Prisregn över svenska filmer i Lübeck

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Salongen i Kolosseum

I söndags avslutades de 52. Nordiska Filmdagarna i Lübeck. Största filmfestivalen med svensk film utanför Sverige. Här har jag botaniserat bland spelfilmer, kortfilmer och dokumentärer sedan tonåren, och det är vid dessa festivaler som mitt filmintresse väcktes. Gäster i år var bl.a. Jörn Donner, Christina Lindberg och Stellan Skarsgård.

Årets festival genomförde en retrospektiv med svenska exploitations-filmer. Utvikningsflickan Christina Lindberg från Hisingen i Göteborg medverkade under 1970-talet i ett stort antal svenska, tyska och engelska filmer, mer eller mindre naken, och bidrog således till ryktet om den svenska synden. Filmen "Thriller" från 1974 inspirerade Quentin Tarantino till den berömda "Kill Bill". "I love Christina Lindberg. She’s Sweden's coolest actress", har Tarantino sagt om henne. 

Christina Lindberg & Quentin Tarantino

Se denna underbara 70-talstrailer till filmen "Anita - ur en tonårsflickas dagbok" med Christina Lindberg och Stellan Skarsgård:




I år har fyra svenska filmer vunnit priser, inklusive det stora NDR-priset. (NDR= Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Aldrig någonsin i filmfestivalens 52-åriga historia har det hänt att så många svenska filmer prisbelönats.

Pernilla Augusts "Svinalängorna" vann Nordeutscher Rundfunk-priset vilket förutom en statyett i glas även innebär en pengasumma på 12 500 €.

Juryns motivering: A film that moves us deeply on account of its topicality and its radical intensity. The consistent artistic realization combined with impressive acting performances and visual accomplishments is very convincing. We were deeply touched by the topic of a seemingly hopeless living environment that offers no perspective, but which is nevertheless overcome in the end. A film that is both socially relevant and of artistic quality as the cosmos of its story unfolds.

Noomi och Ola Rapace spelar några av huvudrollerna. På engelska heter filmen "Beyond" och jag ser fram emot premiären på svenska biografer.




"Sebbe" av Babak Najafi vann barn- och ungdomsfilmspriset. I det ingår en summa på 2.500 €.

Juryns motivering: Director Babak Najafi’s feature film debut “Sebbe” hurts. 15-year old Sebbe is alone. He desperately hopes for his mother’s love while being utterly at the mercy of her emotional unpredictability. Sebbe has no chance of escaping his everyday life, shaped by poverty, strokes of fate and a lack of perspectives. It is the quiet acting of the film’s stars Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs and Eva Melander that particularly gives the film a vehemence that captivated us from beginning to end. The film is delicately composed and meticulously directed. The harmonious teamwork of all the creative departments has created a provocative social drama of hopelessness with a lasting effect on its audience.





Agnieszka Lukasiaks nya film, flyktingdramat "Between Two Fires" vann Kyrkans filmpris.

Juryns motivering: Marta, a young woman, flees Belorussia in search of protection from violence and abuse. In Sweden, where she hopes to find refuge, she encounters cold administrative structures and only rare moments of human warmth. Agnieszka Lukasiak, the director and her protagonist Magda Poplawska succeed in depicting the manifold aspects of the situation which asylum seekers encounter in an authentic way. Marta preserves her human dignity even though she is forced to make sacrifices in a bureaucratic and cold system. 


Slutligen vann "Sound Of Noise" av Ola Simonsson och Johannes Stjärne Nilsson det Baltiska Filmpriset.

Juryns motivering: The Baltic Jury Prize goes to a film that succeeds in showing us familiar things from a new perspective. A film, that, against our better instincts, encourages us to step up against the dictate of routine. A film that surprises and inspires, without missing a beat.