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  • Stefan Jarl – Samernas land AKA Land Of The Lapps (1994)

    1991-2000DocumentaryEthnographic CinemaStefan JarlSweden

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    This short film is only thirteen minutes long, but it is a razor-sharp depiction of civilization pushing out Europe’s last wilderness in Northern Sweden. The white man is hunting ptarmigan, enormous exer-tions are being expended, watercourses are running dry and forests are being devastated. Thirteen minutes about a world in change. But un-fortunately not for the better.
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  • Ruben Östlund – Gitarrmongot aka The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)

    2001-2010DocumentaryDramaRuben ÖstlundSweden

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    The Guitar Mongoloid
    (Sweden)
    By GUNNAR REHLIN
    A Trianglefilm release of a Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna production. (International sales: Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna, Stockholm.) Produced, directed, written by Ruben Ostlund.

    With: Erik Rutstrom, Ola Sandstig, Britt-Marie Andersson, Julia Persdotter.

    One of the quirkiest Swedish films of recent memory, “The Guitar Mongoloid” has all the makings of a cult classic. Shot on a shoestring over several years, pic defies traditional norms of storytelling, making it a distant cousin to the films of iconoclast Roy Andersson (“Songs From the Second Floor”). A dark, but also humorous, depiction of a society with lonely people and sudden outbursts of violence, pic is ideal fest fare.Read More »

  • Stefan Jarl & Lukas Moodysson – Terrorister – en film om dom dömda AKA Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)

    2001-2010DocumentaryLukas MoodyssonStefan JarlSweden

    A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalisation protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests. The first film to be made by the appeal group ‘Swedish Film Workers for Peace and Freedom in an Independent Palestine’.Read More »

  • Fred Scott – Being a Human Person (2020)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFred ScottUnited Kingdom

    At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process. Over the course of a career spanning decades, he’s remained enigmatic and reclusive… until now.Read More »

  • Michal Leszczylowski – Regi Andrej Tarkovskij aka Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)

    1981-1990DocumentaryMichal LeszczylowskiPhilosophySweden

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    During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Editor Michal Leszczylowski took the material and added scenes of previous interviews and interesting statements from the script of Offret and from Tarkovsky’s book ‘Sculpting in Time’. The result is a documentary that shows the way Tarkovksy worked: carefully building each scene. Shows why he did the things he did: his vision on film. And shows the emotion of the man Tarkovsky: his great disappointment when the camera breaks while shooting the house going up in flames.Read More »

  • Eric M. Nilsson – Brutal (1980)

    1971-1980DocumentaryEric M. NilssonExperimentalSweden

    Short film on the economic conditions and aesthetic decisions of filmmaking. One of Eric M. Nilsson’s most acclaimed films.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Backanterna aka Bacchae (1993)

    1991-2000DramaIngmar BergmanPerformanceSweden

    Backanterna is a recording of Bergman’s production of the staged opera Bacchae, a transposition of Euripides’ classical drama written for an amphitheater into a performance designed for the most intimate of stages, the TV screen, with music by Daniel Bortz. The original Euripedes text was re-worked for Bergman’s production, and the bacchae themselves became the focus of the action. Instead of an anonymous group, Bergman turned the women into individuals who each behave and perform in an individual way. In other words, the group was an individualized collective, portrayed by carefully selected soloists. Bergman also made an addition, creating a 14th baccha, Talatta, a non-speaking dance role that functioned as the dynamic doppelganger for Dionysus. Bergman used a minimalist stage which was made to look like a black box with a simple grey platform serving as acting space, placing focus on the vocal and stylized movement of the actors.Read More »

  • Marie Nyreröd – Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern, Bergman och Fårö AKA Bergman Island [Extended TV version] (2004)

    2001-2010DocumentaryMarie NyrerödSweden

    All three documentaries is mainly shot in the home of Ingmar Bergman. This is the first time ever that a film maker has access to Ingmar Bergman in his home at the small island Fårö in the Baltic Sea. Bergman and the Cinema starts with Frenzy from 1944 and ends with Saraband from 2003. It contains unique behind-the-scenes material from Bergman’s private archive. Bergman and the Theatre is about some of Bergman’s 125 theatrical stagings and about his delight with the TV medium with successes as Scenes from a marriage. In Bergman and Fårö Island he talks about the childhood that shaped him. He shows where he shot his film Persona and fell in love – and he lists his worst demons!Read More »

  • Susanne Bier – Pensionat Oskar AKA Like It Never Was Before (1995)

    1991-2000DramaRomanceSusanne BierSweden

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    An offbeat but very watchable black comedy about a hotel handyman who precipitates the breakup of a family, “Like It Never Was Before” could get solid box office returns both in Sweden and abroad, with careful handling.

    Pic is the first script by popular gay writer and standup comic Jonas Gardell, a well-known media personality in Sweden, whose wit targets both gays and gay-bashers. His books are always instant bestsellers.Read More »

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