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Summer Shorts: Sweden

Swedish language / russian subtitles

Tord and Tord

Sweden 2010, 11 min.
Director Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Animation

One day Tord accidentally walks into the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.

Swedish dialogues / Russian subtitles

Festivals and Awards:
Guldbagge Award Nomination – Best Short Film
Sundance Film Festival – official selection
Berlin International Film Festival – official selection, Generation program
Abu Dhabi Film Festival – Best Animated Short
Annecy Film Festival – official selection

The Unliving

Sweden 2010, 28 min.
Director Hugo Lilja

Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people have started taming and using the zombies as cheap workforce. The young couple, Katrine and Mark, struggle with the tidies everyday life of dirty zombie catching, bloody lobotomy experiments and a relationship on the verge of falling apart.

Awards and Festivals:
Stockholm International Film Festival –1 km of film award
Berlin International Film Festival – competition, Berlinale Shorts

Las Palmas

Sweden, 2011, 11 min.
Director Johannes Nyholm

Marja is a middle-aged charter tourist from Sweden who isn’t adept at playing the social game of holidays in the sun. Marja is played by a one-year-old and the supporting cast consists of marionettes. It sounds mad, and it is, as in madly funny. No one will be able to resist it.

Festivals and Awards:
Gothenburg International Film Festival – official selection
Hamburg International Shortfilm Festival – festival award
Cannes International Film Festival – official selection, Directors forthnight
The Synch Leader Award, Sweden

Incident by a Bank

Sweden 2010, 12 min.
Director Ruben Östlund

”Incident by a bank” is a detailed and humorous account of a failed bank robbery: A single take where over 96 people perform a meticulous choreography for the camera. ”Incident by a bank” recreates an actual event that took place in Stockholm back in June 2006; it’s an observation in real-time and a study of how people act and react to the unexpected.

Festivals and Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival – Golden Bear, Berlinale Shorts
European Film Academy Award Nomination – Best Short Film

Autumn Man

Sweden 2010, 29 min.
Director Jonas Selberg Augustsen

Autumn, the season when nature prepares to be reborn by dying. In this time of the year we meet two young fellows. They are perhaps not the most popular characters in the small Tornedalen community since their method of subsistence is on the outskirts of morality. Most of their endeavors seem to be jinxed as if a higher power is trying to say something about their life style.

Festivals and Awards:
Locarno International Film Festival – official selection