We are happy to announce that the director Krzysztof Kopczyński of our co-production, DYBBUK: A TALE OF WANDERING SOULS, was awarded the Silver Hobby-Horse for the director of the best documentary film at the 55th Krakow Film Festival. The jury’s motivation was “for courage and non-conformity in showing an extremely complicated and universal problem of reciprocal intolerance when facing the dangers of the contemporary world”.
We are happy to have Karin Ekberg presenting A separation at the 33rd InternationalFilm Festivalof Uruguay.
Thanks to the Swedish Institute and Nordic Culture Fund we had the opportunity to have the Director visiting the festival and be a part of the Cine Nordic. A separation was screened twice and the following Q&As was popular.
The director says: -“It was exiting to be at the South American premiere screening of A separation in Montevideo. The reception was very positive and the audience was active and asked many questions. Many more than I expected had links to Sweden since they was refugees during the 1970-80’s. Many were in my parents’ age and their lives had taken unexpected ways, their relationships had been tested by migration and break-ups. They seemed deeply touched by the movie. Personally, I was moved by Uruguay’s hospitality and hope to soon be able to return.”
Photo: Director Karin Ekberg and Jim Larsson, Founder of Cine Nordico.
Listen to the news about the Momento fiction project Break the Silence by five Cannes awarded directors. The films bring light to the increasing worldwide demand of sexual child violence.
The director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh says her film is about the memories of a abused child and Frida Kempff answers why she first said no to participating in the project. Producer David Herdies stress the importance of creative artistic films for everyone to understand the seriousness of the problem.
Momento Film will be represented at Tempo Documentary Festival with three titles now in March! We screen Frida Kempff’s first feature lenght documentary Winter Buoy that follows a group of socially disadvantaged pregnant women and the nurses watching their every step like guardin angels. Our co-production Ghost Rockets about Swedish UFO hunters is also screened, and director Ahang Bashi will present her upcoming film Fragility in the work-in-progress section. Welcome!
FRAGILITY, Work-in-progress, with Ahang Bashi
Wed March 4th, 13:00 Bio Rio
WINTER BUOY, by Frida Kempff, nominated to Tempo Documentary Award
Thu March 5th, 17:00 Victoria
Sun March 8th, 17:20 Victoria
GHOST ROCKETS, by Kerstin Übelacker och Michael Cavanagh
Fri March 6th, 17:00 Victoria
Frida Kempff’s first feature documentary will have its international premiere at the 38th Göteborg Film Festival, where the film is competing for the Dragon Award in the category Best Nordic Documentary.
Winter Buoy is a film about trust and the courage to never stop hoping that portrays life in all its fragility. Read more about the film and see the official trailer here.
