The documentaries supported in the latest round of Swedish Film Institute funding are:
FEATURES
For Somebody Else
Director: Sven Blume
Screenplay: Sven Blume
Producer: Margarete Jangård
Funding recipient: WG Film AB
Target group: Adult
Film type: Documentary
Technique: Live action
Funding granted: 1,550,000 SEK (€147,936)
In For Somebody Else we follow three women on an emotional and thought-provoking journey as they lend their bodies and carry someone else’s children. They invite us in, sharing their experiences with us; before, during and after pregnancies as surrogate mothers.
Rödeby
Director: Per Anders Rudelius
Screenplay: Per Anders Rudelius
Producer: Per Anders Rudelius
Funding recipient: Kultfilm Rudelius AB
Target group: Adult
Film type: Documentary
Technique: Live action
Funding granted 1,100,000 SEK (€104,984)
Mattis had a rough childhood, and the adult world lacked moral courage. Tragedy struck when his dad killed a boy who had bullied his son. Not enough love, that’s what characterizes this story, though they were only kids. But Mattis was lucky to always have his best friend by his side.
SHORTS
Closer to the Things (Närmre tingen)
Director: Erik M Nilsson
Screenplay: Erik M Nilsson
Producers: Anna Sohlman, Axel Danielsson, Tobias Janson, Klara Björk, Kalle Boman
Funding recipient: Filmkreatörerna AB
Target group: Adult
Film type: Documentary
Technique: Live action
Funding granted 350 000 SEK (€33,415)
An observation of the difference between knowing and being able; about the importance of practical knowledge, independent thought and understanding.
Salomon Schulman *
Director: Kamelia Pebdani
Screenplay: Kamelia Pebdani
Producer: Peter Krupenin
Funding: recipent HOB AB
Target group: Adult
Film type: Documentary
Technique: Live action
Funding granted: 130 000 SEK (€12,400)
A happening about the importance of Yiddish as a mediator of history, cultural and personal identity and the importance of keeping a language alive. Salomon Schulman talks with two young people who seek their identity by discovering the older generation’s language
* Glow – focus on films in the national minority languages
This Is the Night (Detta är natten) *
Director: Gunnar Bergdahl
Screenplay: Anna Margolin
Producer: Fredrik Lange
Funding recipent: Vilda Bomben Film AB
Target group: Youth 13-18 years
Film type: Documentary
Technique: Live action
Funding granted: 130 000 SEK (€12,400)
The film is a poetic encounter; a homeless language, a forgotten place, living memories. The language is Yiddish, the place the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw with its 200,000 graves. With new music by Ida Gillner and the poetry of Anna Margolin.
* Glow – focus on films in the national minority languages
