sex & Taxes Director Ewa Original title Tänk om… Directors Linda Einhorn, Jeuno Je Kim Screenwriter Ewa Hambäck, Marika Heidebäck Screenwriter Einhorn, Jeuno Je Kim, Daniel Karlsson Lena Sjöberg Produced by LEE Film/Linda Produced by Monkey Machine Film/Ewa Hambäck Production year 2014 Genre Einhorn, Jeuno Je Kim Production year Animation for children Duration 12min 2015 Genre Animation Duration 12 min

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Distribution Telepicture Marketing SIFFJ April, 2016 [email protected] www.gildafilm.se www.memfis.se Sebastie Film och Media [email protected] SIFF November 11-22, 2015 www.conversationfilm.com [email protected] [email protected] www.antipode-sales.biz www.telepicturemarketing.com Giraff Film Migma Film www.sebastie.com Russia UK Tempo Documentary Festival Copenhagen Bombay [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.migmafilm.se Shoot & Post TrustNordisk www.tempofestival.se www.copenhagenbombay.com Autlook Filmsales Gothenburg Film Studios [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] March 7-13, 2016 [email protected] Mint Film www.shootpost.se www.trustnordisk.com Dach www.autlookfilm.com www.gothenburgstudios.se [email protected] Austria Denmark Uppsala International [email protected] www.mint-ab.se Silverosa Film Short Film Festival www.dach.se GötaFilm [email protected] Bac Films Wide [email protected] [email protected] Momento Film www.silverosafilm.se [email protected] [email protected] www.shortfilmfestival.com Dagsljus www.gotafilm.se [email protected] www.widemanagement.com October 19-25, 2015 [email protected] www.bacfilms.com www.momentofilm.se Skogen Produktion France France www.dagsljus.se Harmonica Films [email protected] Way Out West [email protected] Moviola Film & Television www.skogenproduktion.se Wild Bunch [email protected] Dansk Skalle Cat&Docs www.harmonicafilms.se [email protected] [email protected] www.wildbunch.biz www.wayoutwest.se [email protected] www.moviola.se Snowcloud Films France/UK August 13-15, 2015 www.danskskalle.se www.catndocs.com Head and Tail [email protected] France [email protected] Månharen Film & TV www.snowcloud.se The Yellow Affair Davaj Film www.head-tail.se [email protected] [email protected] Organizations [email protected] Coproduction Office www.compadre.se Speedfilm [email protected] www.yellowaffair.com Hobab [email protected] Finland/Sweden Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Dfm www.coproductionoffice.eu [email protected] Naive www.speedfilm.se Denmark/France/Germany Swedish Film Institute [email protected] www.hobab.se [email protected] Zodiak Rights [email protected] www.dfm.se www.naive.se Stellanova film Deckert Distribution [email protected] www.kreativaeuropa.eu Holding Hands Production [email protected] [email protected] www.zodiakrights.com Doppelganger Independent Film [email protected] Nice Drama/FLX Pictures www.stellanovafilm.com www.deckert-distribution.com UK [email protected] Producers’ Association [email protected] Germany www.doppelganger.se Idyll www.nicedrama.se Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Distributors www.off.se Drakfilm DR International Sales www.idyll.se Nils Bergendal www.ingmarbergman.se [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CCV Entertainment International Sámi Film Institute www.drakfilm.se www.dr.dk/Salg Illusion Film www.nilsbergendal.com Denmark [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.ccv-entertainment.com www.isfi.no/eng www.illusionfilm.se November 11-22 2015 The 26Th STockholm inTernaTional Film FeSTival

Actress umA thurmAN, recipieNt of the stockholm AchievemeNt AwArd 2014 coNtAct: festivAl director Git scheynius [email protected] proGrAm director George ivanov [email protected] GeNerAl iNQuiries www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

Photo: Johan Bergmark