Se trailerINGELA LEKFALK, SWEDEN 2010, 82 MIN, DIGIBETA.
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In Swedish.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#film-discussion
Se trailerMARIUS DYBWAD BRANDRUD, SWEDEN, 2009, 11 MIN, DV, ENGLISH SUBTITLES
”For seven yerars we kept at it. Me and mom. To find the perfect picture of me. ” Marius is crazy about snowboarding and obsessed to get the perfect jump immortalized. With humorous warmt... Read more
”For seven yerars we kept at it. Me and mom. To find the perfect picture of me. ” Marius is crazy about snowboarding and obsessed to get the perfect jump immortalized. With humorous warmth his mom tells us about all the pictures she took of her son’s more or less successful jumps.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#n1987-1993
Se trailerKARIN SLATER AND STEVEN BARTLO, SOUTH AFRICA, 2008, 86 MIN, DIGIBETA
Feeling that marriage is one thing that modern society does not prepare one for a filmmaker couple set out around the world to have an honest look beyond the “happily ever after clichés” Karin, Comin... Read more
Feeling that marriage is one thing that modern society does not prepare one for a filmmaker couple set out around the world to have an honest look beyond the “happily ever after clichés” Karin, Coming from divorced parents and Steven coming from parents that have been married for 50 years and fought like crazy. These two people are starting out in a new relationship. Both sceptical of their different experiences the two embark on a journey to find out how people stay married for 50 years. Set in USA, Canada, Netherlands, India and South Africa the couple follow 4 50 year married couples for over 4 years and try to understand the tools needed to keep a marriage together. Acting as almost therapists to the younger couple the 50n year old married couples offer some real gems. With the use of archive and photographs the film portrays the couples life over the years.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#n50-years-of-love
Se trailerBy Nikolaj Vijborg, Denmark, 2008, 60 min, beta sp
69 is a documentary about a group of young outsiders who found a place for friendship at a youth centre, at Jagtvej 69 in Copenhagen. In the last six months before Youth center was shut down, the yo... Read more
69 is a documentary about a group of young outsiders who found a place for friendship at a youth centre, at Jagtvej 69 in Copenhagen. In the last six months before Youth center was shut down, the youths are radicalized and see their fight to save the centre as a fight against society. With footage from inside the house and with interviews of main characters from the squat, we get a picture of how the youth saw the conflict.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#n69
Se trailerCECILIA PARSBERG, SWEDEN 2007, 45 MIN, MINIDV
This is the story of Ahmed’s heart. Ahmed was a Palestinian boy who lived in the refugee camp in Jenin on the West Bank. When he was 12, in November 2005, he was killed by an Israeli sniper. His pare... Read more
This is the story of Ahmed’s heart. Ahmed was a Palestinian boy who lived in the refugee camp in Jenin on the West Bank. When he was 12, in November 2005, he was killed by an Israeli sniper. His parents decided to donate their son’s heart to an Israeli girl. The film is also about this girl, Samah, who is now alive thanks to Ahmed’s heart. For Ahmed’s parents, their son lives on in the girl, as an expression of the hope for peace with Israel. Thus, it is possible to drill holes in dividing walls, if there is someone on the other side who wants to receive one’s gift. For more information, visit www.this.is/parsberg
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#a-heart-from-jenin
Se trailerSARA SAM SWEDEN, 2009, 19 MIN, DV
Something happened in Iran 2009.The outcome of the presidential election led to public unrest.Iranian state forces tried to shut down the demonstrations. In the middle of this a filmmaker Sara Sam do... Read more
Something happened in Iran 2009.The outcome of the presidential election led to public unrest.Iranian state forces tried to shut down the demonstrations. In the middle of this a filmmaker Sara Sam documented what media could´nt cover. The result is a documentary that shows you what really happened in June 2009.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#a-moment-of-reality
Se trailerHAVANA MARKING GREAT BRITAIN/AFGHANISTAN, 2009, 87 MIN, DVD
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Millions are watching Afghan Star - a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across the country compete for a c... Read more
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture has returned to Afghanistan. Millions are watching Afghan Star - a Pop Idol-style TV series in which people from across the country compete for a cash prize and record deal. 2000 people audition, including three brave women. The viewers vote for their favorite singers by mobile phone and for many this is their first encounter with democracy. This timely and inspired film follows the moving stories of four young contestants looking for a new life. But their journeys take a terrifying turn as one young woman dances on stage, threatening her own safety and the future of the show itself. In Afghanistan you risk your life to sing.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#afghan-star
Se trailerSONIA HEDSTRAND SWEDEN, 2009, 19 MIN, HD/VIDEO
On the sixth floor of a high-rise building in the 1960s Alby housing estate, there is a Buddhist temple. Several monks from Asia used to live and work here, but it was dark and cold, the landlord com... Read more
On the sixth floor of a high-rise building in the 1960s Alby housing estate, there is a Buddhist temple. Several monks from Asia used to live and work here, but it was dark and cold, the landlord complained, and it was too depressing having to wear thick jackets and shoes. Only Bhante Pannaratana stayed on in the grey, cold suburb, keeping up the temple activities even though most of the people living in this area are Moslems or Christians, and his holy Bhodi tree from Sri Lanka is about to perish due to lack of sunlight.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#alby-dharma
Se trailerBy Katja Pällijeff, Finland, 2007, 20 min, BETA. In collaboration with Finlandsinstitutet.
The 1970´s in Western Finland: Elvis dies, my parents divorce and the set theory is introduced in school math. Made entirely with archive material, ALWAYS DECENT is an experimental, autobiographical ... Read more
The 1970´s in Western Finland: Elvis dies, my parents divorce and the set theory is introduced in school math. Made entirely with archive material, ALWAYS DECENT is an experimental, autobiographical documentary about a child’s fear of being different, shame, guilt and longing. The film dips into the logic and dimensions of a child’s thinking by means of humour and associative visual narrative.
Shown together with THE PENALTY BOX and THE LEFTOVERS
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#always-decent
Se trailerBY GÖRAN OLSSON, SWEDEN, 2009, 87 MIN, 35 MIN, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, VISIT BY THE DIRECTOR! SHOWN IN COLLABORATION WITH FOLKETS BIO. NOMINATED WITH TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
A visual documentary on soul artist Billy Paul, the city of Philadelphia and the life-long love story between Billy and his wife Blanche. For more than 50 years Billy has been a part of the African-A... Read more
A visual documentary on soul artist Billy Paul, the city of Philadelphia and the life-long love story between Billy and his wife Blanche. For more than 50 years Billy has been a part of the African-American community and close friends with personalities such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Stevie Wonder. Billy Paul’s life is the story of the oppressions of African-Americans and how the civil rights movement came to shape the soul music. * I AM BLACK enough for you * is a film about love, marriage and life’s complications. The film follows Billy Paul’s song * Am I Black Enough for You * which was a follow-up and second single to * Me and Mrs. Jones *, which was a Smash Hit on both sides of the Atlantic. When * Am I Black Enough for You * was released it was a total flop, a setback that almost cost Billy his career. Was it the radical text that proved to be too much for the white audience in the early 70s?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#am-i-black-enough-for-you
Se trailerBY ÅSA BLANCK, JOHAN PALMGREN, SWEDEN, 2008, 13 MIN, BETA, VISIT BY THE DIRECTORS! ENGLISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC 2009
Anders and Harri are best friends. They share both the interest in music. Besides the music, Anders is extremely fond of trains. The two friends decide to go to Getå, where the largest train acciden... Read more
Anders and Harri are best friends. They share both the interest in music. Besides the music, Anders is extremely fond of trains. The two friends decide to go to Getå, where the largest train accident, Getåkatastrofen, occurred in 1918. During the trip, when Harri bares his fears, like being locked in the bathroom or bathe in the large pool and not accepting any help Anders, puts their friendship to the test. But the reconcilation before the visit to the memorial site becomes a great experience for them both. Anders picks flowers in honor of the dead and is so struck by the situation that he evidently happens to hear the cries of the wounded. The situation is so inspiring to Harri. When the two friends go home from the adventure, their friendship has grown stronger. As Anders and Harri sing the song Getåkatastrofen goosebumbs rises due to the emotions.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#anders-harri
Se trailerGREAT BRITAIN/TANZANIA, 2006, 66 MIN, BETA SP
An intimate portrait of living legend Bi Kidude, probably the oldest singer on the world stage today. Her home island of Zanzibar has long been a meeting point for black African and Arabic influence.... Read more
An intimate portrait of living legend Bi Kidude, probably the oldest singer on the world stage today. Her home island of Zanzibar has long been a meeting point for black African and Arabic influence. The island’s music is its most potent expression. Bi Kidude beguiles audiences wherever she travels but domestically she continually courts controversy, her behaviour challenging perceptions of the role of women in a Muslim society. As Old As My Tongue reveals the dramatic contrasts in the life of this iconic musician and features a classic soundtrack spanning one hundred years of Swahili music.
Also shown in the section Music Docs
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#as-old-as-my-tongue-the-myth-and-life-of-bi-kidude
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Se trailerBy FABRIZIO LAZZARETTI, PAOLO SANTOLINI, ITALY, 2008, 78 MIN, Digibeta. *VISIT BY THE DIRECTORS!*Shown in collaboration with Italienska Kulturinstitutet.
The Italian aid organization provides emergency medical assistance to civilian victims in war zones, of which one third are children. The film depicts Emergency work by telling us about two of these ... Read more
The Italian aid organization provides emergency medical assistance to civilian victims in war zones, of which one third are children. The film depicts Emergency work by telling us about two of these children’s fates. Yagoub from Sudan and Afghan born Murtaza. Yagoub fled with his family from Darfur and now living in a refugee camp in Sudan. He must undergo a complicated heart surgery, but neither his family nor members of his tribe can find money to pay for the operation. The buiding of a new hospital Emergency could not have come at a better time. The Afghan boy Murtaza who is recovering in hospital in Kabul after losing his left hand in a landmine explosion. About the men, women, and children who have been destroyed physically by the war and are denied any kind of treatment and care.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#back-home-tomorrow
Se trailerSASCHA FÜLSCHER, SERBIA, 2009, 25 MIN, DVCAM
Belrade, 2009. It’s summer and the heat is unbearable. Majda, Miloš and Jelena are all trying to accept the fact that they live here. Majda through her activism, Jelena is hanging out with her ... Read more
Belrade, 2009. It’s summer and the heat is unbearable. Majda, Miloš and Jelena are all trying to accept the fact that they live here. Majda through her activism, Jelena is hanging out with her international friends and Miloš tries to think of other things. They all grew up whilst the world around them fell into pieces. Now, they struggle to have confidence in their future.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#beograd-my-love
Se trailerBY HÅVARD BUSTNES , NORWAY, 2008, 86 MIN, 35 mm/digibeta
Big John is a story of the very special relationship between a professional boxer and his father – or rather a father and his boxer? Ole ”Lukkeøye” Klemetsen’s father has lived for his son’s boxingca... Read more
Big John is a story of the very special relationship between a professional boxer and his father – or rather a father and his boxer? Ole ”Lukkeøye” Klemetsen’s father has lived for his son’s boxingcareer. As Ole Klemetsen is just a breath from becoming World Champion, the story of takes
a different path.
Se trailerWith CARL JOHAN DE GEER Filmmaker, ELISABETH OHLSSON Fotographer, KIRSI NEVANTI filmmaker, URBAN HAMID Journalist.
AIDA CHEHREHGOSHA fotogaf.
Arranged in collaboration with K special, SVT and The Swedish Filminstitute, Admission free with the Tempo Membership card.
Se trailerBY MATS HJELM, SWEDEN, 2008, 92 MIN, 35 MM, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, DIRECTORS VISIT NOMINATED FOR TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
We live in a world where the situation of black men in the U.S. is a joke, says Bishop Kimathi during worship on Father’s day. He is the head of the radical Church Shrine of the Black Madonna ... Read more
We live in a world where the situation of black men in the U.S. is a joke, says Bishop Kimathi during worship on Father’s day. He is the head of the radical Church Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit. BLACK NATION examines black men’s situation in the U.S. and is based on this church. It is the only one remaining of the sixties civil rights movements in the U.S. The Church turns it back on the white institutions of America back and slowly but surely builds up its own black institution. They work against the individuality and with Jesus as an example of a black revolutionary. Half of young black men in the country are unemployed and one third are soon to be imprisoned. In Detroit, the situation is even worse, with increasing unemployment and crime. How is it possible for black men in Detroit to hope for a decent future in these circumstances? *BLACK NATION’ is a hopeful film about a church against the norm in an imposible and hopeless situation.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#black-nation
Se trailerLINDA THORGREN, SWEDEN, 2010, 93 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WORLD PREMIERE! THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
During a stay in Havanna Linda Thorgren meets what she then believes to be the love of her life. Some months later they get married and he moves back to Stockholm with her. Things don’t turn ou... Read more
During a stay in Havanna Linda Thorgren meets what she then believes to be the love of her life. Some months later they get married and he moves back to Stockholm with her. Things don’t turn out the way Linda thought they would. When their daughter is born, matters are brought to a head and their existence collapses, overshadowed by her husband’s control obsession. Abuse, violated restraining orders and a deportation order follows. Linda Thorgren returns to Cuba to persuade the Cuban state to accept the Swedish deportation order and let her ex-husband re-enter the country. This is the first of many journeys to come. The film brings us to Costa Rica, Södermalm-Stockholm, New York, The Canary Islands and back to Havanna in the sixties. Linda Thorgren meets her mother and sister both of whom share her experiences of abuse. She talks to her father, her stepfather, her ex-husband’s former wife and she goes to see her one and only best friend Yurika. Through these meetings Linda Thorgren tries to understand how things became the way they are and set herself and her daughter free.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#blood-calls-you
Se trailerCOCO SCHRIJBER NETHERLANDS, 2008, 87 MIN, DIGIBETA
Beauty, love, work… sometimes it just isn’t worth getting out of bed for. BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES examines the role of boredom in the human condition by showing the lives of a 32 y... Read more
Beauty, love, work… sometimes it just isn’t worth getting out of bed for. BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES examines the role of boredom in the human condition by showing the lives of a 32 year old Wall Street stockbroker who makes millions a year, a desert nomad who does nothing all day, the last living spy from the Second World War, a painter who has been painting Time for the last 42 years and the first school shooter in history: Brenda Spencer, who at the age of 16 shot eleven people because: ‘I don’t like Mondays’. The actor John Malkovich gives voice to the inner bored human being. His fascinating timbre crawls under your skin and wonders: ‘How many people in the world are like me?’
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#bloody-mondays-strawberry-pies
Se trailerRYSZARD SOLARZ SWEDEN, 2009, 8 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WORLD PREMIERE!
A ten year old boy and his father live on to draw a ride through Bombay chaotic traffic. But when they visit the doctor, they get to know they’d better change jobs. A visual and sound-expressiv... Read more
A ten year old boy and his father live on to draw a ride through Bombay chaotic traffic. But when they visit the doctor, they get to know they’d better change jobs. A visual and sound-expressive documentary of nightmare of traffic which slipped out of our control.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#bombay-x-ray
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Se trailerANDERS ØSTERGAARD, DENMARK/NORWAY/SWEDEN/GREAT BRITAIN, 2008, 52 MIN, BETA SP
Se trailerBY ANDERS ØSTERGAARD , NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, GREAT BRITAIN, 2008, 52 MIN, Beta. Shown in collaboration with K-Special, SVT.
The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) consists of a group of about 30 Burmese reporters who secretly film the abuses in their country. The footage is then smuggled across the border and broadcast via s... Read more
The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) consists of a group of about 30 Burmese reporters who secretly film the abuses in their country. The footage is then smuggled across the border and broadcast via satellite from the headquarters in Oslo. These are the images that could be seen across the globe when a revolution was about to erupt in the late summer of 2007. Led by Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people took to the streets to march peacefully against the military dictatorship that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years now. Burma VJ is almost exclusively compiled from footage shot by DVB reporters. With shaky hand-held images of protesters, of the dispersion of the crowd, of monks and civilians getting knocked down. Their cameras hidden in bags or clenched under their armpits, the DVB reporters risk their lives and take the viewer right into the heat of the turmoil.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#burma-vj
Se trailerAt the peak of Swedish summer, Coco travels across the sea to the island of Gotland to take a break from his life as an undocumented migrant in Stockholm. He longs to meet other young people and to e... Read more
At the peak of Swedish summer, Coco travels across the sea to the island of Gotland to take a break from his life as an undocumented migrant in Stockholm. He longs to meet other young people and to enjoy the summer. But the journey doesn’t turn out the way he imagines. Rumors begin to spread that the border police are looking for ”illegal” people in Visby, and that a group of neo-Nazis are setting up summer camp on the island. Coco takes cover in an apartment outside the city walls where Akke lives, a young anarchist who hates society, but loves to speak Spanish. Anxiety over not daring to go out is growing in Coco, as he fears falling into the darkness. But inside the four walls of the apartment he finds a soulmate in Akke. Meanwhile, the summer celebration continues outside as if nothing had happened.
”Buscarse la vida” is a film about what fear can do to a young man with lots of dreams, living in a place where no one else needs to be afraid. And how he, by seeing the beauty of the small things, refuses to be defeated.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#buscarse-la-vida
Se trailerBY TORA MÅRTENS, SWEDEN, 2008, 14 min, BETA, DIRECTORS VISIT! SWEDISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC
73 years old Lina Merceis, lives in a two bedroom apartment by the beach in Rio De Janeiro Brasil. Lina works as telephonist and after work, she enjoys life and is always entertained by any of her y... Read more
73 years old Lina Merceis, lives in a two bedroom apartment by the beach in Rio De Janeiro Brasil. Lina works as telephonist and after work, she enjoys life and is always entertained by any of her young lovers. She has chosen life as an unmarried woman and can’t see her herself caring for a rough husband. BYE BYE, C’EST FINI is an intimate and warmly documented portrait of an older woman who enjoys her life in a world where men usually dominate.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#bye-bye-c-est-fini
Se trailerBy Elin Ekselius, Sweden, 2008, 52 min, Production by: SR/ Dramatiska Institutet, VISIT BY THE PRODUCER!
Stockholm, august 1987. There’s a gathering of people at Sergels torg. Someone has brought a ghetto blaster(radio) with loud hip hop music on. A gang starts to dance, someone performs a backspi... Read more
Stockholm, august 1987. There’s a gathering of people at Sergels torg. Someone has brought a ghetto blaster(radio) with loud hip hop music on.
A gang starts to dance, someone performs a backspin on the stonepavement.
No one suspects the seven day riots that are about to erapt.
Worldspremier!
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#bolden-som-sprack
Se trailerBy PEPITA FERRARI, CANADA, 2008, 95 MIN, digibeta
Filmmakers have been turning their cameras on the world since the time of the Lumière brothers — and the idea of documentary has sparked impassioned creative debate ever since. Some of the genre’s mo... Read more
Filmmakers have been turning their cameras on the world since the time of the Lumière brothers — and the idea of documentary has sparked impassioned creative debate ever since. Some of the genre’s most influential directors reflect upon its unique power in Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. Over 30 luminaries — including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Alanis Obomsawin, Michel Brault, Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto and that great iconoclast Werner Herzog — offer insight into their craft while reflecting on the nature of representation and the perennially contested status of the “truth.” Can film capture reality? What ethical issues arise when portraying real lives? How does editing or music condition our emotional response to film? More than 100 clips enliven the discussion, offering a panoramic overview of contemporary documentary cinema, from Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line to The Day I Will Never Forget and Darwin’s Nightmare.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#capturing-reality
Se trailerBy Mercedes Stalenhoef, Holland, 2008, 84 min, digibeta VISIT BY THE DIRECTOR! ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
In Carmen Meets Borat, director Mercedes Stalenhoef follows the life of 17-year-old Carmen. She lives in a gypsy village in Romania, where the men spend their days tying one on and exchanging coarse ... Read more
In Carmen Meets Borat, director Mercedes Stalenhoef follows the life of 17-year-old Carmen. She lives in a gypsy village in Romania, where the men spend their days tying one on and exchanging coarse words in her father’s bar. In the evenings, she watches a Spanish soap opera and dreams of a better life in Spain, where the men are romantic and decent. Her plan to emigrate falls to pieces when an American film crew descends on her village to shoot Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The village is used in the movie to show where the main character comes from, and Borat depicts the villagers as primitive caricatures supposedly from Kazakhstan. Carmen’s grandfather plays the part of an abortion expert and poses for the camera with a welding apparatus. A little later, Borat embraces a woman he introduces as his sister and brags about her status as the fourth best whore in Kazakhstan. The villagers don’t understand a single word of English and laugh in good faith into the camera. When the film is released, the world press throws itself on the village and jealousy and suspicion predominate. The chaos is made complete when an American lawyer holds out the prospect of a $30 million insurance claim to the villagers. For Carmen, it becomes increasingly difficult to realise her dreams of a better life somewhere else.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#carmen-meets-borat
Se trailerBY RAN TAL , ISRAEL, 2008, 70 MIN, beta sp
In early 1900 the curious story of the Israeli kibbutz children begun. Conceived as a utopian refuge, kibbutz were collective communities in which children were raised to become the new face of the ... Read more
In early 1900 the curious story of the Israeli kibbutz children begun. Conceived as a utopian refuge, kibbutz were collective communities in which children were raised to become the new face of the Jewish people. In the kibbutz, children were offered only limited contact with their parents; completely oblivious to the bold experiment in which they were the primary test subjects. They were cared for by nannies, and slept together in a separate cottage designed specifically for them. As a result the children became their own family, a new breed that placed little value on material possessions while immersing themselves in physical labor and strict ideology.
Swedish premiar!
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#children-of-the-sun
Se trailerMake sure to be with us and party! The Music Doc Team and Malmö favorites Dirty South / La Onda is the closing party at Café Umbra! DJ & VJ Markus, Osvaldo, Ortiz, Simon de La Onda and Pether pla... Read more
Make sure to be with us and party! The Music Doc Team and Malmö favorites Dirty South / La Onda is the closing party at Café Umbra! DJ & VJ Markus, Osvaldo, Ortiz, Simon de La Onda and Pether play crowdpleasers, hipsterworld, Latino and 80’s sweets, which will bring your butt and your arms to breaking point. K3 rigs the nicest lights.
Saturday 20.00 - 02.00, Café Umbra, Hornsgatan 5
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#closing-party
Se trailerParty with the prize-winners and other party-hungry festival-goers at Södra Teatern’s Kägelbanan Also see the wild and crazy music documentary TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM by Omar Majeed. The n... Read more
Party with the prize-winners and other party-hungry festival-goers at Södra Teatern’s Kägelbanan Also see the wild and crazy music documentary TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM by Omar Majeed. The night continues with Södra Teatern’s new world music club in association with Vice. It’s guaranteed to swing all night!
Admission: 120 kronor (90 kronor after 21.30)
Presented in collaboration with Södra Teatern
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#closing-party
Se trailerHANNE MYREN, NORWAY, 2009, 23 MIN, DIGIBETA
A story about a young couple and their struggle to understand one another. A film that dives into the underlying emotions that often control our actions and the feelings we prefer to keep to ourselve... Read more
A story about a young couple and their struggle to understand one another. A film that dives into the underlying emotions that often control our actions and the feelings we prefer to keep to ourselves. Winner of the Terje Vigen Price 2009, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#control
Se trailerPETER KEREKES AUSTRIA/SLOVAKIA, 2009, 88 MIN, 35 MM
A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective view of hi... Read more
A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. Their recollections tap into a subjective view of historical events and one that diverges in some respects from conventional history. They take us behind the scenes of dates, facts, declarations of war, battles, and peace agreements. Cooking History shows the little secrets of these people, opens up a dimension of history one won’t find in textbooks or archives. The directness of the anecdotes and destinies of the people in this film conveys a sense of life and death in the “war apparatus,” a sense of hope, longing, and survival strategies in the midst of destruction and despair.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#cooking-historyAdmission free with the Tempo Membership card!
Se trailerKIRSTEN LAUMANN DENMARK, 2006, 46 MIN. PRODUCED BY DR. KIRSTEN LAUMANN WILL ATTEND THE EVENT.
”A Danish family in Portugal was a part of the upper class, but when their fortune disappeared like dew before the sun - their luxury lifestyle transformed into a daily struggle to make ends me... Read more
”A Danish family in Portugal was a part of the upper class, but when their fortune disappeared like dew before the sun - their luxury lifestyle transformed into a daily struggle to make ends meet. Memories of a golden past combined with anxiety about the future. The family survives by ignoring their problems and lives day by day - with the desperare hope that something will turn up.”
English reading script available
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#deroute-in-first-class
Se trailerAnna Hammaren, Sverige 2010, 53 min, production: SR Göteborg, Producer: Christer Ekbom.
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In swedish only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#det-skulle-handla-om-meningen-med-livet
Se trailerCHARLOTTA COPCUTT, ANNA WEITZ AND ANNA KLARA ÅHRÉN, SWEDEN, 2010, 29 MIN, DVCAM, ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Views towards the sea, insights into secrets rooms, going down to town, diving into books. We follow four children who are shut-in in their daily life in a segregated area on the top of a hill in Val... Read more
Views towards the sea, insights into secrets rooms, going down to town, diving into books. We follow four children who are shut-in in their daily life in a segregated area on the top of a hill in Valparaíso, Chile. Being little, being big, being strictly brought up or not having a friend. Poetic photography takes us through changes of moods, winds, weather and thoughts. The childrens’ storytelling is strengthened by animations of comics strips drawn by themselves and it all culminates with the printing of their own magazine.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#det-var-en-gang-pa-riktigt
Se trailerBy SALVO CUCCIA, ITALY, 2004, 127 MIN, digibeta
DIRECTORS VISIT. Shown in collaboration with Italienska Kulturinstitutet.
Along with Ermanno Olmi and Pier Paolo Pasolini, De Seta is considered one of the Italian cinema’s great imaginative realists of the Sixties, a true ”poet of reality.” As Salvo Cucc... Read more
Along with Ermanno Olmi and Pier Paolo Pasolini, De Seta is considered one of the Italian cinema’s great imaginative realists of the Sixties, a true ”poet of reality.” As Salvo Cuccia points out in his beautifully filmed documentary Détour De Seta, his films push the boundaries between fiction and reality, touching on archaic themes in European culture. Born a Calabrian nobleman, De Seta came into contact with those he calls the ”subordinate people” as a POW during World War Two. His documentaries, shot in southern Italy, Sardinia and Sicily, have focused on the lives of shepherds, miners and fishermen.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#detour-de-setaAdmission free!
On crossroads in artistic projects with documentary material. With: Magnus Bärtås and Cecilia Parsberg. Language: Swedish. Moderator: Catrin Lundqvist, Moderna Museet The Studio event organis... Read more
On crossroads in artistic projects with documentary material.
With: Magnus Bärtås and Cecilia Parsberg.
Language: Swedish.
Moderator: Catrin Lundqvist, Moderna Museet
The Studio event organisers will also be showing works by the artist Jon Brunberg, Stockholm. Bar and free admission!
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#discussion-about-crossroads-bar-in-the-studioFilmCentrum Stockholm and Tempo Documentary Festival are proud to present a fantastic course in documentary filmmaking. You will learn how to plan and script a documentary. You will learn how to i... Read more
FilmCentrum Stockholm and Tempo Documentary Festival are proud to present a fantastic course in documentary filmmaking.
You will learn how to plan and script a documentary. You will learn how to interview and what equipment to use. You will also see films and attend seminars with documentary filmmakers from all over the world. After five days of hard work, the result of your efforts will be screened for an audience at the Tempo Documentary Festival.
The course will be held in English and is led by Kent Moorhead.
The cost: SEK 3 200 for FilmCentrum members (SEK 3 700 for non-members).
Included in that fee are two lunches, all the equipment you might need, all the material you might need, membership in Tempo Documentary Festival, several film screenings and seminars.
Course contents: Planning for documentary, scriptwriting for documentary, equipment, interviewing, basic camera work and lighting, discussion on formats, how to work with sound, basic editing in Final Cut Pro and more.
Kent Moorhead: Award-winning filmmaker, has participated in more than 175 films, from drama and historical TV-documentaries, to educational and corporate videos throughout the USA and Europe. Current specialty: documentary, both Cinéma vérité and historical.
Please contact Mats Isfors for further information and sign up: mats@filmcentrum.se
Also check out website for more info on the course: www.filmcentrumstockholm.se
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#documentary-crash-courseArranged in collaboration with Folkets Bio and Johan Malmgren, Per Perstrand, Eva Esseen and Jan Arndorff. Admission free!
Folkets Bio is arranging a documentary film quiz where they will be testing knowledge in documentary film. There will be film clips and sound deductions from different documentary films. With every... Read more
Folkets Bio is arranging a documentary film quiz where they will be testing knowledge in documentary film. There will be film clips and sound deductions from different documentary films.
With everything from the worlds first filmpictures as TÅGET KOMMER TILL STATIONEN to a mobile filmed relationship thriller EN ENASTÅENDE STUDIE I MÄNSKLIG FÖRNEDRING. The questioners are known from the film quiz’s at Pet Sounds.
Saturday 18.00, Lilla Hotellbaren, Scandic Malmen
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#dokufilm-quiz
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A conversation with Per Zetterfalk about his pioneer work at Dramatiska Institutet. Per Zetterfalk is the first doctoral student of the Dramatiska Institutet. He defended a thesis subject in artistic... Read more
A conversation with Per Zetterfalk about his pioneer work at Dramatiska Institutet. Per Zetterfalk is the first doctoral student of the Dramatiska Institutet. He defended a thesis subject in artistic formation last year, with special alignment in scripts and direction.
In his work he has followed Lars Noren’s creativity process and SVT:s largest entartainments takes as Riket. The results are the fine print Inter esse(Gidlunds förlag) and the film Kall (Folkets Bio).
What can science learn from a documentary filmmakers choices and methods?
-The pressure of time urges researching and development of new
Se trailerKARIN AF KLINTBERG OCH JANE MAGNUSSON SWEDEN, 2009, 81 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTORS WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
This is the story about Ebbe Carlsson, a mediocre book publisher who became one of Sweden’s most famous persons in the late 80s. This film presents Sweden’s most unscrupulous social climber ever and ... Read more
This is the story about Ebbe Carlsson, a mediocre book publisher who became one of Sweden’s most famous persons in the late 80s. This film presents Sweden’s most unscrupulous social climber ever and consequently reveals a fragile and corrupt political system. Through this one person we get a great insight into an extraordinary era in Swedish history - a virtual cavalcade of narrow-mindedness, dirty business, ideological stupidity and abuse of power. Ebbe was incredibly good at self-promoting and able to create a myth around himself. He used to hold court in front of the escalator outside the parliament building, and soon enough he was gossiping with the prime minister in his chambers. When Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered, Ebbe took charge of the investigation, with no experience or relevant training. How was it possible that no one questioned who he was, or how he ended up in that position? Then at the hight of his career Ebbe’s life took an unexpected turn that changed everything. He got sick with AIDS. With only a few years left to live, Ebbe had nothing to lose. He just kept on going, eventually he crashed and became the nation’s most exposed subject. He’s private life was put under a magnifying glass. He became the most hated man in the country but Ebbe managed to turn it around, and when he died he was celebrated like a national hero. Ebbe Carlsson lived his life like a bestselling novel, but this is a story where reality surpasses fiction.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ebbe-the-movie
Se trailerGONZALO ARIJÓN FRANCE, 2009, 110 MIN, DIGIBETA
After 500 years of uninterrupted plunder of its natural resources and the fierce repression of popular revolts, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of new leaders has come to... Read more
After 500 years of uninterrupted plunder of its natural resources and the fierce repression of popular revolts, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of new leaders has come to power, most of them from outside the traditional political establishments and all elected democratically by safe majorities hungry for change. Their platform? To seek ways of answering the enormous challenges presented by inequality and social exclusion. How they meet these challenges will depend largely on the consolidation of economic and political integration in the region, an integration that should at last make it possible for Latin Americans to be the masters of their own destinies, less dependent on the economic recipes meted out by “the North” in general and especially by Washington.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#eyes-wide-open-exploring-today-s-south-america
Se trailerMIKAEL WISTRÖM OCH ALBERTO HERSKOVITS SVERIGE, 2010, 82 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. WORLD PREMIERE! THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
FAMILIA is the love story of the Peruvian couple Daniel and Naty Barrientos. It takes us through decades of struggle against poverty, for love and family. . They have not been able to afford educatio... Read more
FAMILIA is the love story of the Peruvian couple Daniel and Naty Barrientos. It takes us through decades of struggle against poverty, for love and family. . They have not been able to afford education for any on their first three children, now all grown up. And they want something better for their last son Nata, six years old. 50 tear old Naty decides to look for work in Spain, among thousands of other migrant workers from the shanty towns of the developing world. Her husband Daniel stays at home to take care of little Nata and earn a meagre living with his run down motor cycle taxi. Love and family cohesion that so far has survived all the challenges of poverty is put to it’s hardest test ever. FAMILIA is the story and also the third part of the Peruvian family trilogy that started with The Other Shore and COMPADRE .
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#familia
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Se trailerDon’t miss this successful event from last year’s festival – Tempo Documentary Festival and Rio invites you to an alternative breakfast and film experience. See the multi award-winning GARBAGE DREAMS... Read more
Don’t miss this successful event from last year’s festival – Tempo Documentary Festival and Rio invites you to an alternative breakfast and film experience. See the multi award-winning GARBAGE DREAMS by Mai Iskander – about zabaleen, a garbage collector from Cairo who became a recycling expert. Discuss sustainable development after the screening with invited guests.
N.B. Admission: 150 kronor
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#film-breakfast-at-rio
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Se trailerBRYAN LITTLE, SOUTH AFRICA, 2009, 108 MIN, DIGIBETA
FOKOFPOLISIEKAR is a South African documentary film about 5 young Afrikaans punk rockers that transformed a generation during a unique time in history; in one of the most reluctantly complex and evol... Read more
FOKOFPOLISIEKAR is a South African documentary film about 5 young Afrikaans punk rockers that transformed a generation during a unique time in history; in one of the most reluctantly complex and evolving societies of the 21st century. The film follows the story of the band over 4 years as they forge a place for themselves and their fans in a new South Africa; in the process challenging the stigmas and expectations placed on them by their Afrikaner heritage, the church and tradition. FOKOFPOLISIEKAR is a story of courage, passion and belief that reverberates through the minds and hearts of their fans - a story that transcends language and culture; and bravely faces a truth… that most would’ve left in darkness.
Also shown in the section Music Docs
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#fokofpolisiekar-forgive-them-for-they-know-not-what-they-do
Se trailerELHADJ MAGORI SANI, NIGERIA/FRANCE, 2008, 52 MIN, DIGIBETA
The Galmi purple, an onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou has been waiting for her wedding for two years. Her father Yaro, on advice from both... Read more
The Galmi purple, an onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with 400,000 tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou has been waiting for her wedding for two years. Her father Yaro, on advice from both her future in-laws and the village gossip, makes a decision: The wedding will take place during the harvest! Yaro is aware that to follow through on his commitment this time, he has to produce more and sell at a higher price…
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#for-the-best-and-for-the-onion
Se trailerBy NIMA SARVESTANI , SWEDEN, 2008, 52 MIN, dv
Förtvivlans Gräns is a story about two teenagers Reubar and Shahoo and their struggle against poverty and for a better life in Kurdistan Iran. They are involved in smuggling petrol between Iran and ... Read more
Förtvivlans Gräns is a story about two teenagers Reubar and Shahoo and their struggle against poverty and for a better life in Kurdistan Iran. They are involved in smuggling petrol between Iran and Irak and risks their lives to support their families. Shahoo lives with Reubar and his parents who have been taking care of Shahoo since he became an orphan. Rebuar started smuggling petrol at the age of 13 and dreams of bettering his parents life. Shahoo saves money to be able to marry 17 year old Nahid, whom he is in love.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#fortvivlans-grans
Se trailerBy CRISTOPHE CHEVALIER, FRANCE, 2008, 97 MIN, DVD
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Se trailerJAN IJÄS, FINLAND, 2008, 15 MIN, BETA SP
Not very far from the Arctic Circle is a house that was once a was factory for the manufacturing of envelopes. It is now a home for refugees in a no man’s land. The refugees are observed cookin... Read more
Not very far from the Arctic Circle is a house that was once a was factory for the manufacturing of envelopes. It is now a home for refugees in a no man’s land. The refugees are observed cooking, watching TV and breakdancing in the recreation room. ”I just exist, that’s the only word I can use. I’m not dead, I just exist.”, one of the inmates says. Ghosts won the special prize at the Tampere International Short Film Festival 2009 and the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival Kratkofil 2009.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ghosts
Se trailerVALENTINA MONTI, ITALY, 2009, 59 MIN, DIGIBETA. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
Girls on the Air is a strongly interesting document about Afghanistan and the ”new internal democracy” building process. Humaira, founder and manager of Radio Sahar, the first independent... Read more
Girls on the Air is a strongly interesting document about Afghanistan and the ”new internal democracy” building process. Humaira, founder and manager of Radio Sahar, the first independent community radio station run by women, who tells the stories of the women of her country, becomes a symbol of Afghanistan, alive and multifaceted, capable of discussing and going through rigid stereotypes in which reality is so often trapped. Girls on the Air will take you into the minds of the young Afghani who are trying to make a difference. Radio Sahar’s name describes this hope beautifully. In Afghani, it means ”dawn”
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#girls-on-the-air
Se trailerBY MIKEL CEE KARLSSON, SWEDEN, 2009, 75 MIN, 35 MM, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, DIRECTORS VISIT! NOMINERAD TILL TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
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Se trailerSUSANNE BJÖRKMAN SWEDEN, 2010, 50 MIN (THE ENTIRE PROGRAM: 150 MIN) PRODUCTION: SR. WORLD PREMIERE!
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In swedish only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#gor-nagot-nu
Se trailerBy MÅNS MÅNSSON, SWEDEN, 2008, 82 MIN, 35 MM, ENGLISH SUBTITLES,
DIRECTORS VISIT NOMINATED FOR TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
The documentaryfilmer Måns Månsson’s new featurefilmdocumentary HR LANDSHÖVDING is a reflection of the countygoverner in Uppsala county and the former defenceminister Anders Björk’s life... Read more
The documentaryfilmer Måns Månsson’s new featurefilmdocumentary HR LANDSHÖVDING is a reflection of the countygoverner in Uppsala county and the former defenceminister Anders Björk’s life and work in his eventfull year . Måns Månssson’s film is inspired by Cinéma Vérité-tradition and follows Anders Björck during the yaer Upsala celebrates the 300-year aniversary av Carl von Linnés birth. Many royalties and other prominent people shake Anders Björck’s hand. Many ribbons are to be cut. But Anders Björck anticipates a threat in the proposition of the new swedish countysdivision.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#h-r-landshovding
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In Swedish.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#how-close-can-i-get
Se trailerJESPER RAVN, DENMARK, 2008, 6 MIN, DIGIBETA
How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.... Read more
How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#how-they-dance
Se trailerJULIA STANISLAWSKA OCH MICHAEL KROTKIEWSKI, SWEDEN, 2009, 36 MIN, DV, ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Gunnar Bergstrom from Sweden supported the Khmer Rouge rampage in Cambodia. Gunnar was also one of the few foreign guests who were invited to Pol Pot’s Cambodia. He participated in a delegation... Read more
Gunnar Bergstrom from Sweden supported the Khmer Rouge rampage in Cambodia. Gunnar was also one of the few foreign guests who were invited to Pol Pot’s Cambodia. He participated in a delegation which would later tell the world that Pol Pot’s vision of the perfect society was true, and Gunnar was convinced of it! In November 2008 Gunnar returned to Cambodia, but this time to ask the population for forgiveness.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#i-dreamt-about-pol-pot
Se trailerVaughan Giose, producer for Ikon South Africa and David Aronowitsch, one of the project founders of Story AB, visit Tempo to discuss how, through workshops, hard work and not least through collecting... Read more
Vaughan Giose, producer for Ikon South Africa and David Aronowitsch, one of the project founders of Story AB, visit Tempo to discuss how, through workshops, hard work and not least through collecting hundreds of ideas from all over South Africa, have assisted a number of film projects to reach a large South African and international audience. Besides this official visit, the founders of Ikon Sweden and Story AB meet young black filmmakers from the townships. Friendships developed, which led to the establishment of a platform for emerging filmmakers with important stories to tell.
During Tempo a retrospective of films from Ikon South Africa will also be shown.
More information: www.rainbowcirclefilms.co.zat och www.story.se
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ikon-south-africa
Se trailerAfter an intensive day at the festival, unwind and meet industry colleagues in more informal surroundings. For this reason, Tempo has arranged these unique industry events as part of the seminar prog... Read more
After an intensive day at the festival, unwind and meet industry colleagues in more informal surroundings. For this reason, Tempo has arranged these unique industry events as part of the seminar programme at Rio, together with other hosts who offer drinks and nibbles.
Thursday – hosted by Filmkontakt Nord
Friday – hosted by MEDIADESK Sweden, SVT Sales and others
Industry accredited guests only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#industry-networking-event
Se trailerJUAN REINA, ERIC KABERA, KENYA, 2008, 54 MIN, DVD
During April 1994, on quiet road in Kigali a group of neighbors in Rwanda were filmed. This was the opening days of the Rwandan Genocide, and even though almost one million people were slaughtered, ... Read more
During April 1994, on quiet road in Kigali a group of neighbors in Rwanda were filmed. This was the opening days of the Rwandan Genocide, and even though almost one million people were slaughtered, remarkably there is only one known segment of footage showing any actual killing. This movie is about the extraordinary journey of that evidence as the original photographer returns to Rwanda, revisiting the people and events that he by chance caught on film. As the footage returns to the community, friends and family relive the tragic events as they work with the photographer to identify the victims, and then eventually the killers.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#iseta-behind-the-road-block
Se trailerJULIA STANISLAWSKA, SWEDEE, 2009, 35 MIN, DVCAM
Against a backdrop of industrial landscape in Northern Finland two friends meet to explore images. Engaging in a self imposed ‘interrogation’ experiment Sara and Julia turn their cameras upon each ot... Read more
Against a backdrop of industrial landscape in Northern Finland two
friends meet to explore images. Engaging in a self imposed ‘interrogation’ experiment Sara and Julia turn their cameras upon each other and reflect about their common lifein London and their return to their individual places of birth. It’s not exactly the End of the World but not Far from it Either’ is
a reflective film about friendship and returning home after many years
abroad
Se trailerJACOB ANDRÉN OCH HELENA NYGREN SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, DIGIBETA
Se trailerBY MARIKA HEIDEBÄCK, SWEDEN, 2009, 28 MIN, BETA, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, DIRECTORS VISIT NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC 2009.
We played hide and seek, but they just looked for the others. Not me. They found the others. But not me. How does it feel to want to play with the others when they do not want to be your friend. How ... Read more
We played hide and seek, but they just looked for the others. Not me.
They found the others. But not me. How does it feel to want to play with the others when they do not want to be your friend. How does it feel to walk through the town centre where the big boys are. The children we meet are between six and nine years old and attends the same after-school class. They are all searching for a place to belong and a way to be part of the group.
Se trailerMICHAEL SCHWARZ AND BILL JERSEY, USA, 2008, 57 MIN, BETA
Se trailerBY SEAN MCALLISTER, GREAT BRITAIN, JAPAN, 2008, 70 MIN, digibeta
Naoki 56, had it all in Japan’s bubble economy days: he ran a business with 70 staff, drove a brand new BMW, and lived in a 6 bedroom house. But when Japan’s economy crashed in the early ... Read more
Naoki 56, had it all in Japan’s bubble economy days: he ran a business with 70 staff, drove a brand new BMW, and lived in a 6 bedroom house. But when Japan’s economy crashed in the early 1990’s he lost everything, ending up divorced (for the third time) and penniless. He was saved from being homeless by his new girlfriend, Yoshie 29, who took him in - despite living in a tiny one-room apartment with no windows. Their life is a love story of survival in the world’s second richest economy.
Swedish premiere!
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#japan-a-story-of-love-and-hate
Se trailerMARTIN WIDMAN, SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, DIGIBETA, THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
Se trailerCATHERINE MEYBURGH, SOUTH AFRICA, 2009, 71 MIN, DIGIBETA
South African artists William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas discuss the conditions for artists, in an open-hearted look at similarities and differences in their oeuvres, sources of inspiration and audi... Read more
South African artists William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas discuss the conditions for artists, in an open-hearted look at similarities and differences in their oeuvres, sources of inspiration and audience reception. And the courage that is needed; how does one paint desire and sexuality without it turning into pornography? How can we relate to painful memories? Both Kentridge and Dumas comment on the times, albeit in different ways – Dumas mainly in her oil paintings, Kentridge in his exceedingly detailed animations. This documentary was filmed in the artists’ studios in South Africa and Amsterdam, where Marlene Dumas has lived since the 1970s.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#kentridge-dumas-in-conversation
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In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#kino-live-broadcasting
Se trailerMAGNUS BÄRTÅS, SWEDEN, 2006–2007, 50 MIN, HD/VIDEO
This video essay, filmed in Tokyo and Paris, is based on the primordial concept of the impending loss of self. It is about Kumiko Muraoka, the main character in Chris Marker’s film The Koumiko Myster... Read more
This video essay, filmed in Tokyo and Paris, is based on the primordial concept of the impending loss of self. It is about Kumiko Muraoka, the main character in Chris Marker’s film The Koumiko Mystery, and Johnnie Walker, a fictional character in a novel by Haruki Murakami. Johnnie Walker, a Japanese homosexual Jew, is regarded by the people around him as a foreigner even though his family have been Japanese citizens for many generations. Johnny Walker has chosen the path of confrontation and provocation. With his Irish wolfhound he challenges the Japanese “cuteness” cult and its admiration for the neo-liberal concept of Soft Power.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#kumiko-johnnie-walker-the-cute
Se trailerFREDERICK WISEMAN, FRANCE/USA, 2009, 159 MIN, 35 MM
The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. Frederick Wiseman has filmed all the aspects of the work and life of this cultural institutional monument. By filming daily course... Read more
The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. Frederick Wiseman has filmed all the aspects of the work and life of this cultural institutional monument. By filming daily courses, repetitions and performances, Frederick Wiseman highlights the French school of ballet known for its emphasis on rigorous attention to technical perfection and precision of movement. This new opus is part of Wiseman’s long working method, a craftsman approach to filmmaking entirely shaped by his own aim: that of listening to the institution as it “speaks”, trying to identify the rule it lives by.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#la-danse-the-paris-opera-ballet
Se trailerCHRISTIAN POVEDA, FRANCE/SPAIN/MEXICO, 2008, 90 MIN, 35 MM
In Central America, they are called ”Maras”, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror i... Read more
In Central America, they are called ”Maras”, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported from the USA.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#la-vida-loca
Se trailerBy IBTISAM MARA’ANA, ISRAEL, 2008, 56 MIN, beta sp
Duah, from the drusian village Sagur in Galilé, is one of twelve finalists in a beautycontest for Isreali-arabic women-Lady Kul el-Arab. In preparations for the contest a relationship between Duah an... Read more
Duah, from the drusian village Sagur in Galilé, is one of twelve finalists in a beautycontest for Isreali-arabic women-Lady Kul el-Arab.
In preparations for the contest a relationship between Duah and fashiondesigner Jack Yaakob developes. They decide to also register Duah for the national Israeli beautycontest and travel to Tel Aviv where Duah decides to change her name to Angelina. A film about a beautycontest turned into a moving story about a family trapped betwen cultures.
Se trailerBy NISHTA JAIN , INDIA, 2007, 59 MIN, beta sp
”What sin have i commited to be born a woman?” This unpleasant sentence spoken by 21-year old maid Lakshimi, extends like an undercurrent, through the Mumbai based filmer Nishtha Jains sm... Read more
”What sin have i commited to be born a woman?” This unpleasant sentence spoken by 21-year old maid Lakshimi, extends like an undercurrent, through the Mumbai based filmer Nishtha Jains small but unique documentary. Jain turns the camera towards his own maid, and highlights the complicated relationship between employer and employee, filmmaker and subject.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#lakshmi-and-me
Se trailerBy Nanna Frank Møller, Denmark, 2008, 80 min, beta sp
DIRECTORS VISIT!
LET’S BE TOGETHER is a documentary about Hairon a fourteen yearold ordinary, but unusually courageous, danish teenager, who seeks answers about himself and love. Hairon has no boundaries and sp... Read more
LET’S BE TOGETHER is a documentary about Hairon a fourteen yearold ordinary, but unusually courageous, danish teenager, who seeks answers about himself and love. Hairon has no boundaries and spends his majority time on makeup, nailpolish and ladiesshoes. The world expands as he decides to find his father on the other side of the Atlantic, in Rio De Janeiro, Brasil…
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#let-s-be-together
Se trailerBY JONAS ODELL, SWEDEN, 2008, 14 MIN, 35 MM, DIRECTORS VISIT!
ENGLISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC 2009
Three true stories about lies. In three animated episodes based on documetared interviews, we meet the burglar who inpersonates a blackjob working editor when he gets detected, the boy who lies and c... Read more
Three true stories about lies. In three animated episodes based on documetared interviews, we meet the burglar who inpersonates a blackjob working editor when he gets detected, the boy who lies and confesses a theft he did not commit, a woman whos entire life has been a string of lies.
Guldbagge awarded and rewarded with the best international shortfilm on the Sundancefestival.
Se trailerSVANTE TIDHOLM, SWEDEN, 2009, 50 MIN, DV
Welcome to Europe’s largest brothel, one eleven-storey building on the outskirts of Cologne in southwestern Germany. More than seven hundred men come here every day and more then 150 women are ... Read more
Welcome to Europe’s largest brothel, one eleven-storey building on the outskirts of Cologne in southwestern Germany. More than seven hundred men come here every day and more then 150 women are employed from around the world to fulfill the men’s dreams. This is a separate world with its own payment system, security guards, doctors, staff restaurant, manicures and hairdressing.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#like-a-pascha
Se trailerBY MIKAEL KRISTERSSON, SWEDEN, 2008, 101 MIN, 35 MM, NO DIALOGUE, DIRECTORS VISIT! NOMINATED FOR TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
A new film by Mikael Kristersson who’s earlier films include PICA PICA and FALKENS ÖGA. In giddiously beautiful picturesequences and minituosly documentered sounds he describes the broadness in... Read more
A new film by Mikael Kristersson who’s earlier films include PICA PICA and FALKENS ÖGA. In giddiously beautiful picturesequences and minituosly documentered sounds he describes the broadness in the smallest if own little garden in Falsterbo. The reality is described in the titmouses, the wasps, and the cabbage butterflies perspective and us humans as the species among others.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ljusar
Se trailerMAGNUS BÄRTÅS, SWEDEN, 2009, 27 MIN, HD/VIDEO
In 1978, the legendary South Korean actress Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi) was kidnapped in Hong Kong by North Korean agents. She was taken to Pyongyang, just like her ex-husband, the film director Shin S... Read more
In 1978, the legendary South Korean actress Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi) was kidnapped in Hong Kong by North Korean agents. She was taken to Pyongyang, just like her ex-husband, the film director Shin Sang-Ok. This video essay examines the historical and repetitive traits of Choi Eun-Hee’s life. Godzilla the Monster’s genealogy, via Pulgasari, to Galgameth (Shin’s remake of Pulgasari in Hollywood), are interpreted as straight-forward messages about nuclear weapons. The video takes a stand against conventional documentary practice in an experiment with “situated storytelling”, which entails that the narrator is visible and tied to a specific place.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#madam-little-boy
Se trailerArranged in collaboration with European Documentary network with the help of Dramatiska Institutet.
How do you approach the German/French broadcaster ARTE with an idea for an international co-production? Can you make a documentary for the international audience, where your main characters are ̵... Read more
How do you approach the German/French broadcaster ARTE with an idea for an international co-production? Can you make a documentary for the international audience, where your main characters are ’speaking poetry’? What kind of documentaries work on the international market? These and many other aspects will be covered at MARATHON DOC, which is organised in collaboration with EDN.
The Swedish documentary film festival Tempo is putting a focus on the documentary film industry by organising the two day seminar Marathon.doc. The last day of this seminar will be focusing on international co-production of documentaries.
The last day of Marathon.doc will bring important players from the European documentary scene to share knowledge and information with the Swedish documentary sector about cross-border co-prodution of documentaries. For the 2009 edition you will meet Commissioning Editor Peter Gottschalk from ARTE and Director Brian Hill.
Peter Gottschalk is a commissioning editor at Unite Documentaires at the ARTE G.E.I.E. This central office of ARTE, located in Strasbourg, is responsible for the editorial line of programmes, the programme schedule and the broadcast. ARTE G.E.I.E. delivers 542 hours of programming a year: current affairs, information and theme evenings.
ARTE was launched in 1991 with the intention to create a new specifically European television culture. Documentaries represent about 40% of total programming or approx. 500 hours annually; not including the strand Thema, which is thematically evenings three times a week, including documentaries ARTE transmits by satellite, cable and terrestrial network and is financed by license fees.
The storytelling tools and approaches in the British director Brian Hill’s documentaries are often unconventional and constructed. But for Hill these staged scenes are a natural choice and element in order to describe reality in the best and most precise way.
Brian Hill is the managing director of Century Films and directs both drama and documentary. He has made over 60 films for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV, many of which have won awards from the British Academy of Film and Television, and the Royal Television Society, including his landmark films with poet Simon Armitage, which saw a development of the documentary musical.
The programme for Marathon.doc is:
10:00 - 12:00 How to Co-produce with ARTE?
The German/French broadcaster ARTE is one of the most important players on the European market for documentary. However, finding the right contact and way in at the station can be difficult and hard to navigate. During this session Peter Gottschalk from ARTE will explain the structure of the broadcaster, what kind of slots are broadcasting what kind of documentaries and who to contact in relation to certain themes and content. Included in the session will be examples of recently documentaries broadcasted by ARTE.
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Screening: The Not Dead
During this master class, which will be based on the screening of The Not Dead, Brian Hill will talk about his approach to storytelling in documentary film, how he is working with staged scenes and how he makes documentaries, which are appealing for an international audience.
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:30 Master Class with Brian Hill
Singing women prisoners in an intimate portrait of life in a female prison. War veterans with post traumatic stress disorder telling their stories through poetry. Stars from the pornography business depicting the unpleasant aspects of the industry in a musical documentary.
Price allday: 130 SEK (Fi entrence for accredited)
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#marathon-doc
Se trailerKICKI MÖLLER SVERIGE, 2010, 20 MIN (HELA UPPLEVELSEN: 120 MIN) PRODUCENT: MAGNUS ARVIDSON PRODUKTION: SR. WORLD PREMIERE!
In swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#margit-och-bosse-en-kaffestory
Se trailerWant to produce feature documentaries? Combine the blind faith of a monk, the self-righteousness of a political prisoner, and the spin of an ad executive. Then improvise. Mila Aung-Thwin has produced... Read more
Want to produce feature documentaries? Combine the blind faith of a monk, the self-righteousness of a political prisoner, and the spin of an ad executive. Then improvise. Mila Aung-Thwin has produced films such as Up the Yangtze, Antoine, Rip! A Remix Manifesto and Last Train Home, grand prize winner at IDFA. He will cover producing, from concept through distribution, using examples from Taqwacore: The birth of punk islam and Inkulal, a co-pro with Sweden’s Linda Vastrik.
Read about the film TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#masterclass-mila-aung-thwin-eyesteelfilmWhat happens when the newsfeed’s cameras are switched off? The Online Documentary Project From Zero depicts the aftermath of the earthquake, which devastated the mountain region of Abruzzo in Italy i... Read more
What happens when the newsfeed’s cameras are switched off? The Online Documentary Project From Zero depicts the aftermath of the earthquake, which devastated the mountain region of Abruzzo in Italy in April 2009. In sharp contrast with the sensational images that the mainstream news outlets broadcast, this project described, through observations of the minutest details, the slow reconstruction of a community.
Meet Stefano Strocchi, producer and founder of the project. During this masterclass, he will discuss how the project developed, together with the specific advantages and limitations that the online documentary format offers.
This seminar is arranged in collaboration with EDN – European Documentary Network with support of the Italian Cultural Institute.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#masterclass-online-documentary-project-from-zero
Se trailerFilmkontakt Nord’s Nomadic Office returns to Tempo! Offering individual guidance sessions regarding Nordic and international documentary film financing. Swedish filmmakers with new documentary projec... Read more
Filmkontakt Nord’s Nomadic Office returns to Tempo! Offering individual guidance sessions regarding Nordic and international documentary film financing. Swedish filmmakers with new documentary projects will receive an evaluation of their project’s Nordic and international potential. The Nomadic Office can even offer advice on further development and other potential funding sources. A maximum of ten projects will be offered a consultation.
Applications to be received by Friday 19th February at the latest to: karin@filmkontakt.com. Attach a synopsis (max. 3 pages), outline budget (max. 1 page) and a Filmography/CV (max. 1 page).
Thursday and Friday, 10.00 – 17.00, by prior arrangement, at Rio.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#meet-filmkontakt-nord-at-tempo
Se trailerMARC ISAACS, GREAT BRITAIN, 2009, 60 MIN, DIGIBETA.
A Bangladeshi man dashes through the streets burdened by the crossed shaped advertising signboard he carries on his back; a trader loses his family as a result of his addiction to the financial marke... Read more
A Bangladeshi man dashes through the streets burdened by the crossed shaped advertising signboard he carries on his back; a trader loses his family as a result of his addiction to the financial markets; a chain smoking insurance man tries desperately to escape the city’s daily grind; an aggressive metals trader lives for killing animals at the weekend; a street sweeper on a spiritual quest seeks a life in the wilderness. Marc Isaacs’ latest feature length film shot during the current financial crisis explores the human cost of life in the dog eat dog world of London’s Square Mile.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#men-of-the-city
Se trailerAdmission Free!
Hang out in the bar with Andrea Reuter and other filmmakers! Andrea Reuter meets Frederick Wiseman, together with international guests and talks documentary at Södra Bar. Special offers at the bar! ... Read more
Hang out in the bar with Andrea Reuter and other filmmakers! Andrea Reuter meets Frederick Wiseman, together with international guests and talks documentary at Södra Bar. Special offers at the bar!
Thursday kl 17-18
Guest: Frederick Wiseman
Friday kl 17-18
Guestt: Mila Aung Twhin
Saturday kl 17-18
Guests: Lisa Key och Vaughan Gios
Arranged in collaboration with Södra Teatern.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#mingle-at-sodra-bar
Se trailerBy RAYMOND DEPARDON, FRANCE, 2008, 98 MIN, digibeta
Shown in collaboration with the French Embassy.
Se trailerBy Stefan Jarl, Sweden, 1968-1979 , 290 min, Beta
Se trailerJOAN FROSCH OCH ALLA KOVGAN, USA, 2007, 65 MIN, DIGIBETA PAL
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. Stunning cho... Read more
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. Stunning choreography and riveting critiques challenge stale stereotypes of ”traditional Africa” to unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy of 21st century Africa.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#movement-r-evolution-africa-a-story-of-an-art-form-in-four-acts
Se trailerANDREW THOMPSON OCH LUCY BAILEY, GREAT BRITAIN, 2009, 94 MIN, DIGIBETA
Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent ’Land Reform’ program in 2000. Since then the country has descen... Read more
Michael Campbell is one of the few hundred white farmers left in Zimbabwe since President Robert Mugabe began his violent ’Land Reform’ program in 2000. Since then the country has descended into chaos. In 2008 Mike took the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe in an International Court; accusing Robert Mugabe and his government of racial discrimination and violations of basic human rights. What follows is an intimate, moving and often terrifying account of one man and his family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#mugabe-and-the-white-african
Se trailerSTEFAN CONSTANTINESCU OCH JULIO SOTO, SPAIN/ROMANIA, 2009, 55 MIN, HD/VIDEO
A humorous essay on the Romanian odyssey from communism to capitalism, taking one of Romania’s most charismatic symbols as its starting-point – a Dacia. The film chronicles several Romanians, whose l... Read more
A humorous essay on the Romanian odyssey from communism to capitalism, taking one of Romania’s most charismatic symbols as its starting-point – a Dacia. The film chronicles several Romanians, whose lives are interwoven by the modest car, and who reflect on the ongoing transformation of Romanian society. Perhaps the story of the Dacia reflects the social changes in Romania?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#my-beautiful-dacia
Se trailerBy LUCÍA GAJÁ, MEXIKO, 2007, 120 MIN, digibeta
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Se trailerBy RENÉ LETZGUS, FRANCE, 2008, 79 MIN, dvd
Se trailerBy TIN DARDAMAL, MEXIKO, 2005, 80 MIN, dv cam
The impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hopes of a better life in the United States have a rough road ahead of them. NO ONE shows how, during their perilous 2500-mile journey... Read more
The impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hopes of a better life in the United States have a rough road ahead of them. NO ONE shows how, during their perilous 2500-mile journey through Mexico, they put their last money, dignity, health and life on the line. Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal follows a number of refugees in a South-Mexican refugee centre, from where they hitch illegal rides on freight trains to the northern border. Apart from the Mexican immigration service and police, the illegal aliens are threatened by the security service of the railroad companies, and the criminal La Mara Salvatrucha gang. The horror stories of refugees, filmed with a handheld camera, are alternated with interviews with employees of the railroad, and the immigration service. The only hope along the way comes from a volunteer organization near the railroad tracks that hands out food to passing refugees, as they board a train towards an uncertain future.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#no-one
Se trailerSASKIA BISP, DENMARK, 2009, 45 MIN, DIGIBETA
”Nobody Passes Perfectly” is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience... Read more
”Nobody Passes Perfectly” is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience to places where the gender isn’t a predefined condition, dictated only by biology, but a very personal part of the self that can be challenged, investigated and altered. Meet Tomka who is right in the middle of such a process. He lives in a very loving relationship with his Lesbian girlfriend Lotte. Together they try to imagine what his transitioning will mean for their relationship. And meet Erik, who was once a heterosexual woman, and has finally decided to live his life as a man.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#nobody-passes-perfectly
Se trailerBy HENRY CORRA, USA, 2007, 87 MIN, DVD
New York City, 1977, Un fortunately there is no sound on the trailer for the film NY77 due to the rightsissue. ... Read more
Un fortunately there is no sound on the trailer for the film NY77 due to the rightsissue.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ny77-the-coolest-year-in-hell
Se trailerZISKA SZEMES, SWEDEN, 2009, 29 MIN, DIGIBETA, ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Ziska is born and raised in Sweden. Never the less she is often asked where she comes froms since she does not look Swedish. In ME & MY NOSE Ziska is off on a journey to find out if she is Swedis... Read more
Ziska is born and raised in Sweden. Never the less she is often asked where she comes froms since she does not look Swedish. In ME & MY NOSE Ziska is off on a journey to find out if she is Swedish, how to get a Swedish nose and what a Swedish nose really looks like. She ends her journey in Copenhagen where she lives with her family. She has found that she will never become Swedish or Danish in a way where she will be one of ’us Danes’ – or one of ’us Swedes’. She needs to be Swedish and Danish in her own way. ME & MY NOSE is a film about identity. As audience we join her on her journey when she takes off to find her identity. We are with her, experiencing her confusion about what she is – Swedish, Danish, Parsee, immigrant… The theme is up to date and hits the Zeitgeist – not only in the Nordic countries, but in the Western world as a whole. ME & MY NOSE is a documentary added elements of animation and special effects. The film contributes to the debate on integration and national values, taking place in Danish and Swedish society.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#nasan-och-jag
Se trailerULI M SCHUEPPEL, GERMANY, 2009, 95 MIN, DIGIBETA
At noon on December 21st, 1989 the members of Einstürzende Neubauten hit the road in West Berlin for their very first concert in East Berlin, (still-) capital of the GDR. 20 years later some of the c... Read more
At noon on December 21st, 1989 the members of Einstürzende Neubauten hit the road in West Berlin for their very first concert in East Berlin, (still-) capital of the GDR. 20 years later some of the concertgoers trace those paths that led them to the concert hall of the VEB Elektrokohle.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#off-ways
Se trailerSTEFAN BERG, SWEDEN, 2010, 56 MIN, DIGIBETA
In Swedish only... Read more
In Swedish only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#ola-svensson-superstar
Se trailerThis year’s documentary festival opens with super evening at Södra Teatern’s Kägelbanan, with the international premiere of the film REWIND by Liza Key (South Africa). In addition, film happenings an... Read more
This year’s documentary festival opens with super evening at Södra Teatern’s Kägelbanan, with the international premiere of the film REWIND by Liza Key (South Africa). In addition, film happenings and DJs, in collaboration with Klubb High Life, who offer an exotic and danceable selection of music drawn from African deserts, Caribbean beaches, American hard discs, South American megacities and German backyards.
Wednesday 10th March at Södra Teatern
18.30 Doors open
19.00 – 21.00 Opening + Film (REWIND)
21.00 – 01.00 DJ’s and Happenings
Se trailerMICHAEL CARMONA, USA, 2008. 84 MIN, DIGIBETA
Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years, Pansy Division pioneered the “queercore” genre long before other gay musicians had the confidence to come... Read more
Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years, Pansy Division pioneered the “queercore” genre long before other gay musicians had the confidence to come out of the closet, and without major record label support or mainstream radio airplay. Using original and archive footage and covering over fifteen years as a group, Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band is a fast-paced, intimate and humorous account of one of rock’s most fearless acts.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#pansy-division-life-in-a-gay-rock-band
Se trailerAHANG BASHI, SWEDEN, 2009, 28 MIN, DIGIBETA, ENGLISH SUBTITLES
88-year old Simin from Iran now lives in a retirement home in a suburb of Gothenburg. She doesn’t speak Swedish and the staff does not understand Persian. Everyday life becomes a constant bombardment... Read more
88-year old Simin from Iran now lives in a retirement home in a suburb of Gothenburg. She doesn’t speak Swedish and the staff does not understand Persian. Everyday life becomes a constant bombardment of tragicomic misunderstandings.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#paradise
Se trailerCHRISTOPH ANDERSSON SWEDEN, 2010, 53 MIN PRODUCTION: SR. WORLD PREMIERE! CHRISTOPH ANDERSSON WILL ATTEND THE EVENT.
In swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#patriot-i-frack-om-en-av-de-rika-inom-europas-ultrahoger
Se trailerJONAS JOHANNESSON, MARTIN SNYGG, SVERIGE, 2009, 42 MIN, DVD
In Swedish only... Read more
In Swedish only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#philemon-arthur-and-the-dung
Se trailerBy BENSON LEE, USA, 98 MIN, dv cam
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Se trailerBY JOANNA RYTEL, SWEDEN, 2009, 7 MIN, BETA, DIRECTORS VISIT !
ENGLISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC 2009
PLAY GIRL is about breaking conventions and norms and fighting against partriatichate rules of how a girl should behave. The film affects genderspecific rules, tabus, honour and about helping oneself... Read more
PLAY GIRL is about breaking conventions and norms and fighting against partriatichate rules of how a girl should behave. The film affects genderspecific rules, tabus, honour and about helping oneself more than being ”moderate” as a girl.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#play-girl
Se trailerHANNA SAMLIN, SWEDEN, 2010, 29 MIN, DIGIBETA, ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
Radio Totalnormal is a radio show made by people who have experience with mental illness. -We are not lunatics; we are just fragile, as Janne says when he walks the streets of Stockholm with his micr... Read more
Radio Totalnormal is a radio show made by people who have experience with mental illness. -We are not lunatics; we are just fragile, as Janne says when he walks the streets of Stockholm with his microphone. He asks people about things he would like to know, for example what it is like to be mentally sane. Join us behind the scenes of this unconventional radio station that does not strive to fit in. At Radio Totalnormal everyone’s differences are useful assets in the struggle of changing society’s view of people who suffer from mental disease.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#radio-totalnormal
Se trailerSweden, 2009, 45 min, Produced by: FILT for SR
Se trailerMARCUS LINDEEN, SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both change their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and, the one defining regret they both... Read more
Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both change their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and, the one defining regret they both share, their sexual reassignment. Mikael underwent surgery in the mid-90s as a 50 year old, while Orlando was one of the very first sex change patients in Sweden in 1967. Mikael now dresses as a man again and desperately attempts to convince his doctors to change him back. He wears over sized clothing to hide his breasts. Now he finds himself trapped inside a strange body that isn’t his. He feels lost between gender, he tells Orlando. Orlando is an androgynous dandy, dressed in a red velvet suit, donning a single diamond earring. Mikael finds his outfit peculiar. If Orlando regrets his sex-change, why does he continue to dress so feminine? He enjoys living as both: sometimes man, sometimes woman. But there was a time when he did not live life as split-gender. Orlando tells the story of his 11 year marriage to a man who presumed him to be a biological woman, until one afternoon when his secret was revealed.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#regretters
Se trailerMIKAEL AGATON, SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, BETA
Se trailerOLAVI LINNA, DENMARK, 2009, 40 MIN, DIGIBETA
Happiness. Can it exist anywhere? The film takes place in Solf, a small country village in Western Finland where everything has stagnated in its own peculiar way. Solf was offiically declared the ... Read more
Happiness. Can it exist anywhere? The film takes place in Solf, a small country village in Western Finland where everything has stagnated in its own peculiar way. Solf was offiically declared the ’most perfect village’ in Finland in 2006. To some extent this has caused the village inhabitants to stop dreaming of better places. Why leave this paradise?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#restless-in-paradise
Se trailerIcon South Africa is a platform for unestablished South african filmmakers with anxious stories to tell. The project began in 1999 when the founders of Icon Story AB, Sweden met young black filmmaker... Read more
Icon South Africa is a platform for unestablished South african filmmakers with anxious stories to tell. The project began in 1999 when the founders of Icon Story AB, Sweden met young black filmmakers in the townships. Friendship grew between them and the idea took shape to cooperate.
Tempo is now showing seven selected films from Icon South Africa:
BIKO’S CHILDREN by Vuyisa Yoko, 14 min
PAM & ASHRAF by Robyn Rorke, 14 min
AMINA MY DAUGHTER by Makela Pululu, 14 min
BLAKBOX SUITE by Nhlanhla Masondo, 10 min
YU CHI CHAN CLUB by Vaughan giose, 10 min
DEAFENING ECHOES by Eugene Paramoer, 18 min
BLOODROOTS by Martina Della Togna, 15 min
See also the seminar Ikon South Africa
Arranged together with Story AB and Ikon South Africa.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#retro-ikon-south-africa
Se trailerLIZA KEY, SYDAFRIKA, 2009, 48 MIN, BETA SP. , INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE! THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
In 2006 South African composer, Philip Miller, created a cantata to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Using shards of recorded testimony from the TRC ... Read more
In 2006 South African composer, Philip Miller, created a cantata to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Using shards of recorded testimony from the TRC hearings Philip integrated these voices into his work as libretto and as part of the music. Voice inflections, sounds of sighs, murmers, gasps all make up the fabric of the work. ”Rewind” tells the story of the development of this music and is a bricolage of interviews with survivors and families of victims whose stories were used in the work as well as landscape, news archive and the Market Theatre performance of ”Rewind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony”. Starring world-renowned mezzo soprano Sibongile Khumlao, “Rewind” looks at the preservation of memory in music and is a compelling expose on the struggle to forgive.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#rewind
Se trailerBy BRETT GAYLOR, CANADA, 2008, 80 MIN, digibeta
A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between user... Read more
A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.
Which side of the ideas war are you on?
Se trailerBy KIM LONGINOTTO, GREAT BRITAIN, 2008, 103 MIN, beta sp. Shown in colLaboration with Folkets Bio.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka, Sdudla, and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their... Read more
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka, Sdudla, and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi
Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that
counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
justice. Born out of a recognition of cultural stigmas that
discourage reporting abuse and inadequate methods of communicating
with young victims, Bobbi Bear developed a method of letting children
use teddy bears to explain their abuse. Since 1992, the multiracial
staff has become the fearless and powerful voice for those victims
who would otherwise continue to live in fear, powerless against their
oppressors and ignored by the legal system.Director Kim Longinotto
(The Day I Will Never Forget screened at the 2003 Sundance Film
Festival) adeptly and intimately follows Bobbi Bear staff in
difficult direct sessions with children and consultations with family
members, and on raids with authorities to arrest the perpetrators of
these heinous acts. Facing tragedy daily as part of their advocacy
work and, heartbreakingly for some, in their personal lives, the
women draw strength from each other and find hope despite the
suffering around them.Equally as compassionate to the young victims
as they are steadfast in their pursuit of justice, these five
exceptional women have found themselves transformed by their mission
into ””rough aunties,”” crossing barriers of race, culture, and
socioeconomic status to become formidable agents of change in their
community.
Se trailerCHRISTIAN SØNDERBY JEPSEN, DENMARK, 2008, 37 MIN, DIGIBETA
Two neighbours live side by side, but they haven’t spoken for more than 15 years. Instead they have built not just one, but two hedges that separate them. In this visually compelli... Read more
Two neighbours live side by side, but they haven’t spoken for more than 15 years. Instead they have built not just one, but two hedges that separate them. In this visually compelling story the director goes far beyond the animosity between the two rivals, and unravels the incidents that stirred the conflict in the first place. The gardens of the village of Tarm supply the images — the grass is never green and the sky has never been covered by such large grey clouds. With played down lines that only people from Western Jutland can deliver »Side by Side« is a moving portrayal of human beings, bubbling with dry humour.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#side-by-side
Se trailerJOHAN ARON HJORT, SWEDEN, 2009, 29 MIN, DV, ENGLISH SUBTITLES
”So, this is how we live,” says Anne-Marie. Twin sisters Ann-Marie and Lillemor were adopted while young. They now live together as they slowly grow older. The inseparable sisters share e... Read more
”So, this is how we live,” says Anne-Marie. Twin sisters Ann-Marie and Lillemor were adopted while young. They now live together as they slowly grow older. The inseparable sisters share everything, ciggarets, laughter and sorrow. Together they sing and play guitar but they are also struggling with Anne-Marie’s mental problems and Lillemor is trying to repair how history repeats itself for her and her daughter.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#sisters
Se trailerBY DAVID ARONOWITSCH, HANNA HEILBORN, SWEDEN, 2008, 16 MIN, 35 MM, DIRECTORS VISIT! ENGLISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC
-We were kidnapped by the militia, my mother, father, sister and i. Then they killed my parents and separated me from my sister. I was five years old at the time, says Abuk with a low voice. -I had... Read more
-We were kidnapped by the militia, my mother, father, sister and i. Then they killed my parents and separated me from my sister. I was five years old at the time, says Abuk with a low voice.
-I had to stay with the man that kidnapped me. My purpose was to take care of his goats.
SLAVES is about Abuk nine years, and Machiek, 15 years. Like thousands of other children, that have are kidnapped by the government ruled militia in Sudan and exploited as slaves. They have been resqued from slavery of an organisation led by James Agur. The film is based on the interview with Abuk, Michiek and James 2003. The second film in the series of animated documentaries, with and about children in vulnarable situations, by David Aronowitsh and Hanna Heilborn.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#slaves
Se trailerTHABO BRUNO MOKOENA, SYDAFRIKA, 2008, 15 MIN, DVD, SVENSK PREMIÄR!
Every weekday 1.7 million commuters board trains from Soweto to Jozi, join together for camaraderie and security, and take the opportunity to worship. And so the ‘church coaches’ each attract followe... Read more
Every weekday 1.7 million commuters board trains from Soweto to Jozi, join together for camaraderie and security, and take the opportunity to worship. And so the ‘church coaches’ each attract followers of South Africa’s many religions - from the Shembe to the Emadlozini Church, the evangelical Abalandelie Benkosi and the more conventional Baptist Church.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#soul-train
Se trailerBY PETER MAGNUSSON, SWEDEN, 2008, 6 MIN, 35 MM, DIRECTORS VISIT! ENGLISH SUBTITLES. NOMINATED FOR STHLM.DOC
Where we are heading and how we move, depends on who is watching A different way of observing time and relativity from a racetrack.... Read more
Where we are heading and how we move, depends on who is watching
A different way of observing time and relativity from a racetrack.
Se trailerIn swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#stjarnskott-fran-etern
Se trailerAdmission free with the Tempo´s membership card!
Se trailerLOTTA ERIKSON, ROBERT BARKMAN OCH TIM HINMAN
In swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#stockholm-soundwalkArranged in collaboration with Dramatiska Institutet, Versailles and Hunter Experienceproduction.
When darkness falls over Victoria, the first sounds are heard. In an apartment on Götgatan, a man sits in the kitchen and awaits a request to tell his secret. An argument comes up in the stairs and a... Read more
When darkness falls over Victoria, the first sounds are heard. In an apartment on Götgatan, a man sits in the kitchen and awaits a request to tell his secret. An argument comes up in the stairs and awoman sings for her cat. Borrow earphones at Victoria and eperience a documentary soundexperience beyond reality.
The Dramatiska Institute, productioncompany Versailles and Hunter experienceproductions, have invited the english soundmaster Tim Hinman to create a festivalexperience of high quality.
The gathering is at *Viktoria.!
Remeberence! Limited tickets. Book in time.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#stockholm-soundwalkArranged in collaboration with FilmCentrum Stockholm
Se trailerPETER MAGNUSSON, SWEDEN, 2010, 72 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
A film about the new Sweden. Today, the days are basically never-ending, and everthing seems to be within reach. The pace of life is going faster and faster and we have the ”freedom” to m... Read more
A film about the new Sweden. Today, the days are basically never-ending, and everthing seems to be within reach. The pace of life is going faster and faster and we have the ”freedom” to make life-altering decisions every day. But is it really better today than 25 years ago?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#sweden-today
Se trailerINA HOLMQVIST AND EMELIE WALLGREN SWEDEN, 2009, 28 MIN, DV.
Angela, 15, and Arina, 14, have been struck by their first time love. No one in their world seems to understand them, but the girls are deeply in love with Tom and Bill in the German pop group Tokio ... Read more
Angela, 15, and Arina, 14, have been struck by their first time love. No one in their world seems to understand them, but the girls are deeply in love with Tom and Bill in the German pop group Tokio Hotel. When Angela and Arina are together they fantasize about being somewhere else, being about something else, far away from immature boys and dull grey suburbia.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#sa-nara
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In Swedish.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#talent-programme-film-stockholm-filmbasen
Se trailerOMAR MAJEED, CANADA, 2009, 80 MIN, DIGIBETA
TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like Shari... Read more
TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like Sharia Law in the U.S.A. Their spiritual odyssey then leads them to Pakistan, where they bring punk to the streets of Lahore and reconnect with Islam in a bold new way.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#taqwacore-the-birth-of-punk-islam
Se trailerFor the second year running, Tempo Documentary Festival invites Swedish documentary filmmakers to TEMPO PITCH – the pitch competition with the largest prize money in Sweden! New this year, the pitch’... Read more
For the second year running, Tempo Documentary Festival invites Swedish documentary filmmakers to TEMPO PITCH – the pitch competition with the largest prize money in Sweden! New this year, the pitch’s must be presented before a live audience at Rio. Once again, the financiers are Filmregion Stockholm – Mälardalen, SVT Documentary, together with the Swedish Film Institute’s documentary film consultant Tove Torbjörnsson. TEMPO PITCH consists of 75,000 kronor, which will be presented to the winning film project. The winner is selected during the Industry Event on Friday, 17.00 – 18.00.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#tempo-pitch-sweden-s-largest-pitch-prize
Se trailerNew stories told in new ways! For the second consecutive year, Tempo together Sveriges Radio, appoints the best swedish radio documentary. The three nominees are: BORTOM UPPEHÅLLSVÄDRET by DAVID ... Read more
New stories told in new ways! For the second consecutive year, Tempo together Sveriges Radio, appoints the best swedish radio documentary.
The three nominees are:
BORTOM UPPEHÅLLSVÄDRET by DAVID RUNE
JAG HETER JOAKIM by ROBERT BARKMAN
JAG RINGER DIG IBLAND by AMANDA GLANS
During the festival the tree radio programs will be aired at Victoria. The winner will be presented during the Tempo Award Ceremony on Saturday night.
In Swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#tempo-radio-award-2010
Se trailerWho will win? Gala Presentation of the winners of Tempo Documentary Award 2010, STHLM:DOC 2010, Tempo Radio Award 2010, and the new film award New Doc, together with a special award from Swedish Shor... Read more
Who will win? Gala Presentation of the winners of Tempo Documentary Award 2010, STHLM:DOC 2010, Tempo Radio Award 2010, and the new film award New Doc, together with a special award from Swedish Short Film c/o Folkets Bio.
The Lena Hellman stipend and Swedish Radio’s newly established Susanne Björkman stipend will also be awarded.
Mingle with the nominees and celebrate with the winners.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#tempo-s-grand-award-ceremony
Se trailerBY AGNÈS VARDA, FRANCE, 2008, 109 MIN, 35 mm
Shown in collaboration with the French Embassy and Folkets Bio.
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Se trailerBY ANDJA ARNEBÄCK, SWEDEN, 2009, 56 MIN, BETA, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, DIRECTORS VISIT!. NOMINATED TEMPO FOR DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
Se trailerBy JAWAD RHALIB, BELGIUM, 2008, 70 MIN, beta sp
Thousands of struggling moroccan fishermen have to move further and further south to keep hope in catching some fish, any fish, if any fish left to catch. In the background, but quite close from the ... Read more
Thousands of struggling moroccan fishermen have to move further and further south to keep hope in catching some fish, any fish, if any fish left to catch. In the background, but quite close from the shores where they end up staying idle, huge foreign trawlers drag the waters with their death nets, killing an entire ecosystem, and sometimes literally « vacuuming » it. The government sold them fishing licenses allowing them to do so. Standing foreground, these fishermen, desperated, witness their own inevitable disappearance, while the revolt of their pairs, few month earlier, has been violently repressed by the authorities.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-damned-of-the-sea
Se trailerBY ALEJANDRA ISLAS, MEXICO, 2007, 72 MIN, digibeta. Shown in collaboration with Ambulante, Mexico.
In Swedish... Read more
In Swedish
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-future-of-documentary-film-visionary-film-political-discussion
Se trailerBOSSE LINDQUIST, SWEDEN, 2009, 89 MIN, DIGIBETA. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
A Nobel Prize winner and a pedophile. Carleton Gajdusek was one of the world´s greatest genius, and also a man who has been convicted for having sex with a foster-son. Carleton Gajdusek discovered a ... Read more
A Nobel Prize winner and a pedophile. Carleton Gajdusek was one of the world´s greatest genius, and also a man who has been convicted for having sex with a foster-son. Carleton Gajdusek discovered a completely new form of infection - the human mad cow disease among cannibal Papua New Guineans. He is a scientist and a hero of other scientists. He is also someone whose friends and family are from a variety of cultures, different social classes, and from all over the world - subsistence farmers on Papua New Guinea, billionaires in New York, top thinkers in the Ukraine, Nobel-prize winners all around the globe, the young intelligentsia of China. Carleton Gajdusek claims himself to be a pedophile on the same lines ”as Jesus Christ”. According to the FBI, he has adopted 57 children from Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and elsewhere, and brought them up at his home close to the National Institutes of Health, close to Washington DC. This documentary film explores an extraordinary 20th century life, full of contradiction. How is it that humans can switch within milliseconds, between total intelligence, and total self-delusion? What is the nature of true exploration?
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-genius-and-the-boys
Se trailerBy MICHAEL CAVANAGH och KERSTIN ÜBELACKER, SWEDEN, 2007, 28 MIN, Digibeta, DIRECTORS VISIT.
A group of five people with different backgrounds challenge themselves by driving 200 miles along the Australian Eastcoast, with vegetable oil as fuel and their own food brought from garbagecontainer... Read more
A group of five people with different backgrounds challenge themselves by driving 200 miles along the Australian Eastcoast, with vegetable oil as fuel and their own food brought from garbagecontainers. With no money, except for their great engagement, the trip is a test in the travellers stamina as well as the societys, whose overproduction ends up in garbagepiles. An adventure of dedicated ”dumster dive”-experts Paul and Mykel as guides. With them on the trip is Nick from Scottland, swedish student Sofia and Krystal who must leave Brisbane by all means for a while.
Shown together with PENALTY BOX and ALWAYS DECENT.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-leftovers
Se trailerJUDITH EHRLICH AND RICK GOLDSMITH USA, 2009, 94 MIN, DIGIBETA
The Most Dangerous Man in America catapults us to 1971 where we find America in the grip of a familiar scenario: a dirty war based on lies. And Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s leading war p... Read more
The Most Dangerous Man in America catapults us to 1971 where we find America in the grip of a familiar scenario: a dirty war based on lies. And Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s leading war planners, has the documents to prove it. Armed with 7000 pages of Top Secret documents; he leaks the truth about the Vietnam War to The New York Times and risks life in prison to end the war he helped plan. It is a story that held the world in its grip, with daily headlines, the top story on the nightly news for weeks on end.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-daniel-ellsberg-and-the-pentagon-papers
Se trailerBy DAVID LEAF, USA, 2008, 74 MIN, Digibeta
Se trailerBy BRIAN HILL, Great Britain, 2007, 72 MIN, digibeta, Directors visit!
THE NOT DEAD “It wasn’t as though we wasn’t ready to get to war – everyone was fully prepared. It was coming home that people wasn’t ready for.” For young Guardsman Tromans, life after Iraq is ever... Read more
THE NOT DEAD
“It wasn’t as though we wasn’t ready to get to war – everyone was fully prepared. It was coming home that people wasn’t ready for.” For young Guardsman Tromans, life after Iraq is every bit as difficult as being in the front line. In moving poetry written by Simon Armitage, and personal testimonials, Tromans and other British soldiers speak about coping with the horrors of serving overseas, from full on combat, to standing by helplessly while witnessing atrocities. But returning home brings its own horrors: living life as a ”Not Dead”. Patriotic and devoted to Queen and country, the psychological neglect these men experience back home is painful, embittering and soul-destroying,
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-not-dead
Se trailerBY ARTHUR FRANCK, OSKAR FORSTÉN, FINLAND, 2007, 8 MIN, BETA. Shown in collaboration with Finlandsinstitutet.
Se trailerMAUD NYCANDER SWEDEN, 2009, 58 MIN, DVCAM
Inta Ruka became internationally famous when her photos where exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Despite this, she still works as a cleaner at the Swedish Embassy in Riga. As a personal friend... Read more
Inta Ruka became internationally famous when her photos where exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Despite this, she still works as a cleaner at the Swedish Embassy in Riga. As a personal friend of the Latvian photographer, Maud Nycander compares their two lives and looks at how the iron curtain impacted on their respective artistic oeuvres.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-photographer-from-riga
Se trailerThe Power Over the Picture Which principles are our impressions of Africa based upon, and who or what influences them? This discussion will explore what the ‘power over the picture’ involves, in re... Read more
The Power Over the Picture
Which principles are our impressions of Africa based upon, and who or what influences them? This discussion will explore what the ‘power over the picture’ involves, in relation to the festival’s main theme: Africa Update. Twenty-one documentaries from different countries in Africa have been selected, which together offer a portrayal of the complex nuances of the contemporary situation on the continent.
The seminar participants have been invited due to their extensive knowledge and direct experience with these questions. They include Victoria Kawesa, PhD researcher in gender studies at Linköping University, Stefan Jonsson, author and journalist for Dagens Nyheter, together with Mandisa Zitha, Festival Director of Encounters South African International Documentary Festival.
Presented in collaboration with the Shahrazad project, Arenagruppen and CinemAfrica.
More information: www.cinemafrica.se, www.shahrazadeu.org, www.arenagruppen.se
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-power-over-the-picture
Se trailerBy NAHID PERSSON, SWEDEN 2008, 89 MIN, 35 MM, ENGLISH SUBTITLES, DIRECTORS VISIT! NOMINATED FOR TEMPO DOCUMENTARY AWARD 2009
Thirty yaers ago Nahid Person attended a revolution that overthrew the monarchy and the Shah of Iran. Disillusioned by the muslim revolution, betrayed and letdown all her ideals and forced to a life ... Read more
Thirty yaers ago Nahid Person attended a revolution that overthrew the monarchy and the Shah of Iran. Disillusioned by the muslim revolution, betrayed and letdown all her ideals and forced to a life in exile, Nahid Persson turns her focus and her new film on an unlikely subject.
Farah Diba. The Shahs wife and former queen of Iran. During the two year long filming of her former opponent in the revolution,many conflicts, many surprises and reveils occur. A journey about two women who have much more in common than they ever imagined developes.
Se trailerSusanne Björkman is one of Sweden’s most prominent radio documentary makers. Sveriges Radio has now established a scholarship of 35 000 kronor for a documentary maker who works in Susanne Björk... Read more
Susanne Björkman is one of Sweden’s most prominent radio documentary makers. Sveriges Radio has now established a scholarship of 35 000 kronor for a documentary maker who works in Susanne Björkman’s spirit. Tempo is proud to hand out the first Susanne Björkman-scholarship ever on sataurday night’s Tempo Award Ceremony!
THE SUSANNE BJÖRKMAN SCHOLAR
We listen to a program of the 2010 scholar. Afterwards follows a meeting between the scholar and Susanne Björkman about radio documentary storytelling and personal motivations.
In Swedish only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#the-susanne-bjorkman-scholarship
Se trailerIn swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#verkligheten-livebikt-infor-publik
Se trailerVICTIMES DE NOS RICHESSES, KAL TOURÉ, MALI/FRANKRIKE, 2007, 58 MIN, DVD
One year after the tragic events that took place near the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco in September 2005, young deported African men and women talk about their unfortunat... Read more
One year after the tragic events that took place near the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco in September 2005, young deported African men and women talk about their unfortunate attempts to cross over to Spain and give us their own versions of those events. What drives these young people to risk so much in this adventure? Different voices from middle-class society – a historian, a jurist, a writer – attempt to explain the cause of this emigration from their own perspective
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#victims-of-our-riches
Se trailerRENAUD BARRET, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO/FRANCE, 2008, 80 MIN, DIGIBETA
Summer 2006 in Kinshasa. Martini, Jeannette, Hélène and Rosette spar everyday with Coach Judex in the old stadium Tata Rafael, where in 1974 Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the most legend... Read more
Summer 2006 in Kinshasa. Martini, Jeannette, Hélène and Rosette spar everyday with Coach Judex in the old stadium Tata Rafael, where in 1974 Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the most legendary boxing match in the history of boxing. At dawn, thousands of people from the ghetto come to train here and political parties rally. In parallel to the fight for the Presidency of Congo (DRC), Judex struggles to organise a women’s boxing tournament with little money… Kinshasa sings, Kinshasa starves and Judex’s girls manage to survive, with no illusions but still hope. A film about women in a country where men have become crazy. A film overflowing with energy, life and humour in a place where death and misery roam.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#victoire-terminus
Se trailerERIK GANDINI, SWEDEN, 2009, 85 MIN, 35 MM. ENGLISH SUBTITLES. THE DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND THE SCREENING.
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has crea... Read more
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the content of commercial television in Italy. His TV-channels, known for their over-exposure of almost naked girls, are seen by many as a mirror of his own taste and personality. Director Erik Gandini lives in Sweden but was born and brought up in Italy. In Videocracy he returns to his country of birth portraying from the inside the consequences of a TV-experiment that Italians have been subjected to for 30 years. He gets a unique access to the most powerful spheres, even in the President’s summer resort in Sardinia. Unveiling a remarkable story, born out of the scary reality of TV-republic Italy, a country where the step from TV-showgirl to Minister for Gender Equality is only natural.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#videocracy
Se trailerBY ARI FOLMAN, ISRAEL, 2008, 87 MIN, 35 mm. Shown in collaboration with Folkets Bio.
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Se trailerHELGA REIDEMEISTER, GERMNANY, 2009, 87 MIN, DIGIBETA
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell spli... Read more
Hossein and Shaima have loved each other since childhood. As teenagers they were separated by war. They meet again in Kabul in the late 1990s. Poverty forces Hossein to fight in the war. A shell splinter leaves him paralyzed. Shortly afterwards, Shaima is sold in marriage to a man 40 years her senior. This situation doesn’t prevent the two lovers from seeing each other as much as possible – even though this means going against their families’ hard and fast rules.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#war-love-in-kabul
Se trailerFESTIVAL REPORTS BY ANDREA REUTER
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In Swedish.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#white-ants-black-ants
Se trailerSASKIA VREDEVELD, NEDERLÄNDERNA, 2009, 55 MIN, DIGIBETA
After South Africa abolished apartheid and formed a new government, a lot changed for the good. The black population has gotten more rights and opportunities in a more democratic society, but not eve... Read more
After South Africa abolished apartheid and formed a new government, a lot changed for the good. The black population has gotten more rights and opportunities in a more democratic society, but not everyone has profited from the new situation. White Poverty – In the New South Africa is the story of several white families who have lost their jobs and fallen into poverty as a consequence of preferential treatment for blacks. They are known as the ”poor whites,” a group that hardly gets discussed but that is rapidly increasing in size. Director Saskia Vredeveld follows an older couple that tries to help by picking up food at the supermarkets and meat auction and handing it out to the poor.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#white-poverty-in-the-new-south-africa
Se trailerStudents from The University College of Film, Television and Theatre (Dramatiska Institutet) in Stockholm and the ISIS film school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, (with four students representing each ... Read more
Students from The University College of Film, Television and Theatre (Dramatiska Institutet) in Stockholm and the ISIS film school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, (with four students representing each institution) have recently finished shooting collaboratively-produced films in Burkina Faso and are currently editing at DI in Stockholm. Simultaneously, a similar project has been running in Ramallah, Palestine hosted by the film organisation Shashat.
Students from Stockholm, Ouagadougou and Ramallah, Palestine, will show films and works in progress and discuss their work.
Presented in collaboration with Dramatiska Institutet and the Swedish Institute
For Industry accredited guests only
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#works-in-progress-sweburpal
Se trailerYasar Kemal (born 1923) is one of Turkey’s most respected authors, both nationally and internationally. He is his country’s most prominent epic poet, who achieved his breakthrough in 1955 with Memed,... Read more
Yasar Kemal (born 1923) is one of Turkey’s most respected authors, both nationally and internationally. He is his country’s most prominent epic poet, who achieved his breakthrough in 1955 with Memed, My Hawk, a bestseller even in Sweden (1970, Gidlunds Förlag). His stories and ideas, together with his more than 50 years struggle for freedom of the press and human rights in Turkey, have been extremely important for the development of democracy in the country, and have made a significant contribution to Turkey’s contemporary history.
The documentary photographer and filmmaker Günes Karabuda’s images of Yasar Kemal’s life and activities will be shown in a retrospective exhibition at CFF – Centre for Photography, in collaboration with the Anatolian Arts and Cultural Centre (AKKC) and Tempo Documentary Festival.
Günes Karabuda is based in Paris, Stockholm and Istanbul and works as a photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, producer and writer. He has, over the last half a century, documented people, countries and cultures, as he has travelled, together with his wife Barbro, from state coups, insurrections, wars and revolutions around the world.
The extensive photographic material presented will also be supported by texts, film and a festival programme. In this way, Tempo intends, from different perspectives, to illuminate Kemal’s magnificent authorship.
OPENING THURSDAY 4TH MARCH, 17.00 – 20.00
CFF – Centrum for Photography, Tjärhovsgatan 44 in Stockholm.
The exhibition continues until Sunday 28th March.
Opening Hours: Wednesday – Friday, 12 – 18, Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 16.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 13TH MARCH
14.00
A welcome from Gülseren Engström, journalist and chairman of Anatolian Arts and Cultural Centre, and Gunilla Muhr, curator for CFF – Centre for Photography.
14.15
Photographer Günes Karabuda will give a personal presentation of the exhibition – a more than fifty years chronicle of the writer Yasar Kemal, but also an account of a long-standing collaboration and friendship.
15.00
Actor Sven Wollter reads excerpts from Kemal’s work and discusses the making of the film Violbukten (1991) in Turkey.
15.45
Gertrud and Krister Gidlund offer an account of their time as Kemal’s publisher for nearly twenty years.
Wine and buffet will be served! Free Entry!
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#yasar-kemal-through-the-lens-of-gunes-karabudas
Se trailerBy Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, USA, 2008, 102 MIN, 35 mm.
Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative “voice of Africa”. At the height of his career, Youssou,... Read more
Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative “voice of Africa”. At the height of his career, Youssou, became frustrated by the negative perception of his Muslim faith and composed Egypt, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam.
It was a critical and career-defining moment. Ndour’s brave musical message was wholeheartedly embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his homeland of Senegal.
Combining unprecedented images of Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant concert performances filmed around the world and intimate access to Ndour and his family, I Bring What I Love chronicles the difficult journey Youssou must undertake to assume his true calling. Youssou Ndour is a voice of hope and tolerance, a modern day moral and political leader whose message transcends music but remains grounded in the universality of faith.
Se trailerAdmission free with the Tempo´s membership card!
Se trailerAdmission free with the Tempo´s membership card!
Se trailerAdmission free with the Tempo´s membership card!
Se trailerAdmission free with the Tempo´s membership card!
Se trailerNIKLAS ZACHRISSON, SWEDEN, 2009, 52 MIN PRODUCTION: SR, PRODUCER: HÅKAN ENGSTRÖM. NIKLAS ZACHRISSON WILL ATTEND THE EVENT.
In swedish only.... Read more
In swedish only.
http://www.tempofestival.nu/english/archive/#zimbabwes-sista-maktstrid
Se trailerBY DANIEL VÄRJÖ, SWEDEN, 2009, 80 MIN, PRODUCTION: SMT RADIO FOR SR, VISIT BY THE PRODUCER!
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