Summer/Autumn 2018 Aeterna • Amateurs • Aniara • Bamse and the Thunderbell • Becoming Astrid • Bergman – A Year in a Life Border • The Cake General • Could This Be You? • The Deminer • Euphoria • Goliath • Gordon & Paddy • Hamada The Heart • Jimmie • JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – The First Mystery • Kingdom of Sweden • Koko-di Koko-da Lucky One • Maj Doris • The Man Who Played With Fire • Monky • The Raft • Ravens Reconstructing Utøya The Real Estate • Ridge • Silvana • Solsidan • A Stranger • Stronger Than a Bullet • Swoon • Transnistra Tuva Novotny Untitled The Unpromised Land • Wasted • The War Game • X&Y • Yung Lean (working title) + 19 shorts Last year was a great year for Swedish cinema, hyped on the festival cirquit right now, Out Fishing with films like Palme d’Or winner The Square, and Tweener. And it is 100 years since Ingmar Sundance winner The Nile Hilton Incident, Ravens, Bergman was born! We are so happy that Cannes Euphoria and IDFA awarded documentary The has chosen to invite Jane Magnusson’s Welcome to Deminer, just to mention a few. Short film The documentary Bergman – A Year in a Life and a Burden of course, what a winner! 2018 shows that freshly restored The Seventh Seal for Cannes we are on the right track. Berlin competition title Classics! Take some time to read through this The Real Estate and Un Certain Regard selected catalogue. We promise you that there are some Border, by Ali Abbasi, together with new films by really good Swedish films already completed and the world of Anna Odell (X & Y) Peter Grönlund (Goliath), others in the making, ready to be screened, sold Johannes Nyholm (Koko-di Koko-da) and Gabriela and loved. Pichler (Amateurs) among others, seems to prove the point. 2018 is also a great year for shorts with Please go to sfi.se for updated information on Swedish films. Berlin screening JUCK [THRUST], which is really Swedish features, docs and shorts. Swedish Film Institute International Department ISSN 1654-0050 P.O. Box 27126 SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Art Director Markus Edin Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Print Lenanders Grafiska, Kalmar sfi.se Cover photo Christian Geisnæs, twitter.com/swedishfilm ©Meta Spark & Kärnfilm AB (Border) instagram.com/swedishfilm Festivals, docs & shorts Coordinator Sara Rüster Ömer Bulduk Phone: +46 76 117 26 78 Phone: +46 76 501 20 71 Contacts [email protected] [email protected] Contents p. 6 Ingmar Bergman 100 Festivals, features Festivals, docs & shorts Head of Communications Petter Mattsson Josefina Mothander & Public Relations Phone: +46 70 607 11 34 Phone: +46 70 972 93 52 Rebecka Ioannidis Lindberg p. 8 Features and documentaries [email protected] [email protected] Phone: +46 76 501 20 73 Aeterna • Amateurs • Aniara • Bamse and the Thunderbell • Becoming Astrid • Bergman – A Year in a Life [email protected] Border • The Cake General • Could This Be You? • The Deminer • Euphoria • Goliath • Gordon & Paddy • Hamada The Heart • Jimmie • JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – The First Mystery • Kingdom of Sweden • Koko-di Koko-da Lucky One • Maj Doris • The Man Who Played With Fire • Monky • The Raft • Ravens Reconstructing Utøya The Real Estate • Ridge • Silvana • Solsidan • A Stranger • Stronger Than a Bullet • Swoon • Transnistra Tuva Novotny Untitled The Unpromised Land • Wasted • The War Game • X&Y • Yung Lean (working title) + 19 shorts Festivals, features Festivals, shorts & docs Press Officer Theo Tsappos Jing Haase Jan Göransson Phone: +46 76 779 11 33 Phone: +46 70 420 32 74 Phone: +46 70 603 03 62 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] p. 49 Shorts p. 54 Swedish Classics p. 56 Industry Contacts Sweden Facts • All Bergman’s films made for Ingmar Bergman 100 cinema are available in DCP format. One of the greatest filmmakers of all time. • An exhibition about the film- maker, Ingmar Bergman 100, is available for e.g. cinemas and Ingmar Bergman (1918– Bergman’s vast body of work follows libraries. 2007), Swedish writer, theatre a theme with variations. His universe is • Ingmar Bergman A–Ö, a director and film maker. His peopled by dysfunctional families as guidebook to the world of Ingmar most renowned works well as humiliated but vampiric artists Bergman with 146 anecdotal trivia and unknown facts, is available in include the filmsThe Seventh feeding on the lives of others – and English. Seal, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, God, if He exists at all, is silent. But • The exhibition A Never-Ending the television series Scenes from a whether a film depicts a married Whispering Conversation, about Marriage and books and screenplays such couple divorcing, an artist’s frustration the creative process of Fanny and Alexander, is available for e.g. as The Magic Lantern and The Best over a distracted audience, or a cinematheques and museums. Intentions. Undoubtedly one of the most medieval knight desperately seeking • New prints of original Swedish famous Swedes ever, Ingmar Bergman’s the meaning of life (and death) – they posters of five of Bergman’s films centenary will be celebrated all over the all boil down to problems of communi- are available for display in connec- tion to film screenings. world in 2018. cation between people. • Jubilee logo, portraits of Ingmar In 1946 Bergman made made his His cinematic style is austere and Bergman, his signature and a cinema debut as screenwriter with Crisis. unobtrusive, the exception being his selection of film stills are available Followed by a forty-odd feature films over uncompromising close-ups of the for free use at ingmarbergman.se. more than three decades, Bergman’s last human face, at once enticing and • For bookings and information, please contact Kajsa Hedström: major work was the television piece mysterious. [email protected] Sarabande, written and directed in 2003, Ingmar Bergman’s significance in the at the age of eighty-five. history of cinema cannot be overestimated. BENGT WANSELIUS(PORTRAIT), SVENSK AB FILMINDUSTRI(STILL) The Seventh Seal 6 SWEDISH FILM Aeterna Doc Amateurs (AETERNA) • DIRECTED BY FREDRIK WENZEL, JESPER KURLANDSKY (AMATÖRER) • DIRECTED BY GABRIELA PICHLER SECOND FEATURE Aeterna is a globe spanning odyssey, steeped in the Welcome to Lafors! A small Swedish community in tempo of the contemplative traditions. Through the desperate need of a fresh start. Hope rises when the eye of the free floating witness, we observe life at work German low-cost superstore Superbilly is considering and leisure, in play and through hardships, from the setting up business in the area. 500 new jobs that shanty towns of Cape Town, to the Waura Tribe by the would change everything! Musse at the local govern- Xangu river, through the mist of the Atlas mountains to ment office gets the honor to make the commercial the coloured night skies of Beijing. that will be selling Lafors. But Aida and Dana pick up the fight and turn their mobile phones and selfiesticks towards everyone that isn’t allowed to take part in the commercial. The battle of who has the right to tell the story of Lafors has begun. FASAD TORQUATO CECILIA Screenwriters Fredrik Wenzel, Jesper Kurlandsky Fredrik Wenzel and Jesper Kurlandsky Screenwriters Gabriela Pichler, Jonas Hassen Khemiri Gabriela Pichler Produced by Fasad/Erik Gandini, Jesper Kurlandsky, Malin Huber, with Fredrik Wenzel (born in 1978) is the co-director of Burrowing, which Principal cast Zahraa Aldoujaili, Yara Aliadotter, Fredrik Dahl Gabriela Pichler’s (born in 1980) first feature Eat Sleep Die had its world support from Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard premiered in Berlin 2010, and the cinematographer on Ruben Östlund’s Force Produced by Garagefilm International/Anna-Maria Kantarius, with support premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2012 where it won in the Duration approx. 80 min Majeure (2014), which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard Audience Award Film Critics’ Week section before it hit film festivals around National release TBA 2014, as well as his The Square, Palm d’Or-winner in Cannes 2017. Jesper Duration 102 min the world. She is a director and scriptwriter who left the cookie factory for the Sales TBA Kurlandsky (born in 1977) produced the award-winning Avalon (2012), National release March 16, 2018 School of Film Directing in Gothenburg. Her mix of wit and social commentary, directed by Axel Petersén. Sales LevelK combined with an eye for amateur actors, are her characteristics and also defines her films. 8 SWEDISH FILM • FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARIES SWEDISH FILM • FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARIES 9 Aniara Bamse and the Thunderbell (ANIARA) • DIRECTED BY PELLA KÅGERMAN, HUGO LILJA FEATURE DEBUT (BAMSE OCH DUNDERKLOCKAN) • DIRECTED BY CHRISTIAN RYLTENIUS An adaptation of the Nobel Prize winning Harry In the quest for the Thunderbell, the secret ingredient Martinson’s Aniara. Aniara is of one of the many that makes Bamse the strongest bear in the world, spaceships used for transporting Earth’s population to Bamse needs to learn something of utmost importan- their new home-planet Mars. But just as Aniara leaves ce: that being true to yourself takes you farther than the ruined Earth, she collides with a space junk and is you’d think. A truth that might also help Reinard the Fox knocked off her course. Aniara’s passengers slowly get the girl of his dreams … realize that they’ll never be able to return; they will continue onwards through an empty and cold universe forever. RUTGER SJÖGRIM RUTGER STUDIOS SF Screenwriters Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja Voice director Maria Blom Christian Ryltenius Principal cast Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, Pella Kågerman (born in 1982, educated at the Royal Institute of Art, Screenwriters Tomas Tivemark and Fabian Nordlander Christian Ryltenius has worked as an animator for a number of productions, Arvin Kananian Stockholm) and Hugo Lilja (born in 1979, educated at the Stockholm Principal cast Peter Haber, Morgan Alling, e.g.