F E S T I VA L G U I D E
2018
NORDISK PANORAMA
film festival MALMÖ | 20–25 SEP 2018 | 29th edition
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Nordisk Panorama 2018 Welcome to the 29th edition of Nordisk Panorama! You are about to enter a film festival that matters. In times when “fake news” is as familiar a phrase as “Do you want coffee?”, when we see an increase in violence and threats against artists and cultural presenters, when there are growing political parties wanting to restrict grants to the independent cultural sector, it is sensible to feel a little concerned about the state of the cultural and democratic climate in the Nordic countries today. Are we taking the concept of democracy for granted in the Nordic countries? So much so that we don’t even realise that the most profound foundations of our society are being challenged? Over six days, Nordisk Panorama brings together some amazing events, Through films, seminars, talks, pitches, meetings and parties; we meet, share, debate, take part, get inspired, connect, involve and feel. Nordisk Panorama presents the best Nordic documentaries and short films and enables the continuous process of filmmaking. Through the captivating curiosity and persistence of extraordinary Nordic filmmakers, our eyes are opened to a reality beyond our own everyday lives. By presenting many different points of view, the fantastic complexities of life are revealed. Together we make a difference. We cannot wait to meet you! Nordisk Panorama Film i Skåne Malmö Stad
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC DOC 2018
Nordic Docs The selection of films competing for the Best Nordic Document ary Award this year presents a compelling smorgasbord of stories from all over the world. The programme features 15 Nordic documentaries reflecting on the world around us – both close by and far away – and highlighting the complexity and beauty of being human, with each film celebrating the joy of storytelling and filmmaking in its own unique way.
Enjoy!
BEYOND STRENGTH Baldvin Z / Iceland / 2017 / 87 min Screened 21 Sep & 23 Sep Reynir Örn Leósson became fam ous in Iceland in the 70s as the world’s strongest man. With his massive strength and faith in God, Reynir was a phenomenon. But a harsh childhood shaped him into a man with dark secrets. He be came an abusive alcoholic, des perate for constant recognition.
A YEAR OF HOPE
BOYS WHO LIKE GIRLS
Mikala Krogh / Denmark / 2017 / 81 min Screened 22 Sep & 24 Sep
Inka Achté / Finland, Norway, India / 2018 / 69 min Screened 21 Sep & 23 Sep
A group of boys from the streets of Manila, the capital of the Philip pines get a chance to change their lives. They are offered a stay at a rehabilitation centre on an island. In the context of their past lives, this is paradise. Many of the boys have been sexually abused, drugaddicted or physically abused.
The story sets in the aftermath of the infamous Delhi gang rape and #metoo. Teenager Ved joins a pro ject aiming to foster healthy mas culinity and sees there may be a brighter future. With support, Ved takes his first steps into adult life and develops an unexpected pas sion: Dancing.
EXIT
GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS
Karen Winther / Norway, Germany and Sweden / 2018 / 81 min / Screened 21 Sep & 22 Sep
Håvard Bustnes / Norway, Denmark and Finland / 2017 / 94 min Screened 23 Sep & 25 Sep
Director Karen Winther is seeking the answers to how she and a group of political extremists from Germany, France, Denmark and the US were able to reject violence and extremism. Reflections on her own past provide an emotional and psychological counterpoint to the stories.
“What has happened to Greece?” When the leaders of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn are arrested, accused of heading a criminal organisation, their daughters, wi ves and mothers step up to take over. As their trial and elections approach, the film exposes the mind-set of the ones on the front lines of modern nationalism.
FALSE CONFESSIONS
LESLIE ON FIRE / Opening film
Katrine Philp / Denmark, Germany / 2018 / 92 min Screened 22 Sep & 24 Sep
Stefan Berg / Sweden / 2018 / 80 min Screened 20 Sep & 22 Sep
Why confess to a crime you didn’t commit? Every year innumerable American suspects do. Four cases of the defence attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen demonstrate how people end up confessing to crimes they didn’t commit and its conse quences.
Leslie has been passionate about music since the age of 12. Now, at 28, he is on the verge of breaking through as a solo R&B artist. He has produced and written music for other artists but success hasn’t been easy. He was raised in one of the most segregated areas in Swe den, rife with poverty and crime.
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC DOC 2018
LIVING.LOVING
PUNK VOYAGE
Mette Aakerholm Gardell / Sweden, Norway / 2018 / 88 min Screened 22 Sep & 23 Sep
J-PPassi&JukkaKärkkäinen / Finland, Denmark,Norway/2017/ 98min Screened 24 Sep & 25 Sep
The baby-boomer generation grew up after World War II has reached old age. In their youth, homosexu ality was seen as a disease and brought disgrace. What happens when the world’s first LGBTQ re tirement home opens? The protag onists look back at the troubles they faced and finally start living as and loving themselves.
PKN, a Finnish punk rock band of four men with learning disabili ties, was on the brink of breaking up when they auditioned for Euro vision. A film about being true to yourself, making hard decisions and moving on. Sometimes smelly, but an unforgettable journey full of tears and laughter.
PER FUGELLI – I DIE
RAGHU RAI – AN UNFRAMED PORTRAIT
Erik Poppe / Norway / 2018 / 112 min Screened 22 Sep & 24 Sep Per Fugelli was a Norwegian doc tor. He believed that our health is dependent on social relationships. Fugelli was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and in 2015 refused fur ther treatment. In the final phase of his life, he challenged the taboo of death by writing about his own fatality.
Avani Rai / Finland, Norway, India / 2017 / 55 min Screened 21 Sep & 23 Sep An unframed portrait of Magnum photographer Raghu Rai and his 50-year career capturing the sto ries of India. Raghu Rai’s stories are retold through the eyes of his own rebellious daughter. Together they travel to Kashmir, the most militarised region on earth.
THE DEMINER
THE RAFT
Hogir Hirori / Sweden / 2017 / 83 min Screened 21 Sep & 24 Sep
Marcus Lindeen / Sweden, Denmark, USA, Germany / 2018 / 98 min Screened 21 Sep & 23 Sep
In 2003, Fakhir, an Iraqi father of eight, joins a military mission to Mosul to fight the terrorists who filled a vacuum after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Seeing how thou sands of innocent people are mai med and injured by landmines, Fakhir decides to become a demin er.
In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as a scientific experiment of sociol ogy of violence, aggression and sexual attraction, known as ‘The Sex Raft’. The film tells the hidden story of what has been described as one of the strangest group experiments of all time.
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS
THE STRANGER
Simon Lereng Wilmont / Denmark, / Finland, Sweden / 2017 / 91 min Screened 22 Sep & 23 Sep Set in eastern Ukraine on the front line of the war, the film follows the life of a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy, Oleg, over a year, showing the gradual erosion of his innocence under the pressure of war.
Nicole Nielsen Horanyi / Denmark / 2017 / 101 min Screened 21 Sep & 24 Sep Amanda encounters Casper on Face- book. After three months of texting, they meet and fall in love. It turns out that Casper is heir to one of the wealthiest families in Denmark. He prefers the ordinary life and soon moves into Amanda’s small apart ment. But the idyll doesn’t last long. One day the phone rings …
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC SHORT 2018
Tilted Axis This selection of shorts is told with something of a shifted and skewed perspective, exploring alternative realities with a twisted lens. The dinner party in Jerry Carlsson’s Shadow Animals goes from slightly strange to all-out bizarre when the guests partake in the most peculiar after-dinner rituals, while Réka Bucsi’s animated cosmic odyssey Solar Walk melts the mind whilst exploring space, and Kerren Lumer-Klabbers’ A Stone Slowly Falls takes an unconventional look at depression. Perfect for those who lean towards the offbeat. Screened 23 Sep & 24 Sep
SHADOW ANIMALS
SOLAR WALK
Jerry Carlsson / 2017 / Sweden / 22 min
Réka Bucsi / 2018 / Denmark / 21 min
A young girl, Marall, goes to a party with her two dads. As the evening progresses she finds the adults’ behaviour increasingly strange. Everyone at the party is trying to conform but not everyone suc ceeds. A study of adult behaviour through a child’s perspective, and the relationship between acting and dancing.
This short is about the melancholy of accepting chaos as beautiful and cosmic. A passion for creation is projected through the unique and playful texture of the anima tion craft itself.
From The film Shadow Animals.
THE GREEN VALLEY
A STONE SLOWLY FALLS
Ellen H. Ugelstad / 2018 / Norway / 24 min
Kerren Lumer-Klabbers / 2018 / Norway / 15 min
A political film based on three real events that took place in 2014 in Oslo. It explores the connection between a man setting himself on fire in the local park, a sculpture, and the end of the summer home work programme for local kids. A mix of live action, archive mate rial and re-enactment.
When an annual meteor shower doesn’t occur for no apparent rea son, Tor concludes that everything is meaningless. But as he tries to live by this newfound knowledge, his curiosity becomes a problem. An unconventional view of depres sion and an insight into a young man’s mind through a quirky nar rative.
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC SHORT 2018
Rebels With a Cause Strong characters with bold and unflinchingly brazen attitudes take centre stage in this programme. Featuring Mika Gustafson’s Mephobia, which blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction with her hard-hitting short following a group of young women causing havoc in a Swedish neighbourhood, while Brúsi Ólason’s Viktoría dramatises a farmer’s battle to keep her dairy farm afloat after her only employee leaves her stranded, and the brilliant experimental dance film Juck, pushes boundaries in female representation. Filmmaking that packs a punch – unapologetically so. Screened 22 Sep & 24 Sep
MEPHOBIA
THE ELEPHANT
Mika Gustafson / 2017 / Sweden / 24 min
Kerren Lumer-Klabbers / 2017 / Denmark / 13 min
A group of girls aged 6–8 wander around the neighbourhood mak ing trouble. A group of older girls is just as frustrated, but their rest lessness expresses itself differ ently. What do we experience as true and what are the consequences of how we read images?
Magnus is celebrating his birth H Eentertains E L E P Hhis A N guests T day. THe with far-fetched stories. Everyone knows he’s lying but no one says anything. As the party progresses, his stories get crazier and one lie leads to another. Eventually his girlfriend Cille leaves the party, hurt and angry. Anton hjejle / emma sehested høeg / PETRINE AGGER / NICOLAI JØRGENSEN ANNE SOFIE WANSTRUP / EMIL PRENTER /INGRID-MARIE THORLACIUS / PETER SCHLIE / HJALTE RYTKOV director Kerren Lumer-klabbers Script DENISE KRAMER / KERREN LUMER-KLABBERS Producers SØS THØSTESEN / CLARA JANTZEN KREINØE cinematographer DAVID BAUER editor ALLAN FUNCH sound designer PETER SEEBA composer JOHAN CARØE Production design JEPPE FROSTHOLM Stylists EMILIE GALSGAARD DINESEN / SOFIE SCHOU MADSEN
WATER BEARS
VIKTORÍA
Yenni Lee / 2017 / Norway / 10 min
Brúsi Ólason / 2018 / Iceland / 13 min
A discussion in a 6th grade class about bullying and power struc tures evolves into a power struggle within the group of 11-yearolds, with the bystanders as passive-ag gressive participants. The film looks at the bystander effect in dif ferent dimensions.
A SHORT FILM BY BRÚSI ÓLASON Viktoría, a strong-willed woman PRESS KIT in her 60s, is left to manage her dairy farm on her own when her only employee leaves for a better job. The farm has been in Vik toría’s family for generations.
•Q&A• D I D YO U K N O W T H AT M A N Y
JUCK Olivia Kastebring & Julia Gumpert & Ulrika Bandeira / 2018 / Sweden / 18 min A video made by the Swedish all- female dance group, JUCK, went viral globally in 2013. ‘Juck’ is Swed ish for ‘hump’ and their perfor mances push the limits of how we are used to seeing the female body. JUCK provokes, inspires and breaks norms. And how do you define femi ninity?
SCREENINGS WILL BE F O L L O W E D BY A Q&ASESSION WITH D I R E C T O R S A N D F I L MM A K E R S P R E S E N T.
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC SHORT 2018
Funny Games The lighter side of life is explored in this humorous programme, but be warned – there are also some darker undertones lurking in one or two of these shorts. The Sporadic Film Collective’s mantra of ‘one idea, one meeting, one day of shooting’ works wonders once again as their brilliantly funny short about how not to propose to someone testifies; We Retired People is a masterclass in comic writing and timing, and the innovative, award-winning As We’re Told takes the seemingly mundane topic of bureaucracy within a job centre and turns it on its head – it’s a joy to behold.
THE TIGER Mikko Myllylahti / 2018 / Finland / 11 min It’s a winter evening. Dad returns home drunk. Tiger is in his room and mom is sleeping on the couch. A quarrel breaks out. Tiger and mom escape the house. Silence falls. Tiger needs to go back inside to see what has happened – and to take the first steps towards inde pendence.
Screened 21 Sep & 23 Sep
THE DOOR
THE PROPOSAL
Jenni Toivoniemi / 2017 / Finland / 9 min
Det sporadiske filmkollektivet / 2017 / Norway / 6 min
Strange sounds in the apartment building hallway wake Jussi in the middle of the night. Fear and the need to protect his family force him to investigate. He finds a homeless alcoholic, Pentti, who has just bro ken the window of the hallway door.
On a boat in an idyllic setting, Joa chim goes down on one knee to propose to Toril, the love of his life. Toril has other thoughts about their relationship.
WE RETIRED PEOPLE
AFFECT
Tia Kouvo / 2018 / Sweden / 12 min
Arvin Kananian / 2017 / Sweden / 11 min
It’s an ordinary Tuesday morning in February in Sweden. It’s cold. An elderly couple, Elma and Sven, pass the time reading advertising flyers and waiting for the phar macy to open. A stationary road movie about old age.
At a summer house, a couple is preparing lunch. The man wan ders into the forest to pee. And to masturbate. His phone signals a text message and his girlfriend picks up the phone. She knows he has an allergy to peanuts, but not the severity of his reaction. A dra ma with a hint of dark comedy.
AS WE’RE TOLD
SANCTUARY
Erik Holmström & Fredrik Wenzel / 2017 / Sweden / 30 min
Magnus Rutberg / 2018 / Sweden, Finland / 8 min
“It’s simple. We do as we’re told.” This unsettling reply comes from a Swedish employment office emplo yee when asked how the country’s most unpopular government agen cy works. A comical study of strate gies for survival in an irrational bureaucracy.
Cogito ergo sum. Well, that’s easy for you to say, Descartes. Try to stop the constant radio that’s going on inside your head instead.
COMPETITION BEST NORDIC SHORT 2018
Nearest and Dearest Capturing bona-fide intimacy, emotion and tenderness is no easy feat, but these shorts all succeed where many a filmmaker has tried and failed. The docu mentaries Haunted and 27 First Years both see the filmmakers turn the camera onto family members, with a portrait of a mother whose story is complex and moving, and the relationship between a parent and severely disabled son which is life-affirming in every sense. And Apple tells the poetic tale of life in limbo, the pendulum swinging between happiness and pain. Expressive filmmaking that touches the heart. Screened 22 Sep & 25 Sep
HAUNTED
WEIGHT OF SPRING
Christian Einshøj / 2018 / Denmark / 30 min
Erika Calmeyer / 2017 / Norway / 7 min
The ageing mother of the film maker sees a ghost outside her son’s childhood bedroom. But what is behind this visit from beyond? The dryly comic narra tion is combined with stylised tab leaux and grainy home-video in this real-life ghost story from Nor wegian suburbia.
The stories tell twelve different and each story consists of a single, carefully composed picture show ing a situation involving a couple. The film looks for the complex and grey areas in relationships and the effect of age, ethnicity and status. We all share a vulnerability and a desire to be loved.
From the film Apple. Photo: Marianne Bakke/Motlys.
APPLE
27 FIRST YEARS
Yngvild Sve Flikke / 2018 / Norway / 20 min
Jussi Sandhu / 2018 / Finland / 29 min
A young woman invites her litera ture teacher to discuss a story he has written. She suggests that he is writing to disguise his own inner desires. They fall in love. A poetic story of life in limbo between hap piness and pain.
How does a mother react when her disabled son leaves home at the age of 27? How does her role change when she moves an adult child into assisted living? A mot her is alone for the first time as she transitions into old age. A doc umentary by Jussi Sandhu about his mother and his brother.
SPECIAL PROGRAMME FILMS
Shortcuts: Morning Flight Breakfast Screening Bags packed, online check-in complete, boarding cards printed; make yourself comfortable for an in-flight screening where you needn’t worry about turbulence, the seatbelt sign or screaming babies sitting next to you. This morning’s journey will take you to a range of desti nation through an eclectic mix of short films.
BACCHUS Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta / 2018 / Denmark / 6 min Alex is a young woman tired of life and social media. She meets Bacchus, a figure who lures her into a colourful world that is op posite to her reality and allows to follow her instincts and explore her desires.
Screened 23 Sep
BRANCH
A WORTHY MAN
Det sporadiske filmkollektivet / 2018 / Norway / 4 min
Kristian Håskjold / 2018 / Denmark / 20 min
Nader is used to take punches and doesn’t let it stop him from look ing for love but he doesn’t realise he is throwing punches too. The film was produced while the idea is still fresh – One idea. One meet ing. One day of filming.
Erik works alone in his bakery night after night. He became dis connected from his family and his efforts to re-establish inti macy are not working. With de pression, Erik breaks down in a desperate cry for help.
SINKING OF THE TRUTH
OSLO TALES
Tobias Gundorff Boesen / 2018 / Denmark / 8 min
André Chocron / 2017 / Norway / 10 min
A remake of The Sinking Of The Lusitania, world’s first animated documentary, used as propagan da to push US into WWI. But mak ing a film true to the occured events proves difficult in our world of fake news and a never- ending flow of misinformation.
Stories and observations about people in Oslo, told by the city’s most visual but least talkative in habitants: Houses. Sound record ings of people combined with ani mated clips of different residen tials – they tell stories themselves.
TEU VOL.1
TINGLES
Lasse Næraa Smith / 2018 / Denmark / 8 min
Jani Kauta / 2017 / Finland / 7 min
The first part in a trilogy is about mankind under containers and globalisation. The logistics of con tainer transport are complex and it could almost be its own organ ism. Its purpose is proportional to men’s fascination for growth and consumption.
A phenomenon no-one can ex plain: a peculiar tingling sensa tion in the brain, yet undiagnosed by medical science. An Internet community was developed, and Tingles seeks to describe the inde scribable and help people under stand the sensation.
SPECIAL PROGRAMME FILMS
Nordic Lives Lobster fishing in Sweden, cheerleading in Iceland, filmmaking in Norway, and upcycling in Finland. These documentary shorts explore the lives of ordinary Nordic folk through their work, hobbies, and passions. We see traditions being passed down from father to daughter in The Last in a Line of Fishermen, dreams turning into reality in the wonderful Line, and lessons in how to reuse, recycle and save the planet in the inspiring Practical Ecology. Docs to warm the soul. Screened 22 Sep
THE LAST IN A LINE OF FISHERMEN Karolin Axelsson / 2018 / Sweden / 29 min My dad spent 30 years alone at fishing. He was taught by his dad – a tradition passed down from father to son. He had only daugh ters so the line was broken. I returned home to see if I can learn what I was not taught as a child. Will I become the family’s next fisherman?
NORATANTEN Ninja Strååt / 2018 / Sweden / 5 min
Sabine is 81 and was born in Nazi Germany. She never thought she would see Nazis march on Swed ish streets. When it happens, Sab ine knows she must do something. Her message is: “Love is a million times stronger than hate.”
VALKYRJUR
LINE
Valgerður Júlíusdóttir / 2017 / Iceland / 8 min
Fabien Greenberg & Bård Kjøge Rønning / 2018 / Norway / 27 min
Valkyrjur is a cheerleading team in Iceland, active for just over a year. The founder and head cheerleader is Ósk Tryggvadóttir. We watch the group practice and then perform at the Einherjar vs. Lions rugby match.
Line is 17 and has Downs syndrome. Her dream is to make her own movie. She gets the chance, and we follow production from idea to premiere of her short film In the Name of Love. The cast and crew are all Downs syndrome friends.
YO U C A N A L S O W AT C H N O R D I C L I V E S AT M A L M Ö
PRACTICAL ECOLOGY Minna Suoniemi / 2017 / Finland / 11 min
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A 74-year-old man born during WWII demonstrates his inven tions. Among them are a wooden cutting board made from an old leather sofa and skates made from old skis. The value of the object is defined by the time spent in creat ing the invention.
24 AND 26 SEP I N B E R ÄT TA R RUMMET 16:30.
S P E C I A L P R O G R A M M E / C H I L D R E N ’ S C H O I C E AWA R D
Young Nordic Young Nordic is a programme of Nordic shorts aimed at children and young people, and anyone who is open to stories told from a young person’s perspective. We are presenting twelve films from five Nordic countries. Stories that portray what it’s like to be a young person. In collaboration with BUFF and the City of Malmö, offering free screenings for schools. Screened 20, 21, 24, 25 Sep
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YOUNG NORDIC 2
My New Home is a Trailer, Jasmijn Kooijman / 2017 / Sweden / 31 min Slowdance, Christian Zetterberg / 2018 / Sweden / 6 min | Wanda, Denise Hauser / 2018 / Norway / 14 min
Shadow Boxer, Andreas Bøggild Monies / 2017 / Denmark / 22 min | Let it Grow, Andrea Stief / 2018 / Denmark / 15 min With Trees, Lasse Holdhus / 2017 / Germany / 12 min
The girls at the refugee home in Möllstorp tell their stories of love and friendship and how they ended up living in a camping gro und. A shy boy at a middle-school dance tackles the new concepts of identity, sexuality and love and Wanda has umpteen conflicts at home and at school, so she escapes into an imaginary world. This Short Film package is aimed for grade 3 and 4.
Luna lives alone with her mother, Isabella, a professional boxer. Fighting a major bout, Isabella is so badly hurt she ends up in a wheel chair. Marcus and his mother will celebrate Christmas with her new boyfriend and a green spot begins to grow on Marcus. A young girl peers between the trees of the dark forest. She is hoping to see the spirit of her recently deceased mother. Lying down beside the tree, the girl feels her mother’s warmth. This Short Film package is aimed for grade 3 and 4.
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YOUNG NORDIC 3
YOUNG NORDIC 4
Hvalagapet, Liss-Anett Steinskog / 2017 / Norway / 13 min | Tweeneer, Julia Thelin / 2018 / Sweden / 29 min Wild Beasts, Sverre Kvamme / 2017 / Norway / 10 min
#ThisIsMe, Aino Suni & Jenni Tuli / 2017 / Finland / 19 min | Bog Hole, Torfinn Iversen / 2018 / Norway / 14 min | Three Men, Emil Alfreð Emilsson / 2017 / Iceland / 12 min
The story of 12 year old Rikke’s first confrontation with serious feelings: the thing called love. It’s all over in an hour. Janna is a 13-year-old wrestler. The wres tling mat is a space where feelings can be let out. A film for anyone who has ever felt as if they’d burst from putting a lid on feelings. It’s mid-winter in northern Norway. In a group of rowdy young kids, a boy is disturbed by his attrac tion to his best friend. This Short Film package is aimed for grade 5 and 6.
Three girls keen to try something new, or to reveal a different side of themselves take the challenge with support from their peers. In the end, what matters is the cour age to try while staying true to oneself. Two young girls have to put their differences aside when one of them gets stuck in a bog hole. On an isolated farm in the west of Iceland lives a small family of three males. They find it hard to express their feelings towards each other. This Short Film pack age is aimed for grade 5 and 6.
Children’s Choice Award The films in the Young Nordics programme compete for the love of our most critical audience. We’ve asked the youngest viewers to tell us which film they liked the best, and we’ll present the winner with a Children’s Choice award, as well as an invitation to attend next year’s festival. Young Nordic is for Schools and Accredited guests.
Kinematografi. Photo by Niklas Killander.
Special Events
NORDIC LIVES AT RÖDA RUMMET Sat 22 Sep | 11:00–12:50 | Malmö stadsbibliotek | Free Lobster fishing in Sweden, cheerleading in Iceland, filmmaking in Nor way, and upcycling in Finland. These documentary shorts explore the lives of ordinary Nordic folk through their work, hobbies, and passions. We see traditions being passed down from father to daughter in The Last in a Line of Fishermen, dreams turning into reality in the wonderful Line, and lessons in how to reuse, recycle and save the planet in the inspiring Practical Ecology. Docs to warm the soul. Screening includes an Q & A. You can also watch Nordic Lives at Malmö Stadsbibliotek, 15–30 Sept and at Oxie Bibliotek, 19, 24 and 26 Sept in Berättarrummet 16:30.
SFI FILMRUMMET PRESENTS: BEYOND REALITY Sun 23 Sep | 16:00–17:30 | Panora, Salong 2 | Free A conversation exploring the creative power of a nimated documentary storytelling. In this session, we meet filmmakers who will share and discuss the creative processes and power of working with animated documentary, through three case studies (FLEE, CRAIG and THE NIGHT). The goal is to obtain a deeper insight into how to discover, real ise and create images through animation when they have been lost, and how, through new artistic expression and visual voice, we can take ownership of memories and past human experiences. This conversation will also touch on the challenges of financing, pre senting and producing animated documentaries. Moderators: Klara Grunning and Juan Pablo Libossart, Swedish Film Institute. Panel: Elin Kamlert from Story AB, Monica Hellström & Jonas Poher Rasmussen from Final Cut for Real, Carsten Aanonsen & Steffan Strandberg from IndieFilm.
VR: CINEMA KINEMATOGRAFI Sat 22 Sep | 11:00 & 13:00 | Spegeln / Bar Deco | 95 SEK A cinema screening of VR – with live actors. Kinematografi takes you into the mind of a woman suffering from the delusion that she is a character from an Ingmar Bergman film. A psychiatrist tries to convince you that the memories you are reliving from that cottage by the sea are not your own. You are not a woman created by the male genius. A VR cinema premiere and exclusive experience with sensory interaction, this piece invites you into an intimate story where memories are physical and fiction is conta gious. Kinematografi, a work in progress, is presented by Malmö based per forming arts company Bombina Bombast in collaboration with BoostHbg. Duration: 40 minutes (including Q&A). Limited seating, ticket required.
VR: DOCUMENTARIES IN NEW FORMATS Sat 22 & Sun 23, Sep | 13:00 –18:00 | Spegeln | Free Drop in and experience Virtual Reality for free during the weekend!
VR: COSMIC TOP SECRET A Documentary Game In Cosmic Top Secret, you help “T” investigate what her father worked on for the Danish intelligence services during the Cold War. T’s parents were Cold War warriors, clandestine operatives of the secret service arm of the Danish Army, fighting the Red Menace in a fantastic reality of double identities, top secret documents and coded signals. Cosmic Top Secret is the autobiographical documentary game for tablets and web based on an amazing true story. Through six levels, the story devel ops an interaction between narrative, mechanics and stunning art work. Cosmic Top Secret has been developed by Klassefilm and is pre sented in collaboration with BoostHbg.
VR: THE MOMENT OF FREEDOM EXPERIENCE A Poetic Prototype of Documentary Virtual Reality Experience the incomparable moment when Holocaust and World War II survivors take their first steps in freedom. The Moment of Freedom Experience has collected the captivating faces and stories from the sur vivors with a collage technique, partly inspired by the legendary artist Hannah Hoch. The VR experience is part of a planned interactive exhi bition created by Anna Senno. The experience is the next chapter in the stories from Magnus Gertten’s documentary films Harbor of Hope and Every Face has a Name. The prototype is produced by Auto Images. The work is presented in collaboration with BoosthHbg and members from the team will be present to explain the development process and plans for the exhibition.
Special Events SHORTCUTS – MORNING FLIGHT BREAKFAST SCREENING
Sun 23 Sep | 09:00-11:05 | Spegeln, Bar Deco | Breakfast included | 150 SEK Bags packed, online check-in complete, boarding cards printed; make yourself comfortable for an in-flight screening where you needn’t worry about turbulence, the seatbelt sign or screaming babies sitting next to you. This morning’s journey will take you to a range of destination through an eclectic mix of short films. Featuring André Chocron’s charming docu mentary charting tales of living in Oslo, Jani Kauta’s experimental sensory film exploring the strange phenomenon of having an itch in your brain, and Bacchus, Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta’s sensual animated trip into one woman’s consciousness full of lust and desire. Breakfast is included. Limited seating, ticket required. This year, Nordisk Panorama is proud to team up with SAS to distribute Nordic short films in the air. The pro gramme Shortcuts will be on display on the SAS InFlight programme on all Nordic flights between September and October 2018.
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Mon 24 Sep / 18:30 – 22:00 / S:t Johannes Kyrka | Free Join us for an extraordinary ”Near Death” Experience and the screening of the Norwegian documentary Per Fugelli – I Die, in one of Malmö’s beautiful churches. Get in the right mood with our Organ mingle from 18.30. The screening is followed by a lively discussion on the topic of death and life. Per Fugelli – I Die by director Eric Poppe from Norway is nominated for the Best Nordic Documentary Award 2018. S:t Johannes Kyrka is one of Malmö’s biggest churches and is situated in the heart of the city just next to the Triangeln train station. The event is collabora tion between Svenska Kyrkan Malmö, Doc Lounge and Nordisk Pano rama.
FILMARTRÄFF WITH MARCUS LINDEEN Fri 21 Sep | 16:00 – 18:00 | Filmcentrum Syd | Free Nordisk Panorama and FilmCentrum Syd invite you to an afternoon where you will come closer Marcus Lindeen, the director of The Raft during a talk moderated by OFF. The film is nominated to Nordisk Panorama’s award “Best Nordic Documentary 2018”. Drinks and networking will follow the discussion. The first 20 that arrives will get a free ticket to the evening screening of The Raft that starts directly after Filmarträff, 19:30 at Spegeln. Make sure you sign up at nordiskpanorama.com.en/sign-up-to-filmartraff. There is a limited number of seats available.
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HOW WE DIT IT Fri 21 Sep | Sat 22 Sep | Sun 23 Sep | Mon 24 Sep “How We Did It” presents interesting discussions with artists and filmmak ers in an informal bar setting. Come along to Cinema Spegelns Foyer, have a drink and be inspired! Free entrance and open to all.
HOW WE DID IT: To create diversified stories Fri 21 Sep | 17:00 –18:00 | Spegeln | Free In Between contra Conventional Film Industry. How do we get new stories with characters that you’ve never seen before? How do we create challeng ing and diversified stories no matter what? WIFT has invited Lena Hansson Varhegyi former film commissioner, Sofie Palage producer for Trädgårdsga tan and Lisa Fjellman & Anna Lönn Franko with their coming feature film, Mellanrumsfruar/In Between: a surreal black comedy.
HOW WE DID IT: VR and prototyping Sat 22 Sep | 15:00 –16:00 | Spegeln | Free How does combining different formats enrich the stories we tell? Join us for a talk with VR creators from the field of performing arts and docu mentary filmmaking. Stefan Stanisic from Bombina Bombast and Ove Rishøj Jensen from Auto Images present their VR prototypes Kinemato grafi and The Moment of Freedom Experience. Stefan and Ove will dis cuss the choices made when prototyping, their experience with story telling in multiple formats, and tell those who would like to venture into VR where to start. Both works will be showcased at Spegeln on 22–23 September.
HOW WE DID IT: Distinct Voices Sun 23 Sep | 17:00 –18:00 | Spegeln | Free This year’s programme is full of inventive, distinct, and bold filmmaking, and for this session we invite some of the filmmakers in competition to share their thoughts on innovative approaches and styles, and to muse on what makes a film stand out. Jerry Carlsson, director of the Shadow Ani mals, and Olivia Kastebring, co-director of Juck will be joined by a third filmmaker for the discussion.
HOW WE DID IT: Blurring fact and fiction Mon 24 Sep | 17:00 –18:00 | Spegeln | Free The docudrama is as old as film itself, but in recent years there’s been something of a movement when it comes to playing with the form of the documentary. This discussion will explore the moveable boundar ies of depicting real life on film and the blurred lines between fact and fiction. Filmmakers on the panel will be Mika Gustafson (Mephobia), Yenni Lee (Water Bears), and Nicole Nielsen Horanyi (The Stranger).
From The film JUCK. Photo: Therese Öhrvall.
Programme 2018
Documentary Short
Social Seminars
THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 09:00–10:25 | Panora 1 A YOUNG NORDIC 1 10:30–11:50 | Panora 1 A YOUNG NORDIC 2 19:00–23:00 | Moriska Paviljonen – OPENING NIGHT LESLIE ON FIRE
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Accreditation needed VR
10:00–11:35 | Spegeln A BOYS WHO LIKE GIRLS
10:30–11:55 | Panora 1 A YOUNG NORDIC 1 12:00–13:50 | Spegeln A EXIT 13:00–14:20 | Spegeln C RAGHU RAI – UN ANFRAMED PORTRAIT
FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
14:30–16:25 | Spegeln A BEYOND STRENGTH
09:00–10:20 | Panora 1 A YOUNG NORDIC 2
16:00–18:00 | Filmcentrum Syd FILMARTRÄFF Free
17:00–18:00 | Spegeln Foyer HOW WE DID IT: TO CREATE DIVERSIFIED STORIES Free
15:00–16:00 | Spegeln Foyer HOW WE DID IT: VR AND PROTOTYPING Free
17:00–18:50 | Spegeln A THE DEMINER
16:00–17:00 | Scandic Triangeln A TELLING IT SHORT
17:30–19:30 | Spegeln C FUNNY GAMES
17:00–18:50 | Spegeln C REBELS WITH A CAUSE
18:00–20:00 | Grand Öl & Mat HAPPY HOUR | Film i Skåne
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17:30–19:30 | Spegeln A FALSE CONFESSIONS
19:30–21:35 | Spegeln A THE RAFT
18:00–20:00 | Grand Öl & Mat HAPPY HOUR | dok.incubator
20:00–22:10 | Spegeln C THE STRANGER
19:30–21:30 | Spegeln C EXIT
22:00–03:00 | Grand Öl & Mat NORDIC NIGHTS Free before midnight or A
20:00–21:45 | Spegeln A LESLIE ON FIRE
SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 09:30–11:25 | Spegeln A LIVING.LOVING 11:00–11:45 | Spegeln, Bar Deco VR: KINEMATOGRAFI 11:00–12:50 | Stadsbiblioteket NORDIC LIVES Free
22:00–03:00 | Grand Öl & Mat NORDIC NIGHTS Free before midnight or A
SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 09:30–11:05 | Spegeln, Bar Deco SHORTCUTS (Morning Flight Breakfast Screening) 10:00–12:00 | Panora 1 dok.incubator PREVIEW
11:30–13:16 | Spegeln C A YEAR OF HOPE
10:30–12:25| Spegeln A BEYOND STRENGTH
12:00–14:00 | Spegeln A THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS
12:00–14:00 | Spegeln C FUNNY GAMES
13:00–13:45 | Spegeln, Bar Deco VR: KINEMATOGRAFI 13:00–18:00 | Spegeln Foyer VR:DOCUMENTARIES IN NEW FORMATS Free 14:00–16:00 | Spegeln C EAREST AND DEAREST N 14:30–15:30 | Scandic Triangeln A SOUND IN DOC 14:30–16:50 | Spegeln A PER FUGELLI – I DIE
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13:00–15:05 | Spegeln A THE RAFT 13:00–14:00 | Scandic Triangeln A COSMIC TOP SECRET 13:00–18:00 | Spegeln Foyer VR: DOCUMENTARIES IN NEW FORMATS Free 14:30–16:25 | Spegeln C TILTED AXIS 15:30–17:30 | Spegeln A THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS
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Programme 2018 16:00–17:30 | Panora 2 SFI FILMRUMMET PRESENTS: BEYOND REALITY Free
15:00–16:50 | Spegeln A A YEAR OF HOPE 16:00–17:50 | Spegeln C THE DEMINER
17:30–19:05 | Spegeln C BOYS WHO LIKE GIRLS
17:00–18:00 | Spegeln Foyer HOW WE DID IT: BLURRING FACT AND FICTION Free
17:00–18:00 | Spegeln Foyer HOW WE DID IT: Distinct Voices Free
18:00–20:05 | Spegeln A PUNK VOYAGE
18:00–19:20 | Spegeln A RAGHU RAI – AN UNFRAMED PORTRAIT
18:00–20:00 | Grand Öl & Mat HAPPY HOUR | SFI A
18:00–20:00 | Grand Öl & Mat HAPPY HOUR | UpNorth A 18:30–19:30 | Grand Öl & Mat MEET THE DECISION MAKERS 19:30–21:25 | Spegeln C LIVING.LOVING
20:00–01:00 | Grand Öl & Mat FESTIVAL BAR Free
MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER A
10:00–12:00 | Spegeln A FALSE CONFESSIONS 10:30–11:45 | Panora 1 YOUNG NORDIC 4
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18:30–21:35 | S:t Johannes kyrka SACRED CINEMA – PER FUGELLI – I DIE Free 20:00–23:00 | Grand Öl & Mat FESTIVAL BAR Free
20:00–22:15 | Spegeln A GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS
09:00–10:25 | Panora 1 YOUNG NORDIC 3
18:30–20:25 | Spegeln C TILTED AXIS
TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 09:00–10:15 | Panora 1 A YOUNG NORDIC 4 09:30–11:30 | Spegeln A GOLDEN DAWN GIRLS 10:00–12:00 | Spegeln C NEAREST AND DEAREST 10:30–11:55 | Panora 1 YOUNG NORDIC 3
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12:30–14:40 | Spegeln A THE STRANGER 14:00–14:30 | Scandic Triangeln A QUICKFIRE 14:30–16:00 | Scandic Triangeln A WOULD YOU BUY THIS 14:30–16:20 | Spegeln C REBELS WITH A CAUSE
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12:00–14:05 | Spegeln A PUNK VOYAGE 13:30–14:30 | Scandic Triangeln REACHING YOUNG A AUDIENCES 19:00–01:00 | Old City Hall AWARD GALA INVITATION ONLY
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What would a festival be without its social breaks and parties! With an Industry Accreditation you can join our Happy Hours and meet your Industry colleagues. For our Nordic Nights and Festival Bars everyone is invited to join. NP HAPPY HOUR 21–24 Sep | 18:00–20:00 | Grand Öl & Mat Join your Industry colleagues for the daily Happy Hour where we meet, talk and connect casually with old and new friends. Each Happy Hour is brought to you in collaboration with a Happy Hour sponsor as host of the night. Friday hosted by Film i Skåne. Saturday hosted by dok.incubator. Sunday hosted by UpNorth. Monday hosted by Svenska Filminstitutet. Accreditation required.
NORDIC NIGHTS 21–22 Sept | 22:00–03:00 | Grand Öl & Mat We join forces with our friends at Grand Öl & Mat to bring you two nights with a Nordic flavour during the Nordisk Panorama festival weekend. The club and restaurant will be filled with Nordic music, DJs and artists to give you the opportunity to hit the dance floor, grab a drink and give that extra party dimension to your festival e xperience. Free entrance before midnight. After midnight, SEK 100 or free with accreditation.
NP FESTIVAL BAR 23 Sept: 20:00–01:00 | 24 Sept: 20:00–23:00 | Grand Öl & Mat Unwind after a long day at the festival with your friends at our festival bar at Grand Öl & Mat. Free entrance for everyone.
Information PRACTICAL INFORMATION Full program, tickets, schedule and in depth information about the film festival are accessible at www.nordiskpanorama.com. TICKETS There are three levels of festival participation: Single ticket, Festival Pass and Accreditation. Membership is included in all ticket prices. Everyone must have a ticket before entering the theatre. SINGLE TICKET Single tickets cost SEK 75 and are available for all the public screenings and open events during the festival. Buy your ticket online, on Nordisk Panorama’s website or directly at the Nordisk Panorama Ticket Desk at Spegeln during festival hours (card payments only). FESTIVAL PASS The Festival Pass gives you free access to all the public screenings and open events during the festival. To get the best experience of the Nordisk Panorama festival, we ad-vise you to buy the Festival Pass for SEK 400 online on Nordisk Panorama’s website or directly at the Nordisk Panorama Ticket Desk at Spegeln during festival hours (card payments only). HOW TO GET TICKETS For online purchases, you must go to Spegeln before the first screening to get a Festival wristband. Once your pass is purchased, you can: • Pre-book tickets online with the access code stated on your receipt • Book and receive your e-tickets at the Nordisk Panorama Ticket Desk at Spegeln • Get drop-in tickets directly at the Nordisk Panorama Ticket Desk at Spegeln, before the screening. Bookings are limited to one seat per
screening or event and are only valid upon presentation of the Festival Pass. ACCREDITATION Accreditation is reserved for film lovers and professionals and offers free access to all screenings, seminars and festival social events except for the NP Award Gala. To get access to the Nordisk Panorama Forum, you need a Forum Accreditation. The Nordic Panorama Market requires an Industry Accredi tation with Market access. You can pick up your Accreditation on arrival at the Guest Desk in Scandic Triangeln. The films are shown in their original language and with English subtitles. NORDISK PANORAMA AWARDS 2018 - prize goes to the director(s): Best Documentary: 15 films in competition, prize 11.000 € Best Nordic Short: 20 films in compe tition, prize 7.000 € and direct quali fication for annual Academy Awards® Audience Award: all films from all competitions combined and special programmes, prize 2.500 € Children’s Choice Award: handed out by a kid’s jury to the best-liked film in the Young Nordics programme TECHNICAL SUPPORT (BILLETTO) support@billetto.se billetto.zendesk.com TICKET SUPPORT ticket@nordiskpanorama.com CONTACT & INFO www.nordiskpanorama.com post@nordiskpanorama.com Facebook: NordiskPanoramaFilm Twitter: @nordiskpanorama Instagram: @nordiskpanorama YouTube: @nordiskpanorama #nordiskpanorama2018
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