BUFF’s international catalogue is produced THE TEAM BEHIND CONTACT by BUFF Filmfestival. BUFF FILM FESTIVAL 2017: E-MAIL: info@buff .se PUBLISHER: Julia Jarl Katarina Bäck, researcher CREARTE PHONE: 040-302 505 EDITOR: Torun Spånberg Slettan Khaeta Chittick, communication BOARD: Rolf Isaksson (chairperson), coordinator CONTRIBUTORS: Khaeta Chittick, Mikael Mattesson, Jens Lanestrand, Pernilla Deborah Fusaro, Anna Håkansson, Julia Jarl, Deborah Fusaro, guest coordinator Röjner and Patrik Wiberg. Tim Kronström, Måns Leonartsson, Amanda Lindblad, Lina Linde, Fanny Loeb, Julia Jarl, festival director Daniel Lundquist, Tony Martelius Ågren, Måns Leonartsson, communicator and Chris Munsey, Clara Noreen and volunteer coordinator Torun Spånberg Slettan Lina Linde, project manager BUFFilusk PHOTO CONTRIBUTIONS: Håkan Nordman, Khaeta Chittick, Fanny Loeb, communicator Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Julia Clack. Daniel Lundquist, program manager TRANSLATION: Chris Munsey Torun Spånberg Slettan, festival producer PROOFREADING: Eva Bengtsson GRAPHIC DESIGN: Kolossal.se CONTENT INTRODUCTION SEMINARS FESTIVAL MAP & TICKET SALES 4 INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION 47 OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION PRICES & GOOD TO KNOW 5 THEME IMPACT · YOUNG PEOPLE’S INFLUENCE 48 WELCOME TO BUFF 2017 6 THEME IMPACT · WHOSE REALITY? 49 HIGHLIGHTS 8 THEME IMPACT · #SOFFAN: A BETTER WORLD 50 BUFF IN SWEDEN 2016 9 A DAY FOR FILM IN EDUCATION 51 PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS 10 WORK IN PROGRESS 52 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME CULTURAL EXPRESSION ON YOUNG PEOPLE’S TERMS 54 FAMILY SATURDAY 25 MARCH 12 COMPETITIONS FILM SERIES 13 THE CITY OF MALMÖ CHILDREN’S FILM AWARD 56 FOR THE VERY YOUNGEST (3–5 YEARS) 14 THE CHURCH OF SWEDEN AWARD AND 57 JUNIOR CINEMA (6+ YEARS) 16 THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S FILM JURY AWARD TWEEN CINEMA (9+ YEARS) 21 THE REGION SKÅNE SHORT FILM AWARD 58 COMPETITION · SHORT FILM 26 EUROPEAN CHILDREN’S FILM ASSOCIATION AWARD 59 TEEN CINEMA (13+ YEARS) 29 BUFF NORDIC STAR 2017 60 YOUTH CINEMA (15+ YEARS) 33 SF BIO’S CHILDREN’S FILM GRANT 61 EVENING CINEMA 36 CHILDREN’S CINEMA OF THE YEAR 61 THEME IMPACT 1, 2 & 3 37 SYDSVENSKAN & BUFF’S PRIZE 61 SHORTS A–Z 40 PRINT SOURCES 62 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE 64 FILM INDEX 66 FESTIVALVÄSTRA HAMNEN MAP SEGEVÅNG ROYAL RO ST Södra Tullgatan 4 CENTRAL- STATIONEN LUNDAVÄGEN NORRA VALLGATAN PANORA PA KIRSEBERG STOR- TORGET Friisgatan 19D NORRA VALLGATAN RIBBAN SP GAMLA STADEN B SPEGELN SP DROTTNINGGATAN KUNGSPARKEN GUSTAV AMIRALSGATAN ADOLFS TORGRO RÖRSJÖ- Stortorget 29 STADEN SLOTTSPARKEN RIBERSBORG DROTTNINGGATAN FI REGEMENTSGATAN FILMSTADEN STORGATAN FI NOBELVÄGEN Storgatan 22 AMIRALSGATAN F TRIANGELN estival PA KRONBORGSVÄGEN MÖLLEVÅNGEN MAP STUDIO MALMÖ ST FOLKETS PARK ÖSTRA KYRKOGÅRDEN Nordenskiöldsgatan 24 BERGSGATAN PILDAMMS- AMIRALSGATAN PARKEN PILDAMMSVÄGEN BUFF FESTIVAL CENTRE B JOHN ERICSSONS VÄG NOBELVÄGEN Hotel Noble House Per Weijersgatan 6 YSTADVÄGEN PRESALES AT BUFF.SE TICKET SALES ROSENGÅRD HUSIE PRESALES AT KULTURCENTRALEN · MON–FRI 11AM–6PM, SAT 11AM–3PM. PHONE: 040-10 30 20 · ADDRESS: SÖDRA FÖRSTADSGATAN 18 DURING THE FESTIVAL DAY FILMSTADEN SPEGELN PANORA During the festival you can buy Tuesday 21 March 8.45AM–01.00PM 8.30AM–9.30PM 8.30AM–3.00PM tickets at the BUFF ticket desks at Wednesday 22 March 8.45AM–01.00PM 8.30AM–9.30PM 8.30AM–3.00PM the Spegeln, Panora and Filmstaden Thursday 23 March 8.45AM–01.00PM 8.30AM–8.30PM 8.30AM–8.30PM cinemas. Please observe that there Friday 24 March 8.45AM–10.00AM 8.30AM–8.30PM 8.30AM–12.30PM are no ticket sales at the Royal Saturday 25 March CLOSED CLOSED 10.00AM–3.15PM cinema. All venues open 30 minutes before the first festival screening. 4 HYLLIEBUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #34 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA BRUKSVÄGEN PRICES GOOD TO KNOW SINGLE TICKET 50 KR FESTIVAL PASS Is mandatory for all festival visitors for a one time fee. SINGLE TICKET FAMILY SATURDAY 30 KR Festival passes can be picket up at the festival cinemas before the festival screening or the seminar. FESTIVAL PASS ADULT 30 KR OPENING HOURS The festival cinemas open 30 minutes before the first FESTIVAL PASS CHILD (up to age 19) FREE OF CHARGE festival screening. Doors to the theatre opens approx. 15 minutes before the screening. FESTIVAL PASS GOLD (Free entry to all films) 250 KR SEATS SEMINARS FREE ENTRY WITH FESTIVAL PASS* All seats are unnumbered. *With exception of A Day for Film in Education (more info page 51). Some seminars require pre-registration, read more at buff.se/signup. ACCESSIBILITY All festival theatres have wheelchair spaces with adjacent companion seating. All festival theatres have hearing aid loops, except Filmstaden 4. Please contact the BUFF cinema staff if you have any questions about information FOR SCHOOLS where the hearing aids loop work best. AND Wheelchair spaces and companion seats may be purchased by calling Kulturcentralen, telephone: ICKETS SINGLE TICKET 25 KR 040-10 30 20. For more information, please visit the T cinema’s respective websites. FESTIVAL PASS ADULTS & CHILDREN FREE OF CHARGE GOLD PASS Free entry to all festival screenings subject to availability. Festival pass is included. FREE SEATS FOR SCHOOLS IN MALMÖ WWW.BUFF.SE In association with the City of Malmö’s Department Please visit our web page for updates and possible of Culture, seats to a number of BUFF’s film changes in the program. screenings are available free of charge to Malmö’s preschools, primary and secondary schools and upper secondary schools. These seats are bookable through Kulturkartan. The performances take place during school hours FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA and guaranteed transport by bus is available within a specified booking period. The seats can be booked from /buff.festival 6th of February at Kulturkartan. For more information, please contact [email protected]. buff_malmo Schools wishing to purchase tickets for film performances not included here are referred to buff_malmo Kulturcentralen and the tickets with school ticket price. buff_malmo MALMÖ 20–25 MARCH 2017 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #34 5 I NTRODUCTION Måns Leonartsson, Deborah Fusaro, Lina Linde, Khaeta Chittick, Fanny Loeb, Torun Spånberg Slettan, Daniel Lundquist and Julia Jarl. WELCOME TO BUFF 6 BUFF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL #34 WORLD CLASS YOUNG CINEMA THIS FESTIVAL IS FOR YOU. As this is being written, a wave of world together with those closest very people the show is aimed at in violence is washing over Malmö. to you, but also with people who order to discover which questions are Violence which hits us all. Many you’d never otherwise have met, as important for young people today. people are scared of being outdoors new friends and acquaintances. We Researcher Elza Dunkels, a guest and they feel powerless and afraid. hope that our shared experience at BUFF 2017, with her lecture The media brings us reports of of films will make us talk to each on Friday March 24th, uses the children murdered in their own other more. That together, we will term juvenism to expose the power neighbourhoods, the very places open up to one another and share structures that enable discrimination where they should be able to feel each others’ stories. We believe against young people in society. In safe. This is happening right now, that coming together around a film the news coverage offered by the right next door to us. enriches all of us and feeds a curiosity mainstream media, children and We believe, despite the darkness, about other cultures, languages and young people are largely rendered that the great majority of us want to narratives. We believe that we can invisible and a youth perspective help make Malmö safe and peaceful change society for the better a little is rarely allowed any real space in NTRODUCTION once again. Creating shared meeting bit at a time. By taking young people the sphere of public debate. What I places that bring us together instead seriously, and by challenging them happens to young people who grow of leaving us isolated. This is what with stories that both move and up experiencing that they lack any BUFF wants to be a part of. question. influence I society, over their lives The theme for this year’s festival is and their futures? The great thing about impact and we ask what impact young Many of the films shown at BUFF people can have in society. Today, touch on the theme of influence, and BUFF is that we show children and young people make by allowing time for discussion after films for everyone. It their own films using mobile phones a number of the screenings we’re doesn’t matter who you or webcams, and consume moving making a deliberate effort to open up images in front of the computer on for a vital reflective dialogue. are or where you come YouTube and other platforms. But In the preparation of the festival, from. At BUFF, everyone how does the education system make we’ve had the help of a reference use of the extensive digital expertise group of young people, who will also is welcome. possessed by so many of today’s be participating in various aspects of young people? the festival programme. Influence is Our collaboration with the City of Another important thing to ask also a common theme in this year’s Malmö’s Department of Culture for is how much impact young people seminar programme. Children and Young People helps really have in terms of what is on Welcome to a BUFF which has ensure that all of Malmö’s school- offer to them via film and TV? One never been more important, or children are given a chance to see of the reasons that the Norwegian better, than it is right now. film here at BUFF. We’ve planned youth series Shame has become this festival for you, your friends, so successful is that it takes its pupils, children and grandchildren.