BLACK SQUARE
Martin and Lukas step into a café, a usually safe and familiar place, which now has become inhabited by Martin’s subconscious. Sitting in the corner of the room are Gabriel and Martha, who observe the surreal situation from a distance.
Sweden 2024 / 14:23 / Director: Michael S Bekele / Producer: Hawa Sanneh, Jimm Garbis
SABERTOOTH
Rifles, blood and melancholia. Sabertooth is a portrait of three teenagers set deep in the Scandinavian woodlands where they grew up. A coming-of-age mockumentary about saying goodbye to childhood and entering an adult world filled with violence and loss.
Sweden 2024 / 14:42 / Director/Producer: Kelly Wedin
MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS
Minou and her mum check in at a hotel after leaving their home due to the big forest fire. When Minou glances into the hotel’s renaissance painting she opens her eyes for all the things the grownups are ignoring.
Sweden 2023 / 11:00 / Director: SaraKlara Hellström / Producer: Andrea Gyllenskiöld, Joel Rostmark, Adam Holmström Meinking
THE SUN TO ME IS DARK
This animation highlights the technological remnants of what is left behind, emphasising the constant act of looking, viewing, perceiving, and receiving images. The film was created using a broken special effects machine from the 1990s, ultimately resulting in the freedom of the material.
Sweden 2024 / 8:46 / Director/Producer: Lina Selander, Oscar Mangione
SILVER CITY
In the Wild West, far from the big cities, a tender encounter with an older generation takes place. They let their personal stories about parenthood, lost love and life’s consequences come to the surface for the first time. The stories not only affect the men telling them but also the film’s own narrator.
Sweden, United States 2024 / 19:16 / Director: Dea Saračević / Producer: Joel Rostmark, Adam Holmström, Dea Saračević
MY GIG IN SWEDEN
Hired to shoot a tourism campaign in Sweden, American photographer Nick accidentally steps into an ongoing culture war, a confusing conflict of tacos, yoga poses and Americana car-culture. Nick decides to try and set things right with the help of her camera.
Sweden 2023 / 15:00 / Director: Simon Vahlne / Producer: Fredrik Lange