Swedish #1 2014 • A magazine from the Swedish Film Institute Film The Road To FReedom Göran Hugo Olsson explores the roots of anti-colonialism in his new documentary, Concerning Violence

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Festivals, features Gunnar Almér For the young at heart Phone +46 70 640 46 56 [email protected] 2014 will go down in history as the year directors, “Moviement”. Her first feature Swedish film got the chance to show off its was funded through our awards scheme scope in Berlin. It’s very gratifying for us to aimed at women directors, in partnership Festivals, documentaries have so many types of film invited to the with the Stockholm International Film Festi- Sara Rüster festival, but also pleasing to get proof that val. The fact that the film has been selected Phone +46 76 117 26 78 [email protected] our focus on film funding is paying off. As for Berlinale is proof that Sofia Norlin is a CEO of the Swedish Film Institute I find it competent and talented director and also particularly satisfying that my colleagues’ that our programme is working. Festivals, short films efforts have produced such good results. This year we also have a documentary Theo Tsappos Since 2010 the Swedish Film Institute has taking part in Panorama, Göran Hugo Phone +46 76 779 11 33 worked intensively to secure the stable Olsson’s Concerning Violence. Olsson [email protected] production of quality films for children. Up continues to demonstrate the strength of until the 1980s Sweden was, along with our Swedish documentary filmmaking, and that Special projects Nordic neighbours, a leading nation in the the Oscar awarded to Malik Bendjelloul for Petter Mattsson field of children’s cinema. But something Searching for Sugar Man last year was not Phone +46 70 607 11 34 happened along the way and children’s films simply a coincidence. [email protected] found it increasingly difficult to get funding and distribution. The focus on children’s Finally, Felix herngren’s The 100-Year- Special projects films in the past few years has been to Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Josefina Mothander provide a high level of state funding, to Disappeared, a wide-ranging film that has Phone +46 70 972 93 52 ensure adequate budgets and also to provide broken box office records in its first weeks [email protected] consistent support for family films. The aim on general release in Sweden, has been has been to ensure regular production and a selected for a Berlinale Special Gala. steady increase in status and quality. All this testifies to the scope and quality Press Officer Jan Göransson of Swedish film, something that makes us Phone +46 70 603 03 62 This year we have six films in the two proud to be Swedish. [email protected] competitions of Berlin’s Generation section, films for children and young people. They range from Sofia Norlin’s Broken Hill Blues in Generation 14plus to no fewer than five entries in Generation Kplus. These include Sweden’s first animated film in 3D, Beyond Beyond by Esben Toft Jacobsen, and a new version of the Swedish classic That Boy Emil. Our focus has also been on improving equality in Swedish feature films. Sofia Norlin is one of the filmmakers who have anna serner Swedish Film Institute International Department Download the Swedish Film app for free and get attended our programme for women CEO, Swedish Film Institute P.O. Box 27126 info on new Swedish films, extra features, trailers se-102 52 stockholm, sweden Phone +46 8 665 11 00 fax +46 8 661 18 20 and dynamic links. Avaliable on iPad and Android. www.sfi.se www.twitter.com/swedishfilm Download the Swedish Film New issue out now. Issued by The Swedish Film Institute Publisher Pia Lundberg app for iPad and Android for free. Editors Mattias Dahlström, Bo Madestrand Art Director Markus Edin Contributing Editor Josefina MothanderContributors Jon Asp, Anders Dahlbom, Jenny Damberg, Emma Gray The Swedish Film Institute’s aims include the promotion, support Munthe, Christina Höglund, Malin Krutmeijer, Per Nyström, Hynek Pallas, Niklas Wahllöf and development of Swedish films, the allocation of grants, and Photography Karin Alfredsson, Johan Bergmark, Sara Mac Key, Cover photo Sara Mac Key Translation Derek Jones the promotion of Swedish cinema internationally. Print Norra Skåne Offset, Hässleholm Advertising Fredrik Johnsson [email protected] issN 1654-0050

swedish film • issue 1 2014 3 contents 1/2014

6 shOOTInG sTaR Her role as jazz singer Monica Zetterlund in the biopic Waltz for Monica made young musician and actress Edda Magnason an overnight star. Now she’s Sweden’s Shooting Star in Berlin.

8 neWs A hundred-year-old man climbs out of the window and ends up in Berlin. Plus Baker Karim on taking the helm as the new Feature Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute. 16 14 WhaT’s nexT hot on the heels of an award-winning video game, Josef Fares is back in the film business. Ella Lemhagen directs the remake of the classic Swedish television series The Boy with the Golden Trousers. And Mikael Marcimain follows up his controversial box-office success Call Girl with an adaptation of author Klas Östergren’s influential novel Gentlemen. 26 16 neW TalenTs Shining the spotlight on Viktor Nordenskiöld, Anton Kjellgren (with the production collective Ögat) and Jonas Selberg Augustsén.

20 cOnceRnInG VIOlence After his success with The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, director Göran Hugo Olsson returns with Concerning Violence, an exploration of anti-colonialism based on rare archive material. 14 24 FReaK OuT! make love not war. san francisco in the 60s? No, switzerland in the early 20th century. Carl Javér’s documentary traces the unlikely roots of counter culture.

26 sOmeThInG musT BReaK During a long hot summer, Sebastian encounters love, deceit and self-destruction. ester martin Bergsmark’s debut feature is about finding love in all the wrong places. 20 30 FlIcKs FOR KIds Ever since the early adaptations of Astrid Lindgren’s classic children’s books, Sweden has 30 had a long, strong tradition of producing high-quality films for children. Read all about this year’s Swedish contributions to the children and youth sections at the Berlinale.

36 TOmmy Director Tarik Saleh brings us Tommy, a gritty gangster movie about girlfriends and wives in Stockholm’s criminal underworld starring Moa SCREENING Gammel and pop singer Lykke Li. Feb. 7, 12:30 CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL 39 neW FIlms All the latest Swedish feature films and CinemaxX 8 documentaries…

50 neW shORTs …and the shorts, too.

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singing shooting star Edda Magnason started out as a singer. But her role as jazz legend Monica Zetterlund in Waltz for Monica has brought her an acting career. Edda Magnason is this year’s Swedish “Shooting Star” at the Berlin Film Festival.

“I never thought I’d get involved in the concentration and focus that you for the ten most promising young acting,” says Edda Magnason. “It was need as an actor have a lot in common European actors of the year. never something I dreamt of”. with standing on the stage as an artist. “I feel both delighted and Music was the 29-year-old’s first You might be shy in private, but when honoured,” says Magnason. “I’m really passion. And still is: Magnason’s two you’re playing live or acting out a part, looking forward to going to Berlin!” previous albums of dreamy pop have something happens. The difference is What do you hope being a earned her rave reviews back home. that as an actor you’re playing Shooting Star will entail? Still, acting is what her life has someone else. As a performing artist “I hope to get to meet interesting revolved around for the last couple of you go up on the stage as an people and to experience the Berlin years. Her role as Sweden’s most amplified version of yourself.” Film Festival in an exciting way.” famous jazz singer Monica Zetterlund Waltz for Monica has been a huge What are your plans going (1937-2005) in Danish director Per box-office hit in Sweden, largely on forward? Fly’s biopic Waltz for Monica (Monica the back of Magnason’s performance. “Right now I’m busy with my Z, 2013), has given her a second Small wonder then that she’s been upcoming album which is due for 29-year-old singer/actress Edda Magnason is this career. Magnason sees similarities selected as a “Shooting Star”, release this spring.” year’s Swedish “Shooting Star” at the Berlin Film between the two professions. European Film Promotion’s and the TExT MATTIAS DAHlSTRöM festival. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best PHOTO CARl THORBORG Actress in a Leading Role for Waltz for Monica. “As I got into the part, I realised that Berlin Film Festival’s special honour

Ciao Miriam Not only has Swedish actress Edda Magnason been nominated as a Shooting Star in RIZZI

Berlin – the Italian nominee Miriam Karlkvist is V actually half-swedish. According to the jury, “miriam EBORA makes a striking debut in South is Nothing (Fabio Molli, D 2013). we were impressed by her vividly original work: a significant leading role that remains committed to the complexity of the character. By the film’s climax, Miriam’s talent is revealed in further depth, giving us an enticing glimpse of her future potential.”

6 swedish film • issue 1 2014 swedish film • issue 1 2014 7 news berlin berlin news

David Wiberg, Iwar Wiklander and Robert Gustafsson, Love below zero Alfred Juntti in Sofia Norlin’s in old-man-make-up, in The 100-Year-Old Who Climbed coming-of-age-drama Broken Hill Blues. Out the Window and Disappeared. ● In director Sofia Norlin’s Broken Hill Blues (Ömheten, 2013), three teenagers on the brink of adulthood try to find a future as the world around them literally falls apart. The movie is set in Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost town, all of which is set to be demolished and moved to make way for more iron-ore mining. “It’s an amazing and rather neat metaphor for the place itself. Everyone ) depends on the mine, without which there OR wouldn’t be a town at all. But it’s also the ReCt

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Old-timer conquers the world Felix Herngren

With his 100th birthday with his first novel The Hundred-Year- many funny elements you could really. Millions of people have their own SALTÖN, OFFSIDE, THE NEW COUNTRY approaching, Allan Karlsson is Old Man Who Climbed Out the imagine as scenes in your head. So in images in their heads from reading the tired of living in a care home and Window and Disappeared. since 2009 this case it’s been more a question of book. As soon as they start analysing fed up with all the fuss about his the book has been read by almost a casting and finding the right locations and comparing with what they see on big day. He climbs out of the million Swedes (this in a country with a for filming. We were a little worried, the screen, then the film is lost. What you window and disappears. Still population of nine million). So it came as however, that the people who had fallen need to do is engage them immediately, restless and spritely, Allan no surprise that the story – which is as for Jonas Jonasson’s witticisms and basically to draw them in and knock immediately gets caught up in a much about 20th century history as it is wordplays in the book would find them them dead with a stunner of a film.” series of adventures of the kind about Allan Karlsson himself – was set lacking in the film: quite simply, you can’t By the beginning of January EVERLASTING MOMENTS, SLIM SUSIE that peppered his amazing earlier to become a film. film things like that. We’ve used some of following its Christmas release, life, which included meetings with Helming the film is Felix Herngren, them in the voiceover, but other than Herngren knew he had a hit on his world leaders such as Truman and the director of many Swedish film and that we had to leave them out.” hands. In less than a month the film had Stalin. television successes, with “the funniest So what have they said, the been seen by a million Swedes, totally man in sweden”, Robert Gustafsson, in people in a position to compare eclipsing the previous record holder, SIMON AND THE OAKS, ● In recent years Swedish literature the leading role. the book with the film? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009). HOW SOON IS NOW?! (UPP TILL KAMP) has become renowned on the world How do you transfer the hilarity “What’s interesting is that the people His film had already grossed almost stage for its steady stream of crime and humour of a book to the who have done both and the people seK 700 million and been sold to some fiction. But writers have achieved even screen? who’ve only seen the film seem to have 40 countries and will be screened as a greater success with often humorous, “Not all literature is suitable for a film the same opinions. It’s a good Berlinale Special Gala at the Berlin Film somewhat screwball adventure stories, adaptation,” says Felix Herngren. But endorsement that the film is capable of Festival. none more so than Jonas Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man has so standing on its own. But it’s the only way, NIKLAS WAHLLÖF New release: ETTOR NOLLOR aka Heroes´n Zeroes by Johan Renck and Oskar Söderlund Up-coming features: BOYS by Alexandra Keining, THE POTENCY GIVERS by Lena Koppel International co-productions: EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE by 8 swedish film • issue 1 2014 Wim Wenders, FEVER AT DAWN by Peter Gardos, OUR SUN by Joost van Ginkel, TACIT WISDOM by Saara Cantell www.gotafi lm.seswedish film • issue 1 2014 9 news hello

Since November, Baker Karim has been the new Feature Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute. The 39-year-old has a long back- ground in films. He made his debut feature with Four Women (2001) and was one of the key players behind two highly acclaimed television series, Swedenhielms (2003) and The Babalou Family (2009). Karim has also worked as a screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. AN hi C

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pARTNER IN iel is about national identity – who are we? look beyond their own backsides. That’s Pleasure

ABR For a long time now Swedish films have why so many of these films are about G sold a self-image that has been false, being unfaithful, about self-fulfilment or an image of white, middle class, tristesse. It’s drama as a sort of security middle-aged men doing middle class blanket. I hope that films will start to get completion leif-eRiKNyGåRds things. Films based on “recognition”. closer to reality, because only then will But who are these people who are we be able to set a real Swedish film What’s your view of the state of probably think I’m talking about supposed to recognise themselves? wave in motion.” Swedish cinema? heavyweight political films, but that’s That part of the population who never mAttiAs dAhlstRöm “Swedish cinema has let its not what this is about. We need to audience down. On the one hand we produce films that people can make esoteric art house films that engage with. I’m going to be looking Bonds are neither as innovative nor for films that have relevance for a world-shattering as the critics would modern, smart, cinema-loving have us believe, and on the other, audience.” populist commercial films which, Is international success quite frankly, are often really useless important? and cynical assembly-line “Absolutely. It helps to develop the TAKING productions. When you have two industry as a whole because it gives interests pulling in opposite our filmmakers the chance to reach

x directions, the system will break out and form new partnerships and YOUR DREAM the like. Swedish films are one way

Syndromeda “sWedIsh FIlms of presenting ourselves to the world. ALMONFO TO THE SCREEN. S aRe One Way OF They help to define the way others see us. The problem arises when pResenTInG things get repetitive: when The naked truth at Sundance OuRselVes TO something isn’t broken there seems ● Last year Ninja Thyberg’s short film Pleasure (2013) won the Canal+ The WORld” to be no need to fix it. What we need Award in the Critics’ Week at to understand is what we’re good at the Cannes Film Festival. Now down after a while. You need to find – and what we could be extremely the filmmaker is taking her RN a way to ensure that quality films good at. it’s a question of our behind-the-scenes-look at a iKö reach a wider audience, or a way to self-image.”

porn shoot to the Sundance fABR make mass-market films of a higher And our self-belief? Film Festival. & ANN u RN quality. it can be achieved with “In part, yes. I think that’s h Thyberg may be a tö proper selection. And it can be something we already have. AN

newcomer to the Park City film h achieved – in part – from my office.” self-belief is spread by getting our diReK JO fest, but she’ll be accompanied Patrik Eklund Ninja Thyberg How would you like Swedish films out to festivals and by people by a fellow Swede who’s a real cinema to develop? working abroad. On the other hand, veteran. Patrik Eklund’s Syndromeda (2013) is the Academy Award-nomi- “Swedish audiences, I believe, we need to adjust our self-image. Film Finances Scandinavia AB nated (Instead of Abracadabra in 2010) director’s third short film to make it to have a yearning for exciting quality Right now it seems to be caught up Sundance. The film about a man who claims to have been abducted by films. We need new images, new in the general debate about equality, Floragatan 4A SE-114 31 Stockholm, Sweden aliens is a genre-mixing short, stylishly filmed in black and white. Or as the experiences, new angles, themes racism, the decline of the welfare Phone: +46 8 762 17 58 director himself puts it: “a kitchen sink sci-fi-noir’. and narratives. A lot of people state and other issues. All that stuff mAttiAs dAhlstRöm Email: [email protected] 10www.filmfinances.se 11 Miss Friman’s War news - 1905. It was a man’s world. w

Mikael Persbrandt in KONO Someone You Love lf RO “SVT has got a real winner in this Heavyweight comedy-drama. Swedish actors It’s very funny, with sharp in Berlin dialogue and an awesome cast.” Karolina Fjellborg, Aftonbladet DRAMA SERIES: 3 x 60 minutes, available in all territories ● With two films screening in Berlin, Stellan Skarsgård confirms his reputation as one of Scandinavia’s major actors. Apart from playing Seligman in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Skarsgård also plays the lead in Hans Petter Moland’s Norwegian Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves competition entry In Order of Disappear- ance, an action comedy about a snow - A love story in the shadow of AIDS A Living Soul plough driver out for revenge. In Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Danish filmSomeone You Love Mikael Persbrandt plays the lead as an ageing rock star. The film reunites Persbrandt with actress Trine “Shocking, instructive, poignant, swedish shorts dyrholm: they last played together in this three-part Swedish drama set susanne Bier’s Oscar-winning In a Better in 1982 is a breathtaking World. Fischer Christensen, whose next in clermont-Ferrand project will be a biopic on the Swedish television masterwork.” ● Henry Moore Selder’s A Living laboratory having been kept alive screened at the Market at the children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, won an Mike Bradley, The Observer Soul (En levande själ, 2014) is in by artificial means. With a same festival: Niki lindroth von award in Berlin for A Soap back in 2006. JON ASP competition at the world’s leading screenplay by Peter Modestij, Bahr’s Bath House (Simhall, “A superb three-part drama, set in short films festival in Clermont- actors in the film include 2014), Jens Choong’s Reel Ferrand. Based on a novel by Stina Ekblad and Claes (2014) and lovisa sirén’s Pussy Hot to trot in Stockholm during the early years PC Jersild, the film is about a Ljungmark. Have the Power (2014). of the Aids epidemic.” human brain which wakes up in a Three Swedish films are JON ASP Rotterdam David Chater, The Times DRAMA SERIES: 3 x 60 minutes, available in all territories ● Hot on the heels of opening the Pussy Have the Power Bath House Göteborg Film Festival, Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder, 2014) got its international The Molanders premiere in the main - What do you do when ey RéN competition at the K si love and passion collides? A Rotterdam film AC m vis festival (Januari 22– lO ARA

s februari 2). henrik Henrik Hellström Hellström’s The Quiet Roar (2013) screened in the festival’s section for first and second time filmmakers, Bright Future, prior to competing for the Dragon Award in Göteborg. Other Swedish films screening in Rotterdam were Anna Odell’s The Reunion (2013), and Trespassing Bergman (2013) ” The result is charming, painted by Jane Magnusson and Hynek Pallas, and in broad strokes, with a rich and y the short films Me Seal , Baby (2013) by varied set of characters.”

PRA Joanna Rytel and 2011 12 30 (2013) by Reel m Lars Ring, Svenska Dagbladet DRAMA SERIES: 12 x 45 minutes, available in all territories MALADE lA Leontine Arvidsson. JON ASP

12 swedish film • issue 1 2014 Read more on www.svtsales.com what’s next We check out some of sweden’s most interesting directors in mid-production

Director Mikael Marcimain on the set of Gentlemen. ella lemhagen “There are more car chases and action scenes than before”

● Mention The Boy with the Golden Lemhagen has shown what a The Boy with the Trousers and every Swede who sat in fine director of family and Golden Trousers front of the tv as a child in the 1970s especially children’s films she is. will get goose bumps and a far-away “I’ve seen the television look in their eyes. We’re all deeply series many times, both as a fascinated by Mats, or more especially kid in the seventies and more his trousers, found in an old warehouse recently with my own children and with an endless supply of on DVD. I was so delighted banknotes in the pockets. when they asked me about the Ella Lemhagen is the director of a film that I said yes with barely a feature version of this vintage cult series, glimpse at the script.” a project which seems tailor-made for As one might expect, The her. With films like Tsatsiki, Mom and the Boy with the Golden Trousers Police Man (Tsatsiki, morsan och (Pojken med guldbyxorna) is set polisen,1999), Patrik Age 1,5 (Patrik 1,5, in the present, and Ella 2008), Immediate Boarding (Tur & Retur, Lemhagen has collaborated on 2003)and most recently The Crown the final screenplay. Mats, whose Jewels (Kronjuvelerna, 2011), parents are divorced, gets packed off to stay for the first

time with his father. There’s a heNRiKBRuNNsGåRd touch of Kramer vs Kramer in the plot, and the father-son relationship is more important and topical now,” asserts Ella Lemhagen, on the previous films you’ve developed than it was 40 years ago, but her way home after a long day in the ed- made? öm the film still centres largely on the value R iting room. Currently in postproduction, “There are more car chases and of money.

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R Does The Boy with the Golden police chases are new to me.” and poor is probably no closer than it de Trousers differ significantly from ChRistiNA höGluNd mikael marcimain “When I read Gentlemen for the first time, AN was then. So the subject is just as Stockholm and the world expanded in my mind.”

● Following the success of Call Girl this has been a major concern for me. ished, refurbished, sold out. People on They flirt with various genres that Josef Fares “It feels almost like starting over. And my (2012), a study of prostitution at the How can you do justice on the screen the margins of society have no place collide. I’ve probably brought certain heart of the Swedish elite, plus tv series to such richness of description? nowadays in the inner city. These are tones and glimpses of Sweden as a next film is going to be something I haven’t done before” How Soon is Now (Upp till Kamp, Fortunately Klas himself has written the the people that Gentlemen is about. society from the earlier film into the new ● Director Josef Fares (Jalla! Jalla!, Fares says, spurred him on to make animation company ILP. They showed 2007) and The Laser Man (Laser- screenplays, otherwise I wouldn’t have Oddball characters who give life and works.” 2000, Kops (Kopps, 2003), Zozo, films again. me a short film they had made which mannen, 2005), that explored dared to take on the task. There’s also a colour to the city.” The upshot will be both a feature 2005) surprised many film industry “It feels almost like starting over. And really impressed me. After that, we important times in modern Swedish challenge in trying to decide on the You avidly read Gentlemen as a film and a 4 x 90 minute television insiders by creating the video game my next film is going to be something I decided to make something together. I history, Mikael Marcimain is in many genre of the novels. they’re existential: 15-year-old. What was special series. In broad terms, the feature film Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. And what haven’t done before.” felt it was time I put Sweden on the map, ways the pride of Swedish cinema. they’re about life, love, destructive lies, about it for you? concentrates on the first novel N

a success he made of it: at the video se He does have a taste for more video with this project and others.” universally praised for the idiomatic the Cold War, jazz and prog rock. About “When I read Gentlemen for the first Gentlemen, which finishes in 1979, Games Awards in December eN games, but they require so much time, Does making films help your way he gets to the heart of all things the gradual and inescapable demolition time, Stockholm and the world and the television series incorporates newcomer Fares scooped the award for energy and focus that it’s hard to make creativity in video games and vice Swedish, his latest project finds him of Sweden’s model welfare state. And expanded in my mind. It lifted my gaze, both novels, finishing in 2005. filming JöRG s

Best xbox 360 Game. R films at the same time. versa? taking on Klas Östergren’s novels their tone is at once lightly entertaining fuelled my dreams. when i read it 25 took 120 days, something of a “I was able to show those who de so, lebanese-born fares, winner of “The most important thing is to

Gentlemen and Gangsters, set in a and as black as night.” years later I discovered a story that was marathon for the crew, who shot both AN thought I was only boasting beforehand innumerable awards, springs yet another recognise that they’re two completely decadent and broken world around How do you recreate a lost world? far more dark, a tragedy.” the film and the television series in that I actually did know how to make a PeR- surprise: he’s going to make a 5-6 minute different worlds. Watching films is a stockholm’s mariatorget in the 1970s. Even mentally? What experiences from Call Girl parallel. The film is set to premiere in good game. Much of the secret of my short animation about a lone fisherman in passive experience, playing video games How hard is it to adapt such “Obviously you need plenty of have you brought to this project? late autumn 2014, and the television game was the specially designed the controls with your right hand. A the swedish archipelago. Really? is interactive. But now I know I can make well-described settings into film? production resources. The Stockholm “Both Call Girl and Gentlemen are series will be broadcast around control that lets you hold your little stroke of emotional genius!” “yes… a while back i started the very best of both those worlds.” “Given that Klas writes in such an of 1978 which permeates the novels period films that rely on feeling both Christmas 2015. brother’s hand while you’re operating his foray into video games has, working on a commercial with the ChRistiNA höGluNd amazingly cinematic way in his novels, has more or less disappeared – demol- realistic and poetically, visually driven. ChRistiNA höGluNd

14 swedish film • issue 1 2014 swedish film • issue 1 2014 15 new talents

xavier Manuel Campione dancing to a South African form of house music Viktory known as kwaito. The clip was seen by Beyoncé, who up-and-coming Viktor Nordenskiöld is currently was so impressed that she wanted to incorporate their moves in her Run the grabbing the headlines with two films. Screening at World (Girls) video. After an exhaustive the Berlin Film Festival, Out of This World is a short search, her team managed to track down documentary about child labour in Pakistan. And The Clip, Mario and xavier and fly them to co-directed with Andreas magnell, is a feature-length America to help with the choreography and take part in the video. documentary about two dancers from mozambique who “The bridegroom filmed the dance on were discovered by Beyoncé. his mum’s camera and posted it on YouTube. And one of the world’s biggest ● Travelling through the Punjab region stars saw it! It’s a fantastic ‘viral’ story,” Out of of Pakistan, Viktor Nordenskiöld came This World says Andreas Magnell.

across 12-year-old mohammad Rizwan iöld He got the idea for the film when travelling in mozambique in 2011, just who cleans petrol lorries. His job also NsK

involves climbing into the tanks de when Run the World (Girls) hit the charts OR

themselves to remove any remaining N and the story of the two dancers hit

petrol. OR Twitter. Magnell linked up with Viktor

“It’s claustrophobic and dangerous viKt Nordenskiöld and started to research the work that’s often carried out by children,” story. Mario and xavier turned out to be The Clip viktor Nordenskiöld explains. “Rizwan “two amazing guys” who had just returned would really like to go to school, but he’s home to resume their normal lives. the eldest sibling and his father is too ill to “What happens to your self image work and support the family. Rizwan when you’ve been involved in something touched me deeply, and I felt compelled extraordinary? that’s one of the main to tell his story.” themes of the film,” says Viktor the upshot is the ten-minute short Nordenskiöld. documentary Out of This World, which is The filmmakers were given access to set to screen at the Berlinale in the Beyoncé’s footage of the dance Generation Kplus section. The film rehearsals in America, and they’ve spent presents a distinct and poetic snapshot films time with Mario and xavier back in their

of Rizwan’s life and dreams. OwN home city of Maputo, where the two

“Child labour is a controversial topic in eet dancers are coming to terms with their Pakistan. It’s very common, despite the fR gradually diminishing fame. fact that the country has signed the uN documentary co-directed with Andreas A co-production with pubcaster Convention for the Rights of the Child. Magnell. The clip of the title is a YouTube Sveriges Television (SVT), the hope is What I’d like now is to make a follow up to video which changed the lives of two that the film will be screened internation- the film,” says Nordenskiöld. dancers. ally this spring. Currently he’s in the final production It shows a Swedish wedding in text mAliN KRutmeiJeR stages of The Clip, a feature-length mozambique with mario Abel Buce and PhOtO JOhAN BeRGmARK

16 swedish film • issue 1 2014 swedish film • issue 1 2014 17 new talents Romani road trip All the connections In the wake of several acclaimed shorts and you need to lm in Sweden. documentaries, Jonas Selberg Augustsén is in pre-production with his first feature film, a road movie about people on the margins of society.

● On one level The Garbage home in Sweden’s welfare state, but Helicopter (Sophelikoptern) is the the story could really be about simple story of three youths who set anyone,” Augustsén explains. out to deliver a wall clock to their In keeping with the director’s grandmother. On another level Jonas previous work, the film maintains a Selberg Augustsén’s first feature film focus on people who feel margin- is a swedish road movie in Romani, a alised in one way or another. journey through a wealthy country in Why will you make the film in which not everyone feels at home. black and white Augustsén has previously made a “There’s a levelling effect in making number of notable short films, plus everyone equally colourless. Other s) R the critically acclaimed documentary stories about Romani people often tue The Tree Lover (Trädälskaren, 2008). centre on how different and colourful PiC The Garbage Helicopter is part of a they are, with an emphasis on the ll A project to make films in each of exotic. I want to emphasise the Sweden’s minority languages. normal instead. We’re all working with d ishiid (

N “There was something which took the same life questions,” says longer to tell this time. Romani people Augustsén. will clearly recognise not feeling at ANdeRs dAhlBOm ethKeNN svedlu Jonas Selberg Augustsén The Modern Project

This is the modern world In The Modern Project, the Ögat collective looks at group dynamics and the runaway focus on the individual in our times.

● Is it possible to break free from the Modern Project (Det moderna hyper individualism of our time? projektet), their first feature film. Course leaders Sara and Simon The storyline of the film lies The Modern Project make an attempt to do so during a somewhere between The Lord of the retreat in an old house. They teach Flies and Lars von Trier’s The Idiots. The meaningless activities to the idea is to explore what happens to peo- participants in order to free them from ple when they find themselves in a the shackles of individualism. But the group. group dynamic soon begins to break “As an outsider you might find the down. people in the film somewhat strange. “We’d been talking a lot about how But go to any corporate training people promote themselves these days, session and you’ll find similar things the notion of “Me Ltd”. That led us to the going on. My idea of a good film isn’t idea of a retreat where you could break whether you talk about it as good or free from the hamster wheel,” says bad, but whether it sparks off a Anton Källrot, director and member of discussion about wider issues,” says Ögat, a collective which also works in Källrot. Anton Källrot the theatre, and the group is behind The ANdeRs dAhlBOm

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Telling the facts His portrayal of the American civil rights movement in the documentary collage The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 brought Göran hugo olsson international acclaim.

International Rotterdam using the same techniques in his new film Concerning Violence,Berlin Competition olsson this time turns his gaze to Africa and frantz fanon’s critique of colonialism. text hynek PAllAs Photo sArA mAc key

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ith striking coincidence, on the same day with greater violence”. In the first chapter of the book that I book an interview with director – from which the title of the film is taken – violent WGöran Hugo Olsson to talk about his new resistance against the coloniser is described as an act filmConcerning Violence (2014), Nelson Mandela dies. of catharsis and liberation. Over the weeks that follow the media enshrine the “It was working on my last film [The Black Power image of the South African fighter against apartheid Mixtape 1967-1975, (2011)] which led me into these as a pacifist dove of peace. The fact that Mandela was themes. The Wretched of the Earth was very signifi- on the Central Committee of the South African Com- cant in the 1960s and a sort of bible for Stokely munist Party and the founder of the African National Carmichael and others. A common subject of discus- Congress’ armed wing is something that is virtually sion back then was who had the right to perpetrate ignored. violence. On one side were the police and the military “I found it riveting to see the ANC’s pecking order – the state violence monopoly. I wanted to explore at the memorial service,” says Olsson when we meet this as a theme: what’s the nature of this violence up at his production company Story in Stockholm’s monopoly, what is its history and what positive Södermalm district. effects does it have? Is it a death reflex? And do “Barack Obama and other western leaders were a people who put up violent resistance against it gain long way down the list. The last person to speak was freedom and self respect through their actions?” Raúl Castro. People may say what they like, but Man- dela’s first trip abroad was to Cuba, the country that ConCerning ViolenCe is divided into nine chapters fought most prominently against apartheid. And introduced by the voice of a narrator reading passages Mandela aligned himself with the Cubans.”

EvEn though nElson Mandela doesn’t feature in FAcTs GörAn HuGo olsson Concerning Violence, the kind of military resistance Born in 1965, Göran Hugo Olsson is a documentary film direc- he organised is central to the film.Concerning Vio- tor, producer and camera designer. He was the Documentary Film lence is based around Frantz Fanon’s book The Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute 1999–2002 and currently Wretched of the Earth, which was published in 1961 heads up the film production company Story. Olsson has made a number of documentary films including Fuck You, (the same year that the ANC’s armed wing was Fuck You Very Much (1998) about Swedish pop artist Leila K, and Am I founded), in which the French psychiatrist and phi- Black Enough For You (2009) about the soul singer Billy Paul. His recent Göran Hugo Olsson film,The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011), uses archive material with daughter Effie. losopher sums up colonialism as “violence in its natu- and newly conducted interviews to tell the story of the Afro-American civil ral state, (which) will only yield when confronted rights struggle.

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from the text which are also visible on the guese soldiers stepping on a landmine in tim in the hope that the humanism we kindle take the copper, we should be prepared to screen. Like The Black Power Mixtape, the film Angola. will spread like ripples on water once people take the people too.” The Wretched of the Earth is based on archive material, this time around Fanon’s language is at once theoretical, leave the movie theatre. We filmmakers don’t Whilst he acknowledges that there are on clips of colonial repression and the strug- poetic and physically concrete, and this is need to be so passive! It’s not enough any some dated passages in Fanon’s text, Ols- thE last book which Frantz Fanon wrote The first edition of the book featured gle for freedom in 1960s and 70s Africa. Swed- amplified and reinforced through the direc- more.” son believes that taken as a whole, he was a – he died aged 36 in 1963 – is a psychologi- an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre, who ish missionaries build churches. White golf- tor’s use of sound and images. Olsson is keen prophetic writer who can help us to under- cal study of the dehumanising effects of supported Fanon’s theories of the justifi- ers with black caddies are seen to the accom- to stress that the film is a fully faithful inter- thErE’s no Escaping Olsson’s own active stand our current situation and the political colonialism on people and nations. The able violence of the colonised and its paniment of a country song praising the pretation of the book. engagement in the issues raised. When I violence it entails. original French title necessity both for mental white colonial founder of Rhodesia, Cecil “I wanted to produce a true representa- question the significance of filming Fanon’s “For more than ten years now we’ve wit- (Les Damnés de la health and political liber- Rhodes. A young Robert Mugabe gives an tion of Fanon’s thoughts and to confront the thoughts today, the director counters with nessed suicide bombers without trying to Terre) is lifted from the ation. Critics such as interview. Interspersed with peaceful images challenge of filming a non-fiction book. And I the clip from the 1966 strike at the Liberian understand why it is that they blow them- first verse of the Inter- Homi K. Bhabha (who like these, the effects of violence run menac- wanted for once to say something right out – American Swedish Mining Company in Libe- selves up. Or why Somali pirates seize nationale. In the book wrote the preface to a ingly through the film – white men use cattle to make a checklist instead of the classic ria 1966 which features in Concerning Vio- boats. Fanon helps us to recognise the pat- Fanon is critical both later edition of the book) as target practice, a black woman and her documentary format of following someone lence. tern and to form an opinion. Instead of say- of imperialism and are of the opinion that baby whose limbs have been blown off, Portu- with the camera, presenting them as a vic- “Today the Lundin Oil Company is running ing that Lundin Oil have done such and nationalism. He dis- the focus of Sartre’s the world’s biggest copper mine in the Con- such and hearing the company reply that cusses the psychologi- introduction confined go. But unlike Liberia in 1966, they don’t they haven’t, we want to show that we cal health of individuals the reader’s interpreta- even employ the local population. They even Europeans have been exploiting Africans and how language is tion of the book solely concerning Violence and lauryn Hill fly in the people who drive the company bus- for 500 years and that nothing much has used to create imperial- to violent resistance to since both the written and the english version by the film, but also to write some es. So in many ways the plundering of raw changed in the 50 years since The Wretched ist identities – such as oppression. spoken word are so central to musician lauryn hill. music. But prisoners in the materials is even worse because of free of the Earth was published. And if we don’t “colonised” and “colonis- Concerning Violence Concerning Violence, the film however, hill was serving a us are not allowed to earn trade. We can take goods from anywhere and try to understand people who are subject to er” – which subsequent- has a new preface has been produced in eight prison sentence for tax money so we had to wait until take out the profit for them here, but at the violence and oppression, then we’re the ly cement the roles of which brings Fanon’s language versions, each one evasion when Göran hugo she was released. that same time we stop people from coming here, ones who will lose out.” n “slave” and “master”. thoughts up to date. It narrated by women. the olsson first contacted her. happened on a thursday, and force them to choose between trying to leave Fanon highlights the role is written and read by the Indian philoso- russian version is read by “i knew that lauryn hill she read the first narration Concerning Violence has been selected for the one of the members of Pussy was a keen admirer of fanon, the following monday. by boat and to face the possibility of drown- World Cinema Documentary Competition at of intellectuals in revolutions and stresses pher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of riot. the version in farsi is so i wrote to her. she replied: unfortunately, though, there ing, or staying put and starving. It’s a simple sundance, dragon Award Best nordic docum- their need to gain the support of the prole- the world’s most prominent voices on read by a swedish poet and “i’m totally for Fanon” and not wasn’t enough time for any question for me: we should either give back etary Competition at Göteborg international Film tariat. postcolonial issues. activist with iranian roots, and only wanted to read for the music.” all the mines or be honest and say that if we festival and the Panorama section at Berlinale.

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Berlinale Special Gala The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Felix Herngren

original dropouts Panorama Concerning Violence by Göran Hugo Olsson Ascona, switzerland. the early 1900s. A group of people passionate about feminism, onte Verità onte vegetarianism, anarchism and theosophy gathered together in a colony. these so-called m Generation 14plus Broken Hill Blues by Sofia Norlin zione “life-reformers” are the subject of Carl Javér’s documentary, Freak Out! A

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ike holding a golden nugget in my gained access to the British Film Institute’s That Boy Emil by Per Åhlin, Alicja Björk, Lasse Persson hand, I’d found a story that had never “The challenge archives, they found a way forward: a compa- Kalle Kran by Johan Hagelbäck “Lreally been told.” lay in the fact ny called Mitchell & Kenyon had made vari- My Friend Lage by Eva Lindström That’s how director Carl Javér sums up the ous documentaries in the early 1900s, and Out of This World by Viktor Nordenskiöld driving force behind his documentary Freak that there were the filmmakers decided to use clips from Out!. The golden nugget is the story of a these to convey the feel of the times. group of people who called themselves “life- no moving “We decided to build our documentary on Swedish Co-productions reformers”. Familiar to some artistic circles contemporary material in the form of stills, Competition: In Order of Disappearance by Hans Petter Moland [NO / SE] perhaps, most people have scarcely heard of pictures from film and animation with experts talking about Out of Competition: Nymphomaniac by Lars von Trier [DK / DE / FR / SE / BE ] them. Monte Verità” the Life Reform movement. And we used Ida Their passions were feminism, vegetarian- Hoffmann, a writer member of the original Berlinale Special: Someone You Love by Pernille Fischer Christensen [DK / SE] ism, anarchism and theosophy. In pictures group, as the fictitious narrator. We also used Generation Kplus: A Christmoose Story by Lourens Blok [NL / SE / BE] they look just like any other alternative life- of Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan and the techniques inspired by Japanese anime to add Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Lamento by Jöns Jönsson [DE / SE] style devotees of our own times, with their health guru Arnold Ehret, whose ideas on images to the original archive films.” n loose-fitting clothes, sandals and long hair, natural food have lived on as an inspiration Freak out! has been broadcast on the German but these people lived a hundred years ago. for people like Steve Jobs and countless Shooting Star television channel Arte, and had its Nordic premiere Around 1900 they started gathering in Asco- others. It was clearly a suitable subject for a at the Göteborg International Film Festival on 25 Edda Magnason na, Switzerland, forming a colony near Monte documentary, but how it should be made January and is nominated for the Tempo Verità, the mountain of truth. wasn’t so obvious from the outset. documentary Award. EFM “You can identify with them because they “The challenge lay in the fact that there The Anderssons Hit the Road by Hannes Holm Annabell’s Spectacularities by Elisabet Gustafsson Beyond Beyond look so modern. And their ideas form the were no moving pictures from Monte Verità,” by Esben Toft Jacobsen JerryMaya’s Detective Agency – von Broms’ Secret by Pontus Klänge & Walter Söderlund basis of what we know today as alternative says Carl Javér, who has previously made FAcTs cArl JAVér Carl Javér is a Swedish filmmaker and Nobody Owns Me by Kjell-Åke Andersson The Quiet Roar by Henrik Hellström Tommy by Tarik Saleh

movements,” says Javér. documentaries for pubcaster Sveriges Televi- pioneer of small crew, observational style ren

sion (SVT). documentaries. Since his debut at the GG age of 23 in 1996 his work has included among thE montE Verità set, Mary Wigman Javér and his producer Fredrik Lange first a number of documentaries, shorts and and Rudolf Laban developed free dance and scanned in more than 500 photographs from three major documentary series. Freak

dance therapy. The colony attracted the likes the Monte Veritàs archives. Then, when they Out! marks his feature film debut. Ber Anders www.sfi.se 24 swedish film • issue 1 2014 sometH ing m ust Break e ster martin Bergsmark DireCtOr PrODu Ct IOn I n FO P. 47

crossing boundaries In Ester Martin Bergsmark’s Something Must Break, the myth about Christian martyr Sebastian has inspired an unusual love story. International Rotterdam tExt nIKLAS WAHLLöF Berlin Competition

n the 3rd century AD, Sebastian, a Christian Sebastian, a transgenderSundance person torn between officer in the Roman army, was sentenced to his love of a man, Andreas, and his development Ibe bound to a stake and shot with arrows by into Ellie, the woman inside himself. his own soldiers. Miraculously, he survived his This March sees the Swedish premiere of wounds but was later clubbed to death when he Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder, confronted the emperor Diocletian over his cru- 2014), a film based on the novel, with a screen- elty to Christians, or in some versions, as a result play by Eli Levén and the film’s director Ester of having declined the emperor’s amorous Martin Bergsmark. advances. The legend of Sebastian, subsequent- ly declared a saint, has been widely represented it’s a tightly condensed narrative set over one in art history, and images of him bound, suffer- summer in which Sebastian encounters tempes- ing and riddled with arrows have served as a tuous love, betrayal and hope, destructiveness symbol for parts of the LGBT community in more and humiliation, and his new identity. At the recent years. same time it’s a universal love story, although In Eli Levéns 2010 debut novel You Are the falling in love is complicated by Andreas’ deep Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the ambivalence. “So, I’m not gay,” he says, to which Earth in Place, the main character is also called Sebastian replies: “I’m not gay either”. There is rEn DG n LI

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an ever-present question of boundaries: where do they fall and to whom do they apply? “It’s not the people like Sebastian who go around with a flag saying ‘I cross boundar- ies’,” says Ester Martin Bergsmark. “Sebas- FILM I VÄST tian has no choice. He is what he is, con- stantly living on the edge. I think it’s interest- ing that it tends to be other people, those who meet Sebastian, who have to cross their MAKES IT HAPPEN own boundaries.”

EstEr martin bErgsmark describes the We have had a successful string of years with films being film as “a sort of meeting between Fucking Åmål and Jean Genet”, pointing out that most selected in official competition in Cannes and Berlin people who have recently fallen in love go as well as several Oscar nominations. through a crisis of identity. While not want- ing to brush aside the gender-political ele- ments, he is firmly of the opinion that feel- ings like this are not gender dependent. “There’s a very beautiful chemistry between Sebastian and Andreas, and it feels important to me. It’s something I find miss- ing in many love stories, which are often plot driven.” It’s easy to find parallels with Saint Sebas- tian, the early Christian martyr. The present- day Sebastian can perhaps be seen as a threat to our culture in the way that Chris- tians under the Roman Empire did. Often the object of wide-eyed curiosity, he has to define himself for others. He is an exploited “Perhaps that’s the threat person who chooses to be exploited. “Sebastian is endlessly life-affirming. Per- the rest of us see when we haps that’s the threat the rest of us see when

feel our own boundaries ent we feel our own boundaries closing in on us. A k Our co-productions in Berlin 2014: That’s why we want to react by firing arrows closing in on us” udi into him,” says Ester Martin Bergsmark. clA IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE by Hans Petter Moland (Competition) “But the Saint Sebastian story for me is also about subservience, and a kind of free- BEYOND BEYOND by Esben Toft Jacobsen (Generation Kplus) dom in subservience. I’d like to believe that NYMPHOMANIAC by Lars von Trier (Out of Competition) the film offers some sort of way home for Sebastian, away from the shame, the doubt SOMEONE YOU LOVE by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Berlinale Special) and the destructiveness. Sebastian is self- reliant and grows stronger with time. THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Andreas is the one who falls apart.” n by Felix Herngren (Berlinale Special)

FAcTs EsTEr MArTin Our vision is to continue to be a key player in the European film industry and to attract an increasing BErGsMArk Ester Martin Bergsmark was born in Stockholm in 1982. number of projects from around the globe. We build the filmbusiness in Western Sweden. His films includeMaggie in Wonderland (2008), the win- In addition to finances, our region offer a complete infrastructure for production, post production ner of a Guldbagge Award for Best Swedish Documen- tary and She Male Snails (2012), which was nominated and Scandinavia’s largest purpose built sound stage. for the same award. Something Must Break, Bergsmark’s first purely fictional film opened the 2014 Göteborg International Film Festival and competed for the tiger FILM I VÄST – YOUR FINANCIER? ren Award in rotterdam. the film stars Saga Becker and Iggy G We are capable of providing the largest financial contributions of any Nordic fund, Malmborg as Sebastian and Andreas.

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Talkin bout generation Swedish films for children and young people have always had a warm welcome at the Berlinale. Florian Weghorn, co-director of the festival’s Generation section, explains why. once again, swedish films for children and young people feature Flicks strongly at the Berlinale. following on from recent year’s Eskil & Trinidad (2013) and The Ice Dragon (2012), there is a strong influx of competing entries. screening

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toft Jacobsen’s A for 3d animation Gerh Beyond Beyond Florian Weghorn and That Boy Emil by Per Åhlin, Alicja Björk and lasse Persson. And in Generation 14plus we have sofian orlin’s look at life in the far north of sweden, Broken Hill Blues. “the two swedish feature-length animations both impressed us with kids their artwork and great depth of The world’s strongest bear, kid story-telling. Broken Hill Blues is a breathtaking debut, with the contrast of the ice-cold setting and the detectives JerryMaya and perennial warm-hearted portraits,” says florian Weghorn, co-director of the Astrid Lindgren favourite Emil are some Generation section, who is full of praise for sweden’s long tradition of of the characters in a new, strong wave quality films for younger audiences, A small rabbit meets a huge Feather King in Beyond Beyond. both features and shorts:

of Swedish children’s movies. sweden B “they don’t to shy away from c serious topics but nevertheless they’re often entertaining. childhood and youth with all their risks and with the danish parent company, copenhagen Beyond Beyond tells the story of Johan, a young side-effects are shown with great The third dimension Bombay Productions. rabbit not old enough to realise his limitations. in his BInternationalEyOnd BEyORotterdamnd honesty and a warm and sincere Berlin Competition the rich and highly detailed images in the film naivety he takes up the fight against the mighty interest in the young people’s are reminiscent of the Japanese master Hayao feather king and goes on to accumulate some key Danish director esben toft Jacobsen has made includes The Great Bear, which gained favourable perspective on the world,” says miyazaki of studio Ghibli fame. life experiences. sweden’s first feature in 3d. his inspiration for notices in Berlin back in 2011. weghorn. “He’s truly amazing and a constant source of “the film is aimed at 6-9-year-olds, but we think Beyond Beyond (Resan till Fjäderkun- “to begin with i was sceptical of the this year sees three swedish gens rike, 2014) comes from the new technology, but working on the pilot inspiration for us. But above all we’ve been inspired it will work for adults too,” says toft jacobsen. “it’s Sundance entries in the Generation kplus short by the nordic authors Astrid lindgren and tove not criticism, but it is a reminder for all parents to Japanese animation master Hayao i was stunned by the feeling of reality it films section:e va lindström’s My jansson,” says the director, who makes a number of talk more with their children. even good memories miyazaki and the greats of nordic created,” says toft jacobsen. Friend Lage, Johan Hagelbäck’s Kalle references to those two icons of children’s can turn bad if you don’t talk about them.” children’s literature. As before, he has collaborated on the Kran and the short documentary Out literature. jon AsP Already highly acclaimed, nordic oltum screenplay with jannik mai tosholt, but of This World by Viktor nordenskiöld. animation is stepping up a further notch h this time round the script came before “essentially the swedish culture we grew up with jon AsP with Beyond Beyond. danish director the visuals. the film is produced by as children has played a key part in our work on the Beyond Beyond has been selected for Generation orten orten

esben toft jacobsen’s previous work m Petter lindblad at cB sweden together film.” Kplus at the Berlinale. Esben Toft Jacobsen

30 swedish film • issue 1 2014 swedish film • issue 1 2014 31 Mad about the boy International Rotterdam Berlin Competition THAT BOy EMil Emil and his little sister Ida are national iconic illustrations come to life under the treasures, like almost all other charac- supervision of well known animator Per ters from the books of world famous Åhlin, who has also directed one of the Sundance author Astrid Lindgren. Most Swedish episodes in the film. Lindgren’s own undercover kids children know how Emil never means to voice narrates, Emil accidentally makes JErryMAyA’S dETEcTivE AGEncy – vOn BrOMS’ SEcrET get into trouble, but always ends up his 325th mischief and his little sister Ida two young amateur detectives find based on author Martin Widmark’s with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011). doing so and has to lock himself into the desperately tries to be mischievous too. a map to a hidden treasure – a immensely popular children’s JerryMaya’s Detective Agency tool shed to avoid his father’s anger. EMMA GrAy MuntHE mysterious chest full of family books. since its swedish premiere – von Broms’ Secret is also Most likely they even know a song about secrets. when the chest gets stolen, last Christmas, the movie has, something of a first ins wedish film the tool shed. In That Boy Emil (Emil & that Boy emil has been selected for the agents at JerryMaya’s Detective predictably, been a box-office production – the entire work was Ida i Lönneberga, 2013) Björn Berg’s Generation Kplus at the Berlinale. Agency get drawn into a family feud success with younger audiences. shot in a gigantic green-screen in which everyone is a suspect. however, production of the film studio, with many sets and props

that is the premise of Jerry Maya’s proved to be tumultuous. original added digitally in post-production. tudio Detective Agency – von Broms’ director Walter Söderlund tragically the leading roles are played by s ilm ilm Secret (LasseMajas Detektivbyrå passed away during the shoot, and Lukas Holgersson and Amanda f – von Broms hemlighet, 2013), the was later replaced by Pontus Pajus.

first instalment in a film trilogy klänge (assistant director, The Girl Bo mAdestrAnd l, Penn A tion A ntern i nce A Emil – always looking for trouble. ilml in the green room – on f the set of JerryMayas Detective Agency. if you’re very strong, you Honey, i gave the also need to be very kind, bear super strength says Bamse. BAMSE And THE ciTy OF THiEvES

Bamse is sweden’s most popular bear, generations of children and appeared in and like Winnie the Pooh he has a very, several short films ont V. now, for the very special relationship to honey. in first time, he appears on the movie Bamse’s case though it’s all about a kind screen. in Bamse and the City of Thieves of power honey – cooked by his (Bamse och tjuvstaden, 2014) he and his grandmother – that gives him super friends – a motley crew consisting of a strength whenever he has to help scared rabbit and a brainy turtle – have someone in trouble or fight crooks. to save Bamse’s kidnapped grand- änner Bamse first appeared in comics in 1966, mother. V

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Last year’s big family comedy The approaching 500.000 admissions in Anderssons in Greece – All Inclusive less than a month. hannes holm has (Sune i Grekland – All Inclusive, 2012) directed both of the films, which are was seen by 590.000 people at the based on a popular book series. Prior to movies, and won the Guldbagge these there were two previous tv series Audience Award. in The Anderssons Hit based on the books, one radio series, the Road (Sune på bilsemester, 2013) and two feature films.t here’s a new the family goes on a road trip through book about the Andersson’s every other europe. it all goes, well… a little chevy year – and the franchise keeps chase on vacation from there. At attracting new generations of fans.

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Bad girls why are some women attracted to criminals? in tarik saleh’s gangster thriller Tommy we encounter estelle, girlfriend of a bank robber, who comes back to sweden to collect the loot after fleeing abroad. “it’s a world i know, the characters are the sort of people i grew up with,” says saleh about his personal experiences of stockholm’s criminal underworld. text niklAs wAhllöf Photo johAn BerGmArk

s everything Tarik Saleh touches a hot when Saleh was presented with screen- Tommy topic for discussion? The Swedes have writer Anton Hagwall’s idea, he knew Icome to know him as the co-creator of immediately who Estelle was. Fascinate, once the biggest graffiti painting “Ever since we were really young we’ve in northern Europe, as a television producer, talked about girls like that. What do their

magazine editor, documentary filmmaker son boyfriends have that you and I don’t? OK,

(works like Gitmo – The New Rules of War, AGA they say things like: ‘If you disappear I’ll die. 2005), his animated film Metropia (2009) and I’m fighting for us. If you leave me I’m noth-

his music videos such as Lykke Li’s hits Fol- ldur Br ing.’ Coupled with the fact that the guy is low Rivers and Sadness is a Blessing. BA capable of killing, or getting killed himself, In his latest venture he takes the helm for those are some powerful things, it’s a life and the gangster thriller Tommy, (2014). saw the girls who followed them down. death situation.” “This film should really have been my Women play the biggest part in Tommy, first Gangsters’ women hardly ever really first,” says Saleh. “It’s a world I know, the and foremost Estelle. Having spent time feature. Carmela in The Sopranos is an excep- characters are sort of the people I grew up abroad on the run with Tommy after a bank tion, Helena in Traffic another. Otherwise with.” robbery she comes back to Sweden to recov- you just get roles like Michelle Pfeiffer’s in Born in 1972, Tarik Saleh grew up on the er his share of the loot. Scarface – shallow, coked-up, depraved. shady margins of criminality in Stockholm’s In Sweden most crime films concentrate suburbs. He watched as school friends grad- turning thE spotlight on the gangster’s on police work: hardly any are concerned ually slid into the criminal underworld, and girlfriend isn’t the usual thing to do, but with the underworld where the majority of

“These women are often so much more than a pretty face”

Moa Gammel Who is Estelle? with a few women who are psychologi- often so much more than a pretty face. plays the lead as “she’s someone who has always cally glacial. estelle gets into certain situations the gangster’s been secondary in other people’s eyes, And then there are the gangsters’ where she uses her charms, but she’s only ever regarded as tommy’s girlfriends who are often strippers or only playacting. And in 80 per cent of girlfriend Estelle girlfriend. But when she goes through hookers. But in Tommy there’s a totally the film she’s entirely herself.we in the film Tommy. a major trauma which might well have different perspective. she’s the main found out from interviews with After two years in weakened anyone else, she emerges player, the person people have to gangster women that many of them hiding ,Estelle with more resolve, almost like a lioness pander to. she’s one step ahead of the are in it for kicks, living life for the comes back to determined to protect her cub and give game, calculating and manipulative. it’s moment. i have a theory that condi- Stockholm with it a better life. she becomes ruthless a world where anyone who shows their tions such as ADHD can lead people and hardened.” hand first loses, bute stelle plays her in different directions, towards a the couple’s How was it to play a part like this cards close to her chest. creative job or a life of crime. it’s only young daughter. in a gangster film? What did you find out when you class that determines where you end “there are already a few female were researching the character? up.” killing machines in film history along “the fact that these women are Actor Moa Gammel and director Tarik Saleh.

36 swedish film • issue 1 2014 swedish film • issue 1 2014 37 New films people are out to steal money, not to commit crazy serial murders.” In some respects all of Tarik Saleh’s stories Ola Rapace and Lykke Li Zachrisson. are about a striving for money, for respect or for status. He has stated his predilection for plots involving people on a collision course with a system, and Tommy is perhaps the clearest example yet. “Estelle goes into a deeply masculine and violent world to get something that has nev- er actually been hers. Gangsters’ girlfriends usually have their say in decision-making and are extremely strong and intelligent. They often have a need for control, and the only way for them to gain access to their feel- ings is through being involved with an unpre- dictable and dangerous man.” Baldur BragasonBaldur

Tarik Saleh deScribeS himself as a very polit- ical person, “a guy who surfs the net for politics “i felt like a detec- instead of porn”, but he wasn’t interested in an overtly feminist or political version of under- Pop star Lykke Who is Blanca and what sort who are, let’s say... dramatic. But world life. He wanted to be an observer of that Li Zachrisson of world does she live in? playing the part I felt like a “She’s sensitive, a dreamer, detective, uncovering new society rather than a commentator. Yes, the makes her film an open book. She has lived in leads and pathways to the truth. New film is about greed. But it’s also about the fami- debut as Blanca, her older sister’s shadow and And the amazing thing was that ly and belonging. About people who are ex- Estelle’s younger managed to preserve her it never stopped. Every day I tremely close, but who can start tearing each sister. Even naivety and innocence. She learnt something new about other apart at the drop of a hat. though she’s believes in love and the family Blanca and about myself.” “The women in this world are experts on “petrified” of the above everything else, and How have you found your hierarchies and the language of power. They would do absolutely anything film-acting debut? premiere, she for those she loves. “Hard and wonderful at the have the same looks, the same menacing un- nonetheless The world she lives in is a same time. I was so tired of dertones as the men, but they’re like avatars believes that the dark and cynical one, but it’s myself after years of music and in some way. Like … Sweden’s Queen Silvia! human soul exciting because it’s so performing where everything The King isn’t exactly scary, but if the Queen benefits from dramatic, edgy and secretive. revolved around me, my were to say to me: ‘Tarik, I’ve heard that doing something Everything’s a matter of life and weaknesses and my pain, so I you’ve been saying bad things about my fam- death, and everyone has just loved being able to get into you’re scared of. ily’, then I think I’d go abroad and change my something to hide. It’s full of someone else’s body and soul. I identity.” hierarchies, codes and, not wouldn’t exactly call it fun, more it’s springtime for swedish cinema. No less than 42 swedish films are least, people who are experts at like terrifying: full of shame and Keen to paint a realistic picture in the film, what they do.” anxiety, but also total concen- Filmsrepresented in this section. Please visit our website www.sfi.se for Saleh hasn’t shied away from strong violence What could you bring to tration. But as I see it, all art is a and the dark side of life. the part from your own search for the truth and for updated information on Swedish features, documentaries and shorts. “I’m an optimist, I believe in people, but I life? courage, and you need to stay didn’t want a moralistic story in which good “Lots of things. My own little finely tuned if to recognise any always triumphs in the end. It doesn’t. Nei- sister has a weakness for men wrong notes.” ther am I prepared to say that everything about the criminal underworld is shit, be- cause it has its deep passions and strong feel- a film for the critics or the festival circuit. me of Estelle,” admits the director. ings. It’s just that, sooner or later, everyone “I’ve made Tommy for the people I grew up Those hot discussions about Tarik Saleh involved gets caught up in tragedy. with: look what happens to these people, and his work look set to run and run… n And if you’re going to show violence you here’s the testimony. They’re the experts, have to show what it costs. Society always and it’s their judgement alone that makes me FActs tArik sAleh pretends to hate violence, but at the same nervous.” Born 1972 Background Tarik Saleh started his carreer as one of Sweden’s most prominent graffiti artists. As an time it commands the ultimate respect – ev- Well maybe not quite… Tarik Saleh is also art director he started the underground magazine Atlas. eryone listens to someone who has power in awe of his producer, Kristina Åberg. He is one of the partners of production company ATMO over physical pain and death.” “She’s one of the toughest women I’ve ever and has previously directed the features Metropia (2009) and co-directed Gitmo – The New Rules of War (2006) Tarik Saleh certainly hasn’t wanted to make met. Sometimes in negotiations she reminds with Erik Gandini.

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The 100-Year-old Man Who Climbed Beyond Beyond Johan and his dad live by the sea. He likes their ship and wishes that he could out the Window and Disappeared steer it some day. Then he’d go to the Kingdom of the Feather King to bring Hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson climbs out the window and disappears. back his mom. One day when Johan’s dad leaves to get provisions, Johan Karlsson embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey involving receives a mysterious call on the radio with information about the Feather several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. Soon he has King and sets off on an adventure. turned the whole nation on its head. He does have some experience in these matters since he has previously done the same thing with the entire world. Original title Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann DirectOr Felix Herngren screenWriters Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson PrinciPal cast Robert Original title Resan till fjäderkungens rike DirectOr Esben Toft Jacobsen Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, Mia Skäringer, David Wiberg, Ralph Carlsson, Jens Hultén s creenWriters Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen PrinciPal VOices Edvin PrODucers Malte Forssell, Felix Herngren, Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, Patrick Nebout Ryding, Tuva Novotny, Gustaf Hammarsten, Leif Andrée, Sissela Kyle, Lennart Jähkel PrODuceD By NiCe flX Pictures in co-production with film i Väst, TV4, Buena Vista PrODucer Petter Lindblad PrODuceD By CB Sverige in co-production with Copenha- International Sweden and Nordsvensk Filmunderhållning, in association with StudioCanal, gen Bombay Rights 1, film i Väst and Noble entertainment, in collaboration with TV2 Tele München Gruppe, C More Entertainment and Wild Bunch Benelux Distribution, with danmark, TV4 and C more entertainment, with support from the swedish film institute/ support from the Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg and Nordisk Film & TV Fond Linus Torell, Nordisk Film & TV Fond/Hanne Palmquist and the Danish Film Institute/ DuratiOn 114 min releaseD december 25, 2013 sales StudioCanal Rasmus Horskjær DuratiOn 78 min tO Be releaseD march 21, 2014 sales Copenhagen Bombay Sales Felix Herngren is a director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He got his big break when he made comedy sketches for the talk show Sen kväll med Luuk. He has also esben toft Jacobsen graduated from The National Film School of Denmark as participated in several major tv-shows. His award-winning series Solsidan is one of animation director in 2006 with the short filmHaving a Brother, which received a special today’s most beloved series, reaching more than two million viewers per episode. The mention in Berlin 2007. since then he has developed/directed projects at Copenhagen 100-Year-Old Man…is felix herngren’s third feature film, but the first one as sole director. Bombay, debuting with The Great Bear in Berlin 2011.

Annabell’s Spectacularities Broken Hill Blues A very different fairytale and musical adventure about little Annabell Olsson, in In Northern Sweden, a small community built around a mine. From the winter search of the wizard who turned himself into a glass of lemonade and drank cold to summer greenery, some teenagers, about to take the leap in the adult himself. After 700 years the spell might finally be broken... age, fight with themselves and the world around them, learning to live, love and dream – while the city also is in a time of change, forced to move due to the explosions mining the ground.

Original title Krakel Spektakel DirectOr Elisabet Gustafsson screenWriter Torbjörn Jansson PrinciPal cast Lea Stojanov, Vanja Blomkvist, Martin Eliasson, Anton Lundqvist, Lina Ljungkvist PrODucer ulf synnerholm PrODuceD By Filmlance Original title Ömheten DirectOr/screenWriter sofia NorlinPrinci Pal cast International in co-production with Filmpool Nord/Per-Erik Svensson, Svensk Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Alfred Juntti, Lina Leandersson PrODucer Olivier Guerpillon Filmindustri/Charlotta Denward, in co-operation with SVT and YLE, with support from PrODuceD By DFM in co-production with Filmpool Nord, TeliaSonera, Dagsljus, Europa the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell and Nordisk Film & TV Fond/Hanne Palmquist Sound&Vision, Film i Västernorrland, in collaboration with Stockholm International Film DuratiOn 75 min tO Be releaseD september 12, 2014 sales Svensk Filmindustri Festival, NonStop Entertainment and SVT, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ International Sales lars G lindström and the mediA Programme of the european union DuratiOn 80 min releaseD december 6, 2013 sales The Yellow Affair elisabet gustafsson, born in stockholm 1972, has a degree in literature and started her career producing interviews in Paris for Scandinavian TV-stations. With one foot still in sofia norlin, born in1974, is a swedish director with a master education in film from the french capital, she has directed several short films, such asThe 7th Pullet (2011), The the universities in stockholm and Paris. she has been working with film and theatre for Great Magician (2007) and Awaiting Examination (2010). Annabell’s Spectacularities is many years in Paris. in 2005 she directed the french short film The Currents that was her feature film debut. awarded at several international festivals. Broken Hill Blues is her feature film debut.

Bamse and the City of Thieves The Clip DoC Bamse, Little Hop and Shellman must save Grandma from the evil Reynard When local dancers Mario and Xavier get hired to perform at a wedding in Fox. Reynard and the thieves have kidnapped Grandma to prevent her from Mozambique, they have no idea that megastar Beyoncé will watch them on making thunder honey for Bamse – that’s the honey that makes him the YouTube and ask them to be her teachers. Since then, Mario and Xavier’s strongest bear in the world. Bamse and his friends set out on a dangerous ideas of what life is and what it could be will never be the same. journey through the Goblin Forest to the City of Thieves.

Original title Bamse och tjuvstaden DirectOr Christian Ryltenius screenWriters Johan Kindblom, Tomas Tivemark PrinciPal VOices Peter Haber (Bamse) , Morgan Alling

(Little Hop), Steve Kratz (Shellman), Magnus Härenstam ( Reynard Fox), Ia Langhammer (Gandma) Thomas Bolme (narrator) PrODucer Jon Nohrstedt PrODuceD By Tre Vänner in Original title The Clip DirectOrs/screenWriters/PrODucers Andreas Magnell, co-production with Nordisk Film/Lone Korslund, SVT/Peter “Piodor” Gustafsson, BAMSE Viktor Nordenskiöld ParticiPants Mario Buce, Xavier Campione, Beyoncé Knowles förlaget/Ola Andréasson and dan Andréasson, film i Väst/Jessica Ask, sluggerfilm/ PrODuceD By freetownfilms in co-production withs VT, with support from the swedish Christian Ryltenius, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Linus Torell and Nordisk film institute/Cecilia lidin/linus Torell and eu/media DuratiOn Approx. 75 min tO Be Film & TV Fond DuratiOn 65 min releaseD January 17, 2014 sales TrustNordisk releaseD spring, 2014 sales Deckert Distribution christian ryltenius started his career in animation at the Swedish studio Penn Film, Viktor nordenskiöld has directed several documentaries for pubcaster Swedish where he worked on the feature filmVoyage to Melonia (1989). he was hired by warner Television (SVT). His work includes One Like All – All Like One (2008) and Swedish Brothers to work on Space Jam and Quest for Camelot. For a number of years, Ryltenius Soldier’s Factory (2008). andreas Magnell has been a producer at TV4 sweden. his worked in Asia as overseas supervisor before he launched sluggerfilm in 2004.i n 2008 he work includes the tv series Malou meets (2004-2005) and the documentary Rita and Rufus was animation director on Tarik Saleh’s Metropia. – Child soldiers in Liberia (2006).

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Concerning Violence DoC Freak out! DoC Concerning Violence is both an archive-driven documentary covering the Freak Out! – the Alternative Movement Begins tells the little-known story of a group most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well of young people from the middle class who in 1900 revolted against the values of as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from their time and started the original alternative community based on veganism, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written feminism, pacifism and free love. Through their eyes we reveal the uncanny over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the similarities between our own times and what they revolted against back then. neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. Concerning Violence is narrated by Ms. Lauryn Hill. Original title Freak Out! – the Alternative Movement Begins DirectOr Carl Javér screenWriters Carl Javér, Fredrik Lange, David Wingate PrinciPal cast Gottfried Heuer, Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Karen Ellwanger, Hermann Müller, Pat Thane, Eileen Original title Concerning Violence DirectOr/screenWriter Göran Hugo Olsson Boris, Andreas Schwab, Gordon Kennedy, Christian Bachiesl, Nicholas Brauns, Jochen PrODucers Annika Rogell, Tobias Janson PrODuceD By Story in co-production with Thermann, Liz Aggiss PrODucer Fredrik Lange PrODuceD By Vilda Bomben Film, sVT, louverture films, helsinki-filmi,f inal Cut for Real and Rainbow Circle films in in co-production with Majade Filmproduktions, Final Cut for Real, Hallum og Jensen, collaboration with YLE and DRK, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia filmgate films and film i Väst, in collaboration with mdRarte, sVT, NRK, Yle, dR, RuV, lidin, the danish film institute, eu mediA slate funding and the swedish Arts Grants ERR with the support of the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G Lindström and Cecilia Lidin, Committee DuratiOn 90 min tO Be releaseD spring, 2014 sales Films Boutique DFI, NFI, BFI, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and MEDIA DuratiOn 90 min tO Be releaseD TBA sales Deckert Distribution göran Hugo Olsson is a Sundance and Swedish Guldbagge award-winning documentary filmmaker. One of the people behind the celebrated seriesElbyl and Ikon, he carl Javér is a swedish filmmaker and pioneer of small crew, observational style was the documentary film Commissioner at the swedish film institute from 1999 to 2002. documentaries. since his debut at the age of 23 in 1996 his work has included a number his films includeThe Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Am I Black Enough For You of documentaries, shorts and three major documentary series. Freak Out! marks his (2009) and Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998, with leila K). feature film debut.

Conquering China DoC Hallåhallå (English title TBA) Johan Jonason leaves Sweden and a Europe in crisis, and heads to Shanghai. There used to be Disa, her husband Laban and their two children. But now His goal is to establish himself as a pop singer in China because that’s where Laban has found a new love, new clothes and a brand new future, while Disa is the future seems to be. In Shanghai, Johan meets various people involved in stuck in a life put on hold. Then a smooth-talking father of seven turns up at the the Chinese music industry – producers, DJs and promoters who give him library. An angry patient comes to life at work. And a new martial arts course insights into the new, young and contradictory China. Conquering China is an comes to town. Suddenly life takes a whole new turn… emotional and humorous music documentary that examines and problematizes the paradigm shift taking place in our world right now.

Original title Conquering China DirectOr/screenWriter Johan Jonason ParticiPants Johan Jonason, Jean Michel Jarre, Dave K, Ben Huang, Elvis T, Robert Wells, DJ Ghost PrODucer Anna Byvald PrODuceD By Silverosa Film in co-production Original title Hallåhallå DirectOr/screenWriter Maria Blom PrinciPal cast Maria with Film i Väst and SVT, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin Sid, Johan Holmberg, Tina Råborg, Calle Jakobsson, Ann Petrén PrODucer Lars Jönsson DuratiOn 80 min tO Be releaseD TBA sales TBA PrODuceD By memfisf ilm in co-production with film i Väst and sVT, in collaboration with Film i Dalarna, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G Lindström and Nordisk Writer and director Johan Jonason was born in 1970 in stockholm. he has a BA in Film & TV Fond DuratiOn 97 min tO Be releaseD february 7, 2014 sales TrustNordisk Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art, London and an MA from the Royal Institute of Art, stockholm. his work includes the Guldbagge-nominated short filmTerrible Boy (2003), Maria Blom was born in 1971. her first featureDalecarlians (Masjävlar, 2004) became his 2009 feature debut Guidance, and Dance Music Now (2012), the winner of the a huge success in sweden and was distributed in a number of countries. The film was Guldbagge Award for Best Short Film which was also selected by the César Academy as followed by Nina Frisk in 2007. maria Blom is also an acclaimed writer and director for the part of The Golden Nights 2013. stage.

Displaced Perssons DoC Home Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became Bright, but socially awkward Lou grew up in the city thinking her mother is her the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and the only living relative. Shockingly she finds out that her grandfather just died and family decides to emigrate to Sweden. When they end up living in a caravan her grandmother is still alive in a small village by the seaside. Lou packs her outside Hässleholm, all their expectations are dashed. bags, moves in with her mischievous grandmother and gets her orderly life overthrown.

Original title Hemma DirectOr/screenWriter Maximilian Hult PrinciPal cast Original title Familjen Persson i främmande land DirectOrs Åsa Blanck, Johan Moa Gammel, Anita Wall, Simon J Berger, Erik Lundqvist, Lars Lind, Elin Petersdottir Palmgren screenWriters Åsa Blanck, Petter Brundell ParticiPants The family PrODucers Anna G Magnúsdóttir, Anders Granström PrODuceD By LittleBig Persson PrODucer Åsa Blanck PrODuceD By Strix Television in co-production with SVT, Productions in co-production with Spellbound Productions, with support from the Icelandic with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Tove Torbiörnsson, NRK and YLE DuratiOn Film Centre/Martin Schlüter and the Ministry of Industry and Innovation, Iceland DuratiOn 85 min releaseD August 23, 2013 sales Strix Television 90 min tO Be releaseD may, 2014 sales The Yellow Affair Åsa Blanck, born 1970, and Johan Palmgren, born 1967, have together made Maximilian Hult, born in 1982 in luzern, switzerland. After moving to stockholm hult several national and international award-winning films such asThe Substitute (2006), The started making short films with his parents’ video camera. After graduation from high school Swindler (2008), Anders & Harri (2008), Endless Love (2010) and Grandpa & Me and a hult attended film school.h e worked on commercials and music videos before his focus Helicopter to Heaven (2013). turned to script writing and directing his own films.

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Hotell Life Deluxe Erika has it all: a good job, lots of friends and a secure relationship. Until the Jw now lives in exile and is determined to find out what happened to his missing sister day it all falls apart. Suddenly this perfect life means nothing, and the feelings Camilla. Jorge will do one last hit but meets a woman from his past, Nadja. Meanwhile she once was able to control are no longer within reach. She starts going to the serbian mafia with its leader Radovan Krajnic gets infiltrated by police cadetm artin Hägerström. Natalie, Radovan’s daughter, gets pulled into the rising power struggle within group therapy and meets other people with different kinds of traumas. One the mafia. Life Deluxe is the third installment in the Easy Money trilogy. day a question is raised within the group: Why shouldn’t we be allowed to feel good? The group decides to head for a place of complete anonymity. A place where you can reboot your persona and become whoever you want to be – they start checking into hotels. Original title Snabba cash livet deluxe DirectOr Jens Jonsson screenWriters Maria Karlsson, Jens Jonsson PrinciPal cast Matias Varela, Joel Kinnaman, Dejan Original title Hotell DirectOr/screenWriter Lisa Langseth PrinciPal cast Alicia Cukic, Malin Buska, Madeleine Martin PrODucer Fredrik Wikström Nicastro PrODuceD Vikander, David Dencik, Anna Bjelkerud, Mira Eklund, Henrik Norlén, Simon J Berger By Tre Vänner Produktion in co-production with Film i Väst, SVT, Nordsvensk Filmunder- PrODucers Patrik Andersson, Frida Jonason PrODuceD By B-Reel in co-production hållning, Nordisk Film, Hobohm Brothers and Network Movie & ZDF/Arte, with support with SVT, Film i Väst and Nimbus Film, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard, the Norwegian Film Institute/Anna Suzanne Glansborg and the Danish Film Institute/Steen Bille DuratiOn 97 min Frisleth and Nordisk Film & TV Fond/Hanne Palmquist, in collaboration with C-more releaseD september, 2013 sales mK2 international Entertainment DuratiOn 120 min releaseD August 30, 2013 sales TrustNordisk lisa langseth, born in 1975, is a cutting-edge playwright and stage director. sex, Jens Jonsson, born in 1974, is one of the most internationally acclaimed swedish class and power are recurring themes in her artistic world. She wrote and directed the play directors. for his shorts and his debut feature filmThe King of Ping Pong (2008), Jens has Beloved starring Noomi Rapace in 2004. in 2010 she directed her first feature film,Pure won numerous awards – such as the Berlinale Silver Bear, the Jury Prize World Drama in based on the play and starring Alicia Vikander. in 2011 lisa langseth won the Guldbagge Sundance, Silver Medal at the Cinéfondation in Cannes and the Grand Prix in Odense. Award for Best Screenplay. Life Deluxe is his second feature film as a director.

In the Country DoC Nobody owns Me In the countryside of Sweden, retired couple Lena and Gunvall Carlsson After her parent’s sudden divorce, Lisa lives with her alcoholic father. Their spend their days doing as little as possible. Living in a house in desperate relationship grow stronger and they share a conviction: all people are of equal need of repair and a garden that is left to take care of itself, this film follows the value. As Lisa grows older she is torn between shame and loyalty. One day couple’s seasonal pastimes and the joy and sadness of everyday life. she is forced to choose – leave her father or go under herself. Nobody Owns Me is a deeply touching declaration of unconditional love. And a promise to pick up the fight for what is right.

Original title Ute på landet DirectOr/screenWriter Anders Jedenfors Original title Mig äger ingen DirectOr Kjell-Åke Anderssson screenWriter Pia ParticiPants Lena Carlsson, Gunvall Carlsson, André Candini PrODucer Kalle Gradvall PrinciPal cast Mikael Persbrandt, Ping Mon Wallén, Saga Samuelsson, Ida Wettre PrODuceD By Malade in co-production with SVT and Film i Väst, in collabora- Engvoll, Tanja Lorentzon PrODucer Francy Suntinger PrODuceD By Filmlance tion with Mouka Filmi and YLE/Jenny Westergård, with support from the Swedish Film international in co-production with film i Väst, filmpool Nord, sonet film, maipo film, TV4, Institute/Cecilia Lidin, The Finnish Film Foundation/Elina Kivihalme, Filmbasen and Film Dagsljus Filmequipment, Nordisk Film Shortcut, Cambo Productions, Gordiska Knuten, Stockholm/Joakim Blendulf DuratiOn 62 min tO Be releaseD January 25, 2014 Hoppsan Movie and Balken with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G sales Malade Lindström, the Norwegian Film Institute/Anne Frilseth DuratiOn 111 min releaseD November 8, 2013 sales Svensk Filmindustri International Sales During his studies at Edinburgh College of Art anders Jedenfors made films for the BBC and Channel 4. Space Travel According to John won the McLaren Award for Director and screenwriter Kjell-Åke andersson, born 1949, made his directorial Best British Animation at the edinburgh film festival and graduation filmThe Carlssons debut with My Great Big Daddy in 1992. family drama Family Secrets (2001), romantic won a BAfTA New Talent Award in 2009. in 2010 Jedenfors was selected for the film comedy Let’s Play House and Somewhere Else (2011) are a few other successful films in Stockholm Talent Program. his long career.

JerryMaya’s Detective Agency Penthouse North DoC Agneta Eckemyr has one goal in life – not to let go of her home – Penthouse – von Broms’ Secret North. As a fashion designer and actress/model she has led a fabulous life in Detective duo Jerry and Maya find a mysterious chest that has been hidden for her apartment overlooking Central Park in New York City. Today the former 250 years. It attracts the three remaining descendants of the man who hid the beauty queen lives in the shadow of her glorious past, struggling with the chest – The von Broms family. When the chest suddenly gets stolen Jerry and challenges of aging and surviving in a city with no mercy. Maya have to find it and the thief.

Original title LasseMajas Detektivbyrå – von Broms hemlighet DirectOrs Pontus Klänge, Walter Söderlund screenWriters Malin Nevander, Peter Arrhenius PrinciPal cast Amanda Pajus, Lukas Holgersson, Tomas Norström, Kajsa Ernst, Peter Magnusson, Adam Pålsson, Sten Elfström, Suzanne Ernrup PrODucers Johanna Bergenstråhle, Moa Westeson PrODuceD By Svensk Filmindustri in co-production with SVT, Stiller Studios, Storm Studios, Cinenord Kidstory, Original title Penthouse North DirectOr/screenWriter/PrODucer Johanna St Kinoproduction, Martin Widmark and Helena Willis, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/ Michaels ParticiPants Agneta Eckemyr PrODuceD By Saint Michaels Production in Linus Torell, the Norwegian Film Institute and Nordisk Film & TV Fond, in co-operation with co-production with SVT and Film i Väst, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Tove Svenska Yle and developed with Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen DuratiOn 80 min Torbiörnsson/Cecilia Lidin and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee DuratiOn Approx. 80 releaseD October 18, 2013 sales Svensk Filmindustri International Sales min tO Be releaseD 2014 sales TBA Pontus Klänge started his career in theatre. in the mid 90s he started working in TV produc- Johanna st Michaels has produced and directed both documentary, experimental tion and has since directed Swedish drama and crime series. He debuted as assistant director films and art installations.h er work has been nominated both nationally and internationally, on Bit by Bit (2002) and has assisted on several feature films, includingMind the Gap (2007), winning awards along the way. A hallmark of her work, across various visual mediums, is an The American (2010), the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Agent unflinching gaze, in close-up detail, of individual characters and their intensely personal Hamilton: In the Name of the Nation (2012) and others. stories.

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The Quiet Roar A Separation DoC Marianne is a 68-year-old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left Is it OK to throw away your old wedding dress? What do you do with those with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she’s treated with psilocybin crystal glasses that nobody wants? A Separation is a tragicomic (LSD) and meditation with a counselor, Eva. Through this she is transferred to documentary exploring the very last acts of a long marriage. A film about the her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year-old self and tentative search for a new beginning when something – finally, and her former husband. unfortunately – is over.

Original title The Quiet Roar DirectOr Henrik Hellström screenWriters Henrik Hellström, Fredrik Wenzel PrinciPal cast Evabritt Strandberg, Hanna Schygulla, Joni Francéen, Jörgen Svensson PrODucer Erika Wasserman PrODuceD By Idyll in co-production with Film i Väst, SVT, Mer Film, Filmkraft Rogaland, Dagsljus, in collaboration Original title Att skiljas DirectOr/screenWriter Karin Ekberg PrODucer David with CMORE, NRK, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg, Herdies PrODuceD By Momento Film in co-production with SVT, in collaboration with Nordisk film & TV fond and mediA Programme of the european union NRK, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin and the Swedish Arts DuratiOn Approx. 76 min tO Be releaseD April 11, 2014 sales BAC Grants Committee DuratiOn 70 min tO Be releaseD march 7, 2014 sales Deckert Distribution Henrik Hellström, born in 1974, feature debuted with the filmBurrowing , which premiered at Berlinale forum 2009, co-directed with doP fredrik wenzel. it was received Karin ekberg (born 1979) studied for her BA in fine Arts in the Netherlands. with great reviews. Hellström has previously directed the documentary Broder Daniel 2011–2012 she studied at the stockholm Academy of dramatic Arts, and is currently Forever (CPh:Pix 2009), released theatrically in 2009. hellström is trained as an actor at taking an MA in Film at the Valand Academy, Göteborg. A Separation is Karin’s feature the Malmö Theatre Academy. documentary debut. She is currently working on her next documentary project.

Remake Shed No Tears Lisa’s life is a movie. Everything she experiences she captures on In the town of Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, Pål dreams about video – recording every memory, every step, every person she meets. Her making it with his music. But he has one major obstacle; himself. We follow boyfriend Martin has learned to cope with this behaviour, but during their Pål on an emotional journey through friendship and hardship; love and holiday in New York things start to get out of hand. The closer Martin tries betrayal to ultimately find his call. to get, the more Lisa hides behind her camera. As Martin’s and Lisa’s relationship falls apart, the exhibitionist Lucas makes an entrance in Lisa’s view-finder.

Original title Känn ingen sorg DirectOrs Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein screenWriter Original title Remake DirectOrs/screenWriters Andreas Öhman, Per Gavatin Cilla Jackert PrinciPal cast Adam Lundgren, Disa Östrand, Jonathan Andersson, PrinciPal cast Lisa Henni, Martin Wallström, Lucas Hazlett PrODucers Naïve, Bonnie Josefin Neldén, Tomas von BrömssenPrOD ucers Malcolm Lidbeck, David Olsson Skoog Feeney/Filmlance International PrODuceD By Naïve in co-production with PrODuceD By Acne drama in co-production with film i Väst, TV4, svensk film industri in Filmlance International and Film i Västernorrland DuratiOn 90 min tO Be releaseD collaboration with Nordsvensk filmunderhållning and universal music with support from spring, 2014 sales TBA the Swedish Film Institute/Suzanne Glansborg DuratiOn 109 min releaseD July 19, andreas Öhman has won sweden’s largest short film prize forMy Life as a Trailer 2013 sales TBA (2008), been nominated for a Guldbagge Award with Simple Simon (2010) and Måns Mårlind and Björn stein formed a directors’ team in 2002. mårlind & stein shortlisted for best foreign language film at the Oscars 2010, also with Simple Simon. have extensive experience in directing, writing and developing TV, commercials and Per gavatin is a journalist turned screenwriter and has after attending the scriptwriting features. Their last three features are Underworld:Awakening (2012), Shelter (2010) program at the Stockholm Acadamy of Dramatic Arts (SADA) worked on several Swedish and Storm (2005). Their TV series The Bridge (co-created with Hans Rosenfeldt) was sitcoms and comedy shows. nominated for a BAfTA in 2013.

The Reunion Something Must Break Swedish artist Anna Odell invites us to a grim class-reunion with a twist. A love story between two young men where one is the androgynous What happens when old hierarchies and truths are questioned from an Sebastian and one is Andreas who is not gay. They form a unity. It’s them unexpected voice? The Reunion investigates how far too far really is. against the polished Swedish Ikea-society. They dream about escaping boredom and the risk of becoming what everyone else is. And then there is Ellie – the superwoman growing inside of Sebastian who Andreas loves and fears.

Original title Nånting måste gå sönder DirectOr Ester Martin Bergsmark screen- Writers Eli Levén, Ester Martin Bergsmark PrinciPal cast Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg Original title Återträffen DirectOr/screenWriter Anna Odell PrODucer Mathilde PrODucers Anna-Maria Kantarius PrODuceD By Garagefilmi nternational in Dedye PrODuceD By French Quarter Film in co-production with SVT, Dagsljus Equipment, co-production with Film i Väst, in co-operation with SVT, Ljud & Bildmedia, Tonemestrene, with support from Filmbasen, Stockholm Film Commission and the Swedish Film Institute, Filmbasen and Talangprogrammet/Joakim Blendulf and Filmresidens Subtopia/Jonas with development support from the Royal Institute of Art. DuratiOn 82 min releaseD Boutani Werner, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G Lindström/Linus November 15, 2013 sales TBA Torell DuratiOn 81 min tO Be releaseD march 28, 2014 sales TBA anna Odell, born in 1973, initiated an intense cultural debate about psychiatric care ester Martin Bergsmark’s projects are characterized by a will to experiment, an with her art graduation project, Unknown Woman, at the university College of Arts, aesthetic drive and a skill for showing new images rooted in today’s Sweden that pushes Craft and design in stockholm in 2009. The Reunion is her debut feature, awarded the the boundaries of the documentary as well as the feature film genre. Previous work include Guldbagge Award for Best Film as well as Best Screenplay. Maggie in Wonderland (2008), and She Male Snails (2012).

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Stockholm Stories Waltz for Monica Stockholm Stories is a multi-plot film about a young writer from Stockholm Monica, a Swedish small town girl is dreaming of the vibrant city jazz clubs. possessed by his theory on light and darkness – a metaphor for people She embarks on an intense journey in the limelight as a celebrated singer and connecting. We follow him and four other characters who through their own actress in the golden era of jazz. Among artists and hipsters she is cherished vanity and various conflicts eventually prove his theory to be right. by all but herself as her phenomenal success leaves a trail of broken love affairs and promises. When the morning breaks she’s alone with a cocktail in her hand on a road with no turning back.

Original title Monica Z DirectOr Per Fly screenWriter Peter Birro PrinciPal cast Edda Magnason, Kjell Bergqvist, Sverrir Gudnason, Nadja Christiansson, Vera Vitali, David Hellenius, Oskar Thunberg, Johannes Wanselow, Cecilia Ljung, Fredrik Lindborg, Ralph Bernard, Randal D Ingram, Jonathan Drew, Amelia Fowler PrODucer Lena Rehnberg PrODuceD By StellaNova Filmproduktion in co-production with Svensk Filmindustri, Film i Original title Stockholm Stories DirectOr Karin Fahlén screenWriter Erik Väst, SVT, Eyeworks Fine & Mellow, DR/Filmklubben, with support from the Swedish Film Ahrnbom PrinciPal cast Martin Wallström, Cecilia Frode, Jonas Karlsson, Julia Institute/Suzanne Glansborg, the Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond/Hanne Ragnarsson, Filip Berg, David Dencik, Dejan Cukic PrODucer Martina Stöhr Palmquist, eurimages and mediA Programme of the european union. DuratiOn 111 min PrODuceD By Chamdin & Stöhr Film in co-production with Sonet Film, SVT, The Chimney releaseD september 13, 2013 sales Svensk Filmindustri International Sales Pot and Film i Väst, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Lars G Lindström Per Fly was born in denmark 1960. his feature film debut The Bench (2000) was the DuratiOn 97 min tO Be releaseD march 7, 2014 sales TBA first film in a trilogy for which he received a Bodil Award and a Robert Award for Best Karin Fahlén has worked in the film industry since the late 80s.i n the beginning of the Director. The Inheritance (2003) won seven Robert Awards and the Award for Best 21st century she became a director. she has directed both commercials, radio theatre and Screenplay at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Manslaughter (2005), also short films.Stockholm Stories is her first feature film. won several awards. fly’s latest film was The Woman who Dreamed of a Man (2010).

That Boy Emil We Are the Best! Katthult, in Lönneberga, in Småland, is where Emil and his little sister Ida live Stockholm 1982. A film about Bobo, Klara and Hedvig. Three 12-13-year-old with their father Anton, their mother Alma, the farmhand Alfred and the maid girls who roam the streets. Who are brave and tough and strong and weak Lina. Emil is a sweet little boy who likes to help out, but his helpfulness often and confused and weird. Who have to take care of themselves way too early. turns into mischief. He’s then sent to the woodshed, where he sits quietly and Who heat fish fingers in the toaster when mom is at the pub. Who start a punk carves his wood figures until someone lets him out. band without any instruments, even though everybody says that punk is dead.

Original title Emil & Ida i Lönneberga DirectOrs Per Åhlin, Alicja Jaworski Björk, Lasse Persson screenWriter Hans Åke Gabrielsson PrinciPal VOices Astrid Lindgren (narrator), Gustav Föghner (Emil), Tilda Ramde (Ida), Allan Svensson (Anton), Elisabet Carlsson (Alma), Lindy Larsson (Alfred), Rebecka Englund Tepper (Lina) Original title Vi är bäst! DirectOr/screenWriter Lukas Moodysson (based on the PrODucers Lars Blomgren, Malini Ahlberg, Clas Cederholm PrODuceD By Filmlance graphic novel Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson) PrinciPal cast Mira Barkhammar, International in co-production with Svensk Filmindustri, PennFilm Studio, SVT, Salikon Film Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, David Dencik, Johan Liljemark, Anna Rydgren, Mattias Wiberg & Saltkråkan, Bildmakarna Berg, ZDF & ZDF Enterprises, with support from the Swedish PrODucer Lars Jönsson PrODuceD By memfisf ilm in co-production with film i Väst, Film Institute/Linus Torell and Nordisk Film & TV Fond/Hanne Palmquist DuratiOn 62 SVT and Zentropa, in co-operation with Denmark’s Radio, with support from the Swedish min releaseD december 25, 2013 sales TBA Film Institute/Lars G Lindström, the Danish Film Institute and Nordisk Film & TV Fond DuratiOn 102 min releaseD October 11, 2013 sales TrustNordisk Per Åhlin is one of the most established names in animation film production ins weden. he has been active since the late 60s. Among the productions he’s directed are the lukas Moodysson burst onto the international scene with his debut feature, the classic Christopher’s Christmas Mission (1975) that runs every Christmas eve on swedish award-winning Show Me Love (1998) followed by Together (2000), Lilya 4-Ever (2002) television, Alfons Åberg (1978, 1993-94), Laban the Little Ghost (2005-2009) and now and Mammoth (2009), the latter was selected for Official Competition at Berlini nterna- most recently That Boy Emil (2013). tional film festival in 2009. We Are the Best! is lukas moodysson’s 7th feature film.

Tommy Winter Buoy DoC Estelle returns to Sweden to seek out her bank robbing husband Tommy’s Winter Buoy is a poetic exploration of the fragile relationship between a group former cronies and claims that Tommy is on his way home to get his share of of nurses and the socially disadvantaged pregnant women they are trying to the take. Word spreads like wildfire through Stockholm’s underworld. If help. It’s a film about hope and dignity. About the people behind the faces that Tommy returns, the city will explode. Tommy is about two sisters, two mothers, many of us choose not to see. three daughters and their men.

Original title Tommy DirectOr Tarik Saleh screenWriter Anton Hagwall PrinciPal cast Moa Gammel, Lykke Li Zachrisson, Ola Rapace, Alexej Manvelov, Johan Rabaeus, Ewa Fröling, Ingela Olsson, Amanda Ooms PrODucer Kristina Åberg PrODuceD By Atmo Rights in co-production with sonet film, filmpool Nord, film i Väst, TV4, dagsljus Original title Vinterboj DirectOr/screenWriter Frida Kempff PrODucer David filmequipment , The Chimney Pots verige and Nordsvensk filmunderhållning, with support Herdies PrODuceD By Momento Film in co-production with Film i Väst, Adomeit Films and from the Swedish Film Institute/Magdalena Jangard DuratiOn 95 min tO Be releaseD Les Films du Balibari, in collaboration with Filmpool Stockholm Mälardalen, CNC, Procirep march 14, 2014 sales Svensk Filmindustri International Sales and Region Pays de la Loire, with support from the Swedish Film Institute/Cecilia Lidin and the MEDIA Programme DuratiOn Approx. 100 min tO Be releaseD 2014 sales TBA Born in 1972. tarik saleh started his carrier as one of sweden’s most prominent graffiti artists. As an art director he started the underground magazine Atlas. Saleh has created With a strong passion and respect for her subjects and a deep cinematic voice, concepts for pubcaster SVT such as En klass för sig, Dream Team and Världens modernaste Frida Kempff has made several award-winning shorts focusing on the vulnerability land, which he also directed. Saleh is one of the partners of production company ATMO and and existential questions of her protagonists. Born in 1977 and educated at the stockholm has previously directed the features Metropia (2009) and co-directed Gitmo – The New Academy of dramatic Arts, in 2010 frida directed Bathing Micky, which won the Jury Prize Rules of War (2006) with erik Gandini. in the Officials election at Cannes the same year.

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