This year's class is a set of seven particularly generous looks, mixing tender curiosity with both humour and difficult fears.
This year, we are treated to various forms of family and generational confrontation, a fragile relationship between father and son, a retreat in the mountains with dark undertones, a group of dog owners doing theatre and critical and sophisticated portrayals of our hyper-stimulated contemporary world, trans-normative love and the encounter with the 'other'. This is a graduation show you just can't miss!
Tickets for the premiere screening are sold out - but the films are also shown at Hagabion:
Wednesday 31 Jan at 10.00, Haga 1
Saturday 3 Feb at 18.30, Haga 2
Participating students and each film:
Balder Ljunggren: That's Amore
About the film: Olga is on the verge of adulthood and makes a five-year plan. She starts studying at the university but at the same time the talent hunt at the local mall with the promise of honour and fame is looming. With great sensitivity, Balder Ljunggren portrays an ambitious youth who is torn between the seemingly endless possibilities of contemporary life.
Matilda Friman: Breathe in Breathe out
About the film: Two friends find themselves at a meditation camp in a beautiful place formerly inhabited by Sami reindeer herders. Led by guru Göran, they engage in breathing exercises and mindfulness. But strong seismic forces seem to coincide with the meditative dives in this existential satire.
Hani Al Abras: Ana wa Yak
About the film: Haidar worries about his drinking father and his father worries about Haidar, who is growing up in a Stockholm suburb where violence is constantly looming in the background. Hani Al Abras tenderly chisels out a strained father-son relationship shaped by external circumstances.
Julia Schia Oppedal: I pose og Sekk (Someone's Everything)
About the film: A white dragon cries after a broken relationship and a raccoon feels compelled to say yes when asked to work overtime. In an atmospheric and detailed puppet animation, the will of the individual is questioned, and duality is questioned as a normative form of relationship.
Ebba Gustafsson: Constructing an Island
About the film: In times of turmoil, the stories of life on an island in northern Finland have calmed down, but a trip there reveals that life on the island does not match the stories. A personal and essayistic documentary explores inherited feelings and behaviours.
Filip Myrberg: I see you
About the film: Two friends go camping in the forest and one of them brings his camera to record the trip. A mysterious creature watches the friends and slowly creeps closer, interested in the camera. With this camera, we see the friends' interaction, the creature's gaze, and explore the excitement and terror of looking at human relationships through the lens of technology.
Cecilie Flyger Hansen: Sit.Play.Stay
About the film: A group of women are putting on the play "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and the roles of the displaced princess, her evil stepmother and the little men in the forest are played by their dogs. The rehearsals are a simultaneously beautiful and absurd interplay that highlights the power relations in the deep bonds that exist between man and man's best friend.
The main language of all films is Swedish with English subtitles.
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