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Filmtips / 2020-10-15

Best of Norden 2020

The festival Best of Norden invites you to celebrate Nordic culture and the Nordic Council Prizes. This years edition, Best of Norden 2020, is in a smaller format due to the pandemic. At the cinema Klarabiografen at Kulturhuset in Stockholm we will screen the five Nordic films nominated to the Nordic Council Film Prize – for free! This year a selection of the nominated films will be available to stream on drakenfilm.se. All films are subtitled in English.

 

DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS
Friday 23th of October, 6pm at Klarabiografen and drakenfilm.se 

Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything. The film is a darkly humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain of being.
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Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is Finland’s nominated film to the Nordic Council Film Prize 2020.

Jury motivation:
Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää is a natural-born filmmaker. In crafting his worlds, each and every aspect of cinema is utilised. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is all about the ability to recover from the loss of a loved one. It is also a deeply romantic yet unconventional love story. Instead of offering an easy way out, Valkeapää dares viewers to comprehend the hidden parts of the human mind.
Jury: Jaana Puskala, Harri Römpötti, Mikaela Westerlund

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Original title: Koirat eivät käytä housuja
Director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää
Scriptwriter Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, Juhana Lumme
Principal cast Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen,
Producers Aleksi Bardy, Helen Vinogradov
Production company Helsinki filmi
Running time 105 minutes
Domestic distribution Nordisk Film Distribution
International sales The Yellow Affair

 

UNCLE
Sunday 23th of October, 4pm at Klarabiografen and drakenfilm.se – followed by a talk with writer and journalist Sven Olov Karlsson, among others.

Kris lives with her partly disabled uncle in rural Denmark and together they run a small farm. In their quirky yet loving relationship, built upon daily routines, words aren’t necessary. Kris is the dominant workhorse and she has taken on a motherly and overprotecting role towards her uncle. When Kris saves a calf during a complicated birth, her interest in the veterinary field is reawakened. She develops a friendship with the chatty veterinarian Johannes and slowly experiences life outside the farm. As love crosses her path, and a possible life-changing question emerges.
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Uncle is Denmark’s nominated film to the Nordic Council Film Prize 2020.

Jury motivation:
In Uncle everything is small – not understood as insignificant, indifferent, trivial, or banal but as general, local, humble, and pure. Uncle sees the bigger picture in the small things. In the context of cinema, a young woman’s dreams of experiencing the world while feeling tied to the disabled and lonely uncle who brought her up is a situation that certainly belongs to the department of small things. However, Uncle hits upon the big feelings in one of life’s many small choices in a way that is incredibly pure, namely pure-heartedness. Using no movie stars, only amateurs, and speaking an obscure dialect on an ordinary farm in a forgotten corner of remote southern Jutland, director Frelle Petersen tells a story that has the power to tug at the heartstrings of the world.
Jury: Per Juul Carlsen, Jacob Wendt Jensen, Eva Novrup Redvall

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Original title Onkel
Director Frelle Petersen
Screenwriters Frelle Petersen
Producer Marco Lorenzen
Principal cast Jette Søndergaard, Peter Hansen Tugesen, Ole Caspersen
Production company 88 Miles
Running time 105 minutes
Domestic distribution Øst for Paradis
International sales Alpha Violet

 

BEWARE OF CHILDREN
Saturday 24th of October, 1,30pm at Klarabiografen and drakenfilm.se

Beware of Children traces the dramatic aftermath of a tragic event in a middle-class suburb of Oslo. During a break in school 13-year old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high-profile right-wing politician. When Jamie later dies in hospital, contradicting versions of what actually happened risks making a difficult situation worse. Liv, the school’s principal and the secret lover of Jamie’s father, confronts the community in distress and her own conflicted emotions.
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Beware of Children is Norway’s nominated film to the Nordic Council Film Prize 2020.

Jury motiviation: 
At its core, Beware of Children is about “the Norwegian way of life”. Yet artistically and thematically, it extends far beyond this. What is essentially a tragic story is balanced with a subtle strand of political ingenuity and human warmth. Through three generations and their web of relationships, a diverse picture is drawn of a society in which adults and children live close together but remain in their own worlds, dealing with feelings of guilt and conscience in different ways. In a subdued way, Beware of Children addresses the fundamentals of life.
Jury: Inger Merete Hobbelstad, Kalle Løchen, Britt Sørensen

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Original title Barn
Director Dag Johan Haugerud
Scriptwriter Dag Johan Haugerud
Principal cast Henriette Steenstrup, Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr,
Brynjar Åbel Bandlien, Andrea Bræin Hovig
Producer Yngve Sæther
Production company Motlys A/S
Running time 157 minutes
Domestic distribution Arthaus
International sales Picture Tree International

 

ECHO
Saturday 23th of October, 5pm at Klarabiografen and drakenfilm.se 

Iceland, Christmas time. As everyone prepares for the holidays, a peculiar atmosphere falls upon the country revealing emotions of both excitement and concern. In the middle of the countryside, an abandoned farm is burning. In a school, a children’s choir is singing Christmas carols. In a slaughterhouse, chickens are parading along a rail. In a museum, a mother is arguing with her ex-husband on the phone. In a living room, a young girl is making her grandmother try on her new virtual reality headset... Through 56 scenes, Echo draws a biting and tender portrait of modern society.
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Echo is Iceland’s nominated film to the Nordic Council Film Prize 2020.

Jury motivation:
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Echo is a compilation of concurrent micro-stories, framed within the time around Christmas and New Year’s Eve – a time which is both sensitive and ceremonial. A time when we reconsider our lives and a time when, more than usual, we miss the loved ones who can’t be with us. The stories have an open beginning and an open end; each story is a slice of life. Echo is about materialism and consumer society, togetherness and loneliness, love and violence, and life and death, which has its own timing. The religious and ceremonial is juxtaposed with the trivial and the mundane – as in life itself. Moreover, the film draws attention to more controversial matters such as the refugee crisis. Echo is a cutting, in-depth study of our society and its layers, and the storytelling can be described as poetic realism, an ode to our daily lives and its beauty and cruelty. Very Icelandic, yet universal. The script is full of beauty and poetry; each scene is one static shot, one beautifully composed and well-thought-out angle with strong film grammar and excellent filmmaking. The score is modest, yet impressive and moving.
Jury: Hilmar Oddsson, Börkur Gunnarsson, Helga fiórey Jónsdóttir

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Original title Bergmál
Director Rúnar Rúnarsson
Scriptwriter Rúnar Rúnarsson
Principal cast Nadía Sif Líndal, Telma Huld Jóhannesdóttir,
Producers Rúnar Rúnarsson, Live Hide, Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir
Production company Nimbus Film Iceland, Pegasus Pictures
Running time 79 minutes
Domestic distribution Sena
International sales Jour2Fête

 

Admissions
Free admittance but very limited seats in the cinema and tickets need to be collected at Kulturhuset or kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/Film

Create a free account at drakenfilm.se to access the films.

Best of Norden 2020 is presented by Kulturbyrån on behalf of Nordisk Film & TV Fond, in cooperation with Gothenburg Film Festival/Drakenfilm and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. 
About Best of Norden 2020
About the Nordic Council Film Prize
About the Nordic Counil Prizes

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