Made in Sweden
Fantastic cinema does not have to travel far to reach Lund.
Although Sweden is a very long country. From Lund, Berlin is closer than Stockholm, and some of our Swedish filmmakers travelling from the north have farther to go than visitors arriving from the UK, Germany or Poland.
Anyway.
This year’s programme includes Swedish ghosts, folklore, AI, memory, animation, family stories and one very questionable bowl of porridge. Alongside a retrospective screening of Room 213, eight new Swedish shorts compete in Finn Fantastic, while other Swedish films appear throughout the programme.
Room 213
Sweden · dir. Emelie Lindblom
31 October · 14:30 · Kino 2
Retrospective screening
There is something spooky going on at summer camp — and unfortunately for Elvira, it seems to be happening in her room.
Based on Ingelin Angerborn’s beloved novel, Emelie Lindblom’s Room 213 was released in 2017 and combines a coming-of-age story with a proper Swedish ghost tale: haunted rooms, friendship drama, camp rumours and the mysterious girl Mebel.
We bring it back to the big screen as part of our Halloween programme.
Finn Fantastic
Our competition for Swedish fantastic short film returns with eight films moving between folklore, science fiction, animation, AI, dystopia and things that are considerably harder to categorise.
My New Form
dir. Rosso Pérez Bueno
Bob is convinced that a powerful corporation is using young men as unwitting tools in a global surveillance system.
Then his conspiracy theory starts becoming reality.
Ropa så jag hör dig
dir. Mika Kamiyasu
Finn Fantastic · Future of Fantastic
A man wakes to what appears to be an ordinary day, except for the persistent feeling that something is wrong. Somewhere in the missing pieces is his daughter.
The film is nominated in both Finn Fantastic and Future of Fantastic.
Read more about Ropa så jag hör dig →
I Just Want to Hear Her Voice
dir. Karl Bergholtz
Millie’s new job involves speaking to the relatives of recently deceased people with the help of AI.
The technology works. The moral questions are another matter.
Read more about I Just Want to Hear Her Voice →
Scraps
dir. Emily Norling
Three teenagers take part in Skråbock, a local Christmas tradition in which they disguise themselves and go from house to house asking for leftovers.
But this particular night begins to move well beyond tradition.
Wormwood and Copper
dir. Frans Sjöberg
During the absinthe boom of the late 1800s, a group of fairies head out to gather their daily food.
Unfortunately, they are not the only hungry creatures around.
Read more about Wormwood and Copper →
Väsen
dir. Kristofer Vishnu Kiggs Carlsson
Sweden, 1721. Two sisters survive on a remote farm by following one important rule: every morning, a bowl of porridge must be left for the Gårdstomte.
One forbidden bite is enough to discover why.
Please
dir. Anna Mantzaris
A dark animated comedy about something terrifyingly familiar: wanting to love and to be loved.
Neediness, intimacy and romance enter the stop-motion world of Anna Mantzaris.
The Dream Factory
dir. Gustav Bonde
What if you could replace the past with better memories?
The Dream Factory imagines a place where new memories can be implanted, offering endless alternative versions of the life you might have lived.
Read more about The Dream Factory →
Beyond Finn Fantastic
Swedish filmmaking also appears elsewhere in this year’s programme.
Mom Says This, Dad Says That
dir. LéaCati Vallier
Méliès d’Argent Competition
Eight-year-old Milla has become an online phenomenon thanks to the “children’s shorts” her parents constantly post. Her nightmares provide the material — until a new stuffed animal makes the nightmares disappear.
Her parents are less pleased about that than you might expect.
Read more about Mom Says This, Dad Says That →
Ulda
dir. Mathias Fjellström & Patricia Fjellgren
Six-year-old Aili cannot sleep. Sounds from the kitchen lead to an increasingly worrying possibility: perhaps the underground Ulda people have come to replace her parents.
Ulda screens before Momo.
A Doll Named Glick
dir. Uta Monika Arning
Danielle misses her grandfather Moische Glick, who never forgot her birthday. When he suddenly returns in the form of a talking doll, the two set off on a journey through family history and Yiddish heritage.
The film is part of our free Fantastiska Familjepaketet at Lund City Library.
Read more about A Doll Named Glick →
The Electrical Cabinet
dir. Charissa Martinkauppi
A nine-year-old girl hears mysterious music coming from an electrical cabinet and sets out to discover where the song comes from.
The film, with dialogue in Swedish and Finnish, is also part of Fantastiska Familjepaketet.
Read more about The Electrical Cabinet →
We also feature short films produced in Sweden’s national minority languages, with Finnish, Sámi and Yiddish represented across this year’s programme. There is even more to discover beyond the films highlighted here.
From old Swedish folklore to artificial intelligence, childhood ghosts and implanted memories, fantastic filmmaking at home is not short of ideas.
Made in Sweden. Slightly strange by nature.
