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National Competition 1

This programme is a part of the National Competition.
From 15 years of age.

Screened:
MON 21/10, 17:00 FYRIS
SAT 26/10, 13:00 FYRIS

DIESELINE DREAMS

A truck driver shares his thoughts of being a trucker while playing music from different corners of the world; cliché, romantic, rowdy music. A driving instructor teaches someone how to drive a truck. The two stories intertwine, the truck driver turns out to be an artist, the artist becomes a trucker.

Sweden, Germany 2024 / 17:00 / Director: Max Göran

GIRLS’ HAIR

A boy struggles to save a plant in a barren desert. A man loves a woman who does not love him and the mare who fell during the night can not be saved.

Sweden 2024 / 11:44 / Director: Klara Thafvelin / Producer: Nils Bolin

A QUEER BIRD IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Iraqi-Swedish director Naures Sager travels around the Middle East to explore his roots. Along on his journey is his boyfriend Michael. Back home in Sweden, Naures receives warnings from his worried family about the potential consequences of being gay in an Arab country.

Sweden 2024 / 16:57 / Director: Naures Sager / Producer: Michael Detlef Petersen

LITERALLY SPEAKING

A dreary February day in alphabetical order.

Sweden 2024 / 2:30 / Director/Producer: Hedda Keszler

CONSTRUCTING AN ISLAND

The mother’s comforting tales of a remote island in Finland created an imagined paradise, but a journey to the island shows something else. This essayistic documentary explores inherited emotions and behaviours, and how they might be challenged.

Sweden 2024 / 16:49 / Director: Ebba Gustafsson / Producer: Klara Gibson

TAKE THE BAD WITH THE GOOD

Catti Brandelius is an artist who uses various alter egos in her art. Here she is both a grower and a vermin. Farming the land and living in harmony with nature also means making enemies. Which of the two combatants wins the title The Most Invasive Species?

Sweden 2023 / 4:00 / Director/Producer: Catti Brandelius

I AM THE FIRE

The time of change is closing in on fifty-three-year-old Kaj, who recently started to question his authority as Sensei. After a workplace accident, Kaj is forced to find a way out of the past and a way into the present.

Sweden 2024 / 14:30 / Director: Patrik Eklund / Producer: Patrik Eklund, Jimm Garbis

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