32nd Göteborg International Film Festival (2009)
Göteborg International Film Festival 23 Jan - 2 Feb 2009, complete list
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- DirectorNajwa NajjarStarsAshraf FarahAli SulimanHiam AbbassA free spirited Palestinian dancer becomes the wife of a prisoner.
- DirectorAida BegicStarsZana MarjanovicJasna BeriSadzida SeticPost traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsJesus Moises RodriguezRubén SosaNina ZavarinJesus and Fausto, two low-paid Mexican laborers working illegally across the border in LA, are offered big money and a sawn-off shotgun to break into the home of a drug addicted single mother and take her hostage.
- DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanSamantha MortonMichelle WilliamsA theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
- DirectorEnrique RiveroStarsNolberto CoriaNancy OrozcoTesalia HuertaThe story follows Beto, who's been in charge of taking care of an upper-class house for the last ten years, and subtly traces contemporary social conflicts with a very peculiar representation of how capitalism builds jailhouses on the most unimaginable places.
- DirectorRodrigo PláStarsMario ZaragozaDiego CatañoMemo DorantesTo redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church.
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsSusanne WolffJohann von BülowMaren KroymannA young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional motherly love she was expecting she is thrown into an emotional turmoil. Helplessness and desperation reign and her own baby is a stranger to her. With every day that passes her inability to meet the demands of motherhood become more and more apparent. Unable to admit this to anyone, not even Julian, she falls into a deep darkness - to the point that she realises she is becoming a threat to her child. Now only unconditional love can bring her back on track...
- DirectorPhilippe ClaudelStarsKristin Scott ThomasElsa ZylbersteinSerge HazanaviciusA woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
- DirectorNahid PerssonStarsFarah PahlaviNahid PerssonZinat S. LloydFilmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.
- DirectorValdís ÓskarsdóttirStarsHreinn BeckCaroline DaltonErlendur EiríkssonA couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.
- DirectorHeidi Maria FaisstStarsLærke WintherMads RiisomSolbjørg HøjfeldtKatrine has just given birth to a beautiful girl, but she worries about being a good mother, and when her boyfriend goes away for work she asks her own mother for help. But the two women have unresolved issues, and instead of feeling helped, Katrine feels more and more insecure and slowly falls apart.
- DirectorJohan Jan JonasonStarsEmil JohnsenBjörn AnderssonIgnatio Sosa Da CostaRoy has lost his motivation and spends his days at home. Finally his wife can't take it anymore and sends him away on an alternative treatment. The method is ridiculous. Roy doesn't understand what he's doing there.The treatment only simulates treatment. The therapist is strange, so strange that Roy suspects that something is wrong. When he wants to leave, things get unpleasant for real.
- DirectorEva IsaksenStarsIngrid Bolsø BerdalThorbjørn HarrFridtjov SåheimAt the Varden Psychiatric Clinic, the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane. Here is found life in all its different faces. As 24-year-old Aina meets the insane gang, they bring back her lust for life.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsMarjut MaristoAmanda PilkeMalla MalmivaaraTwo teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time.
- DirectorBeata GårdelerStarsMalin CrépinJoel KinnamanMalin LevanonA romantic drama about a security officer who tries to hide her secrets from her lover, a cop.
- DirectorJ.-P. ValkeapääStarsPavel LiskaVitali BobrovJorma TommilaA stranger arrives into a remote farm where a mute boy is living with his mother.
- DirectorMartin DegrellJesper GanslandtStarsPatrick O'CaseyIngvar HallströmMathias HoltzIt's early 2000, the young entrepreneur Patrick Casey count the millions. Everything seems possible, so why not - do a movie? A group of friends without much experience decides to make an epic cult, perhaps even "the best film ever made".
- DirectorMikel Cee KarlssonInside and outside the well-kept hedges life carries on as usual. The King buys his daily newspaper. Bertil searches the parking lot for dogs to photograph. Hans and Gun-Britt is planting a big rock in their garden, trying to get their minds off it all. When darkness falls over the little village in the woods, the Indians gather for a meeting in the town house as angst, frustration and silent prayer echoes in the night. Over a period of four years director Mikel Cee Karlsson captured singular scenes from his old hometown in the middle of the swedish forest. Greetings from the Woods is a personal portrait of Swedish rural life stripped bare.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenStarsByron Rosales RomeroJuan J. DominguezDuane MillerJuan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
- DirectorPontus HjorthénMartin JönssonStarsAmpelio AntónJosé Maria BarosoMari Carmen EspañaTwo Swedish guys driving around Spain searching for the historical verdict over Hitler's and Mussolini's old companion Franco. A road-movie in rental cars featuring Olof Palme, the world's biggest cross and a woman determined to put her family history in order. MARI CARMEN ESPAÑA - THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country tries to amputate its past.
- DirectorKarin af KlintbergJane MagnussonStarsEbbe CarlssonIngvar CarlssonAnders FermThis is a documentary about publisher Ebbe Carlsson. Who became Sweden's most famous person when he in the late 1980s tried to solve the Palme murder
- DirectorMaj WechselmannStarsErik ThedéenIan LundinStefan de VylderThe Money And The Panic - A Film About Greed (Pengarna Och Paniken - En Film Om Girighet) by Maj Wechselmann is a documentary on the history of the western world monetary system development, the peaks and the crashes starting from the 18th century ending with the financial crash of fall 2008 and their possible connections to historical warfare events.
- DirectorLisa SiweStarsJosefine MattssonMika Berndtsdotter AhlénAnnika HallinThe young adolescent girl Jenna is turning into a young woman whilst her mother is dying. It is difficult for her, therefore, to admit that she is afraid of losing her mother. Instead, she behaves contrary to what one would expect from her.
- DirectorPetra RevenueStarsKjell WilhelmsenMia SkäringerSten LjunggrenPirko lives in Gothenburg but gets kicked out of his pregnant girlfriend. He seeks his roots in northern Sweden. Pirko discovers karaoke.
- DirectorKarin SwärdStarsLiv MjönesEmil AlménAnna-Lena StrindlundWhat took place at Knutby, Sweden, in 2004. Pastor Helge Fossmo was accused of having killed his first as well as his second wife.
- StarsDavid NzingaMiranda IsraelssonJoel ValoisBabajou family consists of mother, father, three brothers and a sister. The family has fled Idi Amin's dictatorship in Uganda to Sweden. The year is 1979, Kiss are the idols and siblings Babajous life changed overnight when my dad moved back to Africa and the mother decides that she and the children stay in the Swedish welfare state. Baker Karim has written the script with his brother Alexander, and the story has a partially autobiographical background.
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsAndra Hjul-ForsbergLina HognertOla RapaceIt is Friday night and teenage Emma is preparing for a party, unaware of what will take place later.
- DirectorJona HelfdahlStarsAdryan LindenAdryan Linden is 27 years old and gifted with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This means that his muscles progressively degenerate and that he will die within a couple of years due to suffocation or heart failure. Adryan finds himself in the middle of a genetic war. He lives in exile in his flat, which he has not left for the past six years. Adryan holds that our contempt towards the crippled body is censuring our own lives. That fear of the erratic, the unknown, the ugly and the grotesque is fear of life itself.
- DirectorAxel PetersénStarsPeter SjöströmA Good Friend of Mr World is a psychosexual thriller in a gangster setting evolving around young Jonas and the men controlling his destiny. Jonas is a gambler who has put himself in a dangerous situation where his own, or his superiors, unpredictability could result in fatal mistakes.
- DirectorCecilia ActisCarin BräckMaria HulterstamA clay animation about the bond between mother and child. We follow the relationship of a boy and his mother through life starting at the point of conception and ending when the boy himself becomes a father.
- DirectorCsaba Bene PerlenbergStarsIda GyllenstenMattias Malmgren
- DirectorOlga Gnedich
- DirectorOskar KarlbergHerman NygrenStarsEmil JensenDocumentary film featuring the artist Emil Jensen and his 300-mile cycle tour of Sweden.
- DirectorAndreas KasselStarsTonino Guerra
- DirectorErik RosenlundAn underperforming office worker does everything he can to fit in.
- DirectorDavid DusaStarsLou CastelMalik FaraounMarie SelvaA poetic and evocative film on the ordeals of refugees trying to reach Europe.
- DirectorHenrik NorrthonStarsBranko TomovicMarija KaranChristina NolandYoung immigrant Ivan works in London as a taxi driver. Just when he thinks he is the most happiest man on earth, he looses everything.
- DirectorÅsa JohannissonGerd's only friend is a goldfish that recently died. She's alone. Finally she decides to buy a new fish. Back at home she discovers that she has locked herself out. She has to climb up by the balcony pole! She falls, almost dropping the fish and a man appears to rescue.
- DirectorJonatan EtzlerJonatan SköldStarsDaniel AndersénAna Maria DiazRafael EdholmA surrealistic musical about the love between a woman and a talking photocopier in a patriarchal slave society. Beatrice is one of many women who work hard under the unfair boss, Mr Kättström. As time goes by, the love between Beatrice and the photocopier grows and together they decide to fight the injustices at their workplace.
- DirectorJacob StålhammarStarsSid DavisJimmy's a young boy who meets a new friend: Ralph. Ralph's a good listener - and Jimmy's got a lot to talk about. At times Jimmy might seem slow, but he's really a good kid. Together they travel and see the world, and finally Jimmy's parents.
- DirectorTorbjörn MartinStarsSimon J. BergerGustaf NorénKarolina ConradJens is driving a car in the middle of the night. He doesn't know why he's driving, or where he's going. As the dark woods are closing in on him, paranoia comes creeping. Is there someone in the trunk..?
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsSiri Hjorton WagnerMagnus Nilsson-MäkiCamaron SilverekOscars great love Emelie has found a new lover. Since Oscar and Emelie has an open relationship she intends to be with both of them. Oscar encourages her, wishing her everything that makes her happy. But where does Oscar draw the line?
- DirectorErik RosenlundStarsErik RosenlundSusanne SturessonA comment on surveillance in our scared new world.
- DirectorTobias LundqvistStarsJan GrönqvistRikard Lekander
- DirectorAlicja Jaworski
- DirectorJonas WestbomStarsJulia HögbergHenrik NorlénCarl Sjögren
- DirectorJenifer Malmqvist
- DirectorAnders JedenforsJamie Magnus StoneStarsJohn Gillespie
- DirectorKristian A. SöderströmStarsMichaela BernerAlicia VikanderEnnio MidenaSusan is longing for her boyfriend Anders who is away on business. Isolated in the flat they recently moved into, she has got the feeling that someone is visiting the apartment during night-time, and she has nightmares about living in the streets searching for Anders who has left her behind.
- DirectorDaniel WirtbergStarsMagnus KrepperCecilie NerfontTindra NordgrenA little girl feels ignored, and family bonds shatter, when her mother and father get a cat.
- DirectorMattias Gordon
- DirectorMy Sandström
- DirectorFrank AschbergGabriel WatsonStarsFrank AschbergDaniel EspinosaHellstrom GunnarA close up study of human behavior.
- DirectorJonas EskilssonStarsJonas EskilssonÅsa GustafssonMarlene JonssonDeconstruction of the homecoming of a drifter.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsSandra AnderssonMikael AnderssonSoroor ArabzadehYoungsters and kids on a deserted factory lot where there is nothing to do but hang around and long for love - but without showing your true feelings.
- DirectorRoozbeh BehtajiStarsFaye AustinRoozbeh BehtajiJack FirmanSam is transferring between two airports during his stopover in London, carrying a big suitcase with a broken handle. While waiting for his bus in the city center, he wanders away from the bus terminal in search for a toilet. During this night odyssey it soon becomes apparent that that trust is hard to find, and that things seldom are what they appear to be.
- DirectorSanna LenkenStarsAgneta AhlinJohanna GranströmRasmus LuthanderDavid is a drummer supported by unemployment benefit, disappointed that life didn't turn out the way he planned. Now he's on the night ferry from Germany with three thousand ecstasy tablets taped onto his torso. The plan is to sell the pills in Sweden in order to get enough money to start all over somewhere else. But when David meets his first love Sara in the all you can eat buffet, he starts to question the course his life is taking.
- DirectorThérèse AhlbeckStarsEva FritjofsonBeatrice JäråsLo Kauppi
- DirectorLisa James LarssonStarsTerence BeesleyGavin BrockerVerity CaseyJoan and Stuart have been happily married for 23 years and now their son Caileb is about to make them grandparents. But Joan has been diagnosed with breast cancer and Caileb's girlfriend Michelle has suffered two miscarriages. How can Joan find the courage to share her deepest fears with her beloved family when she can't even look at herself in the mirror? Set in contemporary Inner London, Pussyfooting is a story about family, love and death, and ultimately the vital importance of honesty and communication when life takes a tragic turn.
- DirectorPer HanefjordStarsSara ArniaAnna AzcárateÖrjan LandströmHenric returns home to the family ha hasn't seen in fifteen years just in time for his fathers funeral. The coffin is a couple of sizes too small and his mother wants to sleep forever. More then ever Henric needs to unite with his older brother Ronnie, who has spent his whole life at home on the farm, with their parents.
- DirectorAnette SkåhlbergMartin Lima de FariaStarsLia BoysenAnders EkborgWarg Skåhlberg-Lima de FariaA touching and breathtaking drama by the prize-winning film duo director Anette Skåhlberg and scriptwriter Martin Lima de Faria with the "Guldbagge"awarded Lia Boysen and Anders Ekborg in the leading parts. The film deals with the urge of being loved for who you are and not for what you do. Pablo looks up to his Daddy, but when Daddys idol Picasso dies a summers day in 1973, Daddys grief and anger is directed towards the family and Pablos Mum. One day Pablo sees bruises on his Mums arm...But how easy is it to stand up against Daddy when you are only 8 years old?"
- DirectorLotta LättströmStarsJulia DufveniusShanti RoneySverrir GudnasonEveryone is having kids, except for Julia and Bruno. It's a mystery, the doctors can find nothing wrong, they are both normal. Usually Julia doesn't value normalcy, rather the opposite, but more and more she is starting to think that the meaning of life is to have children.
- DirectorMaja LindströmThe Gang of Lidingo is a story about the art of taking what you want. The same day the 70s became the 80s we left our tiny flat in the city. We did a turnaround. Bought a big house at Lidingo and were suddenly far away from our beloved demonstrations against the capitalism's exploitation of the poor.
- DirectorAndja ArnebäckStarsPia EdlundDaniel KjellbergDag Malmberg
- DirectorAnna-Carin AnderssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmFredrik HammarJohan HedenbergA serious story with a twist, tells us about a woman's revenge of a man, a creep who harasses women, among them her own daughter.
- DirectorJens ÖstbergStarsLudde HagbergMagnus KrepperWhen two brothers go on a trip to find a place to lay their recently deceased mother, the antagonism between them becomes more and more obvious. But behind the everyday family tragedy and the brothers' discussions about guilt and shame there is something else: a lie, that alters the original reason for the trip.
- DirectorHenrik GyllenskiöldTomas NorströmStarsCecilia NilssonJacob NordensonSofia PekkariIt is New Year's Eve, 1959, and night shift at the telegraph station in Trångsele. The characters long for something missing in their lives and share that in common.
- DirectorMarika HeidebäckStarsAnna-SaraA short documentary from Sweden about several children at the same recreation center who try find their place and way of belonging among their peers.
- DirectorBengt LöfgrenStarsPer-Olof SereniusFor three years, documentary filmmaker Bengt Löfgren, followed the riders, mechanics and fans in the glorious world of Ice Speedway. Icy Riders is a film about dreams, ambition and aging during what might become the last season of the legendary ice speedway rider Posa Serenius. The result became a warm and intimate road movie that rolls from rural Sweden to freezing cold Siberia. Brought to you by the folks at One World Studios Ltd. in association with Tussilago Films.
- DirectorKersti Grunditz BrennanMaud NycanderStarsKristina LindströmUlf FribergJanny-Lisa ClasonEster Henning (1887-1985) was a Swedish sculptor and artist who spent 60 years of her life in mental hospitals. She was poor, in bad health mentally unstable and spent only four years in school before she had to earn a living. But from her closed world she created expressive and appreciated art.
- DirectorLisa JonssonMalin Nicander
- DirectorMaria Eriksson-HechtStarsAnna BjelkerudLinnea Cart-LamyJan Coster15-year-old Ida lives with her mother in Rossö in the Strömstad archipelago. Over the course of three stormy days, her life is turned upside down. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a non-existent relationship with her father and is let down by her best friend.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsElliott GouldBibi AnderssonMax von SydowA Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
- DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsBibi AnderssonIngmar BergmanElliott GouldAbout the early years of the 70's in Ingmar Bergman's professional and private life. "The Touch" (1971) and more.
- DirectorPaul GarbagniStarsVictor SjöströmAnna NorrieGeorg af KlerckerLittle Gerta, when her mother dies. is brought to her father, Carl Von Seydling, a government official, who deserted his wife and child a few years before. Councilor Van Seydling found the child's presence in his household to be cumbersome and for that reason turned her over to one Sarah Anderson, a nurse. Although Van Seydling did not know it, the Anderson woman was a notorious fagin. She promptly sold Gerta to a beggar, who taught her to beg and to steal. One of her begging trips brings Gerta to the attention of a young man named Alm Stoddard, He becomes interested in the pretty child and upon learning her story is horrified. The police are notified. They arrest her supposed father, but Sarah Anderson escapes. Little Gerta is adopted by Alm's mother and grows to be a beautiful young woman. Alm falls in love with her, but Gerta has lost her heart to the dashing Lieutenant Wiles. Through Alm's efforts the character of this man is shown to Gerta, and thus she is warned in time. Lieutenant Wiles challenges Alm to a duel and in the encounter Alm is wounded slightly. Gerta, frightened by the trouble she has caused, disappears, leaving a note begging the Stoddards to forgive her seeming ingratitude. Some years later a grand opera star, Mlle. Hauser, has taken the public by storm. Among her admirers is Alm Stoddard, although he is too fainthearted to write to her or tell her that he knows her to be little Gerta. She, from behind the footlights, has recognized him but, fearing he has not forgiven her, makes no sign of recognition. Another man, in constant attendance at the opera, is Councilor Van Seydling, who has long since believed his daughter dead. By a strange coincidence Sarah Anderson is employed as Gerta's maid. She has not reformed any and when she steals Mlle, Hauser's handbag she extracts a picture of a very little girl. Looking at the picture Sarah suddenly realizes that Mlle. Hauser is none other than little Gerta. That evening the audience is assembled when a fire breaks out. In the panic that follows Alm is the only one who remembers Gerta. At the risk of his life he brings the unconscious girl out of danger. At the corner drug store Sarah Anderson, mortally injured, is dying. She bares the story of her life and among the listeners is Councilor Von Seydling. The memory of his misdeeds strikes terror to his heart. Van Seydling hurries out and, finding his daughter in the arms of Alm, begs her to forgive him. The girl is mystified, but a little explaining clears the situation. Following custom, Alm asks her father for her hand. Von Seydling asks Gerta to decide and she, clinging to Alm, smiles her contentment.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsRagna WettergreenNicolai JohannsenAlbin LavénKing of the gypsies daughter Ayla give birth to a child with a man who does not belong to the tribe. She is cursed by his father and is expelled. A countess adopts the child.
- DirectorKarin SwanströmStarsEinar AxelssonMagda HolmNils AréhnKatja's father won't buy her a new gown, so she wears her brother's tailcoat to the ball. This scandalizes the society in town, until she is forgiven by the town's matriarch.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsMaud BackéusPeter EggeLars KarlsteenA student is visited in his university lodgings by his critical parents.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsPierre BenéMonica LöfEarly morning in an apartment in Stockholm: A young couple wakes up and gets out of bed reluctantly. They have breakfast. Now, a bicycle is to be brought down from the loft.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsStefan BöhmCurt EricsonEric HanssonOne day, Saturday October 5th, in a mans life.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonLennart BjörklundChrister ChristensenAfter witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonAnne TubinLennart BjörklundAn educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.
- DirectorDavid FlamholcMårten Nilsson
- DirectorMåns HerngrenStarsJonas IndeAmanda DavinPeter GardinerA bunch of aging athletes decide to form the first Swedish all male synchronized swimming team.
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsHelena BergströmRolf LassgårdRikard WolffOnce, a long time ago, Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rock star. Now she's getting desperate to get a comeback. Then her husband has an idea: What if she arranges her own death?
- DirectorPeter FlinthStarsJoakim NätterqvistSofia HelinStellan SkarsgårdArn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.