Totalt 71 svenska filmer visas på Polens största filmfestival ERA New Horizons Film Festival i Wroclaw. Evenemanget äger rum 23 juli – 2 augusti.
Burrowing (Man tänker sitt) by Henrik Hellström and Fredrik Wenzel is in the main competition in Poland. Photo: Fredrik Wenzel
Visitors to the Polish festival will enjoy an intensive crash course in Swedish culture, with films of all shapes, sizes and genres. In addition to Burrowing (Man tänker sitt), which has been selected for the main competition, Swedish films will also be shown in various different sections.
”Poland is currently one of the most interesting markets for film in Europe, so this initiative is as much commercial as it is cultural. We are of course particularly proud that ERA New Horizons is hosting this showcase,” says Petter Mattsson, Project Manager at the Swedish Film Institute’s International Department.
The New Swedish Films section includes 13 features and 12 shorts. Features include Fredrik Edfeldt’s The Girl (Flickan) and Måns Månsson’s Mr Governor (H:r Landshövding). The children’s and youth programme will showcase 12 feature and shorts, and there will also be an animation workshop with Erling Ericsson and Alicja Jaworski. The latter has animated and directed several films about Laban the Little Ghost (Lilla spöket Laban).
A comprehensive retrospective of 26 films will celebrate the cinematic art of Jan Troell. It will include short and feature-length fiction and documentaries, and Troell himself will be visiting the festival. There will be a grand screening of Mauritz Stiller’s silent movie Sir Arne’s Treasure (Herr Arnes pengar) in the Opera house, including specially written opera music, and a tribute to Ingmar Bergman featuring a screening of Saraband and Stig Björkman’s behind-the-scenes movie Images from the Playground (Bilder från lekstugan), which screened in Cannes.
The Swedish-Polish exchange also encompasses meetings between Swedish and Polish production companies, market screenings of new Swedish films for Polish distributors and a film school collaboration. In addition there will be concerts featuring Familjen and Slagsmålsklubben, for example, and two new books on Swedish film penned specially for the occasion are also being published: Jan Troell by Professor Tadeusz Szczepanski, and New Swedish Cinema by Swedish film critic Hynek Pallas.
Find out more at:
http://www.enh.pl/
Keep up to date on Swedish films abroad:
http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-film/Svensk-film-i-utlandet/
If you have any questions, please contact:
Project Manager Petter Mattsson, petter.mattsson@sfi.se, tel +46 8 665 11 34
Project Assistant Andrea Reuter, andrea.reuter@sfi.se, tel +46 8 665 11 42