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BERLINALE Sweden

Bergman, Black Power and Monkeys on show

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Past and present Swedish filmmakers feature strongly on the programme of the 61st Berlinale (February 10-20), with a retrospective of Ingmar Bergman’s work, Lisa Aschan’s directorial debut She Monkeys [+see also:
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, four short films, plus the documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 selected in Panorama.

Fans of the master filmmaker Bergman will be able to see all of his own films, including those he only scripted and the documentaries Images from the Playground and …but Films is My Mistress by Stig Björkman. Three of Bergman’s favourite actresses – Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom – will discuss his work, as will former collaborator Katinka Faragó, the producer, and set and costume designers Gunilla Palmstrierna-Weiss and Anna Bergman.

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Panel discussions will be held in the Filmhaus, which since mid-January has been hosting the exhibition Ingmar Bergman – Truth and Lies, organised in close collaboration with the Ingmar Bergman Foundation and the Swedish Film Institute.

A former graduate of the Danish Film School, Aschan will present the ATMO production She Monkeys in the Generation 14Plus sidebar. Set in the world of horse riding, the film looks at the dynamics of friendship between three young girls.

Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, currently competing at Sundance, will screen in the Panorama sidebar. The essay reunites unique footage from 1967-75, from Swedish journalists who try to understand and describe the African American civil rights movement. It was produced by Sweden’s Story AB in co-production with Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover (Louverture Films) in the US.

The short films The Unliving by Hugo Lilja and Seven Days in the Woods by Peter Larsson will try to repeat Ruben Östlund’s Golden Bear win last year for Incident By a Bank, and two other shorts are screening in the Generation section: Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s puppet animation Tord and Tord, and Mario Adamsson’s claymation film I Am Round.

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