Swedish Film Magazine #3 2011
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Swedish #3 2011 • A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute FilmThe documentary issue LOVE AND MURDER Åsa Blanck tells a true and tragic story BANANA REPUBLIC THE SCRAP BETWEEN DOLE AND FEATURED FILMS FREDRIK GERttEN RUMBLES ON GRANDMA’S TATTOOS THE QUIET ONE POLITKOVSKAYA HARBOUR OF HOPE REMEMBERED THE GUERILLA SON MURDERED CHAMPION OF FREE SPEECH 9 SCENES OF VIOLENCE www.sfi.se 2 WELCOME Director, International Department Pia Lundberg Phone +46 70 692 79 80 Heading for IDFA – a new start [email protected] AS I WRITE my first editorial for Swedish subject matter of documentaries gives our Film I’ve been CEO of the Swedish Film politicians a basis from which to make Festivals, features Institute for all of five days. I’ve managed to well-grounded, democratic decisions. Gunnar Almér get lost here at my workplace at the Film Phone +46 70 640 46 56 House in Stockholm and have probably THIS YEAr’s crop of Swedish documentaries [email protected] called my colleagues by the wrong names. at IDFA displays an impressive range, from I’ve also been tying myself up in knots in my the work of established directors to films by Festivals, documentaries eagerness to master all the new computer student filmmakers. Sweden manages both Sara Rüster programs and systems at one go. The to create the conditions for promising Phone +46 76 117 26 78 confusion you feel in your first days at a individuals to emerge and to develop them [email protected] new job can seem somewhat overwhelm- into established professionals. I think there ing. So it’s lucky I know why I’m here. are several reasons why this is the case. Because when it comes to the challenges Basically I believe it’s because Sweden Festivals, short films Andreas Fock facing Swedish film, I’m absolutely certain has a long history of being a (reasonably) Phone +46 70 519 59 66 about what’s needed: more money for egalitarian and democratic society. We have [email protected] Swedish films, a film industry with equality a strong tradition of promoting diversity of of opportunity (which will be the case when opinion and freedom of expression. we’ve achieved a truly 50-50 gender In purely concrete terms we can thank Special projects division), a new, modern National Film the 19 regional resource centres around the Petter Mattsson Phone +46 70 607 11 34 Agreement and an increase in the status of country which are actively engaged in [email protected] those working in the industry as a group, developing the talents of young people, leading to better working conditions as a giving semi-professional filmmakers the consequence. opportunity to experiment and develop, and Special projects even giving them permission to fail. We also Josefina Mothander Phone +46 70 972 93 52 YOU HAVE TO start somewhere, so I decided have the Film Commissioners at the [email protected] almost straight away that my first film Swedish Film Institute who ensure that we festival visit would be IDFA (International have a breadth of subject matter and means Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). of expression. Let us hope we can continue Head of Communications I gather that as a filmmaker, it’s probably on this established path and work to secure & Public Relations harder to make a living through documen- an even greater degree of funding for Åsa Garnert taries than any other genre. At the same documentary filmmaking going forward. n Phone +46 70 615 12 41 [email protected] time, Swedish documentaries have been amazingly successful in recent years, which Press Officer only goes to show just how very committed Jan Göransson our filmmakers are. Phone +46 70 603 03 62 Documentary films are a necessary [email protected] component of any democratic society. Without them we would never encounter the viewpoints they express, nor the Anna Serner Swedish Film Institute International Department window on our times they provide. The CEO, Swedish Film Institute P.O. Box 27126 SE-102 52 Stockholm, Sweden Phone +46 8 665 11 00 Fax +46 8 661 18 20 www.sfi.se Issued by The Swedish Film Institute Publisher Pia Lundberg www.twitter.com/swedishfilm Editors Mattias Dahlström, Bo Madestrand Art Direction Markus Edin Download the Swedish Film app for free. Contributing Editors Josefina Mothander, Sara Rüster Contributors Anders Dahlbom, Pontus Dahlman, Jenny Damberg, Henrik Emilson, Gunilla Kinn, Ulrika Knutson, Per Nyström, Ulf Roosvald, Alexandra Sundqvist, Po Tidholm Photography Johan Bergmark, Sara Mac Key, Daniel Sahlberg, Ylva Sundgren The Swedish Film Institute’s aims include the promotion, support and development of Swedish films, the allocation of Cover photo Johan Bergmark Image editing Kuba Rose grants, and the promotion of Swedish cinema internationally. Translation Derek Jones Print Norra Skåne Offset, Hässleholm Advertising Philip Otter [email protected] ISSN 1654-0050 3 CONTENTS 3/2011 36 22 34 12 PRIVATE AUTO IMAGES SUNDGREN YLVA SUNDGREN YLVA 18 30 32 ERIK BÄFVINGERIK JOHAN BERGMARK JOHAN HÅKAN LARSSON 5 News 14 The Quiet One, 30 The Guerilla Son Continued success for Marcus Lindeen’s Regretters and 9 Scenes of Violence Zanyar Adami and David Herdies wanted to make a film Göran Hugo Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape Ina Holmqvist, Emelie Wallgren and Michael Krotkiewski about male gender roles. But the upshot was something 1967-1975. Maud Nycander and Kristina Lindström are may be fresh out of school, but already their films have far more personal. working on a documentary about Olof Palme. And we been picked for IDFA. talk to Documentary Film Commissioner Cecilia Lidin, 32 Inbetweener after almost a year in the job. 18 A Bitter Taste of Freedom Erik Bäfving makes award-winning films out of 8 New talents Freedom of speech champion Anna Politkovskaya still photo compilations. remembered through the eyes of director Marina Anna Persson and Ahang Bashi go behind the scenes at Goldovskaya and producer Malcolm Dixelius. 34 Love Always, Carolyn the Migration Board in The Case Officer. Carolyn Cassady was the wife of Neal Cassady and the 22 The Great Liberty lover of Jack Kerouac. Now the Beat Generation heroine 10 What’s next? After successful documentaries including The Swindler is the subject of Maria Ramström and Malin Korkeasalo’s Frida Kempff follows up last year’s Cannes success. and The Substitute, Åsa Blanck is back with a film about new film. Måns Månsson switches from documentaries to crime a son’s recollections of his murdered father. fiction. And David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn talk 36 Harbour of Hope about their next animated documentary. 26 Big Boys Gone Bananas!* After World War II thousands of refugees came to Malmö 12 Grandma’s Tattoos Another round in the fight between director in southern Sweden. Thanks to his father, Magnus Fredrik Gertten and the fruit giant Dole. Gertten tells some of their stories. Director Suzanne Khardalian uncovers some dark family secrets. 28 Women with Cows 38 New docs Peter Gerdehag’s latest documentary looks at people at 24 new Swedish documentaries are ready to hit festivals odds with modernity. and markets. 4 TEXT BO MADESTRAND NEWS A glorious collaboration Earlier this autumn, director Marcus Lindeen scooped two prestigious awards in the same weekend. First, he picked up the Swedish television award Kristallen for best documen- tary for his Guldbagge-winning sex-change documentary Regretters (Ångrarna, 2010), then walked away with the award for best medium-length film for Accidentes Gloriosos (2011, co-directed with Mauro Andrizzi) at the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival. “It feels great,” a happy Lindeen says. “I had no expectations in Venice, it took me completely by surprise. Accidentes Gloriosos ASAC O was something of a kamikaze project: it came T out of a workshop, and when we started IA PHO- shooting I hardly knew my fellow director, Z Mauro Andrizzi, at all. But it all worked out brilliantly, I think. It was a bold project and I Marcus Lindeen (right) with co-director IENNALE DI VENE learnt a lot from it.” B Mauro Andrizzi in Venice. A L What are you working on now? © “I’m doing a play for the City Theatre in We are #1! Stockholm, based on unfinished and Absolutely free, absolutely fabu- never-before-seen scripts by Ingmar lous! When the Swedish Film iPad Bergman. I found a script with the words ‘The app was released this autumn it Archive of Unrealised Visions and Dreams’ on immediately became the number the cover in his archives, and decided to use it A one free download in Sweden. The V I T A new issue, featuring trailers and as the title for my play, which is a collage of C Accidentes several Bergman texts. It’s set to premiere in Gloriosos. dynamic links, is available for MILIANO MILIANO May 2012.” E Android tablets as well. Out now! New kids on the block Less than twelve months ago, Cecilia Lidin ented and focused they ened to sanction more unusual and experi- took up her post as the new Documentary are: they’re not remotely mental projects.” Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film hopeless or apathetic, as Do you mean that artistic levels have Institute. When Swedish Film interviewed some people might seem risen? her before she started the job she spoke of inclined to think. I’m “Yes. That doesn’t mean that films have to her special interest in a project whereby the reading through scripts Cecilia look pretty, they can be visually challenging Swedish Film Institute and Swedish right now, and they’re very Lidin too, but many people are working in more Television were working together to promising indeed.” artistic and imaginative ways.